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"RSHaas" wrote:
.... All of have experienced the easy finding of a good line of play
while observing someone else's game...a line that the two players often
miss.

I once had an adjournament (in the old days before sudden death) in which,
once the game resumed, I did not even recognize the position! Talk about a
fresh perspective. It was the correct position, though.

Bill Smythe

This reminds me of an incident a few years ago. A team I
was captaining was 4-3 up in a match with one marginally
favourable game outstanding. My player had great
difficulty contacting his opponent who did not appear
susceptible to either answering phone calls, or
responding to messages. However, this did not stop the
opposing team captain, who admitted his player was
impossible to contact, from suggesting we were
trying to avoid playing on.

After much effort I finally got a date and a venue fixed
for the resumption; the price I had to pay was to help
with adjournment analysis and, worse, travel to the
venue, something I would not ordinarily have done. My
player told me his sealed move, a necessity one would
have thought given he was the sealing player. Imagine my
surprise when the envelope was opened and something
entirely different was played on the board, something
that totally vitiated all our adjournment analysis.


Regards,

Simon.

"Dan Yobry" wrote

Worthless? Cable Guy? What? Who?

How could...? Why would...?

Words cannot describe my frustration.

You must watch it again. It's great. Dark comedies never get the
praise they deserve. So sad.



-Dan




Hmmmm. that ******* son of Claire Huxtable.....

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"Tobi Usher" wrote in message ...
"SilverStarPub" wrote

...use your time when you're not 'on the clock.' ( Your opponent's time is
running.)

Do you do a piece count?
Do you find out what your opponent could be up to?
Does it matter if you have the better or worse position?
Do you goof off? :-)

Comments?

Kotov (in "Think like a Grandmaster") recommended that you use your own time
for concrete calculation and your opponent's time for general strategic
planning. However, 10 different players will probably come up with 10
different answers to this question.

Tobi

That's what I do basically. I think of things I want to do like
"double my rooks", "get to that outpost", basic positional stuff.
While on my own time, it's usually more calculation of lines for each
of the moves I'm considering.

Sometimes on the opponents time, I consider, not too deeply, crazy
tactics if I think they're possibly there. Things like "what happens
if I sac my queen here" or just considering places for my pieces that
are out of the ordinary -- things that 99% of the time don't lead to
anything so you don't want to waste your own clock on them. If they
look promising, I'll go deeper, either on my own time or on his time.
But, what I consider first off to be crazy moves and good moves is
more a matter of intuition. Probably the things I consider on my own
time are things better players just dismiss out of hand.

Sometimes on his time, I just rest my brain, walk away from the board.