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chess and choir: Victory!
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Friday, June 03, 2005. Tonight I've finished my 7 circles. 1680 problems in 83 days. Now I can sleep again on decent times, do something in the house, feed my pets and husband with home coocked meals, do some trout fishing, see the sun again, (is it still hanging there? Hang out with my choir friends and have a beer after singing, instead of running home to do my circles. I think I have family somewhere, I hope they did not forget me. I feel like a chess-junk, I do even dream of chess positions. King of ...
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The Eighth Circle: January 2007
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Sunday, January 21, 2007. Survey: Why do you play chess? Post replies as comments. Answers may be as detailed, simple, serious, or humorous as you like. Monday, January 15, 2007. Beginning: 6 days, 600 problems! Most of the problems were pretty straightforward. A few, however, have inspired hour-long exhaustive explorations into the reasons behind every variation, especially logical-looking defensive moves that the opponent did NOT play. It seems that the "real" tactical program has for me begun tonight,...
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chess and choir: People you meet at chess tournaments
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Thursday, May 26, 2005. People you meet at chess tournaments. What I like most at chess tournaments is to see such a diversion of people. People of all ages. My oldest opponent who beated me was 90, and the youngest was an 8 year old boy. Beware of such children! During the game they look totally uninterested, while drinking their lemonade, and when they move they never seem to think about it. You allways loose on time with them. And if you have won from them or not, after 1 game they remain friends.
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chess and choir: October 2007
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Sunday, October 07, 2007. Who is Princess Errant. For the new ones in the Knights blogosphere, I became a chess player in 2000. To learn the rules etc. Tempo advised me to do Tasc, which I did. When we discovered La Maza method, we allso discovered The Knights,a bunch of fanatic patzers. My favourit opening is the Kings Gambit with white, and Islandic Scandinavian with black. I'm allways happy when my opponent coöperates to get those positions on the board. The absolute top for us is CORUS tournament....
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chess and choir: February 2005
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Sunday, February 20, 2005. Ladies in Chessland (part two). Sorry, I accidently deleted part 1). At my chessclub I'm the only woman. No problem, everybody behave as knights to me. After the games we drink a beer or four and play blitz, and conversations are all about how refined we beated our opponent. Fun. When we play with other clubs we have sometimes to go to villages where they live with medieval standards. Mother stays home knitting and father has his weekly chess evening amongst other man. In games...
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chess and choir: November 2007
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Friday, November 30, 2007. For our friends who live at the other side of the ocean a little explanation:. Sinterklaas is an old bishop (350 year or so) who lives in Spain. He comes every year to Holland to celebrate his birthday on 5 December. From the day of his arrival (around 16e November children can set their shoes near the fireplace and the next morning they find presents in it. This is how Sint Nicolaas does his work. Every time a totally new situation, good or bad. Fun! Alas, after we did not hav...
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chess and choir: May 2005
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Friday, May 27, 2005. On my last tournament I had 2 draws against stronger players! Another he: rating 1726! Ok the other games where not so good, allthough I gave away good fights, but all my opponents where very, very strong. This is a begin. I have good hope for the next tournaments. Thursday, May 26, 2005. People you meet at chess tournaments. What I like most at chess tournaments is to see such a diversion of people. And if you have won from them or not, after 1 game they remain friends. I played a ...
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Sir Piño's Chess Quest: Mate
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Sir Piño's Chess Quest. Tuesday, May 1, 2007. The position below is from a game I played on FICS last week (I played the black pieces, black to move and win). I eventually won the game but I missed a nice mate:. Solution : 22 . Qf2! 23 Rg1 Rd1 24 Rxd1 Qxg2#. If the position was in a tactics workbook with "Black to move and mate in 3" written under it, you would have found it in no time. May 1, 2007 at 11:09 PM. May 1, 2007 at 11:17 PM. Oh yeah, I guess he could do that. Now I'm down a knight. Many so-cal...
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chess and choir: March 2005
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Saturday, March 19, 2005. Well my dear friends knights, I'm back after a week hard work:. Monday: music theory and orchestration lessons, then at evening my choir. Tuesday : going to play chess for my club somewhere in the country. did not play, car stopped halfway, was lucky to get home with leaking dynamo? Wednesday: music theory lessons, then going to play chess for my club somewhere in the country. lost from somebody with a rating 350 more then mine. Thursday: my other choir. From attacker I become d...
