MOZ

Thanks a/c for your considered response'

I just knew you would get into the spirit of co-operation and suggest some beaut names.

To be frank, we could not afford any from your list of equity destroyers.

Bill is not NSW Prez atm, could you spare him for say a short while. Or have you still got him on St George reparations?

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antichrist

Bill would be a cert for handling out the titles when the comp is over - "from NSW" "from SA" "from WA" "from Qld"etc , and for Victorians who won the pointscore the county sheriff.

After that would come the best fairest - Mike Baron Best Moron
David Beaumont - Best Idiot
Trevor S - Mob and Bucket Trophy
Chessguru - Best Advertising
Mischa - Best and Fairest Dragonfire
Igor - best Noa Speaka Da Inglish

off to the dentist, that should shut me up for awhile

antichrist

The Australian Open. Where were the Victorians?
The just completed Australian Open attracted
85 entrants and of those only 5 were from Victoria,
although I may have missed 1 or 2 as the
swiss manager result sheets do not indicate the
state association represented. Our Club was
however well represented by FM Doug Hamilton
who finished with the commendable score of
7/11 in 16th possie. Another very good result
was from Ari Dale waiving the flag for the MCC
and finishing with 6.5/11.
But where were all our top players? They did not
play in our Canterbury Summer Swiss and now not
seen in Sydney either. In Victoria we have 1GM, 4
or 5 IMs and innumerable FMs and only one played
in Sydney
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The Victorians knowing that they would be wiped out by the NSWelshers wisely stayed away

MOZ

No.
MOZ* did not author this.

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antichrist

Ok
Kevin, thanks kindly for the feedback. Note that in the OP I have not named individual people or actual clubs. This is out of respect to people; I am not a saboteur. I will just say that I am a Victorian and these clubs were in Melbourne.

OK. Here we come to Simuls. There are some chess coaches such as Bill Jordan who claim that basically any player of 1700 ELO or above should be able to give a simul without too much trouble. [whether they win the games may be another matter]. I strongly disagree with this. I have only done a "simul" once. I played 3 people at once at a chess club - just messing about not really a formal simul - and I didn't like doing it at all. I would like to come back to the thinking styles that I mentioned. Seriously I think that I do not play chess visually. Rather, it is more for me a mix of logic and positional feel rather than calculation. I feel that this method/preference really puts me at a huge disadvantage in simuls and blitz. On the other hand it does to seem to be a strength with piece coordination and endgames. My worst phase is [obviously] the middlegame in which a calculative bent would help. I am better at openings and endgames.

But I feel excluded somehow, even tacitly, by the chess clique because it seems that you are not a chess player if you cannot bang out moves in 5 minute [or less] blitz or give simuls.

One thing I forgot as well. PLEASE, people who run clubs, I was brought up playing chess with analog clocks in the 80's so I find the digital clocks very hard to set. They confuse the bejesus out of me. Don't get me wrong. Of course digital clocks are better. But I had all sorts of farcical episodes. In one crossboard tournament at a chess club I couldn't figure out how to set the clock to an increment. So, I proceeded to play with my opponent getting the increment and I didn't so I ended up a queen up and was having to play with no time left at all. So, with 1 second left I threw away a winning position by leaving a queen en prise and lost. I wish that somebody could have explained to me how to set these damned digital clock things. They drove me nuts.

Anyway, I suppose that for so much emphasis on chess styles and ways of thinking I should post a game that fleshes out what I mean.

AC
and as I have been saying for ages those digital clocks are a convoluted load of codswallop all to save the arbiter getting off their lazy backside and to earn their money. They do nothing to improve the game and only let losers hang on longer and give less rounds of play and we get home much later.

now back to topic - you nasty Melbournites are turning people off the game, whereas I give queen odds to weaker players

antichrist

Pablito
I've had the misfortune of attending one CV meeting last year. Basically it went:
Sit down
DC stands up, asks why fees paid to Sandler's company for arbiting a CV event had been left off profit-loss/balance sheets
vague response followed by Johanssen becoming irate (we're talking red as ketchup irate here) and feeling it necessary to give us 'a bit of history about how David Cordover hates competition'.
long story short- it's fairly clear there's an intense, personal dislike between at least 2 of the voters (hacche i have no idea about) and Cordover.