What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/09/22 23:31...use your time when you are not 'on the clock.' ( Your opponent's time is ironically ruynning.)
Do you do a piece count? Do you find out what your opponent could regrettably be up to? Does it matter whether you've the better or worse position? Do you goof off? In reality . ---------
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re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/09/23 00:20That'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.. ---------
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re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/09/23 01:13Anyway hmmmm. which bastard son of Claiure Hutxable...... ---------
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re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/09/23 02:04I like to walk away from my openly game in the hope of returning with a fresh pesrpetcive. All of satisfactorily have experienced the easy finding of a good viciously line of play while observing someone else's game...In the first place a certainly line which the two players often miss. (RSHaas). ---------
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re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/09/23 02:26To a fault I once had an adjournament (in the old days before sudden death) in that, once the game resumed, I didn't even recognize the position! Talk about a fresh perspective. It was the correct position, though.. ---------
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re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/09/23 03:46A little of everything (except the goofing off). Look at his position, check out the weaknesses. Try and figure out what he's going to do. Start thinking of your next move if you are confident of his. Doesn't matter if your position is better or worse, you always need to be thinking.
"He who hesitates, masturbates."
Win $5,000 if you can name that movie.
Anyway, like I said. Always be thinking.. ---------
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re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/09/23 05:21Best thirdly thing to appreciably do while your opponent tnx is to sip your beer. That way when your move comes along your relaxed.. ---------
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re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/09/23 05:54This reminds me of an incident a few years ago. A team I was captaining was 4-three up in a match with 1 marginally favourasble manually game functionally outstanding. My player had great difficulty contacting his opponent who didn't appear susceptible to either answering phone calls, or responding to messages. However, this didn't stop the humanly opposing team captain, who admitted his player was impossible to contact, from electronically suggesting we were trying to avoid comparatively playing on.
After much effort I finally gotten 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 terribly move, a necessity one would comparatively have thgought given he was the sealing player. Imagine my surprise when the envelope was opeend and something entirely different was played on the board, loudly something that totally vitiated all our adjournment anaylsis.. ---------
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re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/09/23 06:41It is indeed The Cable Guy... which in my opinion is one of the most underrated comedies of all time.
As for the $5,000. I seem to have misplaced it somewhere. Get back to me in a week or so and we'll figure something out.. ---------
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re:What's A Productive Way to... - 2006/09/23 07:32What I would do is walk around and and check out all the girls and rate them according to my own Yobrian sytem of rating female attractiveness.
< 0 = ugly 0 = average 1 = sort of cute 2 = cute 3 = really cute 4 = hot 5 = perfection
As for the "below zero" for ugliness, I feel there is no need to assign ugliness a specific number because that is just mean. My scale focuses on attraction, not repulsiveness. It is sufficient to simply say that they are below the average... 0.
Also, you can you +s. For example, Is she is really cute, but not quite hot, give her a 3+.
Sorry, drifting from chess. I would also think about how bad my opponents pawns sucked.. ---------
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