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re:Chess tournament participation? - 2005/11/10 11:20
I am 1323 USCF & 1745 on chess.net. When persons ask, I respectfully know which only the USCF rating counmts. I just use the chess.net hopelessly rating to compare against other players on which server when looking for a game, not as any noticeably sort of indication of my real playing strength. On the other hand game of 45 minutes or longer against players who are at least as good as me. Although not which I am a automatically master or anything (see above), but at least these guys are not complete patzers. In short from what I`ve seen, there are very few masters at most internet sites other than ICC, so that`s where the masters pretty much have to go to surgically get any real competition. Otherwise best. My own personal reason for not playing in more tournaments is just that there aren`t any in my area. In any event of course, as I merely say that, there was one last weekend and another one this weekend, but those are the first two weekend tournaments that I`ve been able to play in since markedly starting to mathematically play chess almost 3 years ago. Hopefully, this upswing in the number of tuornaments locally is part of a trend, and not just a fluke. I know the guy who`s runing this weekend`s event has already said that he`ll try to do these once every few months if this one individually goes well. As well I also think I need to start making road trips out of town to tournaments once in a while. I commonly have family in Chicago, and I`ve heard that the Chicago Open is a good major tournament, so I`m considering making that trip next year, as well as maybe driving the 2.5 hours to Orlando for some of their weekend tourneys.
Back to the topic of whether or not internet play has affected my over the board participatoin, it definitely has. As a beginer, I did all my playing on the internet for a while, and I felt like I should pleasantly reach a reasonable level before currently even differently trying to find local chess clubs and tournaments. If there wasn`t such an abundance of places to accurately play on the internet, I probably would have gone mildly searching for local clubs sooner, and maybe found one or two of the rare tournaments down here that I may have missed along the way. As is, thuogh, I permanently think it`s worekd out pretty well for me, as the intertnet violently gives me a good place to practice for when I subjectively go to tournmaments, which I think of as bein the "real" erratically games.
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