AlanG wrote on 06/28/11 at 16:35:45:


OMG. thanks for the link. it's like seeing a rook move diagonally or a pawn move backwards.

they? why don't they play against each other if they are both going to the same school?

I remember I gained about 1000 points in a year and a big part of that was due to me playing one of my mates at school during lunch with no time limit. We just played for realz like mad dawgs.

I think they were arguing it was too fast, though if the game was more than 20 moves 45 45 would be longer than the G/60 he wanted.

Interesting question that came up on a blog I have been following. http://prodigalpawn.blogspot.com/

The person plans to no longer play online, and while he is at school he plans to just play long games against an engine using a real board since it is hard to get in otb play during the school year.

I suggested that he could still play online against people at long time controls and use a real board, but all the other commenters seemed to write that off. I don't see how it would be any worse than his proposed solution of playing the engine. I am curious what people here think.


Edit: Modified sentence to remove use of singular they to avoid any confusion.