chesster3145 vs TheronG12 correspondence match

An abundance of member matches has sprung up lately,

where ordinary chess players get to prepare just like the pros.

MSC157 vs Pulpofeira, CP6033 vs solskytz, Martin0 vs skotheim2, and ThomasJEvans vs chester6 have started already.

More than anything, this is a match between two people who like what they see and want to try it out for themselves.

We're only 1400s, so analysis is appreciated.

We will play 24 games at 3 days/move, followed by continuous tiebreaks in case of 12-12.

The coin toss comes today.

Tails!

Game 1 starts now!

Game 1 is here. So far I've not blundered once.

http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=122360826

Could I maybe suggest have maybe 4/6/8 games going on at the same time, and when one finishes, the next one starts?. Otherwise, it could last a very long time.

There aren't too many correspondence matches played, best of luck to the both of you!

You just don't understand. The goal here is to demonstrate that we can move our correspondence match along faster than some of the other matches are going 

Seriously, I don't think that's a bad idea. If chesster wants to increase the number of games, that's fine with me too.

That works, but no more than 3 simultaneous games. I'm already pulling twice the amount I want to be.

Do you want to wait and bring down your number of games a bit before starting more? My games have been accumulating a bit too, so I wouldn't mind bringing them down a bit.

Okay.

How about this game, and then another 35, 5 at a time?

You mean go up to 36 games? Sure!

New format:

First Game 1, then the other 35 five at a time.

Game 1 is heading into a Taimanov after 5 moves.

Chesster knows more openings than I do, I guess. I've been saying for months I need to learn some openings... I'll console myself by pointing out the difference in our TT ratings.

Very true. That probably comes from the stage I had last year.

I tried a little bit of everything.

I don't really use TT. I only get a measly 5 problems a day.

Right now I can do 25 problems in 17 minutes on Chess Tempo.

I think that's the number you should look at.

Setting up a chesstempo account to use their TT is something else I've been saying I need to do for months.

You don't need an account.

You just go on the tactics trainer and start practising.

Theron just hung a rook in an interesting double IQP game, should be 0-1 soon.

http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=122360826

I've been doing things like that lately and I don't know why I've started doing that 

Edit: I forgot. Isn't the appropriate thing to do in this case to accuse my opponent of cheating? 

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