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kco wrote:
looking forward to it ?
No. Believe it or not, I'm trying to win.
This is just a Caro kann thematic tourney on here for 1000 to 1200, but I'm still sucking at it.
How about just most of your games?
This dude once lost all his games in two tournaments... all of them on time. (And that was with regular time controls, not five-minute chess.)
Gil-Gandel wrote:
This dude once lost all his games in two tournaments... all of them on time. (And that was with regular time controls, not five-minute chess.)
How about one of these silly tourneys on here?
Feb 5, 2011
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The first OTB tourney I participated in, however this was a rapid chess event (15 min.) with 5 rounds, I had neither played OTB nor fast chess before (only some Internet correspondence games) and all the others were experienced club players, I ended up with zero points at this one.
In my very first OTB event I lost all games. It was a "quad" and all my opponents were rated 1500-1600. This was the spring of 1973 and was my baptism in tournament/rated play. In my second event I lost 4 games and won 1 ! My beginnings in tournament play would make most people quit and try another hobby but I am very hard headed....... 
woodshover wrote:
Every game in a tournament before? I haven't yet, but it looks like I'm going too.
Ask me again in about 14 hours. I'm leaving soon for a tourney where 0/4 is probably the most likely result I'm facing.
I've only ever played in 3 tournaments.
In 2004 I got 2/7.
In 2005 I got 4/7.
In 2006 I got 6.5/7 and undisputed 1st place :)
It was all the same tournament just happened once a year.
Yes, I had always played 1.e4 as White. I decided to give 1.d4 a try. I spent about two months trying to put together a White repertoire. I felt confident I knew what I was doing in the Queen's Gambit, QGD, KID, Nimzo-Indian, and Grunfeld, since I had played all these as Black one time or another. I entered a 5 round Swiss, weekend tournament. First game as White I faced a Dutch and was totally out of my element. Second game I played Black and found it was relief to be in a position that I understood, but lost. Third game as White I faced Albin Counter Gambit and had no Idea what was going on. Fourth round I faced a Budapest by a player two classes below me and got crushed. I remember the final round, I was relieved to be playing Black against a 1200 player. He played the advanced against my French. He kept making solid but uninspired moves. I had a very solid position, but wanted to play for a win so I sacrificed a pawn for complications but no real compensation. I finally got an attack going (the first time I had been on offense in the entire tournament) when my opponent gets up to go to the bathroom. While he was gone I made a move and immediately realized that he could fork my king and queen. I kept waiting for him to return. Waiting tortured me immensely; so I finally tipped over my king, signed his score sheet, and left the tournament hall.
Oh, yeah. Everyone of 'em just barely slipped away. They all got lucky:
http://www.chess.com/tournament/evans-gambit7
Who's the person with a 0 rating?
jerry2468 wrote:
Who's the person with a 0 rating?
Quit bringing tha idiot up. He did it on purpose.
Nope, Ive only ever lost 2 matches on here. I haven't played much yet, but all my matches currently look like ones ill be winning
Feb 5, 2011
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Why, yes, I have lost every game in online tournaments so many times, that I can't count them! In fact, one tournament I played at the FICS, I was the highest rated player by at least a hundred points, and lost all four games!
Every game in a tournament before? I haven't yet, but it looks like I'm going too.