Well I have my first OTB on July 10th so I’ll let y’all know if anything happens.
best of luck. If you have ever only played online, don't have too many expectations on your online rating matching OTB. You will probably be unrated, so you will be put into the lower group, maybe below 1000 or 1200 and you will be chuckling inside thinking, you got this! Then the pairings come out for round 1 and you are against someone rated 938 and the internal chuckling increases. And you sit at the board and your opponent arrives and it is a cute as a button 8 year old girl and she climbs up on her chair and you feel really bad for the crushing she is about to experience at such a tender age. Then on move 12, she kneels on her chair so she can reach your side of the board and delivers a checkmate you never had a clue was coming. Now you are sitting there thinking, "wtf just happened?". In round 2 you play someone that lost their first game as well and are also rated 900+, and this time you make to the end game, but their skills are considerably better than yours, and you lose, again.
Bottom line is: don't get carried away with your online rating and how you have even beaten people 300 points higher, just ignore your online rating when comparing to someone's OTB rating and just play your best chess each and every move.
I agree with you! I’ll hope for the best and expect the worst.
i saw a creepy guy harrass a touched-SA addict (?) woman in a mall to where she picked up a castle and hurled it at him. IT was one a those big wooden ones ! they called Mr. Policeman and he took her away. sad that the real trubblemaker got away w/ that one.
i mean
she should've called the police