What I love about a tournament is the rush as well as making a brilliant move that causes the enemy to look stressed or sad. I love to see the hopes just die lol.
Go to a local chess club for some otb play ;Its more fun than online.
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That's about what Fischer said too CFerrel, 'like to see them hopes die'
Cannot wait to go do some otb. Must be a rush then, if it's better than online.
in the last round of the tournament the guy i was playing was suddenly down material in the middlegame with little compensation. This situation transformed him into a man possessed. He turned red and started sweating profusely from the armpits as he fought me tooth and claw for the rest of the game until i blundered and he won in the endgame !! That is an experience not easy to get playing online - the thrill of victory 
....and agony of defeat
May 29, 2012
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MrZwischenzug wrote:
in the last round of the tournament the guy i was playing was suddenly down material in the middlegame with little compensation. This situation transformed him into a man possessed. He turned red and started sweating profusely from the armpits as he fought me tooth and claw for the rest of the game until i blundered and he won in the endgame !! That is an experience not easy to get playing online - the thrill of victory ....and agony of defeat
Been there. Done that. On both sides. My favorite involved a game where I blundered a Bishop early, then fought desperately to hold on, taking a very long time to play. I managed to stay even when he walked into a knight fork where I won a rook. Now, we were solidly in the middle game, but I was down to two minutes on my clock, and he had about 20. We were playing with a five second delay, and I checkmated him with 14 seconds left on my clock.
We were playing the tournament in a coffeehouse. I wish it had been a bar. I really needed a drink after that.
May 29, 2012
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b_complex wrote:
"my religion does not allow me to keep score"
would be funny to see the reactions in a serious tournament :)
It is very rare that the situation comes up, but I have encountered it once. The issue is with Orthodox Jews who are playing on the Sabbath, between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday. I don't want to derail the thread with discussions of the minutae of Jewish law that dictates exactly when the situation might arise, but suffice it to say that it is very rare. On the other hand, it is sufficiently common that I have encountered it, and the USCF did include a specific provision in the rules for it.
If anyone is further interested in the subject, start a thread, call my attention to it, and I'll explain further. Otherwise, in the spirit of this thread, just think of it as one more experience you could at least conceivably encounter OTB that you just can't encounter online. I have also played against a blind player in an OTB tournament, and there were special provisions applied there, as well.
May 30, 2012
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As far as scoresheets are concerned in any tournament i have been in when one of the players reach 5 minutes left neither of the players are required to still keep score. Also there is no penalty if a score is written down incorrectly.I found it was nice when i did have a completed scoresheet but frequently i would make errors on it and was unable to replay the complete game. My very best result in a tournamet was my first one.I ended up with a rating which really was higher than my true strength. This did give me a nice feeling after the tournament but every tournament after that for quite awhile i would keep losing points off my rating which was rather a bummer.(My playing strength has always been somewhere between 1400-1599 and in my first game i somehow beat a 1900 player...i'm not sure which of us was more shocked.)
Thanks Meadmaker. That's going to be weird at first.