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Chess With Your Power 2.0 - IT BEGINS

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I personally like the idea of top 3 (or better, IMO, 2) people from each group having a "winners' bracket" match better that top one from each pool. Maybe we can try that next tournament, whenever that may be. Anyway, looking forward to this tourney. Good luck everyone!
 
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Nothing's been decided yet. Top 2 go through to a group of 4 sounds better.

Waiting on

Jugfingers
Elder Sister
and Yoshiman

edit: Yoshiman has accepted. Group B is underway. Group A waiting on Elder Sister and Jugfingers.
 
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ight ive accepted , don't be fooled by my rating on chess.com I only use it for blitz

im rated around 1700 in 30 min games on chessmaniac.com and have beaten +1900 players in otb tournaments
 
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Only Elder Sister to accept and then Group A can start too.
 
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yeah, i've been trying to pick up 5/0 chess.
...been losing a lot on time, and winning a few times with under 10 seconds left. :x
 
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Phen said:
yeah, i've been trying to pick up 5/0 chess.
...been losing a lot on time, and winning a few times with under 10 seconds left. :x
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Oh, I tend to play 3/0 and 10/0 chess. I seem to have trouble adjusting to 5/0 for some reason...either I play too fast and make mistakes or I play too slowly and lose on time. :(
 
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I used to play 10/0 when I first started but it was too fast for me then, went to 10/3, then 15/10 for longer games. I wanna eventually get down to bullet chess, though.
 
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Phen said:
I used to play 10/0 when I first started but it was too fast for me then, went to 10/3, then 15/10 for longer games. I wanna eventually get down to bullet chess, though.
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10/0 = Too fast for you?!

Bullet chess is fun, but I don't think much of it other than 'throwing' your pieces on the board. There's hardly any thinking involved...
 
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Well if i can see through a position fast I can see through it better with some time! (:
And it -was- too fast. Not anymore, though.
 
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If Elder Sister doesn't respond by tonight, does anyone know of anyone that could fill in that last place?
 
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Phen said:
I used to play 10/0 when I first started but it was too fast for me then, went to 10/3, then 15/10 for longer games. I wanna eventually get down to bullet chess, though.
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10/0 is just about right for playing online. 5/0 is a little too fast to play over the internet, and any faster time control gets too chaotic, and I end up misclicking something. And I never even tried to play with additional time incriments.
 
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At least 5/0 is nice when people decide to waste away their time after they realize they've lost, you only have to wait a couple minutes.
 
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I think I'm going to just invite someone on my friends list on chess.com to take up the last place in Group A.

I wanted to keep it to just smashboards users, but they've had 3 days now to get in touch.
 
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I think I'm going to just invite someone on my friends list on chess.com to take up the last place in Group A.

I wanted to keep it to just smashboards users, but they've had 3 days now to get in touch.
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Good idea. Or is it possible to invite DMG, if he isn't too busy?
 
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I invited some random guy from live chess lol.

Good luck!
 
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One game each in my group. Will we have new games with the sides swapped in the next round?
 
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Terywj said:
I'm so screwed... I haven't played in a while now..

And I'm already in bad positions in 2 games. xD

-Terywj
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Tell me about it. I haven't played in months, I'm so rusty right now. SmooveJenkins and KittyJones are the two games I'm worried about at the moment. Smoove's got a strong attack against my king, but I think I can live through it with at least an extra minor piece, we'll see.

Sorry, not sure who's who in the thread and the games, unless the names match.
 
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OlimarFan = Kitty Jones

Smoove = random guy I invited to join from live chess to make up the numbers lol
 
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