* Crossposted from: Chess

Hi Stefan!

 SW>> Of course. I have only about 20 games running by now, so
 SW>> there is really enough time for you :-)
 AR> *only* 20!  :)
 SW> Just counted them again... about 40 now :-))

I must be careful, it seems much too easy to start WAY too many games :)

  Adrien Regimbald | Stefan Walter
  -----------------+----------------
  01.    c2-c4     |   d7-d5
  02.    c4xd5     |  Qd8xd5
  03.    Nb1-c3


  Stefan Walter |  Adrien Regimbald
  --------------+------------------
  01.   e2-e4   |   e7-e5    
  02.  Ng1-f3   |   Nb8-c6
  03.
 
 
 AR> Do you know shortened algerbraic?  As in for the first game: 1.c4 d5
 AR> 2.cxd5
 SW> Yes, of course I know it. But I think the full notation is 
 SW> much clearer to read. And everyone uses the full notation 
 SW> in the German chess echos, so it has become a habit. 
 SW> Anyway, if you prefer the shortened notation I really don't 
 SW> mind using it. It seems to be standard here in the 
 SW> international conferences.

I'm just accustomed to the short form, since you seem to prefer the long form,
I will use that form, I might as well get used to it (I've noticed that the
long form seems to be common in this echo...)

 AR>> BTW, what does Serwas mean?
 SW>> Servus is the standard Bavarian greeting, and Serwas is a 
 SW>> colloquial form of it :-)
 AR> Does this work for both hello and goodbye?
 SW> Yes. How do you know, just guessed?

I speak English, but am learning French, and I made the connection to the
French greeting Bonjour, which can be simmilarily used...

 AR> Sorry about long response time.  I haven't been recieving
 AR> chess_tourney for a week or so for some reason. Perhaps things will
 AR> go smoother if we post in both chess and chess_tourney, as I will do
 AR> for this message.
 SW> I could exactly copy these lines... My Uplink was on 
 SW> holidays, and his computer thought it was a good time to 
 SW> take holidays too :-(

The problems *seem* to be fixed...  I seem to have had a break down with some
people who I was just starting games with -> Bruce Moon, James Mccullough,
Dave Raymond (I haven't seen anything from him since his first message asking
for games), could you do me a favour and check to see if you can see my
messages and resends to these people, I know BM & JM have been active, but
perhaps my messages just dropped into a pit somewhere...

 AR> I would be interested in knowing a bit about you.   As for me:  I'm
 AR> 17, in grade 11 (I don't know if this has a German equivalent, but it
 AR> is 1 yr before university), I have a 94 % average in school and plan
 AR> to go to university in the engineering physics area.  I live in the
 AR> province Alberta in Canada.
 SW> I'm 17, in grade 12 (we have 13 grades here). I don't know, 
 SW> what an average in school is? I plan to go to the univerity 
 SW> in two years, too, and I want to study jurisprudence and/or 
 SW> philosophy.

An average in school is your average percentage for all of your classes
combined.  (I'm sure math is the same in Germany, but percentages are out of
100, just in case we use different grading systems.)  
To put some perspective on it, my 94% average is the top of my school, but
in university is good, but nothing extraordinary.  What's jurisprudence?

 AR> Do you play over the board chess?  I get out to as many otb
 AR> tournaments as I can, but it's hard as I live far from any major
 AR> centers.  
 SW> I have the same problems. There is one yearly youth open in the next
 SW> town,  but that's the only open tournament in an area of 100 km in 
 SW> every direction (100 km are quite far for German distances 
 SW> :-)) 

I'm 200 km to Edmonton, which despite being a city is not a very big chess
place...  for me, 100 km is nothing, it's after 100 km when the discomfort in
the car begins to set in :)

 AR> I will be going to the big (for Canadian chess, anyways)
 AR> Canadian Open chess tournament this summer, it will be great!  This
 AR> will be the first tourney I attend that has GMs, IMs, etc!
 SW> This summer I'll spend a week in Austria and play there in 
 SW> the Finkenstein-Open. There are also many GMs and IMs 
 SW> there! It is my first big tournament with a 2h/40+-time-
 SW> control.
 SW> BTW, I have played against GM Adorjan in a simultaneous 
 SW> game once. It didn't take very long... 

Good luck in the tournament!  What was the simultaneous exhibit like?
I'm still a low ranked player, but I still don't understand how GM's can beat
us mere mortals so quickly.  You'd figure that without hanging pieces that
one could at least make it through the opening, and part of the middlegame
until the attack that the GM will of course launch gets too harsh to handle...

TTYL,
Adrien.


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