God bless you, Adrien!

Adrien Regimbald wrote to Stefan Walter:

 SW>> Just counted them again... about 40 now :-))
 AR> I must be careful, it seems much too easy to start WAY too many games :)
At least if you get as many chess echos as I do :-)  CHESS and
CHESS_TOURNEY from zone 1, SCHACH.GER in zone 2, CHS.HUMAN and CHS.LIGA2 in
the Chessnet, and quite a few local chess echos. And of course I play many
games via Netmail.

  Adrien Regimbald | Stefan Walter
  -----------------+----------------
  01.    c2-c4     |   d7-d5
  02.    c4xd5     |  Qd8xd5
  03.    Nb1-c3    |  Qd5-d8
  04.


   Stefan Walter |  Adrien Regimbald
   --------------+------------------
   01.   e2-e4   |   e7-e5    
   02.  Ng1-f3   |   Nb8-c6
   03.  Bf1-c4   |


[Servus]
 AR>> Does this work for both hello and goodbye?
 SW>> Yes. How do you know, just guessed?
 AR> I speak English, but am learning French, and I made the connection to
 AR> the French greeting Bonjour, which can be simmilarily used...
Be careful :-) The literal German translation of "Bonjour" is
"Guten Tag", but if you say this here you will most probably get
killed. It is completely Prussian and may not be used here in Bavaria
:->


 AR> The problems *seem* to be fixed...  I seem to have had a break down
 AR> with some people who I was just starting games with -> Bruce Moon,
 AR> James Mccullough, Dave Raymond (I haven't seen anything from him
 AR> since his first message asking for games), 
The problem with Bruce seems to be solved now, as you answered a rather new
letter of him on the 17th, while writing to me on the 16th?
James Mccullough - wasn't he the guy who said he had only one chessboard
and therefore could play only one game?
And Dave Raymond - I tried to start a game with him too, but he seems to
have left the conference immediately.

 AR> people, I know BM & JM have been active, but perhaps my messages just
 AR> dropped into a pit somewhere...
Think there are no technical problems at the time. Wait and see :-)

 AR> An average in school is your average percentage for all of your
 AR> classes combined.  (I'm sure math is the same in Germany, but
 AR> percentages are out of 100, just in case we use different grading
 AR> systems.)   To put some perspective on it, my 94% average is the top
 AR> of my school, but in university is good, but nothing extraordinary. 
I see. We don't have percentual averages here, but mark/points averages.
Last year (in grade 11) I had an average of 1.6  (we have marks from 1 to 6
with 1 the better one), which put me on place 2 of the about 90 pupils. In
grade 12 and 13 the marks system is completely different. We get points
from 0 to 15 (with 15 being best). I did very bad this year (spent too much
time playing chess :->>) and had an average of 11,3 points in 12/1
and won't be much better in 12/2.

 AR> What's jurisprudence?
The knowing of laws  (if you know Latin you know every word :-))

 SW>> BTW, I have played against GM Adorjan in a simultaneous 
 SW>> game once. It didn't take very long... 
 AR> Good luck in the tournament!  What was the simultaneous exhibit like?
It was a long time ago, about five years, I guess. But if I remember right,
there were about 60 players, and Adorjan lost three games and drawed 5 or
6.
And Adorjan is not only the ex-second of Karpov (or was it Kasparov? Don't
know now, at least it was in a world-championship's match between both of
them), but he is also the son of a cousin of a player of our club.

 AR> I'm still a low ranked player, but I still don't understand how GM's
 AR> can beat us mere mortals so quickly.  You'd figure that without
 AR> hanging pieces that one could at least make it through the opening,
Opening is the biggest problem... If he does not play the Giuoco Piano or
one of the gambits I know by chance, I have no real chance to get to the
middlegame :-(
I play correspondence chess mostly to improve my opening knowledge.


BTW: Saw a message of you asking for a good international chat echo. I can
recommend ESPRIT. English, German, Dutch and a couple of other languages
are allowed there. I don't know if French is actually allowed, but it will
be if someone agrees to work as a Co-Mod for that language.


Serwas, Stefan!

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