* Crossposted in CHESS

God bless you, Adrien!

Adrien Regimbald wrote to Stefan Walter:

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

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


   Stefan Walter |  Adrien Regimbald
   --------------+------------------
   01.   e2-e4   |   e7-e5    
   02.  Ng1-f3   |


 AR> Do you know shortened algerbraic?  As in for the first game: 1.c4 d5
 AR> 2.cxd5
Yes, of course I know it. But I think the full notation is much clearer to
read. And everyone uses the full notation in the German chess echos, so it
has become a habit. Anyway, if you prefer the shortened notation I really
don't mind using it. It seems to be standard here in the international
conferences.

 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?
Yes. How do you know, just guessed?

 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.
I could exactly copy these lines... My Uplink was on holidays, and his
computer thought it was a good time to take holidays too :-(

 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.
I'm 17, in grade 12 (we have 13 grades here). I don't know, what an average
in school is? I plan to go to the univerity in two years, too, and I want
to study jurisprudence and/or philosophy.

 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.  
I have the same problems. There is one yearly youth open in the next town,
but that's the only open tournament in an area of 100 km in every direction
(100 km are quite far for German distances :-)) 

 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!
This summer I'll spend a week in Austria and play there in the
Finkenstein-Open. There are also many GMs and IMs there! It is my first big
tournament with a 2h/40+-time-control.
BTW, I have played against GM Adorjan in a simultaneous game once. It
didn't take very long... 


Serwas, Stefan!

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