*** Official OcUK Chess Thread ***

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Try to not become to reliant on that analysis board Maustin, it may ruin your normal calculation. Try to use it as an aid more than anything else. Makesure you're working out plans in your head first before checking them on the board.
 
Argh, I sat and worked out a sequence earlier, but forgot to move one before the other! Now I've lost the sodding tempo and three points in material.

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^ Team match.
 
I have started as i mean to go on................ i lost :( I really need to brush up on my chess, oh well only one way to do that i suppose. Doesn't bode well for my game with Gillywibble.
 
gillywibble said:
Cheer up old bean. Only a game :)
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I'm fine now, just had a 'moment'.

Don't begrudge losing at all, I just hate it when it's solely down to a mistake on my part. I really don't like feeling like I messed up is all. Managed to ruin three games in a row through complete stupidity/oversight of moves and positions which I was already completely aware of but for some reason ignored/forgot. Silly, silly, silly. :o

Yeah, anyway, life goes on. I'd play now, but I'm full of beer, so not the best idea. :D
 
I disagree, you could have played a good game without mistakes and merely have been out thought. I suppose some would consider that a mistake but I guess thats semantics.
 
platypus said:
I disagree, you could have played a good game without mistakes and merely have been out thought. I suppose some would consider that a mistake but I guess thats semantics.
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This is true, but this time it was definitely down to me being a silly pleb. :p

Gifting a game for free through a daft oversight or school-boy blunder is never fun.

Still, on the plus side. I'm very happy that a certain member has improved so much. :)
 
If you know you're having a bad day, best thing about the correspondence chess is that you can take a night off and have another look with a fresh brain tomorrow.

On the flip side, sometimes when "you're in the zone", you take a break and you miss or forget moves and counter moves you had planned. :p
 
I was just playing loads yesterday and then managed to mess it all up within the same five minutes as I was stressed about something offline! :p

It's frustating that the slips always seem to happen at the most crucial point of the game too, where there's no rescue. I think the only thing for it really is to slow down. :o

I don't think my match game is completely lost yet, but by forgetting to move one piece which I'd planned, I gifted him a way out of my devious plans, so now I'm the one on the back-foot. Yes, that is frustrating. :p
 
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