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There are 43 results for Scott in the forum.
Charlie Neil (2006-07-30 11:40:10)
Country Flag
(here goes) is the Scottish flag available? I did discover this site via the Scottish Correspondence Chess Association website.The dam may burst as the UK divides into its constituent parts.
Thibault de Vassal (2006-07-31 11:03:15)
Scottish flag
Hello Charlie.
Yes it is... (England, Scotch, Wales)
Scott Prestwood (2006-10-20 19:32:24)
Time Control Clarification
I am looking for clarification on the interpretation of the time controls, specifically; time : 40 days, increment : 40 days / 10 moves. I presume it is 40 days to make the first 40 moves then it is an additional forty days to make to next 10 (to move 50). This seems to be a disproportionate amount of time for moves 41-50. Thank you, Scott
Thibault de Vassal (2006-10-20 19:41:21)
Time Control Clarification
Hello Scott.
It is 40 days to make the first 10 moves then it is an additional 40 days to make next 10 moves and so on...
Note : There's an accumulated time limit (100 days) rule.
See rules - http://www.ficgs.com/membership.html#playing .. and particularly 11.4
Scott Prestwood (2006-10-20 19:44:47)
(repetition)
Scott Prestwood (2006-10-21 02:42:17)
Moderation in everything
I find it easy to take on too many correspondence games my self. I prefer to have time to analyze as this is the tradition of coorespondence chess. I often feel busy (zeitnot as you call it) with just 15 games with long time controls. Some principals I use in moderating my challenge rate are; 1) I dont start new games if I have a game under 15 moves in progress, opening require less analysis, and the mid game is where most of the work is done. 2) whatever the estimated days per moves is I limit myself to 1/4th of that as my limit of games. i.e. if the average days per moves is 12 days I will try to keep around 3 games going if possible. These limits work well and I'm on several coorespondence sites.
Scott Prestwood (2006-10-20 19:56:46)
Time Controls
Thank you, it sounds good for a 6 game tournament. From my calculations it has an average of 5 days per move(40 move basis). Are their any other forum readers that are interested in a 7 day(weekly) time control?
Scott Prestwood (2006-10-21 03:15:11)
Full Disclosure
Perhaps tournaments should be labled as permiting engines and not permiting engines. Coorespondence chess has tradionally had only the rules of chess and the time control limiting it. And the early masters that used and believed in coorespondence chess as a method to improve ones game did not have access to computers, nice to know I could get killed in the tourney I am in just because I'm playing 6 computers. The initial allowance of databases and books to aid ones choice of moves as well as playing the game through allowed improvement of ones chess abilities. Computers will have a greater tendency to be the one playing the game because they only prescribe one line of action from a position. That line is very strong and likewise tends to be the operators choice of the next move. If the allowance of computers is posted for the games it will allow for the players to chose which type of game they prefer.
Scott Prestwood (2006-10-21 03:42:05)
(repetition)
Scott Prestwood (2006-10-21 03:44:11)
Double Disclosure
I am confused as to why it double posts. what am I doing wrong?
[moderator : corrected]
Scott Prestwood (2006-10-28 19:58:33)
Connected players
What is the "Connected players" list in the messages for and why does my name stay on it as others are changing, and the list of others in the tourney I am in do not show up in the list?
Thibault de Vassal (2006-12-17 04:28:02)
Google results
Oldest sites are still best placed on some keywords, but FICGS slowly improves his rank :)
- "Correspondence chess server" :
FICGS is ranked 1st ! then SchemingMind, Chessfriend, Chessworld, ICCF, ChessHere...
- "Correspondence chess" :
Correspondencechess.com, ICCF, USCF, SchemingMind, EWCCF, Chessfriend, British federation, Scottish federation, RedHotPawn, QueenAlice... FICGS now is ranked about 20th.
- "Chess forum" : FICGS is ranked 13th
- "Chess server" : FICGS is also ranked 13th
Not bad after a few months :)
Scott Prestwood (2007-01-08 23:56:57)
Zucketort gambit
What is the line for the Zucketort gambit?
Scott Prestwood (2007-01-09 17:56:13)
Other names/lines
It may be of interest to know that the Scandinavian offers another line to this position; 1.e4 d5 2.Nf3. Other names for it are Chigago, Lisitsin, Lemberg, and Tennison, sometimes spelled with a 'y'. Scott
Charlie Neil (2007-02-08 09:32:48)
Why I play here.
Reading the forum postings as I do everytime I log on, I have noted that we are a diverse group here at Ficgs. For that reason I thought I would make my statement of intent. "Why I play here." 1. It is Free. I am Scottish and that is that! 2. I like the 7 player single pairing groups. 3. I know zero about chess and computers but I think I am learning something just by reading the Forum. 4. As I said a diverse group of people play chess here but in many ways it is similar to being at an OTB club, well at least as I remember them. All different types united by one game. 5. Chess is fun but what else can make you so happy when a scheme comes together in victory and what other game can have you rocking back and forth in your chair making you doubt every decision you have ever made. And all in the time it takes to click from one game to another. 6. I wonder how long it will be now before Thibault gets fed-up with us whinging, complaining and not appreciating his hard work! (Thibault just once tell someone complaining person to go and .....!) Maybe not.
Scott Prestwood (2007-04-16 15:27:14)
skip
I usually have to go to messages to make sure I am attending the game with the greatest amount of time pressure. Would 'skip' go to the next game with the shortest amount of time left?
Scott Prestwood (2007-04-16 16:19:09)
Consider this
It has been a part of the correspondence chess tradition that you can use your own personal databases. Well, what if this database has a large proportion of computer verses human games? Computer verses computer? What if these databases were being generated by computers? Many chess viewers and database applications provide statistics and information are not reasonably generated by anything other than a computer. It seems that computer chess will be slowly keeping in.
Scott Prestwood (2007-04-16 16:26:22)
correspondence simul
Lightning (correspondence) chess games are more like a 6 way simul, with the RR style tournaments here. Different, but I still prefer to have time to analyze.
Scott Prestwood (2007-04-16 16:30:43)
DRR
I would aperciate a DRR here.
Charlie Neil (2007-08-29 23:23:43)
UK
Jacob Aagaard, playing under the Scottish flag!. (C'mon!)
Scott Nichols (2008-09-05 23:44:23)
I will refute that!
As soon as I find out what it is! :) I'm in.
Ilmars Cirulis (2008-09-07 22:04:46)
Re
Scott, nice to see you in! (It is 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5)
Thibault, when we will start the tournament? :)
Thibault de Vassal (2008-09-09 18:32:31)
One player needed to save Latvian gambit
Current teams :
Defenders : Michael Aigner, Rodolfo d'Ettorre
Refuters : Ilmars Cirulis, Iouri Basiliev, Scott Nichols
We need one more player in the defenders team ! One game to play against each player of the opposite team...
Thibault de Vassal (2008-09-09 23:29:51)
Latvian gambit team match
Here we are.. the teams :
Defenders : Michael Aigner, Rodolfo d'Ettorre, Denis Ivanchenkov
Refuters : Ilmars Cirulis, Iouri Basiliev, Scott Nichols
I'll create the games tomorrow if everything's ok :)
Denis Ivanchenkov (2008-09-10 17:50:43)
I'm ready as well.
Just looked ratings: Defenders: Michael Aigner, 2561 Rodolfo d'Ettorre, 1900 Denis Ivanchenkov 1741 Refuters: Ilmars Cirulis, 1628 Iouri Basiliev, 2154 Scott Nichols 1980 Looks like team match will be quite interesting
Scott Nichols (2008-10-09 01:54:55)
Pawn promotion
Can someone clear up just how exactly to promote a pawn to something other than a Queen here. Not knowing just cost me a frigging half a point! :(
Iouri Basiliev (2008-10-09 10:32:43)
Scott
Normally you should see all 4 possible pieses Q,R,N,B on the pop-up window. Do your browser allows pop-up?
Thibault de Vassal (2008-10-09 11:42:51)
Promotion
(Kevin, maybe we'll launch another tournament in a while)
Iouri, I don't think there's such a pop up window here :) .. Scott, please read the F.A.Q. in the help section... all explained. In bried, you just have to use the PGN format.
Scott Nichols (2008-10-11 00:04:22)
promotion
Thanks Louri, the pop-up window was what I was waiting for, and when it didn't show I knew I was sunk, :(. And it had to happen in the WCH tourney also.
Scott Nichols (2008-10-26 03:38:49)
Aigner
There is a really good article on the Latvian revisited at www.chessville.com
Scott Nichols (2008-10-30 10:06:18)
Quick chess?
I would like to see a new time format of game in 10 days with a 4 hour increment per move. A lot of players like to play fast but need more than one day, but do not need 30 or more days. Would anybody else be interested? Any thoughts?
Josef Riha (2008-10-30 10:38:45)
Quick chess
Hello Scott, I agree with your idea. Hope that others do so too.
Thibault de Vassal (2008-10-30 12:12:34)
10 d + 4 h / move
Hi Scott,
A strange format, very stressful and difficult to play.. I think many players would try it but it would cause forfeits (losses on time) and rating problems quite quickly IMO :/ .. 30 days + 1 day per move is very fast already. Then, the "correspondence blitz" format seems a good choice to me.
Don Groves (2008-10-30 20:19:24)
Response to Scott
Hi, Scott -- How about specifying a minimum number of moves per day rather than a time increment? Four hours per move would interfere with my sleep pattern ;-)
Scott Nichols (2008-10-30 21:23:12)
To Don:
The 4 hours is not "per move", it adds up. Like if you played six quick "book" moves at the start, you would have an extra day right there. Also, an 8 hour increment would be more appealling to some :). We are getting some interest, that is for sure.
Scott Nichols (2008-10-30 22:37:09)
Norma :)
Nice response, some players I think do rely on their opponents health failing because that is the ONLY way they can salvage a lost cause. One game I heard of was the guy was playing his friend. He lived in Alaska, he waited six months for a reply, when the sled dogs pulled up the mailman gave him his letter. He anxiously opened the envelope to discover it said "J'adoube"
Normajean Yates (2008-10-30 22:46:54)
Scott Nichols - hahahahaha :):):)
mate[*], chess site comments/anecdotes have occasionally made me smile, but yours is the first really funny enough that I cant't stop laughing for 2 whole minutes ans still counting!
I am going to shamelessly plagiarise an retell it orally - my version will be -- 'when *I* used to play postal chess back in the '70s-'80s [I did actually], <your anecdote will go here> and after 6 months I recieve this postcard with "j'adoube" written on it! ' :)
[*]if a woman may address a man thus - but why not?
Scott Nichols (2008-11-26 09:13:15)
The turn of the card.
The turn of the next card is like the next drink to an alcoholic. "First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." (Anonymous)
Scott Nichols (2008-12-11 03:47:57)
Poker and the chess GM
Any experiences playing poker with GM's? I played with Walter Browne in Vegas, he was an average poker player.
Don Groves (2008-12-11 05:07:34)
Poker and chess GMs
Hi, Scott -- I'll wager the lowest ranked GMs are better at poker than the best poker players are at chess ;-)
Scott Nichols (2008-12-15 02:07:23)
Agree to this.
There should be a class for faster players. Too many players use a vacation to delay the inevitable defeat. They should know--"There is no dishonor in resigning", the dishonor lies with the person who just cannot admit defeat.
Normajean Yates (2008-12-15 05:02:07)
to Scott Nichols
"Too many players use a vacation to delay the inevitable defeat"
Too many people use healthy lifestyle, medicine, careful driving etc. to delay inevitable death :-)
Scott Nichols (2008-12-15 23:08:08)
Don a new Quad?!
I'm glad that little bit of info became public, thanks Thib.
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Scott McGreal (1700)
e4 c6 d4 d5 Nc3 dxe4 Nxe4 Nd7 Qe2
White threatens Nd6 mate.
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