Happy Holidays Everyone
Enjoy your Christmas break and New Year! See you in 2009.
posted by Blue Devil Knight at 12/20/2008 03:11:00 PM
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Enjoy your Christmas break and New Year! See you in 2009.
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15 Comments:
Happy holidays!
May 2009 be a big step in your chess study and improvement.
The same to you.
I don't participate much, but I subscribe to your rss feed, and I must say that I have really appreciated your posts over the last year.
I hope that you have a great holiday season, and wish your family and yourself health and the best of luck in the new year.
Vincent
For 2009 I wish you to find the difference between blunderfixing and improvement.
Tempo: over the board, they amount to the same for my lowly games.
I hope my wish will gain in strength during the year. . .
I am going to develop better chess rythum in 2009! Merry X-mas all!
Hey Eric. Maybe I'll be checking out your chess blog more often now. I taught Max how to play chess and he's really getting into it. I just read about the Dunst opening, which I usually use, and why it's not so popular. Fun stuff... :-)
Willie: great to see you!!! Merry Christmas, man. I had never heard of the Dunst before. That's funny.
BP: Your posts this year seem to have gotten you into a nice rhythm.
Same to you BDK! Glad that you are posting so frequently again, your "sabbatical" left a void in the chess blogosphere.
Yeah, I'm having fun with the articles for sure. I have another one on the way, on sampling distributions (statistics).
I haven't studied openings at all but I bought Max the Chessmaster game, and it kept telling me that I was doing the Dunst opening. That sounded pretty impressive so I checked it out on Wikipedia and it was classified as an "irregular opening" that's certainly playable but not often used because it has a lot of downsides. For me it was just that I like to bring the knights out to protect the center but now I'll have to reconsider that. I guess by moving either the queen's pawn or the king's pawn up you're still protecting the center to some extent...?? :-D
Oh, I guess the "BP:" indicated that you were talking to somebody else (namely BP). Heh. :-)
A belated Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all. Hopefully everyone got all those chess books they asked Santa for. :-)
Willie: I really like Chessmaster, the lectures by Josh Waitzkin are really good.
Dunst probably transposes into the Vienna most of the time, I would guess (i.e., 1 Nc3 e5 2 e4). And that's certainly playable.
It's great that Max likes chess. I sure wish I had played it when I was a kid, since I pretty much suck. :)
Thanks Polly you too!
Tempo: my wish for you is that you learn to write what you mean explicitly and clearly rather than using ellliptical riddles.
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