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- From: elowther@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Edward Lowther)
- Subject: ClassC to B ratings question. provisional? etc?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.194319.22682@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:43:19 GMT
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- Well, I've almost touched the top of Class C, and will soon
- be Class B. But how could I be wrong? Well, my last provisional
- game was one of the three I thought would put me there.
- Beating a 7XX rated (10 year old) as my 20th game doesn't make the
- thing go down, does it? I hope not. Excerpt follows:
- 1.e4 e6 <--- this got him thinking. Didn't move the pawn up 2,
- like I was supposed to!
- 2.c3? d5 <--- I dunno, what do you think it is?
- 3 Qa4 + Argh! This kid is good! 3..Bd7 etc. Black wins.
- I feel, after this (the results get uglier) that I might not deserve
- changing classes so quickly, now. My next two games were against
- approximately B-C ish players, I didn't jot down their numbers.
- My question is basically: Does a C-player about to be B'd get it if
- one of the three games that could bump him up is still provisional, and
- 400+700 looks to me to bring it down a little. (?)
- Additional Excerpt:
- Last of three rounds: I have been wearing my "Latvian Pride"
- sweatshirt shamelessly. I get black and grin at my opponent. Do you
- feel lucky? He does, so uses his K-pawn.
- Aha! Faked you out! I've been working on the French! 1.e4 e6
- 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Qc7 (?!) and since this is mysterious, and I am
- now smirking, he believes I know what I am doing. This is the wrong
- square, sure, but it was close enough at the time. N-e7-f5 was accomplished,
- and I got the tempo back sort of. Later, when I looked like I was losing, I
- offered a draw. This made him think he had a quicker win than he really
- had, so blew it. *I don't deserve it!* grin, grin, grin. Same Bishop
- endgame won by Black!
-
- ----------elowther@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu-------------------
- "Oops. Stalemate. Sorry." (When I didn't resign vs a Q & N to my K)
- " No! Take that pawn!" (When the kid mentioned above
- thought he had one, too.)
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