random saturday crap
i got bit by a black widow. i accidentally tipped over her husband’s casket at the funeral, and she freaked out and attacked me….
so it’s saturday. i just rode 22 miles on the road bike, which honestly isn’t that much, but i feel it in my legs. i am way out of shape. the loop i did is nice, a bit of a headwind for the first half, but on reletively flat road with a good surface, not too much climbing, great last half, scenery, nice road conditions. good loop, good ride.
i am still eating turkey. two days ago i made a caponata and put it all over the turkey, last night i just heated it up and put mustard on it, today maybe i’ll make an olive tapenade and drown the turkey in that….
oh, hey, this is a chess blog, i gotta talk about chess….
i won a game on icc, after losing about 20. i looked for wango and blunderprone last night, they were not on. i cant figure out how to find them if they are not online.
this morning before i went for a ride, i hit the chess tactics server, i’m still only at about 72% correct and my rating is only 1450. today, for chess study, i will read some “my system” and “rethinking the chess pieces” and i will go over some of petrosian’s games from his “petrosian vs. the elite.” i also have the paul keres: the road to the top, which i haven’t even looked at yet. so there is that…
ahhh, saturday….i love saturday….
if you need chess books or chess stuff, may i recommend: Labate Chess.
they are awesome and have lots of books and stuff that i’ve never seen before.
David K, Seattle said,
September 15, 2007 at 11:09 am
add blunderprone as friend, then view for friends on line.
you can add dktransform. while im not acitve THERE, for this juncture but plan to, you can type history dktransform and see view just what sort of stuff i do in three to four minutes, sometimes two and one half or two.
thalamus is another, you decide who it is.
i love ICC and am very comfortable with it:
try this!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.cs.utu.fi/~juhkivij/chess/icc_best_en.shtml
wormwood is another.
David K, Seattle said,
September 15, 2007 at 11:11 am
phihelmuth is really, really good at 1/0. i dont like that game, but fyi he is or was 40 in world at bullet.
‘rank bullet’
‘rank blitz’
‘rank 5/0′ etc
‘best’ is a great page, i check it often to see who is on… Morozevich comes and goes.
usefull queries
agentmitchell said,
September 16, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Reminds me of a time I heard a woman screaming in the middle of the night. I tried to sleep through it but she just wouldnt stop. Finally, I had to get up and let her out of the basement.
Good to have you back.
Pawn Shaman said,
September 16, 2007 at 3:45 pm
I was Fing around with another blog and got my names confused. Agentmitchell is I pawn shaman.
ookwelbekendalsemc said,
September 16, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Hey cl! Remember me mentioning that 1000 Opening Traps CD a while back? Do you want it?
YµR0kewL said,
September 16, 2007 at 6:59 pm
*GG* Just come over to FICS (www.freechess.org) or WCL (www.worldchesslive.com) and play vs. me
yk
Blue Devil Knight said,
September 17, 2007 at 10:24 am
Dude, you left us hangin’ with the black widow story.
What happened after? Did you just start riding your bike? Did you go to the ER? Did red welts start to creep across your skin starting at the bite mark, in a broken-glass type of pattern? Did you die and have a near-death experience? Did you play chess with Jesus while you were there?
Come on, let us know.
Liquid Egg Product said,
September 17, 2007 at 12:38 pm
22 miles? That’s a long way for a lot of us.
@Blue Devil Knight: You noticed he hasn’t posted in 2 days? The spider must have got him!
In all seriousness, black widows are very rarely fatal, especially for a full-grown adult. They don’t inject very much venom.
Derek Slater said,
September 17, 2007 at 3:45 pm
They succor’d him with treacle an’ he was duly revived.
chessloser said,
September 17, 2007 at 9:11 pm
david – thanks, i’ll be on the lookout…
agent mitchell -or should i say “pawn shaman…IF that is your real name – thanks, nice to be back…
Yurokewl – hey, how are you? i’ll look for you on world chess live…i’m chainsmoke there as well…
Blue Devil Knight – that one line WAS the whole story…black widow = a woman whose husband died, she is a widow, and she was black, and she bit me cause i tipped her husband’s casket over at the funeral…didnt’ really happen, it was a joke…but thanks for your concern….although, if i played chess with jesus, i wonder if i could take him by surprise playing the grob?….
liquid egg product – thanks, but 22 miles on a roadbike isn’t that long, hardly a warm up for many…i should be riding 30 -50…
derek slater – mmmm, treacle….
Blue Devil Knight said,
September 17, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Wow that went right over my head. I thought you were being metaphorical, as the females kill the males after mating, so I thought you meant you accidentally disturbed her right as she was killing the male and she got pissed and bit you.
My back is all messed up, I can’t do much more than a couple of miles on the bike right now. It sucks!
Liquid Egg Product said,
September 18, 2007 at 4:27 am
Come to think of it, you’re right about the miles on a bike…even with my lack of recent exercise, I’m capable of 8 miles on foot, so 22 on bike shouldn’t be that bad…
Polly said,
September 19, 2007 at 9:10 pm
I did a double take on the black widow part, but I did get it.
Nice bit of riding there. You got to start slowly and build up. When I started back up this spring I was only doing about 12 miles. Two Sundays ago I rode 68 miles. It’s taken a long time to get back up to that type of mileage. It’s helped the waistline, but not my opening line.
chessloser said,
September 21, 2007 at 6:34 pm
polly – “helped the waistline but not my opening line”…..hahahah, well put…yeah, it’s coming slowly back to me…if i can figure out how to study while riding, perhaps i’d be helping both my lines…