Author: Pete Galati
Date: 11:29:37 07/21/00
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On July 21, 2000 at 06:53:43, Mark Ryan wrote: >On July 20, 2000 at 22:29:33, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On July 20, 2000 at 21:25:50, Mark Ryan wrote: >> >>>On July 20, 2000 at 14:21:50, Mogens Larsen wrote: >>> >>>>On July 20, 2000 at 14:08:04, Pete Galati wrote: >>>> >>>>>"Gromit, that's it, cheese, we'll go somewhere where there's cheese" --Wallace >>>>> >>>>>http://www.ehche.ac.uk/~turpinh/wavs/cheese.wav >>>>> >>>>>And you probably thoght I couldn't somehow link this subject back up with a >>>>>Chess program. >>>> >>>>Yes, and when you think about Gromit you think about dogs. And when you think >>>>about dogs, cats comes to mind. A lot of rats really dislike cats, unless >>>>they're big rats or the cats are small. Mark, are you a big rat or a small rat? >>>> >>>>Best wishes... >>>>Mogens >>> >>>Well, some people would say that I am a rat of the two-legged variety ... but >>>I'll never tell. >>> >>>Speaking of linking this back to chess, GM Duncan Suttles of Vancouver inspired >>>a lot of local Masters to play a variation of the Pirc which they called ... The >>>Rat. Seriously. >>> >>>Mark the Rat >> >>That's really a killer nickname you're adapting there. If you play in >>tournaments you should take up wearing fangs and drooling. It would be very >>distracting. And if you're using your own set, when you capture your opponents >>pieces you could spray CheeseWiz on them, sit there and chew on them for a >>couple minutes. "Hey, I'm Mark the Rat, what're you looking at". >> >>Pete > >The first time I read your post, I thought you meant "chew on my opponents", not >the pieces. Hey, that might work even better! > >Talking about The Rat (GM Duncan Suttles opening), with White, Suttles >frequently opened 1.g3 ... 2.Bg2 ... 3. d3. It's pretty obvious why it became >known as The Rat, crawling around near the bottom of the board. > >Mark the Rat I need to learn to play that kind of opening where you bring the Bishop out that way. I find it very difficult to play against, it make me struggle allot harder with the game. There may or may not be something in the tournament rules about chewing on your opponent, but how many rats do you know who follow rules? You could just tell them that that's what "RAT" stands for, "Rules Are Trash". Pete
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