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Subject: Re: People named Pete

Author: Mike S.

Date: 18:52:54 09/22/00

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On September 22, 2000 at 21:20:49, Pete Galati wrote:

>On September 22, 2000 at 20:52:07, Charles Milton Ling wrote:
>(...)
>>I think you need the "K", too, Peter van Korp :-)
>
>That's true, having Pete for a first name hasn't helped me to be a good Chess
>player at all.  I'm sure it doesn't help that I'd rather not study Chess.  I'll
>have to work with my last name a bit, it probably also helps for it to end in
>"ov", and I'd need to work on my middle name.  Peter Mikhail Kalitov.  I must
>play some games online to see if that helps.

Good Idea; that's psychological warfare. Is there a free online translation for
English to Russian (or German to Russian) somewhere? I couldn't find one at the
moment. With this, we could drop some impressive sentences in russian language
into the chat window then and when, while playing at ICC i.e. I estimate this
could bring 50 elo points at least. The opponents would "trust" my "sacs" much
more.

I used another similar idea often: In the early middlegame, preferably after an
closed opening, I wrote something like "Ah... in Lasker-Tarrasch 1928, black
played 14...b6 instead." Of course, any other somewhat plausible player's names,
year or moves can be used. Great fun.

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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