Author: Pete Galati
Date: 19:11:04 09/22/00
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On September 22, 2000 at 21:52:54, Mike S. wrote: >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 Altavista has Bablefish that you now need to download an html and it'll access their online translator, and it can translate Russian to English, but it can't translate English to Russian. Bummer. But if all you need is some Russian phrases to paste into the chat Window, you can research that, but you might get labled a computer abbuser if you did multitasking/alt tabbing to copy & paste, because that can be detected. But an online name like Kalitov might win me a few points, I'm not sure, it looks like a real enough name to me, but if you are Russian, it probably looks fake. Pete
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