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Subject: Re: What's this guy's Problem???

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 15:37:47 09/08/02

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On September 07, 2002 at 17:36:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 07, 2002 at 16:05:16, Rick Terry wrote:
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>>Does this guy need an Attitude Adjustment or what???
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>>Information about beetle(IM) (Last disconnected Sun Jan 09 2000 11:41):
>>
>>          rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
>>Wild        1446  [6]     0     1     0     1
>>Bullet      2121  [8]   862   627    86  1575   2405 (12-Apr-1997)
>>Blitz       2380  [8] 14204  7694  2216 24114   2728 (20-Feb-1997)
>>Standard    2529  [6]    10     3     6    19
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>> 1: Michael Valvo Fort Collins Colorado USA 57 years old
>> 2: I will give takebacks for obvious mouse slips but you must ask
>> 3: I will play fast time controls to accomodate opponents but my aim is chess
>>not time (goes for silly or stupid stuff as well) so beware [don't bother
>>playing me if playing to win on time is your thing...I'm not into such
>>masturbation]
>> 4: I find it odd there are players here who play less than 90% of their games
>>as rated; Many who like their rating so much they stop playing!
>> 5: 3 0 is not chess (more like masturbation), but one has to do it or not play
>>(seems like the most popular time control)...I try, but I can't quite handle 3 0
>>time controls and often lose on time
>> 6:  Accumulated hours :  4879.97    % of life on icc  :     10.31
>> 7: I will immediately abort the game and/or put people on noplay/censor for
>>playing boring or wierd openings
>> 8: don't offer me draws I'm not interested (in fact excessive draw offers will
>>result in censor/noplay)
>> 9: giving thx after games or dising is a sure way to get censored and/or
>>noplayed
>>10: I detest increments & unrated games

>I'm not sure what you are asking. I've known Mike for 20+ years.  He was the
>TD at most of the ACM events starting around 1980 or so...  He's not as strong
>a chess player as he used to be (he is an IM), and he did suffer a stroke a
>few years ago that affected his chess playing ability (his words).

Ah it's not about the chess level here. It's about censoring everyone
for about 3 years now. As long as he is on ICC he's been doing that.
His censoring of me is from about 2 years ago or so i'd estimate.

Sincethen i have seen regularly people joke and post about it at different
fora :)

>Notes like that generally reflect poor experiences on ICC, which is not
>uncommon...  that is why some (GM) players are anonymous...



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