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Post #10 (isolation #5) » Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:25 pm
Postby Menalque »
lol, I will say it's definitely been going remarkably better for me than Nf3 in blitz, but again that's mostly bc at my rating it gets accepted more often than it should (then again, I have twice blundered the move order afterwards in blitz games but still somehow ended up winning)
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Post #49 (isolation #20) » Tue Feb 09, 2021 8:53 am
Postby Menalque »
It’s a french name so you have it almost right! And only off slightly because there should be an accent on the “é” making it more “may-NALK” but I think the boards wouldn’t accept it? Or maybe I just forgot or was worried people here would find it overly pretentious. Which it already kind of is, seeing as it’s a secondary character from the novel L’Immoraliste by André Gide
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Post #53 (isolation #22) » Fri Feb 12, 2021 3:17 am
Postby Menalque »
So, fun fact, I somehow hallucinated that it was your turn the last time I checked and then because I didn’t see the game near the top again I just kept thinking that lol
But oh cool, I had no idea about any of that! I personally find french a really pretty language and have a few friends from there which is why I moved there, but I find it a lot more difficult than Spanish and that + Covid meant me changing my plans and ending up here instead. What did you end up doing instead of academia?
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Post #56 (isolation #23) » Sun Feb 14, 2021 6:37 am
Postby Menalque »
That sounds like a pretty fun trajectory! I’ve only ever been to a casino once and honestly it was kind of depressing (my main memory is of a guy playing slots who just kept loading another 50 pounds into the machine all night every time he ran out, and he was there for hours, just drinking a beer by himself) but I can see how if it’s funded it’s probably more enjoyable!
I was really considering resigning this but idk, maybe it’s hard to break through if I play well?
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Post #58 (isolation #24) » Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:59 am
Postby Menalque »
Maaaaaaybe but I feel like it’s much harder to be tricksy with a rook than it is with a knight!
I also just won the most disgusting blitz game where I was down like 30 points according to the computer, and then the opponent let me get a back rank in 2 when I think literally any other move and I would have lost
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Post #60 (isolation #25) » Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:02 pm
Postby Menalque »
Yeah, I resign, I don’t see any traps or tricks after Kd3 Nxg3 Rg1 Nh5 Rg5 g6, I was considering both Kd3 and Rf1 and thought the order didn’t really matter but I missed that the pawn was falling this way round
GG, kinda disappointed with how I played here tbh but you cleaned up really nicely