Originally posted by chaswrayI have to confess I am Tuco and Tuco is Alive.
Okay, okay you got me....I'm old...fat...bald and ugly😳 And if you look at my lofty rating, you can tell I cheat at chess😳😳 There, confession is good for the soul! But you coppers will never take me alive🙄🙄
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Originally posted by Boby FisherI thought you were joking, but with all the strange things that have happened recently I wasn't so sure!
Of course, but how do you know about tucco? you were not here in that time.
I've been on the site since May 2002, when Schliemann was the top player. If I remember correctly, Tuco appeared around the end of 2002. He targeted Dave (Schliemann) from the moment he joined, so I've always believed he was an alias created by someone who hated Dave and wanted to drive him from the site (he succeeded).
Originally posted by David TebbI admire Dave and I still miss him, my clan has his name.
I thought you were joking, but with all the strange things that have happened recently I wasn't so sure!
I've been on the site since May 2002, when Schliemann was the top player. If I remember correctly, Tuco appeared around the end of 2002. He targeted Dave (Schliemann) from the moment he joined, so I've always believed he was an alias created by someone who hated Dave and wanted to drive him from the site (he succeeded).
So that was not me.
Have a shocking confession to make. After about five weeks with redhotpawn and brassed off with my rather up and and down performance I had to come to a decision. Easy I said, try and slow down a bit at least occasionally (I used to love lightning chess) and more than 10 seconds seems like an eternity. This helped a good bit but something was still missing. Determined to sort out the problem I scoured the local shops and eureka, lo and behold I found the ultimate cheat at the back of a local toy shop. Nestled at the back I found a strange gadget. The neat box with its 32 assorted black and white things brought back dim recollections of when I used to play chess 10 years ago, as did the draughts board. I took it home and set out the pieces as per the start-up position on redhotpawn and tried it out, Nervously I shuffled the bits around, and everything seemed to fall into place. No more did I take my own pieces as I kept doing on the analysis board. Anyway as yet I have not found any laws banning plastic robots and the use of draughts boards so I would recommend this solution to everyone.
PS This little story is based on the truth, after five weeks with redhotpawn I have actually gone out and re-bought a chess set. PLEASE PLEASE do not tell me this is illegal!!
I confess to having absolutely no idea what the names of all the opening moves mean. When someone talks about French, English, Sicilian or whatever, I stare at the screen blankly. Of course, if they were there in person I would stare at THEM blankly, but this is the internet.
I also confess to not having any desire to learn what all the names mean. Except Ruy Lopez, for some reason that one sounds kind of cool. 😉
I have to confess to having no real knowledge of how to play this game. I am blissfully unaware of how the pieces move, what the object of the game is and how you can win at it. In fact all my games are played by clicking the mouse randomly and then clicking 'move'. Sometimes it tells me I am in check, a curious position which illuminates red squares on my board and requires me to randomly choose again. Sometimes, especially near the end of a game, I find it almost impossible to select a random move to avoid this red square phenomenon and spend hours trying in vain to find that one remaining aquare that I can safely click move on. It has become somewhat of a problem in that people have begun chatting to me during games and on more than one occasion I have had to bluff my way through some sort of chess based conversation, when all i really understand is that some mad guy named Rubenstein once played it....
