(above inset: Kramnik reflects and surveys the damage on the big screen - shown on right - moments away from resigning his first game in Game 3 of the World Chess Championship in Bonn, Germany this year)I have a 2 month break from chess this time between now and the start of the club competition in February.
During this time, I will also be going away for 3 weeks to spend with my parents overseas (looking very much forward to it).
I've also realised how badly out of shape I was during this lull period. I promptly lost a lot of games on FICS. I'm quite surprised how 3 weeks of inactivity has caused 'rustiness' to set in.
Onto other news, Weng has signed up his son, Dylan for the Australian Open and being one of the first 100 people to sign up, received a free Chess Informant. Dylan was delighted.
The Ryde-Eastwood dinner was a blast and many thanks to Tom Powers for arranging and organising it.
We also had David French moving back to Sydney and a couple of young players joined as well so that means Ryde-Eastwood is starting to fill the numbers again.
In the meantime, I've not been doing anything chess-related lately. My wife is going away for a couple of days to tend to a friend so that leaves me with 4 days to do some things. She has already warned me not to play chess 24 hours a day during that time. Ooops.
spousal warning, alert!
ReplyDeleteindeed! dk! :D
ReplyDeleteSometimes a break of chess to upload the batteries again does wonders because sitting fresh and rested behind the board is a wonderfull thing. Ofcourse, a blitz- or rapid game so now and then on FICS or ICC or Playchessserver or Chesscube or ... can help not to feel to rusty when the otb games are there again.
ReplyDeleteWatch out, wives always have spies everywhere! :-)
Dylan entered the Manly Classic, not the Aus Open, I am afraid. He will be a lamb led to slaughter in the Aus Open. However, on now reading the breaking news on ClosetGM blog, I am wondering whether I will see my $75? Hmmm, should I put a hold on the chq? Should have paid by credit card which has better security than a chq! And there goes the Informant 100!
ReplyDeleteHello weng,
ReplyDeleteAhh.. I apologise for the error.
Give than Peter Parr has pulled out his sponsorship, I very much doubt that you'll get to see the Chess Informant, sad to say. You can try to call up the Manly and maybe speak to Chris Dymock (is he still involved)?
I've no inkling as to what is the current situation with the Australian Open and there's getting to be a lot of heat which I intend to steer well clear of.
Maybe you can check with the organisers and give them a call as to what is going on?
I'm sorry I can't offer much help.