Article: 12426 of rec.games.chess.misc Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.misc Path: info!dregis From: dregis@exeter.ac.uk (D.Regis) Subject: Re: Tourney play Message-ID: Organization: University of Exeter, UK. References: <53hre0$cor@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <53lj8v$krh@camel1.mindspring.com> <53n1e1$cmc@nexp.crl.com> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:33:02 GMT In article <53n1e1$cmc@nexp.crl.com> matador@crl.com (Matador) writes: >In article <53lj8v$krh@camel1.mindspring.com>, duif@atl.mindspring.com wrote: >>dkevinhuff@aol.com (DKevinHuff) wrote: >> > >>8) US PLAYERS: IF YOU HAVE THEM, BRING A STAUNTON >>STYLE CHESS SET AND BOARD. Always bring a pencil for >>recording the games, of course. > >One thing to add here. Bring a paperback book. Many tournaments are held in >hotel and banquet halls and the tables have table cloths that make it very >hard to write on, especially when using the carbonless scoresheets. Use the >book to place under your scoresheet to write on. Obviously you can't use a chess book, but I think there are some interesting theoretical questions about what book to bring. I remember a college player who leant on a copy of the London "Times", open at the crossword page which was of course completed. He then followed this up with a novelty - leaning on a copy of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus". The showdown came when he met an opponent who was leaning on a piece of lurid pulp fiction - "Cannibal Chainsaw Teen Orgy" or somesuch. It was like seeing the English Opening met with the Grob. Result? 0-1 to the Chainsaw. Chess bookstalls ought to stock a few of these so the research can continue. -- May your pieces harmonise with your Pawn structure and your sacrifices be sound in all variations D _ / "()/~ Dave Regis &8^D* WWW: http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/chess.html || \_/| = DrDave on BICS ~\ / "...what else exists in the world but chess?" _|||__SHEU: ~/sheu.html -- NABOKOV From info!dregis Mon Oct 14 11:17:25 BST 1996