[BrianWall-ChessList] Announcing 2009-2010 Colorado Bullet Championship

[Brian Wall]

Announcing 2009-2010 Colorado Bullet Championship


Eligible -
Anyone who ever lived in Colorado

Suggested by
David King, my old C.U. Boulder blitz partner,
now back home in Texas


Handle - Pretzel Attack
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Hoping to get

Steve Towbin, bullet addict - Latvia
Steve was unofficially a Chessmaster then fell to
earth like Icarus and never touched the sky again

Tyler Hughes, Chess god - Checkmates

Happy, healthy Josh Smith, retired Champ - TsovNoog

Danielle Rice, bullet addict - Danielle

Future Colorado Champion Josh Bloomer, multiple handles -
the funny part was Josh played Na3 against my Hyper-Pole
under a new handle and I said - Josh?
and he said - Yup!

Day, time, server to be chosen soon after hearing
from the top players and the multitude.
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Statistics for B-Wall         On for:    4     Idle:    0

              rating [need] win  loss  draw total   best
Wild             718  [6]     0     4     0     4
Loser's          788  [5]     0     7     0     7
Crazyhouse      1545  [5]     7    10     0    17
Bullet           674  [8]     0     1     0     1
Blitz           2049  [3]   824   468   140  1432   2459 (09-Mar-2009)
5-minute        2070  [8]   672   620   168  1460   2369 (01-Sep-2009)
1-minute        1904       2425  2297   213  4935   2136 (26-Dec-2009)

 1: Life Master Brian Wall   30 years
 2: How to Play Chess Like An Animal - Amazon.com, Borders  over 2,000 sold
 3: Youtube videos - Fishing Pole First Blood  1,000 views
 4: BrianWallChess at Yahoogroups.com  free Chess email list ( 650 ) with pictures
 5: http://www.taom.com/mailman/listinfo/brianwall-chesslist  free email list (
  350 )
 6: http://chessville.com/Wall/index.htm  Off the Wall Chess column for
  www.Chessville.com
 7: ICC interview with IM John Watson Feb 3, 2009  archived
 8: friends - Checkmates, Karagianis
 9: www.BrianWallChess.net
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My 1 minute high was yesterday, which may be Tyler Hughes 19th birthday.
That means I've know him almost 10 years.
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In the past it's been on ICC but if people prefer PlayChess
or Chesscube or whatever we will try to accomodate them.
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Reward - bragging rights for a year
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Bullet is a state of mind - you have to make good moves
instantly stopping only for checks or checkmate threats.
Being able to win won endgames is critical. Finding any
checks at all the final 7 seconds is even more critical.
Good Bullet Openings -
Anything that throws your opponents off
balance and forces him to consume time.
The Dragon, the Czech Benoni, the Sveshnikov, the Najdorf, the Scotch,
the Goring Gambit,the Rubenstein French, the Fort Knox French
are popular in bullet.