Plotinus (1) vs BlueBloodedToffee (7): Game 9

[Plotinus]

d4 d5 c4 dxc4 Nf3 Bg4 e3 b5 Nc3 c6 Be2 h5 O-O Nf6 e4 g6 b3 cxb3 axb3 b4 Na4 Nxe4

Good luck to both of us! I’ll need it.


cheat sheet: the letters go horizontally and the numbers go vertically and a1 is bottom left.

[Plotinus]

or losing to you more than once. i am not picky.

1. d5

[Plotinus]

dxc4

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Bg4

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b5

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c6

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h5

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Nf6

V/la today for pride.

[Plotinus]

g6

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cxb3

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b4

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Nxe4

[Plotinus]

d4 d5 c4 dxc4 Nf3 Bg4 e3 b5 Nc3 c6 Be2 h5 O-O Nf6 e4 g6 b3 cxb3 axb3 b4 Na4 Nxe4 Ng5 Nxg5 Bxg5 f6 Be3 f5 f3 f4 fxg4 fxe3 Qc2 Rh6 g5 Rh8 Qxg6+ Kd7 Nc5+ Kc8 Qe6+ Qd7 Nxd7 Nxd7

accidentally edited this and dont know what it said before

[Plotinus]

f6

I usually feel guilty for winning. But I’ll enjoy it regardless of the result too.

[Plotinus]

f5

[Plotinus]

f4


uggggh plotinus was being dumb last turn

[Plotinus]

fxe3

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Rh6

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Rh8

ugh backpedaling.

[Plotinus]

Kd7 eeeeeep

[Plotinus]

Kc8

you meanie

a lot of this is reminding me of n1615. right now i'm reliving my lacklustre lylo play.

[Plotinus]

...good game

[Plotinus]

wanna play again?

[Plotinus]

Qd7. Why didn't you do Qxe4 and mate me?

[Plotinus]

i meant Qxc6, sorry. i mixed the numbers and letters in my head. taking that pawn would have been mate.

[Plotinus]

d4 d5 c4 dxc4 Nf3 Bg4 e3 b5 Nc3 c6 Be2 h5 O-O Nf6 e4 g6 b3 cxb3 axb3 b4 Na4 Nxe4 Ng5 Nxg5 Bxg5 f6 Be3 f5 f3 f4 fxg4 fxe3 Qc2 Rh6 g5 Rh8 Qxg6+ Kd7 Nc5+ Kc8 Qe6+ Qd7 Nxd7 Nxd7 Qxc6+ Kd8 Qxa8+ Kc7 Rxa7+ Kd6 Ra6+ Kc7 Rc6#

Nxd7

oh, right. I thought it would have been chessmate because i didn't see that i would have had a move. I'm embarrassed now.

[Plotinus]

Kd8

thanks. and sorry. maybe if i hide my king back here you won't be able to see where it is

[Plotinus]

Kc7

scurry scurry scurry

[Plotinus]

Kd6

this is less stressful than LYLO at least. i know you'll hammer me eventually, just have to keep looking for a way to turn it around

[Plotinus]

Kc7

took me waaaaay too long to figure out why it wouldn’t let me do Ke5.

[Plotinus]

Good game! Thanks for playing with me! You played well!

Game 2 in this thread or new thread?

[Plotinus]

At the beginning it felt like I was thinking a bunch of moves ahead and then I started dropping things and I couldn’t pick them up again and then towards the end I could barely think 1 move ahead. I was annoyed with myself, not with you.

d4 d5 c4 dxc4 Nf3 Nf6 e3 Bg4 Bxc4 Bxf3

[Plotinus]

I feel like taking notes would be cheating but it might have helped me pick up the pieces after the day off. meh, i think this is an ego problem. “I should be good at this without having to practice” is a dumb thing that I tend to believe about everything I haven’t spent enough time practicing.

1. d4 d5

pedit: no it’s not random. the first person to type some letters is white. will respond to the c4 in my next post.

[Plotinus]

dxc4

[Plotinus]

Nf6

i never know how to start so i’m sheeping you for now.

maybe i can do white next time since we’ve already started this one.

[Plotinus]

Bg4

VOTE: BBT

OMGUS

[Plotinus]

Bxf3

but my role pm says i’m town

[Plotinus]

d4 d5 c4 dxc4 Nf3 Nf6 e3 Bg4 Bxc4 Bxf3 Qxf3 Nc6 Nc3 e6 O-O Bb4 a3 Bxc3 bxc3 O-O Rd1 b5 Bxb5 Na5 Rb1 a6 Bd3 Nb3 Rxb3 a5 c4 a4 Rb7 Qc8 Qc6 Ng4

I’m a villager I mean vanilla town

Nc6

[Plotinus]

e6.

HALP I’M BEING BUDDIED *hides under the IC's skirt*

[Plotinus]

Bb4

[Plotinus]

Bxc3

I have tomato soup on the stove!

[Plotinus]

O-O

it is nice but it is not lentil soup. but it’s pretty good. nomnom

[Plotinus]

b5

[Plotinus]

bloody hell. i thought i had a counter prepared for that.

Na5

[Plotinus]

a6

trying again. maybe it’ll work this time haha.

[Plotinus]

Nb3

greetings

[Plotinus]

why do i keep missing obvious stuff

a5

[Plotinus]

a4.

it’s not just chess. it just took me 14 minutes and 53 seconds to solve my rubik’s cube, or about 3 times as long as it should take. for whatever reason, my thoughts aren’t thinking very thinkfully today. i’ll finish losing this gracefully, though.

[Plotinus]

Qc8

yeah, that’s probably it. i’m in a good mood i’m just tired and spacey. i’ve started taking notes so that i can at least think half a move ahead.

[Plotinus]

d4 d5 c4 dxc4 Nf3 Nf6 e3 Bg4 Bxc4 Bxf3 Qxf3 Nc6 Nc3 e6 O-O Bb4 a3 Bxc3 bxc3 O-O Rd1 b5 Bxb5 Na5 Rb1 a6 Bd3 Nb3 Rxb3 a5 c4 a4 Rb7 Qc8 Qc6 Ng4 f3 Nf6 Bd2 Nd7 Rxc7 Nb8 Qe4 f5 Qe5 Nd7 Qxe6+ Rf7 Rxc8+ Rxc8 c5 Rcf8 c6 Nb6 c7 Nc8 Bb4 Kh8 Bxf8 Rxf8

sorry, fell asleep in my clothes at around 7pm, woke at 2am with a headache but made myself stay in bed it got light out. now i have coffee! it remains to be seen whether i am awake enough to be playing chess or not, but:

Ng4

[Plotinus]

Nf6 ugh.

twas. the sun hadn't even set yet. and waking at 2am all rested and ready to start the day is pretty annoying. gonna try to stay up until 10pm or something today, don't want to mess up my sleep schedule.

there was water falling from the sky earlier! it was happy! but then it stopped.

[Plotinus]

Nd7

yeah. other way is worse, though because then have to stay up all night and all day to reset it.

[Plotinus]

Nb8 :/

[Plotinus]

f5

[Plotinus]

almost! you’re gonna win still, though

Nd7

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Rf7

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Rxc8

sheeping

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Rcf8

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Nb6

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Nc8 hello little pawn i am a horsey

[Plotinus]

Kh8 scurry

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Rxf8

[Plotinus]

d4 d5 c4 dxc4 Nf3 Nf6 e3 Bg4 Bxc4 Bxf3 Qxf3 Nc6 Nc3 e6 O-O Bb4 a3 Bxc3 bxc3 O-O Rd1 b5 Bxb5 Na5 Rb1 a6 Bd3 Nb3 Rxb3 a5 c4 a4 Rb7 Qc8 Qc6 Ng4 f3 Nf6 Bd2 Nd7 Rxc7 Nb8 Qe4 f5 Qe5 Nd7 Qxe6+ Rf7 Rxc8+ Rxc8 c5 Rcf8 c6 Nb6 c7 Nc8 Bb4 Kh8 Bxf8 Rxf8 Rb1 Rg8 Qxf5 g6 Qf6+ Rg7 Rb8 h5 Bxg6 h4 Rxc8#

Rg8

This is already the middle of the end.

[Plotinus]

g6

[Plotinus]

Rg7

[Plotinus]

h5

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h4

[Plotinus]

Good game, BBT! You played well!

Yay my friend won!

[Plotinus]

It was half being tired and half something my girlfriend said about our first game (she had a lot to say after it was done, but she said it pretty quickly so i missed most of it, but she said I should have taken your knights around move 8 or something when we were amassing all those pieces that were attacking each other, instead of keeping to amass pieces I should have started exchanging things earlier, she said.

The sacrificing my knight and i think a bishop for no reason at all was 100% being tired and unable to think. I really thought I had those backed up somehow or I just wasn’t seeing things.

Yes want another game

[Plotinus]

e4 c5 Nf3 d6 Bb5+ Bd7 c4 Bxb5 cxb5

[Plotinus]

Nf3

it is, yeah. i’m playing backgammon upside down against frogger (but i’m more experienced at it than he is so I think it’s more fair to let him be the one to play rightside up).

The trouble with playing while tired is that I cannot tell I’m being bad until I’ve already started making serious mistakes (and then I feel like it’s cheating to take a break).

[Plotinus]

Hubris + Newbie is really weird combination.

[Plotinus]

Bb5+

[Plotinus]

c4

[Plotinus]

cxb5

[Plotinus]

e4 c5 Nf3 d6 Bb5+ Bd7 c4 Bxb5 cxb5 Nf6 e5 Nd5 exd6 exd6 a4 g6 Qb3 Nb4 O-O Nd7 a5 a6 b6 Bg7 d4 Nc6 Bg5 Nf6 d5 Nb4 Re1+

neat! I will remember that! If only that worked for the ascii backgammon board i’m using with frogger! (it doesn’t because i have to draw the board myself with symbols each time and I’m bored to flip it manually.)

if you hover the mouse over some of the other squares it says other things that can happen. for example A1 says “go to game start”. I hadn’t hovered the mouse over all of them yet though.

e5

[Plotinus]

exd6

g8 opens a webpage telling what all the squares do! is easier than hovering mouse.

[Plotinus]

a4

you should crumb your role to me in this game because i’m town

[Plotinus]

Qb3

k. I’ll protect you tonight, my doc protect makes you lynchproof the following day.

[Plotinus]

Take as much time as you need! I’m starting to get sleepy anyway.

O-O

[Plotinus]

a5

Let’s talk about eggs
They have no legs
chickens come from eggs
But they have legs
The plot thickens
eggs come from chickens
but have no legs under em
what a conundrum

[Plotinus]

b6

It is 5am and the sun has charred the other side of the world and come back to us to paint the smoke over our heads an imperial violet.

(not in my time zone but in yours anyway)

[Plotinus]

d4

I am! Been happening a lot this month for some reason.

[Plotinus]

Bg5

You get a wife, you get a house
Eventually you get a mouse
You get some words regarding mice
You get a kitty in a thrice
By 2am or thereabout
The mouse is in, the cat is out
It dawns upon you in your cot
The mouse is silent, the cat is not
Instead of kitty says your spouse,
You should have bought another mouse

[Plotinus]

d5

Here’s a verse about rabbits
that doesn’t mention their habits

[Plotinus]

Re1+

I don’t have any poems about bearded lizards memorised, alas.

[Plotinus]

e4 c5 Nf3 d6 Bb5+ Bd7 c4 Bxb5 cxb5 Nf6 e5 Nd5 exd6 exd6 a4 g6 Qb3 Nb4 O-O Nd7 a5 a6 b6 Bg7 d4 Nc6 Bg5 Nf6 d5 Nb4 Re1+ Kd7 Qa4+ Kc8 Nc3 Qd7 h4 Qxa4 Rxa4 Re8 Be3 Nc2 Rc1 Nxe3 fxe3 Rxe3 Ng5 Kd7 Nxf7 Rg3 Re1 Nh5 Ne4 Rg4 Nexd6

Qa4+

I made a suboptimal move a few turns back, I think, but i’m making the best of it.

[Plotinus]

Nc3

The itsy bitsy beardie
climbed to the basking spot
down came the rays
and made the beardie hot.
Off went the light
and the spot became dark
and the itsy bitsy beardie
took to sleep on his bark

(hurrah for google)

[Plotinus]

h4

[Plotinus]

Rxa4

so you weren’t bluffing well, neither was I.

[Plotinus]

Be3

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Rc1

mean horsie

[Plotinus]

fxe3

Okay!

[Plotinus]

Ng5

it’s still light out but i’m sleepy

[Plotinus]

Nxf7

[Plotinus]

Re1

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Ne4

It’s arse o’clock in the morning again.

[Plotinus]

Nexd6

*shares coffee*

[Plotinus]

e4 c5 Nf3 d6 Bb5+ Bd7 c4 Bxb5 cxb5 Nf6 e5 Nd5 exd6 exd6 a4 g6 Qb3 Nb4 O-O Nd7 a5 a6 b6 Bg7 d4 Nc6 Bg5 Nf6 d5 Nb4 Re1+ Kd7 Qa4+ Kc8 Nc3 Qd7 h4 Qxa4 Rxa4 Re8 Be3 Nc2 Rc1 Nxe3 fxe3 Rxe3 Ng5 Kd7 Nxf7 Rg3 Re1 Nh5 Ne4 Rg4 Nexd6 Rxa4 Nxb7 Bxb2 Nxc5+ Kc8 Nxa4 Kb8 Re8+ Kb7 Nc5#

nice, i didn’t even see that.

Nxb7

[Plotinus]

Nxc5+

[Plotinus]

Nxa4

[Plotinus]

Did i? my chess lylo play needs work still :/

Re8+

[Plotinus]

Nc5#

I think. good game bbt!

[Plotinus]

Thanks! I had a good brain day on Tuesday, and today has been okay too on that front. Do you want to play again?

[Plotinus]

Ok!

e4 c5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 g6 Ng5 e6 c3 Qxg5 O-O Bg7 Na3

e4

[Plotinus]

Nf3

the rvs stage of chess

[Plotinus]

Bb5

me too. and everything’s opaque and tangled and everyone’s pressuring you to start knowing what you’re doing already

[Plotinus]

Ng5

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c3

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O-O

time to town up my slot

[Plotinus]

e4 c5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 g6 Ng5 e6 c3 Qxg5 O-O Bg7 Na3 Nf6 d3 Qh4 g3 Qh3 Nc4 Ng4 Ne3 Qxh2#

Na3

Pagetop!

[Plotinus]

d3

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g3

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Nc4

hey your queen is in my personal space!

[Plotinus]

Ne3

meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

[Plotinus]

Good game! Congrats, BBT!

Wanna play again?

[Plotinus]

i’ll be black again I think. we’ve each been white and black twice now. we could keep alternating or something to keep it balanced.

[Plotinus]

d4 d5 c4 c5 cxd5 cxd4 Nf3 e6 Nxd4 Bb4+

It’s your turn.

[Plotinus]

d5

you should look at the vid i posted of my cat playing in the bathtub in the pet thread.

[Plotinus]

c5

it is very cute. he is obsessed with water.

[Plotinus]

cxd4

tidy

[Plotinus]

e6

thanks! He’s interested in everything.

[Plotinus]

Bb4+

my vote is now serious

[Plotinus]

d4 d5 c4 c5 cxd5 cxd4 Nf3 e6 Nxd4 Bb4+ Nc3 exd5 Bd2 Nc6 e3 Nf6 Bb5 Bg4 Qc2 O-O O-O Ne4 Nxe4 dxe4 Rac1 a6 Ba4 Qa5 Bxc6 bxc6 Nxc6 Qd5 Nxb4 Qb5

exd5

lele, why is serious vote scummy when i’m voting scum?

[Plotinus]

Nc6

you’re my top townread. I promise not to crosskill you.

[Plotinus]

Nf6

This is my town meta.

[Plotinus]

Bg4

UNVOTE: BBT

it’s his town meta to dislike meta.

[Plotinus]

O-O

I know. Also your push on me felt more like TvS instead of SvS, so that’s why I unvoted you.

[Plotinus]

Ne4

sure! Sounds fun! I’ll have to be careful not to talk like this to you in the actual game.

[Plotinus]

dxe4

it

would

be funny. if it does happen it’s probably not alignment indicative but I don’t think anyone will buy that so I’ll just be careful!

[Plotinus]

a6

[Plotinus]

Qa5

[Plotinus]

bxc6

[Plotinus]

Qd5

[Plotinus]

Qb5

[Plotinus]

d4 d5 c4 c5 cxd5 cxd4 Nf3 e6 Nxd4 Bb4+ Nc3 exd5 Bd2 Nc6 e3 Nf6 Bb5 Bg4 Qc2 O-O O-O Ne4 Nxe4 dxe4 Rac1 a6 Ba4 Qa5 Bxc6 bxc6 Nxc6 Qd5 Nxb4 Qb5 Qxe4 f5 Qe6+ Kh8 Bc3 Re8 Qd5 Rd8 Qe5 Qxe5 Bxe5 Rd7 Nxa6 Re8 f4 Ra7 Nb4 Rb7 Nd3 Rxb2 Nxb2 Rb8 Bxb8

f5

"The Battle of Volochayevka was one of the largest battles of the final part of the Russian Civil War, which took place on 10-12 February 1922 near the Amur railway station Volochayevka, on the outskirts of Khabarovsk."

[Plotinus]

Kh8

prodge.

[Plotinus]

Re8

hmm, I think BBT townslipped earlier in the mafia QT so I’m starting to townread him.

EBWOP I mean earlier in the public thread of course. somewhere. >.>

[Plotinus]

Rd8

I’m conftown based on night kill analysis.

[Plotinus]

Qxe5

we clearly would have crosskilled each other. therefore we should both vote the other player.

[Plotinus]

Rd7

VOTE: Chess backgammon toMorrow

[Plotinus]

Re8

aww haha

I never lie as scum so that means I’m town

[Plotinus]

Ra7

[Plotinus]

Rb7

lock

[Plotinus]

Rxb2

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Rb8

is this going to be another plotinus gives random pieces to bbt for no reason day because if it is i’m coming back tomorrow.

[Plotinus]

ffs. ok see you around. i’ll see if i can salvage this tomorrow or something, and if not i’ll play it out. i just clearly shouldn’t be playing chess right now.

i’m in a pretty good mood today for a change so i don’t even know what my deal is.

[Plotinus]

d4 d5 c4 c5 cxd5 cxd4 Nf3 e6 Nxd4 Bb4+ Nc3 exd5 Bd2 Nc6 e3 Nf6 Bb5 Bg4 Qc2 O-O O-O Ne4 Nxe4 dxe4 Rac1 a6 Ba4 Qa5 Bxc6 bxc6 Nxc6 Qd5 Nxb4 Qb5 Qxe4 f5 Qe6+ Kh8 Bc3 Re8 Qd5 Rd8 Qe5 Qxe5 Bxe5 Rd7 Nxa6 Re8 f4 Ra7 Nb4 Rb7 Nd3 Rxb2 Nxb2 Rb8 Bxb8 h5 Rc2 h4 h3 Bd1 Rxd1 g5 Rd7 g4 Rc8#

h5

i don’t know if today is any better than the 26th was but let’s find out.

[Plotinus]

h4

good morning!

[Plotinus]

you’re up early

Bd1

[Plotinus]

g5

I suspect it

is

a give up pieces for no reason day but you’re going to win this so let’s play it out.

I am having popcorn for breakfast because I read on wikipedia that in the 19th century in the US children used to eat it for breakfast.

[Plotinus]

g4

it tastes good anyway! and it takes 4 minutes to make it so that’s four minutes of washing dishes. I try to only wash dishes while i’m waiting for something else to happen. It makes it more fun.

[Plotinus]

Good game! Thanks for playing with me!

When I was kid mundane chores were so exciting because I felt all grown up. I’m not really sure how to recapture that feeling.

e4 c5 Nc3 Nc6 Qf3 g6 d3 Bg7 d4 Nxd4 Qd3 e6 Be3

[Plotinus]

Nc3

I’m enjoying our games too! Pretending to be an adult when you’re in your thirties is just nowhere near as exciting as it is when you’re 8.

[Plotinus]

Qf3

let’s have lollies for supper and watch cartoons

[Plotinus]

d3

I haven’t seen family guy yet but I’ve heard of it.



Puff the magic dragon!

[Plotinus]

d4

[Plotinus]

Qd3

meep! maybe i’ll look it up on youtube.

[Plotinus]

Be3

[Plotinus]

e4 c5 Nc3 Nc6 Qf3 g6 d3 Bg7 d4 Nxd4 Qd3 e6 Be3 Ne7 Bxd4 cxd4 Nb5 Qb6 Nxd4 Qxb2 Rd1 Qxa2 Ngf3 Qa5+ Nd2 O-O Be2 d5 exd5 Qxd5 O-O Bxd4 c3 Qg5 Ne4 Qh6 Qxd4

you could have edited your post before i saw.

Bxd4

[Plotinus]

Nb5

because horseys are stronger than bishops I think and they’re easier to be sneaky with / easier to overlook.

[Plotinus]

Nxd4

[Plotinus]

Rd1

[Plotinus]

Ngf3

[Plotinus]

Nd2

[Plotinus]

Be2

[Plotinus]

exd5

[Plotinus]

O-O

[Plotinus]

c3

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Ne4

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Qxd4

i’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!

[Plotinus]

e4 c5 Nc3 Nc6 Qf3 g6 d3 Bg7 d4 Nxd4 Qd3 e6 Be3 Ne7 Bxd4 cxd4 Nb5 Qb6 Nxd4 Qxb2 Rd1 Qxa2 Ngf3 Qa5+ Nd2 O-O Be2 d5 exd5 Qxd5 O-O Bxd4 c3 Qg5 Ne4 Qh6 Qxd4 Nf5 Qf6 b6 g4 Nh4 g5 Qg7 Qe7 Kh8 Nf6 Nf5 Qb4 Bb7 f3 Ne3 Rd7 Bc6 Rd3 Nxf1 Bxf1 Rfd8 Rxd8+ Rxd8 Qxb6

Qf6

it’s okay to a break if you need to.

[Plotinus]

g4

[Plotinus]

g5

it’s morning but the cats are all fast asleep

[Plotinus]

Qe7

Top of the morning to you ol' chap how’s the weather?

[Plotinus]

Nf6

the sky is a lovely shade of bluegrey and it’s 19 degrees and they’ve promised us more rain. It’s supposed to warm up again next week but I hope it doesn’t. Micc game is starting soon; I’m looking forward to that.

[Plotinus]

Qb4

It will be a good game. I might be overextending myself somewhat but I think it’ll be okay if i’m right about my self lifespan predictions in some of the ones that are still in signups.

[Plotinus]

f3

I’m in 3 right now. If everything started today I’d be in 8. 5 hydra with 4 different people. But there’s only 4 that i’m expecting to have a particularly long lifespan in (though of course that depends on what role pm I eventually get in some of the ones that are in signups). But the Micc game is one of the ones I’m the most excited about so it’ll be a priority.

[Plotinus]

Rd7

yeah i’m completely out of my mind, given that i’ve felt overextended before when i was only in 4. but the time consuming part of my playstyle isn’t as powerful on day 1 and I might cut back to just using it to help me sort nulls or other slots that i feel like prioritising. + i am expecting to be nightkilled early in at least some of them so it probably won’t actually be 8 at once.

[Plotinus]

Rd3

meh

[Plotinus]

Bxf1

[Plotinus]

Rxd8+

we should think of fun stuff to put in our sig on the hydra. on the wgeurts hydra we put lots of maths jokes on it and with bella we’re doing song lyrics mainly.

[Plotinus]

Qxb6

yeah. what do we even have in common? I think we both like girls and playing mafia and board games. Not sure what else. oh we both like Russell Howard, too. Do board games jokes exist? what kind of humour do you like?

[Plotinus]

e4 c5 Nc3 Nc6 Qf3 g6 d3 Bg7 d4 Nxd4 Qd3 e6 Be3 Ne7 Bxd4 cxd4 Nb5 Qb6 Nxd4 Qxb2 Rd1 Qxa2 Ngf3 Qa5+ Nd2 O-O Be2 d5 exd5 Qxd5 O-O Bxd4 c3 Qg5 Ne4 Qh6 Qxd4 Nf5 Qf6 b6 g4 Nh4 g5 Qg7 Qe7 Kh8 Nf6 Nf5 Qb4 Bb7 f3 Ne3 Rd7 Bc6 Rd3 Nxf1 Bxf1 Rfd8 Rxd8+ Rxd8 Qxb6 axb6 f4 Rd1 f5 Qf8 fxg6 hxg6 h4 Qc5+ Kh2 Rxf1 Kg3 Qc4 h5 Rd1 hxg6 Rd3+ Kf2 Qa2+ Ke1 Re3+ Kd1 Bf3+ Kc1 Re1

f4

oh great it’s giving pieces up for no reason day again. I feel like I almost had this a while back but somehow I took a wrong turn or I just didn’t have enough initiative to pull it together. I don’t think I Can win from here but we might as well play it out.



I mostly like puns and bad maths jokes. I like Tom Swifties a lot, too. I like political humour, especially Radio Yerevan jokes like:

Radio Yerevan was asked: “What will be the results of the next elections?”
Radio Yerevan answered: “Nobody can tell. Somebody has stolen yesterday the exact results of the next elections from the office of the Central Committee of the USSR.”

Radio Yerevan was asked: “Could an atomic bomb destroy our beloved town, Yerevan, with its splendid buildings and beautiful gardens?”
Radio Yerevan answered: “In principle, yes. But Moscow is by far a more beautiful city.”

Radio Yerevan was asked: “Is it true that in Moscow, Mercedes cars are being given to citizens?”
Radio Yerevan answered: “In principle, yes, but it is not Moscow but Leningrad, not Mercedes but Ladas, and not given to but stolen from.”

Radio Yerevan was asked: “Is it good to sleep with an open window?”
Radio Yerevan answered: “In principle, yes, but with a woman it is better.”

they were more of a thing before the fall of the iron curtain but I feel like a lot of them still accurately reflect current political climate.

[Plotinus]

f5

I found a thing for analysing games, tells you what all the mistakes were and how bad of a mistake and what should have done instead. i’ll put this game in and stare at it for a while i think once we’re finished I think. http://en.lichess.org/paste


we could try to make mafia jokes in the radio yerevan format:

Radio BeardedCat was asked: Is it true that x, y, z?
Radio BeardedCat answered: In principle, yes, but not x but a, not y but b, not z but c.

for example to put your sig into radio yerevan format it might be something like:

Radio BeardedCat was asked: Is it true that the amished tell is an accurate way of determining the alignment of replacements?
Radio BeradedCat answered: In principle, yes, but not the amished tell but meta diving, not accurate but rubbish, and not replacements but anybody.

(i’m not attached to using amished as the example here it’s just the first thing that came into my head)



Radio Yerevan was asked: is it possible to have 100 woman in one night?
Radio Yerevan answered: In principle, yes, if it is a polar night.

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fxg6

Radio BeardedCat was asked: should I defend my buddy if he uses dice tags to decide whether to hammer without a claim?
Radio BeardedCat answered: in principle yes, but it is not defend but rather policybus him for information.

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h4

Radio BeardedCat was asked: is it scummy to flash wagon someone in RVS?
Radio BeardedCat answered: in principle yes, but not scummy but townie and not flash wagon but gambit and not in RVS but in LYLO

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Kh2

it’s easier after reading a bunch of radio yerevan jokes because i get the pattern in my head.

instead of just underlined i have it linking to the image http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... er_sort=Go

Radio Yerevan was asked: Whenever I go on vacation, my husband keeps chasing skirts. What should I do?
Radio Yerevan answered: Take your next vacation in Scotland.

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Kg3

Radio Yerevan was asked: Why is there no flour in the shops?
Radio Yerevan answered: Because they have began adding it to the bread.

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h5

Radio BeardedCat was asked: is your username a lesbian joke?*
Radio BeardedCat answered: in principle yes, but not lesbian so much as a mashup of the types of pets we have.


*someone did ask this for real in site chat.

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hxg6

it was espeonage! I like sitechat but on my main being in the lobby it is always oranging at me when i’m trying to tryhard on my games and it is distracting but I do hydras in the other browser so i like being in the lobby in the hydra better because i can just minimise it when i’m focusing on something. but that’ll probably change once i’m actually in games on the hydra accounts. sitechat is pretty fun we played i spy once and 20 questions.

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Kf2

it’s pretty fun. the people are nice in there. just sometimes it’s spammy or dull and then i close the lobby but it’s nice in the evenings when i’m too tired to really be playing mafia anymore and sometimes people are silly and that’s fun or sometimes we talk about more serious things.

vonflare, mario, frogger, and me made a private room once and played 3p lylo for a while. we each made different setups and stuff. when it was my turn i made them each SK. frogger no killed, the other two killed different people so one of them one (forget which).

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Ke1

click on the site chat tab, then click on rooms, then type the name for the room and hit enter and then you’ll have your own room. If you are the creator of a chat room, you can set a password by clicking on the arrow on the top right corner of the window, and then the room won’t show up in public.

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Kd1

only if you use more than one browser. For example you could be logged in as BlueBloodedToffee in FireFox and BeardedCat in Opera and You Got Schooled in Chrome, etc.

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Kc1

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good game BBT! Thanks for playing with me! Your turn!

d4 e5 dxe5 h5 Nf3 d6 Nc3 Bg4 e3 Bxf3 Qxf3 dxe5 Bd3 Bb4 Bd2 Bxc3 Bxc3 Ne7 O-O-O Qd7 Qxb7 O-O

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e5

you’re quoting tatsuya!

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h4

this is me not hammering. i’m conftown now.

http://en.lichess.org/OBQpHd9T analysis of our last game in case you want to stare at it too. (you’re right that f3 was a mistake. wasn’t my only mistake though.)

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I did indeed, yeah. good catch!

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d6