Loz Cooper's 50th Birthday Blitz

Details of upcoming UK events, please provide working links if possible.
Kevin Thurlow
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Re: Loz Cooper's 50th Birthday Blitz

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:15 pm

Just recovering from that... It was really enjoyable. I've not played much online but you have to balance difficulty in concentrating when the dog is barking furiously at a pigeon that has dared to invade its territory, with the ability to shout at the screen when you mess it up. Both of those are not usually encountered OTB. I hasten to add I'm calling myself an idiot, not being abusive to the opponents.

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Re: Loz Cooper's 50th Birthday Blitz

Post by LawrenceCooper » Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:56 pm

9 round swiss:

1st Matthew Sadler 7.5/9
2nd Marcus Harvey 7
3rd Peter Svidler 7

53 played.

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Re: Loz Cooper's 50th Birthday Blitz

Post by LawrenceCooper » Thu Jul 16, 2020 11:05 pm

A huge thank you to all the players (especially those who let me win!) for giving up their time and playing for zero prize money and appearance fees or expenses etc It was nice having a whole range of players from Svidler, Sadler, Gawain etc down to locals who have only taken up the game in recent years.

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Re: Loz Cooper's 50th Birthday Blitz

Post by LawrenceCooper » Fri Jul 17, 2020 6:16 pm

These links may be helpful for viewing the final standings and there is also the option of downloading games. Viewer discretion is advised for the latter though!

https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/a ... ena-260653
https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/a ... ena-260658
https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/a ... ena-260662
https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/b ... ss-1311523

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Re: Loz Cooper's 50th Birthday Blitz

Post by LawrenceCooper » Wed Feb 10, 2021 4:30 pm

To coincide with my dad's 90th birthday today:

https://lichess.org/tournament/xETFkEFh

Matthew Sadler & Natasha Regan will be trying to make sense of it all on their youtube game changer channel.

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Re: Loz Cooper's 50th Birthday Blitz

Post by LawrenceCooper » Sat Jul 10, 2021 9:42 pm

This year's birthday blitz offering:

Friday 16th July 18:00 start: https://www.chess.com/live#r=1226078 One hour arena with a rate of play 50 seconds + 1 second increment.

Friday 16th July 19:30 start https://www.chess.com/live#r=1226605 Two hour arena with a rate of play of 3 minutes + 2 second increment.

Registration opens an hour before each event.

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Re: Loz Cooper's 50th Birthday Blitz

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Sat Jul 17, 2021 9:16 pm

This was a fun event and thanks to Lawrence for running it. I don't know who "MerryPoppies" is, but it's a brilliant name!

I decided I was too old and past it to play bullet, but I think maybe blitz is too much after the first hour or so...

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Re: Loz Cooper's 50th Birthday Blitz

Post by Matthew Turner » Sat Jul 17, 2021 9:20 pm

Kevin Thurlow wrote:
Sat Jul 17, 2021 9:16 pm
This was a fun event and thanks to Lawrence for running it. I don't know who "MerryPoppies" is, but it's a brilliant name!
Really? Come on, you should be able to work it out. If not, you can go to their username and get both the name and picture!

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Re: Loz Cooper's 50th Birthday Blitz

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Sat Jul 17, 2021 10:18 pm

Ah, I didn't know you could search names. I just turn up and play moves of vastly varying quality... Thanks!

Bear in mind my second computer had a 20 kB hard disk, and my IT skills have not advanced much.

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Re: Loz Cooper's 50th Birthday Blitz

Post by LawrenceCooper » Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:51 pm

A belated thank you to everyone who played and congratulations to the winners:

https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/a ... et-1226078
https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/a ... tz-1226605

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Re: Loz Cooper's 50th Birthday Blitz

Post by John Upham » Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:00 pm

Kevin Thurlow wrote:
Sat Jul 17, 2021 10:18 pm
Ah, I didn't know you could search names. I just turn up and play moves of vastly varying quality... Thanks!

Bear in mind my second computer had a 20 kB hard disk, and my IT skills have not advanced much.

I recall the huge levels of excitement at the University College London Computer Centre in Gordon Street in 1978 when the volatile memory of the IBM System/360 had its core memory increased by 1 MB.

The cost was £1 per byte.

There was much jubilation all around as I prepared a card deck for my next program run written in FORTRAN 66.

I had a written a trivial program to model physisorption of atomic hydrogen on graphite in 1978 when 18.
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