EvC Chess Tournament

I'm in--hard to tell who to challenge with the equivocal commitments above.Whoever it is, take pity on a poor old man, bent and broken by labor.Omnivorous at chess.com as well.

Challenge accepted.

Phat, if you put my mind on the edge of a razor blade, it would look like a BB rolling down a six-lane highway...But thanks for the vote of confidence.We have a few extremely good players here. I hope they'll join in and humble us all--it's the only way to improve.

If everyone plays everyone, you could challenge me. Toss a coin to choose colors or whatever.The other day, my wife and I were cruising along, sipping espresso and singing with Eric Clapton on the radio, giggling and substituting "Caffeine" every time he reached the refrain, "Cocaine."Maybe we had too many cups that day; maybe it was an omen.

OK, complex tricks it is...

Sure.You can even wear your skirt.

That's because the sound of zippers spooks the sheep.

Future opponents, don't let caffeine fool you--he's a sharp cookie.Win or lose, I'll have had a lot of rust knocked off by our game.

Yes, that Phat is an animal.

Ouch.I'd offer my sympathies, but they'd be crocodilian. Hardly decisive, though. I've always thought the bishop is undervalued vis-a-vis the rook--especially when it means breaking up a bishop pair.

Challenged.

Omnivorous: 3
Phat: 0
fearandloathing: 0
Jon: -1
caffeine: -1
frako: -1I've updated this after my game with frako.I need to play fearandloathing and Phat. I'll wait for challenges in case they have enough games on their plates.I still hope we can draw some more players. We could also play second games with same opponents with colors reversed.

Come to papa.

A late answer, but FWIW, I'll tell you one important thing I learned in my 40s:If you like blended whiskey or bourbon, and you think you don't like scotch, buy better scotch.

Who knows? Maybe you just have to kill more taste buds with bourbon before the scotch will work. That could be what I did with American and Canadian blended whiskeys--can't drink them now, they taste like syrup.A local company here in CT, Onyx Liquors, is putting a legal moonshine on the market, made with all local ingredients (corn, spring water, honey). I talked to one of the owners, and he says it's based on a traditional moonshine recipe. I don't recall if there's any rye or other grains in it. Hopefully it won't be too sweet.Connecticut was a major moonshine producer during prohibition-- close to New York, lots of farms, lots of immigrants with home brewing and liquor making traditions and lots of whiskey rebellion attitude.Where I grew up (Indiana/Kentucky) in the 50s, it was still common for farm folks to have small home stills--nobody got bothered unless they started trying to run it. A great-uncle made the first whiskey (corn and rye) I ever tasted.New Zealand has a home distilling law similar to the U.S. laws that permit home brewing. There are excellent DIYs on NZ sites.