[Event "The Colony War Part One"]
[Site "SchemingMind.com"]
[Date "2013.02.20"]
[Round "-"]
[White "littleboo"]
[Black "white bishop"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C22"]
[WhiteCountry "USA"]
[BlackCountry "PHI"]
[WhiteElo "2224"]
[WhiteRD "78"]
[BlackElo "2212"]
[BlackRD "87"]
[GameID "327246"]

1. e4 e5
{
white bishop: I can't help noticing the cute little pet you have in your profile! It's not a rat, because it's hairy. What is this animal friend of yours?
}
{
littleboo: That is Frazier the ferret....I lost him a few years back....I have 3 of them right know....his kids...
}
2. d4 exd4
{
white bishop: How about Frazier's mate (mother of his kids), do you also have her?
}
{
littleboo: No....afraid not....they only live 8-10 years....not really very long...my 1st one was bandit, 2nd was penny, 3rd was frazier, 4th gabby, 5th digger, and now sassy, calin, and Major frank "frankie" burns...
}
3. Qxd4 Nc6
{
white bishop: It must be costly to buy the original pets, buy pet food and shampoo, & get or build a mini-house for them. Also you may need to bring them to a vet if they are sick and have them inoculated with vaccines. Well, I don't really know, as I've never had pets before.
}
{
littleboo: it can be....vet bills can be $$
}
4. Qe3 Nf6
{
white bishop: Aside from the monetary expenses related to pet ownership, you gotta spend time with them, like talking to them, playing with them, feeding and bathing them, right?
}
{
white bishop: In other words, you care and take care of them. They're like your own kids!
}
{
white bishop: Are they toilet-trained? I mean, of course, that they don't just litter & make a mess of your whole house by peeing and pooping anywhere and everywhere.
}
{
littleboo: yea they are like kids...you can litter box train them....they are only out to play otherwise in their cage..
}
5. Nf3 Be7
{
white bishop: Do the 3 ferrets also fight with each other?
}
6. Bb5 O-O
{
littleboo: No...very passie...
}
7. O-O d5
{
littleboo: *passive*
}
8. e5 Ng4
{
white bishop: I just came back from an afternoon of 5 rounds, Swiss system, OTB chess tournament. Didn't win anything though, but had 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss for a total of 3 1/2 points.
}
{
white bishop: I felt more pressured there than playing here. Originally, they advised that each player will be given 25 minutes per game, but they reduced it to 20 minutes per game, because the tournament director was afraid we can't finish all the 5 games by 6:00 p.m.
}
{
littleboo: Oh nice...yes OTB is way different than this or ICC
}
9. Qc3 d4
{
white bishop: I love the analysis boards here which I use quite often to work out my moves. Btw, do you join OTB tournaments?
}
{
littleboo: I like OTB...just dont get alot of time to do it....
}
10. Qe1 f6 11. exf6 Bxf6
{
white bishop: What else is nice to do on this site? Ever since I became a trial member last 10.31.12, I've joined double round robin tournaments, KO tournaments, thematic tournaments, joined The Chess Warriors team and have played in this team challenge match. I enjoyed chatting with other members while playing. I haven't tried the class tournaments and the chess variants yet. I noticed that you play in the class tournaments, and you're really good! :)
}
{
white bishop: I've challenged 2 Australians to play standard chess with me, but the 2nd guy didn't make his moves, so that game with him is already wasted from my 50-game allotment as a trial member.
}
{
white bishop: I've challenged 2 Australians to play standard chess with me, but the 2nd guy didn't make his moves, so that game with him is already wasted from my 50-game allotment as a trial member.
}
{
littleboo: yea thats the thing here...I am really over rated...I have people time out all the time....so my rateing is over inflated...the class tourn are alot of fun.....and team games too....I am not real big for varients....and thanks but I am not really all that good...gameknot.com is really nice too....
}
12. Bf4 Re8
{
white bishop: Hi, I have just signed up in a class tourney! :)
}
{
littleboo: oh very cool...
}
13. Qd1 g5
{
white bishop: Hi, I joined a Class 2 tournament. I saw you playing in Class 1.
}
{
littleboo: Yes I am in a class 1....they dropped me from class 1 down to class 2 then back up because I did really bad in a tournament....
}
14. Bc1 a6
{
white bishop: Are you FIDE or USCF rated?
}
{
littleboo: No I'm FIDE rated...done some USCF
}
15. Bxc6
{
white bishop: Have you tried playing on the ICCF website? 
}
15... bxc6
{
littleboo: No what is it?
}
16. c3 c5
{
white bishop: ICCF stands for Int'l Correspondence Chess Federation. Check out directly its website at www.iccf.com to read more about this organization. Aside from going directly to its website, you can click "SchemingMind.com" on the green strip you see above this virtual chessboard. After that, choose "Help", and  click "Help (SchemingMind.com Wiki)". Once you are on the Wiki page, look for [Playing on ICCF] under "Advanced Guides". 

}
{
white bishop: I haven't tried playing on ICCF yet, but I learned about it thru a fellow member from Canada whom I played with in the MT for new members.
}
{
white bishop: Just curious! What was your original hair color before it turned gray and white? What are the color of your eyes? Here in Asia, we aren't that colorful! Everyone is the same in terms of hair and eye color, except for those whose hair has whitened as a result of age. Of course, we do see children of mixed races.

}
{
littleboo: My hair was brown and my eys are blue or hazel....5'7" about 190 ( yea a little over weight) but it is what it is....ok....your turn....what do you look like?
}
17. cxd4 cxd4
{
white bishop: I like the combination of your hair and color colors. You must be a very handsome man when you were young! :)
}
{
white bishop: I'm considered very short by American standards. I am only around 5' tall. I weigh a little less than 110 lbs, w/c is still ok. My husband is 5'8", so I've become very conscious of the disparity in our height whenever I go out with him. If there are formal parties to attend, like weddings, these are occasions wherein I can wear my high heels, to make myself a few inches taller.
}
{
white bishop: Although there is a Chinese herb known to make children or adolescents taller, these will no longer work for me at my age. I do give them to my children everyday for almost 2 years now.
}
{
white bishop: I come from parents of short stock. I've been telling my mom that my height is a great disadvantage to me. Whenever I shop for groceries and find that an item I needed to buy was placed very high up in the shelves, I have to ask for assistance from the supermarket staff. I couldn't even reach it when I tiptoed. There was a time when I couldn't find any supermarket staff around to assist me, so I tried to jump to reach that item, but I still couldn't get to it. Fortunately, from the nearest corner of the supermarket, a male customer was about to leave that area when my jumping up and down had caught his attention, so he came to my rescue.
}
{
white bishop: As to skin color, I'm very fair complexioned. I was born like that, and normally shy away from the sun. Filipinos' skin color range from light brown to dark brown. 
}
{
littleboo: You sound very attractive...you are too cute...I can just see you jumping up and down in the store....I was laughing to hard reading this....as for being handsom...well don't know about that....but thank you....
}
18. Nbd2 Qd5
{
white bishop: Some people have commented when they saw me and my teenage daughters that we all looked like sisters. So I guess that in the US, I can easily disguise myself and pass as a high school student, with the proper outfit, and as long as I continue to dye my hair black or probably brown like yours, to keep the whites from showing. Also, I can make use of colored contact lenses to change my eye color to blue or hazel. Awesome! ;) 


}
{
white bishop: Which American actor would you say that you come closest to in facial appearance and body build? (Gary Oldman? Daniel Day-Lewis? Kevin Spacey? Sylvester Stallone? Tom Cruise? Tom Hanks? Sean Penn? Johnny Depp?) If there are none I've listed here, name your actor that closely resembles you.
}
{
littleboo: Thats a tough one....maybe John Wayne....I have had people tell me I look like Eric Clapton....but I don't know
}
19. h3 Ne5
{
white bishop: Seems like we haven't played chess for a long time now!                
}
{
littleboo: Yea....sure feels that way....
}
20. Nxe5 Rxe5
{
white bishop: I remember John Wayne for his cowboy roles.
}
{
littleboo: Yes he was a huge star in his day...nobody has ever asked me a question like that before...it is a hard one....
}
21. f3 d3
{
white bishop: Here in Philippines, we get a lot of opportunity to watch American programs on TV, cable TV, and also movies. Our family has the regular habit of watching a movie on weekends, usually Saturday evenings, and either preceded or followed by dinner outside the home. This is our family bonding time, then my husband would ask the kids questions or discuss what lessons there are to be learned from the movies, especially those with life applications. 
}
{
littleboo: Sounds nice...come I come?  :-)
}
22. Ne4 Be7
{
white bishop: Yeah, feel free to join us anytime you like! ;) There are a lot of new restaurants sprouting up all over. Yesterday, it was my mom's birthday, so we had dinner at Viking's. It's an "eat-all-you-can" concept and you are free to go back to refill food! There's local to international dishes at Viking's! Plus, if it's your birthday, you get to eat for FREE on the exact day of your birthday. Also, 3 waiters will come, make the celebrant wear a Viking hat with horns, & sing you the birthday song.
}
{
littleboo: That sounds nice....I do like family time...most the time...I do like my own time too....
}
23. Rf2 Rb8
{
white bishop: Have you watched "The Host"? We watched the movie this evening. It's an American science fiction film, based on Stephanie Meyer's novel of the same name. Fyi, Stephanie Meyer is more known for her "Twilight" series novels and for "The Twilight Saga" film series.
}
{
white bishop: In "The Host" movie, you'll find that all the characters who acted as hosts for an alien colony, wear contact lenses of a certain color combination to make their eyes look different fr that of the average humans. 
}
{
littleboo: No never saw the host....saw trailers for it...looks good...
}
24. Kh1 Qd4 25. Rd2 Rd5 26. Rb1 Bf5 27. b3 Bxe4 28. Bb2 Qb4
{
white bishop: Will you be playing in the Standard Chess League - Season 8 for The Swarm?
}
{
littleboo: No not for the swarm....most likely for New England.....how about you?
}
29. fxe4 Qxe4
{
white bishop: Will be playing for The Chess Warriors as that is the only team I am a member of.
}
{
white bishop: Since it will be my first time to play in the Standard Chess League, are all matches with the different teams in your division played at the same time or one after the other? 
}
30. Qc1
{
littleboo: You play the first match then move forward....depends on how your team does....
}
30... Bd6
{
white bishop: That would be fine for me, to avoid stressing myself too much if I have to simultaneously play too many games at once, as I'm participating in individual tournaments as well in this site. Too many games at the same time may affect my performance! I've played with players here who were also into so many tournaments at the same time, that it may seem humanly impossible to attend to all of them, so they ended up abandoning some of their games. This of course affects their rating.
}
{
white bishop: Yesterday, our family watched the movie "Oblivion" with Tom Cruise in the lead role. I don't find it as nice as "The Host" we watched a week earlier, but the props they were using and the set design are great. Very futuristic! 
}
{
white bishop: Tom Cruise usually does very well in action films, aside from the fact that he is naturally handsome! The only thing I didn't like about his facial features is his eagle nose. I admire the smooth, flawless complexion of the lady who had the role as his Communications Officer. It made me wonder what product items she used, or what procedure she went through to achieve that kind of skin.
}
{
littleboo: Yes...too many games can be to much...I have seen the ads for the movie...looks pretty good...I never seem to make it to the shows at the theater....but more of a Netflix guy...
}
31. Qc3 Be5
{
white bishop: As I've mentioned to you before, we have our regular family bonding time each Saturday afternoon to evening. Although we can just rent or buy a DVD to watch at home, all of us enjoy our gastronomic adventures trying out different restaurants, with different cuisines. My husband redeemed a voucher for a free dish at a Korean restaurant named Bulgogi Brothers when we ate there last night, plus he had a discount card which entitles the owner of the card to a 20% discount on the total bill. 
}
{
white bishop: Is there anything you and your family emjoyed doing together when your son was still an adolescent?
}
{
white bishop: Would you like to join me in The Gunman Masters 4? I just signed up a few days ago for this tournament. Aside from me, there is so far another participant, from the USA, so I hope there's enough spacing of games before the other participants joined. This is a tournament for those rated 2000 and above.
}
{
littleboo: Yes we would have a movie night....dinner...I am a photography buff and so we would go take photos...hike etc...ok You talked me into it...I joined...
}
32. Qc6 Bxb2
{
white bishop: Your movie nights and dinners are just like ours. You and your son took photos of nature, or do you have any particular subject for your photo shoots? What is the brand and model of camera you now use? Altho I am no photography buff, I use a Canon PowerShot A620 digicam, which I bought a few years ago. I normally took photos of important events like birthdays, graduations, and the sort. I am now trying to save money to buy myself a videocam. What brand &/or model would you advise me to get for myself? I want one that's affordable and not expensive, and one that's easy to use or operate.
}
{
white bishop: Thanks for joining The Gunman Masters 4. I find our games to be challenging and thought provoking! 
}
{
littleboo: Yes I love photographing nature...I use a Nikon D70, 3 Nikon FM2 for film, Mamiya RB67 & 645 for medium format...I dont know much about video but as for a brand you might look at Cannon and your welcome (Gunman) thanks for thinking of me...
}
33. Rbxb2 Qe1+
{
white bishop: You still use film? I thought everyone use digicam nowadays and cameras that use film have already become obsolete and a thing of the past. So you develop your own pics?
}
{
white bishop: Hey, you can make money from your photography hobby! You enter contests or you can sell your pics to newspaper and magazines. 
}
{
littleboo: Yea I sure do.....Film is still very alive and well....I do develop myself...I have a darkroom....I have sold some....
}
34. Kh2 Qe5+ 35. g3 Rb6 36. Qa8+ Kg7 37. Qc8 h5
{
white bishop: I know photography is an expensive hobby. Before digicams were ever invented, my brother had a photography class while in high school, they were also taught how to develop their own black and white photos, so we improvised a dark room for him at home. My dad even asked a friend in HK to canvass the prices of developing equipment there. When it was found to be cheaper than the cost of getting one locally, my father flew to HK to buy the equipment for my brother.
}
{
littleboo: Yes it can be a bit pricey....that was really cool....
}
38. Rb1 Rf6 39. Rg1 Rf8 40. Qxa6 Qe3 41. Rdg2 d2 42. Rd1 Rf2 43. Qc4 Rxg2+ 44. Kxg2 Rf5 45. Qxc7+ Rf7 46. Qxf7+ Kxf7
{
white bishop: Hey, why the Queen sacrifice? I thought you would have moved it elsewhere.
}
{
littleboo: seemed like the best move....I have allready bit the dust in this game anyway....I was looking at Qd8 but I really dont have to many options left in this game...
}
47. Rf1+
{
littleboo: And by the way...at least you are nice when you ask a question like that...I have had players say some pretty nasty things..."you should just quit" etc...one thing you should know about me...I can not stand a cocky chess player...that will fire me up in a heart beat...and I have no problem ripping them a new one....sorry...done with my tantrum... :-)
}
47... Ke7
{
white bishop: What do you mean by "I have already bit the dust in this game"?
}
{
white bishop: You should remember that there are all kinds of people in this world, but basically, ... they fall under the heading of "kind" & the "unkind" ones! The unkind and impolite ones may not be as educated as we are, and hence have no sense of morals or values. If you encounter a player who kept pounding you with nasty remarks, you should leave them alone, and try your best to figure out if you can still force a draw. That day, you still get a half point, at least, rather than nothing!
}
{
white bishop: At your age, you should be careful and not get angry often, especially if you suffer from hypertension or cardiovascular diseases. Since you say you are a bit overweight, that already is a risk factor for heart-related ailments.
}
{
littleboo: "I bit the dust" just means I have lost this game....done a bad job etc...Oh yea trust me I know about different people....I have met lots of them...whata mean "at my age" you callen me old?   Just kidding....funny thing is, it really does take alot to get me angry....and I dont get angry all that often....I am pretty mellow...it takes alot to get me really mad...and I see my doctor on a regular basis...when it comes right down to it...life is to short to be pissed off all the time...
}
48. a4 Qe2+ 49. Kg1 d1=Q
{
white bishop: Thanks for a wonderful game!
}
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