If you want to motivate someone, challenge them to do something they always wanted to do.
If you want to motivate someone, challenge them to do something they always wanted to do.
Game results in the order of their finish:
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[Event “20th Chess.com Tournament (1601-1800) – Round 1”]
[Site “Chess.com”]
[Date “2012.09.01”]
[White “Cais”]
[Black “vk2008”]
[Result “0-1”]
[WhiteElo “1662”]
[BlackElo “1655”]
[TimeControl “1 in 3 days”]
[Termination “vk2008 won by resignation”]
1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 a6 5.Bd3 Nb4 6.O-O Nxd3 7.Qxd3 e6 8.a3 Bd7 9.Re1 c5 10.dxc5 Bxc5
11.b4 Ba7 12.Ne5 O-O 13.e4 Bc6 14.Nxc6 bxc6 15.exd5 cxd5 16.Qg3 Bb8 17.Qf3 Qc7 18.Bf4 Qxf4 19.Qxf4 Bxf4 20.g3 Bh6
21.a4 Rac8 22.Ra3 Bd2 0-1
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I will not be advancing in this tournament. Please feel free to have a look at the balance of the game below.
Continue reading … 20th Chess.com Tournament (1601-1800) – Round 1
Not a very good showing on my part … I’ll have to come back to this game and have a look for my errors.
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[Event “Let’s Play!”]
[Site “Chess.com”]
[Date “2012.09.29”]
[White “Cais”]
[Black “conansson”]
[Result “0-1”]
[WhiteElo “1639”]
[BlackElo “1424”]
[TimeControl “1 in 3 days”]
[Termination “conansson won by resignation”]
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.Bg5 Bg4 5.h3 Bh5 6.g4 Bg6 7.Bg2 Ne4 8.Bf4 e6 9.O-O Bd6 10.e3 Bxf4
11.exf4 Qf6 12.f5 exf5 13.Nxd5 Qd6 14.c4 fxg4 15.hxg4 h5 16.g5 h4 17.Bh3 O-O 18.Nxh4 Nxg5 19.Bf5 Ne7 20.Nxe7+ Qxe7
21.Bxg6 fxg6 22.Qg4 Rf4 23.Qg3 Rxh4 24.Qxh4 Nf3+ 0-1
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See a complete analysis compliments of Chess.com below …
A philosophy of enjoying oneself first, and foremost, will provide the greatest encouragement to continue going forward.
I often describe things as Mallory-Everest, and along those same lines I also use the descriptor Macy’s-Gimbels. Feel free to follow the link back to my explanation of Mallory-Everest … or continue reading to better understand what I am referring to when I say something is Macy’s-Gimbels.
This all started after my umpteenth watching of one of my all-time favorite Christmas movies: Miracle on 34th Street, (the original 1947 release in black and white … the colorized version is nice but I digress). There is a wonderful scene in the movie where Kris Kringle (portrayed by Edmund Gwenn) recommends a lady shopper go to the competition (Gimbels) for a gift the store (Macy’s) did not have in stock … and thus providing the impetus to coin the phrase, “The Macy’s-Gimbels Approach”; and in this case how it applies to real customer service.
The scene I noted above can be found at … um, well … I’m going to watch the movie (again); I’ll try to remember to note the time and add it later 🙂
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