paulg Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 spil will be playing the piano for everyone's delight at the 2pm slot on both Saturday and Sunday. He is the one with the Scottish accent, striped jacket and not playing Bach. puncher will probably be nearby studying the morning's hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbodell Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 I'm here playing with Elianna in the LM pairs, then I'll do Spingold (w/ Javabean), Wernher, Mixed BAM, National Swiss. The 7am and noon starting time of events are a bit different! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 So what day?? Restaurants in the area have been underwhelming. I can't make a good recommendation. I miss JLall :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akhare Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 Pard and I decided to fly back early after our team got eliminated from the GNTs. BTW, I am one of those cell phone Luddites who doesn't even own a cell phone. It wasn't amusing to get penalized 5 VPs when a prepaid phone that I had bought for travel to Atlanta went off. Luckily, the team mates were from our GNT team and it was a side Swiss game :ph34r:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 Nah I'm not in Atlanta. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted August 4, 2013 Report Share Posted August 4, 2013 Talked to Barry and Fred very briefly today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonylee Posted August 5, 2013 Report Share Posted August 5, 2013 Restaurants in the area have been underwhelming. I can't make a good recommendation.That Mexican place was pretty good: http://www.alma-atlanta.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbodell Posted August 5, 2013 Report Share Posted August 5, 2013 Re: food in Atlanta, it is (or has been) Restaurant week in Atlanta so I've had a couple of fixed price menu selections that were good value for money and reasonable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Tu Posted August 5, 2013 Report Share Posted August 5, 2013 So my team won our first round Spingold match and it looks like we get team Monaco tomorrow. You are welcome to come kibbitz me getting slaughtered. Anyone want to bet on my team +180? Any advice on bidding vs. Fantunes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfa1010 Posted August 6, 2013 Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 That Mexican place was pretty good: http://www.alma-atlanta.com/We went there today, and it was good. Thanks! So my team won our first round Spingold match and it looks like we get team Monaco tomorrow. You are welcome to come kibbitz me getting slaughtered. Anyone want to bet on my team +180? Any advice on bidding vs. Fantunes?Good luck and enjoy. Don't invent anything new because of them, concentrate on your usual game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterGill Posted August 6, 2013 Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 We had dinner tonight at Truva, 60 Andrew Young Intl Blvd, next to the venue, 4045778788 - it was good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WellSpyder Posted August 6, 2013 Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 Any advice on bidding vs. Fantunes?I play Fantunes now and again, and oppo have never had any difficulties bidding against it. People occasionally ask at the table for a recommended defence, and I always say there is no need for any special measures since the opening bids are so natural. You will want to be sure what your meta-agrements are against later artificial bids (eg are doubles lead-directing or suggesting a sac, or whatever?) and against transfer responses to 1♣, but these are hardly unique to Fantunes. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted August 6, 2013 Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 Good luck to all the Brits playing in the round of 64 today, especially the non-professionals who I'm sure will put up a good fight against the higher seeded pro teams that they'll be facing. Sam and Stephen are playing with Chris (CSGibson) against Rosenthal. Another British team, consisting of three regular forum members, has not mentioned that they are out there so I won't identify them by name but just say we're supporting you just as much. Good luck! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted August 6, 2013 Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 Good luck to all the Brits playing in the round of 64 today, especially the non-professionals who I'm sure will put up a good fight against the higher seeded pro teams that they'll be facing. Sam and Stephen are playing with Chris (CSGibson) against Rosenthal. Another British team, consisting of three regular forum members, has not mentioned that they are out there so I won't identify them by name but just say we're supporting you just as much. Good luck! I expect Paul means us. I haven't been hiding - I just hadn't got around to posting anything about being here. I met quite a lot of forum members in the second and third days of the LM Pairs, so collectively BBF seem to be doing OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elianna Posted August 6, 2013 Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 We had dinner tonight at Truva, 60 Andrew Young Intl Blvd, next to the venue, 4045778788 - it was good. We ate there, too, and quite enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSGibson Posted August 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2013 Good luck to all the Brits playing in the round of 64 today, especially the non-professionals who I'm sure will put up a good fight against the higher seeded pro teams that they'll be facing. Sam and Stephen are playing with Chris (CSGibson) against Rosenthal. Another British team, consisting of three regular forum members, has not mentioned that they are out there so I won't identify them by name but just say we're supporting you just as much. Good luck! Sam and Stephen rocked today. Not one game was missed, and all slams that should have been bid were bid. I mistimed a slam hand, but by that point it didn't matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbodell Posted August 7, 2013 Report Share Posted August 7, 2013 Sam and Stephen rocked today. Not one game was missed, and all slams that should have been bid were bid. I mistimed a slam hand, but by that point it didn't matter. Congrats, way to go on the win! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLOGIC Posted August 7, 2013 Report Share Posted August 7, 2013 BINK, good job Chris. Sorry to the gnasher team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted August 7, 2013 Report Share Posted August 7, 2013 Sam and Stephen rocked today. Not one game was missed, and all slams that should have been bid were bid. I mistimed a slam hand, but by that point it didn't matter.Congratulations on a great team performance. As I've said on my blog, with us as team mates we only scored 25 IMPs in 48 boards against that team in March so you must be doing a tremendous job too. Keep playing well and give Kasle the same treatment today. Then I think it will get really tough :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted August 7, 2013 Report Share Posted August 7, 2013 Well done Chris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted August 7, 2013 Report Share Posted August 7, 2013 Congrats, Chris. One of these days I'm going to remember that I want to go to the NABCs once in a while before the thing actually starts. <_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted August 8, 2013 Report Share Posted August 8, 2013 More congrats to Chris, defeating Kasle to make it to the round of 16. BridgeWinners is calling the Peterkin team the Cinderella story of the Spingold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLOGIC Posted August 8, 2013 Report Share Posted August 8, 2013 More congrats to Chris, defeating Kasle to make it to the round of 16. BridgeWinners is calling the Peterkin team the Cinderella story of the Spingold. Jesus, so sick. Ofc if I know Chris (which I basically don't at all), he will not accept congrats for round of 16, he's goin for the win. He has a really tough draw tomorrow, IMO he's playing the best or 2nd best team in the event, but whatever, he's been an underdog in every match and pulled through. Keep playin good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted August 8, 2013 Report Share Posted August 8, 2013 Jesus, so sick. Ofc if I know Chris (which I basically don't at all), he will not accept congrats for round of 16, he's goin for the win. He has a really tough draw tomorrow, IMO he's playing the best or 2nd best team in the event, but whatever, he's been an underdog in every match and pulled through. Keep playin good.I know Sam and Stephen very well and one of them will be extremely excited by getting to the round of 16 - it is a big deal when you've never got through the round of 64 before. The other one will probably be playing the piano. But they will sit down against Gromov (my pick to win it) knowing that they are in their rightful place. Good luck! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLOGIC Posted August 8, 2013 Report Share Posted August 8, 2013 I know Sam and Stephen very well and one of them will be extremely excited by getting to the round of 16 - it is a big deal when you've never got through the round of 64 before. The other one will probably be playing the piano. But they will sit down against Gromov (my pick to win it) knowing that they are in their rightful place. Good luck! It is a big deal to make the round of 16 period, esp if you start as a low seed since you have that much harder of a path to get there, and something they should be extremely proud of if they lose today. I just meant it's not a good mindset before the match to be really happy you got to the R16 (IMO). If you are thinking you've already done great to get to the R16 and you are outclassed then you're more likely to lose. I didn't mean to act like they haven't achieved something great, they def have, but once they are there they gotta be in the right mindset to make the R8 and beyond. Ecstasy can be just as bad as tilting (I think this was a bols tip). Edit: I guess my point is while you're still in the event, your perspective should be you have another really hard match, and another one after that and that etc till you win. This keeps your emotions grounded and prevents you from even subconsciously having the feeling that even if you lose today you did better than you expected so it's alright. I think if you have that feeling and everyone is congratulating you etc it dulls your killer instinct and fight and is not a great mindset to be in. Being super excited just to be there rather than thinkin hell yeah I'm playin awesome I'm gonna beat Gromov and eveyrone after that and win cuz I'm playin so well is not good imo. After the event is over for you is the time to soak up what you have accomplished and bask in the glory. But maybe this varies person to person. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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