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I'm tuned in now to The Flagship Station for IU Sports ahead of tonight's NCAA men's basketball game between the Maryland Terrapins and the Indiana Hoosiers. The plan is to stay with this station and listen to the call of the game.
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
#A nice way to start the new year.
Earlier today I received the following message from one of the chess clubs I belong to: “Congratulations on winning the 1st place in the mini-tournament: honeytrap's mini-mini-mini tournament”
There were 5 of us playing in this mini-tournament that started play on 24 September 2025, and we each played two games simultaneously, with reversed colors, against every other player. That gave each of us 8 games in this mini-tournament.
I shared the win with a 42 y/o guy in the UK; he and I both finished with identical win/loss records. Still, I do feel good about this.
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
Listening now to B97 – The Home for IU Women's Basketball ahead of tonight's early NCAA women's basketball game between the Minnesota Golden Gophers and my Indiana Hoosiers. Yes, of course I'll try to stay here for the radio call of the game.
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
Just a quick note to let everyone know that I've been called to an out-of-town wedding and will be away from my computers for maybe 5 days. (I will have my phone and I'll listen in when I can.)
Don't break the Internet while I'm gone. Mmmmkay?
The adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
I'm tuned in to The Flagship Station for IU Sports ahead of tonight's NCAA men's basketball game between the Siena Saints and the Indiana Hoosiers. The plan is to stay with this station and listen to the call of the game.
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
Listening now to B97 – The Home for IU Women's Basketball ahead of this afternoon's NCAA women's basketball game between the Western Carolina Catamounts and my Indiana Hoosiers. Yes, of course I'll try to stay here for the radio call of the game.
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
Earlier this afternoon playing Black in a server-based correspondence chess game, I checkmated the White King with the Queen-Rook combination seen in the graphic above.
The full move record of this game follows: 1. e4 a6 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. d4 h6 4. Nf3 e6 5. d5 exd5 6. Nxd5 Nf6 7. Bc4 Nxd5 8. Qxd5 Qe7 9. O-O Nb4 10. Qd4 Nxc2 11. Bg5 hxg5 12. Rfe1 Nxd4 13. Nxd4 g4 14. Nf5 Qc5 15. Rac1 d5 16. Bxd5 g3 17. Nxg3 Qd4 18. Rcd1 Qxb2 19. Nf5 Bxf5 20. exf5+ Be7 21. Bxb7 Qxb7 22. Rd3 O-O 23. h3 Bb4 24. Red1 f6 25. Rg3 Rad8 26. Re1 Bxe1 27. Kf1 Ba5 28. Ke2 Rfe8+ 29. Re3 Rd2+ 30. Kf1 Rxe3 31. fxe3 Qb1# 0-1
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
Winning this club server-based correspondence Fischer Random Chess (often called 960 Chess these days) game yesterday made me smile.
The position of pieces on the board at game's end is posted above and shows my White Queen checkmating the Black King as my tenth move of the game.
Our move record up to this point is: 1. c4 g6 2. f3 Qg7 3. Rc3 Ne6 4. Bf2 c5 5. Bg3+ Bc7 6. Bxc7+ Nxc7 7. a4 a5 8.Qxc5 b6 9. Qf2 f5 10. Qxb6# 1-0
Our assigned starting order of pieces here was FEN “rkrbbnqn/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RKRBBNQN w CAca” which gave us the following board to start with:
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
Listening now to B97 – The Home for IU Women's Basketball ahead of tonight's NCAA women's basketball game between the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks and my Indiana Hoosiers. Yes, of course I'll stay here for the radio call of the game.
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
Listening now to The Flagship Station for IU Sports ahead of tonight's Big Ten Conference men's basketball game between the (8-1) Penn State Nittany Lions and the (7-2) Indiana Hoosiers with opening tip scheduled for 19:30 Central Time.
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe