{"id":1884,"date":"2011-02-26T03:54:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T02:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.me-we.me\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2011-03-09T05:34:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T04:34:57","slug":"the-rough-guide-to-hawaii-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.me-we.me\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"The Rough Guide to Hawaii Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>FR\u00c5N  MIN BLOGGSIDA P\u00c5 CHESS.COM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1885\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"zigge_holmgren_close\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.me-we.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/zigge_holmgren_close.jpg?resize=125%2C184&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"184\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 or &#8221;How I Learned to Love Bb5&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Our small group was called &#8221;The Hawaii Chess Club&#8221;. <\/strong>We all had our moments when we played inspired chess&#8230; preferably drinking various sorts of alcoholic beverages while playing, it was in fact mandatory.\u00a0We celebrated Bb5 and we built all the tactics around this move.\u00a0We bent traditional square chess out of its dimensions, and\u00a0when challenged by outsiders.. we normally lost big.\u00a0\u00a0However, in our annual tournament on Innocent Children&#8217;s Day, we could at least beat eachother. I am still the undisputed and undefeated champ and holder of the world&#8217;s ugliest trophy (thank you Arne) since the tournaments stopped after my very strategic move here&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0In lack of chess players in restaurants I started playing snooker, which somewhat actually involves thinking like\u00a0in chess. I now wonder how snooker can be implemented in chess&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Everybody had different tactics on what to drink<\/strong> when you won or lost. To warm up properly is also recommended for all sporting endeavors. This delicate balance between nervousness and ambition, poor self-esteem and imagination,\u00a0is of course plainly considered as doping and is forbidden in official chess tournaments. Including coffee.\u00a0A pity. Chess\u00a0was invented for drinking, coffee and cigarettes.\u00a0It is in fact, a very nervous game. For this reason we complicated the rules with a handicap system, the more you won, the less time on the clock. Winning meant losing something. Losing was an alternative. The bartender or waiter had an unexpected responsibility in recommending the right\u00a0redeemer for\u00a0those slightly blurry demands. We developed a hard drinking chess style that sometimes reached glorious heights, from what I recall. Drunken chess\u00a0however requires its man, you really have to concentrate&#8230; but it&#8217;s an <em><strong>unbeatable <\/strong><\/em>combination. Most of the time, when and if you get the hang of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The hot summer nights by the sea along with Bob Dylan<\/strong>\u00a0on the old portable record player, and the old beaten chess board, we had many great nights (thanks Arne&#8230; the former champ, and a great pal). We played chess as soon as we saw a bottle.\u00a0I prefer Chianti on summer nights, but wintertime is more tricky. We may not have played so well all of the time, but we surely had fun and being rigid and overly serious undermines the imagination, the simplicity&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #e08600;\"><strong>Utmana mig p\u00e5 ett parti gratis Hawaii Chess, <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #e08600;\"><strong>du har\u00a03 dar p\u00e5 dig f\u00f6r varje drag&#8230;.\u00a0\u00a0 ; )<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 60px;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chess.com\/members\/view\/ZiggeHolmgren?ref_id=3047704\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 4px 4px 0; border: 1px solid #666;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/avatars.chesscomfiles.com\/images_users\/avatars\/ZiggeHolmgren.gif?resize=30%2C30\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chess.com\/members\/view\/ZiggeHolmgren?ref_id=3047704\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ZiggeHolmgren<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nRating: <strong>1739<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><a style=\"border-top: 2px solid #f7b15b; border-left: 2px solid #f7b15b; border-right: 2px solid #db8213; border-bottom: 2px solid #db8213; background-color: #ff9c21; color: #ffc; padding: 1px 2px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;\" title=\"Beat up the old fucker!\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chess.com\/echess\/create_game.html?uid=3047704&amp;ref_id=3047704\" target=\"_blank\">Challenge me!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FR\u00c5N MIN BLOGGSIDA P\u00c5 CHESS.COM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 or &#8221;How I Learned to Love Bb5&#8221; Our small group was called &#8221;The Hawaii Chess Club&#8221;. We all had our moments when we played inspired chess&#8230; preferably drinking various sorts of alcoholic beverages while playing, it was in fact mandatory.\u00a0We celebrated Bb5 and we built all the tactics around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.me-we.me\/?p=1884\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Rough Guide to Hawaii Chess<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[562,557,565,563,561,560,559,103,558,125,556,564],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-okategoriserat","tag-bigshot-chess-player","tag-chess","tag-chess-blog","tag-chess-hustler","tag-chess-online","tag-chess-com","tag-hawaii-chess-club","tag-natur","tag-presentation","tag-recycling","tag-schack","tag-schackblogg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pthEr-uo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.me-we.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.me-we.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.me-we.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.me-we.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.me-we.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.me-we.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/www.me-we.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.me-we.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.me-we.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.me-we.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}