When you happen to jump out of a plane, you must count to three and check your parachute.
Quite a few things can be wrong then.
One of them is that you look upward and you see nothing.
That is called a total malfunction.
Our instructor abbreviated that to a "total".
I don't know why I am telling you this.
Today my brains seemed to have a "total".
Maybe they are a little tired by solving so many problems lately.
I'm surprised my rating stayed still above 1500 today.
I hope my rating will not continue the free dive tomorrow.
CTS
circle 0: 1470
circle 1: 1500
circle 2: 16,800 /70,000
Highest rating 1567
That last comment by Philbell is a total.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it's time for some spam protection Tempo :-P
Incidentally, Tempo, did you work through the TCT books as a child or at any point in your life? Did you make it to level 10?
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ReplyDeleteTxs for the advice guys.
ReplyDeleteI set word verification on.
Hope that helps.
Why do I want to punish spammers?
BD, I learned the game very young from my father.
I have to elder brothers I played with regularly. At school we played chess every week for a few years.
I only started about 7 years ago to play seriously (age 38)and with a rating of 1528. The first 3 years I studied ALOT in the traditional way without gaining any point at all. After 3 years I started with TCT and the growth began. I have done only the first 5 steps and step 6 partially. The difference in level between 5 and 6 is rather big. I know nothing about the higher levels, only that we have a great amount of young masters and grandmasters now in the Netherlands, due to the course.
BTW can anybody give advice about the suffix -ly? I have forgotten what the rules are and when hesitant I use it.(or is it hesitantly?:)
I had to turn on word verification ... within minutes of my first post I had comment spam :( funny thing is, with word verification on, you have to type in the verification code to post a comment on your own blog!! strange stuff
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