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When I last looked, Jonah was level at Bullet on the Chess.com site with someone called Hikaru - both on 3171.

John Moore wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 22, 2024 4:48 pm

When I last looked, Jonah was level at Bullet on the Chess.com site with someone called Hikaru - both on 3171.

He doesn't appear on the leaderboard, I think the reason is that the rating was achieved on Nov 10th 2020 so he would be deemed inactive. Either way, it's still an amazing rating.

Loz - that's odd. When I looked, his last games showed as being played today.

Can think of few things more meaningless than bullet "ratings", to be brutally honest.

John Moore wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 22, 2024 5:50 pm

Loz - that's odd. When I looked, his last games showed as being played today.

I think that those games are unrated as his rating is the same for all the games listed today.

Ok thanks Loz. Matt, I doubt that you'd think that if your bullet rating was 3171.

I wonder if Jonah has ever seen the film 'willow'?

Joey Stewart wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 23, 2024 3:12 am

I wonder if Jonah has ever seen the film 'willow'?

On that most interesting theme, have you watched

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19352636/

perchance?

John Moore wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 22, 2024 7:08 pm

Ok thanks Loz. Matt, I doubt that you'd think that if your bullet rating was 3171.

I have never partaken of it and never will. Its basically not chess as far as I am concerned.

I heard Botvinnik played a game of chess on a bullet train once but didn't enjoy it.

Botvinnik didn't think any game was serious if he couldn't prepare for it!

John Upham wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 23, 2024 10:15 am

Joey Stewart wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 23, 2024 3:12 am

I wonder if Jonah has ever seen the film 'willow'?

On that most interesting theme, have you watched

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19352636/

perchance?

I haven't but I guess I probably should since he is supposedly a distant relative.

Did you know that your family gets a mention in dad's army - corporal Jones is always saying they don't like it upham

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 23, 2024 4:08 pm

John Moore wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 22, 2024 7:08 pm

Ok thanks Loz. Matt, I doubt that you'd think that if your bullet rating was 3171.

I have never partaken of it and never will. Its basically not chess as far as I am concerned.

I agree totally. It's like comparing game shows such as Sale of the Century with Mastermind - speed of reaction is all that really matters, breadth and depth of knowledge hardly at all.

Joey Stewart wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 23, 2024 7:22 pm

Did you know that your family gets a mention in dad's army - corporal Jones is always saying they don't like it upham

I had no idea about that. Thanks for letting me know.

What is Dad's Army?