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Jonah Willow

Post by John Moore » 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.

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Re: Jonah Willow

Post by LawrenceCooper » Sun Sep 22, 2024 5:33 pm

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.

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Re: Jonah Willow

Post by John Moore » Sun Sep 22, 2024 5:50 pm

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

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Re: Jonah Willow

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Sun Sep 22, 2024 6:08 pm

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

Post by LawrenceCooper » Sun Sep 22, 2024 6:28 pm

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.

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Re: Jonah Willow

Post by John Moore » Sun Sep 22, 2024 7:08 pm

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

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Post by Joey Stewart » Mon Sep 23, 2024 3:12 am

I wonder if Jonah has ever seen the film 'willow'?
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Post by John Upham » 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/

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Re: Jonah Willow

Post by Matt Mackenzie » 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.
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Re: Jonah Willow

Post by Paul Cooksey » Mon Sep 23, 2024 5:19 pm

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

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Re: Jonah Willow

Post by Nick Ivell » Mon Sep 23, 2024 5:27 pm

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

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Re: Jonah Willow

Post by Joey Stewart » Mon Sep 23, 2024 7:22 pm

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
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Re: Jonah Willow

Post by John Clarke » Mon Sep 23, 2024 10:49 pm

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.
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Re: Jonah Willow

Post by John Upham » Tue Sep 24, 2024 10:15 am

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.

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