Rainout

Photos from the Palo Alto Little League Opening Day ceremony. Just after everyone had taken their places on the field, it started to rain.

47,270 games of chess

Statistics on my play at the Internet Chess Club over the last seven years:

          rating   win  loss  draw total    best
Wild        1586    49    68     1   118    1684  (10-Feb-99)         
Bughouse    1597     8    11     0    19       0                      
Crazyhouse  1628     0     1     0     1       0                      
Bullet      1741 14841 10874  1172 26887    2002  ( 5-Jun-98)         
Blitz       1585   498   412    35   945    1950  (26-Jul-97)         
5-minute    1156     0     1     0     1       0                      
1-minute    1603  9180  9114  1006 19300    1777  (29-Jul-02)         

I mostly play sixty second games—the "Bullet" and "1-minute" categories. Each player has one minute to make all his moves. So each game takes about two minutes to play. To play 47,270 games would require two complete months, twenty-four hours a day.

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