Knighton, Robert   (USA)       [FICGS member # 6727]



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Robert Knighton


Robert Knighton has currently 0 running correspondence chess game(s), won 32, lost 15 and drawn 19 other games against an average elo of 1849, does not play advanced chess (fast time controls), does not play big chess, does not play Go (wei-ch'i, baduk), and does not play poker, finally Robert finished a total of 66 games and is not playing any game right now.



Correspondence chess statistics :

vs. Jordi Domingo (2188) :   37%   (4 games, 0 wins, 1 losses)
vs. Dimitrios Ropokis (1387) :   100%   (3 games, 3 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Jacopo Romano (2198) :   50%   (2 games, 0 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Josef Riha (2052) :   25%   (2 games, 0 wins, 1 losses)
vs. Ilmars Cirulis (2287) :   25%   (2 games, 0 wins, 1 losses)
vs. Daniel Jabot (2228) :   0%   (2 games, 0 wins, 2 losses)
vs. Daniel Reboredo (1933) :   75%   (2 games, 1 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Ryszard Sternik (1923) :   75%   (2 games, 1 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Nick Voudouris (2007) :   50%   (2 games, 1 wins, 1 losses)
vs. Dieter Faust (2060) :   100%   (2 games, 2 wins, 0 losses)



Robert's favorite game is : Chess

Uses engines : yes




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Last messages by Robert Knighton in the forum :


Looking for big chess partners    (2013-07-25 15:54:51)

the problem with chess variants is that there are so many of them and most of them have small fan bases.

I have always liked Gran (...)


A player goes on inviting me    (2013-07-18 06:32:23)

Also I don't think it's intentional. I think when they join the waiting list for advanced games it automatically challenges all available players at (...)


Wch cycles possible changes?    (2013-07-03 19:02:38)

TER is the only fair way to decide other than tie breaker matches (time consuming) or pushing forward to the next round every player with the same sco (...)


Playing activity top 20 players    (2013-06-24 14:59:21)

20 days removed is a lot of time.

A tournament class which disallows vacation time would in itself be interesting.
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Anyone play Semi Slav Botvinnik as black    (2013-06-24 14:53:02)

it's too bad there is no way to play 1v1 unrated games at CC time controls on this site. I would gladly play a couple games like this on the side if (...)


Playing activity top 20 players    (2013-06-19 02:22:03)

I found iccf website to be mildly confusing to navigate and the inability to play games without paying money on iccf is annoying as well thus I don't (...)


Playing activity top 20 players    (2013-06-10 14:57:48)

I admit that makes no sense to me either... why do we have different rating bands for different time controls? (...)


Vacation: change for 3 days minimum?    (2013-06-08 23:57:02)

I'm not creating a problem. I'm agreeing with a point of view already expressed by others on this forum and trying to clarify that point of view as (...)


Vacation: change for 3 days minimum?    (2013-06-08 22:37:01)

@Daniel: The problem with your way of thinking is that it encourages me to play as few games on this site as possible so I can always be able to use m (...)


Vacation: change for 3 days minimum?    (2013-06-06 22:58:06)

@Thibault: a 2 day minimum is bad because what if I only need 1 day this time? I must lose 2. Maybe I need 1 day only 5 seperate times and I need 40 d (...)