[Event "Stanley Random Chess: MIndless Entertainment"]
[Site "SchemingMind.com"]
[Date "2005.01.28"]
[Round "-"]
[White "aliwood"]
[Black "Philip"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Variant "stanleyrandom"]
[WhiteCountry "ENG"]
[BlackCountry "INT"]
[WhiteElo "1404"]
[WhiteRD "142"]
[BlackElo "1607"]
[BlackRD "164"]
[GameID "7960"]

1. b4
{
aliwood: Well here we go for Orangutan Stanley style.
}
{
aliwood: He did it! I'm shocked!
}
1... g6
{
Philip: haha well maybe the odds are stronger in your favor in this post-syrup-style variant. i shall try to counter with the inverse banana defense
}
{
Philip: hmm.. or this move instead lol
}
2. Bb2
{
aliwood: Inverse banana would seem to be the ideal solution. Does it come in variants like flip, fool and tutti-frutti?
}
{
aliwood: Stanley's an ape.I have it now! Two moves in a row.
}
2... Nf6
{
Philip: i see, well perhaps i'd slipped and ordered up the the banana PEEL defense by mistake. p.s. had a taste of the syrup today, my god it was heaven!
}
3. h4
{
aliwood: Don't eat too much, it rots your teeth. What did you have with it?
}
{
aliwood: I think I need a banana.
}
3... d5
{
Philip: oh grandma's hot winter soup. usually we have it with ginger and cinnamon or sugar, etc. so i figured this would suffice and it did! truly was the golden confection i never dreamed it could be. having lived in boston it was always brown maple syrup and too sweet. this was luscious! i love bananas! better than cadbury eggs! 
}
4. a3
{
aliwood: You have just given me a rather odd idea. Maybe I should offer bananas as prizes in my 1.b4 tournaments?
}
4... Bh6
{
Philip: hard to ship & surely not ok [legal] internationally :( sorry
}
5. Bc1
{
aliwood: Oh well, maybe I could give virtual bananas. I've never heard of syrup in soup before, but if it works then fair enough.
}
5... Kd7
{
Philip: well it's a sort of oatmeal kind of thing only it has chicken in it. it's an ethnic dish :) actually it's barley but the oatmeal analogy still holds in terms of how it looks and tastes with syrup!
}
6. Bb2
{
aliwood: Right I see. Sounds good.
}
6... c6
{
Philip: it's very yummy. so like a thick soup like oatmeal yeah. perfect winter fare and only grandma makes it best! i see your bishop has some out again. does this mean 6 more weeks of winter? LOL look at my king! hahaha
}
7. e4
{
aliwood: It's a bishop not a groundhog! I'm looking at your king and I'm thinking that your approach is correct. Gotta laugh :)
}
7... dxe4
{
Philip: you thought that was intentional! lol
}
8. d3
{
aliwood: I would believe anything in this game. Have you been drinking?
}
8... Bc1
{
Philip: sadly no. had my dad not brought me cold medicine i would have hit the apricot brandy tho. got me some cool glasses from ikea. hmm.. maybe i need a nip right now lol thanks for the suggestion lol :P
}
9. Qf3
{
aliwood: Apricot Brandy, hmm. Interesting.
}
{
aliwood: Wah, wah, wah. Sob, sob!
}
9... exf3
{
Philip: yeah pretty tasty but actually i ended up taking my sad self to bed and tv for a while. i'm back up for another dose of cold medicine and something to eat perhaps. fear not about the queen! long live the queen!
}
10. gxf3
{
aliwood: Ah, get better soon, sympathy, sympathy.
}
10... Re8
{
Philip: thank you. so generous you are. how fares your man this weekend?
}
11. Be5
{
aliwood: He's gone back to work tonight (he works evenings), the guy that hit him was supposed to come round this morning and give us some money towards the new bicycle wheel we have had to buy. Strangely, he hasn't turned up. Hmm, I wonder why? I hope inflation cripples him! Anyway, sorry, to get to the point, he is greatly improved and I am now even more motivated to get him to stop working. Luckily so is my garden, more on that next time.
}
11... Nd5
{
Philip: how unamerican of you. you mean you're not going to sue him. but seriously, i don't know the detals but surely there must be some way to ensure your personal safety and costs
}
12. Be2
{
aliwood: yeah, don't cycle to work! No seriously, the  cost really is one new wheel, plus two evenings wages, as companies don't give out sick pay unless you are off for 7 days. The total amount is about 60 pounds. I would settle for the 12 pounds it cost for the wheel. Times have changed, when I had an accident years ago - I was a teenager, the car driver stopped, the one behind stopped, several pedestrians came over, people were offering help and the car driver came to see me the following week - it was my fault too, pulled the wrong brake! LOL, I went sailing over the handlebars, I must have been a sight to see! It's not worth sueing him really, I hate all those people who stand about in the town centre with their clipboards.They always come over and ask us if we have had an accident. Last time Mark's answer was 'no, but if you stand there any longer I may change my mind!' Hey! I'm supposed to be telling you about my money saving garden!
}
12... Bb2
{
Philip: indeed i didn't mean to sue, just that  you'd have proper care. but yes, tell me about your garden! i shall try not to cough too hard, my one day flu is turning into a nightmare
}
13. Bg7
{
aliwood: Aw, sympathy, sympathy. I realise that I should actually be asking you how you are, you sound terrible! My garden has decided it's Spring, everything is growing! The rhubarb, garlic, onions, sedum (you can't eat it but it's good for pollen for the bees), the mint, nettles, and some strange plant that creeps everywhere and is all sticky which I discovered you can make deodourant from. It's all growing, and I'm getting dead excited now!
}
13... Bxa1
{
Philip: worry not for me. i'm intruiged by your garden. i'd read once how we all need to start planting more ecologically friendly plants to encourage birds and bees and such. but i've yet to see any books or sites on what these items would be!
}
14. Nc3
{
aliwood: Permaculture. Look up Permaculture. This is the basic idea I borrowed, and then married it to the forest garden idea. You know, the lazy gardening thing where the garden does all the work. Do you know that every third mouthful of food we eat is down to pollination by bees? We have to look after the poor guys or they die and then we do. Go for native species if you want to plant something, don't get an imported plant, two reasons, 1 - your wildlife knows what a native does and how to use it, 2 - imports need more looking after because the conditions will be all wrong. There is a publisher called Chelsea Green who do heaps of helpful books on this type of thing. We have planted fruit trees and fast climbing roses to get ourselves started, and then we have put in some permanent veg. Hedges are good for birds, insects etc. Find out what your native hedging would be and plant more of that. Our roses are the old fashioned kind so they smell good and we can use the petals and the hips for wine (everything has to have a use in my garden!)
}
14... Na6
{
Philip: thanks! will look! yeah i think we need to start taking personal responsibilty for our environment in how we live our lives every day. i'm so glad i found a local company's housecleaning products that are non-toxic citrus stuff and they clean really well! hmm i just googled them and found this cool article http://www.dep.state.pa.us/newsletter/default.asp?NewsletterArticleID=9049&SubjectID=
}
15. Bd1
{
aliwood: A round of applause from me, it's really nice when you have something like that nearby. Well done on finding it. I try and use stuff like that, or make it myself you should see the looks I get when I say I make my own washing detergent! So , go plant a useful shrub and zip down the library and find a book, that's what I do. Libraries are very environamentally friendly and they're nice places to be.
}
15... Bxc3+
{
Philip: cool yeah! i'm also the recycling nazi. i dig thru my girlfriend's trash for cans and such when she tries to trick me lol
}
16. Kf1
{
aliwood: Yeah, go for it. We recycle when we get cans. I try to buy fresh veg at the market so no cans there. We reuse as much as we can, we even have two compost bins.
}
16... Rg8
{
Philip: yeah i wish i had a house so i could compost in my yard. i live in a high-rise (ugh) the epitome of human habitat destruction (though you could argue we're more densely packed so fewer buildings?
}
17. Bxc3
{
aliwood: Do you have garden allotments in the US?
}
17... Nxc3
{
Philip: ewll some towns have public gardens if that's what you mean so people can get a plot for gardeining. but these are few and far between. after all, why plant things when you can pave over them, build stuff, abandon it, and then find new green land to destroy? sorry you caught me in a tree hugging moment.. :(
}
18. Ke1
{
aliwood: Yeah, that's what I meant, they are supplied by law here, every town must have them. I was going to suggest you get one. Yeah, go hug a tree, that's a cool idea. Even better go plant one. Or do what I do, when you spot the seeds in Autumn, pick a few up and then go throw them into municipal gardens and abandoned areas, i don't do it into private gardens. You create more trees that way.
}
18... Nxd1
{
Philip: that's cool. you'd love to know my favorite thing is tossing my apple cores n stuff into wooded areas. the nice thing about this game is i'm not even paying attention to the moves anymore! are you? lol
}
19. Rh2
{
aliwood: I am vaguely paying attention, but it seems to make no difference anyway. Chucking apple cores is a good one too, any seed that works really. So, how are you feeling today?
}
19... Qc7
{
Philip: i'm much better thanks. i may actually do some yoga, i think my energy's coming back as my body's winning the battle of biology. amazing how it all works. my girlfriend's an immunology scientist and she made me realize how freakin complex it all is. so much we take for granted. nature is amazing. my aunt used to have a lot of land but she's moving so i am bummed cause she was the one who i'd convinced we should plant all that cool stuff. but now i can learn about it for others and you can be assured that's one of my major mantras in this lifetime. Permaculture. maybe i should make that my handle on websites from now on... good PR eh!
}
20. Kxd1
{
aliwood: cool name. google it, you'll find heaps. It's a shame your aunt is moving, but other opportunities will present themselves. Your girlfriend sounds like a handy person to have around, I remember seeing videos on the immune system when I was at school. Clever woman, that mother nature.
}
20... Qxh2
{
Philip: woohoo look! http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=permaculture&submit=Search oh yes i did google arleady back when you first gave me the word and i emailed my family mailing list. i then thought to check yahoo groups and there are 133 with the word permaculture in it! yeeha. oone of my friends here in philly is big on composting and we know other girls who have a worm farm. come to think of it, most of my friends are pretty cool lol =)
}
21. d4
{
aliwood: I subscribe toa magazine - it's real cheap! You can find it at www.permaculture.co.uk, they distribute in the US as well, so maybe your library can get it. The original Bill Mollison book is worth a read too. there are heaps of groups out there. Your friends sound pretty cool to me. I love worms. I'm always dead excited when I have to turn over my compost heaps, there are tons of worms in there. when we moved into this house most of the garden hadn't been touched (I found a 1929 coin, when we were digging the beds out!), so my soil is in great condition and there are millions of worms. did you know there are 4 types of slug?
}
21... Ke8
{
Philip: http://www.permaculture.co.uk/mag/Articles/Somehave.html cool mag. i've started a permaculture bookmark folder! on my top navbar woo :) i didn't know that about slugs but i do love hearing about how there are more insects than people :)
}
22. d5
{
aliwood: they're more creative and intelligent too. Spiders are cool, and i'm beginning to appreciate the woodlouse too, they're great for recycling stuff.
}
22... Qg3
{
Philip: hehe yeah fundamentally nature wants to win. so i love seeing plants creeping out of cracks in the sidewalk. i just hope we don't suck things up too much before our own species goes away. one thing to be said about the greenhouse effect is that it's good for plants but then we start hurting animals and messing up the whole ecosphere. ugh
}
23. Ne2
{
aliwood: Is it winning? humans need to learn to cooperate. We don't do cooperation very well.
}
23... Nxb4
{
Philip: well it's not winning but it will if we just went away, which is what i'm rooting for, if we can't get a clue. perhaps we will but i doubt it. i am always amazed that my most profound thoughts are almost always found to be stated in some ancient greek philopher's quote somewhere, most likely someone who was forced to die for thinking/saying it. i really wonder where people came from, we're so not a part of the ecosystem. i wonder if we're the bastards of some alien race that pardon me fucked with monkeys
}
24. Kd2
{
aliwood: Have you ever read 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams? Maybe your answer is there.
}
24... f5
{
Philip: lol i loved that book and a few of the sequels! did you hear there will be a movie out soon? i wonder if they could ever do it justice. sorry for being so cranky today! i think i will be able to get outside tomorrow!
}
25. fxg3
{
aliwood: Be as cranky as you like. I don't mind. Being cranky is theraputic. I just read 'Salmon of Doubt', it was very funny. I'm really undecided about the HitchHikers film, I think I'll go see it because of Douglas, but I do wonder. The original radio was great, and the best pictures are always in your head even if you've seen the tv series.
}
25... Nxd5
{
Philip: you're too kind
}
26. Nc1
{
aliwood: Ach, no really it was the least I could do.
}
26... Be6
{
Philip: i live. i went outside today. it was nice. i noticed this bright orb in the sky. wasn't sure what it was. also forgot where i parked my car, it had been 4 days lol.
}
27. Ne2
{
aliwood: I solved the car problem years ago. I can't drive! Glad you made it outdoors and back to civilisation.
}
27... Rd8
{
Philip: that's one way to go lol
}
28. g4
{
aliwood: Cycling is better for you and it's much cheaper. Although carting 25Kg of veg and stuff back from the market this morning tested me a little.
}
28... h5
{
Philip: aw yeah. well i live near some busy roads that i'm even scared to walk on :( but my prev house i could and did walk to P.O., Market, Bank, Train, and Dentist!
}
29. gxf5
{
aliwood: Eew! That sounds crummy. I used to live in a place like that. You couldn't cycle anywhere, it was two lanes in every direction and all the car drivers thought that things that weren't cars were targets.
}
29... gxf5
{
Philip: just the way the town's setup a couple main roads. i can walk in the other ways but it's pretty dull. suburbia. ugh. i used to bike all over boston. cities are actually better than here for riding :(
}
30. Nc3
{
aliwood: You could always get a trainer and cycle indoors.
}
30... Rc8
{
Philip: no no. i don't want to stress my knees at all. i am trying to be very gentle with them because i need them for the rest of my life. Yoga has been the perfect thing for me in all aspects of health and wellbeing.
}
31. Kd1
{
aliwood: Ah, fair enough. Actually cycling isfar better for your knees than say walking as you don't have to support the weight. Swimming is pretty good though.
}
31... f4
{
Philip: well i'm concerned also about just the repetitive motion of the knee. i've played a lot of sports in the past including soccer, track and crew. so i'm not some couch potato unwilling to exercise. it's from all these years of punishing my body that i've had to learn how to be more careful with it
}
32. Nxd5
{
aliwood: Ah well you see, I used to be a couch potato.
}
32... Bxd5
{
Philip: but at least you were an organic potato
}
33. a4
{
aliwood: Mostly true, certainly in the last couple of years I have been an organic potato. Last year and the year before I was a homegrown organic potato. That was cool, digging them up, we had free spuds for weeks.
}
33... Bxf3+ 34. Kc1 Bh1 35. Kd2
{
aliwood: I can't believe it's still playing at 35 moves!
}
35... Rg2+
{
Philip: i know me too maybe stanley respects us lol
}
36. Kc1
{
aliwood: Maybe he's not looking.
}
36... Rg5
{
Philip: hmm...
}
{
Philip: woops.. no he's still here lol
}
37. c4 f3 38. Kd1
{
aliwood: Still going
}
38... Rd8+
{
Philip: :o) http://tinypic.com/1jmcme
}
39. Ke1
{
aliwood: That's cool!
}
39... f2+
{
Philip: you'd think so but i showed austin and all he could say was that the M was supposed to be capitalized lol
}
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