awesome, this was a dual commentary. So both of you did do a commentary. Well, I now wonder if both of you have seen the other's ideas during the video. Great job playing this game, it was well fought. Once again, good job both of you.

Whenever Greg loses I actually get kinda upset, because I want to see him get as high as possible, and I love watching him play. But after watching your analysis It doesn't really bother me at all. You're very gracious, and I can't wait for you two to play some more.

OMG This is so painful for me to watch. I keep rooting for myself to play better moves and for white to flag, but it never happens. GG

Wow, what a surprise!

FM beats IM! Nice game zibbit!

Yes good game, but FIDE titles are really not important.

Since they're not so important..can you loan me yours...

LOL! Nice reconnaissance by Zibbit.

yeah that was kind of my idea. I've watched so many live games by curtains I knew he
a) played the Bogo and
b) is getting very good at it
So I naturally wanted to try and get either a Catalan structure or a Queen's indian with my 3.g3 move order. But what happend was that instead of getting him completely into my turf we sort of ended up on neutral playing ground where neither of us felt completely comfortable.

Then I would say the game in a way "fell" for me. It sometimes just happens like that when you have two strong players that the game somehow gets a flow and after he gave up the pawn (correctly btw since ...Bg5 seems to work) every move seemed pretty natural and his initiative came up short and I had just enough time to tidy up.

But basically it was really fun playing a game, commenting on it and then get to see what the other guy was thinking. I came out on top this time but of course that doesn't mean much. Number 1 curtains is an IM vs my FM and #2 his best 5-min rating is over 2500 and mine is just over 2400. So it's clear to anyone that he is a much stronger player than me but on any given day in a blitz game I of course have my chances especially with white. I am strong enough to at least put up a good fight.

LOL, is that why you get so amped up when playing GM's.

Titles are certainly quite useful for various reasons, for one thing unlike FM's an IM or GM title allows you a free account on all paid Internet Chess Servers. Another benefit is amateurs tend to hang on your every word, even when one is talking gibberish, not to mention potential students will choose a titled teacher over an untitled one 90% of the time, just ask Dan Heisman.

I think Dzinzi answered it best when he was asked a question regarding the importance of chess titles. He answered by saying all IM's dream of becoming GM's but he never met a GM that dreamt of being an IM.

Toppy

Good after game talk and nice game.

Just for technical side though I think it would be interesting choice for you to run the video through windows movie maker (if you're on windows) and cut or doublespeed some parts where you just are setting up software for the analysis or trying to workout some glitch on the software.

"Just for technical side though I think it would be interesting choice for you to run the video through windows movie maker (if you're on windows) and cut or doublespeed some parts where you just are setting up software for the analysis or trying to workout some glitch on the software."

Yeah....I thought about it....and no.

Great matchup and an awesome game.