What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

I ordered brass tubes on Amazon. The listing had 2 x 1/4" tubes, and I ordered ten. They were just over $20 CAD each. They arrived, and the caliper measured them at 6.6 mm, which is way oversized, and explains why they would not fit in my blanks' pin holes, or in the holes I drilled in the scale material. I would have had to do exorbitantly more work just to make them fit. Naturally, I returned them, all at once in the same package.

I just got a refund tonight for them, so they presumably just arrived. The refund was for 1 of the 10 listings I purchased. :mad: So I called Amazon for an explanation and to make sure they understood I sent all ten listings back, not just one.

Behold:

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But the best part is I discovered Akhil is a chess player and is willing to have some games with me. 😁
 
David Mary said:
I ordered brass tubes on Amazon. The listing had 2 x 1/4" tubes, and I ordered ten. They were just over $20 CAD each. They arrived, and the caliper measured them at 6.6 mm, which is way oversized, and explains why they would not fit in my blanks' pin holes, or in the holes I drilled in the scale material. I would have had to do exorbitantly more work just to make them fit. Naturally, I returned them, all at once in the same package.

I just got a refund tonight for them, so they presumably just arrived. The refund was for 1 of the 10 listings I purchased. :mad: So I called Amazon for an explanation and to make sure they understood I sent all ten listings back, not just one.

Behold:

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But the best part is I discovered Akhil is a chess player and is willing to have some games with me. 😁
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everything happens for a reason 😉

does Akhil get an entry in the play David in chess giveaway?
 
jbmonkey said:
everything happens for a reason 😉
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David Mary said:
He hasn’t accepted my friend request yet… 😭
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[the chat log on "Live" chess.com games is pretty short, and it erases previous messages after so many, but the gist up until here was we played one game, I won, and he said I was amazing at chess. So I corrected him and said it is pretty easy to get as good as me by learning the basic opening principles and...]

***copy and paste seems to smush together some words from the in game chat, as if I didn't use a space bar. I'm not going to go through and fix it.

David_Mary:Tactics


Andremember that every move should support a plan


Akhil:Playing with u even I'll become a better player like you


David_Mary:Perhaps! I can give advice if you want


Forexample, it looks like you are thinking a lot about attack moves


Butyou have to also consider what the opponent could do to respond tothose attack moves


Whitegoes first and black goes second.... so it is white's job to set thepace of the game


Akhil:Ya ur correct, but I'm little slow at learning..


David_Mary:White needs to think about developing all minor pieces into play,that is, the knights and bishops


Thenmove the queen off the back rank, and castle


Bothplayers whould aim to do this each game


Tryingto attack before that is done leads to messy positions and it is tooeasy to fail at a tactic if you attack without


havingenough pieces involved in the attack


Akhil:So at first, we need to have a formation?


David_Mary:oops I blundered, now is your chance!


Yes.


Akhil:Even though u blundered the game is yours, and ur gonna win


David_Mary:not necessarily


Akhil:I have only one minute ledt


Left*


David_Mary:oooohhh


Akhil:I blundered


David_Mary:It takes a lot of practice to recognize the positions and developpattern recognition


yes,but don't feel bad


evengran masters blunder


GameOverDavid_Mary(1056) won on time (10 min Rated) Your new Rapid rating is 1056(+1).


WasAkhila good sport?


David_Mary:Do you want to play again?


Akhil:Yes, even magnus carlsen blundered


Yes


David_Mary:Yep!


NewGameDavid_Mary(1056) [1] vs. Akhil(479) [0] (10 min) win +1 / draw -7 / lose -15


David_Mary:Good luck, and have fun!


tryto think about piece development


Seeif you can make your next four moves involve all four minor pieces


knightsand bishops


Ina way where they can coordinate, but not get in each others way


Becauseas white, I will be developing all my pieces in the opening


Andif black doesn't keep up, it will be easy for white to gain anadvantage


Goodmove!


Akhil:Yes ill try my best


David_Mary:Also, knights prefer to be near the center of the board, because theyare more powerful there


Theyare weaker on the sides of the board, because they can move to fewersquares from there


"Aknight on the rim is grim"


Akhil:Ohhh so the knight can move every where


David_Mary:For example your knight on b8 could go to either


a6or c6 or d7


BUT


onlyc6 is a "natural move"


Theother two, while legal, would make developing your other pieces takemore time because the knight would be in the way of


thebishop if you put it on d7


andit would be weak and far from the center if you put it on a6


Akhil:I understand that B8 a6 is places on the chess board but I'm not ableto know which is which


David_Mary:But many new players make moves like that, and it is easy to dominatethem because their pieces don't coordinate


Yesyou can, it is shown on the board


the"files" go up and down


Andthe "ranks" go side to side


Youcan see the numbers and letters on the board


Thereyou go, Nc6, a natural developing move!


Akhil:Yes I can see letters and numbers


David_Mary:So look for the c, that is the C file, up and down


Thenlook for the 6, that is the 6th rank, side to side


Soyour knight is on the 6 rank of the c file, or c6 for short


It'sgood to familiarize yourself with the grid coordinates.


Andpretty easy because you can see them every time you play


Mylast move was Bf3


Akhil:Ya I can see now wow thanks man


David_Mary:Which reads as Bishop F 3


You'revery welcome Akhil


Akhil:U Really great David


David_Mary:Another small tip


Mastersoften caution new players against moving the same piece more thanonce in the opening


Yourknight on e4 is not exactly in real danger


However,by moving it twice, I gain a "tempo" which means I get tomake a move the improves my position for free


Becausenow you still have two pieces developed, while I already had three


NowI can bring a fourth in, and I am two pieces ahead in development


Akhil:So that means I should move every piece once


David_Mary:The minor pieces, yes


It'sbest to get them into the game where they can start to coordinatewith each other


Iwill say though, I have played may people around the 1000 rating whoplay black just like you have so far in this game


Soit's not like you are in a losing position or anything


BUTI am very familiar with this position and know a few ways to exploitbad moves that people often make here


Akhil:How many hours do you play this game, I'm just curious because youknow a lot about chess


David_Mary:I have played something like fifteen thousand games on chess.comsince 2020


Ijust looked at my stats page.... 17,950 games total since I signed up


MagnusCarlsen was a Grand Master after playing only 100 games


SoI am not that smart


Akhil:5 years your playing omg ? , So your a professional


David_Mary:hahaha no


Lotsof people better than me


Akhil:People play but I can see that your game play is unpredictable, urmoves are so strong that im not able process which move sh


David_Mary:Next game, we will turn off the time limit


GameOverDavid_Mary(1057) won on time (10 min Rated) Your new Rapid rating is 1057(+1). Match Scores David_Mary(1057) [2] vs. Akhil(476) [0]


WasAkhila good sport?


Akhil:We will tomorrow, I have to sleep, it's 3:04 AM


David_Mary:time pressure makes it hard


Okaysir!


Goodgames!


Goodnight!


Akhil:Your really great at this game
 
Ergo complete on the second “half” of Lucky Dog batch which means blade grinds can begin on all of them.

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Refined the side project knife further:
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Assembled a MagnaCut necker and two steak knives with Box Elder:
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