oojason

black to move

1. e4 e6
2. d4 d5
3. e5 c5
4. Bb5+ Nc6
5. Bxc6+ Pxc6
6. c3 Pxd4
7. Pxd4

1. e4 e6
2. d4 d5
3. e5 c5
4. Bb5+ Nc6
5. Bxc6+ Pxc6
6. c3

1. e4 e6
2. d4 d5
3. e5 c5
4. Bb5+ Nc6
5. Bxc6+

1. e4 e6
2. d4 d5
3. e5 c5
4. Bb5+

1. e4 e6
2. d4 d5
3. e5

Warbler said:

oojason said:

Thanks Warbler - really enjoyed watching your games vs Handman and darth_ender, it actually got me interested in having a game again (I think the last time I played was in a tournament on the ot.com many years ago).

 

Oh yes, I remember that tournament. I think I finished about third.

darth_ender - let me know when you’d like to start mate - and if you prefer to play as white or black? 😃

(If ok with you I may post up a pic of the board from time to time? - there were some instances in the previous games I wasn’t too sure of the moves listed correlating to the board - though that could be lack of coffee and the late hour!)

Good luck to the both of you!

T’was a good tournament if I remember correctly. Someone called Skipper won?

Thank you, Warbler 😃

No worries at all mate.

1. e4 e6
2. d4

Nice one.

e4.

Thanks Warbler - really enjoyed watching your games vs Handman and darth_ender, it actually got me interested in having a game again (I think the last time I played was in a tournament on the ot.com many years ago).

darth_ender - let me know when you’d like to start mate - and if you prefer to play as white or black? 😃

(If ok with you I may post up a pic of the board from time to time? - there were some instances in the previous games I wasn’t too sure of the moves listed correlating to the board - though that could be lack of coffee and the late hour!)

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

I’m honestly confused as to why there’s even a DVD-only release these days.

I suppose the price difference? (here in the UK if a bluray is £15, then the dvd is usually around £10) - and some people aren’t too bothered about the greater picture quality and detail etc (as Silverwook says) - they just want to watch the film.

Be interesting to see a comparison on bluray to dvd sales though. And the effect on them due to increasing number of movie channels, rentals, streaming, digital downloads, many people having less money - and dodgy torrents etc.

I’ll likely buy Rogue One on dvd (even with the appalling cover 😉), and then rip it to the hard drive and watch it through the chromecast on tv - it doesn’t take up too much drive space, and I’ll have back up just in case the disc goes awry.

Jeebus said:

oojason said:

Wow, that one truly is awful. Bodhi is floating, Jyn’s legs just look wrong, Chirrut looks to big, K2 isn’t casting a shadow.

Someone on twitter pointed out that there is an AT-AT on that dvd cover too - and not an AT-ACT, which was actually in the film.

Katy Perry gets a little political at The Brits music awards show earlier tonight…

https://twitter.com/LewinsNatalie/status/834509679120306176

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfdL7lt0C8c

right on sister 😃

Jeebus said:

Red lasers on TIE Fighters?

It’s the same poster used to promote the Chinese (?) cinema release for back in early January - albeit with a different Jyn Erso head - and they still haven’t fixed the TIE’s firing red lasers…

‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story In-Home Trailer (Official)’:-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwPgQucl4QA - an 80 second trailer on the official Star Wars youtube channel

Monday 10th April for us in the UK… (on bluray, dvd and digital download) - according to https://twitter.com/StarWarsUK/status/834500817306660865

^ that dvd cover looks awful - it looks like one I’d knock up!

Zavvi UK bluray steelbook cover…

more cover pics for the steelbook in the link below…

https://www.zavvi.com/blu-ray/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-3d-includes-2d-version-zavvi-exclusive-limited-edition-steelbook/11387240.html

one69chev said:

That is a pretty nifty, or top, idea. Plus that Rogue 1 cover is awesome…I am going to have to download that one, great work brother.

Cheers mate 😃

There are 4 Rogue One covers (3 with differing backs - I couldn’t find one I was happy with) - though hope you find one you like - and feel free to edit and improve upon it!

The full size covers can be downloaded from a google drive, here:-

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByfjLkYDj7bRcFo4RHkzbmV6RU0?usp=sharing

(it should be better than downloading compressed files from the photobucket site)

I thought the official Rogue One covers were a little disappointing - in both content and quality (no deleted scenes either!)

Did like this bluray one the best though, for some strange reason…

😃

probably posted before, but just in case…

I like to think somewhere out there a projectionist probably had the urge to have done that in the cinema on opening night - with surround sound music too, of course 😃

^ nice one mate - I’ve already used it as the basis for a USB Box cover!

(when I say USB cover… I mean a square with a Star Wars logo and some text in 😉)

I couldn’t find a The Last Jedi logo with a plain black background - the ones I found all had background stars in them - so many thanks for that 😃

The TLJ product packaging looks kind of cool too:-

^ interesting the reflection of the Star Wars lettering on the lower left side of the box is yellow - when on the box it is red 😉

apologies if already posted…

and more at https://www.behance.net/gallery/22583305/Star-Wars-Girls

According to the great http://www.swonvideo.com/ website it is from 1986 (and obviously for the UK) and was a promo copy for the coming ROTJ rental tape at the time.

The review or promo copy is what they sent around to video rental shops for them to show it on loop - to help generate a bit more interest etc before it’s actual release - and the quality of tape was usually higher than the standard rental/to buy tape (even for a Betamax) to withstand the looped playing.

Star Trek used to do the same for their releases on VHS back in the day - if the shop staff didn’t know what they were doing you could easily end up buying one by mistake (I did a couple of times) and it had an annoying timebar across the bottom of the screen, so I returned it - to which the staff who knew better were very grateful for.

I don’t know if it’s worth anything - but is certainly quite rare.

Very cool - enjoyed that - and thanks for the link Moth3r.

I now think njvc, Harmy and the audio bods on here have been ‘phoning it in’ after that 😉

some kind soul on https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsLeaks/comments/5uf45n/first_look_at_the_last_jedi_product_packaging/ knocked this quick photoshop up of it:-

As someone who likes an inksaver cover or 5 I like the look of the box packaging design - kwalitee.