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Jul-02-12
 | | kingfu: HL,
It is confusing to me. Is it where you start or where you finish? Also, if you research Einstein, please find out how he got out from under Adolf's thumb. Albert was NOT allowed to travel during the bad thing. From a legal standpoint, does citizenship tell all? Not likely. My Grandmother-in-Law came to the US from Italy and never spoke a word of English, so I would guess that she was Italian. My wife was born in Connecticut. When we visited Italy , she went native on me. She started speaking Italian even to me. We got good rooms in the hotels! She turned into an Italian before my eyes. How is that for relativity? Also, on my list, Tesla was born in Serbia and Penzias was born on Germany. Edison may not be worthy of the list because he stole all of Tesla's work. If we are looking for replacements, How about Hubble instead of the Big Bang guys and John Browning, inventor of many weapons that help everyone beat Adolf? |
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| Jul-02-12 | | The Big Lebowski: <kingfu> Albert Einstein's work created The Atom Bomb! After careful consideration Einstein came to the conclusion that if he didn't release his papers on atomic energy it was only a matter of time before some other physicist would. So he gave his work to the U.S. Government. |
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Jul-02-12
 | | harrylime: <Kingfu>.. You're losing me ! TS Eliot is American.
Einstein is German.
Where were Einsteins' parents born? Right. Germany.
Where was Einstein born? Right. Germany.
That makes him American. Right. lol |
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Jul-02-12
 | | WannaBe: I think, if you ask Einstein, he's probably say 'American', knowing how his birth country treated him and fellow Jews. |
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| Jul-02-12 | | Wayne Proudlove: This final position shows fundamental endgame play:
click for larger view
1.Kc4 b1 (becomes a Queen)
2.Qxb1+ Kxb1
3.Kb4
(Now Black's pawn on a4 will fall and it seem White's f-pawn can't be stopped from promoting.)
But Black can play 3...Kb2
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(He can now reach White's f-pawn because White loses a move capturing a4.) |
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Jul-02-12
| | harrylime: Sure.
If only Elvis had lived longer and become an Anglophile and moved to England and claimed British citizenship ! lol Elvis would be English. |
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Jul-02-12
| | harrylime: Einstein is GERMAN. |
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| Jul-02-12 | | Wayne Proudlove: Bob Dylan, "Wedding Song":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1wL... |
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| Jul-02-12 | | Wayne Proudlove: Maybe the show "America's Got Talent" should change its name to "America's Got Talent...Barely". |
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Jul-02-12
 | | PhilFeeley: The so-called "World Open" started yesterday: http://www.worldopen.com/ Still no page here, no player list or standings after the first game on the OFFICIAL website. Why are Americans so bad at putting their chess on the internet? |
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| Jul-03-12 | | King Death: < PhilFeeley: The so-called "World Open" started yesterday: http://www.worldopen.com/> It's been around for 40 years now, get used to it.... <...Why are Americans so bad at putting their chess on the internet?> Maybe it's because we got things like world domination on our minds, who wants to bother about a stupid chess tournament? Why are you making this an anti American thing? If you don't like it stay up north and let all of the good folks from Canada visit, there's plenty up there. |
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Jul-03-12
 | | HeMateMe: Big Ben would have been renamed "Elvis the Bellvis". |
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Jul-03-12
 | | shivasuri4: <Wayne Proudlove>, the first move for white is a massive blunder! Qc2 is the best move in this position, leading to a fairly quick mate, as queening won't be allowed(except if it leads to a mate). |
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Jul-03-12
| | HeMateMe: What happened to that crazy guy from the deep south who tells everyone to memorize every move of some GM games, to become a better player? |
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Jul-03-12
| | PhilFeeley: What does everyone think of the new World Championship plans: http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp...
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Jul-03-12
| | PhilFeeley: <KD> I'm not anti-American in general. I'm just wondering why they can't do a decent job of putting their chess tournaments on the web. The same web page that advertises the "World Open" also lists other tournaments - also unknown to the Chessgames.com community. Even Canadians do better putting their tournaments here for all to follow. Americans don't seem to care if anyone notices. |
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Jul-03-12
| | PhilFeeley: From the Chessbase.com interview above:
First, the World Chess Championship Cycle has to be made understandable and predictable (to the public and to the players). We have fixed the period of the cycle (two years), clarified the path up the ladder to the Championship Match (via one World Cup, six Grand Prix and a Candidates Tournament), and set regular dates for the events: exact dates for 2012-2015, and assuming that these prove optimal, maintaining the pattern indefinitely into the future. Second, the events will be held in World Cities which will glorify chess, rather than in small towns that see chess events as an opportunity to promote themselves or local players on the world stage. The theme of the first year is a European Tour: Moscow, London, Lisbon, Madrid, Paris and Berlin. Each succeeding year we will take the cycle to a different continent so as to make it easier to mobilize national/regional enthusiasm, thus eventually bringing chess to the whole world on a regular basis. Third, the entire Cycle will be conceived as a whole by one hand, not by a committee and a mishmash of conflicting interests. Design, format, and communication will be be focused and consistent. The brand of World Chess and what it stands for must become clearer in everyone’s minds: players’, spectators’, sponsors’. Journalists in both the specialist and generalist media must be supported in every way possible so as to make their work more vital to their editors and publishers, easier for them to produce in high quality, and richer for their readers. Fourth, we are working on a new ‘format’ to mediate the events for live spectators and for retransmission online (and broadcast) to make the games more understandable and exciting for the general public. Every game is like a musical score for a new, unique composition in a notation that is impenetrable to most people. The two players are creating this score in real time before our eyes. To make it entertaining to a general audience, this composition must be mediated by a dramatic performance -- comments, interpretation, statistics, esthetics and interactivity -- performed, providing direct access to the drama of the game, and pleasure. |
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| Jul-03-12 | | Wayne Proudlove: I had a temper tantrum and threw an entire, unopened bag of gummi bears at the TV screen.
Yesterday I went for a drive in the country and my senses were sent alit by the aroma of hot cow turd melting in the noon day sun.
The Blue Jays are doing OK; Joey Bats' power and Brett Lawrie's barehanded 5-3's from the hotcorner are making me a believer. |
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Jul-03-12
 | | crawfb5: <Wayne>
click for larger viewNot 1. Kc4? which draws, but 1. Qc2 which wins:
1. Qc2 a3 2. Kc4 Ka1 3. Qc3 Ka2 4. Qb3+ Ka1 5. Qxa3+ Kb1 6. Kc3 |
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| Jul-03-12 | | Wayne Proudlove: Iggy Pop, "I Wanna Live":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTHp... |
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| Jul-03-12 | | Wayne Proudlove: Edwin, "Alive":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxa... |
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Jul-03-12
 | | technical draw: Actor Andy Griffith dies at 86. Most here would say Andy who? But us older folk remember him as the sheriff of Mayberry. RIP. |
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Jul-03-12
| | harrylime: He's passed me by. Not had much impact in Europe regards the cinema or tv.. Just been checking over his big screen history and tbh I'm not surprised he's passed me by.. Respect tho and RIP. |
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Jul-03-12
| | harrylime: Is London the capital of the world? |
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Jul-03-12
 | | chesstoplay: Please, a chess puzzle position question for all... Warehouse 13 had a chess puzzle position in the 3rd season. Maybe episode 11 of season 3 on the Science Fiction channel??? There was a pendulum or some such sharp blade involved??? It was a ssolve the puzzle or die kind of thing,
and perhaps a mate in three that needed to be reversed to live. Does anyone know what it was?
I'd love to see it!
TY in advance. |
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