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| May-16-11 | | parmetd: why is an internet game even on this database? Especially one of such low quality (black's play especially). |
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May-16-11
 | | Check It Out: Wheeeeee! What a game. Actually, I'm glad the things said in the last 17 posts were said; but not the 18th and first. |
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May-16-11
 | | FSR: <perfidious> Due process applies to governments and in certain other limited situations (for example where a union contract or employment handbook specifies that an employee can only be fired for cause and the procedures that the employer must follow before doing so). A private club like the ICC can have who it wants as members, and doesn't have to give them due process before "dis-membering" them (so to speak). Conceivably if the ICC specified that it would only ban someone under certain specified circumstances and after following certain procedures, that could be a contractual right. (The contract would have been entered into, presumably, at the time the player paid his membership fee and joined the ICC.) But in general private entities don't have to accord people due process. |
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May-16-11
 | | perfidious: <FSR> Those persecutors of Clinton's were quite a lot indeed. Clinton will have to live with what he did, but those who called him out were no better. |
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May-16-11
 | | LIFE Master AJ: <<May-16-11
parmetd: why is an internet game even on this database? Especially one of such low quality (black's play especially).>> I didn't post it, you can bet on that. |
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| May-16-11 | | theagenbiteofinwit: Goldsby only posts low quality games where he wins. |
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May-16-11
| | perfidious: <Site Narcissist>: <I didn't post it, you can bet on that.> In contradistinction to many other pronouncements of <Supreme Hypocrite>, this is one which we may believe. It isn't at all likely that the subject would post a game which doesn't portray him mercilessly crushing a hapless opponent. |
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| May-16-11 | | beenthere240: Wait a minute. Is it really against the rules to use a computer when you play on the internet? If you lose anyway, it is still against the rules? |
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| May-16-11 | | Amulet: <perfidious: <Colonel Mortimer: <LIFE Master AJ:> <Sometimes some peoples lack of imagination and intelligent thought processes really boggle the mind.> Yep - and as far as emotional intelligence is concerned, you continue to remain in the baboon enclosure.>
The baboons might well take offence if they should read this.> .....where should they throw him then? |
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May-16-11
| | perfidious: <Amulet: <perfidious: <Colonel Mortimer: <LIFE Master AJ:> <Sometimes some peoples lack of imagination and intelligent thought processes really boggle the mind.> Yep - and as far as emotional intelligence is concerned, you continue to remain in the baboon enclosure.> The baboons might well take offence if they should read this.>
.....where should they throw him then?>
Your point is well taken.
This question is worthy of at least a Saturday POTD, and may be good for a Sunday. |
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| May-16-11 | | Colonel Mortimer: <LIFE Master AJ> <I didn't post it, you can bet on that.> I certainly would bet on that - AJ doesn't like posting the truth. Instead he likes to post games that bolster the fiction that he is a master level player (by beating players rated 800). In today's terms however LMAJ is not even at the level of a Fide Candidate Master. He loses more than 75% of his games against opponents with USCF rating of 2300 or more. He loses more than 50% of his games against opponents with USCF rating between 2100 & 2200. Against opponents rated 2000 to 2100 AJ scores a healthy 70%. Source: United States Chess Federation. |
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May-16-11
| | FSR: <Colonel Mortimer: He loses more than 50% of his games against opponents with USCF rating between 2100 & 2200.> But, but, he's a LIFE Master! |
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| May-16-11 | | hedgeh0g: Yes, but you're forgetting ratings are very deflated where he lives, so a 2100 is really a 2400 and so on. |
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| May-16-11 | | TheFocus: Well, in the Gulf area where <AJ> haunts, if you show up at a tournament with a set with ALL its pieces, you automatically qualify for a 1100 rating. |
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May-16-11
| | FSR: <TheFocus: Well, in the Gulf area where <AJ> haunts, if you show up at a tournament with a set with ALL its pieces, you automatically qualify for a 1100 rating.> And if you know to turn the board so that a dark square is in the lower left corner, and can put your king and queen on the right squares, it's 1300. |
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May-16-11
| | FSR: On the subject of inverted kings and queens, I recall reading a funny story about a game from the U.S. Championship in the 1950's or so. The players played one of those zany lines from the Steinitz Variation of the Scotch Game (4...Qh4) where Black ends up with his king on d8 and queen on e8. (See the position after eight moves in T Thompson vs C H Blood, 1874 for an example.) Some wag told the tournament director (I believe Walter Stephens, the same idiot who time-forfeited Denker even though Reshevsky was the one who had flagged) that Black had set up his king and queen wrong. The TD promptly marched over and flipped the king and queen around, to the players' amazement. (No, that action didn't stand, unlike his ruling in the Denker-Reshevsky game.) |
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| May-16-11 | | Amulet: <TheFocus: Well, in the Gulf area where <AJ> haunts, if you show up at a tournament with a set with ALL its pieces, you automatically qualify for a 1100 rating.> ........so if one has a matching chess clock, there's additional 500 points. |
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| May-16-11 | | Colonel Mortimer: <TheFocus: Well, in the Gulf area where <AJ> haunts, if you show up at a tournament with a set with ALL its pieces, you automatically qualify for a 1100 rating.> If you show up with a full set of teeth you qualify for an 800 rating. |
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| May-16-11 | | Amulet: <TheFocus: A woman in Alabama who has every other tooth is called Miss Picket-fence.> ....so how many rating points will this Miss Picket-fence will pick up? |
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May-17-11
| | perfidious: <FSR> That was a classic line from Stephens; Does Kenesaw Mountain Landis ever reverse himself'? He'd have been a fine candidate for the Darwin Awards, had those existed in 1942. |
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| May-17-11 | | hedgeh0g: What are you doing here, <TheFocus>? There's a whole world of cruise ship gigs waiting for you! ;) |
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| May-17-11 | | TheFocus: Here is how you get a rating of up to 1200 in Alabama before playing your first game: 1. Joining USCF +100
2. Showing up with a set with all the pieces +100
3. With a board +100
4. With a checker board -50
5. With a clock (must have both hands) +100
6. Clock with one or no hands -50
7. In clean overalls +100
8. Offering the tournament director a dip or a chaw +50 9. Setting up pieces correctly +100
10. Having <AJ Goldsby> as your teacher -50 11. Sober +100
12. Giving gift of a jug of moonshine to tournament director +150 13. Knowing how to keep score +50
14. Showing rastlin' ability after losing -50
15. Spelling your name correctly on score-sheet +50 16. Knowing how the "horsie moves" +100
17. Putting your opponent in a bear hug when he is on the move is wrong, even if you are losing -100 18. Spit cup at the side of the board -50
19. Knowing your ABC's up to "h" +50
20. Knowing your numbers up to "8" +50 |
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| May-17-11 | | TheFocus: Over on the Chessgames member Support Forum, <AJ> posted: <LIFE Master AJ: S Minero Pineda vs A J Goldsby, 2003> <I think that the trolls have gone too far this time. They have insinuated that children are not safe around me, and the latest posts talk about sex with family members.I really need to know: are you going to enforce your guidelines ... or is it now, anything goes?> In NO way were any of my jokes aimed at <AJ> or his daughters. I am a Southern gentleman and would not have stooped so low as to have involved a man's family, ESPECIALLY his womenfolk. Did he not read where I asked that no one mock his daughters? That they were off-limits? |
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| May-17-11 | | mworld: <TheFocus>
You are clearly not in the wrong. AJ is just using his obsurd comments as a way to strongarm CG into giving him what he ultimately desires, the ability to censor all discussion relating to him or his games. |
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May-17-11
| | perfidious: <TheFocus> You indeed were the person who stated this-it's simply an excuse on Our Hero's part, now he's getting retribution for all the wrongs that he's inflicted upon others across the years. I, too, would drop the hammer on anyone who crossed that particular line, in the interest of what's right, my dislike of his negativity notwithstanding. |
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