Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
As Shakespeare said.
Well done!

Where do you get this stuff from? It is hilarious. You have to be my favorite kibitzer on the entire website, because you are helpful, but a main chuck of that conclusion comes from posts like those two.

*falls over as he finds out he covers 2 other pages*

2.2 Aron Nimzowitsch/2.3 Aron Nimzowitsch/2.4,9-10 tpstar/2.5 Shakespeare, "Timon of Athens" 4.3.436-437/2.9 mahmoudkubba/2.27 Aron Nimzowitsch/2.37-39 Ezzy

3.0 Scissor Sisters, "Take Your Mama"/3.1 Coolio, "Gangsta's Paradise"/3.3 Breathe, "Hands to Heaven"/3.4 Psalm 22:1/3.8 Run DMC, "Mary Mary"/3.11-13 10,000 Maniacs, "Trouble Me"/3.36-37 Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Under the Bridge"/3.41 Mary MacGregor, "Torn Between Two Lovers"/3.43-45 David Bowie, "Let's Dance"/3.46 Mary J. Blige, "What's the 411"

4.3 Pet Shop Boys, "Two Divided By Zero"/4.9-10 Wreckx-N-Effect, "Rump Shaker"/4.15 Fountains of Wayne, "Stacy's Mom"/4.30-31 Spice Girls, "Wannabe"/4.33-34 Sting, "Fields of Gold"/4.45 Phil Collins, "One More Night"/4.47-48 Tag Team, "Whoomp! There It Is"

5.26-28 Hall & Oates, "Kiss On My List"/5.32-33 South Park, "My Friend Kyle's Mom"/5.33 Jennifer Shahade/5.37-38 Sir Mix-A-Lot, "Baby Got Back"/5.39-40 Kim Carnes, "Bette Davis Eyes"/5.42-43 V.S. Naipaul/5.48 Montreal1666

6.1 tpstar/6.3-4 "The Silence of the Lambs"/6.5-7 Sade, "Smooth Operator"/6.8 Paula Abdul, "Cold Hearted"/6.11 Arvind Aaron/6.19,21 Drstrangelove/6.20 square dance/6.28 OneBadDog/6.30-34 square dance/6.35-36 Dionyseus/6.37 Ultra/6.38 tpstar/6.40 samikd/6.41 Montreal1666/6.45-46 Owen Williams

7.2 Vladimir Kramnik/7.4 Vladimir Kramnik/7.6-7 Bobsterman3000/7.8-9 Vladimir Kramnik/7.11 suenteus po 147/7.12 DaMelch/7.13 PinkPanther/7.14-16 Vladimir Kramnik/7.19 iron maiden/7.20-21 Vladimir Kramnik/7.23-26 csmath/7.27 Vladimir Kramnik/7.28-29 WillC21/7.30 Garry Kasparov/7.31-32 PinkPanther/7.33-34 Phoenix/7.35-36 iron maiden/7.39-41 csmath/7.41 tpstar/7.43-44 acirce/7.47 square dance

10.5 tpstar/10.7-8 tpstar/10.19-20 bgitw/10.27-30 Kelis, "Milkshake"/10.34 keypusher/10.37 iron maiden/10.38 Jaymthegenius/10.40-41 Catfriend/10.47-48 Murray Head, "One Night In Bangkok"

11.0 Starship, "We Built This City"/11.6-8 Bonnie Tyler, "Total Eclipse of the Heart"/11.10-11 Natasha Bedingfield, "These Words"/11.12 Nickelback, "How You Remind Me"/11.12-15,17-33 tpstar/11.16 Snap!, "The Power"/11.35-36 Coldplay, "Speed of Sound"/11.45-46 Alannah Myles, "Black Velvet"

12.2 Smashing Pumpkins, "Zero"/12.3 Garbage, "Queer"/12.10 The Cheeky Girls, "The Cheeky Song/Touch My Bum"/12.20-21 LIFE Master AJ/12.23-24 euripides/12.25-26 sxexp1/12.27-28 Vladimir Kramnik/12.29 Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians, "What I Am"/12.31-35 Vladimir Kramnik/12.37-38 Vladimir Kramnik/12.40 acirce/12.41-44 sxexp1/12.45 kvcs/12.47-48 Vladimir Kramnik

13.3-4,6 Arvind Aaron/13.5 Garry Kasparov/13.7-8 Koster/13.18 offramp/13.23 South Park/13.24 "Blazing Saddles"/13.25-26 Dead Or Alive, "You Spin Me Round"/13.28-29 Queen Latifah, "U.N.I.T.Y."/13.32 Viswanathan Anand/13.35 Arvind Aaron/13.36 acirce/13.40 Jim Bartle

14.6 AgentRgent, refutor/14.9 Napoleon XIV, "They're Coming to Take Me Away"/14.18 Richard Taylor/14.21-23 Billy Idol, "Rebel Yell"/14.29 Aron Nimzowitsch/14.30-31 Smashing Pumpkins, "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"/14.41-42 Seal, "Crazy"/14.44 tamar/14.48 "The Producers"

15.4 tpstar/15.10 csmath/15.14-15 square dance/15.16-17 OneBadDog/15.18-19 Bobsterman3000/15.24 tpstar/15.28,30 tpstar/15.38-40,42-43 Dionyseus/15.44 Frankie Goes to Hollywood, "Two Tribes"/15.47-48 acirce

18.1-3 Tears for Fears, "Everybody Wants To Rule the World"/18.4-8 Zurab Azmaiparashvili/18.8 iron maiden/18.12 tpstar/18.17-18 you vs yourself/18.20-23 Eminem, "Lose Yourself"/18.24-25 Garry Kasparov/18.31-32 Lita Ford & Ozzy Osbourne, "Close My Eyes Forever"/18.34-35 Mr. Mister, "Broken Wings"/18.36-38 "Crimes and Misdemeanors"/18.42-43 "Knute Rockne: All-American"

19.4-6 Gorillaz, "Feel Good INC"/19.8 Cyndi Lauper, "Girls Just Want To Have Fun"/19.10-12 templar/19.14 Terry Jacks, "Seasons In the Sun"/19.15-16 The B-52's, "Roam"/19.18 Cher, "Believe"/19.19-20 Big Country, "In a Big Country"/19.22 Hesam7/19.25-28 Konstantin Sakaev/19.28-29 Expose, "Seasons Change"/19.31-32 tpstar/19.37 Garry Kasparov/19.41-43 The Cure, "Love Song"/19.45-46 Kelly Clarkson, "Breakaway"/19.48 various

20.5-10 Rocky Horror, "The Time Warp"/20.13 Usher, "Yeah!"/20.15-16 Starland Vocal Band, "Afternoon Delight"/20.18-19 Vladimir Kramnik/20.21-22 lostemperor/20.24-25 dragon40/20.31 PaulLovric/20.32 tpstar/20.33-34 ancr/20.35 sxexp1/20.37-38 tpstar/20.40 LIFE Master AJ/20.44-45 "Gone With the Wind"

21.22-24 Janet Jackson, "Rhythm Nation"/21.25 square dance/21.28-29 Duran Duran, "Save a Prayer"/21.31 pikoro/21.34 acirce/21.36 AgentRgent/21.37 weltschmertz/21.38 acirce/21.39 acirce/21.40 weltschmertz/21.41 condorcet, AgentRgent/21.44-45 Benjamin Franklin/21.48 C&C Music Factory, "Here We Go"

22.1-2 Marilyn Manson, "Mobscene"/22.3-4 Murray Head, "One Night In Bangkok"/22.5 keypusher/22.12 FatalError/22.15-16 Ace of Base, "All That She Wants"/22.19 Open Defence/22.20 yoozum/22.23 Toni Basil, "Mickey"/22.26-29 Des'ree, "You Gotta Be"/22.31-33 The Fixx, "One Thing Leads To Another"/22.39-41 Knight13/22.44 acirce/22.45-46 acirce/22.47-48 RuPaul, "Supermodel"

23.1 Emanuel Lasker/23.6 Eric Schiller/23.12 Jaymthetactician/23.14-15 weltschmertz/23.20 samikd/23.22 tpstar/23.23-24 Violent Femmes, "Kiss Off"/23.28 tpstar/23.32-33 Whitney Houston, "I Will Always Love You"/23.36-37 "A Tale of Two Cities"/23.39-41 Los del Rio, "Macarena"/23.43 Sneaky/23.47-48 "The Ten Commandments"

You have a very detailed kowledge of the Illiad - I know the Dunciad (not word for word -lol! )amazing Pope should spend such a long labour of what is really trivia -and yet it is almost (but surely it is not!) a great poem - a piss take on epics as well as an attack on his critics and so on. he spent so much time - and it was a financial success on his translation of the Illiad.

2000 = Ale

3000 = Your Page

4000 = Favorite Player

5000 = Favorite Tournament

6000 = Favorite Match

7000 = Favorite Game

8000 = Favorite Opening

9000 = Favorite Combination

10000 = Favorite Post

People forget that 2004 & 2005 were one continuous argument about Kramnik, and not a particularly pleasant one. I returned to chess and joined this site in 2004, and knew Kasparov was waiting to play a semi-final against Ponomariov or Kasimdzhanov, then Brissago 2004 led to Kramnik's four-player playoff demand, and suddenly Kasparov abruptly retired after Linares 2005. This was a huge shock to me, so I went back and read many of the discussions posted here plus all of Kramnik's interviews to determine what really happened. When FIDE announced San Luis 2005, I could tell they were on the right track. Like I wrote before, anybody who has ever had to fire someone understood what they were doing.

The Kramniad was a tribute to Kasparov and his career, fully acknowledging his shameless nature, yet also greatly motivated by several personal attacks against <Susan Polgar> and other name players here. Lots of inside jokes were missed, like the <Knight13> material (nobody got GOOD GAME) and <kvcs> who I don't believe ever read it. Lest you worry, the sequel will be even dandier. When the time is right.

"Minneapolis Journal", April 2, 1898:
http://www.chessarch.com/excavation...