Moonwalker Member since Apr-01-09 · Last seen Jun-19-13 Friends call me Ed (short for ahmED, go figure!). I live in Sydney, Australia and work in the insurance industry (no, not a salesman! I tell them how to make more money out of the poor suckers!) I originally found this site when looking for puzzles to fill one particularly long day at my desk. Since then I've been visiting daily to 'look at' the puzzles. I joined the site as a premium member to get historical puzzles and use the excellent <guess-the-move> tool. It is highly recommended; it turns a whole game into a whole bunch of puzzles with scores and everything. I don't know what my ELO rating is but I'm sure it improved my IQ by more than a dozen points! (if you're not one already, and you suddenly feel the urge to become a premium member after reading this, let me know, I'll get a transfer into the sales department...) Being down-under means seeing the puzzles almost a day late when I access them at lunch time. If I wait a couple of hours I'm sure I can be one of those who like to claim being <FIRST> every day, although haven't seen much of that in a while... I wish I could post more often, but by the time I'm on everything's been done to death. Or mate, really! I love knights! The darn things are so unpredictable! This one time (at chess camp?) I managed to win a game with two knights versus the bishop pair. My opponent wasn't very good but I managed a swindle and forced my self into a drawn position. He sac'ed one of his bishops to prevent the draw and ended up losing! (ha-ha!) And finally, the user-name is an obvious homage to the one and only, the musical genius, the late(*) Michael Jackson... <Favourite player>: don't know enough to have one! <Favourite opening>: the one that works... <Favourite end-game>: I have a queen, the other guy doesn't... <Favourite venue>: the Office Hotel on Kent street. I play there every Saturday. Yeah, that's right, pub-chess. It's so much fun! I'm unbeaten there, guess chess is like pool, the more you drink the better you per..... zzzzz (*) user name was acquired prior to his <presumed> demise. You heard right, operative word is 'presumed'... I, and several others, believe that he is somewhere in the Caribbean with Elvis. My psychologist said that's called denial, pffttt... What's she know!

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Jun-17-13 H Pfleger vs Z Domnitz, 1964    Moonwalker: At first glance this popped in my head: 27.Rxf8 Rxf8 28.Nd7+ Kc8/c7 29.Nxf8 Being a Monday, though, I looked again for something better and the mate-in-two eventually appeared. Turns out the defender that needs removing      Jun-09-13 Marshall vs Burn, 1900    Moonwalker: Love the annotations!      Jun-09-13 I Nikolayev vs M Makarov, 1983    Moonwalker: Not even close!      Jun-08-13 R Kempinski vs E Berg, 2012    Moonwalker: Ten checks in a row before the finishing blow! Beautiful attack!      Jun-04-13 D Barua vs M Damit, 1983    Moonwalker: <Nick46>: I gave it a go! Makes more sense with a slight Australian accent!      Jun-03-13 M Timmermans vs N Hortensius, 2005    Moonwalker: Thank you <Patriot>! Appreciate the compliment :-)      Jun-03-13 E Berg vs Hector, 2012    Moonwalker: <Patriot> I agree, it's entirely objective-based. Personally, I don't like to consider every possible line and simply hope to identify the theme and key moves!      Jun-03-13 Alekhine vs Tartakower, 1926   Moonwalker: Just scored 117 in guess-the-move. I'm puzzled as to why black didn't resign long before he actually did! Exchanges into a winning endgame started as early as 32.Rxa2, and surely by 37.Nf7+ black knew he was going to pay a hefty price for the pawn on the d-file. Did black have ...      May-29-13 V Zvjaginsev vs Bologan, 2010    Moonwalker: Did not see the best defence 36...Qe8. Same difference, black is losing either way.      May-21-13 Korchnoi vs I Krush, 2007    Moonwalker: This took me a long time! I saw, fairly quickly, that 24...Qxe4 will lead to mate if and only if white recaptures with the knight. The time was wasted looking for a forced mate suggested by the "easy" rating! In a real game I'd snag the bishop without hesitation!

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Feb-21-13    OhioChessFan: < I, and several others, believe that he is somewhere in the Caribbean with Elvis. > I'd love to have you learn me how to do that moonwalk thing.		Hardinge Simpole Publishing

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