Noflaps Member since Jun-20-08 Favorite player: Akiba. He was unfailingly polite.

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Feb-23-13 F Teuton vs I Zugic, 1996    Noflaps: Frank plays as beautifully as he composts!      Aug-11-11 Greco vs NN, 1620    Noflaps: Historians, some of them, may insist that the Greco games were never actually played, and are mere analysis, but I am skeptical of such pronouncements. More than one of them feels very much like a real game, with slight inaccuracies by both sides before the final result. Greco was ...      Jul-22-11 Team White vs Team Black, 2011    Noflaps: <"While it was a wonderful learning experience, engine-less team chess is not for the faint of heart. Team harmony is apt to be a casualty."> Oh, not for THIS fine team. We are like a band of brothers with a sufficient inheritance to keep us all playing golf: nothing but ...      Jul-07-11 A Hollis vs F Hovde, 1989   Noflaps: This appears to be the very first game mentioned in the excellent ChessCafe Puzzle Book 2. The book uses the position after both players have made 15 moves to illustrate how pawn chains can and cannot restrict the movement of a bishop.      Jun-23-11 Rubinstein vs G G Bartoszkiewicz, 1897    Noflaps: Incidentally, I offered my last post because I was puzzled by the contention, if I understood it correctly, that Donaldson and Minev "accepted" a "bad date" for this game "without checking." It appears to me, by looking at my copy of their work, that they didn't make such a mistake.      Jun-14-11 jessicafischerqueen chessforum    Noflaps: Thank you for your concern about my flaplessness, Ms. Fischer. But at my advanced age, landing safely is the least of my worries. If I come in too hot for the landing strip, I'll either bounce or marvel (from the beyond?) at the abstract art that results.      Jun-13-11 A Hordynski vs Wronicz, 1975    Noflaps: Isn't 1975 a little late in the century for the player with black to have actually played that game out to a mate? One would think that the last knight check would have given an adequate peak into the future. :)      May-01-11 Rublevsky vs Onischuk, 1994    Noflaps: < noendgame: Well, I almost never get Sunday insane puzzles > What constitutes "getting" an insane puzzle? This matter of interpretation is quite important to me, since I correctly predicted the first move ... and then saw nothing else of any particular value. It is as if I ...      Dec-23-09 J White vs A W Ensor, 1873   Noflaps: Putting the question to the bishop with the prompt 4 a3 appears to lead inevitably, in common practice, to this position. The question becomes, "what now?" Ensor, whom I understand (perhaps incorrectly) to be the first Canadian champion, watched J. White decide upon 6 Bf4, which is ...      Aug-03-08 Kibitzer's Café    Noflaps: The mighty (sic) Orangutan opening arrives at a strange 4th move whose pride of place puzzles me. 1 b4 ?! e4 2 Bb2 Bxb4 3 Bxe4 Nf6, and then 4 c4. This is apparently the most popular "book" move. Yet my copy of Fritz finds it to be at a relative disadvantage (when Fritz is set to ...

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Jun-12-11    wordfunph: first! hello <Noflaps>.. Akiba Trivia: + GM Akiba Rubinstein claimed he studied chess 6 hours a day, 300 days a year. Another 60 days he spent playing in chess tournaments. The remaining 5 days he rested. He learned chess at the late age of 19. + Rubinstein was so paranoid that if a stranger came into his room, he would run or even jump out of a window. In chess tournaments he would make a move then stand as far away as possible from the board until his next move. During World War I, he invested all his money in German War Bonds. + In 1911 at San Sebastian, Akiba Rubinstein complained of a fly which kept settling on his forehead and breaking his concentration. After he won the tournament, the tournament director, Jacques Mieses, took him to a leading psycho-neurologist at Munich. The doctor examined Rubinstein and said, "My friend, you are mad. But what does it matter? You are a chess master!" Rubinstein imagined noises in the night: knockings on the walls. He once burst in the room next door and tried to strangle Richard Reti, believing he was the source of these strange noises. He spent fours years hiding in a sanitorium in Belgium during the Nazi occupation. + Akiba Rubinstein never offered anyone a draw although he would accept draw offers if he thought that the position was actually drawn. When questioned about this, he said, "A Rubinstein never offers a draw!" + Akiba Rubinstein suffered from heavy dandruff. + Nimzovich versus Rubinstein: Nimzovich went to restroom after his move. Rubinstein also went to restroom without making a move. Nimzovich came back and sits down at the wrong side of the table. He didn't realize that he was on the wrong side and played a move for Rubinstein. When Rubinstein came back, he saw the board and shook Nimzovich's hand, "Thanks, I missed that move!" + During his games, Akiba Rubinstein never sat in his chair while his opponent was thinking. Instead, he retreated to a remote corner, waiting for his turn to move. His quixotic attitude occasionally led him to defeat by overstepping the time limit. + Akiba Rubinstein never ate in public and would not shake hands for fear of germs. + Akiba Rubinstein went mad from chess. It's been said that he sat at a table for hours in the hospital moving a pawn from c2 to c4, then moving it back. :-) Jun-13-11    jessicafischerqueen: Welcome <no flaps>! How will you land your plane safely without flaps? Here is some live film footage of <Akiva Rubinstein> playing chess: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEcZ...		Take the Premium Membership Tour

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