PhilFeeley Member since Jun-08-05 · Last seen May-24-13 Now living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, I grew up in several places in Canada and the U.S. as my father was in the Canadian navy. I learned chess at 12 and played in high school and the RA club in Ottawa, but my rating never rose above 1500. I've come back to playing only recently (I'm now in my 50's, born the same year as Kevin Spraggett). Now I live and work in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Not much opportunity to play here yet, but I'm hoping.

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May-21-13 Suat Atalik   PhilFeeley: I see he's the top rated (so far) to play in July here: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr989...      May-21-13 Korchnoi vs I Krush, 2007    PhilFeeley: I love a good queen sac. To be able to play it against the great Korchnoi is even sweeter.      May-17-13 Svidler vs Karjakin, 2013    PhilFeeley: <PaulLovric> So it makes sense, then, that "baba" is father in Chinese. Interestingly, it is also father in Arabic.      May-16-13 European Individual Championships (2013)    PhilFeeley: <<Eyal: > <alexmagnus: <though actually the game lasted 33 moves, 6 more than Moiseenko's win against a 2574 player in the second round>>> That still doesn't explain why an almost 2700 player was paired against a 1500 player. I would never expect that to ...      May-15-13 Norway Chess Tournament (2013)    PhilFeeley: <pbercker: There's a spectacular picture on the front page of Chessbase of this massive rock overlooking the fjords of Norway ...> There's an interesting video of Carlsen playing there against someone with one of those large, outdoor chess sets. I was worried the whole time      May-15-13 N Aggelis vs A Heimann, 2012    PhilFeeley: I think I only looked at Qe7 briefly and rejected it as inadequate. Then I saw Qd6 and stopped as it was more obviously winning.      May-15-13 K Seegert vs M Matthiesen, 2009    PhilFeeley: Worst pun ever! Way to go <CG.com>!      May-12-13 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2013    PhilFeeley: Third time's a charm.      May-11-13 Carlos Jauregui    PhilFeeley: Too bad someone didn't get to write about his life before his obit.      May-09-13 Karjakin vs Wang Hao, 2013    PhilFeeley: "What's on second." - Abbot & Costello

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