acirce Member since Feb-22-04 Ulf Hammarstrom + ¨ ------- "I have to confess that I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game" -- Albert Einstein on chess

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acirce has kibitzed 25084 times to chessgames   [more...]

Jul-24-09 Kenneth Rogoff    acirce: <Officially we've been metric for a while> What does this mean exactly? I was pretty sure the US had not adopted the SI system.      Jul-24-09 Peter Leko    acirce: Interview from 2002 http://www.chessclub.com/resources/...      Jul-24-09 Biel International Chess Festival (2009)    acirce: Rybka's 49.Rd8!? would have been very interesting. It involved sacrificing the c2-pawn in order for the king to advance into safety (!?) on the 7th-8th ranks and assisting in promoting the b-pawn. If the plan works, which is hard to make sure for a human, being pawn down doesn't ...      Jul-24-09 Mamedyarov vs I Kurnosov, 2009    acirce: <ahmadov> Yeah, let's leave the subject. I was only addressing this because it popped up again after <LIFE Master AJ> tried (rather pathetically) to give credence to the accusations.      Jul-24-09 acirce chessforum    acirce: Speaking of, I recently learned in Ha'aretz (yes, I read its online English version daily) that Ben-Gurion once called Begin "a Hitlerist type". http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages... Takes one to know one, I guess. <Hesam7> Very interesting on the deal, thanks; I didn't know.      Jul-24-09 Politiken Cup (2009)    acirce: <Is our old friend <acirce> in this tournament?> Nope, he isn't. Was there any particular reason to think I would? Yeah, it's extremely close to the southernmost parts of Sweden, in fact as close as it gets, but since I live in the North, not that close anymore :)      Jul-23-09 Vladimir Kramnik    acirce: He's said several times the last few years that he can't see himself continuing after 40. That's only 6-7 years from now. I wouldn't be surprised if it happened earlier, sadly. He has many interests apart from chess, and now he has a family, and I would guess that (like Kasparov) he ...      Jul-23-09 Magnus Carlsen    acirce: I disagree. It's pretty clear to me that Carlsen would have at least quite decent chances against anybody in the world. I'd consider Anand, Kramnik and Topalov favourites against him, but not by far. Against everybody else, I'd probably see him as the favourite. Btw and pertaining to      Jul-23-09 Anatoli Karpov    acirce: <HeHateMe> What mental illness did he have?      Jul-20-09 Knight13 chessforum    acirce: Happy birthday, <Knight18>!

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 149 OF 149 ·  Later Kibitzing > Sep-23-09    NakoSonorense: So you are telling this "jackass" to take care of himself. That's actually not bad advice! Way to go! Sep-26-09    Knight13: <NakoSonorense> That "jackass" was not referring to "this" person. That was actually a nice way to try to screw me over. Way to go! Oct-07-09    DCP23: <acirce> Come on, acirce! Not only do you post at Mig's instead of here, you are actually stealthily playing the chessbookie game, too. When do you intend to come out of hiding? This site isn't the same without your posts. Come back! Oct-07-09    Knight13: <DCP23> He's not gonna bend backwards just because we scream louder. It's his life. He can do whatever he wants. Oct-08-09    DCP23: <Knight13: It's his life. He can do whatever he wants.> Obviously. I wish there was some kind of explanation though. Oct-08-09    Annie K.: < (1) arman07 6,499 (2) SwitchingQuylthulg 5,061 (3) Where is my mind 4,000 (4) acirce 3,842 > LOL... making it to 4th place on the ChessBookie leaderboard does tend to blow one's cover a bit... ;) Oct-08-09    JointheArmy: <acirce> Has retired many times from posting CG and still has the highest post count by far. He'll be back. Oct-09-09    Knight13: As far as I know, I can imagine <acirce> saying that <chessgames.com> is the biggest waste of time ever. There are a lot more productive ways to spend one's life other than kibitizing. ChessBookie takes only a few seconds everyday. Kibitzing, nahh, waste of time. Definitely. And you all know it. Which is another reason why I quit chessgames.com too, except for a few posts here and there once in a while. I don't have the time! I got grades to worry about. I got f-ed over by CG.com already, and now that I've quit I'm getting 4.7 GPA. Makes me wonder why I'm wasting my potential on this site and gain absolutely nothing from it. So, yeah, screw chessgames.com. For those who can quit, good job on being able to achieve self-control. Oct-09-09    dakgootje: You do realize you exclaimed that for the third time now? If you really find this site so absolutely worthless - worse than watching paint dry - I do wonder what keeps you for an additional month. Oct-09-09    Knight13: <If you really find this site so absolutely worthless - worse than watching paint dry - I do wonder what keeps you for an additional month.> Easy. And that's actually the second time. Stress relief. I come on for like 3 minutes then gone, and do that for like twice a day. Six minutes is hardly any time-waste. I'm sure acirce is taking more than 6 minutes on his bookie. Oct-09-09    Knight13: By the way, your mumbo-jumbo point-fingers-and-screw-over mouth-spits makes me wonder if I can enjoy chessgames.com AND do well in school. Cool, thanks for the idea. That'll really prepare me for college when time management is more important than having an IQ of 200. I already got this far. Oct-11-09    Knight13: <acirce> Yo, I think that bastard Fred *wink* just sent you a message on *clears-throat*. He's got a bone to pick with me and wants to wash me out. Soak the crap out of me and leave me out to dry. So, yeah, you know what to do. The button's right in front of you, man. Please push it! Oct-13-09    Knight13: <acirce> All right, thanks for helping. I completely flushed him down the toilet with your help. He's DONE. Now it's time to put on some sunglasses and watch him go down in flames. Yeah man that bastard is SCREWED! Oct-19-09    Knight13: <acirce> I bet when the barber cut his hair, they plucked out some of his brain too. Doesn't matter. I sank him all the way down to hell. Oct-19-09    Knight13: <acirce> Oh yeah that other guy on *clears-throat* is back so you no longer have to play ichy-witchy hairball with that fish-face Fred guy. Hopefully... Nov-09-09    Raisin Death Ray: To my good friend from the far north: Where, oh where, are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I'd found true love. You met another, then, <pfffft!>, YOU WERE GONE! Nov-14-09    Dredge Rivers: Whatever happened to my old sparring partner? (Or perhaps I should say punching bag!) Ha! Nov-16-09    Dredge Rivers: Come back, <acirce>! Come back! Jump directly to page #    (enter number from 1 to 149) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 149 OF 149 ·  Later Kibitzing >		Advertise on Chessgames.com

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