User Profile: brankat

brankat
Member since Oct-10-05 · Last seen May-19-13

Branko Katic. Born and raised in former Yugoslavia, I have been living in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, for the last 30 years. Used to play chess actively when I was a teenager, and was awarded a Candidate Master title in 1970.
I "retired" a year later, mostly due to University studies and never participated in tournaments again. Instead I got a degree in History and Social Anthropology, which didn't do me much good :-)
I had neither played chess, nor followed chess events for more than 30 years. Until, by chance, I discovered this great site: Chessgames.com in 2005.
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A fellow CG.com member, and a friend, WILSON HU User: CHESSMORON, organized a double round-robin tourney: <The MASTERS vs. the MACHINES>, February - April, 2007. It was my privilege and an honour to be on the Masters team with FIDE Master ERIC SCHILLER Eric Schiller and the USCF Master BILL WALL Bill Wall!
The link to the games: CG.com Masters vs. Machines Invitational (2007)
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<A few of my favourite Chess related quotes>:
"If Acoustics was a science that informed the world about sounds, then Music was an art that revealed the beauty of that science; if Logic was a science that revealed the laws of Thought, then Chess, in the form of artistic images, was an art that illuminated the logical side of thought."
<M.M.Botvinnik>
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"It is too beautiful to spend your life upon. Many times have I managed to break with Chess, yet I have always fallen in love with it again. I was too captivated by the conflict between ideas and opinions, attack and defence, life and death."
<Emanuel Lasker>
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"The chess player who has lost his game - who will describe him? I have seen him unable to move. The public was long gone, the lights were out, and still he sat rigidly in his chair staring at the emptied board, because he had overlooked Bg2. A case of complete petrification, with bystanders whispering and tiptoeing by.
I have heard him begging for punishment in blasphemous language. He had forgotten Nh5, and in his dismay he called down annihilation upon himself. Derisively, he rejected our words of solace, demanding insults and chastisements.
Standing afar and horror-stricken, I have witnessed him swearing in orgiastic fury to rip off his genitals, because he had played Qf6 instead of Qb6."
<Jan Hein Donner>
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The one I personally subscribe to:
"Of my 57 years, I’ve applied at least 30 to forgetting most of what I've learned or read, and since I succeeded in this I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without.
If need be, I can increase my skill in chess, if need be I can do that of which I have no idea present.
I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of good use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight."
<Dr.Emanuel Lasker>
"Aspirin can prevent pregnancy. All a woman has to do is place an aspirin between her knees and not let it go."
<ThFocus>
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CHESS related links I often use:
Game Collection: 170 Major Chess Tournaments 1882-2007 compiled by User: RonB52734
http://chesstempo.com/game-database... Games DATABASE
http://www.edochess.ca/batgirl/arch... Sarah's Chess JOURNAL
Nasruddin Hodja's Game Collections GAMES COLLECTIONS compiled by User: nasruddin hodja
Game Collection: Nf5 sac against the kingside castled fianchetto
http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records... RECORDS games
http://www.chessville.com/Quotes/mi... Chessville-QUOTES
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... CHESS NOTES by Edward Winter
Petrosian-Spassky World Championship Rematch (1969) All WCC Matches
http://www.endgame.nl/match.htm HISTORY of Chess Matches from R.Lopez to V.Kramnik
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... P.Morphy's notes: De La BOURDONNAIS-A.MCDONNELL
http://www.chessbase.com/puzzle/puz... The famous PLASKETT PUZZLE - Analysis
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PHOTO ALBUMS Links:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Caissa1... ALEKHINE FAMILY PHOTOS
http://picasaweb.google.com/Caissa1... S.RESHEVSKY - "The WUNDERKID" - PHOTOS
http://picasaweb.google.com/Caissa1... RUSSIAN MASTERS' PHOTOS, early 20th Century
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... S.GLIGORIC 85th Birthday Celebration
http://www.chesspro.ru/_events/2011... Tribute to Dr.M.Vidmar (in Russian)
http://www.ara.org.ar/chs/ajedrez/p... Photos of all Teams from 1939 Chess Olympiad, Argentina
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MISC:
http://www.chessintranslation.com/2... S.GLIGORIC Interview: Analyzing by the riverside with Bobby Fischer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanue... Dr.Emanuel LASKER Biography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetoz... S.GLIGORIC Biography
http://www.tri.org.au/chess/ Chess on Stamps.
http://www.kenilworthchessclub.org/... B.Fischer-F.Castro, Havana, 1966 ________________________________________________-
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REMINDERS:
User: wordfunph April-24 :-)
SwitchingQuylthulg chessforum: How to link to a specific post!
User: themadhair Carl Sagan on Voyager I
Complete List of BOOKS about <J.R.CAPABLANCA> and <A.A.ALEKHINE>, page 230, this Forum.
Links to <The BEATLES> videos, page 266, this Forum.
Link to <PETER, PAUL and MARY> videos, page 275, this Forum.
Link to <MAHALIA JACKSON> videos, page 276, this Forum.
Link to <PAVEL BURE> videos, page 271, this Forum.
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<Events organized and hosted in this Forum>: ________________________________________________-
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Consultation game: "MIXED DOUBLES"
Team White: THE BATCHIMEGS <jessicafischerqueen & Eyal>
Team Black: OPENLY DEFIANT CATS <Open Defence & Brankat>
Start: June/27/2007. - End: Aug/19/2007.
ECO: B76 - <SICILIAN, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack>
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Nc6 7. f3 Bg7 8. Qd2 0-0 9. g4 Nxd4 10. Bxd4* Be6 11. h4 Qa5 12. h5 Rac8 13. a3 Bc4 14. h6 Bh8 15. 0-0-0 Bxf1 16. Rhxf1 Rc4 17. Bxf6 Bxf6 18. Nd5 Qxd2 19. Kxd2 Re8 20. Nxf6+ exf6 21. b3 Rc5 22. c4 Re6 23. Ke3 f5 24. Rd5 Kf8 25. Kd4 fxe4 26. fxe4 Ke7 27. b4 Rc6 28. g5 Rc7 29. a4 Rd7 30. Ra5 b6 31. Rb5 Kd8 32. a5 == Draw offer accepted.
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Consultation Game:
<CHESSGAMES.com Members vs. MFO (mrfixitonline) Chess Club Members>
<MFO> :
(Akavall, bin, buti_oxa, Ceri, ForceMid, FusterCluck, Joshua, madcat_lives, samurai goroh, Stormboy).
<CG.com>:
(TheAlchemist, chessmoron, dakgootje, hitman84, jessicafischerqueen, Marco65, Rocafella>, Swapmeet, TTLump, Zebra, EmperorAtahualpa, mckmac, Elixir of Life).
WHITE: < MFO > ---BLACK: < CG.com >
Start: Jan/21/2007 - End: May/23/2007
ECO: B90 - <SICILIAN, Najdorf>
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 Ng4 7. Bc1 Nc6 8. h3 Nf6 9. Be3 e6 10. g4 Be7 11. g5 Nd7 12. h4 O-O 13. f4 Nxd4 14. Qxd4 b5 15. O-O-O Rb8 16. h5 b4 17. Na4 e5 18. Qd2 Bb7 19. g6 Bxe4 20. Bg2 Bf5 21. Bd5 Rc8 22. Bb3 Be4 23. gxf7+ Rxf7 24. fxe5 Nxe5 25. Nb6 Rc6 26. Rhf1 Qe8 27. Rxf7 Nxf7 28. Nd5 Bd8 29. h6 a5 30. Re1 a4 31. Bxa4 Bh4 32. Qd4! and Black resigns.
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Consultation game:
CG.com American kibitzers: "ISOLATED PAWNS"
<Akavall, square dance, suenteus po 147>
vs.
CG.com Canadian kibitzers: "NORTHERN KNIGHTS"
<AgentRgent, Hesam7, THE Pawn>
WHITE: <ISOLATED PAWNS> - BLACK: <NORTHERN KNIGHTS>
Start: Sep, 05/2006 - End: Nov, 11/2006.
ECO: B17 <CARO-KANN, Steinitz Variation.>
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Ng5 e6 6. Bd3 Ngf6 7. N1f3 Bd6 8. Qe2 h6 9. Ne4 Nxe4 10. Qxe4 c5 11. Bd2 Nf6 12. Qe2 a6 13. dxc5 Bxc5 14. 0-0 0-0 15. c4 e5 16. Bc3 Re8 17. Rad1 Qb6 18. b4 Bxb4 19. Rb1 e4 20. Rxb4 Qc5 21. Bc2 Bg4 22. Qe3 Qxe3 23. fxe3 exf3 24. Bxf6 gxf6 25. c5 Be6 26. Bb3 Bxb3 27. axb3 Rac8 28. Rxf3 1/2-1/2.
Nov. 11/06: Draw offer accepted by "Northern Knights".

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   May-19-13 brankat chessforum

brankat: Rest time.

   May-18-13 Sergey Karjakin

brankat: Congratulations GM Karjakin!

   May-18-13 Norway Chess Tournament (2013)

brankat: Congrats to Sergey Karjakin!

   May-18-13 Gennady Sosonko

brankat: Happy Birthday GM Sosonko!

   May-18-13 Edgar Colle

brankat: R.I.P. master Colle.

   May-17-13 SwitchingQuylthulg chessforum

brankat: I now find myself in an unfamiliar territory. But it probably won't last longer than a day :-)

   May-17-13 Wilhelm Steinitz

brankat: That's the spirit!

   May-17-13 Alberic O'Kelly de Galway

brankat: R.I.P. GM O'Kelly.

   May-17-13 dakgootje chessforum

brankat: 200-1 :-)

   May-16-13 Dr. Anthony Saidy

brankat: Happy Birthday Dr.Saidy!

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Aug-16-12		brankat: Your thesis deals with a certain "split personality case"? :-)

Aug-16-12		brankat: 2:00 am. Bed-time. Good morning :-)

Aug-16-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: Good night :)

Aug-16-12		dakgootje: It's already almost afternoon ;) -- Whereas split personalities might be appropriate - it isn't really my area of expertise. I'm probably going to do something with persuasive design. eHealth [eg interventions via internet] is booming, but most interventions aren't that well designed. Sometimes the message might be effective, but the method to get/keep people interested is seen as a big black box; strange and scary. So generally half of the people during trials fall out. It's therefore quite important to make the design and functionality persuasive to use. Should improve adherence and therefore the effect of the intervention. That's all very new and has a lot of potential - so I'm going to do something in that direction ;)

Aug-16-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Do this and you won't die> sounds pretty persuasive to me ;-) Obviously, if you're targetting people on suicide watch it will have to be modified slightly :)

Aug-16-12		dakgootje: <<Do this and you won't die> sounds pretty persuasive to me > If that would work, no-one would smoke ;) Hell, if that worked - I'd be out of a job :P

Aug-16-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: Is the idea to make people healthier? Or is it to maintain your job? ;-) (yes, yes, I do know which of these is more important... :p)

Aug-16-12		brankat: $$$$$$$$...> The right direction. :-) Every young generation is bad news! A young generation always seems to want something new and different. It's beyond me why. They want to change the World! Like it's not bad enough as is :-) For some inexplicable reason they refuse to listen to, and rely on the time tested wisdom of their elders :-) Good LUCK with the eHealth. You could find a lot of clients right here on this very site :-)

Aug-16-12		brankat: A jewel from <Hugin>'s forum: Top Ten Reasons To Vote in American Presidential Elections: (applicable to other "Democracies" as well.) 10. You can pretend to help decide which CIA-groomed figurehead will front for the banksters during the next four years. 9. If the rigged voting machines break down, your vote might actually be counted. 8. With a bumpersticker like “Don’t blame me, I voted for Cynthia McKinney” (or your favorite 3rd party candidate) you’ll feel superior to the sheeple for the next four years. 7. Poking little holes in computer cards is good exercise for the muscles in your hands and wrists – and since you only do it every four years, you won’t get repetitive motion syndrome. 6. Voting offers an opportunity to do your civic duty: While standing in line waiting to vote, you can hand out 9/11 truth DVDs and explain to the sheeple that if voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal. 5. If each of the two major party candidates gets exactly fifty million votes not counting yours, your vote will determine which candidate can brag about getting the most votes. Unfortunately, due to the mysteries of the electoral college system, getting the most votes has nothing to do with being elected President. 4. You’ll get to play a minor role in an outrageous, over-the-top farce, without having to get yourself hired as an extra in a Mel Brooks movie. 3. Since your vote has no effect whatsoever on the actual governance of the nation, you can go ahead and vote without feeling guilty about the mass murders and genocide that the government is guaranteed to keep right on perpetrating, regardless of the electoral outcome. 2. You can cast a write-in vote for a relatively honest president of some relatively honest country, like Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and hope that your local newspaper will mention it along with the write-in votes for Donald Duck, Ted Nugent, Ted Kaczynski, OJ Simpson, and Mishka the Talking Dog. 1. Casting a meaningless vote in a system rigged to victimize people like you is better than masturbation: It allows you to screw yourself, without requiring you to assume an anatomically impossible position and risk serious injury.

Aug-16-12		N0B0DY: Vote for <N0B0DY>! Nobody will keep election promises Nobody will listen to your concerns Nobody will help the poor and unemployed Nobody cares! If nobody is elected, things will be better for everyone! NOBODY TELLS THE TRUTH

Aug-16-12		dakgootje: <Is the idea to make people healthier? Or is it to maintain your job?> Like many professions - the ideal is making yourself superfluous. A scientist wants to know the truth - and if everything would be known, he would be out of a job. Airplane designers want to make the best airplane - after which they wouldn't be needed anymore. Heh, even politicians are supposed to make the perfect policy. <Good LUCK with the eHealth.> Thank you. It's very interesting - and actually has me motivated to learn for the first time in many, many years. Which is good - sets my mind at ease.

Aug-16-12		brankat: Hi there <NOBODY>,. I,m very happy to see nobody is visiting my forum. Which is good- sets my mind at ease :-)

Aug-16-12		brankat: Yet another duplicate acc.? :-)

Aug-17-12		dakgootje: I'm innocent. My only duplicate account is Switch.

Aug-17-12		brankat: Then it must be Your alter-ego that is a guilty party :-)

Aug-17-12		twinlark: <Branko> Here's the revised bio: Svetozar Gligoric. This is by no means complete, as I have been unable to find a complete record of his tournament achievements outside of the Olympiads and the World Championship cycle. Also, I'm pretty sure he authored other books and there are many other important opening variations in which he had a hand in developing. Please let me know if there are any mistakes or if there is any additional material you think should be included. If you have any anecdotes, post them on your forum and I can link the post(s) to the sources at the foot of the bio.

Aug-17-12		brankat: <twinlark> Great work on such a short notice! Thank You. I read the text a moment ago, mostly at a glance, and will have to review it again with more attention to detail, possible inaccuracies, lacking info etc. Will let You know within a couple of hours. I met Gligoric, and had conversations with him on 7 occasions. So there is plenty of anecdotal material, good portion of it of a personal nature. Probably not quite suitable for the Bio format we have here at CG.com. But I can post at least some of it either here or at Gligoric's Player's page, and then You can decide whether You want to provide a link in the Bio. Once again, thank You.

Aug-17-12		twinlark: <Branko> You're most welcome. BTW Does including those FENs work? I'm not sure about them, if they're too much I can remove them.

Aug-17-12		brankat: <twinlark> As far as I'm concerned the FENs look pretty. They somehow enrich the paragraph, make it more lively, and certainly make it easier to relate to the openings' lines.

Aug-17-12		twinlark: Thanks.

Aug-17-12		brankat: <twinlark> Done! It's in your forum now.

Aug-17-12		SwitchingQuylthulg: Good night!

Aug-17-12		WannaBe: <brankat> I have no idea what is going on with our friend <RonB>, last I heard/know he is still in Pittsburgh. Yes, approaching 50% mark of the book, it's very late August 1939 and Germany-USSR just signed non-aggression pact.

Aug-17-12		brankat: <WannaBe> Thanks Jimmy. Now You are approaching what is probably the most interesting part of the book: Sep-01-1939 to (roughly) June-22-1941. It is a good idea to read the material slowly, even re-read some sections, if necessary, because there is so much information there to "digest".

Aug-17-12		WannaBe: I think that period is called the "Phony War"? Because the west did (almost) nothing. I've lost contact with ol' Joe, I fear that he may not be (longer) with us. =(

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