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May-15-12
 | | Boomie: <Jessie: the actual <New York Evening Post> issue in question.> I took a quick tour of Post sites and couldn't find archives that went back that far. I'm afraid we will have to call in Big Crawdaddy to chase it down. |
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May-15-12
 | | crawfb5: My online source for the <NY Evening Post> does go back to 1910, but it's difficult to search, especially by date. Furthermore, the issues for February seem to be either missing or, as sometimes happens with that site, accidentally stuck in with some other year's scans. So, I didn't find you Lasker's quote, but here is the article from the 9 Feb 1910 <NY Tribune> following game 9, entitled <One more draw: Lasker likely to lose his title at chess>: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/l... |
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Jul-03-12
 | | shivasuri4: http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp... Posted originally by <PhilFeeley> at The Kibitzer's Cafe. <eyal>, what are your views with regard to this? Do you think their financial model will be tenable in the long run? FIDE seems bent on keeping the Grand Prix series alive. We'll possibly continue having organiser spots. |
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Jul-03-12
 | | Eyal: <shivasuri4> Yeah, I read about it - I don't know, with FIDE involved one naturally tends to be suspicious, especially after the near-fiasco of the last time they held the series... seems that a lot depends on that rather mysterious Paulson guy. Btw, the latest news are that they are <already> having problems with the first tournament, that was supposed to take place at Chelyabinsk, and want to move it to London (http://whychess.com/en/node/2143). I'm also not sure about the basic question of format - might have been better to keep the world cup as the main qualifying event and put more efforts and resources in organizing longer candidate matches, so they don't have to cram all of them into a single event, as they did in Kazan (or have a tournament instead, as in London next year). But on the other hand, with all the big tournaments that are being cancelled lately, if they can really hold such a series of tournaments and with decent prizes, I suppose it might be good news for quite a lot of the top players outside the small circle of Carlsen, Aronian, Kramnik & Anand (who get invited pretty much automatically to any top event). |
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Jul-03-12
| | shivasuri4: Let's hope it's just teething trouble for Paulsen and Co. Longer candidate matches would have been better, but they won't happen now.Oh well, it's FIDE! Cue cynicism, as usual. |
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Jul-06-12
 | | achieve: Hi <Eyal> - one or two remarks and questions on the TPR calculating. From a website I learned that there are several Formulas that are currently in use, and not knowing <any> of those I decided to follow the Chessmetrics "simple" method of adding 85 rating points if you improve 10% over a 50% score. This means that if you score 6/10 = 60% against a field averaging 2400, your TPR will be 2485. if you score a +6=3 in the Edmonton tournament, then this simple formula indicates that 7.5/9 equals 83%, which is 33% over 50%, resulting in a TPR of 33 * 8.5 = 283 points added to the average of the field (excluding yourself). This would mean that vs a 2400 field the TPR would be <2683>. Is this sofar making sense?
Of course in Edmonton the field without Short was I think 2345, so a Short +6=3 certainly would not have been his expected result, as you indicated. According to my calculus a 8.5/9 would have turned out a TPR of 2723 (versus 2345 opposition). Are my sums reliable? I'm sure there may be preferred formulas, but I'd like to learn of your way of going about it. |
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Jul-06-12
| | Eyal: <Niels> Well, I'm afraid I'm actually not very knowledgeable on this subject - when posting TPRs I'm using either the data in crosstables published on sites like chessbase, chessvibes & TWIC, or a calculator (http://paxmans.net/performance_calc...) that I consider as reliable in the sense that I've noticed it gives identical or near-identical results to those crosstables when one puts identical data. But I don't really know about the several formulas that are used, or the nuances that differentiate between these formulas and the logic behind them - <frogbert> is probably the best person to ask about these things... With regard to the specific calculation of Short's TPR – the results produced by that calculator when the TPR is calculated against the average rating of his opponents (2366) are 2583 for +5 (i.e., 7 "points"; the chessbase report gives 2584, the TWIC report 2586), 2646 for +6, and 2727 for +7. And since Short's current official rating is 2705 I rounded his "expected" score up rather than down. Btw, note that the differences become steeper the further you move from an equal score, as <Chuckles> mentioned on the Short page (for +8 you get 2858). I've also noticed that if you calculate the TPR not against the average rating of opponents but rather against the exact rating of each opponent – i.e. 2519 for Mikhalevsky, 2202 for Gardner etc. – you get a different and higher score: 2614 for +5, 2682 for +6, 2771 for +7; so in this case the expected result is indeed closer to +6, as Short said. That's apparently more like how the actual rating is calculated - if you look at the live ratings (http://www.2700chess.com/glass.php?...) you can see that if you turn the loss vs. Mikhalevsky to a draw Short would hardly lose any rating points overall (on that specific game, he would lose approximately five points less), and if you turn it into a win he already gains some. |
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Jul-06-12
| | achieve: Incredibly helpful comment,<Eyal>, and as i was a babbling novice in this regard, I feel my research and your additional points offer me a launching pad to learn to understand the TPR business. Not kidding here - it has been irritating me for quite some time - but unless you put in the work, it will stay that way. I do not get yet that the curve steepens as the difference grows, because Chessmetrics calculations have brought it back to a linear increase/difference. But this was as helpful as you could get, and thanks for that. Actually because of your explanatory input i now have a reasonable estimation of the real nature of those "estimates." The second Wimbledon semi is on now, and gee do we see Fed back, facing one of the young hungry wolves, potentially, in the Sunday final. Enjoy your time, I'll be looking into this more, and have a great weekend, Regards,
Niels |
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Jul-06-12
| | achieve: And you are right, <frogbert> is THE person to go to with queeries along these lines. i'll be preparing a few of those, as he is quite generous at elucidating people like us, you and me, who want to understand some of the formulas. |
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| Oct-04-12 | | mckmac: < Eyal > Greetings. I have been trying to put some writings together, again. Nothing clever, somewhere inbetween. I would like to firstly show them to you. How would I do that? Your student,mckmac |
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Oct-08-12
| | Eyal: Hi mckmac/Matt, nice to see you around here again. You can contact me by e-mail (e0022446@yahoo.com) and tell me some more about it. |
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Oct-09-12
 | | jessicafischerqueen: "Actually, it sounds exactly like Kramnik."
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Nov-27-12
| | achieve: Hi, <Eyal>, hope you are doing well. *Off Topic*
Announcement/Invitation
-- to participate in a "fun" Prediction Contest over at the Hans-Joachim Federer page. I know a number of the regulars here might be interested, may find it fun, so hereby the invitation! |
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| Dec-17-12 | | mckmac: < Eyal > Here's one more page to add to my swelling collection of self-centred mythology. I know some members find it all a little tiresome, so I have decided to try to 'share the blame' a little. Hence my visit to your forum today. < Between the sea and the island lies the shore > there is no faithful hound, nor honest son, both grown weary with the weight of waiting there is no shepherd's hut with smokey walls, my old toy bow still safe in a chest in the corner there is no mighty loom, sporting cloth so fine, awaiting the picker's knife, night after night, under the moonlight there is no gaggle of pretty suitors, their bellies now soft, their Father's wallets getting shorter, beneath their fashionable cloaks but there is an oar and I have buried it deep in a swamp not far from Pokeno. Only the clay cuddles it now |
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| Dec-27-12 | | mckmac: < Eyal > Good Doctor, I would like to wish you and your Family the very best for the New Year. I am sure that I am not alone in hoping that you find the time and inclination to post more often, particularly on subjects not directly related to our beloved game. That you are an analyst of exception and generosity is widely known, but I still hanker for the days when you, Jess, and Domdaniel ' ranged wide on the airwaves... I finished my little poem and will post it here. I don't even like poetry, or poets, very much. Every poet I have ever met has had one hand on my drink and the other on my Girlfriends bottom. Or my wallet. |
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| Dec-27-12 | | mckmac: < Eyal > I am at the Library and have had to wait some time to get back on a computer. The Librarian at the desk was, at best, only charming and helpful so I perused the Children's trolley of recently returned books. The first tome to come to hand was entitled ' Why Eating Boogers is Good for You ' It doesn't get any better than this. Praise The Lord. < Between the Island and the Sea lies The Shore > there is no faithful hound, nor honest son, both growing weary with the weight of waiting there is no Shepherd's Hut with smokey walls, my old toy bow still safe in a chest, in the corner there is no mighty loom, sporting cloth so fine, awaiting the picker's knife, night after night, under the moonlight there is no swag of pretty suitors, their bellies grown soft, their Father's wallets getting shorter, beneath their downtown cloaks but there is an oar and I have buried it deep in the swamps of Pokeno, only the clay cuddles it now |
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| Dec-30-12 | | mckmac: < Eyal > Professor, I have finished another. < dirtywork?...dirtywork??. This is Dirty Work. > for "The Divine Miss Caitlin Smith"
women talk best and if there were none of them we would not be here but there is never any excuse for bad manners no excuse for wanton disregard no excuse for the friends you think you have 25 people in the room and half of them you know by name you call this a career just as well you have a day job I saw Kevin Field get off the Ferry last night before I made the the optimists mistake of coming to see you again so women talk best but men shake hands I have already shaken 30 hands already today I will shake 30 more before the year is gone probably won't be any where near enough to clean off the s$%t of last night but anyway I will never rid myself of that man's bad breath was it only garlic and do you think we are playing without Knights http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Af3... |
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| Jan-02-13 | | mckmac: < Eyal > Please delete that last post and I'll put up the revision. |
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| Jan-02-13 | | mckmac: Hamadryads
for PKLoose
women talk best but men shake hands I have shaken 30 already today and will shake 30 more before the year is gone not enough to marshall the smell of the s^%t of last night off me women talk best but you chose your mates and there's never an excuse for bad manners or callous disregard I saw Roskill Field get off the Ferry last night before I made the dreamer's mistake of coming to see you again 25 people in the roomyouknow half by name and you call that a living and that man's breath was it only garlic and your dress needed a press and it doesn't hang right on you anywayanyway great big note and wow like the boots and if you really do think that we are supposed to battle it out ad infinitum tere will always be losers |
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| Jan-08-13 | | mckmac: < Eyal > Well, you were right to ask me to think again. My trouble is that I have waited so long for this that I now want it all to happen yesterday. I am sure it is finished now, and will post them up after this. Yes of course they go together. I don't know if you are back yet, but when you are, pleeeze get rid of that first one... As I said, I was a little het up, it is far too nasty, even for me, and I am afraid someone might see it! "Hamadryads", is in many ways a tribute to Hubert Selby Jnr. I was 19 and living in Gent, Belgium. I struck up a friendship with a Gentleman by the name of Chris Thomas. He was Welsh and had also once been a bike rider. We worked together at the same Fabriek over the border in Zeeland, and spent our nights together in the little bars that he knew so well. When morning came, the Barman would just close the drapes. It's important to show respect to those of us who have to head off to work each morning. Chris turned me on to Soul Music. He understood how important it was, both culturally and politically. He loved the Atlantic/Stax sound best and I scoured every record shop around, carried vinyl home in bundles, sat down, turned the lights off, and cranked it up. That music changed me utterly. Chris was very well read. He spoke a number of languages and was always giving me books. 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' is one of the greatest 'novels' I have read, not just for its amazing approach to language and structure, but for its subject matter. One of the problems that serious literature has, in my opinion, is that it is all so middleclass. Middleclass folk with middleclass concerns and facinating middleclass interior lives. It's the working, poor and destitute and criminal classes that interest me. There's more action, and they have much more fun. |
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| Jan-08-13 | | mckmac: Between the Island and the Sea lies the Shore
For The Divine Miss Caitlin Smith
With thanks to my dear Parents, Maisie Alexandra, and Peter Bryden McKinnell there is no faithful hound, nor honest son, both growing weary with the weight of waiting there is no Shepherd's Hut with smokey walls, my old toy bow still safe in a chest, in the corner there is no mighty loom, sporting cloth so fine, awaiting the picker's knife, night after night, under the moonlight there is no swag of pretty suitors, their bellies grown soft, their Father's wallets getting shorter, beneath their downtown cloaks but there is an oar and I have buried it deep in the swamps of Pokeno, only the clay cuddles it now Hamadryads
for PKLoose
women talk best and if there were none of them we would not be here but there is never any excuse for bad manners no excuse for callous disregard no excuse for some of the mates you have I saw Roskill Field get off the Ferry last night before I made the dreamer's mistake of coming to see you again so women talk best but men shake hands and I have shaken 30 already today and will shake 30 more before the year is gone won’t be enough to marshall the reek of the @#$% that was last night off of me so women talk best but 25 people in the roomyouknow half by name and you call that a career so women talk best but men shake hands and that man's breath was it only garlic and your dress needed a press and it doesn't hang right on you anywayanyway truly great big note and wow love the boots butbutbutt seriously my dear do you think we are playing without Knights? |
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| Jan-23-13 | | mckmac: < Eyal > I might have shown this to you before. If there is a time for waiting,
then there is, there is a time for more,
when a ship has crept through darkness,
that ship will sail for shore,
they say we never walk alone,
they say the rat will find a way,
when somone is looking for you,
he might just plainly say,
my love lies on the mountain,
my love sings by the streams. |
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| Jan-25-13 | | mckmac: < Eyal > That last one has two more lines. I left them off because they were too predictable, but I think I can live with this... We Lie We Walk With Orpheus
(for Robertson Davies)
If there is a time for waiting,
then there is, there is a time for more,
when a ship has crept through darkness,
that ship will sail for shore,
they say we never walk alone,
they say the rat will find a way,
when somone is looking for you,
he might just plainly say,
my love lies on the mountain,
my love sings by the streams,
my love stays with her sisters,
my love is sleeping with the trees. |
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| Mar-02-13 | | mckmac: Greetings Eyal! First rain here today in weeks...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gz7... |
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Mar-23-13
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Eyal: It's possible that Radjabov missed a win with 25...f2+, but I would expect anyone saying that not just to quote engine evaluations but to show some clear winning plan for Black in order to break White's defense after the latter manages to blockade on f2. At the very least it's not trivial.> That's why they pay you the big money. Well ok they don't give you any money but they should. I watched this whole game and my "method" of watching is to spar against my Shredder from various positions in the game as they arise. Your comments are key- your ideas with the aid of your trusty engine assistant. written in the King's English. Very useful to a club player like me to have intelligible top level analysis. Also I appreciate your penmanship. I imagine you first draft the comments with an Eagle Quill and ink, and then your valet transcribes them to type? Thanks! |
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