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May-22-13 playground player chessforum    hms123: <pgp> Are you impressed with Senators Inhofe and Coburn of Oklahoma for saying that government help for Oklahoma is "different" than government help for New Jersey? Do you really think they will vote against the emergency spending bill for Oklahoma if there aren't offsets ...      May-22-13 hms123 chessforum    hms123: <crawfb5> That is a pretty exciting game, and a brutal attack. Don't people ever resign in correspondence chess?      May-19-13 Team White vs Team Black, 2013     May-18-13 N Grandadam vs M Parligras, 2012    hms123: <Xeroxx> Easy. You just have to score three <Eve Norms>.      May-18-13 Domdaniel chessforum    ...      May-16-13 Nakamura vs S Benen, 2003   hms123: <Fiona Macleod> He was only 15 at the time.      May-13-13 Louis F Stumpers    hms123: You can try here (no solution is given): http://www.smart-kit.com/games/game2/      May-12-13 Annie K. chessforum    hms123: <Annie> Yes, you were pretty far ahead for most of the game.      May-10-13 scormus chessforum    hms123: <morfishine> Anything for a friend. ;-)      May-10-13 Karjakin vs Wang Hao, 2013    hms123: <chessdgc2> If Black takes e.p., then Rf1 wins the bishop.      May-07-13 chessgames.com chessforum     May-05-13 jessicafischerqueen chessforum     May-04-13 Phony Benoni chessforum     May-04-13 US Chess Championships (Women) (2013)     May-01-13 technical draw chessforum     Apr-30-13 V Vepkhvishvili vs K Shavgulidze, 1983     Apr-30-13 rinus chessforum    Apr-27-13 PaulLovric chessforum     Apr-27-13 Keene vs Geller, 1975     Apr-27-13 Topalov 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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 437 OF 437 ·  Later Kibitzing> Apr-30-13    benjinathan: Ha! At least my publisher writes cheques for less than ten dollars- I know, because I have seen one. One of the things in my father's estate was a stock in a low fee brokerage account with a total value of $4. So I called them up and they told me about the reams of paperwork I would have to do to get the $4 out (assuming I could find a buyer of course). I decided it was not worth it and for 6 years I have been getting statements from the broker in the mail. At one point I offered to just give them the money, but no go. Maybe in ten years the company will turn out to be google... May-01-13    benjinathan: Ha again! I looked for my book on amazon and you could buy a whole year's production of matted Elk for the cost of the first edition: http://www.amazon.ca/Collective-Agr... What a laugh. I think I will have to go steal the one I gave to my mother. May-01-13    playground player: <benjinathan> Many years ago, during a long spell of unemployment, I went to withdraw the last $5 out of my bank account and was told that the bank had taken my last $5 as some kind of penalty for not putting more money in. I convinced them to give me the money back by threatening to stand in the middle of the lobby and tell all the customers, as loud as I could, how the bank just took a poor devil's last $5. All of which just goes to show that even bankers have more active consciences than publishers. But then the publisher is usually in some inaccessible office in New York and can't be shamed to his face. The upside of being published by a worldwide Christian ministry is that they probably won't play any of the cheap and sleazy tricks on their authors that are so often played by Manhattan publishers. The downside is that they have no idea how to promote their product. Not even a clue. May-01-13    OhioChessFan: <The downside is that they have no idea how to promote their product. > I knew an author 20 years ago who wrote good stuff and had the same problem. May-03-13    crawfb5: I just got a letter informing me a credit of $0.25 has been applied to one of my various retirement funds. I have 60 days to inform them, in writing, of any inaccuracies. May-03-13    crawfb5: Just to show that amateur correspondence players are not blunder-free, I had two opponents walk into mates within the last few days: crawfb5-NN, White to move click for larger view <11...f6 was a mistake.> 12. Qh5+ g6 13. Nxg6 Nxg6 14. Qxg6+ Kd7 15. O-O-O Kc7 16. Bxd5 cxd5 17. Bf4 Bd7 18. Bxd6+ Kxd6 19. Qg3+ Kc6 20. Qc3+ click for larger view 20...Kd6?? 21. Qc5# NN-crawfb5, Black to move click for larger view 19...d4 <Ties up his queenside, but he misses the main threat.> 20. Ba3? <20. Kh2 followed by Rg1 was essential, even though he's still probably lost.> 20...Qd5 21. Nb2? <Better a quick death than a slow one?> 21...Qg2# Which goes to show it's not how much time you take between moves, but how much time you take on the moves themselves. May-03-13    hms123: <crawfb5> Those are astounding mates for correspondence play. You'd think people would at least examine every check that the opponent could play. May-04-13    SwitchingQuylthulg: <hms> Players like that wouldn't get these positions to begin with :) May-04-13    hms123: <Switch> Excellent point! What was I thinking? May-09-13    jessicafischerqueen: <H> More bad news! There's libel afoot in <Boomie's> forum again. I did my best to uphold your august legal reputation, but it's tough sledding against some of the more pernicious, not to mention silly, rumors being spread by a few blackguards. May-10-13    hms123: <Jess> <<hms123> hasn't actually appeared before the bar since he was banned last year for passing out on one after a few dozen glasses of tasty "Matted Elk" wine.> The truth is an absolute defense against libel. May-11-13    playground player: <hms123> Actually, according to a recent Canadian Supreme Court ruling, truth is no defense against libel or "hate speech" charges. May-11-13    hms123: <pgp> I will have to watch what I say the next time I am in Quebec. Maybe I can use the <bad French that no one can understand> defense. May-12-13    playground player: <hms123> You're an American citizen; so if you insist on telling the truth, maybe they'd settle for deporting you. May-18-13    playground player: <hms123> Have you ever read anything by Margaret Millar, Ross McDonald's wife? I've just read her <Stranger in My Grave>, and it's about as *noir* as a novel gets--maybe a little too much so, for me. I suppose you could call it a penetrating look into the outworkings of sin in human life--especially the lives of the next generation. Not for the faint-hearted. May-18-13    hms123: <pgp> I have, of course, read all of Ross McDonald's work, but didn't know about <Millar>. She will go to the top of my list immediately. I just finished an excellent (if somewhat worldly--heh) YA book by John Green. The title is <Paper Towns>. I also just read his <An Abundance of Katherines>, which was also quite good. Next up, his <Looking for Alaska>. I also seem to be in the middle of Walter Mosley's <Little Green>. The protagonist is <Easy Rawlins>--Mosley's main series lead. I am enjoying it so far. The book in the series that I really liked was titled <Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned>. You might give it a try along with some of Mosley's early book starring Rawlins. May-19-13    crawfb5: When one wheel falls off, it is often followed by the others. The latest in my recent run of cooperative CC opponents just resigned after this: crawfb5-NN, Black to move click for larger view He's got to give up another pawn, although he has reasonable prospects for picking up my loose one on e5. Question is, which is the worst pawn to give up? 28...Ba8?? 29. Nxe6 I guess he was looking at the pawns and not the fork. It only goes downhill from here. He decides to pick up a pawn if he's to lose the exchange, but doesn't see how that will make it worse. 29...Rxf3 30. gxf3 Rxf3 31. Nxg5 hxg5 32. Rd8+ 1-0 click for larger view With the Bishop gone, he no longer controls d8. After 32...Rf8 33. Rxf8+ Kxf8, the newly-opened h-file allows 34. Rh8+ None of this seemed particularly difficult to see, but I guess if you don't spend enough time on the actual moves this is what can happen. Doesn't this make you want to take up CC? :-) May-19-13    hms123: <crawfb5> <Doesn't this make you want to take up CC?> Only if I can play like you do and not like some of your opponents. What kind of ratings do these justifiably NN's have? May-19-13    hms123: <crawfb5> I would really like to sit down once or twice a week with a friend and a couple of beers and play some 10 0 games with trash talk allowed. May-19-13    crawfb5: <H> The earlier mates were against 2094 and 2000, the fork and skewer was against 2049, all at ChessWorld. I'm currently at 2273 there. For a rough OTB estimate, I'd deduct at least 200 points, maybe more. My OTB peak was about 2065 back in the day. I'm at 2264 at QueenAlice, although other sites are apparently scaled differently. From what I see of GameKnot, their ratings seem lower than other sites. They're generally only good for within-site comparisons anyway. And with enough beers it's trash talk with a couple of moves thrown in once and a while? May-19-13    playground player: <hms123> As a connoisseur (not an easy word to spell!) of YA fiction, I recommend my own books to you--unless you've already sampled them and didn't like them. I've been very mildly and gently criticized for writing what may be too advanced material for most YA readers. My defense is, "There are four books in the series, with No. 5 due any day now, and No. 6 waiting in the wings. If the reader is 11 years old when he reads <Bell Mountain>, and reads a book a year, he'll be 16 when he reads <The Fugitive Prince.> The books are written to sort of grow along with the reader." You and I are proof positive that no one's too grown-up to enjoy good YA fiction. I'll take it over Serious Mainstream Krapola any day of the week. May-19-13    hms123: <crawfb5> <And with enough beers it's trash talk with a couple of moves thrown in once and a while?> Exactly right. May-22-13    crawfb5: This one just ended. No remarkable blunders or brilliancies, but sometimes a caveman-style king hunt is just fun. crawfb5-NN 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 dxe5 5.Nxe5 c6 6.Be2 Bf5 7.O-O Nd7 8.Nf3 e6 9.c4 N5f6 10.Nc3 Qc7 11.Nh4 Bg6 12.g3 Be7 13.Bf4 Qd8 14.Re1 O-O 15.Nxg6 hxg6 16.Bf3 Nb6 17.b3 Ba3 18.Rb1 Bb4 19.Re3 Bxc3 20.Rxc3 Qd7 21.Rd3 Rfd8 22.Qe2 Nc8 23.Rbd1 Ne7 24.g4 Rac8 25.h4 b5 26.g5 Ne8 27.h5 gxh5 28.Bxh5 g6 29.Bg4 Ng7 30.Rh3 Nef5 31.Bxf5 exf5 32.Be5 Re8 33.Qf3 Rcd8 34.Bf6 Re6 35.Qh1 Nh5 36.Rxh5 gxh5 37.Qxh5 Rxf6 38.gxf6 Qd6 39.Qh6 Qf8 40.Qg5+ Kh7 41.Kg2 Qh6 42.Rh1 Qxh1+ 43.Kxh1 Rxd4 44.Qg7# 1-0 May-22-13    hms123: <crawfb5> That is a pretty exciting game, and a brutal attack. Don't people ever resign in correspondence chess? May-22-13    crawfb5: <H> Usually, but lately not so much. Maybe it's because most of these are team games that the last thing they lose is hope. Last cycle our team crushed everybody in our group, scoring 50/56. It helped that we had a super-strong board 1, so I could play board 2. Even though I've moved up to board 1 this cycle, we're at 16/17, and I'm at 4/4 (12/12 for both cycles). Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 437) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 437 OF 437 ·  Later Kibitzing>		from the Chessgames Store

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