keypusher Member since Sep-23-04 · Last seen Jul-09-14 Scott Thomson The Perseus Project: The classics in Greek, Latin & English--hyperlinked http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper... A page from the Venetus A, the oldest complete manuscript of the Iliad, courtesy of Harvard's Multitext Library: http://chs119.chs.harvard.edu/venic... A collection of chess links, including tons of tournament crosstables and games: http://www.worldchesslinks.net/inde... From Google Books, a link to Tarrasch's book on the 1908 world championship. I've translated his notes on the game pages. http://books.google.com/books?id=0C... Lasker's book on St. Petersburg 1909 http://www.google.com/books?id=o3eC... Chess-play is a good and witty exercise of the mind for some kind of men, and fit for such melancholy, Rhasis holds, as are idle, and have extravagant impertinent thoughts, or troubled with cares, nothing better to distract their mind, and alter their meditations; invented (some say) by the general of an army in famine, to keep soldiers from mutiny: but if it proceed from overmuch study, in such case it may do more harm than good; it is a game too troublesome for some men's brains, too full of anxiety, all out as bad as study; besides it is a testy choleric game, and very offensive to him that loseth the mate. William the Conquerer, in his younger years, playing at chess with the Prince of France (Dauphine was not annexed to that crown in those days) losing a mate, knocked the chess-board about his pate, which was a cause afterwards of much enmity between them. --Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy "Just because many great chess players were obnoxious jerks, doesn't mean that if you're an obnoxious jerk you're a great chess player." --AgentRgent "You are also a machine, as are Anand, Carlsen, Kasparov, and Fischer. You and the others are just inferior machines. Your idea of beautiful chess is simply faulty chess that is not caught in its faults." --vsaluki

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Jul-03-14 Petrosian - Botvinnik World Championship Match (1963)    keypusher: <Offramp> By the way, in a Venice bookshop I saw a lovely copy of <Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry> http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19447 with Brady's portrait of Pike.      Jul-02-14 Kibitzer's Café    keypusher: Rules changes -- American football and basketball make quite significant changes all the time, many of them aimed at maintaining or increasing scoring. Baseball is much more reluctant to do so, as far as I can tell. I would think that the fact that soccer is played so widely by so      Jul-01-14 Biographer Bistro    keypusher: <zanzibar> Thanks -- I am familiar with that Winter piece and the articles it discusses. But Kmoch made it sound as if Alekhine had a regular column in the Sturmer. I had never read that before.      Jun-30-14 NakoSonorense chessforum    keypusher: <Shams: The worst part? As a speaker of English I have zero room to complain about a foreign language having too much vocabulary. Or nonsensical idioms (fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing!)> My favorite bit of nonsense is "a" as a secret modifier. <He has few ...      Jun-27-14 Phony Benoni chessforum    keypusher: <WannaBe: First thing I do on my devices, is to turn OFF auto-correct.> I actually find it useful. Good to know I CAN turn it off, though.      Jun-27-14 Balashov vs Tal, 1973    keypusher: For Capablanca, there was also this event, pretty strong. New York (1918) Though Capablanca was not the only undefeated player there. This event looks weaker: Hastings (1919) With the same two undefeated players. But that makes Capablanca's performance in this event more ...      Jun-26-14 D Fleetwood vs I Mackintosh, 2006    keypusher: <Robed.Bishop: <Howlwolf> said it all, and <Jim Bartle> knew it.> Nah, just the standard blues purist I-loved-em-when-they-couldn't-sell-records schtick. Fleetwood Mac (the album) and Rumours were about as good as pop gets, before the band was enveloped in a ...      Jun-24-14 Botvinnik - Smyslov World Championship Match (1954)   keypusher: <offramp> <olavi> There were seven straight decisive games in Tal - Botvinnik World Championship Return Match (1961) .      Jun-06-14 Jeremy Lim    keypusher: <One used to see many heavyweight title fights on regular tv. Ali/Dunn, Ali Jimmy Johnson, Ron Lyle and George Forman, a few of Larry Holmes fights. I think the Forman/Lyle fight had five knockdowns, could have gone either way.> They're all on youtube now. If they stuck ...      Jun-06-14 keypusher chessforum   keypusher: <thegoodanarchist> OK, pay attention. It is not hypocritical to express an honestly held belief that a person or a group of people is stupid while at the same time saying that we should not use puns that (falsely) identify a chess player as stupid. There is no contradiction      Jun-06-14 Lasker vs L Pasternak, 1900    Jun-06-14 USSR - USA Radio Match (1945)     Jun-05-14 Carlsen vs Caruana, 2014     Jun-05-14 Norway Chess Tournament (2014)     Jun-05-14 Kenneth Rogoff     Jun-04-14 Viswanathan Anand     Jun-04-14 Gothenburg Interzonal (1955)    Jun-04-14 Bronstein vs A Fuderer, 1955    Jun-04-14 Robert James Fischer     Jun-03-14 Stockfish vs Critter, 2014     Jun-03-14 Wesley So     Jun-02-14 Ivkov vs M Cuellar Gacharna, 1967     Jun-02-14 Cambridge Springs (1904)     Jun-02-14 Lasker vs Capablanca, 1921     Jun-01-14 S Rosenthal vs Kolisch, 1864    May-30-14 Olland vs Schlechter, 1907    May-30-14 Lasker - Janowski (1909)     May-30-14 Sultan Khan vs Capablanca, 1930     May-30-14 F Young vs L Dore, 1892     May-28-14 Karpov vs Kasparov, 1984     May-28-14 D Neukirch vs M Kalmutzki, 2000     May-27-14 U Atakisi vs K Haznedaroglu, 2001     May-21-14 Lasker vs Capablanca, 1914     May-21-14 Janowski vs Chigorin, 1902    May-21-14 Janowski vs H Suechting, 1902    May-17-14 49th Capablanca Memorial (2014)     May-17-14 Schlechter vs J N Berger, 1907    May-16-14 G Mahia vs Quinteros, 1980     May-16-14 Spassky vs Fischer, 1972     May-14-14 J H Donner vs Tal, 1961     May-14-14 Alapin vs Rubinstein, 1908    May-14-14 Novotelnov vs D Rovner, 1946     May-14-14 US Championship (2014)     May-13-14 Magnus Carlsen     May-13-14 Scott Thomson    May-05-14 William Hartston     May-04-14 H H Cole vs Tartakower, 1949    May-02-14 Nakamura vs Carlsen, 2014     May-02-14 Berlin Grandmasters (1918)     May-01-14 Gashimov Memorial (2014)     Apr-30-14 Hikaru Nakamura     Apr-30-14 Carlsen vs Caruana, 2014     Apr-29-14 Radjabov vs Carlsen, 2014     Apr-28-14 Bird vs Lasker, 1890     Apr-28-14 Harry Nelson Pillsbury     Apr-28-14 J L Watson vs Kudrin, 1984     Apr-28-14 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2014     Apr-27-14 Karjakin vs Caruana, 2014     Apr-26-14 Mamedyarov vs Carlsen, 2014     Apr-25-14 Dimitri London    Apr-24-14 Carlsen vs Radjabov, 2014     Apr-23-14 Caruana vs Carlsen, 2014     Apr-22-14 Carlsen vs Nakamura, 2014     Apr-22-14 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2014     Apr-21-14 London (1899)    Apr-21-14 Gashimov Memorial (Group B) (2014)     Apr-21-14 Carlsen vs Mamedyarov, 2014     Apr-19-14 W Schwartz vs Kieseritzky, 1842    Apr-17-14 Paul Morphy     Apr-17-14 Vienna (1908)     Apr-17-14 Spielmann vs A Vajda, 1928     Apr-17-14 Montreal (1979)     Apr-16-14 Flohr vs Botvinnik, 1962     Apr-16-14 World Chess Championship Candidates (2014)     Apr-15-14 Berlin (1928)     Apr-15-14 Lasker vs Tarrasch, 1908     Apr-14-14 FIDE Women's Grand Prix Khanty - Mansiysk (2014)     Apr-11-14 Spike vs Chiron, 2014    Apr-11-14 T Gelashvili vs A Tzoumbas, 1999    Apr-10-14 Fischer vs Taimanov, 1971     Apr-09-14 FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948)     Apr-04-14 Nunn vs Kiril Georgiev, 1988     Apr-04-14 J Sherwin vs Gligoric, 1958    Apr-04-14 Karpov - Fischer World Championship Match (1975)     Apr-03-14 Keres vs Fischer, 1959     Apr-03-14 A Dod vs D Mills, 1903     Apr-03-14 Botvinnik vs Spielmann, 1935    Apr-01-14 S Landau vs T Kate, 1929    Apr-01-14 R Mateo vs E Kirk, 2008     Apr-01-14 Woodrow Wilson     Mar-30-14 Botvinnik vs Tal, 1961     Mar-29-14 Kramnik vs Topalov, 2014     Mar-28-14 Dr. Michaelsen vs Mrs. Michaelsen, 1884     Mar-26-14 Kramnik vs Svidler, 2014     Mar-25-14 D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956     Mar-24-14 Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1978     Mar-22-14 Aronian vs Anand, 2014     Mar-21-14 Kramnik vs Mamedyarov, 2014     Mar-20-14 Szen vs Horwitz, 1851    Mar-19-14 Mamedyarov vs Svidler, 2014     Mar-19-14 Anand vs Karjakin, 2014     Mar-18-14 Kramnik vs Aronian, 2014     Mar-18-14 Morphy vs Harrwitz, 1858     Mar-18-14 D Andreikin vs Anand, 2014     Mar-17-14 Szabo vs Reshevsky, 1953    Mar-17-14 Mamedyarov vs D Andreikin, 2014     Mar-17-14 Anand vs Kramnik, 2014     Mar-16-14 Topalov vs Aronian, 2014    Mar-15-14 Svidler vs Kramnik, 2014     Mar-13-14 Spassky vs Karpov, 1982     Mar-13-14 Anand vs Aronian, 2014     Mar-11-14 R van Kampen vs R Rapport, 2014     Mar-11-14 Tal vs Smyslov, 1959     Mar-10-14 A Shaw vs E Perelshteyn, 1996     Mar-10-14 Garry Kasparov     Mar-09-14 Carlsen vs I Abusdal, 2003    Mar-08-14 Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858     Mar-08-14 Boleslavsky vs Ufimtsev, 1944     Mar-08-14 Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851     Mar-08-14 E Williams vs Staunton, 1851    Mar-07-14 E Williams vs Wyvill, 1851    Mar-07-14 Wyvill vs E Williams, 1851    Mar-07-14 London (1851)     Mar-07-14 Spassky vs Banks, 1971     Mar-06-14 Vassily Ivanchuk     Mar-06-14 M Wei vs J Ikeda, 2013     Mar-05-14 Siegbert Tarrasch     Mar-05-14 Jose Raul Capablanca     Mar-03-14 Kasparov vs Shirov, 1994     Mar-02-14 Spassky vs Avtonomov, 1949     Mar-01-14 chessgames.com chessforum     Mar-01-14 Yates vs S Takacs, 1929    Feb-28-14 W S Davis vs Fedorowicz, 1980    Feb-28-14 Lasker vs Steinitz, 1896    Feb-27-14 Nigel Short     Feb-27-14 Petrosian vs Browne, 1978    Feb-27-14 Fischer - Spassky (1992)     Feb-26-14 Kieseritzky vs Anderssen, 1851    Feb-26-14 AylerKupp chessforum     Feb-26-14 Kieseritzky vs Anderssen, 1851     Feb-25-14 Kieseritzky vs Anderssen, 1851    Feb-25-14 Keres vs Botvinnik, 1948    Feb-25-14 Curacao Candidates (1962)     Feb-22-14 Benko vs Keres, 1962     Feb-21-14 Zurich Chess Challenge (2014)     Feb-20-14 David Bronstein     Feb-19-14 Fischer vs Petrosian, 1959     Feb-19-14 D Garcia Zarabozo vs I Andres Gonzalez, 2003     Feb-18-14 Bronstein Memorial (2014)     Feb-14-14 Tartakower vs Teichmann, 1922    Feb-13-14 Emanuel Lasker     Feb-13-14 E Williams vs J S Mucklow, 1851    Feb-13-14 MarkFinan chessforum     Feb-13-14 J S Mucklow vs E Williams, 1851    Feb-13-14 Blackburne vs Burn, 1888     Feb-13-14 Daniel Freeman     Feb-12-14 Korchnoi vs Seirawan, 1983     Feb-12-14 Albin Planinc     Feb-11-14 E Schultz vs Alekhine, 1914     Feb-11-14 Lasker vs Mieses, 1889     Feb-11-14 J M Bellon Lopez vs J Garcia Padron, 1981     Feb-07-14 Capablanca vs H Steiner, 1933    Feb-06-14 Capablanca vs B H Villegas, 1914     Feb-06-14 Caruana vs Carlsen, 2014     Feb-05-14 Wade vs T K Hemingway, 1953    Feb-05-14 Aronian vs Van Wely, 2014     Feb-05-14 R Rapport vs Wei Yi, 2014     Feb-04-14 Doll     Feb-04-14 Zurich Chess Challenge (Rapid) (2014)     Feb-03-14 Nakamura vs Gelfand, 2014     Feb-03-14 Nakamura vs Carlsen, 2014     Feb-03-14 Anand vs Carlsen, 2014     Feb-02-14 Carlsen vs Gelfand, 2014     Feb-02-14 Carlsen vs Caruana, 2014     Feb-01-14 Rubinstein vs Leonhardt, 1912    Jan-31-14 D Larino Nieto vs R Rapport, 2014     Jan-31-14 Carlsen vs Aronian, 2014     Jan-31-14 Anand vs Nakamura, 2014     Jan-30-14 Nakamura vs Carlsen, 2014     Jan-30-14 T Kobe     Jan-28-14 Morozevich vs Adams, 2001    Jan-27-14 Tata Steel (2014)     Jan-25-14 Morphy vs NN, 1858    Jan-25-14 Kateryna Dolzhykova    Jan-24-14 Kotov vs Smyslov, 1953     Jan-24-14 Lasker vs Capablanca, 1935     Jan-23-14 Naiditsch vs Harikrishna, 2014     Jan-22-14 Rubinstein vs Lasker, 1909     Jan-19-14 Karpov vs Timman, 2013     Jan-17-14 R Rapport vs L Dominguez, 2014     Jan-16-14 J Been     Jan-16-14 Jana Malypetrova Hartston Miles Bellin     Jan-16-14 Larsen vs Korchnoi, 1987    Jan-16-14 Efim Bogoljubov     Jan-13-14 Steinitz vs Von Bardeleben, 1895     Jan-12-14 Van Wely vs Karjakin, 2014    Jan-12-14 Caruana vs Gelfand, 2014     Jan-11-14 Vugar Gashimov     Jan-11-14 De Riviere vs Morphy, 1859     Jan-11-14 Steinitz - Blackburne (1876)     Jan-07-14 Karpov vs W Hartmann, 1983     Jan-06-14 James Swain Mucklow     Jan-03-14 B Becker vs Short, 2011     Jan-02-14 Janowski vs Capablanca, 1916    Dec-31-13 Lasker vs Steinitz, 1894    Dec-20-13 Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1913     Dec-19-13 Oleg Romanishin     Dec-19-13 Anderssen vs Kolisch, 1861    Dec-16-13 London (1922)    Dec-15-13 A Istratescu vs McShane, 2013    Dec-13-13 Anand vs Carlsen, 2013     Dec-13-13 Anand - Carlsen World Championship (2013)     Dec-12-13 Short vs Caruana, 2013     Dec-06-13 Vladimir Kramnik     Dec-03-13 Carlsen vs Anand, 2013     Nov-28-13 FIDE World Team Championship (2013)     Nov-28-13 Anand vs Aronian, 2013     Nov-27-13 Karlsbad (1911)     Nov-25-13 T Leviczky vs A Cseke, 2002     Nov-23-13 Anand vs Carlsen, 2013     Nov-22-13 Anand vs Carlsen, 2013     Nov-22-13 Carlsen vs Anand, 2013     Nov-18-13 Suttles vs Fischer, 1970     Nov-18-13 Anand vs Carlsen, 2013     Nov-15-13 Carlsen vs Anand, 2013     Nov-15-13 F Braga vs Karpov, 1982    Nov-15-13 Wendel     Nov-14-13 Bisguier vs Suttles, 1963     Nov-14-13 Anand vs Carlsen, 2013     Nov-13-13 Carlsen vs Anand, 2013     Nov-13-13 Rublevsky vs Z Varga, 2001     Nov-09-13 Carlsen vs Anand, 2013     Nov-06-13 Duras vs Vidmar, 1907     Nov-06-13 Capablanca vs R T Black, 1911     Nov-06-13 Karpov vs Spassky, 1974     Nov-04-13 Adolf Anderssen     Nov-04-13 Topalov vs Kramnik, 2006     Nov-04-13 Spassky vs Fischer, 1972     Nov-01-13 G A Thomas vs Rubinstein, 1925    Oct-30-13 Karpov vs M Muzychuk, 2013     Oct-30-13 Ivanchuk vs Karpov, 2013     Oct-28-13 Ponomariov vs Grischuk, 1994     Oct-28-13 Geller vs Fischer, 1970     Oct-26-13 Smyslov vs Bronstein, 1956     Oct-26-13 Efim Geller     Oct-26-13 Nezhmetdinov vs V Zagorovsky, 1963     Oct-25-13 Baden-Baden (1925)     Oct-24-13 Kosteniuk vs Yifan Hou, 2013     Oct-21-13 J Noa vs W Paulsen, 1885     Oct-15-13 J Curdo vs S Rabinowitz, 1996    Oct-14-13 Morphy vs NN, 1850     Oct-14-13 Ponomariov vs Caruana, 2013     Oct-14-13 Staunton vs Anderssen, 1851    Oct-12-13 William Lewis     Oct-11-13 Y Dembo vs T Gelashvili, 2004    Oct-11-13 Russian Superfinals (2013)     Oct-11-13 Carlsen vs Vallejo-Pons, 2012    Oct-11-13 Kramnik vs E Inarkiev, 2013     Oct-10-13 Elijah Williams     Oct-10-13 Salomon Flohr     Oct-10-13 Anthony Miles     Oct-09-13 Doda vs Sliwa, 1963     Oct-09-13 Lasker - Bird (1892)    Oct-08-13 Argue     Oct-08-13 Daria Charochkina    Oct-08-13 D Andreikin vs Kramnik, 2013     Oct-08-13 Richardson vs Euwe, 1939     Oct-05-13 FIDE Grand Prix Paris (2013)     Oct-05-13 Sangeeta Hosea     Oct-05-13 J N Sugden vs Keene, 1963     Oct-04-13 Botvinnik vs Reshevsky, 1948     Oct-03-13 Fressinet vs Bacrot, 2013     Oct-02-13 Reti vs Alekhine, 1925    Oct-02-13 Borin Topic     Sep-30-13 Ivanchuk vs Nakamura, 2013     Sep-29-13 Spassky vs Karpov, 1979    Sep-28-13 Gunsberg vs Burn, 1895     Sep-27-13 Short vs Alburt, 1985     Sep-25-13 S Williams vs The World, 2013     Sep-23-13 Ed. 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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 24 OF 24 ·  Later Kibitzing> Apr-07-14    keypusher: [Event "Team match"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/"] [Date "2014.03.31"] [Round "-"] [White "atadros"] [Black "keypusher"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2038"] [BlackElo "2005"] 1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. c4 Nb6 4. f4 c5 5. Nc3 d5 6. cxd5 Nxd5 7. Nf3 Nb4 8. a3 Nd3+ 9. Bxd3 Qxd3 10. Qe2 Bf5 11. b4 e6 12. Nb5 Qd7 13. d4 cxb4 14. O-O Be7 15. axb4 Nc6 16. d5 exd5 17. Nd6+ Bxd6 18. exd6+ Qe6 19. d7+ Kxd7 20. Qf2 a6 21. Qb6 Qd6 22. Qxb7+ Qc7 23. Ne5+ Nxe5 24. Qxd5+ Qd6 25. Qb7+ Qc7 26. Rd1+ Nd3 27. Qd5+ Ke7 28. Be3 Qd7 29. Bc5+ Kf6 30. Rxd3 Qxd5 31. Rxd5 Be6 32. Rd6 h5 33. Rdxa6 Rxa6 34. Rxa6 Rb8 35. Kf2 Kf5 36. Bd6 Rb5 37. Rc6 Bd5 38. Rc2 g6 39. Ke3 Be6 40. h3 Rd5 41. Bc5 Bd7 42. Rc1 Bb5 43. Bd4 Ke6 44. g4 hxg4 45. hxg4 Rd7 46. f5+ gxf5 47. gxf5+ Kd6 48. Rc5 Rb7 49. Bg7 Ke7 50. Kd4 Bd7 51. Kc4 Ba4 52. b5 Bc2 53. Bd4 Bd1 54. Kb4 Bf3 55. Rc3 Bg4 56. f6+ Kd7 57. Ka5 Be2 58. Bb6 Bf1 59. Re3 Bg2 60. Ka6 Kd6 61. Bd4 Bh1 62. Re8 Bg2 63. b6 Bh1 64. Be5+ Kd7 65. Re7+ Kc8 66. Bc7 Bd5 67. Kb5 Ba2 68. Kc6 1-0 Apr-08-14    keypusher: I think it's pretty clear by now that the best computers are vastly superior to the best humans - in this age that would be me. https://chess24.com/en/read/news/ma... Apr-12-14    keypusher: Copied from the Berlin 1928 page - a list of the players in order of finish with their age and chessmetrics rank. José Capablanca #2 39y11m Aron Nimzowitsch #3 41y11m Rudolf Spielmann #13 45y5m Saviely Tartakower #8 41y8m Akiba Rubinstein #7 46y0m Richard Réti #10 39y5m Frank Marshall #9 51y2m Siegbert Tarrasch #33 66y7m Striking how old the players are -- Reti and Capablanca are the only contestants (barely) under 40. The 1920s was pretty much a lost decade as far as new chess talent is concerned. Here's the current top 10 from 2700.com 1 Carlsen 23 (30.11.1990) 2 Aronian 31 (06.10.1982) 3 Grischuk 30 (31.10.1983) 4 Anand 44 (11.12.1969) 5 Kramnik 38 (25.06.1975) 6 Caruana 21 (30.07.1992) 7 Karjakin 24 (12.01.1990) 8 Topalov 39 (15.03.1975) 9 Nakamura 26 (09.12.1987) 10 Dominguez 30 (23.09.1983) Only Anand is over 40, and no one is over 45. Just to do this right, here's the Chessmetrics top 10 from October 1928. #1 Alexander Alekhine 36y0m #2 José Capablanca 39y11m #3 Aron Nimzowitsch 41y11m #4 Efim Bogoljubow 39y6m #5 Max Euwe 27y5m #6 Milan Vidmar Sr 43y4m #7 Akiba Rubinstein 46y0m #8 Saviely Tartakower 41y8m #9 Frank Marshall 51y2m #10 Richard Réti 39y5m Only Euwe is under 30. Apr-12-14    keypusher: kp-Magnus app click for larger view 1.h3?? Bxf3 2.Bxf3 Bd2!! Apr-13-14    OhioChessFan: Bd2. Ouch. I might have missed that too since I have an amazing capacity to miss long moves. Apr-13-14    keypusher: <OhioChessFan: Bd2. Ouch. I might have missed that too since I have an amazing capacity to miss long moves.> Botvinnik had the same failing, he said, so we are in good company. And ...Bd2 was so pretty I didn't much mind (as opposed to all the games I've lost to the app from hanging a piece, overlooking a back-rank mate, etc.). Apr-13-14    perfidious: <keypusher> Ouch indeed. In particular, Botvinnik noted that Euwe gave him particular difficulty early on with his 'long moves', and it was only when Euwe had lost a step that Botvinnik was able to even matters between them. Apr-13-14    OhioChessFan: The age issue from Berlin 28 is shocking. I had never really thought of the 20's as such a desert of young talent. Apr-14-14    keypusher: MA v. kp click for larger view I'll tell you what, losing from here bothers me a lot more than ...Bd2 did. Apr-23-14    keypusher: kp-MA 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.Be2 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Bb4 7.Nxc6 bxc6 8.Qd3 Bxc3+ 9.bxc3 0-0 10.Bg5 h6 11.h4 d5 12.e5 hxg5 13.hxg5 a5 14.Qf3 Ba6 15.gxf6 Bxe2 16.Qg3 g6 17.Qg5 Qxf6 18.exf6 Rab8 19.Qh6 Rb1+ 20.Rxb1 1-0 After 15.gxf6. click for larger view May-06-14    keypusher: kp-MA click for larger view 1....Nd4! 2.cxd4 Ke6 May-06-14    keypusher: kp-MA click for larger view 1.Qh4 h6 2.Bxh6 gxh6 3.Qxh6 Rad8 4.Rd3 Qd7 5.f5 Qxf5 6.exf5 Bf3 7.Rxf3 Nh7 8.Rg3+ Bg5+ 9.Rxg5+ 1-0 May-16-14    keypusher: MA-kp 1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 d5 4.exd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nb4 6.Bc4 Nd3+ 7.Ke2 Nf4+ 8.Kf1 Ne6 9.Ne5 Bd7 10.Qf3 f6 11.Qh5+ g6 12.Nxg6 Ng7 13.Nxh8 Nxh5 14.Bf7#. After 12....Ng7 click for larger view May-21-14    keypusher: MA-kp click for larger view 1.Rf3 f5 2.Ng5 Qd7 (2....Qe7) 3.Qxc7! 1-0 May-22-14    keypusher: After 19.Ne3?? click for larger view [Event "Team match"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/"] [Date "2014.05.21"] [Round "-"] [White "verdantgarden"] [Black "keypusher"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1968"] [BlackElo "2014"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e5 4. Nc3 d6 5. e4 Be7 6. g3 O-O 7. Bg2 Na6 8. Nge2 Ne8 9. O-O Bd7 10. f4 Bf6 11. Be3 Nac7 12. a3 b6 13. Qd2 g6 14. fxe5 Bxe5 15. Rf2 Nf6 16. Bg5 Nce8 17. Raf1 a6 18. Nd1 b5 19. Ne3 Nxe4 20. Bxe4 Qxg5 21. b3 Nf6 22. Qd3 Nxe4 23. Qxe4 Rae8 0-1 May-30-14    keypusher: Willie Keeler (1892-1910) 2932 hits 241 doubles 145 triples 33 HR 14.3% Ty Cobb (1905-1928) 4189 hits 724 doubles 295 triples 117 HR 24.7% Honus Wagner (1897-1917) 3420 hits 643 doubles 252 triples 101 HR 29.1% Sam Crawford (1899-1917) 2961 hits 458 doubles 309 triples 97 HR 29.2% Tris Speaker (1907-1928) 3514 hits 792 doubles 222 triples 117 HR 32.2% Babe Ruth (1914-1935) 2873 hits 506 doubles 136 triples 714 HR 47.2% May-30-14    Jim Bartle: When did Cobb lose two hits? May-30-14    keypusher: <Jim Bartle: When did Cobb lose two hits?> I'm not sure, but they're definitely gone. And that .367 I've been carrying around in my head all my life is now a .366. Damned revisionists. May-30-14    perfidious: How dare they? 'Course, if not for the stat hounds, Hack Wilson's RBI would be a merely insurmountable 190, rather than that Sisyphean 191. May-30-14    Jim Bartle: What if Pete Rose had suffered a career-ending injury when he had 4190 hits? May-30-14    thegoodanarchist: <thegoodanarchist: Waiting for <keypusher> to show up and defend <OCF> now that I have quoted <OCF> insulting Dems as "stupid". crickets.....> You can see it for yourself here: <OhioChessFan: <JB: They make it tougher for some people to vote, largely Democratic ones.> Well, yeah, most the really stupid people who can't follow instructions tend to be Democrats.> Scroll to the second-to-last post on this page: Kenneth Rogoff May-30-14    thegoodanarchist: of course you will delete that one, and this one, but you... will... still... know... it... HAPPENED!!! Jun-02-14    keypusher: <thegoodanarchist:> <thegoodanarchist: Waiting for <keypusher> to show up and defend <OCF> now that I have quoted <OCF> insulting Dems as "stupid".> The word you (still) don't know the meaning of is "hypocrisy." <Well, yeah, most the really stupid people who can't follow instructions tend to be Democrats.> OCF is correct about this, although you'd still be in the wrong even if he wasn't. Also, I thought the issue was that he called the Democratic Party the Democrat Party? There seems to be a disagreement between him and you on that point. But again, he would be fully entitled to object to the pun (which, I must admit, doesn't bother me at all) whether he did that or not. Jun-04-14    thegoodanarchist: <keypusher: ... OCF is correct about this, although you'd still be in the wrong even if he wasn't> Well, first of all, no, if you are talking about being factually correct, he wouldn't be. Anymore than he would be right to generalize about all Republicans or all independents tending to be stupider (read the research about red state vs. blue state intelligence). But that isn't the point! Are you deliberately avoiding the point? Or what's up? As to your accusation that I don't know the meaning of hypocrisy, I was using it as if it means this: <a pretense of having principles that one does not really possess. > Lo and behold, dictionary.com confirms the accuracy of this usage here: http://dictionary.reference.com/bro... maybe you should contact dictionary.com to explain how wrong they are. Jun-06-14    keypusher: <thegoodanarchist> OK, pay attention. It is not hypocritical to express an honestly held belief that a person or a group of people is stupid while at the same time saying that we should not use puns that (falsely) identify a chess player as stupid. There is no contradiction between those two positions. Hence, there is no hypocrisy. If OCF said we should never call anyone stupid, ever, you would have a point. But he didn't, and you don't. <Well, first of all, no, if you are talking about being factually correct, he wouldn't be. > Oh yes, he would be. It is a well-established fact in the United States that very dull people and very bright people tend to be Democrats, and people in the middle tend to be Republicans. You can verify this for yourself. Incidentally, the inability of lower-IQ Democrats to deal with the cognitive demands of Florida's so-called butterfly ballot probably cost Al Gore the presidency in 2000. <Anymore than he would be right to generalize about all Republicans or all independents tending to be stupider (read the research about red state vs. blue state intelligence).> There have been some popular hoaxes on this point, which I hope you didn't fall for. Frankly, you strike me as gullible. http://www.isteve.com/iqhoax.htm Nevertheless, it is a fact that, e.g., the mean IQ in Massachusetts is certainly higher than the mean IQ of Mississippi. But if you go to Mississippi and test people there, you will find that Democrats in the state will have a lower IQ than Republicans. I'll let you do the research on that point too. I am going away for two weeks, so this will be my last word for now. I don't promise to clear up any other misconceptions you may have when I come back. Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 24) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 24 OF 24 ·  Later Kibitzing>		Times Chess Twitter Feed

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