keypusher Member since Sep-23-04 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... 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... Tarrasch's <Dreihundert Schachpartien>, which covers his career from the beginning through his match with Chigorin in 1893 https://books.google.com/books?id=9... 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 Of course the Fried Liver is unsound. Everybody knows that, especially once they get home and fire up Fritzy and his Friends. Alas, before the post mortem the gods have placed the game. Phony Benoni (commenting on a Shirov game)

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Sep-28-16 Carlsen - Karjakin World Championship (2016)   keypusher: Re these arguments about the length of the match -- tournaments are definitely shorter than they used to be, but on the other hand there seem to be more of them. Does Carlsen play more, fewer, or the same number of games as his predecessors? Does anyone know? Rubinstein once said ...      Sep-27-16 Carlsen vs M Dimitriadis, 2016    keypusher: < Mudphudder: Well if you guys are going to bring up Kramnik overlooking that infamous mate-in-one game, then nothing can be criticized ever in light of this. So does this mean we can always just accept other people's blunders as "oh @#$% just happens"? If that were the case ...      Sep-27-16 M Dvoretsky vs Smyslov, 1974    keypusher: Nice tribute, cg.      Sep-27-16 Mark Izrailovich Dvoretsky    keypusher: A giant. As long as the game is played, he won't be forgotten.      Sep-27-16 Tal Memorial (2016)    keypusher: <Looks like bookstores are destined to go the way of Classic Record stores:> Yeah, I worry about whatever became of Rob Fleming. https://www.amazon.com/High-Fidelit... His life wasn't so great even before online music.      Sep-25-16 Carlsen vs Emil Hartveit, 2016    keypusher: More disrespect from the world champion. :-) Carlsen vs E Hossain, 2016      Sep-25-16 Fischer vs Reshevsky, 1958    keypusher: < beatgiant: <HeMateMe> <If you play chess for a living> If you work as an accountant for a living, as Reshevsky did, evidently not.> At least in the mid-50s Reshevsky was a full-time professional chessplayer. A number of wealthy chess fans had arranged for him ...      Sep-22-16 Kenneth Rogoff    keypusher: <al wazir> Have you been sniffing glue? Because that would be a far better use of your time than writing posts like the one you just put up. <Now if you're a paleo-conservative (i.e., a pre-Trumpian Republican) I know what your answer is going to be. That's socialism! ...      Sep-22-16 Jeremy Lim    keypusher: <unferth> <saffuna> Bartmann reached out pretty far: https://richsportstalk.com/2013/10/... But I defer to you on whether it was interference. It certainly wasn't why they lost, as you pointed out. His real problem was that the headphones and the closed eyes made him ...      Sep-21-16 Duras vs Spielmann, 1907   keypusher: <newzild> Makes Spielmann sound like a drunk. Maybe "red-faced"?      Sep-21-16 Tartakower vs E Steiner, 1921     Sep-18-16 Morphy vs Hart, 1854     Sep-17-16 Alexander Alekhine     Sep-17-16 M Vachier-Lagrave vs Nisipeanu, 2016    Sep-17-16 V Liberzon vs Smyslov, 1963     Sep-17-16 Nimzowitsch vs Janowski, 1907    Sep-16-16 Chess Olympiad (2016)     Sep-15-16 Suttles vs D Haines, 1973    Sep-14-16 Phony Benoni chessforum     Sep-13-16 Harikrishna vs Karjakin, 2016     Sep-13-16 Magnus Carlsen     Sep-13-16 Anand vs Carlsen, 2013    Sep-13-16 Eugenio Torre     Sep-13-16 Harikrishna vs Carlsen, 2016     Sep-12-16 Kibitzer's Café     Sep-12-16 Carlsen vs E Ghaem Maghami, 2016     Sep-12-16 E Keogh vs W Lewis, 1966     Sep-12-16 Carlsen vs J C Sadorra, 2016    Sep-11-16 Carlsen vs E Cordova, 2016     Sep-11-16 Caruana vs Carlsen, 2016     Sep-10-16 Carlsen vs E Hossain, 2016     Sep-10-16 Spassky vs Fischer, 1972     Sep-09-16 Nakamura vs B Adhiban, 2016    Sep-09-16 Fischer vs Taimanov, 1971    Sep-09-16 Carlsen vs NN, 2014    Sep-07-16 Fischer vs V Ciocaltea, 1962     Sep-02-16 Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858     Aug-31-16 Reuben Fine     Aug-31-16 David Navara     Aug-30-16 jessicafischerqueen chessforum     Aug-25-16 Pillsbury vs Chigorin, 1896     Aug-25-16 Botvinnik vs Goglidze, 1931     Aug-25-16 Szabo vs Botvinnik, 1966    Aug-20-16 Morphy vs A Morphy, 1850    Aug-18-16 Botvinnik vs Tal, 1961     Aug-14-16 Sinquefield Cup (2016)     Aug-13-16 Robert James Fischer     Aug-11-16 Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1978     Aug-11-16 W So vs Topalov, 2016     Aug-11-16 Charousek vs Alapin, 1897    Aug-11-16 A Tarnowski vs Botvinnik, 1960    Aug-10-16 Tal vs R Forbis, 1988    Aug-09-16 Nimzowitsch vs Systemsson, 1927    Aug-08-16 Amsterdam Interzonal (1964)     Aug-08-16 A Giri vs Ding Liren, 2016    Aug-07-16 W So vs Nakamura, 2016     Aug-07-16 M Vachier-Lagrave vs Anand, 2016     Aug-06-16 Samuel Reshevsky     Aug-04-16 G W Moses vs Rubinstein, 1924     Aug-02-16 Carlsen vs W So, 2016     Jul-29-16 Svidler vs M Vachier-Lagrave, 2016     Jul-29-16 Caruana vs D Bocharov, 2012    Jul-28-16 Stockholm Interzonal (1962)     Jul-28-16 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave     Jul-28-16 Wei Yi     Jul-27-16 Carlsen vs A Giri, 2016     Jul-25-16 Bilbao (2016)     Jul-24-16 Morphy vs F Perrin, 1857    Jul-23-16 Wesley So     Jul-23-16 W So vs Carlsen, 2016     Jul-22-16 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016     Jul-21-16 Robert E Byrne vs Fischer, 1963     Jul-20-16 Carlsen vs Wei Yi, 2016     Jul-20-16 Edmund Beronio     Jul-20-16 Wei Yi vs A Giri, 2016     Jul-20-16 W So vs Karjakin, 2016     Jul-20-16 Klaus Junge    Jul-18-16 A Giri vs Carlsen, 2016     Jul-18-16 Chigorin vs B Fleissig, 1882    Jul-17-16 Karjakin vs Nakamura, 2016     Jul-17-16 Wei Yi vs Carlsen, 2016    Jul-17-16 Dortmund (2016)     Jul-14-16 Hikaru Nakamura     Jul-09-16 Petrosian vs Spassky, 1971     Jul-01-16 Maroczy vs Schlechter, 1898     Jul-01-16 Lasker vs Steinitz, 1896    Jun-29-16 Botvinnik vs Balashov, 1966     Jun-27-16 YourNextMove Rapid (2016)     Jun-27-16 keypusher chessforum     Jun-26-16 Wilhelm Steinitz     Jun-26-16 Carlsen - Anand World Championship (2014)     Jun-24-16 Garry Kasparov     Jun-24-16 Menchik vs W Winter, 1932     Jun-24-16 Keres vs Botvinnik, 1941    Jun-20-16 Larsen vs Deep Blue, 1993     Jun-14-16 Carlsen vs Nakamura, 2016     Jun-14-16 Fressinet vs Carlsen, 2016    Jun-13-16 Fischer vs Spassky, 1972     Jun-13-16 Biographer Bistro     Jun-12-16 Navara vs R Rapport, 2016     Jun-12-16 USSR Championship (1965)     Jun-12-16 Grand Chess Tour Paris Blitz (2016)     Jun-11-16 Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid (2016)     Jun-09-16 Carlsen vs W So, 2016     Jun-08-16 Anderssen vs Staunton, 1851     Jun-07-16 Viktor Korchnoi     Jun-06-16 Yifan Hou vs R Mamedov, 2016    Jun-04-16 Gashimov Memorial (2016)     Jun-03-16 New York (1924)     Jun-02-16 Tea Bosboom-Lanchava     Jun-02-16 Lasker vs Tarrasch, 1923     May-31-16 Arturo Pomar Salamanca     May-30-16 Alan Turing     May-21-16 Botvinnik vs Bisguier, 1962     May-21-16 Botvinnik vs F J Perez Perez, 1961    May-21-16 Lilienthal vs Botvinnik, 1944    May-18-16 Ultimate Blitz Challenge (2016)     May-17-16 Alan Shaw     May-16-16 Boleslavsky vs Lisitsin, 1956     May-15-16 USSR Championship (1959)     May-13-16 Deep Blue vs Kasparov, 1997    May-13-16 Botvinnik vs A Buslaev, 1963    May-12-16 K Skold vs Botvinnik, 1962    May-10-16 Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966     May-08-16 Janowski vs Burn, 1898     May-08-16 Capablanca vs J Birch, 1919    May-08-16 Chigorin vs Tinsley, 1899    May-08-16 J Mason vs Tinsley, 1899    May-07-16 Tal vs Adianto, 1986     May-07-16 Blackburne vs Pillsbury, 1899    May-06-16 Tinsley vs Pillsbury, 1899     May-05-16 Lasker vs Steinitz, 1894    May-05-16 Sverdlovsk (1943)     May-04-16 Pillsbury vs Tarrasch, 1895     May-02-16 Tal vs Larsen, 1965     May-02-16 Tartakower vs W Winter, 1932     May-01-16 Fischer vs Reshevsky, 1961     May-01-16 Norway Chess (2016)     Apr-30-16 Aronian vs Carlsen, 2016     Apr-29-16 Carlsen vs Eljanov, 2016     Apr-29-16 D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956     Apr-28-16 Kramnik vs Harikrishna, 2016    Apr-28-16 Carlsen vs Kramnik, 2016     Apr-27-16 Morphy vs Maurian, 1863     Apr-27-16 R A James vs G Wall, 2006     Apr-25-16 A Giri vs Harikrishna, 2016     Apr-25-16 M Vachier-Lagrave vs Carlsen, 2016     Apr-25-16 J M Bellon Lopez vs E Berg, 2006     Apr-24-16 Carlsen vs A Giri, 2016     Apr-22-16 W So vs Akobian, 2016     Apr-22-16 Li Chao vs Carlsen, 2016     Apr-21-16 US Chess Championships (2016)     Apr-21-16 Carlsen vs Aronian, 2015    Apr-21-16 William Ewart Napier    Apr-20-16 Carlsen vs Eljanov, 2016     Apr-19-16 Topalov vs Carlsen, 2016     Apr-19-16 Carlsen vs Harikrishna, 2016     Apr-19-16 Morphy vs Loewenthal, 1858    Apr-18-16 A Chandra vs W So, 2016     Apr-16-16 I Rabinovich vs Botvinnik, 1927     Apr-15-16 C Jaffe vs Capablanca, 1911    Apr-15-16 C Jaffe vs Capablanca, 1910    Apr-15-16 Nakamura vs Lenderman, 2016     Apr-14-16 Bronstein vs M20, 1963     Apr-13-16 Botvinnik vs Keres, 1966     Apr-11-16 Paulsen vs Tarrasch, 1888     Apr-11-16 Sergey Karjakin     Apr-10-16 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2013    Apr-07-16 Kasparov - Short World Championship Match (1993)     Apr-05-16 World Championship Candidates (2016)     Apr-05-16 Moscow (1971)     Apr-04-16 Alekhine vs Sultan Khan, 1931     Apr-04-16 Petrosian vs Korchnoi, 1971    Apr-04-16 Karpov vs Bronstein, 1971     Apr-04-16 Stein vs Petrosian, 1971    Apr-03-16 Petrosian vs G Uusi, 1958     Apr-02-16 Tal vs Botvinnik, 1960     Apr-02-16 Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2012    Apr-02-16 Karjakin vs Caruana, 2016     Apr-01-16 P Ware vs J Grundy, 1880    Apr-01-16 Mandolfo vs Kolisch, 1859     Mar-30-16 N Gaprindashvili vs J Kristinsson, 1964     Mar-30-16 Botvinnik vs N Grigoriev, 1927     Mar-29-16 Nakamura vs Anand, 2016     Mar-27-16 Caruana vs Svidler, 2016     Mar-26-16 Spassky vs Botvinnik, 1970    Mar-26-16 Karjakin vs Topalov, 2016     Mar-25-16 Caruana vs Aronian, 2016     Mar-25-16 Botvinnik vs Ake Olsson, 1962    Mar-24-16 Anand vs Karjakin, 2016     Mar-23-16 Aronian vs Nakamura, 2016     Mar-23-16 Aronian vs Topalov, 2016     Mar-23-16 Caruana vs Anand, 2016     Mar-22-16 USSR Championship (1973)     Mar-21-16 A Giri vs Caruana, 2016     Mar-20-16 Aronian vs A Giri, 2016     Mar-14-16 Kholmov vs Petrosian, 1949    Mar-13-16 Karjakin vs Nakamura, 2016     Mar-13-16 A Giri vs Karjakin, 2016     Mar-12-16 Fischer - Spassky (1992)     Mar-12-16 Nimzowitsch vs Alekhine, 1910     Mar-12-16 Aronian vs Anand, 2016     Mar-11-16 Women's World Chess Championship (2016)     Mar-10-16 Rohde vs Seirawan, 1988     Mar-09-16 Yifan Hou vs Jobava, 2015     Mar-06-16 Karpov vs Kasparov, 1990     Mar-05-16 G Jones vs J O'Connor, 2016    Mar-04-16 Euwe vs Keres, 1940     Mar-04-16 Curt von Bardeleben     Mar-02-16 M Muzychuk vs Yifan Hou, 2016     Feb-27-16 Chigorin vs Lasker, 1896    Feb-26-16 Rossolimo vs Fischer, 1966    Feb-25-16 Howard Staunton     Feb-23-16 Karpov - Korchnoi World Championship Match (1978)     Feb-23-16 Spassky vs Fischer, 1972     Feb-21-16 Kasparov vs R Rodriguez, 1982    Feb-21-16 Levenfish vs Botvinnik, 1937    Feb-21-16 Carlsen vs S Sollid, 2001     Feb-19-16 Lenderman vs Gulko, 2007     Feb-18-16 Botvinnik vs Reshevsky, 1948    Feb-16-16 Akiba Rubinstein     Feb-14-16 A Giri vs Anand, 2016     Feb-14-16 Zurich Chess Challenge (2016)     Feb-10-16 Botvinnik - Levenfish (1937)     Feb-08-16 Tata Steel (2016)     Feb-07-16 M Porges vs Lasker, 1896    Feb-04-16 Yu Yangyi vs G Jones, 2016     Jan-31-16 Tradewise Gibraltar (2016)     Jan-31-16 Tomashevsky vs Caruana, 2016     Jan-31-16 Carlsen vs Ding Liren, 2016     Jan-30-16 Caruana vs Van Wely, 2016     Jan-30-16 W So vs Carlsen, 2016     Jan-30-16 Carlsen vs Yifan Hou, 2016     Jan-28-16 Nigel Short     Jan-28-16 Wei Yi vs Navara, 2016     Jan-27-16 Fred Reinfeld     Jan-27-16 Caruana vs Wei Yi, 2016     Jan-27-16 A Giri vs Carlsen, 2016     Jan-27-16 Carlsen vs Adams, 2016     Jan-24-16 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016     Jan-23-16 Jon Rigai vs A Williams, 2014     Jan-23-16 Mamedyarov vs Yifan Hou, 2016    Jan-23-16 Eljanov vs Carlsen, 2016     Jan-23-16 Lasker vs Schlechter, 1910     Jan-22-16 F Bohatirchuk vs Botvinnik, 1933    Jan-22-16 Carlsen vs Tomashevsky, 2016     Jan-22-16 W So vs Caruana, 2016     Jan-21-16 Caruana vs Yifan Hou, 2016     Jan-20-16 Botvinnik vs Chekhover, 1934     Jan-20-16 Caruana vs Ponomariov, 2014     Jan-19-16 M Antipov vs Dreev, 2016     Jan-19-16 A Giri vs Caruana, 2016     Jan-18-16 Tata Steel (Group B) (2016)     Jan-18-16 Wei Yi vs Carlsen, 2016     Jan-17-16 Spassky vs Larry Evans, 1962     Jan-17-16 Carlsen vs Caruana, 2016     Jan-16-16 Navara vs Carlsen, 2016     Jan-15-16 Carlsen vs Anand, 2007     Jan-14-16 T Koop vs N Goodhue, 2016     Jan-13-16 Paul Keres     Jan-09-16 Steinitz vs Lasker, 1894    Jan-09-16 Qatar Masters (2015)     Jan-06-16 Steinitz vs Lasker, 1894     Jan-01-16 Smyslov vs Botvinnik, 1941    Jan-01-16 Harikrishna vs Nakamura, 2014     Jan-01-16 Lasker vs Steinitz, 1894    Dec-30-15 Carlsen vs Yu Yangyi, 2015     Dec-29-15 Carlsen vs A Giri, 2015     Dec-26-15 Wei Yi vs S Bromberger, 2015     Dec-26-15 Burn vs Pillsbury, 1900    Dec-24-15 Carlsen vs Li Chao, 2015     Dec-24-15 K Spraggett vs G Basanta, 1992     Dec-23-15 Wei Yi vs N R Vignesh, 2015     Dec-23-15 C Aravindh vs Carlsen, 2015     Dec-22-15 Carlsen vs D Yuffa, 2015     Dec-22-15 Tartakower vs Burn, 1911     Dec-22-15 Dubois vs Wyvill, 1859    Dec-20-15 A Giri vs S L Narayanan, 2015     Dec-20-15 Yifan Hou     Dec-18-15 London Chess Classic (2015)     Dec-18-15 Mikhail Botvinnik     Dec-18-15 Chigorin vs Lasker, 1895     Dec-15-15 Petrosian - Spassky World Championship Rematch (1969)     Dec-15-15 Carlsen vs Grischuk, 2015     Dec-14-15 A Giri vs Nakamura, 2015     Dec-14-15 William James Lombardy     Dec-13-15 Anand vs A Giri, 2015     Dec-12-15 M Vachier-Lagrave vs Adams, 2015     Dec-11-15 Carlsen vs Nakamura, 2015     Dec-10-15 A Giri vs Carlsen, 2015     Dec-10-15 Lasker vs Steinitz, 1894     Dec-08-15 Lasker - Steinitz World Championship (1894)    Dec-08-15 Lasker vs Steinitz, 1894     Dec-08-15 Caruana vs Grischuk, 2015     Dec-08-15 Aronian vs Carlsen, 2015     Dec-08-15 M Vachier-Lagrave vs A Giri, 2015     Dec-06-15 Anand vs Carlsen, 2015     Dec-04-15 Topalov vs A Giri, 2015     Dec-04-15 M Vachier-Lagrave vs Carlsen, 2015     Dec-01-15 Bilbao Masters (2015)     Dec-01-15 Chigorin vs Tarrasch, 1893    Dec-01-15 European Team Championship (2015)     Nov-30-15 Steinitz vs Lasker, 1894    Nov-25-15 Lasker vs J Mieses, 1890    Nov-24-15 Lasker vs Blackburne, 1892     Nov-24-15 Carlsen vs R Wojtaszek, 2015     Nov-22-15 New York (1927)    Nov-21-15 Lasker vs Blackburne, 1892     Nov-20-15 A Giri vs Beliavsky, 2015     Nov-20-15 James Kulbacki     Nov-19-15 Leko vs Carlsen, 2015     Nov-19-15 Tony Palmer     Nov-16-15 Marcel Duchamp     Nov-14-15 chessgames.com chessforum     Nov-14-15 Karpov vs Spassky, 1973     Nov-12-15 Capablanca vs Henry J Kapp, 1928     Nov-12-15 Kevin Spraggett     Nov-11-15 Browne vs D Byrne, 1973     Nov-11-15 Quinteros vs Fischer, 1970    Nov-09-15 Kasparov - Kramnik World Championship Match (2000)     Nov-08-15 Aron Nimzowitsch     Nov-08-15 David Moody     Nov-06-15 Q Seijp V/d vs T Kett, 2014    Nov-06-15 Spassky vs J H Donner, 1973    Nov-06-15 Robert Huebner     Nov-06-15 Lasker vs Steinitz, 1894    Nov-04-15 Richard Reti     Nov-03-15 Tartakower vs S Rosselli del Turco, 1926    Nov-02-15 D Barua vs Korchnoi, 1982     Nov-01-15 Lasker vs Steinitz, 1894    Oct-30-15 A Giri vs Anand, 2015     Oct-29-15 Kasparov vs Karpov, 1990     Oct-27-15 François André Philidor     Oct-23-15 European Club Cup (2015)     Oct-23-15 Botvinnik / Polugaevsky vs Keres / Prins, 1966    Oct-22-15 St Petersburg (1914)     Oct-21-15 Pelletier vs Nakamura, 2015     Oct-21-15 Piket vs R Douven, 1988     Oct-20-15 Karpov - Fischer World Championship Match (1975)     Oct-18-15 Shredder vs Gull, 2013     Oct-17-15 Botvinnik vs Tal, 1961    Oct-16-15 World Blitz Championship (2015)     Oct-15-15 Spielmann vs J Perlis, 1905    Oct-15-15 Millionaire Chess (2015)     Oct-14-15 D Andreikin vs Carlsen, 2015     Oct-12-15 P F Johner vs Nimzowitsch, 1926     Oct-10-15 Lasker vs Teichmann, 1895     Oct-08-15 Spassky vs Yusupov, 1990     Oct-07-15 Fischer vs Spassky, 1992     Oct-07-15 Lasker / Chigorin / Marshall / Tei vs Janowski / Marco / Schlechter / La, 1904     Oct-05-15 World Cup (2015)     Oct-03-15 Fischer vs Spassky, 1972     Oct-02-15 Breyer vs Tarrasch, 1920    Oct-02-15 Emil Joseph Diemer     Oct-02-15 Lasker vs Tinsley, 1895    Oct-02-15 Bird vs Pillsbury, 1899    Oct-02-15 Karjakin vs Svidler, 2015     Sep-30-15 Botvinnik vs H Ree, 1969    Sep-30-15 Botvinnik vs T van Scheltinga, 1966    Sep-29-15 Botvinnik vs T van Scheltinga, 1963    Sep-28-15 Flohr vs Botvinnik, 1965     Sep-27-15 A Giri vs Leko, 2015    Sep-25-15 Wei Yi vs Svidler, 2015     Sep-25-15 W Napier vs Chigorin, 1902     Sep-24-15 Ivanchuk vs V Pechenkin, 2014     Sep-22-15 Botvinnik vs M Czerniak, 1966    Sep-19-15 Botvinnik vs C B van den Berg, 1965    Sep-18-15 Gruenfeld vs Tartakower, 1922    Sep-16-15 Topalov vs S Zhigalko, 2015     Sep-15-15 USSR Championship (1945)    Sep-13-15 Hans-Joachim Federer     Sep-11-15 Saidy vs Fischer, 1965    Sep-10-15 Ragozin vs Bronstein, 1945     Sep-08-15 Capablanca vs Lasker, 1921     Sep-08-15 Gosta Stoltz     Sep-06-15 Milner-Barry vs Botvinnik, 1935    Sep-04-15 Carlsen vs A Rodriguez Vila, 2014     Sep-04-15 J Dueball vs G Jacoby, 1976     Sep-03-15 W So vs Nakamura, 2015     Sep-02-15 Carlsen vs Nakamura, 2015     Sep-01-15 AVRO (1938)     Aug-31-15 Sinquefield Cup (2015)     Aug-31-15 Grischuk vs M Vachier-Lagrave, 2015     Aug-31-15 Aronian vs Anand, 2015     Aug-30-15 Carlsen vs W So, 2015     Aug-29-15 Caruana vs Carlsen, 2015    Aug-28-15 Short vs Piket, 2001     Aug-28-15 Anthony Santasiere     Aug-27-15 Topalov vs Caruana, 2015     Aug-27-15 Carlsen vs Ivanchuk, 2011     Aug-27-15 Keres vs Botvinnik, 1948    Aug-27-15 Korchnoi vs Nunn, 1981     Aug-26-15 W So vs Aronian, 2015     Aug-25-15 Anand vs Topalov, 2015     Aug-24-15 Phillips & Drew Kings (1982)     Aug-23-15 Carlsen vs Topalov, 2015     Aug-23-15 Blackburne vs Rubinstein, 1914    Aug-19-15 Botvinnik vs Alekhine, 1938     Aug-19-15 Botvinnik vs Chekhover, 1938    Aug-18-15 Reshevsky vs Euwe, 1953

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 27 OF 27 ·  Later Kibitzing> Apr-17-15    OhioChessFan: ** Last Call ** ** Gashimov Memorial Moves Prediction Contest ** Conducted by the Legendary <chessmoron> and hosted at Graceland, home of Elvis. Click on Elvis for details Apr-25-15    FSR: <keypusher> Did you have Hill and Reese for Torts? I see that Hill is apparently still with us. http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Alf... He must be about 100 by now. Apr-28-15    keypusher: <FSR> No, Richard Epstein, who apparently is still just 72. Torts was pretty much a fog after I de S v. whoever the hell it was from 13-whatever. May-29-15    keypusher: <gokusano: So Naka had shown maturity with his style now? The style is to draw with the top guns and pounce on the lower rated. Is this the same tactics being employed by Magnus?> <torrefan: It's not really a style. It's just what happens. For the weaker is easier to beat than the stronger.> I got curious about this, so I looked at Carlsen's 2015 events: Tata, GRENKE and Gashimov. For Tata I consulted the FIDE rating list; for the other two I took the ratings from the tournament website. At Tata he beat Van Wely (2667), Aronian (2797), Caruana (2820), Hou (2673), Jobava (2727), and Radjabov (2734). Average rating: 2736. He lost to Wojtaszek (2744). He drew with Giri (2784), So (2762), Ivanchuk (2715), MVL (2757), Ding (2732), and Saric (2666). Average rating: 2736. GRENKE He beat Adams (2738), Baramidze (2594), and Anand (2797). Average rating: 2710. He lost to Naiditsch (2694). He drew with Aronian (2797), Caruana (2820), and Bacrot (2711). Average rating: 2776. Gashimov He beat Mamedyarov (2754), Caruana (2802), MVL (2762), Kramnik (2783), and Mamadov (2651). Average rating: 2750. He drew with Anand (2791), Adams (2746), Giri (2790), and So (2780). Average rating: 2777. Combining the three events, the people he beat had an average rating of 2736, the people he lost to averaged 2719, and the people he drew with had an average rating of 2757. Too small a sample to be meaningful, but it's interesting that he scored +2-0=1 against opponents rated over 2800 (in reality, just Caruana) and +4-1=1 against opponents rated under 2700. If we expand to opponents rated over 2790, his score is +4-0=2. So, for 2015 at least, the answer to gokusano's question is no. But torrefan's point is obviously correct. Jun-01-15    hv.U.grwnup: <keypusher> , nice post at <rogoff> forum about india population. your contribution at rogoff forum looks very productive from where i see. thanks. Jun-05-15    Alex Schindler: You had epstein for torts! Hah, he cowrote my casebook with my professor! Small world.... Jun-05-15    keypusher: <Alex Schindler: You had epstein for torts! Hah, he cowrote my casebook with my professor! Small world....> No, sorry, my torts teacher used Epstein's casebook. Aug-17-15    offramp: It's weird how people don't get jokes. YOU DO. But I posted a little harmless and pointless joke about an asteroid on the Smyslov page and one kibitzer took pains to refute it. Thankfully you commented TO THE EFFECT THAT he shouldn't have taken my post so seriously... A Mad World My Masters....! Dec-25-15    chancho: http://scottsspot.net/wp-content/up... Dec-25-15    wordfunph: <keypusher> Merry Christmas! Mar-31-16    keypusher: [room in five star hotel] [Sapiko plays tetris on her phone, whilst scrolling through list of expensive handbags on her tablet; [enters Giri] Giri: The moon's in half! The clock's on half past twelve! That semidarkness tieing half of shelve! No gloom of winner neither looser's doom! Sapiko: I didn't notice you were in the room. How was... Lipo.. Liponares? Any good?" Giri: I fought as hard as every chessman should. I won all seven, proving I am mighter; I lost just seven. People call me "fighter" Chorus: Oh no, they don't. Giri: Oh yes, they do. Chorus: They not. Giri: They do. Chorus: They not. They not. Giri (visibly shaken): Who's there again? Again this "not" and "not". Show face, you coward. I will have you shot. (grabs colt hanging on the wall) So many days of perpetual spite! So many days you split in half "the" site! (putting colt to his head) Awww, all these voices ringing in my head: you not! you not! I wish that I was dead." [enters Leko carryin big treasure draw, dressed like a pirate] Leko: Arrr, hold yer horses, do not dare to bolt, once draws went "chessgames". Drop that bloody colt! ye sail to stalemate, to be tied ye raw; that's life of chess-wolves: beauties, rum, and draw! Giri: "But all these voices ringing in my head: you not! you not! I wish that I was dead." Leko: Oh, shut yer trap! By dieing in yer prime, lest ye to hear, ye lose; ye lose on time. Just hold my coffer. I'll teach ye "Leko's game" to make both life and death not one, but same" (Leko takes all the bullets out of colt, spins, put colt to his own head, and pulls the trigger) Now ye. Now me. Now ye. Now me. That's how ye misdoubt not, "not not" you not allow. (as bored Sapiko looks at them, Leko and Giri take spins and "fire shots" with no bullets; the curtain slowly falls) last scene from play "A draw in Moscow" by NN Apr-05-16    Castleinthesky: <Keypusher> On fixing matches in the 1960s by Soviet Players. I don't believe it is "imaginary" as you stated. In Mikhail Tal's autobiography, he admits to purposely drawing matches with Petrosian so that Soviet players would be fresher for their games with Fischer. Fischer himself complained about the very short games of the Soviets, a complaint that was not denied. Apr-11-16    keypusher: <Castleinthesky: <Keypusher> On fixing matches in the 1960s by Soviet Players. I don't believe it is "imaginary" as you stated. In Mikhail Tal's autobiography, he admits to purposely drawing matches with Petrosian so that Soviet players would be fresher for their games with Fischer. Fischer himself complained about the very short games of the Soviets, a complaint that was not denied.> I have Tal's autobiography. It doesn't say that. The Soviets made short draws among themselves in just about every Western tournament (and many Soviet tournaments) they played in the 1960s and 1970s, whether Fischer was present or not. Apr-13-16    keypusher: [Event "Challenge from keypusher"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/"] [Date "2016.04.13"] [Round "-"] [White "keypusher"] [Black "greenwich"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2013"] [BlackElo "1534"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. cxd5 exd5 7. Bd3 Nbd7 8. Nge2 h6 9. Bh4 g5 10. Bg3 c6 11. Qc2 Nh5 12. O-O-O a5 13. f3 Qb6 14. Bf2 Nhf6 15. e4 dxe4 16. fxe4 Ng4 17. Bg1 Ngf6 18. Kb1 c5 19. e5 cxd4 20. exf6 Bxf6 21. Nxd4 Bg7 22. Nf5 Qd8 23. h4 f6 24. Bc4+ Kh8 25. hxg5 fxg5 26. Nxh6 Qf6 27. Nf7+ Kg8 28. Qh7# 1-0 May-15-16    Shams: Are you still playing the Vulture? May-16-16    twinlark: <keypusher> You might be interested in this: http://www.unz.com/article/the-iq-g... May-17-16    keypusher: <Shams> I'm really not playing at all. I've got one online game going with an old friend. When I did play in recent years I mostly had gone back to the Czech Benoni after a few too many curb stompings with the Vulture. Why do you ask? <twinlark> Thanks! May-17-16    Shams: Well I see it so rarely that I can never remember my analysis. As much blitz as I play I still see it only a couple times a year so I end up playing into Black's hands. But John Watson recommends the very simple and seemingly compliant line <4.Qc2 Qa5+ 5.Nc3 Nxc3 6.Bd2 e5 7.Bxc3 Qc7 8.f4 d6 9.Nf3> and now both of Black natural replies, 9.Nd7 and 9...exf4 (the latter given by Vulture guru Stefan Bücker) are met by 10.e3 with promising play for White even if he is gambiting a pawn. I was wondering if you had an opinion on this variation, or any experience in it. May-18-16    keypusher: <shams> Yes, I hated that line. It's one of the reasons I stopped playing the Vulture. It's so hard to deal with that bishop on c3. http://gameknot.com/analyze-board.p... I didn't play well in that game by any means, but I never felt anywhere close to equal. Here's a game by the man himself. http://gameknot.com/analyze-board.p... May-18-16    Shams: Ok, I'm calling that a seal of approval. If you ever want to share a line that gave you trouble against the Czech Benoni, I'm all ears. I find that a tougher nut to crack than I feel it should be. Thanks. May-18-16    Shams: For your troubles. http://www.newcriterion.com/article... <The gist of an old joke—it has a dozen local iterations—is that the Loeb Classical Library translations are so baffling that you have to consult the original Greek or Latin on the left-hand page to decipher the English translation on the right. Funny or not, the wisecrack catches the condescension long directed at the Loebs, that venerable series of Greek and Latin classics in uniform volumes with facing English translations. Professors of classics in particular used to frown upon them. Until recently, merely to be seen on campus with a Loeb was to court scandal. There were gradations of disgrace. Those Loeb editions of Boethius, Bede, and Augustine I saw on the shelves of the professor who taught me Anglo-Saxon: those were permissible for an English scholar. But I, as a classics major, was to eschew the very same volumes. Even as an undergraduate, though I prized my Loeb edition of The Republic, edited and imaginatively annotated by Paul Shorey, I knew better than bring it to my seminar on Plato. That same tact—that same hypocrisy—accounts for the care I took, as a graduate student, to avoid detection as I sifted the used bookshops of Cambridge for second-hand Loebs. For many of us, the pleasure we took in the Loebs was tinged with guilt. But attitudes are changing. Once treated as evidence of the decline of Western civilization, the Loeb Classical Library is now, in its centennial year, more often regarded as, if not quite a pillar of our culture, at least one of its more enduring and useful props. The centenary invites consideration of how the Loebs have both reflected and, increasingly, shaped our literary culture.> Jun-14-16    keypusher: keypusher: Thanks, Shams. When I got the Iliad and Odyssey I bought the Oxford editions, because I didn't want the English on the facing page (and I liked the pale blue dust jackets). Overambitious, and they've completely fallen apart too. Maybe I'll get the Loebs. Jun-26-16    Chessical: <Keypusher> I would like to have the Chigorin - Gunsberg Match (1890) included in the Tournament Index. I note, however, that you have already assembled the games so you have precedence. Is this currently an on-going project for you? If it is not may I write it up for submission? If you wish, it could be a joint enterprise. Regards, Chessical. Jun-27-16    keypusher: Hi, Chessical. Please feel free to write it up -- it's a noteworthy match and deserves a page. Aug-14-16    Chessical: I have submitted Game Collection: Chigorin-Gunsberg Match, as a first draft to the Biographers' Bistro consideration and comments. Thank you for agreeing to allow me to clone your collection. 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