User Profile: keypusher

keypusher
Member since Sep-23-04 · Last seen Mar-08-14

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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Nov-16-13		Shams: ICYMI: https://twitter.com/SlateVault/stat...

Nov-21-13		keypusher: <Shams> Thanks. Decades ago I saw pictures of that set in one of the first chess books I ever read, Lessing and Saidy's The World of Chess. Nice to have a picture I can keep!

Dec-12-13		jessicafischerqueen: Merry Christmas <Scott>!

Dec-22-13		keypusher: [Event "Team match"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/"] [Date "2013.12.22"] [Round "-"] [White "keypusher"] [Black "leormebanco"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2015"] [BlackElo "2165"] 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Bd3 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. c3 O-O 6. O-O Bg4 7. Nbd2 Nbd7 8. h3 Bxf3 9. Nxf3 e5 10. Bg5 h6 11. Be3 Re8 12. d5 Nc5 13. Bxc5 dxc5 14. Nd2 a6 15. a4 Qd7 16. Nc4 Nh5 17. Ne3 Nf4 18. c4 a5 19. Re1 Ra6 20. Bf1 Rb6 21. b3 Rb4 22. Ra2 Ra8 23. Rd2 Ra6 24. Bd3 Rab6 25. Bc2 h5 26. Qc1 Qe7 27. Qd1 Qg5 28. Qf3 Rf6 29. Qg3 Qh6 30. Qh2 h4 31. g3 hxg3 32. fxg3 Nxh3+ 33. Kg2 Ng5 34. Qxh6 Bxh6 35. Ng4 Bg7 36. Nxf6+ Bxf6 37. d6 cxd6 38. Rxd6 Kg7 39. Red1 Ne6 40. R1d5 Nd4 41. Bd1 b6 42. Rd7 Nxb3 43. Bxb3 Rxb3 44. Rb7 Bg5 45. Rdd7 Kh6 46. Rxf7 Bd2 47. Rf6 Be1 48. Kf1 Bxg3 49. Rbxb6 Rxb6 50. Rxb6 Kg5 51. Rb5 Kf4 52. Rxa5 Kxe4 53. Rxc5 Kd4 54. Rc8 e4 55. a5 Kd3 56. a6 e3 57. Rd8+ 1-0

Dec-24-13		brankat: Wishing You all the best for the Holiday season!

Dec-24-13		KKDEREK: Merry Christmas Scott!

Dec-25-13		tpstar: <Scott> Happy Holidays! Congratulations on your wedding. =)

Dec-25-13		TheFocus: <keypusher> Merry Christmas!

Dec-29-13		keypusher: Thanks tpstar and all! Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays etc. as appropriate.

Dec-29-13		cormier: Happy Holidays

Dec-31-13		TheFocus: Happy New Year <keypusher>!

Jan-01-14		tpstar: <keypusher> Happy New Year!

Jan-06-14		Benzol: Scott I have uploaded a game between Ulf Andersson and Anatoly Karpov from the 4th round of the Phillips & Drew Kings tournament. Hopefully your collection Game Collection: Phillips & Drew Kings Chess Tournament 1982 can then be completed and nominated for live tournament statis. I have updated the date and round information to all the other games already.

Jan-06-14		Benzol: Scott here it is Ulf Andersson vs Karpov, 1982

Jan-07-14		keypusher: <Benzol>, thanks. I now have two game #28s, though. Do all the remaining game #s need to be updated "by hand"?

Jan-07-14		Benzol: <keypusher> I wouldn't think so. As far as I know it's the dates that determine things.

Jan-08-14		Benzol: Phillips & Drew Kings (1982) It still needs a crosstable and it might need some streamlining on the intro perhaps but the basic structure is in place. Good work matey. :)

Jan-10-14		keypusher: Thanks, <Benzol>. I enjoyed making that collection, I appreciate you getting it into shape.

Jan-10-14		Benzol: No worries matey. I've also listed the prizes as well.

Feb-04-14		MarkFinan: Am I right about Fischer or was he being paranoid about the Russian players? and are people here who let's face it, hero worship him just saying that he went up against "a system" because they're just bias because it's him? That's a serious question btw, I only know what I've seen from a few Fischer documentaries and what I've read about him here from his "special fans!". I know that every player has played for draws since the year dot, but I would think that coming from someone who said "Play till there are just kings" (or something similar?) that he's the best example of a chess fighter. I would ask people on his player page but for the reasons I just gave above I don't think id get a completely impartial answer. 😃

Feb-13-14		keypusher: Hi, Mark, sorry I am only just now responding to this. I don�t check my forum very often, and I wanted to wait until I had some time to think about my response. There is a lot to think about. As an American, I have very conflicted feelings about Fischer. He was the first chess player I really learned about, and he�s still the one whose games I know best. Either him or Lasker. But eventually a contra-Fischer reaction set in, as it always does. There�s a great quote by someone about the Rolling Stones: �when I was young, I thought they were the best band ever, and every one of their songs was better than any songs by any other band. Later I realized that this wasn�t strictly true.� That�s how I was about Fischer. The disenchantment grew in my early years on this website, when I got into huge battles with Fischer fans. It wasn�t that they thought he was a great player; it�s that they thought he was unquestionably the best ever, and no one else even seemed worth mentioning in the same breath. What I particularly didn�t like was that they gave him so much credit for courage, but they never acknowledged that he walked away from the game after winning the title. There is one player and only one who never played a single serious game of chess as world champion. There is one player and one player only who never defended his title. If you�re going to talk about what a he-man and a fighter he was, it seems to me, you have to acknowledge that. You can�t ignore it, you can�t pretend that it was somehow FIDE�s fault or Karpov�s fault or the USCF�s fault or whatever. It was Fischer�s fault. It�s part of the picture, and if you�re going to compare him with other players and talk about how aggressive and tough he is, you also have to acknowledge that he is the biggest quitter in the history of the game. That said�it is a fact that he played games out, in his time, much more than anyone else. In his prime, he almost never played quick draws, and he fought to win with both White and Black. The only other player who did that at the time was Larsen (Korchnoi, to a lesser extent), and of course Larsen just wasn�t the player Fischer was. Those guys aside, if you look at tournament collections from the 60s you�ll see a lot of dull, short draws. In the 70s, after Fischer quit, I think it got even worse. It�s instructive to look at Karpov�s games from one of his many tournament first prizes. With White, he generally tries to win, and you see a lot of very interesting games. With Black, you get a lot of 15-move draws. He�s making no effort to win, and very few people are trying to beat him. It�s funny to look at Karpov�s games with Miles. When Karpov has White, he has a ton of wins, and Miles has a couple (including the famous 1�.a6 game). Very interesting stuff. When Miles has White�well, it couldn�t be duller. Almost all short draws. Draws are common nowadays, but it�s my impression that short dull draws are much less common now than in the 70s. They are certainly rare in Carlsen�s games. I evidently have a much more positive view of his style than you do, but that�s for another day. I think there was a fair amount of low grade corruption in Fischer�s time. Games being bought and sold. Supposedly he wouldn�t stand for that, so it tended not to happen in tournaments he played in (but what about this game??). Anyway, that is in his favor. Re the Soviets, I honestly don�t think Fischer ever had anything to complain about. They clearly saw the world title as �theirs� and they definitely wanted to keep Fischer from winning it. But I don�t think they did anything underhanded to keep him from taking the title. It seems pretty clear that there was an entente of sorts among Geller, Petrosian, and Keres at Curacao, but I don�t think it was aimed at Fischer. And after that�FIDE put in candidate matches just like Fischer wanted, and what did he do? He skipped the 1964 Interzonal, and dropped out in 1967. They obviously didn�t do anything �70-�72�Spassky could have demanded an extra forfeit at the beginning of the match, or gone home after Fischer forfeited game 2, but he didn�t. In 1974-75, they rightly opposed Fischer�s attempt to impose a �win-by-two� condition on the challenger. If they�d lost on that point and Fischer had actually showed up to play (which, IMO, he was never going to do) Karpov would have knuckled under and played him.

Feb-13-14		keypusher: This is the Taimanov game I meant to post. Taimanov vs Matulovic, 1970

Feb-22-14		Octavia: <Just because many great chess players were obnoxious jerks, doesn't mean that> most players are obnoxious

Feb-22-14		perfidious: <Octavia> Quite true. There are more than two sides to that coin in my experience: Tal Memorial (2013) <In chess and poker, I have sat across the table from top-class players who were actually easier to deal with than averagely good ones who caught a heavy dose of hubris somewhere on the way. Dealing with (the latter) could be what one would politely refer to as a pain in the fundament.>

Mar-02-14		MarkFinan: <MarkFinan: <MarkFinan: <keypusher: <MarkFinan> No, he's not innocent. He wrote: <Lennonfan: How is 12.d5 bordering on an outright win here for white? Providing black plays N.b4 on move 11...> Black did play 11....Nb4, White duly played 12.d5 and crushed him. So the answer to <how is 12.d5 bordering on a win for White> is provided by the game itself, at least provisionally. If lennonfan thought there was a defense after that, he should have provided some moves.> So asking a question about a move, and suggesting a move, make poor Lennonfan a guilty man?> And Keypusher.. You just can't answer that with any conviction in believing what you're actually saying!? Truth is there is nothing wrong with asking a question no matter who asked the aforementioned question. You can't possibly believe that when I asked that question I was "not innocent!" #numptie> I posted this on the game page but I'm reposting here in case you miss it. You have to be on the wind up. Re the Fischer thing. So he wasn't the biggest quitter in chess then? 😃

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