Sneaky Member since Jan-19-02 · Last seen May-22-13 I live in South Florida USA. Rated USCF ~1800 A long time ago I was a new player in a Miami chess park, and one of the stronger players thought I had real talent, so he suggested that I play the park champ, a Cuban master. After the master destroyed me in a few blitz games, the question was posed, "Is he any good?" The answer I took as a great compliment: "Ehh... he tries to be sneaky." The greatest chess player of all time is Robert James Fischer. The greatest chess problemist of all time is Sam Loyd. The greatest chess site of all time is chessgames.com! Other players who I admire: <Morphy> Possibly the greatest natural chess talent ever. Like Steinitz who followed, he taught the world how the game should really be played. <Najdorf> He was smart enough to make his money outside of chess, so he played for the pure joy of it. <Tal> Proved that even in the modern era, chess is an art more than a science. <Blackburne> Sacrificed his queen more times than I've had hot meals. <Diemer> One of the most original thinkers the game ever has known. His ideas were not always right, but they were HIS ideas. <Topalov> He hates draws so much he'll gladly risk losing to avoid one. I can forgive him for the Elista debacle; his chess is payment enough. <Lembit Oll> When on the attack, Lembit Oll said "Dambit All!" <Kasparov> Strive for perfection, one move at a time. <Alekhine> Swashbuckling play culminating in booming sacrifices. And countless others: Nezhmetdinov, Shirov, Nunn, Shabalov, Nakamura, Carlsen, basically, anybody with cojones. You can find me on FICS (freechess.org) ... and lately, on ICC as well. I'll gladly play anybody within 1000 points of my rating.

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May-22-13 Tejada vs A Padros Simon, 1985   Sneaky: One might say White fell off a Cliff The harder they come, ♬ ♩ The harder they fall, ♪ ♬ One and all! ♩ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGE4...      May-15-13 Louis F Stumpers    Sneaky: LOL Ohio      May-15-13 Karjakin vs Nakamura, 2013    Sneaky: <plang: How do you know that his king is single?> Because the queen is on the side of the board singing "If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it..."      May-15-13 Chessgames Bookie chessforum    Sneaky: Good work Diademas. I was about to give up hope this leg until the pick three took me from rags to riches. Now the question for round 7 is this: what will become of Hammer-Carlsen? 1. Carlsen will win, because... well duh, he's CARLSEN. 2. Carlsen and Hammer will have a little draw ...      May-13-13 Team White vs Team Black, 2013     May-12-13 Topalov vs J L Hammer, 2013    Sneaky: Come in Jon keep a cool head... 2:1 at the Chessbookie just for drawing this guy!      May-12-13 Natalia Pogonina    Sneaky: Does little Nikolai play chess yet? :)      May-11-13 Janowski vs. Showalter Match 2 (1899)   Sneaky: It's hard to appreciate what $125 was in 1899 but I know it was about 5 ounces of gold, which in today's prices would be about 7500 bucks.      May-11-13 Sneaky chessforum    Sneaky: LOL thanks Tiggler, that's precious. By the way, I hope you had a nice Fibonacci day, 5/8/13 ;-)      May-10-13 Gunsberg vs Von Gottschall, 1887    Sneaky: <Diademas: Looking at this it seems like any Bishop move on the diagonal d4-a7 will do the trick, but I might be wrong...> That's what I thought. I fancied 22.Bc5 just because it looks so striking. However <GauraNitai> provides the refutation: <Bc5 however allows Bxf6 ...

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 55 OF 55 ·  Later Kibitzing> May-30-12    ketchuplover: The site kept disengaging during the WC match. Did it for you too? tia May-30-12    WannaBe: I got a few HTTP 502 errors. Jun-01-12    Sneaky: Yeah, at the very end it was slow as molasses. Only the rapids though, the other games were fine. Jul-08-12    notyetagm: <Sneaky: Hey friend, I've been scratching my head trying to figure out what "YDNPS" stands for and I'm starting to believe it's one for Louis F Stumpers ;-) My best guess so far is "You do not play seriously!". Or how about "You don't need pieces, stupid!" So I give up, what means YDNPS?> OVERLOADED (YDNPS) => YOU DO NOT PROTECT SQUARES Jul-12-12    waustad: <Sneaky>You've been active on this site for more than 10 years. I'm impressed. Jul-16-12    Sneaky: Thanks waustad. People often ask me if I'm the original member. The truth is, I know there were a few users who signed up before me, because when I first got an account it was to reply to somebody's comment. But those faces are long gone, they either stopped coming by or just lurk. Sep-15-12    Pedro Fernandez: Hi <Sneaky>, I have found a nice variation of your Avatar so I want to give it you as a gift, but I don't know how to send you. I think you can help me. Thanks! Sep-24-12    Sneaky: A variation of my avatar? Did it come from a can of deviled ham, because I think that's it's origin. Just post a link to it if it's on the internet, or if it isn't online use that site http://imgur.com/ I'd love to see it, thanks! Oct-12-12    Sneaky: From Alexandra Kosteniuk's blog I found this delightful YouTube video <101 Checkmates in films> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofUk... It's 12 minutes long and worth every second. Dec-24-12    wordfunph: Merry Christmas! Jan-03-13    pawntificator: Happy New Year. Jan-09-13    Caissanist: Your embedding of musical notes in comments is pretty cool, how do you do it? Chessgames seems to be very very very strict on letting you embed much of anything in your messages. Jan-09-13    WannaBe: ♺⛔♔ Do a search (google, bing, yahoo...) for unicode/HTML and you can go nuts with it. Jan-09-13    WannaBe: &#9833; = ♩ &#9834; = ♪ &#9835; = ♫ &#9836; = ♬ &#9837; = ♭ &#9838; = ♮ &#9839; = ♯ &#9840; = ♰ &#9841; = ♱ Jan-10-13    Caissanist: Great, tx much ♪ Jan-10-13    Check It Out: <sneaky> That movie checkmates video was hilarious. Bart Simpson's playing a simul and gets checkmated at the same time by all his opponents cracked me up. Jan-11-13    OhioChessFan: I did the Naka Gambit too. Put 200 on him to win and 197 on an exacta with Naiditsch. If both those hit, I'll still be 1200 behind any of the 32 finalists who did nothing. Depressing. It's really too big an advantage to carry for 25% of the year. I wish I'd put a few bucks on Naka-Movesian and Naka-Tiviakov but I forgot to go back and look at the odds table after my first bet. Jan-12-13    moronovich: <It's really too big an advantage to carry for 25% of the year.> I am in agreement.Something like 3-5K`s difference would be more fair IMO.But good luck with your wagers.I have also bucks on Naka .And also forgot to play combined ;) Jan-26-13    Sneaky: <Bart Simpson's playing a simul and gets checkmated at the same time by all his opponents cracked me up.> That's straight from the Russian folktales of Ossip Bender. You see Ossip, posing as a grandmaster, arranged an "exhibition" for a moderate fee. He opened with 1.e4 on every single board, and the club, who had been studying some particular line in the Ruy Lopez, all responded with ...Nc6. Ossip again played the same move, and so did the crowd. Deep into the opening they went, until Ossip committed a horrific blunder on every single board allowing the entire club to checkmate him on the same move. As usual with these tales, the vignette ends with Ossip escaping through a window as he's chased by a mob of furious chess players. Feb-08-13    Check It Out: The Simpsons goes deep in to Russian folklore - genius! Mar-15-13    kogyithaung: Dear Mr. Sneaky Thanks a lot for the story of Ossip played I love the story for a fun HAHAHA long time not laugh. May I asked didn't you run like Ossip before or didn't you play Ruylopez again? May-07-13    Tiggler: <Sneaky> This is my first annual greeting on your chessforum. Happy May 7th! May-07-13    Tiggler: I googled deviled ham and found: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped... And then I found your g'friend's avatar: http://bad-girls-kitchen.blogspot.c... May-11-13    Sneaky: LOL thanks Tiggler, that's precious. By the way, I hope you had a nice Fibonacci day, 5/8/13 ;-) May-12-13    Tiggler: <Sneaky> Oops I missed Fibonacci day in the US, but I can celebrate it with our European friends on 5th August, or wait till August 13th, 2134. Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 55) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 55 OF 55 ·  Later Kibitzing>		100% Cotton Chess Puzzle Shirt

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