| Feb-11-03 |
| judokausa1: Would you believe that Cyrus just earned his IM title this year!? (proof professional chess and family don't mix) He has been one of top 50 players in the US since the 80's. |
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| Dec-03-04 |
| Eatman: Aye, Cyrus has been well above IM strength for some time. One of the nicest guys to get crushed by in a chess game with. :)
Actually, he has managed to combine his career in teaching chess with family quite well, just that IM/GM norm tournaments in US have been rather sparse. |
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| Apr-18-05 |
| pazzed paun: IF you take a look at his opening rep.
many players below master level could adopt it and benifit from it. |
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Jun-03-06
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| Joshka: He's on the air now with Dr. Kopec, chess.fm, for today's broadcast. |
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| Jun-03-06 |
| arifattar: The name sounds very Zorastrian and very Indian. |
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Jun-03-06
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| Open Defence: very Parsee in fact .... |
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| Jun-03-06 |
| arifattar: well technically Zorastrian because all Zorastrians are Parsees but not all Parsees are Zorastrians. |
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Jun-03-06
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| Open Defence: <well technically Zorastrian because all Zorastrians are Parsees but not all Parsees are Zorastrians> well technically Parsee actually.. a Parsee who may or may not be a Zorastria.. :-D |
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| Jun-03-06 |
| arifattar: alright. granted. |
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| Oct-18-06 |
| calidoggg: I'm Zoroastrian, and I'm not Parsi. The Parsis were the Zoroastrians who fled Iran to India because the Arabs were persecuting them. Now you can never mention your false statement again. |
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| Oct-18-06 |
| calidoggg: So therefore, all Parsis are Zoroastrians |
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| Apr-12-08 |
| zoren: a powerful player who apparently is semi-retired, anyone know anything about this guy |
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Apr-12-08
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| WannaBe: Apparently by this link: http://main.uschess.org/component/o... he plays in San Diego... Still playing! |
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| Apr-12-08 |
| zoren: thanks wannabe, didnt think to look there, just poking around for anecdotes / stories of people whove played with him :) |
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Mar-10-09
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| blacksburg: i've seen a few of this guy's games that aren't in the database. in a lot of those games, Lakdawala opens with <1.c3!?> as white, and seems to aim for some kind of reversed caro kann/slav setup, like a delayed colle system or something. it's weird. i've also heard <1.c3> referred to as the <Lakdawala Variation>. i have some experience in caro kann, pure slav, and scandinavian defences, so i might give it a try in blitz games. it can't be that bad, right? none of his games in the database start with <1.c3>, though, so maybe i'm wrong, but i swear i've heard about this guy and his silly <1.c3> move, and there's no other Lakdawala. anyone else here know what i'm talking about? or did i just have a weird dream about a bad opening move and a guy with a funny name? |
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Mar-10-09
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| blacksburg: yeah, this must have been a weird chess dream. no respectable chess player would play this stuff right? <1.c3 e5 2.d4> - reversed caro-kann
<1.c3 c5 2.d4 d5> - reversed slav |
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Jun-03-09
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| blacksburg: <VERY> entertaining interview with Watson on ICC this week. much better than Watson's usual interviews, which i usually stop listening to half way through. in addition to making me laugh out loud several times, he clears up the 1.c3 question i had! apparently, someone named 1.c3 the <lakdawala accelerated> because after 1.Nf3 c5, instead of 2.e4?? <his question marks> trying to sucker him into a sicilian, lakdawala would play 2.c3, and try to play a reversed slav, since he plays the slav as black. |
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Jun-24-09
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| Fusilli: Here's a newspaper article on him (and on Elliot Liu): http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/... A quote from it: The reporter asks: "Could you guess at your yearly earnings through chess?" His answer:
"It really varies. I don't want to go into salary, but it's not very great. It's like having a pretty crappy job. It's like having a job where you go, 'This is a dead-end job.' " |
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| Jun-24-09 |
| fromoort: <calidoggg>How about a Parsi who is an atheist? |
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| Jun-25-09 |
| fromoort: By the way, <Blacksburg>, in response to your remark about a "guy with a funny name", his last name literally means "stick guy". |
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