User Profile: Check It Out

Check It Out
Member since Feb-17-06

"The worship of Caissa is, however, so alluring, so fascinating, that the mind, after an interval of repose, returns to it with renewed vigour, greater hope, and redoubled erergy, intent on wresting the palm of victory from the majority of opponents. "
*** The Gentleman's Magazine, 1881
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I played competitive chess as a kid inspired by the 1978 match Korchnoi vs. Karpov, and chessgames.com has renewed my enthusiasm for the game. I play occasionally at chess.com and gameknot.com, with more or less accuracy.
I think the greatest players are/were Kasparov, Fischer, Capablanca, Alekhine, Lasker, Morphy, Anand, and Kramnik, but my favorite players are Tal, Nezhmetdinov and Bronstein.
Up-and-comers I like: Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Anish Giri and Fabiano Caruana.
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   Check It Out has kibitzed 3775 times to chessgames [more...]

   May-17-13 Karjakin vs Topalov, 2013

Check It Out: If you do you might end up 6 feet under

   May-16-13 Anand-Carlsen World Championship (2013)

Check It Out: <sovesveis: Returning to the match at hand - do we expect a sharper battle? After all, that is not what gave Carlsen his best results. Anand's latest games are also quite positional> Anand is a universal player comfortable in tactical or positional positions, but he's ...

   May-16-13 Kenneth Rogoff

Check It Out: Apropos to the mentions of the GMO debates, here's Bill Maher riffing on the subject. His jokes are humorous but seeing Snoop Dog be Ed McMahon to Maher's Johnny Carson is hilarious. http://tv.greenmedinfo.com/bill-mah...

   May-15-13 Nakamura vs S Agdestein, 2010

Check It Out: Oh, maybe an incorrect blitz score. Nevermind.

   May-15-13 K Seegert vs M Matthiesen, 2009

Check It Out: "A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down."

   May-13-13 Gata Kamsky

Check It Out: 2013 US Chess Champion! Congratulations!

   May-13-13 Nakamura vs Wang Hao, 2013

Check It Out: Wang dang sweet zugzwang!

   May-13-13 Anand vs Nakamura, 2013

Check It Out: How about, "You have to gamble b4 winning"

   May-13-13 Magnus Carlsen

Check It Out: The panic can end: Carlsen still has it!

   May-13-13 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2013

Check It Out: Exciting game. Karjakin cracked the door open for Carlsen and that was all he needed.

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Nov-06-10		thegoodanarchist: 24.Ne3. Gotta get the beast active.

Nov-06-10		morfishine: 24.Ne3

Nov-06-10		morfishine: <thegoodanarchist>Where's your site? All of the sticky-tab sites were restored except yours (from what I can see)...Also, I thought somebody else was going to run-it in your absence; Great site and I enjoy your comments

Nov-06-10		DanLanglois: 24. N1d2

Nov-06-10		Check It Out: POST YOUR VOTE IN MY FORUM TO BE INCLUDED IN THE TALLY Vote tally: <24.Ne3> karpkasp, thegoodanarchist, morfishine <24.N1d2> DanLanglois <24.Undecided> Check It Out

Nov-06-10		carelessfills: 24.Ne1 for now to see if anyone else goes that way. I'm looking at it, and preliminary results are not that bad. i'm not sold on it myself, but think it's a decent silly try, and it was surprisingly decent for our 23rd.

Nov-06-10		falso contacto: Ne3 voted.

Nov-06-10		sbevan: Ne3 for me. Thanks again for your work on this btw - a bit surprised at <DanLanglois> vote. So I took another look, as he usually has very good ideas. Sorry Dan can't agree for once. Hope I'm not wrong. Cheers to all!

Nov-06-10		goslinga: Ne3, offering a draw.

Nov-06-10		Golden Executive: 93 for me

Nov-07-10		Check It Out: POST YOUR VOTE IN MY FORUM TO BE INCLUDED IN THE TALLY Vote tally: <24.Ne3> karpkasp, thegoodanarchist, morfishine, falso contacto, sbevan, goslinga, Golden Executive, Check It Out <24.N1d2> DanLanglois <24.Ne1> carelessfills <24.Undecided> Check It Out <24.draw offer> goslinga

Nov-07-10		Golden Executive: Hey !!! there are 2 Check It Out�s in the list. I am glad to say hello to...both of you

Nov-07-10		Golden Executive: I know you know that my last comment was so friendly, ok ? The tension in this game is high and sometime leads to misunderstandings.

Nov-07-10		Check It Out: <GE> You have always been friendly and considerate. That other guy is my twin brother, he can't decide on anything :)

Nov-07-10		scormus: 24. Ne3

Nov-07-10		whooops: voted Ne3

Nov-07-10		lost in space: voted Ne3

Nov-07-10		blue wave: Ne3 has my vote.

Nov-07-10		DaringSpeculator: 24.Ne3 for me.

Nov-07-10		carelessfills: A late, maybe not so silly 24.g4 for me. Nothing on AT at all about it at this writng, and my superficial look says it might be playable now or in the future. Something to keep in our back pocket for 25.

Nov-08-10		DaringSpeculator: I vote 25.Rb1

Nov-08-10		Check It Out: POST YOUR VOTE IN MY FORUM TO BE INCLUDED IN THE TALLY Vote tally: <25.Rb1> hms123, DaringSpeculator, <25.Ng4> kb2ct, Domdaniel <25.Undecided> Check It Out, lost in space, Golden Executive

Nov-08-10		WinKing: My vote <undecided> - thanks <Check It Out>.

Nov-08-10		Waitaka: Im am also voting 25.cxb6, to give it a chance.

Nov-08-10		Check It Out: whooops: I like <25. Ng4>. Diocletian: 25. cxb6 goslinga: undecided chancho: 25.Ng4 for moi.

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