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Oct-10-09
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| Eyal: No need to improve, you're doing fine! (heh)
And here, as they say in <The Daily Show>, is your Moment of Zen: <man has distintwish between his own lucky and the bad luckies of his oponents, for carlson has not his own lucy as mush as his own oponents maybe has large bad luckies> I'm sure you can recognize the source. Btw, check out if you're already familiar with those new old pictures of Fischer: http://www.chessbase.com/espanola/n... |
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Oct-11-09
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| Open Defence: <Radjabov wasted too much time and fell early into the time panic. Since then, although he made efforts to catch time, he has lost half a piece [i.e., an exchange] and it was impossible to recover.> I can almost picture Radja in a Rabbit costume glancing at his pocket watch saying "I'm late.. I'm late...." |
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Oct-11-09
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| jessicafischerqueen: <KRABAB of the very brief posts> Well I'm glad to see you appear before the <Tal Memorial Showdown>- "lucy as mush" is brilliant of course. This may be <onto's> secret critique of the "I Love Lucy Show." I *do* understand you are still translating and working on the career- But the website goes down a full 80 per cent in quality when you disappear. |
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Oct-11-09
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| jessicafischerqueen: Also, it's not my fault I know a lot about existentialism. Given that my Honor's Thesis was called <The Sound and the Fury through the Philosophy of Heidegger> or something like that. Actually it's pretty embarrassing but I can't remember the exact title. It's sitting on a bookshelf somewheres at my Mom's place. It's not often that I get a chance to say something based on having waded through all of those heavy texts, especially <Zein und Zeit> for which I must have read at least thirty other texts to help me understand it. I got a reasonable grasp on it all now though.
I've also read all of Sartre's fiction in translation. I found his "Being and Nothingness" both turgid and very poorly written, and so when I was fortunate enough to come across an article claiming it was an "incoherent rehash" of <Zein und Zeit>, I took that as "official permission" to throw it out the window. I do think that his "Existentialism is a Humanism" and his book length version of "Anti-Semite and Jew" are masterpieces of 20th century thought, however. In terms of literary talent, though, I'd have to give the nod to <Albert Camel>. |
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Oct-11-09
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| achieve: I'm very zorry <Jess> - but the study of 'Sein', is spelled with an 's', though it sounds as a 'zzz' in the original language as well... But really, 'Zein' doesn't exist in the german language, unless they've changed something again... Zeit is correct, although seit (meaning 'since'/from a certain point in the past) *is* a german word. Sorry for the intrusion, but I thought a post of the calibre as above, should at least have the title of Heidegger's <Sein und Zeit>, spelled correctly. Mr. Nitpicker
aka Haarspalter |
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Oct-11-09
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| jessicafischerqueen: No such thing as nitpicking in the service of academic rigor, my dear <Doctor>. I'm happy to be corrected.
Obviously I didn't read it in German- I read it in English with the title <Being and Time>. I was using the German title to be extra pretentious, which, humoroursly, just backfired. DOH!
Now you'd think I'd learn a lesson and stop trying to be so pretentious. Not so!
I will simply try to be more crafty about it in future.... |
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Oct-11-09
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| achieve: <Now you'd think I'd learn a lesson and stop trying to be so pretentious. Not so!
I will simply try to be more crafty about it in future....> That was indeed my main goal.heh HAHAHHAAASHAHAHH
Or as more appropriate in "internet parlour" - the "evil laugh": Bwuhahaha Actually I am laughing loudly here at the moment, also trying to "impress Lars" ... heh |
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Oct-11-09
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| Eyal: <Deffi> Yeah, definitely shades of "Alice in Wonderland" there... Btw, Radja also seemed to have problems with time - sleeping time, in this case - during his game with Topalov: http://www.chessbase.com/news/2009/... |
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Oct-11-09
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| jessicafischerqueen: Heh-
Seems to have had a full fashion breakdown as well prior to the game. He is wearing three different color shirts at the same time and looks like a clown. You really know it's a fashion disaster when the combo can make the sexiest man in chess= by far= look ridiculous. I volunteer to work as his "fashion manager". |
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Oct-12-09
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| Eyal: They had to wear those traditional Chinese shirts(?) throughout the tournament according to contract (see, e.g. the photos in http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/t...). But I've noticed that toward the end most of them became a bit sloppy about letting the Western dress show underneath... Btw, there's some more information about those Fischer photos that I've linked in a previous post at http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/u... |
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Oct-12-09
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| Open Defence: <most of them became a bit sloppy about letting the Western dress show underneath...> at least they had the good sense to wear something underneath ;-p |
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Oct-12-09
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| Eyal: Kasparov vs Karpov, 1986 (Game 16)
click for larger view<<Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986 – 1987> is an instant classic, of course. It contains the highest possible level of chess annotations (Kasparov has been analysing these positions for decades!), always connected to present-day opening theory, and intriguing psychological analysis. Of course, there are moments where Kasparov is a bit annoying, weirdly superstitious or simply arrogant, but who wouldn’t forgive such an author for these trifles? I just felt that all I could do was give a few examples of why this book is so fascinating. So if you’ll excuse me, I’ll now go back to my chess set, where the position of the 16th game of the 1986 match is still on the board. You see, I’ve been trying to understand this position for 23 years now without any result, but I finally feel I might actually succeed...> (http://www.chessvibes.com/reviews/r...) |
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Oct-12-09
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| jessicafischerqueen: <KRABAB>
Thanks for the heads up on the photos. I even put my own comment in on the chessbase page. |
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Oct-20-09
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| jessicafischerqueen: <KRABAAB>
Thanks for all the analysis and hot tips mate-
I haven't actually gone crazy- I just have a ton of teaching to do last few days. I will have a chance to take a good look at the stuff before the weekend though. |
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Oct-31-09
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| Bdellovibrio: Hello, Eyal. User: jessicafischerqueen directed me here for help on my "project" of collecting opinions and ideas about how FIDE should conduct World Chess Championships. I've noticed a great deal of complaint from members of the site concerning FIDE's bungling of WCC qualifiers and the like and decided to make my forum a <central spleen-venting hub> for this issue. |
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Oct-31-09
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| Eyal: <Bdellovibrio> Ok, thanks for the invitation - if I want to vent my spleen on this issue, I'll know where to turn... amazingly enough, I think that the system in place at the moment for the next WC cycle, with the 3 rounds of candidates' matches and the way they qualify for that, is actually quite reasonable - as long as they leave it in place and stop changing it every few months. |
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Oct-31-09
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| Open Defence: and dont create a new rule that irrespective of the outcome, Topalov has to play the Champion... |
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Oct-31-09
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| Eyal: <Deffi> Yes, except for return-matches I don't think there ever was anyone who had to do so little to qualify for a WC match within a "cycle" like Topalov had to in the present one. Still, historically speaking I think it's a good thing we're going to have a match between him and Anand - that's the only match missing now to complete the series of matches between the 3 greatest players of the older generation, after we had Kramnik-Topalov and Anand-Kramnik. |
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Nov-01-09
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| Open Defence: yes, I have no issues with him getting a match with Anand, but if he loses it then he needs to qualify per the same standards set for the rest |
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Nov-01-09
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| Open Defence: btw its nice to see you kibitzing again here, guess work has eased up a bit :) |
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Nov-02-09
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| Eyal: Thanks, Deffi. I'm still quite busy, actually, but I also find chess hard to resist for very long. You must be familiar with this predicament yourself... |
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Nov-04-09
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| jessicafischerqueen: Hey hey have you seen this yet?
<According to the recent November rating list, the player roster includes 10 of the top 13:Carlsen 2801 #2
Anand 2788 #3
Aronian 2786 #4
Kramnik 2772 #5
Gelfand 2758 #7
Svidler 2754 #8
Leko 2752 #9
Morozevich 2750 #10
Ivanchuk 2739 #12
Ponomariov 2739 #13
The "missing" ones are Topalov (#1), Gashimov (#6), and Radjabov (#11). Carlsen recently dominated Topalov and Radjabov (as well as Jakovenko [#15] and Wang Yue [#16]) in Pearl Springs - and now he has the chance, if he manages to win this tournament as well, to demonstrate his superiority over pretty much all of the world's elite in the space of two months. I find it a bit hard to believe that he would do that, but the possibility is certainly exciting...> I'm sure you'll agree that this is EXACTLY the kind of useful, tempered, well-informed and well-written post that is RUINING this website. On a more frivolous note, however- I AM VERY EXCTITED ABOUT TALL STORY MEMORABILIA!!! I will be cheering for MANGA JAPANIMATION like everyone else in the world. Also- I was very pleased to learn I was VINDICATED for not "jumping on the VULGAR GASH IN THE FACE bandwagon"- but rather STARTING IT- as the posting record will confirm. I was thrilled by his attacking style, and although nobody knows less about chess than I do, I was promoting the idea that he would be the NEXT BIG GUY to break in to the top ranks. AND I WAS RIGHT!!!
Even though I didn't know I was right since I stopped following his career after I said all this. We're number six! We're number six!
And thanks for that Holiday Weener Comedy <KRABAB> I appreciated it very much. Sorry to be absent for so long-
For anyone lurking in here, I will in fact be responding to everyone's posts soon- I'm very busy at work. |
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Nov-05-09
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| Eyal: Hi Jess, good to see you here again. Yes, I remember how you started the VU(L)GAR GASH IN THE FACE bandwagon during the first GP tournament in Baku, though I suspected it was because you were enthusiastic about (the twisted version of) his name no less than his style of play... Let's see if he manages to stay at the top, especially now that he'll probably be getting a bunch of invitations to important tournaments. Btw, he might even get a spot in the upcoming candidtes event, since Azerbaijan is apparently going to host it and get to pick the "organizer's choice" - assuming Radjabov, the other potential choice, qualifies through the Grand Prix, which seems very likely at the moment. |
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Nov-05-09
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| Open Defence: <Eyal: Thanks, Deffi. I'm still quite busy, actually, but I also find chess hard to resist for very long. You must be familiar with this predicament yourself...> yup heh! |
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Nov-06-09
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| Open Defence: that Grunfeld game was really interesting |
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