User Profile: hms123

hms123
Member since Dec-13-07

Welcome, all! This is the place for frivolous commentary, serious commentary, and cogent discussion.
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My favorite wines:
Matted Elk (red), March 2012
Matted Elk (red), April 2012
Matted Elk (red), May 2012
Matted Elk (red), June 2012 (limited bottling, no longer available)
Matted Elk (red), July 2012
I am looking forward to the release of the August 2012 vintage.
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Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it. (P. G. Wodehouse)
You have to bring some funk to get some. You can't just walk in a place and expect to get some funk. If you ain't bring no funk, then you can't get no funk..Another thing is, you can't fake the funk or your nose will grow. (Bootsy Collins)
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base. (Dave Barry)
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Here's an article that I wrote:
<Chess Life, August, 2011, <<Brave New World: Human Intuition and Computer-assisted Chess>>, see pages 32-35>
http://content.yudu.com/A1t744/Ches...
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These are links that I find useful:
1. <<<New Search Feature instructions>>> chessgames.com chessforum
2. <<<Wiki info on FEN notation>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsyt...
3. <<<Fen Help>>> FEN Help Page
4. <<<FEN Reverser>>> http://www.zbestvalue.com/ChessFENR...
5. <<<Zip File Archive>>> Zipfile Archive
6. <<Jan van Reek's site:>> http://www.endgame.nl/
7. <<ICCF Archives:>> http://www.iccf.com
8. <<iPad shortcuts:>> hms123 chessforum
9. <<pgn4web quickstart:>> Pgn4web Quickstart
10. <<change password:>> http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chan...
11. <<Internet Archives WayBackMachine:>> http://wayback.archive.org/web/
12. <<Avatar sizer>> http://www.shrinkpictures.com/creat...
13. <<K+B+N vs K:>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWZ7...
14. <<Collection to check out:>> Game Collection: They were surprised
15. <<Puzzles:>> http://www.wtharvey.com/
16. <<kingscrusher's video spreadsheet>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...
17. <<chess.ok online opening book:>> http://chessok.com/?page_id=352
18. <<PGN reader:>> http://www.caissa.com/chess-tools/p...
19. <<Time zones:>> http://24timezones.com/
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<<<Caissar Awards>>>
Thanks to User: wannabe for running the contest, and to everyone who voted for me or for any of the other fine nominees.
<<2008 Caissar Award winner for <most helpful>. (shared with User: brankat)>>
<<2009 Caissar Award winner for <most constructive kibitzer>.>>
<<2011 Caissar Award winner for <most helpful>.>>
<<2012 Caissar Award winner for <most helpful>.>>
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For your amusement:
1. <<My Favorite Player <Lauren S Hwang and her best gameL S Hwang vs H Kim, 2005>>>

2. <<My favorite annotated game: <Nimzowitsch vs Systemsson, 1927

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   hms123 has kibitzed 11688 times to chessgames [more...]

   May-19-13 Team White vs Team Black, 2013
   May-19-13 hms123 chessforum

hms123: <crawfb5> <And with enough beers it's trash talk with a couple of moves thrown in once and a while?> Exactly right.

   May-18-13 N Grandadam vs M Parligras, 2012

hms123: <Xeroxx> Easy. You just have to score three <Eve Norms>.

   May-18-13 Domdaniel chessforum

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   May-16-13 Nakamura vs S Benen, 2003

hms123: <Fiona Macleod> He was only 15 at the time.

   May-13-13 Louis F Stumpers

hms123: You can try here (no solution is given): http://www.smart-kit.com/games/game2/

   May-12-13 Annie K. chessforum

hms123: <Annie> Yes, you were pretty far ahead for most of the game.

   May-10-13 scormus chessforum

hms123: <morfishine> Anything for a friend. ;-)

   May-10-13 Karjakin vs Wang Hao, 2013

hms123: <chessdgc2> If Black takes e.p., then Rf1 wins the bishop.

   May-07-13 chessgames.com chessforum

hms123: <WannaBe> Isn't there some old <Wabbit> saying about honey and vinegar and catching flies? If not, there should be.

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Sprezzatura spoken here

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Jul-29-09		jessicafischerqueen: The combatants: 1. http://www.eui.eu/Personal/Research... 2.http://evilwombat.files.wordpress.c...

Jul-29-09		technical draw: <hms123. Just saw your forum name. As a non-believer in infinity I would venture to say that there's one giant turtle at the bottom eating the little turtles on his way up. So the question is: how many turtles can a turtle eat?

Jul-29-09		hms123: <TD> I'll bite. How many? Is the answer "either none or an infinite amount--it's 50/50"?

Jul-29-09		technical draw: The answer is LT(e)<∞sT...

Jul-29-09		hms123: <TD> That was going to be my next guess. Thanks.

Jul-29-09		jessicafischerqueen: <Howard> <Karnak the Magnificent Assyrian> is in fact a Philosphy professor. He may be other things as well... Perhaps only time will tell. I was just reading a series of posts he left at <Doggimus> house and he was reminding me of one of my Philosophy professors. Then he let slip that he does in fact teach Philosophy. Does this mean we will be expected to hand in homework now, instead of just talking off the top of our heads? I'M NOT PREPARED. I think <Twinlark> may have eaten my homework, but, as always, I'm not certain. PS- If my recent spamming in here was even faintly annoying, please feel free to delete- I'd like to blame <Big Crawdaddy> for this. Sometimes these puns have a way of catching up with you and then good luck keeping a straight face for the next few days. I found out some more alarming things on the EMU front- I will explain in an EMU to you, which is overdue now. Ok then!

Jul-29-09		crawfb5: <I'd like to blame <Big Crawdaddy> for this. Sometimes these puns have a way of catching up with you and then good luck keeping a straight face for the next few days.> Ok, so now we're blamestorming? I'll have you know my ability to make women laugh is the main reason Doreen caught me. Of course in my now enfeebled state, it's laughing <at> me more often than <with> me, but we do what we can with what we have...

Jul-29-09		jessicafischerqueen: Double EMU alert- I can't vouch for the contents, however. Also, thanks for that explanation- agreeably concise- of Godel's ideas. I re-read the whole thread and ventured to try to answer one of <Doggimus's> queries in his forum. I will await your judgment. I'm hoping for at least a C+ here, but I won't be surprised to garner a lower grade. I DIDN'T KNOW WE HAD TO DO HOMEWORK. I thought we could just say whatever popped in to our heads. Turned out I was mistaken about that...

Jul-30-09		Boomie: <I thought we could just say whatever popped in to our heads.> I tried that and got hammered. I'll book up for the next go round. In fact, I will appear as the chess book forum book. That's how booked up I'll be. Nobody will question my book lines. And my Boomie persona will escape unscathed.

Jul-30-09		jessicafischerqueen: Don't forget to tell them to fear you.

Jul-30-09		twinlark: <Jessica> Well, I've done my homework...I hope the Assyrian doesn't flunk or flog me.

Jul-30-09		jessicafischerqueen: Yes I just read the last part of your three parter. I'm in agreement with your critique, but I'm often BADLY WRONG about all kinds of assumptions and conclusions.

Jul-30-09		Boomie: <twinlark> I have also read the walls of the mighty temple of Karnak. I've even added a couple of posts which I'm sure will have me ridden out on a rail. Well, one is just a slight correction concerning the reason calculus was invented. That wasn't purely a mental gymnastic. Newton was trying to solve problems in the real world. The second post objects to the notion of mind outside of matter which I, perhaps wrongly, interpreted as outside nature or the material world. I can't abide such ideas. They seem both arrogant and neurotic to me.

Jul-30-09		jessicafischerqueen: Yes it appears that the two of you offered stubborn resistance to the <Assyrian Army> in this case. Wave two may be coming, however.

Jul-30-09		Boomie: <jessicafischerqueen: Yes it appears that the two of you offered stubborn resistance to the <Assyrian Army> in this case. Wave two may be coming, however.> I known. Wooo. Scary. I have girded my loins. Just wish they were my lions.

Jul-30-09		twinlark: <jessica> <I'm in agreement with your critique, but I'm often BADLY WRONG about all kinds of assumptions and conclusions.> Thanks...I think. heh. You mean you agree but that we may both be BADLY WRONG? I should hire you as my morale coach. I'm not sure though I'll be entirely agreeing with my own critique once the Assyrian is through with me, especially as I'm hedging on some of my core arguments. If God were real, I'm sure its first language would be maths. It's all good fun.

Jul-30-09		jessicafischerqueen: Yes it's good fun talking with <The Assyrian>, because he's educated and polite. However, I think he's hedged a few of his core points as well- I think he has a bit of non-Kierkegaardian strain that wants to believe there may be rational/logical supports for theism. I see you've ventured to educate <Ohio Sea Bass> on a few points- I predict eternal failure there, but hats off for trying.

Jul-30-09		twinlark: heh heh. I'm not out to convert him. I'm not sure I've ever actually changed anyone's mind in any fundamental way, but it's fun talking. Talking, especially in ceegee.com is the metaphorical chisel that helps me to forumulate my own thinking (hope you liked that one). I like our <Cincinnati Sea Bass>, and consider him a valued friend. I'm just basically concerned with drawing the boundaries of any debate I have with him so that neither of us gets offended or feels tentative about what we're trying to say. I <never, ever> argue with anyone about their faith unless they invite it. <I think he has a bit of non-Kierkegaardian strain that wants to believe there may be rational/logical supports for theism.> BTW - what do you think of St Anselm's proof that God exists? (response to that may be better in my forum, I think). As I was reading it and the critiques of it, I had the sinking feeling that as a logical person I'd have to believe in God, as I was unable to find the refutation. I had to rely on someone else's. Felt like I missed a bullet there.

Jul-31-09		jessicafischerqueen: <Doggimus> I'm not surprised you had difficulty finding "THE refutation." Mainly because there are so many, many ways in which to refute the "proof." So many that it's difficult to know where to start, even. I just made a few notes on it at your place- the first three refutations that sprung in to my mind. There are many, many more- and more ways of expressing them. Suffice it to say that no serious philosopher, logician, mathematician, or person, for that matter, gives the slightest credence to this "Proof." Linguistically expressed logical "proofs" are almost never sound, due to the necessity to absolutely disambiguate semantics. The only ones that might be considered sound are pure tautologies, which are pointless, since they don't actually describe anything, let alone prove anything. The only truly sound "proofs" are purely mathematical, employing the "language" of mathematics.

Jul-31-09		twinlark: mmm...might be time for a holiday to recharge the old batteries.

Jul-31-09		Boomie: <Prof. Cat, Hat, and the Turtle you rode in on> A spooky maths post is on display at The Cirque. Please cast your withering gaze and let me know just how wrong I am with that thang. Thanks, Der Boomster

Aug-02-09		jessicafischerqueen: <H> I've just given you the elusive "Triple Bird." Also, <paris attack> has me on ignore- and I'm sure it's because he doesn't want to have to look at literary discussion on <Bobby's page> and who can blame him. Not me. I did try to lure <lamont> to my forum twice already, but I don't think he's going to come. He has only ever kibbutzed on <Bobby's Page>. heh

Aug-02-09		Open Defence: <I have girded my loins. > beware of girlied lions....

Aug-02-09		jessicafischerqueen: And girdled loins too.

Aug-02-09		jessicafischerqueen: FOR SERENGETI RESIDENTS ONLY: Also, important to avoid <grilled lions>. Lions should properly be baked in a giant leaf, to preserve the succulent juices.

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