refutor Member since Jan-28-02 I live in Owen Sound, ON and I have a very, very bad rating and I don't care. My favorite players are Alekhine, Botvinnik, Capablanca, Tchigorin, Shirov, Karpov, Spassky and of course Dolmatov. Among the "young" players I like Leko, Svidler and Radjabov (if you can call Leko and Svidler "young"). Theoretically, I enjoy the Ruy Lopez, Caro-Kann, King's Indian and Botvinnik Semi-Slav as Black ;) On FICS I am 'threeminutewarnin'. Nezhmetdinov's Law - "He who analyzes blitz games is stupid" no one ever learned anything by resigning? sure they did...what about humility? honor? sportsmanship? i am playing the Sicilian for life...to quote Viktor Korchnoi "is there not a resemblance between the Sicilian defender and the wrestler who begins the fight before he has climbed into the ring?" i'm totally that wrestler ;) also, like korchnoi, i eat oatmeal every day in the hopes that i can stay mentally alert into my 70s "Some openings were to be used as a surprise weapon and treated like a condom – to be used once and never again!" - Nigel Short "When a player is not in a good mood and loses it means his technique is not on a high level" - Geller ? Opening Explorer My Chess Blog - analysis of my games, record of books i've finished and so on - http://cschess.blogspot.com My Golf Blog - analysis of my games, record of the rounds I've played and so on - http://csgolf.blogspot.com I'm now an master (2300) on ICCF! if anyone is looking for a 2300 rated correspondence player for the Champions League please drop me a line here.. "I may yet be forced to admit that the Winawer is sound. But I doubt it!" - Fischer

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Mar-31-13 World Championship Candidates (2013)    refutor: <Fischer essentially said that he felt he had achieved everything in Chess he had wanted, and that "something" was missing. > this wouldn't surprise me at all. after striving to the top and overcoming all these obstacles, a person (chessplayer or not) is bound to say "is this ...      Mar-17-13 Ivanchuk vs Aronian, 2013    refutor: seems odd to have months to get ready for this, know that you will be playing Aronian as White (as it's a DRR) and play a line where all the endgames will be better/decent for black, give up bishop pair early and have nowhere safe for the king to go. although if White wins, it will ...      Feb-23-13 Zurich Chess Challenge (2013)    refutor: What an excellent opportunity for Caruana to get a DRR against such strong opposition. Getting tournaments like this is sowing the seeds for success      Feb-08-13 refutor chessforum   refutor: woo hoo member for 2 more years...starting date January 28, 2002...my how time flies :) Peace and love      Jan-03-13 SwitchingQuylthulg chessforum    refutor: very nice finish in game posted above.      Nov-16-12 Biographer Bistro    refutor: and ½-½      Oct-27-12 16th Unive Tournament (2012)    refutor: <sneaky> if kramnik ever logs an account here i hope he chooses the username <mulletor> ;)      Sep-14-12 J Yoos vs D Kirton, 1994   refutor: i don't care if the computer found an improvement somewhere (9. ...Qf5) this is wonderful chess and a fabulous game...13.Be5! is a beautiful move no matter what century it's played in :)      Sep-13-12 Showalter vs Pillsbury, 1897   refutor: too bad showalter didn't win this game...this is a perfect gambit for a fast time control      Sep-09-12 Reti vs Capablanca, 1928    refutor: <garech...refuted with passage of time> i would say no...it's not as popular as some other ruy lopez lines, but as recently as 2001 was played in a game between two top guys Tiviakov vs Piket, 2001 may not be completely sound (if god was playing god white *may* win) :), but a ...

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 14 OF 14 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-23-10    madnuts123: Hey thanks for finding all the games saves me hours, I have started a game collection also "How to play like a GM" maybe it will be of use when finished, Apr-15-10    refutor: first draw v. a titled player in correspondence Refutor - SIM NN D14 Slovenia's 15 years of ICCF (2) 2010 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 a6 is going to an exchange slav here so bad? unfortunately i can't get any of the Bb5 lines where there is play, but I am outrated by 400 points. click for larger view 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Bf4 Nc6 7.Rc1 [A finesse because if 7.e3 Bg4 actually works] 7...Bf5 8.e3 Rc8 9.Be2 e6 10.0-0 Bd6 11.Bxd6 Qxd6 12.Na4 0-0 13.Nc5 Rc7 14.Qb3 Qe7 15.Rc3 Bg4 16.Rfc1 click for larger view i wonder if i shouldn't have played sharper. i was going for equality and trying to follow Khenkin vs Karjakin, 2008 Khenkin ended up drawing. 16...e5 17.dxe5 Nxe5 18.Nxe5 Bxe2 19.Na4 Rfc8 20.Rxc7 Rxc7 21.Rxc7 Qxc7 22.Qc3 Bc4 23.Nxc4 dxc4 click for larger view transforming the IQP into a 3 v. 2 on the queenside. i thought if his king was a little closer he'd have some winning chances. luckily i was wrong :) 24.Qd4 Nd7 25.Nc3 b5 26.b3 = and i offered a draw which he took ½-½ not a real glorious game but hey it was a titled player. it's a very strong tournament where i'm outrated by almost 400 points in every game...we'll see if i surprise some people. ir is cowardly to play the slav exchange, but hey if he just would've played a semi-slav the best i could've had was the QGD Exchange :) Apr-17-10    refutor: OMG...playing too many games at once...here's a Najdorf that I'm on the black side of. click for larger view of course ...Qd8 is the move but I uncork (in correspondence no less) ...Qe8??? got my d's and e's backwards when I was entering and must have not been looking at the board. the worst part is that I couldn't even fight on a piece down for a pawn or anything because of the threat of Nc7. grrrrr! Apr-28-10    refutor: mrs. refutor is scheduled for a c-section...think positive thoughts on Monday at 11:30 EST ;) May-23-10    Open Defence: thanks for alerting me about the World Open, will give it a go, btw I am fighting for Canada against Slovakia in the ICCF :) Jul-04-10    Open Defence: thanks, i lost 2 games on a time out when I moved to Delhi last year, the ICCF interface does not work on my phone Jul-14-10    Open Defence: <refutor> I had to give the Open a miss, will eventually take a complete break from chess Jul-18-10    Open Defence: how is the Open shaping up though ? Best of luck!!! Jul-19-10    refutor: here's a game v. a strong opponent in ICCF that i'm happy that my prep stood up NN (Refutor's rating + 400) - Refutor Slovenia (2) ICCF 2010 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.Nf3 Nd7 7.h4 h6 8.h5 Bh7 9.Bd3 Bxd3 10.Qxd3 Qc7 11.Rh4 e6 12.Bf4 Bd6 13.Bxd6 Qxd6 14.Ne4 Qe7 15.Qa3 Qxa3 16.bxa3 click for larger view he had played this position in a previous game and I hadn't intended to play the Caro-Kann in this tournament, but I thought that, despite the fact that White has a *huge* score in this line, with the queens off Black had to be as good if not better. 16. ...Ke7 of course around this time the Anand-Topalov game took place where Anand had the doubled a-pawns and won a nice game and i was second guessing my positional judgement. Anand vs Topalov, 2010 17.Rb1 b6 18.Ne5 Nxe5 19.dxe5 f6 20.Nd2 fxe5 21.Rg4 g5 22.hxg6 h5 23.Rc4 c5 24.Nf3 Kf6 25.Re4 Ne7 26.Nxe5 Rhd8 27.Rb3 Rd4 28.Rf3+ Nf5 29.Rff4 Rd5 30.Nd3 Rg8 31.Rf3 Rd4 ½-½ click for larger view i held it pretty easily and may have even been better in the final position. he was the correspondence champion of his country so I was very happy with this game. open is shaping up nicely i think...trying some different positions...i have got some junk as Black v. 1.e4 e5 while is good for me :) Jul-21-10    Open Defence: I feel I should devote more time to my family right now so I will scale back and eventually break off from chess, hopefully I can return to it sooner rather than later Sep-22-10    benjinathan: How is the baby? Babies? Oct-30-10    refutor: <benjinathan> babies are good...don't get on here nearly as much as before (as you can tell by my late response) Nov-06-10    refutor: either white or black invoked duncan suttles...i definitely don't play chess like this... NN (2456) - NN(2325) 1.d4 f5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 c5 4.d5 g6 5.Nh3 Bg7 6.O-O O-O 7.Nc3 Na6 8.d6 e6 9.a4 Nb4 10.e4 Nc6 11.exf5 gxf5 12.Nf4 Ng4 13.Nh5 Bh8 14.Nb5 Rb8 15.Re1 b6 16.h3 Nge5 17.c3 Rf7 18.Bh6 Bb7 19.f4 Ng6 20.Qe2 Ra8 21.Rad1 Na5 22.Nc7 Bxg2 23.Qxg2 Rb8 24.g4 fxg4 25.Nxe6 dxe6 26.Rxe6 Qd7 27.Qxg4 Nc4 28.Rd3 Re8 29.Rxe8+ Qxe8 30.d7 Qe1+ 31.Kh2 Rxd7 32.Rxd7 Qf2+ 33.Qg2 Qxg2+ 34.Kxg2 Nxb2 35.Kf2 Nxa4 36.Rxa7 Nxc3 37.f5 Bd4+ 38.Kf1 Ne4 39.fxg6 hxg6 40.Nf4 Ng3+ 41.Ke1 Ne4 42.Nxg6 b5 43.Ne7+ Kh8 44.Nf5 Bf6 45.Rb7 b4 46.Ke2 Nc3+ 47.Kd3 1-0 Jan-16-11    therealbenjinathan: <refutor> Me too. I have twins as well. I am glad to hear it is going well. Jan-31-11    Open Defence: hi! I am playing in the National Open! http://www.iccf-webchess.com/EventC... if this is a different event than the one you are referring to let me know Jan-31-11    refutor: Crud I missed it..I thought it started in February...send me a reminder next year when it starts up :) Hope all is well Feb-02-11    Open Defence: yup! things are great!! Aug-08-11    midknightblue: Refutor, how come no posts on your forum in so long? By the way, your blog is nice. I should document more of my games. I want to figure out how to post on a blog with a board so readers can play through the moves. I think there is one called chess publisher. They also have one on rybka/aquarium but it was kind of complicated to figure out how to use the publisher thing. Have you had any luck with posting a board that allows u to play through the games in a blog/? Aug-12-11    refutor: thanks for compliments on the blog...i think i used to use chess publisher a while ago...i don't mind it, but it's slow to start up and not everyone has java. i'm happy with the setup... haven't posted much because i haven't been playing much chess! too much dad stuff :) Aug-24-11    refutor: i haven't completely retired from chess :) got to put my Morphy hat on... Refutor - NN, Lunch at work 2011 1.e4 e5 2.f4 couldn't count on getting all the way to the Evans Gambit 2...exf4 3.Nf3 Qe7 4.Nc3 d5 5.d3 dxe4 6.dxe4 Bg4 7.Be2 Qb4 8.0-0 Bc5+ 9.Kh1 Nf6 10.e5 Ne4 11.Nd5 Qa5 12.a3 Nf2+ 13.Rxf2 Bxf2 14.b4 Qa4 15.Bb5+! Qxb5 16.Nxc7+ Ke7 17.Qd6# lack of development and queen on open d-file = checkmate 1-0 Oct-12-11    refutor: <midnightblue> you were asking about a pgn viewer...here is a good one that works with blogger and others... http://code.google.com/p/pgn4web/ Oct-18-11    bronkenstein: Haha , had real good laugh reading that bio of yours xD PS I`ll consider oatmeal tip seriously. Jan-27-12    refutor: Happy 10th anniversary to me (in 20 minutes)...what a great website! Nov-27-12    Memethecat: I have been enjoying your "Minority attack" game collection very much, thank you for assembling it. Feb-08-13    refutor: woo hoo member for 2 more years...starting date January 28, 2002...my how time flies :) Peace and love Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 14) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 14 OF 14 ·  Later Kibitzing>		A free online guide presented by Chessgames.com

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