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Jul-21-13
 | | HeMateMe: The USA is beating all of the South America and Caribbean teams in qualifying soccer rounds. They have a home advantage if they have high altitude playing areas, like the Aztec Stadium in Mexico, and places in Peru and Ecuador. These games have been in the USA. |
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| Jul-21-13 | | usuario x: you are mistaken, assuming that you are talking about the qualifying for the world cup. USA does not play south american countries, they play the concacaf qualifying and they are doing well but is not that impressive considering the teams they are playing against. |
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| Jul-21-13 | | Xeroxx: <<Was Shankland born in a prison? What a great name for a jail/prison.>> Shankland Name Meaning Scottish: habitational name from a lost or unidentified place. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press |
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Jul-21-13
 | | perfidious: <Everett.....Almost every competitive chess player in their forties and above is soft and fat. It is hard to be tough when you practice sitting for so long, with the only moving going on is the pieces shuffling around the board in your head.> Korchnoi had a bit to say on this in <Chess is My Life>: http://www.magicoportals.com/books/... <'....The European Team Championship in Bath followed immediately after the Interzonal. We knew beforehand that we would be staying in double rooms. I was asked with whom I would like to share and answered, 'Stein'. In the morning, when we got on the bus that was to take us to Moscow airport, Stein did not appear. They went off to look for him, and discovered that he had died in his room in the Rossiya Hotel. It was a heart attack, the chess player's occupational disease. Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed'. That's how it was with Stein....'> It is the same way in poker: lifespans do not tend to be exceptionally long on the whole, with the great Johnny Moss' lifespan of 88 years more an aberration than the norm. |
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| Jul-21-13 | | Refused: And Wang Yue is at 3:0.
Damn goldfish harassing all those baracudas. |
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Jul-21-13
| | perfidious: <Refused: And Wang Yue is at 3:0.
Damn goldfish harassing all those baracudas.> This is odds-defying action, which proves that the long run is just that. Them there barrycudy will sink their teeth into Wang, iffen he sticks around long enough. Y'all best head for the open seas or meet up with Nem-e-sis! |
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| Jul-21-13 | | NakoSonorense: <WannaBe>, who are you rooting for? |
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Jul-21-13
 | | WannaBe: In the Copa de Oro, I am rooting for USA. Against the Nationals, I am rooting for Dodgers. |
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| Jul-21-13 | | NakoSonorense: Well, you could say you're in a win-win situation. |
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Jul-21-13
| | WannaBe: Oh, please...
Winter Olympics:
2010, Vancouver, Canada came in third in medal count (did get most gold), behind Germany and U.S. 2006, Torino, Italy came in 9th.
2002, Salt Lake, U.S. came in 2nd in total medal count, behind Germany and third in gold (Norway won the most gold, 2nd in total medal count). 1998, Nagano, Japan finished 7th. (Definitely better than the Italians did in their own home country) Summer Olympics:
2012, London, Great Britain finished 4th in medal count (65), behind Russia (82), China (88), and U.S. (104). 2008, Beijing, China finished 2nd in medal count behind U.S. 110 to 100, but China did out gold U.S. 51-36 2004, Athens, host country totally failed. You can look it up yourself. 2000, Sydney, Australia tied for 3rd in medal count with China, behind Russia, and then U.S. World Cup Soccer (male)
2010 Spain over Netherlands in South Africa
2006 Italy over France in Germany
2002 Brazil over Germany in Japan
1998 France over Brazil in France
1994 Brazil over Italy in U.S.
1990 W. Germany over Argentina in Italy
1986 Argentina over W. Germany in Mexico
1982 Italy over W. Germany in Spain |
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| Jul-21-13 | | s4life: <HeMateMe: The USA is beating all of the South America and Caribbean teams in qualifying soccer rounds. > Bad example.. USA is competing with costa rica and mexico, not with brazil, argentina, uruguay or others. The latter group is several orders of magnitude harder to play against.. I venture saying USA would have never gotten to a world cup if it was competing with "South America" at home or abroad |
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Jul-22-13
| | HeMateMe: Oh, you're right. It isn't Brazil and Argentina, but the countries north of them. Nonetheless, Mexico has good teams. We're happy to win a few of these, as soccer (football) is not at all our national sport. basketball, baseball and American Football (the ball is caught) are our specialties. Thanks for the clarification. (I'd be quite delirious if we were to beat Brazil, there or here.) |
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| Jul-22-13 | | Fish55: <WannaBe> Your recitation of home team results in Olympiads is pointless without comparisons to how these teams did in Olympiads that they did not host. In 2006, for example, Canada was third in medal count, but only fifth in number of gold. World Cup results are not the same as World Cup qualifying rounds, when teams play half of their matches at the opposing team's venue. |
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| Jul-22-13 | | parmetd: Poor Yury 0/4 |
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| Jul-22-13 | | technical draw: Wang Yue is kicking butt! |
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| Jul-23-13 | | dumbgai: Lasker had to play the Capablanca match in Cuba, where he was uncomfortable with the climate. Nobody has argued that Capablanca's match win was illegitimate. |
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Jul-23-13
| | perfidious: <dumbgai>: On the match in Havana: <Writing of the (tenth) game immediately after- for he was contributing a weekly letter on the match to the Amsterdam <Telegraaf>- Lakser said that in it he committed errors of judgment and obvious mistakes. He also complained of the heat and glare of the April sun in Cuba; but he allowed that Capablanca's style of play had been "beyond reproach."> P W Sergeant in <Championship Chess>. |
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| Jul-23-13 | | Fish55: After their draw, Wang Yue remains at +4, Shulman at -4. |
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| Jul-24-13 | | Caissanist: Nice result from Tatev Abrahamyan, whoever she is, scoring 3.5-1.5 against a Chinese women's team rated 100-200 points higher than she is. The rest of the American women got massacred, of course. |
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| Jul-24-13 | | dumbgai: Tatev is from the LA area and was quite active in the local tournaments there before getting more international invites. She's a streaky player, capable of beating higher rated opponents but also susceptible to sub-par play. |
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Jul-24-13
 | | offramp: Surely poker players have short lives because of all those saloon shoot-outs? |
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| Jul-24-13 | | notyetagm: Lenderman vs Wang Yue, 2013 44 ... ?
click for larger view44 ... ♗h3-g2!! 0-1 <attack defender: b1-sq>
click for larger view<fisayo123: 44...Bg2!! What an unbelievable move to end a complex struggle. Wang Yue is starting to regain that form that made him a top ten player a couple of years ago.> YES!
Go China! |
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| Jul-24-13 | | dumbgai: <notyetagm> The funny thing is that Wang Yue could have played Bg2 on the previous move, or even the move before that, with the same effect. When you can't get escape from the same winning tactic with two moves to spare, it's fair to say that your position was hopeless. |
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| Jul-25-13 | | notyetagm: <dumbgai: <notyetagm> The funny thing is that Wang Yue could have played Bg2 on the previous move, or even the move before that, with the same effect. When you can't get escape from the same winning tactic with two moves to spare, it's fair to say that your position was hopeless.> Still beautiful, just slightly delayed beauty. :-) |
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| Jul-25-13 | | Mudphudder: On the same note though, Lendreman surely didn't see Bg2 earlier either...otherwise he would've taken counter measures. |
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