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| May-29-22 | | Z free or die: <Nikolai Brandon Brunni
60, of Honolulu, Hawaii, died in Honolulu on May 21, 2022. He was born in Rome, Georgia. Private Services.>
https://obits.staradvertiser.com/20... |
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| May-29-22 | | Z free or die: <Focus>' finest (or most infamous) guffaw moment on <CG>: <Sep-07-10 TheFocus:
I recall Lasker's excuse as to why he lost to Nellie in the odds-match. <"At the critical juncture in the games, Mrs. Showalter would smile coyly, and then flash a bit of ankle. I was extremely flustered by such antics. When I complained to Mr. Showalter, he just guffawed and said, 'My Nellie is such a card! Have a cigar'.">> Jackson Whipps Showalter (kibitz #44) Immediately picked up on by <rookhouse> (he of infamous <Manchester 1890) fame): <Sep-09-10 rookhouse: ...
I would be very interested as to the source of this quote. I have not yet come across it in my Showalter research. Thank you.> Jackson Whipps Showalter (kibitz #46) * * * * *
Cleared up the next day on <CG>... <<Focus>LOL. This was a joke. In those times, showing an ankle was the same as going totally naked!! ...
<Sep-14-10 rookhouse:> I suspected as much, but had to ask .... you never know. From what I have read and been told by relatives, Nellie was a real "pistol" at times. This kind of kidding around may not have been out of the realm of possibility for her.
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Ten years later the ramifications still echoed:
<Nikolai Brunni says:
March 5, 2020 at 1:27 am
Dear Sir:
The story about Nellie Showalter flashing her ankles is not true. It was a joke I posted at http://www.chessgames.com that I made on Jackson Whipps Showalter’s page to show that even Lasker was not above making an excuse for losing. Totally fabricated by me on September 7, 2010.> https://allanshowalter.com/2019/02/... * * * * *
There's a lesson of some kind somewhere in there... |
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| May-29-22 | | parisattack: <Z free or die> Thanks for the memory! |
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| May-29-22 | | Z free or die: Aside - it looks like <rookhouse> is active on his blog again (after a long period of inactivity): https://www.rookhouse.com/
That's welcome news to me.
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<parisattack> glad to share that little bit of (mis)-history. |
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| May-29-22 | | Z free or die: And to complete the Nellie cycle -
https://allanshowalter.com/2019/02/... The lesson may be this - don't use <CG> as a reference! |
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May-30-22
 | | Dionysius1: About Mrs Showalter, the quoted article says
"She is said to be very handsome but, if so, the portrait of her in the New York Recorder does not do her justice …’ Dang, that's rude and funny at the same time. A hundred years before, duels were being fought for less. |
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May-30-22
| | Dionysius1: Incidentally this conversation feels nice: a proper cg.com memorial to <TheFocus>. Yippee (in an appropriately sorrowful tone)!
Dionysius1 |
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| Jun-01-22 | | Z free or die: There's also this bit of humor, found in <bankat>'s profile: <"Aspirin can prevent pregnancy. All a woman has to do is place an aspirin between her knees and not let it go."<ThFocus>> User: brankat Can anybody find the original? |
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Jun-02-22
 | | Stonehenge: It began here Beer (kibitz #4022), of course <Dom> knew the answer. Dirty old man :) Kibitz by <TheFocus>: Kenneth Rogoff (kibitz #74026). |
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| Jul-14-22 | | login:
Nikolai Brandon Brunni
1962 - 2022
Postal chessplayer, professional 'editor, writer, poet, martial arts teacher, bodyguard'.
'I enjoy the entire history of chess and consider myself a minor historian/researcher. ..'
TheFocus
'.. I may only be an Expert player, but I am a grandmaster of research. The description about me that I like the most is that “He can track down the shadow of a whisper.” ..'
TheFocus
'A haiku I [TheFocus] wrote:
Panda eats bamboo
In my garden 'neath the moon.
You get out now! Shoo!'
Favourite game
Herbert Wayne Gustafson (kibitz #1)
Ein Vers
Leben heißt - dunkler Gewalten
Spuk bekämpfen in sich.
Dichten - Gerichtstag halten
Über sein eignes Ich.
Herik Ibsen (translation by Christian Morgenstern)
Nik was a true free spirit and his contributions to this site were many.
His loss is profound and deep.
Unrelated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp-...
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| Jul-15-22 | | stone free or die: I might have cropped the photo a bit differently, but it's nice to have his photo on his player page. But I do have to ask - are there any photos of him at the board? . |
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Apr-03-23
 | | MissScarlett: Not to be confused with Nicolas Brunner. |
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| May-21-23 | | parisattack: Tempus fugit. It has been one year since <TheFocus> took flight. Godspeed, friend. I hope your journey is good! |
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| May-21-24 | | parisattack: You are missed, Nikolai. |
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| Aug-25-24 | | hemy: Picture and credits to Nikolai Brunni on the page 118 of the project https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/l1zy...
Many other pictures I received from Nikolai many years ego:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/w1v9... |
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| Sep-09-24 | | parisattack: Thanks much for those <Hemy>. Perhaps one of those photos could replace the current one here on his profile? |
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| Sep-12-24 | | hemy: <stone free or die><But I do have to ask - are there any photos of him at the board?>
I placed links to Nikolai pictures. |
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| Sep-12-24 | | hemy: <But I do have to ask - are there any photos of him at the board?> unfortunately I didn't received from Nikolai pictures of him playing chess. |
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| Oct-16-24 | | stone free or die: <...chess master Nikolai Brunni won two games and drew 10 to take third place in the recent ACCA Southem Invitational Tournament at Knoxville, Tenn. The tournament was won by Charles Vine of Athens, Ga., with Alfred of Montgomery, Ala., in second place. Although Brunni managed to win two games, the majority of his draws were of 20 moves or less.> Calhoun Times and Gordon County News - 1991-04-13 (Georgia) https://www.myheritage.com/names/ch... |
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Oct-16-24
 | | perfidious: There is one snag with that little narrative: the player was never a master. https://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlT... |
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| Oct-16-24 | | stone free or die: Apparently not <perf>. But his correspondence rating was better, though still not master level. Of course his full history isn't online. |
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Oct-16-24
| | perfidious: It is all very well to state that his history is incomplete, but a player does not rise from 1500 in their late twenties to become a full-fledged master. |
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| Oct-16-24 | | stone free or die: No <perf>, I wasn't saying that he was a master. But the newspaper article is from 1991 and your tournament link is from 2000. His rating graphs are here:
https://www.uschess.org/datapage/ra... He doesn't look too active post-millennium. Kinda wish it did show his full history but there's no debate on what's there. |
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| Oct-16-24 | | stone free or die: Addendum - looks like his rating supplement gives his rating from 1990, about the same as that from 2000 then: https://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlR... . |
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| May-21-25 | | parisattack: Aloha and Mahalo, Nikolai. O ke au e holo. |
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