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Aug-19-13
 | | Phony Benoni: Wait a minute. A picture of Raquel Welch and you're studying the chess board? Hopeless case, hopeless case.
But of course it's a staged photo. Quite possibly the majority of photos with actual chess players are staged. |
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Aug-19-13
 | | Phony Benoni: <jerseybob> Perhaps "ironic" was not a good word. It just struck me as a unusual pairing between two players with diametircially opposed personal and political views. ANd perhaps says something good about chess. |
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Aug-19-13 | | TheFocus: Wait... there was a chessboard in that Raquel Welch photo? |
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Aug-19-13
 | | HeMateMe: The important thing is that EVERYTHING in the Raquel photo^^ is real, except the chess position. One can't have everything... |
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Aug-20-13 | | KlingonBorgTatar: Wow, she ain't no dumb blond after all !! :-))) |
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Aug-20-13
 | | HeMateMe: Moving along to our next thread, Raquel gets patriotic: <https://www.google.com/search?aq=&r...> This is a girl you can take home, to meet Mom. |
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Aug-20-13 | | JoergWalter: <Phony Benoni: Wait a minute. A picture of Raquel Welch and you're studying the chess board?
Hopeless case, hopeless case.
But of course it's a staged photo. Quite possibly the majority of photos with actual chess players are staged.> actual chess player? the guy looks like tom jones.(the young one!) |
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Aug-21-13 | | jerseybob: JoergWalter: Of course it's Tom Jones. God, I feel old having to point that out! |
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Mar-10-14 | | iscu two: Boo... what's that pawn doing still on b2 in his profile pic??? |
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Jan-09-15 | | jerseybob: iscu two: Yes, that's funny! Obviously a body switch; that's NOT A.E.S. |
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Apr-03-15
 | | WannaBe: Once when Blackburne was giving a simultaneous exhibition, his opponent had ordered and just been served a glass of whisky. Instead of making his move, Blackburne drank the whiskey and went on to the next board. How I would have loved to have known him personally! - Tony Santasiere (Follow up on the quote on Blackburne page.) |
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Aug-28-15 | | wordfunph: from Anthony Santasiere's Essay on Chess..
<In the U.S. Open (Rochester, Minn., 1957) the excellent playing room was in the I.B.M. establishment; but for the players there was one difficulty - the men's room was a very long distance from the playing area; and with all the clocks ticking, I saw a many player (including myself) in a trot between first base and home plate; but first prize in this race went without a doubt to the Spanish champion - a charming gentleman by the name of Bilbe - who exploded in a fifty yard dash, and ran the distance both ways like a thoroughbred horse - is chess worth it?> lol! |
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Aug-28-15 | | epistle: Kay Lotis na lang kayo magpa-greet. Napaka-showbiz nyo a. Gusto nyo pang magkalat ng kabaduyan sa Sinquefeld. Gusto nyong lalong maging katatawanan dun ang idol nyo. Hawahan nyo pa ng kakengkoyan ng kokote nyo. Anong dating sa inyo, por example, kung si Magnus biglang mag-greet ng mga Norwegians? Sus ginoo. Ano akala nyo sa confessional na yun, radio booth sa DZRH? |
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Aug-28-15 | | wordfunph: from Anthony Santasiere's Essay on Chess..
<Two young friends of mine (chess lovers) recently married. Settled down to their housekeeping, they always had two games in progress at the same time - one, real slow, deep, would take days to finish; the other, a very fast one after dinner, so that the loser would have to wash the dishes. But sometimes this game ended in stalemate (they had an allergy for stalemates), so the dirty dishes suffered neglect from day to day.> :-) |
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Aug-28-15
 | | keypusher: <Phony Benoni: I recommend the following game for lovers of the ironic:
Santasiere vs R Welch, 1943
Welch later went on to form the John Birch Society.> Thanks, I had no idea. Welch wasn't terrible.
John Birch is himself portrayed in Langdon Gilkey's remarkable <Shantung Compound>, as is (much more favorably) Eric Liddell, the Scotsman who wouldn't run on Sunday in <Chariots of Fire>. Liddell seems to have been one of the rare types who was better looking than the man who played him in the movie. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl... |
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Aug-28-15
 | | offramp: As I get older I start to think that there is no such thing as a bad opening move. |
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Aug-28-15
 | | diceman: <offramp: As I get older I start to think that there is no such thing as a bad opening move.> 1.Resigns |
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Jan-13-16 | | TheFocus: Rest in peace, Anthony Santasiere. |
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May-02-16 | | Caissanist: Batgirl (aka User: SBC ) has a fine article on Santasiere on chess.com, with many photographs I hadn't seen before: https://www.chess.com/blog/batgirl/... . |
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Feb-05-17 | | zanzibar: OK, what's the ref for the opening being the result of a touched piece? And what is the exact opening moves?
If 1.Nf3 d5 2.b4, then <CG>'s opening explorer gives this game as the debut: Alekhine vs J Drewitt, 1923 None other than Alekhine is the originator.
On the other hand, if the opening is 1.b4 d5 here's that debut: Schlechter vs Tarrasch, 1896 Schlechter.
And if 1.b4 d5 2.Nf3 then it's this game:
Alekhine vs J Drewitt, 1923 Oh wait, that's <CG> doing the transpose... Here's the first 1.b4 d5 2.Nf3 game (had to go game-by-game, ugh!) Opocensky vs E Richter, 1929 Opocensky.
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The first game by Santasiere is this one:
Santasiere vs Kashdan, 1938 via 1.Nf3 d5 2.b4. Well, the first on <CG> anyways. |
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Feb-05-17 | | zanzibar: OK, <batgirl>'s article has this quote from the man himself about the opening: < The history of this curious opening must almost entirely revolve around my many years' experience with it. Alekhin[e] once opened a game with it. Tartakower at New York 1924 played 1. b4 vs. Maroczy and jocularly referred to it as the Orang-Outan Opening." The joke may be good, but the title is poor, for chess, like love, is serious. However 1. b4, which allows the immediate 1 . . .e5, is not really "my" opening, since I prefer to force Black [to] exert some effort to attain 1 . . .e5.> So, yes, 1.Nf3 is clearly the starting move (to prevent 1...e5). And credit to Alekhine, as is proper. |
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Feb-05-17 | | zanzibar: Oh, Santasiere himself, like his wiki article, doesn't mention the opening having originated by accident - at least not yet (I didn't read all of batgirl's article yet, but seems a safe bet). Our <CG> intro seems a bit apocryphal, which might not be the first time. (Should I complain about fake quotes again? Yeah, in passing...) |
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Feb-05-17 | | zanzibar: <We are informed by reliable sources that Mr. Santaserie ha requested the government to copyright this move... > -- Fine |
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Dec-09-19 | | Nosnibor: Santasiere tied first equal with Primavera in a short international tournament held in Milan in April 1953.They both scored 5.5 points each followed by Engalicew and Kottnauer 5,Paoli 2.5,Ulvestad 2, Giorgieri 1.5 and Ferrantes 1. |
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Dec-25-21
 | | perfidious: <brankat: <whiteshark> I'm too old to jump. These days I crawl to conclusions :-)> Don't I know it. |
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