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Jun-25-23
 | | LIFE Master AJ: Oh. My opponent in that game was Jeff Tobin.
(A player who avoids book openings, but often wins with dangerous ... even unbelievable tactics.) |
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Jun-25-23
| | LIFE Master AJ: No one seems to want to play a really slow game anymore ... like the old days.
(Say - 45 moves in 2.5 hours. Then say play a second time control of game in one hour.) Of course, the majority of my chess was played at that kind of time control. I remember ...
The "good old days" ... before sudden death was even permitted. |
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Jun-27-23
| | LIFE Master AJ: When I was a teenager, I tried like 15 games playing blindfold chess. I got a migraine and had to abandon the rest of the games. (I do remember that I had already won 2 games.) |
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| Sep-01-23 | | DanQuigley: When we played together in 1987 and traveled together your sighted game was more than I could handle. If only I had thought to request you be blindfolded. Wait a minute. It comes back to me now. We both tried to play a game or two without sight of a board on a car trip to a tourney in ... was it Panama City? Some little town to the east. I lost track of the position around move 25 or 30 when you were cleaning my clock anyway. Glad to see you still play a little. I watch my rating keep going down as I get older while I try to get out and play once in a while here in South Carolina. I was the 2018 SC Senior Champion beating out Klaus Pohl by half a point. I have yet to repeat. Anyhow, all the best to you! |
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Sep-10-23
| | LIFE Master AJ: @DanQuigley
I seem to remember that.
I had a minor stroke in 2019. Before the stroke, I could have probably remembered the whole game ... but not anymore. So much was lost. I used to be able to close my eyes and see my entire first grade class ... and tell you all of their names. Post stroke? Nada. I lost so much stuff (memories) that I don't even think I am the same person ... I am not me anymore! But I should be grateful. I saw elderly people at my church have a stroke and they might be paralyzed on one side of their bodies and/or lose the ability to speak. |
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Dec-01-23
 | | ketchuplover: happy holidays young man :) |
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May-01-24
| | LIFE Master AJ: @ketchuplover TY U2
01 May 2024
Sorry that I am just now seeing this!
I come here daily to solve the problems, but I usually don't stay that long. |
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May-01-24
| | LIFE Master AJ: I have officially requested that my name ....
here ... be PERMANENTLY changed back to simply. ... ... ...
"A.J. Goldsby." (Or A.J. Goldsby I)
I don't feel the need to explain why - (in great detail ... in a public forum) ...
"A.J." is what I have been called since I was in junior high. Many church goers say that it's a sin to be called by anything other than your real name.
After I was abandoned by the church and forced to wander the streets homeless for around 6 months (with my autistic daughter) ... I have a much different view of how I view those people ... ... ... or what I think about anything that comes out of their mouths! |
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May-01-24
| | LIFE Master AJ: BTW, I won my last rated chess tournament.
March 2024? |
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Aug-24-24
| | LIFE Master AJ: I won the Class "A" trophy one year at the FL State Championships. (1993?) About a year ago, I went down to South FL to visit. One person opened a scrapbook, it had a picture of me holding the trophy. |
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| Aug-24-24 | | SugarDom: How's your daughter?
Is she all grown up now? |
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Aug-25-24
| | LIFE Master AJ: Yup. My oldest is 27. Can you believe it?
I guess I am officially getting older now.
I will tell you the honest truth: sometimes I look into the mirror and I break into laughter. The really funny thing is that I am not sure why. As a child, I saw death all around me. I grew up in the day when they showed the movies/reels of the atomic bomb and the air raid alarm would go off. These things terrified me in a way that I cannot express. (My older sister said I would hide under a bed when this happened.) I also grew up in churches, they were always saying that the world was going to end any day. As a consequence of all this stuff ... or some other childhood trauma, I truly believed that I would not live long. I was shocked when I turned 10, same at 15, 20, etc. Now, I praise God every day!! My mom lived to 93, despite smoking until well past age 30. People - on BOTH sides of my family - have lived well past 100, so now I hope to do the same. |
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Aug-25-24
| | LIFE Master AJ: And I prefer "A.J." (without the quotation marks) ...
to any other rendering of my name. |
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Aug-25-24
| | LIFE Master AJ: I really don't know off the top of my head ... Is there a way to determine what the most popular of all my games are, according to the kibitzing, I guess? |
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Oct-18-24
| | LIFE Master AJ: I loved being a premium member. 😢
But I am 66 and I live on a fixed income.
If anyone wanted to gift me a membership, I would accept it. |
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Dec-06-24
| | LIFE Master AJ: https://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMai... My next to last tournament. (I won.)
My last tournament was a disaster for me. My youngest daughter told me ... after the first game ... that a fire alarm was continually going off. (It was driving her crazy.) I put my phone on vibrate. For the next two games, my hip kept buzzing ... I could not concentrate on the game. After I managed to lose in the 3rd round ... I withdrew and drove home. (I fixed the fire alarm. It has not gone off since! 😁) |
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Dec-06-24
| | LIFE Master AJ: Merry Christmas to all CG members. Have a fun and safe holiday. Happy problem solving!! |
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Dec-06-24
| | LIFE Master AJ: https://lichess.org/INpHis75/white
A game versus the ever dangerous Jeff Tobin. |
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Dec-14-24
| | LIFE Master AJ: For whomever gifted me a Premium Membership ... let me say: "Thank you - very much!" |
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Dec-14-24
| | LIFE Master AJ: https://www.angelfire.com/games4/li... My analysis of "The Goldsby Position." |
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Dec-17-24
 | | HeMateMe: would turning off the phone have been a solution? |
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Dec-23-24
| | LIFE Master AJ: Not really.
BTW ... I ALWAYS notify the TD (in advance) that I MUST go outside and check on things, especially in between games. (I have an autistic daughter. She is considered handicapped and 100% disabled.) If I did not have such a situation at home, there is NO WAY!! I would even bother with my cell phone during a tournament. (I wish it wasn't necessary to deal with stuff during a tournament, but ... sometimes in life ... you have to simply play out the hand that reality has dealt you.) |
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Jan-03-25
| | LIFE Master AJ: I was at chess club ... here in Pensacola a couple of weeks ago. I was telling a young man about a program ... because of a stroke in 2019, I could not remember the name of the program. I told him that I THOUGHT that the program had been a computer chess world champion ... but had been stripped of it's title for stealing code. He literally told me, "You are crazy," (maybe) and "I have never heard of that." https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/... |
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Jan-03-25
| | LIFE Master AJ: Of course, the name of the program was Rybka.
I DO remember the days when SEEMINGLY ... EVERYONE!!!!! USED RYBKA ... and they looked askance at other programs. In particular, I remember the group games - playing titled players - (you would vote for the best move); and people followed Rybka like mindless robots, completely chasing miniscule advantages. (I have MANY YEARS of experience using chess engines!! I have also played correspondence chess - both with chess engines and without them. My postal rating on one server was over 2500, but that server folded a long time ago.) I think it's bloody foolishness to chase advantages of a few thousandths of a point. But ... anyway ... I was right and the young man was wrong! And the name of the engine is (was?) Rybka. I have also given up postal/correspondence chess, the winner is usually the person who has ZERO chess skill but has the PC with the most "horsepower." |
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Jan-03-25
| | LIFE Master AJ: IMO - there is no substitute for learning to think for yourself. |
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