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Zebra
Member since Mar-23-06

Occasional club player, based in Germany but originally from the UK. Besides western chess I am also interested in Japanese chess (shogi) and Chinese chess (xiangqi).
In real life I am involved in linguistics, logic and computing, and my hobbies, besides chess, include history, astronomy, classical music, curries and good wine.
My nickname comes from the colours of my favourite football team, but it seemed kind of suitable for chess as well (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/19...) :-)
Like several others around here (User: GameKnot) I play correspondence games on-line at GameKnot, under the name "orangutan".
My chessforum is now open again for business. I intend it to be used chiefly for the following areas:
1. My favourite openings, especially the Open Sicilian (will shortly put up a list of others).
2. Endings. These have always been a great weakness in my play, and I am trying to work on them. To my surprise, I am finding them interesting.
3. Almost anything to do with Russia and Eastern Europe.
4. Game theory and chess variants (especially traditional Asian variants such as shogi and xiangqi).
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I have started to make a collection of links to bookmark certain common positions in Opening Explorer, for my convenience but hopefully for others as well. It can be found at Tabiya chessforum.

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Zebra has kibitzed 1444 times to chessgames [less...]

Apr-22-09 Zebra chessforum

Zebra: <Jess> that is all extremely helpful; <many> thanks. This isn't certain yet, but would be in the public system. It is beginning to sound quite attractive. And don't worry, I will bring my whisky with me. Kamsahamnida!

Apr-21-09 jessicafischerqueen chessforum

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Apr-16-09 radu stancu chessforum

Zebra: Nice to finish with a win against such a strong player - but to tell the truth I have felt heavily outgunned throughout this tournament. I enjoyed it though - thanks to all participants.

Feb-26-09 brankat chessforum

Zebra: Me too. Long time no see.

Feb-26-09 acirce chessforum

Zebra: I thought it was quite a good title, but missed the allusion. Maybe you could include it in your profile at the top?

Feb-24-09 Open Defence chessforum

Zebra: Hi <OD>. Can you recommend any good websites for curry recipes?

Dec-31-08 ahmadov chessforum

Zebra: Iyi yillar S novym godom Z novym rokom Kali khronia Bliadhna mhath ur Guten Rutsch ...etc. :)

Dec-05-08 sentriclecub chessforum

Zebra: <JFQ: the grammar is byzantine> You mean it's Greek to you?

Aug-23-08 WannaBe chessforum

Zebra: <WannaBe: Have MADD ever compared European (drunk driving) statistics against U.S. ?? I personally would like to see some numbers here.> They could take a look at Greece.

Jul-14-08 chessgames.com chessforum

Zebra: <chessgames> Thanks for the reply. I hadn't noticed the alternate spellings feature, probably because I (usually) use an antiquated browser. Btw the idea of an American bias had not crossed my mind :). I think in the cases I was thinking of (y/j/i for the Slavonic palatal ...

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Jun-30-08 meloncio chessforum

Jun-29-08 chesstoplay chessforum

Jun-29-08 G McCarthy vs M Kennefick, 1977

Jun-18-08 fictionist chessforum

Jun-10-08 achieve chessforum

Jun-09-08 YouRang chessforum

Jun-03-08 Boomie chessforum

May-13-08 positionalgenius chessforum

Apr-24-08 Domdaniel chessforum

Nov-25-07 Eyal chessforum

Nov-23-07 Davolni chessforum

Nov-23-07 JoeWms chessforum

Nov-17-07 JointheArmy chessforum

Nov-13-07 Honza Cervenka chessforum

Nov-10-07 tamar chessforum

Oct-10-07 Andoy chessforum

Sep-23-07 Anand vs Aronian, 2007

Sep-23-07 World Championship Tournament (2007)

Sep-20-07 Holden chessforum

Sep-04-07 Benzol chessforum

Aug-08-07 azaris chessforum

Aug-08-07 WBP chessforum

Aug-06-07 benjinathan chessforum

Aug-06-07 twinlark chessforum

Aug-05-07 Ragh chessforum

Jul-10-07 Tactic101 chessforum

Jul-04-07 Dortmund Sparkassen (2007)
Jun-16-07 percyblakeney chessforum

Jun-03-07 V Tietz vs Schlechter, 1906

May-28-07 TheAlchemist chessforum

May-20-07 EmperorAtahualpa chessforum

May-17-07 WarmasterKron chessforum

May-02-07 Chess Classics chessforum

Apr-01-07 suenteus po 147 chessforum

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Feb-11-07 Moscow Open (2007)

Feb-07-07 King's Gambit Accepted (C34)

Feb-05-07 Raymond Keene

Jan-21-07 Zoltan Varga

Jan-12-07 lostemperor chessforum

Jan-12-07 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran (D48)

Jan-10-07 The World vs A Nickel, 2006

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Dec-09-06 Russian Championship Superfinal (2006)

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Nov-23-06 Neo-Grunfeld Defense (D70)

Nov-14-06 Kasparov vs The World, 1999

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Oct-29-06 Essent Tournament (2006)

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May-10-06 Mikhail Tal

May-09-06 S Levitsky vs Marshall, 1912

May-07-06 P K Wells vs Y Habu, 2005

May-01-06 Tal vs A Vooremaa, 1971

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