flimflam48 Member since Jan-14-07 · Last seen Jun-19-25 no bio

flimflam48 has kibitzed 38 times to chessgames   [more...]

May-01-25 Superbet Blitz Poland (2025)    flimflam48: This does not seem to be Topalov's forte with so many losses?! Gasp! Fedoseev seems to be nailing it, to be sure!      Apr-27-25 Superbet Rapid Poland (2025)    flimflam48: Hmm...does this really do justice to chess at this rapid rate? Surely it's merely reaction stuff? Hardly any time to think, plan or devise a lasting strategy? Seems that otherwise very good players are simply falling foul...of TIME?? Not impressed at all!      Nov-29-24 Ding - Gukesh World Championship Match (2024)    flimflam48: Interesting comment by Mathematicar: This really applies to Correspondence chess games! You never really know who [or what?!] you're playing against! It could be someone's Grandmother or Stockfish 15, 16, or now 17! And too many moves have been analyzed by Grandmasters, so it's ...      Dec-15-23 Aleksandr Dronov    flimflam48: I like the comment by LIFE Master AJ: 'ICCF is boring and not even honest, anymore ... it's all "engine-vs-engine" stuff, anyway. Real correspondence died out a number of years ago.' Very true, methinks! I've played corres chess since 2000...just when almost everyone seemed to      Feb-21-23 WR Chess Masters (2023)    flimflam48: After 25 games, there are no wins for Black?! gulp! So, does this mean that White really does have an advantage, or...is this simply a myth...and players with White are playing a better game all up?! Maybe it depends on the opening they use?! Hmmm...pause for thought!      Jul-24-22 FTX Road to Miami (2022)    flimflam48: Carlsen has nothing to win, nothing to prove; he's probably bored with the whole thing now! Let the underlings scramble around for the honors, such as they are! Hey, he might go into politics...and follow Garry's lead here?!      May-10-22 27th Sigeman & Co (2022)    flimflam48: What on earth is Shirov doing propping the rest of the table up like that? And with zero wins to boot!?      Jan-15-22 82nd Armenian Championship (2022)    flimflam48: Oh dear...not a good start for Tigran; he ends up propping the rest of the field up after three rounds?! Ah well, he may yet come good, eh!?      Dec-05-21 Carlsen - Nepomniachtchi World Championship Match (2021)    flimflam48: It's tough for Nepo now, but he should grab a rest, then go for a swim...and then sink a couple of margaritas...and come back with a vengeance!      Jun-15-18 R Junge vs A Colovic, 2015   flimflam48: Errr...surely 42) ... Rh1 ends it all?!!

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