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flintrock
Member since Aug-21-06 · Last seen Aug-30-19

I am a retired litigation attorney, living near San Francisco. I learned to play chess in 1953 from Reuben Fine's Chess the Easy Way. My favorite chess books are Modern Ideas in Chess by Richard Reti and New Ideas in Chess by Larry Evans. My favorite chess game is Morphy's Opera Box game. Morphy is my favorite player. I love chess for its history and culture, the stories about Morphy, Anderssen, Pillsbury, Lasker, Marshall, Reti, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Tal, and Fischer rather than for any hope of ever becoming a good player, due to a low aptitude for structural visualization. I live in hope, however, of becoming able to beat somebody besides my wife and my grandchildren. My dream is to go up to the 4th Floor Chess Room of the Mechanic's Institute in San Francisco, where I am a member, and win a game with one of the regulars. I have chosen Isaac Asimov as my avatar because, brilliant as he was, he couldn't, as he admitted in his autobiography, play chess, either.

flintrock has kibitzed 13 times to chessgames [more...]

Aug-13-07 JoeWms chessforum

flintrock: <Dom>, <Joe>, Asimov prided himself on writing simply so that the average person could understand him, no matter how complex the subject, but sometimes, I think, his anti-Latinism got the better of him: "thingify" and "thingification" are ugly words.

Jul-24-07 The World vs G Timmerman, 2007

flintrock: I voted d4. We're white. Why play to his strength?

Jul-15-07 chessgames.com chessforum

flintrock: <chessgames> Wow! Thank you. Talk about a rapid response to give me back an Asimov avatar. I admire what you have done with this website and will certainly be renewing my Premium Membership soon.You are the best at what you do!

Jul-15-07 WannaBe chessforum

flintrock: ,<WannaBe> Thanks for your quick search to recover my Isaac avatar. I didn't know you could do that. Next time you go to the Mechanics Institute for a beating at the Chess Room,park at the 5th and Mission Garage and walk over it's a lot cheaper than parking downtown. Or take

Jul-13-07 Kibitzer's Café

flintrock: May I assume that if my old Isaac Asimov avatar is no longer in the collection of available avatars that I visit daily since I mistakenly gave it up a couple of months ago by clicking on a different avatar that someone else has it? If I want an Isaac Asimov avatar now is it up to ...

Dec-04-06 Eliskases vs Bogoljubov, 1939

flintrock: <Peligroso Patzer> Thank you. A good thing for a lesser patzer than you are to know over the board. I knew about opposition. Thanks to your comment, I now know when an extra doubled pawn on an inside file should win and when it shouldn't.

Nov-30-06 B Thorfinnsson vs E Player, 1999

flintrock: <Domdaniel> Zukertort, perhaps, or are his sideburns disqualified by his beard as merely a means to an end? btw, I looked at your forum today, enjoyed it immensely, and must congratulate you on your leadership in achieving the learned giddiness of it all!

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