Feb-07-20 Kenneth S Rogoff 
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| gezafan: A pimp is being tried for forcing a 17 year old girl into prostitution. Since the liberals took over our society has promoted being a pimp as something to be admired. A song promoting being a pimp won an Oscar in 2006. Pimps are violent criminals who exploit and hurt women. Thanks ... |
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Jan-22-20 Kibitzer's Café
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| gezafan: The Andrews Sisters were a singing trio who were big in the 1940s. They're well worth checking out. Here's one of their big hits: Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5u... |
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Jan-06-20 Santa Claus
Sep-18-19 Morphy vs Harrwitz, 1858
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| gezafan: Steinitz was famous for saying the king is a fighting piece. Obviously Morphy knew this as well. |
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Sep-16-19 H Bouwmeester vs H Heinicke, 1951
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| gezafan: <WTHarvey: White to move and win.
Solution (in reverse)
36.Bxd5+ 35...Qe7 if 35.Qf5 Qxd6 34.Bxd6> Why do you post the solution in reverse? |
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Sep-14-19 Nimzowitsch vs Tarrasch, 1914
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| gezafan: Possibly Tarrasch saw the faster win but went for the more artistic one. |
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Sep-09-19 Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian
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| gezafan: <Parachessus: There was an old guy who would come into my local post office years ago to check his P.O. Box and he looked so much like Petrosian I would think "Great to see you again, Tigran!" whenever I saw him.> Maybe Petrosian, like Elvis, was still alive... |
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Sep-09-19 London vs Edinburgh, 1824
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| gezafan: Wow! Great fighting game! A classic swashbuckling game from the 1800s, as was the preferred style then. Even though they made mistakes you can learn a lot by analyzing such games. |
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Sep-09-19 Benko vs Sawyer, 1964
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| gezafan: <An Englishman: Good Evening: Mark Twain fans might say that Sawyer got Finned.> Mark Twain was a great writer. Everyone should read him. |
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Sep-08-19 Fischer vs Spassky, 1972
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| gezafan: <ToTheDeath: Karpov:
<It is known that Spassky is not a big worker or hard worker in chess. He is quite lazy, so he didn’t work too much on chess. This was the main reason he was defeated by Fischer. If you recall the games, it was game number four when Spassky with black ... |
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