Dionysius1 Member since May-08-11 Welcome to anyone who visits my forum! I don't look much like my avatar, but that's pretty much how I think I am. As I get older (and I think that's why), I'm much more interested in how chess works than whether I win a particular game. I want to understand a bit more before I die; I'm less interested in whether I'm better on a particular day than someone else is. So if I sometimes get a bit caustic about chess as a sport, that's why. My interest is mostly in the older games, where the titans of the past discovered the principles we show off by knowing now. 20221011 Whitehat1963 (Jun-06-08): NATO has a chess tournament? I guess they had to find something to do after the end of the Cold War and dissolution of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. And wouldn't you know that it ended up in detente! Dionysius1 (Oct-11-22): Hi <Whitehat1963> Better in detente pissing out than outside detente pissing in. 20220226 I've no intention of playing competitive chess again, or even improving my game. But I'm enjoying the heck out of this site. It's friendly, provocative and with the great little ignore button if some kibitzers get a bit out of their tree for a while. Lots of features to explore particularly around ways of searching. And I like the family feel to it through Daniel and Susan Freeman. 20220212 <Daniel Freeman: At that point, I committed a cardinal sin of chess: I bluffed. I had fallen in love with my conception so much I decided to play it anyhow, hoping that my young opponent wouldn't be savvy enough to find the best defense. Bluffing is for poker, not chess.> Don't I ever know the feeling! Rest in peace Mr Freeman D Freeman vs Robson, 2004 20220202 "Botvinnik once wrote 'Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic as music is the art which expresses the science of acoustics' " Becoming a Grandmaster, by Raymond Keene. Batsford, 1977. p 35 20220102 For Milunka Lazarevic, chess was a "symbiosis of all arts". https://en.chessbase.com/post/milun... A "female Tal", she was a passionate if rather stern chess teacher, who would exclaim with joy if a pupil made a particularly good move. One of those people I'm very glad existed, even if she might have been uncomfortable to know. Giants aren't all friendly, just as saints aren't all easy company. 20211018 Though I loved being in Wales [as a student 1974-78], I got the feeling to be Welsh you needed to have been born there, ideally more than once. United States Championship (2021) 20210909 Words to live by: 0ZeR0: Alas, almost doing something on the chessboard counts for little.Carlsen vs A Tari, 2021 20210810 I've renewed my premium membership just now, so let's see if I can't contribute more & use the premium facilities a bit more and have fun. 20210603 CG.COM kibitzing resembles a rowdy pub near closing time, with a few sensible conversations going on in the corners, and a lot of shouty fantasists holding court and assuming status more because of their noise than their sense.

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Aug-09-25 Ilia Smirin    Dionysius1: Re: FIDE's reaction to Smirin's remarks in September 2022. Is the world still so touchy? I don't hear so much about "woke" now, not even in a derogatory way. Maybe we're over this kind of micro-sensitivity now.      Aug-06-25 C Mayet vs Harrwitz, 1847   Dionysius1: I'd have resigned from sheer irritation after 25...c6 as well (16.dc Bxc6 disc+ and another pawn falls, blast it). Talk about the cat playing with a mouse! After Harrwitz winning the Q in return with 7...Bb4+ and not taking it back until 12...Bc2+. Great to watch, horrible to be ...      Aug-02-25 Fred Reinfeld    Dionysius1: I wasted too much of my prime chess life (such as it was), winning quickly through opening traps when I could have been learning about strategy and many more of the joys of chess. My great nephew has the right attitude, for now at least. He doesn't mind losing as long as he's ...      Aug-01-25 FIDE Women's World Cup (2025)    Dionysius1: Hi AngeLa. <Humphrey must have a bunos!! for sure!!> How do you mean? I haven't come across the expression before.      Jul-31-25 Alexander Alekhine    Dionysius1: Nice. It makes me wonder what Alekhine, Botvinnik, Keres and the rest would think if they knew how much detailed interest we paid to their results. Do we have more statistics to hand than they would have had, for example? Would they have said "Enough already! I'm not surprised to      Jul-23-25 A Neverov vs Kharlov, 1990    Dionysius1: I thought it would have to do with ...Rc8, ...Kc7 and ...Rh8 but I couldn't make it work. 29...Rxc4 30. Bxc4 Qd4 is what makes the idea work. Quite counterintuitive x 2 and pretty.      Jul-23-25 Smyslov vs Gligoric, 1959   Dionysius1: It's fascinating how much trouble Smyslov is in by move 16. Is it so dangerous to allow Black's R into a2 unchallenged that he has to come up with 16.Rc3 so he can play 16...Ra2 17 Qb1 ? Even 16.e3 would lose to ...Ba4 This was 1959, so may not have been prep by Gligoric.      Jul-20-25 Sakaev vs Kharlov, 1996   Dionysius1: Thanks <scormus>. That gave me a laugh.      Jul-12-25 Vladimir Kramnik    Dionysius1: Hi <Toxic Narcissist>. A beautiful onsen, eh? Not sure how many hot springs Kramnik will find in Paris.      Jul-10-25 Kramnik vs Romanishin, 1993   Dionysius1: Sorry, <Edubart>. Not sure what I was going on about there!

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