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keypusher
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Scott Thomson
The Perseus Project: The classics in Greek, Latin & English--hyperlinked
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper...
A link to a page with downloads from the Venetus A, the oldest complete manuscript of the Iliad, courtesy of Harvard:
http://www.homermultitext.org/manus...
From Google Books, a link to Tarrasch's book on the 1908 world championship. I've translated his notes on the game pages.
http://books.google.com/books?id=0C...
Lasker's book on St. Petersburg 1909
http://www.google.com/books?id=o3eC...
Tarrasch's <Dreihundert Schachpartien>, which covers his career from the beginning through his match with Chigorin in 1893
https://books.google.com/books?id=9...
Chess-play is a good and witty exercise of the mind for some kind of men, and fit for such melancholy, Rhasis holds, as are idle, and have extravagant impertinent thoughts, or troubled with cares, nothing better to distract their mind, and alter their meditations; invented (some say) by the general of an army in famine, to keep soldiers from mutiny: but if it proceed from overmuch study, in such case it may do more harm than good; it is a game too troublesome for some men's brains, too full of anxiety, all out as bad as study; besides it is a testy choleric game, and very offensive to him that loseth the mate. William the Conquerer, in his younger years, playing at chess with the Prince of France (Dauphine was not annexed to that crown in those days) losing a mate, knocked the chess-board about his pate, which was a cause afterwards of much enmity between them.
--Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
"Just because many great chess players were obnoxious jerks, doesn't mean that if you're an obnoxious jerk you're a great chess player."
--AgentRgent
"You are also a machine, as are Anand, Carlsen, Kasparov, and Fischer. You and the others are just inferior machines. Your idea of beautiful chess is simply faulty chess that is not caught in its faults."
--vsaluki
"Alas, before the post mortem the gods have placed the game."
--Phony Benoni
"A chess engine is a great antidote to human optimism."
--johnlspouge
"[Y]ou have not been mean to me. Being mean to me is accepting my sacrifices and then taking me to a lost ending."

--Sally Simpson

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   Jan-20-20 Count Wedgemore chessforum

keypusher: II of II There next follows Ben Jonson’s “Master William Shakespeare and what he hath left us,” probably the greatest eulogy ever written in English by one poet for another. What’s relevant here is that he identifies Shakespeare as the “Swan of Avon” and as an “actor.” None but ...

   Jan-18-20 Morphy vs Anderssen, 1858

keypusher: <par5vin: White (Murphy) should have Checked with his Queen on 16th move (skewering Blacks Queen). 16. Qh4+ Kg6 17. Qxd8 Nxc2+ 18. Kf1 exf2 19. h4 Be7 20. Qxe7 Kh5 21. Qg5#> 16.Qh4+ g5 and White has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. <User not found: I can't quite ...

   Jan-18-20 A Firouzja vs J Xiong, 2020

keypusher: Amazing performance by Firouzja!

   Jan-18-20 Tata Steel Masters (2020)

keypusher: <Sally>. Pretty much everything in your post is utter crap. Obviously you didn’t read the link I gave you about Dugdale. If you care, open your forum and I’ll discuss there. I agree with several that there’s too much about Shakespeare here.

   Jan-17-20 Jeremy Lim

keypusher: <perfidious: Dolly Parton has massive talent, right enough!> The funny thing is, that's the only aspect of her talent that isn't really hers. :-) Agree with Jim, as a singer and songwriter she's extraordinary. Also, I saw her at Tanglewood a few years ago, she still puts on ...

   Jan-16-20 Kenneth S Rogoff

keypusher: <saffuna:> <keypusher><The Senate Intelligence Committee, a Republican-led panel that has been investigating foreign electoral interference for more than 2½ years, said in blunt language that Russians worked to damage Democrat Hillary Clinton while bolstering ...

   Jan-16-20 V Kovalev vs W So, 2020

keypusher: Kovalev looks like a younger Sharon Stone.

   Jan-15-20 A Firouzja vs Ni Hua, 2019

keypusher: [DIAGRAM] It looks like the game is headed for a draw, or maybe even a better ending for Black, but.... 30.Qxe6+ Rxe6 31.Re8+ Kf7 32.Bc5 [DIAGRAM] ...and suddenly Black is faced with mate. 32....g6 33.Rf8+ Kg7 34.h5#. So he has nothing better than to give up the exchange. A ...

   Jan-14-20 Serper vs Zsofia Polgar, 1990

keypusher: Serper tells a curious story about this game -- he couldn't concentrate because he thought his opponent was so beautiful, so he offered her an early draw. She refused, of course, but this allowed him to get his concentration back. https://www.chess.com/article/view/...

   Jan-14-20 Nezhmetdinov vs Y Kotkov, 1957

keypusher: <cegrant: A relatively easy mate in 2 to finish it off. I was wondering why Black didn't try 16... Ne5 instead of 16...f5, which seems like the losing move. Anyone see something for White there?> 17.Rxe5 Bxe5?! 18.Rxe5 dxe5 19.Be7 wins the queen. Serper gives a series of ...

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Sep-26-19		keypusher: NN-kp, gameknot 2006 After 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 O-O 6. Be3 Nc6 7. Nge2 a6 8. Qd2 Rb8 9. h4 h5, somebody on gameknot astonished me with 10. Nd5. Has anyone ever seen this before? The game continued 10....e6 (apparently 10...e5 and ...b5 have been played before. 10...e5 doesn't look logical to me since it just invites 11 Bg5.) 11. Nxf6+ Bxf6 12. Bg5 b5 13. g4 (I was convinced I would be mated in a few more moves at this point) 13...hxg4 14. fxg4 Bxg5 15. hxg5 f5?! 16. Qe3? fxg4 17. Qg3? Qxg5 18. Rh4 Rf3 19. Qh2 Rh3! (now Black can relax) 20. Rxh3 gxh3 21. Bxh3 e5?! (a little too relaxed) 22. Bxc8 Rxc8 23. Qh3 Rf8 24. Qe6+ Kg7 25. Qd7+ Ne7 26. Qxc7 Rh8 27. Qxd6 Rh1+ and Black won. Still, I thought 10 Nd5 was pretty frightening.

Sep-27-19		Diademas: <1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 O-O 6. Be3 Nc6 7. Nge2 a6 8. Qd2 Rb8 9. h4 h5, somebody on gameknot astonished me with 10. Nd5. Has anyone ever seen this before?> 15 games in the database. Opening Explorer The only one with the continuation 10...e6 is Murey vs F Wong, 1997

Sep-27-19		keypusher: <diademas> Wow, thanks, some amazing games in there. If you go by the numbers pretty much nothing seems to work for Black. It's striking that Gunawan wins wonderfully with Black against Tarjan, but after that you find him on the White side. Ernst clobbers Portisch...it's a little surprising that you don't see 10.Nd5 more. I really don't belong on either side of lines like this. Checking OE, the two most common moves are 10.0-0-0 and 10.Nc1, about equally well represented in the database. But castling scores about 30% for White and Nc1 scores about 70% for White. How often does <that> happen? Opening Explorer

Sep-27-19		Fusilli: Hey <keypusher>, for your entertainment: V.I.Chepizhny 1996 Mate in 3 click for larger view Difficult. It took me quite a while.

Oct-09-19		keypusher: <Fusilli> I'm ashamed of you. It only took me two weeks!

Oct-12-19		Fusilli: <keypusher> lol

Oct-12-19		Diademas: Hey, got it too. And in less than three weeks!

Oct-12-19		Fusilli: OK, everybody, let's just confirm: 1.Ba2 If 1...Kh6 2.Qg2 Kh5 3.Qg5# If 1...h6 2.Qxc4 Kg6 3.Qf7# A beauty, isn't it?

Oct-14-19		keypusher: <Fusilli> <diademas> Yes, it is! Of course once I finally got it I wondered why it took me so long. I saw the stalemate after 1.Ba2 h6 2.Bxc4 early, and it was also pretty quickly apparent that White couldn't abandon his pawn on h4, so you'd think 2.Qxc4 would have occurred to me by simple process of elimination. For a long time I was convinced that the first move had to be a queen move for some reason.

Oct-14-19		Fusilli: <keypusher> Same process here, only that once I saw the mate on f7, I stayed stuck for a while on how to respond to 1...Kh6. Kept seeing only 2.Qg4 with stalemate and not the simple 2.Qg2.

Oct-25-19		keypusher: {[Event "Challenge from keypusher"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/"] [Date "2019.10.25"] [Round "-"] [White "greenwich"] [Black "keypusher"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1534"] [BlackElo "1961"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. a3 Bxc3+ 5. bxc3 b6 6. e3 Nc6 7. Nf3 Ba6 8. Bd3 Na5 9. Qa4 O-O 10. O-O d5 11. Ne5 Qe8 12. Qxe8 Rfxe8 13. cxd5 Bxd3 14. Nxd3 exd5 15. Ne5 Rad8 16. f4 Ne4 17. Bb2 Nc4 18. Nxc4 dxc4 19. Rad1 Rd5 20. a4 Ra5 21. Ra1 f5 22. Rfe1 Kf7 23. g3 Ke6 24. Re2 Rb8 25. Kg2 Kd5 26. Kf3 b5 27. axb5 Raxb5 28. Ra2 a5 29. Rc2 a4 30. h3 Rb3 31. g4 g6 32. Ke2 Ra8 33. Ra3 Rxa3 34. Bxa3 c6 35. Kf3 Ra7 36. g5 Ra8 37. h4 Nd6 38. Ra2 Nb5 39. Bb4 a3 40. Ke2 Ke4 41. Kd2 Kf3 42. Ra1 a2 43. Bc5 Nc7 44. Rf1+ Ke4 45. Ra1 Nd5 46. Bd6 Nxe3 47. Kc1 Kd3 48. Bb4 0-1 After 45....Nd5 click for larger view

Oct-26-19		keypusher: 27....Rbxb5 28. Rg1 Ra2 29. Rgg2 a5 32....… a3 33. Bxa3 Nxc3+ 33....Rab8 34. Rxb3 cxb3 35. c4+ Ke6 36. Rc1 a3 37. Bxa3 b2 38. d5+ Kd7 39. Bxb2 Rxb2+ 34....h5! 35. g5 Rb8 36. Bb4 Nd6 37. Ra2 Ra8 38. Bxd6 cxd6 39. Ra3 Ke4 40. d5 Ra6 41. h4 Ra5 42. Ra2 a3 43. Rd2 Rxd5 44. Ra2 Rd3 45. Rxa3 Rxe3+ 46. Kd2 Rd3+ 47. Kc2 Kxf4 36....Rb7 37. Bb4 Rxb4! 38. cxb4 c3 39. Ke2 Kc4 40. Kd1 a3 41. d5 cxd5 42. b5 Kb3 43. b6 Nc5 44. Rc1 a2 45. h4 Nb7 46. Ra1 Kb2 47. Rc1 a1=N 48. Rxa1 Kxa1 37....Rb8 38. Bb4 Rxb4!, etc. 38. Bxd6! Kxd6 39. e4! fxe4+ 40. Kxe4 a3 <OR> 41.Ra2 Ra5 42.f5!! gxf5+ 43.Kf4 c5 44.dxc5+ Kxc5 45.Ra1 Kd6 (45....Kb5 46.Rb1+ Ka4 47.Rb4#) 46. h5 Ke6 47. Ra2 Kf7 48.Ke3 = <OR> 40....c5 41. d5 Re8+ 42. Kf3 Kxd5 43.Ra2 Re1 (43....Ra8 44.Ra3 =) 43... Re1 44. Rxa4 Rf1+ 45. Kg4 Rc1 46. Ra7 Rxc3 47. Rxh7 Rc1 48. Rd7+ Ke4 49. Re7+ Kd3 50. Rd7+ Ke4 =

Oct-26-19		keypusher: 34... h5 35. g5 Rb8 36. Bb4 Nd6 37. Ra2 Ra8 38. h4 Nb5 39. Kd2 a3 40. Be7 Ke4 41. Bb4 c6 42. Ke2 Ra7, zugzwang

Oct-27-19		Fusilli: Nice positional work, <keypusher>! Once you secured the good knight versus the bad bishop, you are positionally winning. Good job taking the game to that outcome!

Oct-28-19		keypusher: <Fusilli> I feel like I played pretty well in the early going, but starting with move 27 I made one mistake after another. I’m much better at positional play than at tactics. “Greenwich” is an old friend but he’s never taken chess too seriously.

Oct-31-19		keypusher: [Event "Challenge from keypusher"] [Site "https://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=29..."] [Date "2019.10.31"] [Round "-"] [White "keypusher"] [Black "greenwich"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1961"] [BlackElo "1534"] [TimeControl "1/1209600"] [Mode "ICS"] [Termination "normal"] 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 Bc5 4. Bg2 c6 5. e3 d5 6. d4 exd4 7. exd4 Be7 8. cxd5 cxd5 9. Qb3 Be6 10. Qxb7 Nbd7 11. Nf3 Nb6 12. Ne5 O-O 13. Nc6 Qc8 1-0 Not at all a normal game for greenwich.

Nov-01-19		keypusher: 9... Nc6! 10. Nxd5? Nxd5 11. Bxd5 O-O! 12. Ne2 Bb4+ 13. Kf1 (13.Bd2 Bxd2+ 14. Kxd2 Qa5+ 15. Kc1 Bf5 -+ ) 13....Na5! 14. Qf3 Bg4! 15. Qxg4 Qxd5 ∓

Nov-11-19		keypusher: keypusher: [Event "Challenge from keypusher"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/"] [Date "2019.11.10"] [Round "-"] [White "greenwich"] [Black "keypusher"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1534"] [BlackElo "1961"] 1. d4 c5 2. d5 e5 3. e4 d6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bd3 Bg5 6. Nf3 Bxc1 7. Qxc1 Nd7 8. O-O Ngf6 9. h3 a6 10. Qe3 b5 11. Qg5 O-O 12. Nh2 c4 13. Be2 b4 14. Nd1 Nxe4 15. Qe3 Ndc5 16. Bxc4 f5 17. f4 g5 18. fxe5 dxe5 19. Nf2 f4 20. Qc1 Qb6 21. Qe1 Bf5 22. Qd1 Nxf2 23. Qh5 Nce4 24. d6+ Kg7 25. Bd5 Ng4+ 26. Kh1 Ng3# 0-1 6.Bxg5 Qxg5 7.Nf3 Qe7 8.Nd2 Nf6 9.Nc4 ± 11.Qg5?=; 11.a4 b4 12.Ne2 a5 13.Ng3 +0.70 31 ply 12.Nh2? c4 -+ 15....Ndc5?!; 15....f5 16.Bxc4 Nb6 17.Be2 (17.Bd3! Nc5) 17....Nxd5? 18.Bc4 Be6 19.Qb3 Nd2 20.Bxd5 Nxb3 21.Bxe6+! Kh8 22.Bxb3 -0.61 37 ply; 17....a5! 18.c4 Nc5 19.f4 exf4 20.Rxf4 g5 -2.13 35 ply 17.f4 g5?; 17....Bd7 18.fxe5 dxe5 19.Nf3? f4 20.Qe1 Qb6 21.Nf2 Rae8 -+; 19.d6+ Kh8 20.Bd5 Rc8 21.Bxe4 Nxe4 22.Nf2 Bb5 ∓; 17....a5; 17....exf4 18.Rxf4 Rb8! 19.Rf1 Qf6 20.Nf2 (20.Nf3? f4 21.Qd4 Qxd4+ 22.Nxd4 Nd2 -+) 20....Nxf2 21.Qxf2 Qxb2 20.Qc1?; 20.Qe1! Nd6 Qxb4= 20....Qb6; 20....Nd6! 20.Be2 Nce4! 21.Bd3 Nxf2 22.Rxf2 e4! -+; 20.b3 e4 -+ 21.Qe1; 21.d6+ Kh8 22.Bd5 Bb7 23.Qd1 Rad8 -+ 21....Bf5?; 21....Nd6! 22.Be2 e4 -+ 22.Qd1??; 22.d6+ Kg7 23.a3! bxa3 24.b4! Nd7 -2.

Nov-29-19		keypusher: [Event "Challenge from keypusher"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/"] [Date "2019.11.29"] [Round "-"] [White "keypusher"] [Black "greenwich"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "1961"] [BlackElo "1534"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Nf3 Nbd7 7. cxd5 exd5 8. Bd3 c5 9. O-O h6 10. Bh4 Nb6 11. Ne5 Nfd7 12. Bg3 Nxe5 13. dxe5 f5 14. exf6 e.p. Bxf6 15. Qh5 Re8 16. Nb5 Re7 17. Qg6 Be6 18. Bd6 Kf8 19. Bxc5 Nc8 20. Rac1 Bxb2 21. Qxe6 Bxc1 22. Rxc1 b6 23. Bxe7+ Nxe7 24. Nd6 1-0 11.dxc5 Bxc5 12.Bc2 ± 12.Bxe7 Qxe7 13.f4 f6? 14.Ng6 Qxe3+ 15.Kh1 Re8 16.Rf3 Qe6 (16....Qxd4 17.Nb5+-) 17.Nh4 ± 15.Qh5 (15.a4, 15.Qc2) 15....Re8? 16.Nb5 +- Re8 click for larger view 17.Qg6? (17.Nc7! Rxc7 18.Bxc7 +-) Be6 18.Bd6?! (18.Rae1 and e3-e4) 18....Kf8? 19.Bxc5 Nc8? 20.Rac1 Bxb2?? 21.Qxe6 Bxc1 click for larger view 22.Rxc1? (22.Bh7! Ke8 23.Bg6+ Kf8 24.Qf7#) 22....b6? 23.Bxe7+ (23.Bh7, etc.) 23....Nxe7 (23....Qxe7 24.Qxd5!) 24.Nd6 1-0

Nov-30-19		keypusher: 13.Bxe5 Nc4?! 14.Bxc4 dxc4 15.d5 Re8 16.d6 Bf8 17.Qd5 Qb6 18.Na4 Qb5 19.Nxc5 ± 35 ply

Dec-21-19		keypusher: [Event "Challenge from keypusher"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/"] [Date "2019.12.20"] [Round "-"] [White "greenwich"] [Black "keypusher"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1534"] [BlackElo "1961"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 Nc6 3. d5 Ne5 4. e3 e6 5. dxe6 fxe6 6. a3 c5 7. Nf3 Nxf3+ 8. Qxf3 Be7 9. Bd3 O-O 10. Bd2 d5 11. Qe2 e5 12. cxd5 e4 13. Bc4 Bd6 14. h3 Bf5 15. Nc3 a6 16. g4 Bg6 17. O-O-O b5 18. Bb3 Nd7 19. h4 Ne5 20. Kb1 Nd3 21. Be1 b4 22. axb4 cxb4 23. Na2 Be8 24. f4 Bb5 25. Qg2 a5 26. Bc2 a4 27. b3 Qf6 28. Bxd3 Bxd3+ 29. Rxd3 exd3 30. g5 Qe7 31. Bd2 axb3 32. Nc1 0-1

Dec-31-19		Fusilli: Happy New Year, <keypusher>!

Dec-31-19		Diademas: Happy New Year my friend, and thank you for thoughtful posts in the year that was. Best wishes to you and your loved ones in 2020.

Jan-13-20		keypusher: [Event "Challenge from keypusher"] [Site "https://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=29..."] [Date "2020.01.13"] [Round "-"] [White "keypusher"] [Black "greenwich"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "1961"] [BlackElo "1534"] [TimeControl "1/1209600"] [Mode "ICS"] [Termination "normal"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Bc4 Qh4+ 4. Kf1 g5 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. d4 Ne7 7. Nf3 Qh5 8. h4 g4 9. Ng5 Rf8 10. Ne2 f3 11. Nf4 fxg2+ 12. Kxg2 Qh6 13. c3 f6 14. Nge6 dxe6 15. Nxe6 Qg6 16. Nxc7+ Kd7 17. Nxa8 Qxe4+ 18. Kg1 Nbc6 19. Bd3 Qd5 20. Qxg4+ Kd8 21. Qg3 Ne5 22. Bxh7 Nf3+ 23. Kf2 Ne5 24. Re1 Bh8 25. dxe5 fxe5+ 26. Kg1 Rf3 27. Qg2 Bh3 28. Qd2 Rg3+ 29. Kh2 Rg2+ 30. Kxh3 Rxd2 31. Bxd2 Qf3+ 32. Kh2 Qh5 33. Be4 Qxh4+ 34. Kg2 Bf6 35. Bxb7 Nf5 36. Kg1 Qg3+ 37. Bg2 Nh4 38. Re2 Nf3+ 39. Kf1 1/2-1/2

Jan-15-20		Nisjesram: Reposted from rogoffland <Bobsterman3000: <Carrots and Pizza - To count errors or hyperbole as lies is dishonest. If someone things Clinton was never charged with a crime and they are shown that he was, it doesn't make his statement a lie. Not all false statements are lies.> <wtpy: Keypusher, Absolutely right. Even mistaking a fact doesn't make you a liar, it just makes you mistaken.> Sure, you people are right. But for someone to (still) keep claiming that "collusion is now proven" is not being mistaken at this point. It's just willfully lying.> Good that you want to settle it. I too want to settle/resolve it for once and all, however, presently I am a little too busy with work . I will come back to this conversation and take it to its logical conclusion and show why I think you are completely wrong ,<bobsterman> ,in calling <saffuna> a liar. I am posting this post in the forum of <keypusher> and in the forum of <johnlspouge> (for the future reference of <wtpy> and others). I hope <keypusher> and <johnlspouge> would be ok with it. Thank you guys. Let us try to elevate our conversations as much as we can. Regards.

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