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May-30-08
 | | ray keene: my spectator article this week quotes you extensively on the fischer suttles discussions-you can find it on the spectator website under -diversions-its called letter from canada |
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May-30-08
 | | IMlday: Thanks Ray, found it. The Suttles-Kaltenacker quiz position is pretty nostalgic also. A link: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article_... |
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| Jun-20-08 | | mack: <imlday> What a wunnerful picture! Wish I could see so many ducks in one go down the Regents Canal in Mile End. The beard's not gone for good, I trust? |
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Jun-20-08
| | IMlday: The beard is back. Those ducks are from Victoria. The Humber ducks only numbered a couple of dozen today. I've added about 500 little known games to my file. |
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Jun-20-08
 | | keypusher: <I've added about 500 little known games to my file.> That's great! Glad the ducks are doing well too. :-) |
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| Jul-02-08 | | benjinathan: <IMlday> I like your new picture. I hope you keep it for a spell. I can just about see my mother's house behind you. |
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| Jul-02-08 | | benjinathan: Sorry, something just occured to me: When I was about 5 years old I fell into that pond while feeding the ducks. I am guessing there is no plack to commerate the event :). |
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Jul-03-08
| | IMlday: Growing up there you probably wouldn't have known that as duck parks go Victoria's ranks in the 2700 club. The hydro system, to keep enough water flow through those five small lakes to flush them, is quite ingenious. Otherwise the ponds would quickly pollute. |
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| Jul-03-08 | | benjinathan: I did not know that. I guess that is why I did not get sick after I fell in! |
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| Jul-18-08 | | PinnedPiece: IMDay, just curious, what does one contribute when one is
< ".... a regular contributor to www.chessgames.com."> ? |
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Jul-19-08
| | IMlday: Is that a koan? Contributors contribute postings. If you click on an underlined name you can see someone's last dozen or so contributions. My last was a theoretical contribution to the Inarkiev-Shirov game with the splendid ♖ gambit. How did White get in that mess? Okay, he shouldn't have opened the file on his ♔, that is clear. But what will he play next time to improve? This is practical. Art-wise it is a great game but maybe if you try it yourself White won't be so co-operative.
Then there is memories; stuff where you had to be there or know the people aside from their moves. I remember a lot of stuff. I recall the Russian Shakmatny Byulletin letters column discussing Schulten-Morphy wayback. No great detail but Morphy's countergambit was unnecessary and perhaps risky. That was the gist of it I thought, but my Russian was pretty fractured so who knows? Food for thought. Spassky must have had some improvement somewhere.
I write a newspaper column and CG is good for me to see what kibitzers are interested in. So I get back from CG as well as contributing. |
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| Jul-19-08 | | PinnedPiece: I thought perhaps you contributed games, puzzles, who knows what. I have seen your discussions on game pages here and your comments always bring a note of sanity to the babble...just wondering is all. You don't see "regular contributor" on other bios, I suspect! I've never set a koan that I know of.
Yet.
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| Jul-21-08 | | madeinholland: <IMlday> Do you still play the King's Gambit? And what do you think of 4.Bb5+ versus Fischer's defense? I used it in the following game;
1. e4 e5 2. f4 d6 3. Nf3 exf4 4. Bb5+ Bd7 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bxd7+ Qxd7 7. d4 c6 8. Bxf4 Be7 9. e5 d5 10. O-O Bb4 11. Na4 Qc7 12. a3 Be7 13. Qd2 c5 14. e6 Qc6 15. exf7+ Kxf7 16. Ne5+ Ke8 17. Nxc6 bxc6 18. Rfe1 Nf6 19. Bd6 Ra7 20. Bxc5 Rb7 21. Rxe7+ Rxe7 22. Bxe7 Kxe7 23. Re1+ Kf7 24. Qf4 Nbd7 25. Nc5 Rd8 26. Qc7 Re8 27. Rxe8 Kxe8 28. Nxd7 Nxd7 29. Qxc6 Ke7 30. Qxd5 Kf6 31. Qxd7 1-0 |
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| Jul-22-08 | | madeinholland: I feel 4.Bb5+ significantly changes the course of the defense no matter what Black play's in response. |
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Jul-22-08
| | IMlday: <madeinholland> After 1.e4 e5 2.f4 d6 I would probably play 3.Bc4 or 3.Nc3. On 3.Nf3 exf4 I wouldn't play 4.Bb5+ because of 4..c6 cementing for free.
I still play the KG but I don't polish it anymore like a professional GM would. It's very complicated and one mistake can end things abruptly. This was Day-Haessel, Calgary in May: 1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 3.exd5 exf4 4.Nf3 c6 5.d4 Bd6 6.Nc3 Ne7 7.dxc6 Nbxc6 8.Bb5 O-O 9.O-O Bg4 10.Ne2 Ng6 11.c3 Re8 12.Kh1 a6 13.Bd3 Qf6 14.Qe1 Nce7 15.Qf2 Nf5 16.Nfg1 Qe7 17.Nxf4 Ne3 18.Nxg6 hxg6 19.Bxe3 1-0 |
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| Jul-22-08 | | madeinholland: <IMlday> However difficult, atleast up to move 14 the moves (your moves) looked pretty straight forward. Nevertheless, it was a fine game. I guess the difficulty of the KG also depends on the defense chosen (and needless to say level of opponent). |
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| Aug-27-08 | | mack: <Lawrence> I just popped over to chesstalk for the first time in ages and I was alarmed to see you quoting, of all people, me. It's nice to know that my schtick about luck in chess is deemed reproducible by an IM, regardless of whether you agree with it! Cheers |
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Aug-28-08
| | IMlday: Hey <mack> :) Google: chess luck trick suttles and your review is top of the list! |
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| Sep-13-08 | | gauer: The Sept. 6, 2008 (#1746 + probably an annotated game) Toronto Star puzzle section didn't go out to the news vendor that week, & this week quotes an answer for the above puzzle, rather than saying that the publishers decided to skip another week of publication & not publish for the previous week's answer. Is there any way to look up any of the older numbered puzzles or annotated columns in an electronic archive for times when the syndication misses the extra features while still charging the weekend prices? Cheers! |
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Sep-14-08
| | IMlday: 
click for larger view
(1746) Mate in 2 by S. Zimmermann, 1894.
The solution to 1745: 1.Qc8.
Game was Roussel-Roozmon vs Charbonneau, Montreal '08. Notes gave also Ftacnik-Cvitan '98 with a pretty mate. Both scores are in the CG database.
If you didn't get the puzzles page you're missing the comics too! Yikes. But it's the distributor goofed. Mine was fine. Maybe you should ask for a free copy? |
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| Sep-14-08 | | gauer: Thanks. Has the column really been around for 1747/52 = 33.5 years, & do you have any info about the history of Canuck or Toronto area chess editors? It sure has been enjoyable to read it more frequently, since having moved back to Ont., where the good weekend feature columnists are easy to find. A search on TorStar doesn't even list you as a regular columnist, nor pull up hits for "day chess". I'll have to get over to McMaster one time, & do a microfiche search for old columns someday, or maybe even head over to see the historical Ohio chess collection. I'd sent the paper an email last week already, but hadn't checked back since. Working at a paper previously, I often don't purchase if circulation has run out of copies of a pre-printed supply of a section done up the day before, policy there being that the mailers, pre-paids & urban supply would often be loaded prior to the rural routes, seeing that the bundle delivered west of Toronto looked lacking of something from the truck. Last week was one of the bigger stat days, much like Christmas & Easter time when the prints are scarce, relative to the daily run called for, when sections/ads go missing (some others have a policy to also submit during the Holiday non-issues that could be issued with a freely annotated column). Then there's the other time that the airline wouldn't deliver the Globe & Mail to Yellowknife because the military decided to err by dropping a false dud near the airport that day, which didn't trigger. Normally, most mail of that type are sent along the Greyhound route out west, being still able to send them across the Mackenzie ferry by bus. Never heard a reply about that Globe & Mail policy of always trying their hardest at delivering. I'd collected a bunch of those clippings weekly since ~2001-2, & was able to get some of the missing Christmas holiday columns emailed to me one year. |
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Sep-14-08
| | IMlday: I took over the Star Syndicate column in 1976 just after the Haifa Olympiad. Before that Walter (now Vlad) Dobrich did local news and games while the problems were by Charlie Crompton. In the 50s Nathan Divinsky and then Ray Kerr
wrote the Star column. They both moved to Vancouver. |
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| Sep-20-08 | | Albertan: IM Day congratulations on your appointment as new editor of the CFC e-zine.The Chess players of Canada are very blessed to have you as editor!Best wishes to you in your new position.I hope you get alot of enjoyment,satisfaction and mental stimulation from your new role in Canadian chess. |
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| Sep-20-08 | | Cactus: A relative of mine sends me your column from time to time, knowing I love chess. So that I might get it for myself, which newspaper is it in? |
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Sep-20-08
| | IMlday: <Albertan> Thanks. As a perk of being editor I get to refer to myself in the plural. We're expecting fun!
<Cactus> Currently it's in the Toronto Star and then the London Free Press a little later. |
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