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| Aug-19-10 | | wordfunph: <CGBookie>, 6th game of Efimeko-Naiditsch resulted to a draw.. Naiditsch won the match 3.5-2.5 |
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| Aug-20-10 | | bluejay: This is a joke. The Efimeko-Naiditsch games have not been paid yet. |
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| Aug-20-10 | | wordfunph: <bluejay> have patience, <CGBookie> may finally give us our $$$ tomorrow.. |
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| Aug-20-10 | | bluejay: It's really not a question of patience but of integrity - living up to the commitments one makes. I am just a little player who, as was mentioned above, need prompt payouts. |
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| Aug-20-10 | | wordfunph: <bluejay>
<CGBookie> may not be working full-time in CG. Please extend your extra patience to him. <CGBookie>, please be punctual.. |
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Aug-20-10
 | | eternaloptimist: Well, Switch did a great job of extending his lead today. It looks like he increased it by ~5,000 chess$. Great job Switch! |
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| Aug-21-10 | | bharatiy: is this the last day of this leg? |
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| Aug-21-10 | | wordfunph: <bharatiy> maybe no.. |
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Aug-22-10
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: <bharatiy> Almost certainly not - this leg is scheduled to end in late September, and with <malthrope> now out of top 10 I'm pretty sure we'll find plenty of tournaments to bet on ;-) |
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| Aug-22-10 | | technical draw: < and with <malthrope> now out of top 10 I'm pretty sure we'll find plenty of tournaments to bet on ;-)> Huh? Am I missing something here. Is there something going on that I don't know? Tell me. signed, Clueless in Vegas.... |
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| Aug-22-10 | | hms123: <TD>
<Is there something going on that I don't know?> Yes. |
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| Aug-22-10 | | technical draw: <<Is there something going on that I don't know?> Yes.> >
Well I'm not one for gossip but it's entertaining so let me know what's going on. |
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| Aug-22-10 | | hms123: <TD> Unfortunately, I have no idea whatsoever! |
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Aug-23-10
 | | chessgames.com: We apologize for the current lack of wagers; new bets will appear soon. |
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| Aug-23-10 | | SloVice: Wow <SwitchingQuylthulg>, I feel a little better. I see I'm not the only one who took a bath in the last betting round. I think we each lost about 1/3 of our net worth. By the way, thank you for the following:
<you can find all old results at predictable URLs: chessgames.com/chessbookie/[year][season].html> |
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| Aug-23-10 | | wordfunph: Baku Open list of participants..
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr373... |
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| Aug-24-10 | | bharatiy: where is bookie? Why did chessgames has to step in? Hope its just a temporary thing |
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| Aug-25-10 | | malthrope: <bharatiy: where is bookie? Why did chessgames has to step in? Hope its just a temporary thing> Yes <bharatiy> I'm sure many of us here duly noted that. :) Perhaps we should help them out, eh? <*grin*> <chessgames.com> - current listing of tourneys and matches published in my <Current Chess Events> calendar updated monthly (the Spain CECLUB Division de Honor, Baku Chess Open & First Serbian League are already in progress) with all the others starting up in just a few days. Take your pick (Pick-3's - get it?). ;) < The current <SUPER GM> Chess events in play... » Spain CECLUB Division de Honor Team Championship (Aug 23rd-28th) in Sestao, Vizcaya. Includes these players on various teams GM's Alexei Shirov, Ruslan Ponomariov, Hikaru Nakamura, David Navara, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Vugar Gashimov, Etienne Bacrot, Baadur Jobava, Zoltan Almasi, Fabiano Caruana & Nigel Short. The TC in use is 90/40 + 30 min + 30 spm (from move #1) and rounds begin at 15:00 (last round 09:30). The official website: http://www.feda.org/index.php » 8 game Rapid Match with Peter Leko vs Boris Gelfand (Aug 25th-29th) in Miskolc/Hungary. The TC in use is 25 min + 10 spm. Games start at 17:00 & 18:30 (one 'rest day' on the 27th). Official website: http://www.lekogelfand.hu/ » Arctic Securities Chess Stars tournament (Aug 28th-30th) in Kristiansund. Features GM's Magnus Carlsen, Vishy Anand, Judit Polgar & Jon Ludvig Hammer to play in double round robin Rapids feast (TC 20 min + 10 spm). The playoffs are scheduled for Monday (31st). The official website: http://ksk.no/ Unique Chess events currently being presented...
» First Serbian League team event (Aug 21st-31st) in Vrnjaèka Banja/Serbia. Competing are 12 teams in 11 rounds and some of the top players are GM's Vladimir Akopian, Zahar Efimenko, Kiril Georgiev, Andrei Volokitin, Ivan Sokolov, Borki Predojevic, Bojan Vuckovic, Robert Markus, Ivan Ivanisevic & Konstantin Sakaev. TC is 90/40 + 30 min + 30 spm (from move #1) and rounds begin at 16:00. Website: http://www.serbiachess.net/2010/prv... » Baku Chess Open (Aug 22nd-31st) a Swiss with 159 participants and GM Gata Kamsky is the top seed! Full stats & results by Chess-Results (powered by Swiss-Manager): http://www.chess-results.com/tnr373... Official website (English version): http://www.chess.az/DefaultEn.html > If I may highly recommend if you place bets up to also provide a fresh tourney link for it... Why not double the pleasure? It's a "win-win" for both your prestigious website as well as the kibitzers and Chess fans contributing here. ;) <ChessBookie> - rest up, get well, and come back soon. :XD All the Best, - Mal
PS: <technical draw: <Switch: <and with <malthrope> now out of top 10 I'm pretty sure we'll find plenty of tournaments to bet on ;-)>> Huh? Am I missing something here. Is there something going on that I don't know? Tell me. signed, Clueless in Vegas....>
<TD> - Clueless in Vegas??? I don't believe a word of it for even a splitting nanosecond! ~lol~ Although, you and <hms123> do make one fine comedy team. :P |
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Aug-25-10
 | | Sneaky: <235th - <Sneaky> (1st Summer 2007) - Must be having an off-leg.> Yeah, I'm an all-or-nothing kind of player.
Here's a little gambling anecdote, completely true as far as I understand: The famous poker player Stu Unger was said to have gone broke a lot in early stages of poker tournaments. He would try to double up his money, then double it again, and then once he had a sizable stack he could control the tables. So a good 75% of the time he'd go bust in the first few hours and not make a penny, but that other 25% of the time he'd take an early lead and coast to 1st place. Once he had about twice the chips of other players at the table he was utterly unstoppable. He died during a one of the major poker tournaments, a big multi-day event. Sadly, a maid found him overdosed on cocaine in his hotel room. As the rules provide, they kept his stack of chips in front of his seat even in his absence, and they would take the antes and blinds out of his stack even though he wasn't there to play. Amazingly, the deceased Stu Unger had such a huge lead that even without being there to play, he placed high enough in the tournament to win a sizable amount of money. The winnings were turned over to his estate. |
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| Aug-25-10 | | technical draw: Wow, <sneaky>, great story. I can see the movie title: "Dead Man Playing". In the hold-em sites where you can play for fun I usually get killed so I'm going to change my user name to Dead Man Playing. |
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| Aug-25-10 | | crawfb5: <TD> I thought that would be your online handle for <sudden death> time controls. |
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| Aug-25-10 | | technical draw: <crawfb5> I've never played <sudden death> but "dead man walking" would sound like a good handle. I hope nobody steals it. |
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| Aug-25-10 | | technical draw: Darn! There was bet on the game Guseinov-Golizadeh. I put all my money on black thinking it was Godzilla. What a maroon! |
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| Aug-25-10 | | malthrope: <chessgames.com> & <ChessBookie> - you have this bet: Leko-Gelfand Rapid Match: WINNER
Closing on Aug 28th (just prior to scheduled match games #5 & #6 on that day) with a payoff (settlement date) one full day after the match concludes. Thinking this wasn't your original intention you might want to first fix this bet to simultaneously close with the Gelfand-Leko, match game #3 bet: Match Game 3: Gelfand vs Leko
Which ends at 6:05 AM EDT (apx) tomorrow on Aug 26th. Then you can adjust the correct payoff date (now set at Aug 30th) to Aug 29th (at the conclusion of the 8 game match) which should end no later than 4 PM EDT. :D TIA! ;)
My Best, - Mal |
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Aug-26-10
 | | Chessgames Bookie: <malthrope> You are right, our intention was to close the betting before the event had begun, but since it is too late to do that now and the match is even anyhow, we will leave the closing time alone. |
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