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Jan-08-21 Chessgames Bookie chessforum    Chessgames Bookie: Thanks for the tip, WinKing. Hope it works because, to tell you the truth, I'm feeling a bit frustrated. ciao, jingo      Jan-08-21 chessgames.com chessforum    Chessgames Bookie: It would be great if we could get the Bookie site set up to start the new leg with the TATA Steel tournament about to begin in a week. Thanks      Dec-26-20 Sargon chessforum    Chessgames Bookie: Sargon, Could we get an adminstrator to close out the Fall Leg of the Chessbookie? Prizes and reset all to $1000, or more if we're not going to get a mid-leg payday? Thanks, jingo Gens una sumus!      Oct-07-20 Norway Chess (2020)    Chessgames Bookie: Please join us at the ChessBookie room for some fun wagering, play money. Tough competition! Altibox Norway 2020, Rd 6: Aronian-Caruana Thanks      Oct-01-20 Kibitzer's Café    Chessgames Bookie: Rub your lucky charm! Time to bet on the Winner of the upcoming Altibox tournament. Altibox Norway 2020: Winner! Gens una sumus      Sep-16-20 Petrosian vs G Stoltz, 1952    Chessgames Bookie: I had no idea that Kotov won that tournament, and with what a score!!      Sep-15-20 St. Louis Rapid & Blitz (2020)    Chessgames Bookie: And how will Alireza do tomorrow against the Champ? St. Louis Rapid & Blitz, Rd 7 Rapid: Firouzja-Carlsen Place your bet (after checking your crystal ball, of course).      Sep-13-20 Champions Showdown Chess 9LX (2020)    Chessgames Bookie: Speaking of draws, how many today in round 7? Starts in a few hours. Only one in Rd 6 yesterday. Place your bets! Click ChessBookie at the top of the page to play!      Apr-19-20 moronovich chessforum    Chessgames Bookie: Hi moronovich, I'm jingohanson, the new Bookie. The Pick two is for day four of the event, with the games I posted. Sorry about the confusion. I should have put (Day 4) in the description. Thanks for welcoming me. Your suggestions are welcome. Ciao, jingohanson      Dec-23-19 Biographer Bistro    Chessgames Bookie: Just for the record. Annie and Twinlark were volunteers. I posted more on my profile page. 😊

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 328 OF 501 ·  Later Kibitzing> Apr-25-15    Kinghunt: Just want to say I'm a big fan of all the more 'unusual' bets you've been putting up (aka, not just win-lose-draw). Thanks so much for doing this, and keep up the great work! Apr-25-15    Chessgames Bookie: Thanks for the feedback! I can look at numbers and statistics and try to guess what people like, but there's no substitute for actually hearing from the players. Apr-25-15    Penguincw: Grr, I suffered my first overall loss in about a week, dropping about 150 (which is pretty big, considering I usually don't make more than 100/day). Well played bookie... A bit of feedback: one thing I always like is "live betting". Unfortunately, I prefer not to wake up early just to bet a few bucks, but I think during the summer leg, you had this one bet where you put up a game bet that would be open <before> the game took place and close <while> the game was in progress. Anyway, good job with the bets, that <seem> so easy to win, but in reality are not... Apr-26-15    MarkFinan: <SETTLEMENT DATE: Apr-26-15 PROJECTED PAYOUT: -- (3:1) Gashimov Memorial: UNDEFEATED PLAYERS? Carlsen LOSE  75c$ [discard ticket]> I don't understand, although I can't remember the bet properly. Carlsen was undefeated in the Gashimov memorial, so shouldn't this ticket pay?   Apr-26-15    Penguincw: < MarkFinan> Uh, Mark, the bet says < "'Carlsen' means Carlsen stays undefeated, but Anand does not;" >. Anand was <also> undefeated, so the "both" ticket paid. :) Apr-26-15    MarkFinan: <Anand was <also> undefeated, so the "both" ticket paid. :)> I understand. I completely forgot about the bet but thought I'd ask anyway, it was worth a try :) At the end of today I'm at 4083. I seriously had 4500 on a single round of betting on the Gashimov memorial, I really had some big bets. God knows how I'm doing this though, lol. Apr-26-15    technical draw: I'm quitting chessbookie and taking up the banjo. Apr-27-15    MarkFinan: <SETTLEMENT DATE: Apr-27-15 PROJECTED PAYOUT: 1,176 (1:2) WTCC rd 8: DOGBERRY'S PAWN STRUCTURE SPECIAL NO YOU WIN! COLLECT 1176  778c$ [cash in ticket] > I didn't want to say anything before, but if I read this bet correctly (which i must have) then this was the biggest money printer I've seen at the bookies. 20 games <all> with doubled pawns? Lol.   Apr-27-15    centralfiles: <markfinan> for one ply? Think about it Apr-28-15    MarkFinan: <Fiddy Centralfiles> For one ply I would have taken the bet even if it was only say.. 8 games as opposed to 20. I'm pretty sure you could look at all the biggest team chess events over the last 10 years, and it's never happened before. Anyways, I pledge myself to your teachings Master Centralfiles, lol. You, Switch and 3 or 4 others are constantly placing top ten, I aim to join you this leg. Apr-28-15    centralfiles: <markfinan> For one ply means just about any pawn capture in the opening qualifies as a doubled pawn e.g. e4 c5 d4 cxd4 Nxd4 is a doubled pawn game. It's quite rare to play out a full game without this kind of doubled pawn. As it is the bet was decided by only one game with no doubled pawns C Balogh vs E Postny, 2015 Where they agreed to draw early on with all the pawns still on the board. Perhaps "No" should still be a favorite but not a total giveaway at all. Apr-28-15    centralfiles: <You, Switch and 3 or 4 others are constantly placing top ten, I aim to join you this leg.> :) Except that I intend to compulsively go all in from time to time and crash, While Switch... Apr-28-15    MarkFinan: <centralfiles: <You, Switch and 3 or 4 others are constantly placing top ten, I aim to join you this leg.> :) Except that I intend to compulsively go all in from time to time and crash, While Switch...>> Chessbookie Beef?? Haha. Well I'm defo team fiddy if Switch don't put those bucks on the line. C'mon Switch, step up your wager game, lol. Apr-28-15    Penguincw: < C'mon Switch, step up your wager game, lol. > Hehe, I'm actually good with the bets <Switch> has up right now. :) < (6) Sneaky 2,205 (7) Penguincw 2,204 > I don't think I've ever been this high, this late in the season. Or maybe I have to realize that I'm a better bettor than I was a few years ago. Apr-29-15    AnimusEtOblivio: Dear magnanimous Bookie, It seems that I somehow have two identical losing tickets for: Russian Junior Ch rd 9: Bukavshin-Paravyan I am not entirely sure how this has managed to happen, but I thought I would bring it to your attention. It seems like some form of snafu that I thought might draw your interest. Apr-29-15    Chessgames Bookie: <AnimusEtOblivio> We're looking into it, but it may take a while to sort out. Don't worry - we'll add the money back to your account if you've lost twice as much as you ought to have. Apr-29-15    AnimusEtOblivio: Thanks Bookie. I am definitely not a contender at this point, so I am not too worried about being 200 down. It just seems like it might be a bigger issue down the line if it happened to someone in a different position on the leaders board—especially if it was a larger bet. Apr-30-15    chessgames.com: <AnimusEtOblivio> I've concluded that there is a bug in which you can place two bets in virtually the same second, if you double-click, or if the server is especially loaded, or some combination. While I work out a fix for this, I added 200 chessbucks to your account. Apr-30-15    Penguincw: < Italian League rd 3: Brunello-Nakamura : Draw [cash in ticket] 25 YOU WIN! COLLECT 200 7:1 8.02 200 Apr-30-15 > Damn, that's pretty high odds for a draw. The one time slapping on 25 cbs on an outcome due to high odds actually pays off... < (5) Penguincw 2,482 > Wow, the last time I was this high up in the standings was like during the preseason of the Championship Leg. Of course, it's really helpful that <Chnebelgrind> has more cbs than places 2-6 <combined>, basically meaning that even small profits will result in huge shifting in the leaderboard. :) May-01-15    Penguincw: < Italian League rd 4: Nakamura-Cacco : Nakamura [cash in ticket] 500 YOU WIN! COLLECT 575 1:7 1.15 575 May-01-15 Italian League rd 4: Obiettivo Risarcimento-Il Grifone : Obiettivo Risarcimento [cash in ticket] 500 YOU WIN! COLLECT 575 1:7 1.15 575 May-01-15 > Hehe, the last time I placed 2 500+ cbs bets on the same day, it didn't went too well... Chessgames Bookie chessforum < (6) Penguincw 2,582 > Damn it, I actually fell... May-06-15    MarkFinan: <SETTLEMENT DATE: May-06-15 PROJECTED PAYOUT: 466 (18:1) Nakhchivan Open rd 5: DAILY DOUBLE White-Draw YOU WIN! COLLECT 466  25c$ [cash in ticket]> Streets wanna know. How's Marky the middle aged kid, doing this. Guess who else wants to know?? Marky TMAK, lol. Chneli must have had near a thousand on one of these bets for the amount he has!? He came out of the leftfield, he had to have had hundreds on a very long shot. Fair play to him. May-08-15    Penguincw: Unbelievable. Today, I had 7 bets totalling 275 chessbucks. I happened to win 275 chessbucks today, so I'm back exactly at 0 (or rather, 2349 cbs). :| Anyone every had these type of days? I don't want really want to show my tickets, but my strategy isn't really a good one, so why not (not sure if I even have a strategy). Nakhchivan Open rd 7: Bacrot-A. Mammadov : Bacrot [cash in ticket] 100 YOU WIN! COLLECT 154 1:2 1.54 154 May-08-15 Nakhchivan Open rd 7: Beradze-Khalifman : Khalifman [discard ticket] 25 LOSE 3:2 2.47 -- May-08-15 Nakhchivan Open rd 7: Beradze-Khalifman : Draw [cash in ticket] 25 YOU WIN! COLLECT 48 1:1 1.96 48 May-08-15 Nakhchivan Open rd 7: DAILY DOUBLE : Draw-Black [discard ticket] 25 LOSE 30:1 30.68 -- May-08-15 Nakhchivan Open rd 7: DAILY DOUBLE : Draw-Draw [discard ticket] 25 LOSE 7:2 4.33 -- May-08-15 Nakhchivan Open rd 7: Guseinov-Safarli : Draw [cash in ticket] 25 YOU WIN! COLLECT 32 1:3 1.31 32 May-08-15 Nakhchivan Open rd 7: Paichadze-V. Onischuk : Draw [discard ticket] 25 LOSE 1:2 1.47 -- May-08-15 Nakhchivan Open rd 7: Pantsulaia-Tiviakov : Draw [cash in ticket] 25 YOU WIN! COLLECT 41 2:3 1.67 41 May-08-15 May-08-15    Annie K.: Sure, all the time. Except usually with bigger sums. :s I've never even seen those two small-change graphics, until cg posted them! ;p May-08-15    Penguincw: But has anyone ever had a day where they gained/loss <exactly> 0? < I've never even seen those two small-change graphics, until cg posted them! ;p > Sorry, what? "small-change graphics"? May-08-15    Annie K.: <exactly 0> Yeah, several times. Here's one time I posted about it: Annie K. chessforum (kibitz #3767) (although that was a pretty inactive day)... and then there were days when I had thousands on the line, with a net change in the single digits at the end of the day. :p <Sorry, what? "small-change graphics"?> These: http://www.chessgames.com/chessimag... http://www.chessgames.com/chessimag... ... that <cg> posted here: Chessgames Bookie chessforum (kibitz #8277) - I've never seen them before! :) Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 501) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 328 OF 501 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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