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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 433 OF 501 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-02-17    abhishikt: Argh... last leg I finished 12th, this leg 11th :-( Was seating happily at 7th spot and everything changed on last day. Should have placed bigger/more/riskier bets... Oct-02-17    Penguincw: Thanks for a good leg, congrats to the winner and qualifiers, and see you soon. Good luck <Switch>. < abhishikt: Argh... last leg I finished 12th, this leg 11th :-( > That means you're going to finish 10th next leg and make it into the Championship Leg. :) Oct-02-17    sydbarrett: Good playing everyone. Cheers. Oct-02-17    eternaloptimist: Yes, I FINALLY finished in the top 10 in a leg in Bookie (pumps fist)! I've been trying to do this for several years. I'd like to say congrats to the other 9 who finished in the top 10. Thx <CG, wordfunph, Penguin & syd>! Also thx to <Annie K.> for doing a superb job as the Bookie! Oct-03-17    FSR: <abhishikt> Oddly enough, we switched places on the last day: I had been sitting at 11th, and ended up 7th. I bet 1,500 CB$ (the max) on Carlsen-Nakamura ending in a draw, which it did - resulting in a profit of just over 1,500 CB$ on that bet. Also bet 100 CB$ on Anand-Hou Yifan ending in a draw, which worked out less well. It's always a tricky decision when you're in the bottom half of the top 10 on the last day whether you should stay put or take a risk. Had I been in your situation, I might well have not bet on the last day - and then been unpleasantly surprised, as you were, when four players leapfrogged me. Anyway, I hope you continue your upward climb in the next leg. Good luck! Oct-03-17    FSR: Congratulations to <syd> on another brilliant victory, and to all the other qualifiers! Congrats on finally making it, <eternaloptimist>! Thanks to <Annie K.> for doing a great job as ChessBookie! Oct-03-17    FSR: Incidentally, <Touch of Knight> deserves special recognition for longevity. He finished 4th in the Summer 2006 leg (just the second leg in the ChessBookie Game's storied history). He finished 5th in the just-ended leg (11 years after his first top-10 finish), and 4th in the one before that. He's finished in the top 10 15 other times, including 2nd place finishes in Spring 2016, Fall 2014, and two Championship Legs (Winter 2014 and Winter 2009). Only the mighty <SwitchingQuylthulg>, two-time ChessBookie Champion of the World, has more appearances in the ChessBookie Hall of Fame (22) than <TOK>'s 18. And unlike certain of us who generally inhabit the lower rungs of the top 10, almost all of <Touch of Knight>'s finishes have been in the top 5. So far, however, <TOK> has been denied the ultimate prize. Here's hoping that he achieves it in the near future. Oct-03-17    WinKing: Thanks <Annie K.> for hosting a fun filled Summer Leg. Congratulations to <sydbarrett> on winning the leg & congrats to all those who qualified for the Championship Leg. Oct-03-17    Annie K.: Thanks everybody for the appreciation, congrats to the winners, and good luck to <Switch> and the players for the next leg. :) Oct-04-17    Touch of Knight: <FSR>, Thanks for your kind words. I still love this game as much as I did ten years ago. I am fully aware of that I have not won a leg yet. It is one of my dreams that I eventually will win, but that is not an easy task with so many knowledgeable chess friends participating in the game. Oct-04-17    wordfunph: with TOK's 18 appearances (or 18 bookie GM norms) in HOF, i consider TOK as a 2600-caliber GM in ChessBookie. Oct-04-17    eternaloptimist: Thx <Annie>! Thx <FSR>! It feels good to finally get the monkey off my back. I second your motion on giving <TOK> special recognition for longevity. He's been very good at this game for a long time. <TOK> That's true that u haven't won a leg yet but it seems like it's destiny that u will win 1 eventually. I wish u good luck in that endeavor! <abhishikt> I felt your frustration myself until the end of this summer leg. A long time ago (I think in 2010 or 2011) I was #7 in the standings very close to the end of a leg. A few ppl passed me a week or so before that leg ended. I made some picks to try to get back in the top 10 but got them wrong & I wasn't able to get back in it. I've been in the top 10 since then but this summer leg is the 1st time that I've been in the top 10 close to the end of a leg since then. I was finally able to stay in it to the end of that leg. I think there's a really good chance that u will finish in the top 10 eventually. Just keep your head up & keep trying! Oct-05-17    Chessgames Bookie: ♔♔ ANNOUNCEMENT ♔♔ The Fall Leg is now under way, with betting open on the upcoming European Chess Club Cup: European Chess Club Cup: WINNER European Chess Club Cup (Women): WINNER European Chess Club Cup: Kramnik to gain rating points? As usual, the top 10 at the end of the leg will qualify for the Championship Leg, and the winner will receive a free one-year Chessgames premium membership. The final standings of the Summer Leg have been archived for posterity, and can be found at http://www.chessgames.com/chessbook.... Good luck everybody, and have fun! Oct-08-17    FSR: <sydbarrett> in the Summer Leg set a new record for the lowest number of chessbucks of any winner of a leg (8,620). He got almost twice that number in winning the Spring Leg. Oct-11-17    sydbarrett: That's fake news, Fred. I just had the most dominant season of ALL-TIME. Oct-11-17    Annie K.: I don't believe in making life easy for y'all. ;p Oct-12-17    FSR: sydbarrett - I stand corrected. btw, if you need a spokesman, I understand that Sean Spicer is looking for work. Oct-12-17    FSR: So far Kramnik is down 2.1 points. Keep drawing, Vlad. Oct-14-17    FSR: Damn. Kramnik actually won a game, and gained 1.2 rating points or some such for the tournament. Oct-14-17    Chessgames Bookie: Leaderboard after the first tournament... <(1) Kynas 3,708 (2) noisyminor 1,192 (3) beatgiant 1,183 (4) paulvankerkhof 1,168 (5) sydbarrett 1,163 (6) PhacharaW 1,137 (7) spawn2 1,137 (8) Tomlinsky 1,137 (9) Chnebelgrind 1,126 (10) ChatGrognon 1,112 (11) truepacifism 1,091 (12) yesnomaybeidontknow 1,088> Impressive work from <Kynas> so far, with steady profits day after day! Oct-14-17    FSR: Yeah, when you're more than tripling the No. 2 guy, you know that you're doing well. Oct-15-17    Kynas: Can we end this Leg now? :) Oct-15-17    Chessgames Bookie: Betting is now open on the first big game of TCEC Season 10: Gull vs. Komodo. Oct-19-17    FSR: This has been a very boring leg so far, with a bunch of games in events I don't care about. But <Kynas> would no doubt disagree. Oct-19-17    Chessgames Bookie: You are welcome to find some sponsors and create a new exciting supertournament everybody can bet on. :) Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 501) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 433 OF 501 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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