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Mar-15-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> just checked the GMNS forum and didn't see a new post from you there? did you head over yet?
Or did they (shudder) delete your post?
(looks left, right...) |
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Mar-15-07
 | | Domdaniel: <Jess> You had me worried there for a moment... no, I made two GMNS posts, and they're still in situ. Just a riff about his spooky 23rd position in the FIDE rating list, and the age/performance curve... more or less. I see <samikd> has done the decent thing. Nice game, beautiful finish. Congrats. |
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| Mar-15-07 | | WBP: <Jess:Why not write a "scholarly" article for <FROGSPAWN, the Online Chess Journal that thinks you're a Frog>?> Ah, the gauntlet is thrown. To take up pen and ink yet again, and for a stern and demanding mistress, no less. I began a poem once: "Let us go then, you and I,/When the evenening is spread out against the sky," but just couldn't see where to take it. No doubt someone somewhere has managed to make something of that idea. Perhaps I shall commence research! (Great game against Simikd) <Dom> yeah, I looked at the Fischer-Tal game after posting--it is something of a mess! (I was amused by the remarks of Andrew Soltis in the database comments). Y'all take care now, y'hear, and many thanks again. |
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Mar-15-07
| | Domdaniel: <WBP> -- <the evenening is spread out against the sky>
Hey, scratch Eliot. I like it. Howabout <lilike a papatient ethererererised upupon a tababable...>
Grin. |
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Mar-15-07
| | Domdaniel: <WBP> You should pick an avatar from the range available -- I think they've expanded it hugely recently, judging by the number of people image-hopping. But I'm sure you'd find *something* you liked... |
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Mar-15-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <WBP> There's a cool <Jessica Alba> avatar that's not taken. If you took it, it might well confuse people!!!
Heh. |
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Mar-15-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> thanks so much for the analytical help on my last game. I just posted my own "analysis" (more like a fumbling "explanation of sorts") in my forum for <Samikd>. I'm so psyched!! Now I'm 4-3 in Correspondence, but more exciting to me is this is the VERY FIRST time I beat a Higher Rated player in Correspondence!! Whoooo Hooooooo (can't help it) |
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| Mar-15-07 | | WBP: <Dom <WBP> -- <the evenening is spread out against the sky> Hey, scratch Eliot. I like it. Howabout <lilike a papatient ethererererised upupon a tababable...> Grin.> Hilarious--see what too many espressos do to my ty-ty-ty-ty-ping sculls! (My posts here have sucked bigtime in the typo department. They're usually rushed, and I'm an old time typer [i.e., pound away with index fingers], but that's no excuse. You guys won't tell, will you?) Avatars, huh. Where does one go to find these? (Sorry, but I am learning all this as I go!) Also, I forgot to say that I agree with you about the "mangled positions." I love it when everything's complex and up for grabs and no one can figure out what's quite going on (for that reason I am especially fond of the games of Alekhine, Kasparov, Tal, Marshall, and Emory Tate) . <Jess> Jessica Alba, huh. That could be the ticket. But I may shop around. I was hoping they'd have something along the lines of an abstract theorum--or maybe a mirror--that would really confuse people! Hey, much congrats on your victory; can't wait to see all the analysis! |
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Mar-15-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <WBP> Thanks to <Dom>, there's tons of analysis now posted in my forum. Feel free to add your own analysis, if you have the time/inclination. Jess |
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Mar-15-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <WBP> LOL first open up your own forum, man!! It's your privilege now as a member of the Elite. But you can get an avatar without a forum-- just click on <edit my preferences>, then find the <change my avatar> box and click on it, and 50 pages of avatars will come on your screen. The ones that do not have highlighted borders are those you can select from. Just click on the one you want and hey presto you got an avatar. You can also email any pic you'd like to <CG.com> and they will add the pic to the Avatar pages. Be sure to scoop up your own pic before someone steals it, though!! |
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Mar-15-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Maybe you haven't noticed, but you've become a much stronger player recently. Real leaps'n'bounds stuff. It's hard to know what ratings mean anymore, but I'd say 1800+, easily, in 'real' terms. You've got a good sense of when initiative matters more than material (ie, most of the time) but you're also smart enough to intersperse a few defensive moves -- it's not just wheeeee gung-ho attack stuff. And your reasoning in the <samikd> game, eg positional advantages that would have been gained if other lines were played, seems excellent. I'm not making this up: that was a first-rate dragon demolition, where black actually did very little wrong but was still crushed. I find it hard to get the balance right myself. In blitz/casual games I make too many unsound sacs 'for fun', but then in tournaments I play safe and make hardly any. Was it <elixir> who brought up the <Specter of Role-playing> with the line about <I'm Tal and you're Botvinnik>? Clearly not one of Misha's better days. I was reminded of somebody or other who said <I'm Miss Piggy and you're the Marquis de Sade...> Wheee, indeed. Howabout I'm <Mr Kurtz> and you're <The Entire Female Population of Iran under a Burka>. Or perhaps not. |
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Mar-15-07
| | Domdaniel: BTW, Jess, the name Nigel seems to derive from the Latin 'nigellus', meaning 'blackish', and is thus a distant cousin of various N-words. Tough, huh? This would make him Doktor Schwartzkurtz, nein?
What's short and blackish?
Don't answer that. Just imagine the answer, Flann O'Brien-style, in the privacy of your own cogitation department. |
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Mar-15-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> thanks so much for your encouraging comments. I'm definitely a 1400-1600 ten minute a move <Yahoo> player at the moment. But I think that in Correspondence, anyone can play 2-3 hundred points higher than their Internet or OTB (I have no OTB opponents, btw-- none) rating. Example: <elixir> said I was playing more like 1800 than 1500-- this makes sense to me-- I have so much time to calculate tactics, which is the weakest part of my game. In my Chessmaster Tutorial tests, I score high on <positional analysis> tests and low on <tactics problems>. In the first game with <elixir>, as well, no way he was playing at 1200 level. No way. More like 1400-1500. I've played tons of 1200 raters on <Yahoo> and routinely demolish them. <initiative-attack> I'm a super aggressive competitor by nature- in chess, school, athletics, bon mots, etc. I seem to be hard-wired that way.
But I want to win. That's why I spent so much time calculating the safety of my Kingside in the last game. No way would I have the luxury of this calculating time at ten minutes a move... But I wanted to win against <samikd> and it is the first time I have beaten a strong player in Correspondence. I'm very much looking forward to the rematch!!!
Your chess support has been, and remains, absolutely invaluable to me. Merci Infinimente. |
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Mar-15-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> LOL on the GMNS jokes. He should really get out more and visit here.
I bet he could muster up a Grand Article for <FROGSPAWN>, being a Grandmaster and all. And he really is one of the Greats to play the game, despite all the troll comments on his page. Cripes as you pointed out look what he had to do in order to earn the right to play <Kasparov>? And nobody could beat <Kasparov> in a match, no way no how <until Kramnik- who I think is underrated underappreciated by fans>. Cripes <Kramnik> is not only Undisputed Heavyweight Champion, he didn't lose a SINGLE game to <Kasparov> in their match. And I think it's quite clear that <Kasparov> is, at this juncture in Chess History, the Greatest player of all time- so far. GMNS is without question a SuperGM.
He earned his place in Chess History and no trolling can ever take that away from him. Plus, as you pointed out, there's no reason why he couldn't pull a <Korchnoi> even now. All that said, what fun making fun of his name/personality etc.!!! Doktor Schvartzkurtz indeed... very menacing.
Last note-- Despite the motive behind GMNS's email to me, I'd be lying if I didn't confess that I was VERY excited to get a personal communication from him-- kind of undercuts my Blast in Nigel's forum about the "closeness to genius retardation factor," doesn't it? Ah well. I'll probably end up a teacher, or perhaps a rodeo clown. So do as I say, not as I do!!
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Mar-15-07
| | Domdaniel: *Frogspawn Marker Diagram*
Position after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Ba5 (The Swarm) 6.b4 cxd4 7.Qg4 Ne7 8.Nb5 Bc7 9.Qxg7 Rg8 10.Qxh7 Bxe5?! 11.Nf3 Bf6? 12.Bf4 Rh8 13.Nc7+ Qxc7 14.Qxh8+ Bxh8 15.Bxc7 
click for larger viewDammit, another missed deadline. This pic was supposed to go with the earlier <frogspawn> article about the Swarm variation of the Winawer French and certain inconsistencies in the database which skew the Opening Explorer... oh, go back and read it, if you care. From the diagram: has Black (in this case, me) got compensation for the sacrificed exchange? Not really. With the queens off and the queenside undeveloped, Black's two plus points -- the DSB on the long diagonal and the central pawn mass -- just aren't sufficient. They're also at cross-purposes. It would be nice to play ...f6, ...Kf7, and maybe ...e5 -- getting the pawns moving and bringing the king over to muzzle white's h-pawn -- but ...f6 would also lock the DSB on h8 out of play. And Black has real development problems. I kept a sort of initiative up until around move 40, when it ran out of steam and White won by pushing the h-pawn. It'd be nice to think the diagram position was worth further theoretical investigation. It isn't. And 11...Bf6 is a mistake, as clearly demonstrated by the games NOT in the CG database. *right, it's late, but stick the pic in anyway and hope the readers won't notice -- avant-garde editing, innit?* |
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Mar-15-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> I agree about Nigel -- and I *do* admire him also, despite the fun-making potential. He was also an excellent columnist until those morons in the Guardian 'let him go'. Insufficiently proletarian, it seems: the irony being that the Guardian is largely written by middle-class lefties, while Short was the inverse -- humble origins, plus aspirational and somewhat right-ish politics. Not that any of this really matters in chess terms. Historically, he counts with people like Tarrasch, Bronstein, Korchnoi and Anand, who reached just one rung short of the top. I'm not counting Vishy's KO 'title' which is a whole nother ballgame. Speaking of Vishy. According to Bill Hartston (begetter of the original Frogspawn pun) Short once described his own play as 'wishy-washy' -- and added that it was "rather more wishy than washy." Got a sensa yuma, our blackish boy. |
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Mar-15-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> Read your latest <FROGSPAWN> article in its entirety... Interesting position there in the second part of the article. Yes, it visually "looks" better for Black than it turned out to be. As for <11...Bf6> being Busted-- Why not send <CG.com> an email requesting that the Games you have that refute <Bf6> be added to their database? Aren't they looking to add to it all the time anyways? And if you explain the anomoly in the <Opening Explorer> caused by the dearth of the Games you have in your possession, wouldn't they likely add them? Plus, this would surely add to the growing prestige of <FROGSPAWN>, which I think may well outgrow this website. Imagine it as its own website (and you know how easy and free it is to create a website these days)-- All it would require is some advertising, perhaps accomplished through some blanket posting through the <chess blogosphere>? Think about it-- There has never existed a <Chess Journal> that is both serious AND comedic-- And one devoted to the most irritating Opening in Christen<dom>!! Lets see if other <CG.communists> begin composing <FROGSPAWN> articles... Re: <Vishy> and the other <non Champion Champions>: He's now the highest rated player in the World.
All he has to do is win the <Candidate's Tourney> and <match playoffs> (unsure of the format) and isnt' he odds on fave to challenge <Dr. Kramnik> for the World Title? Or does <Top> get first crack? Confused... But convinced that the next World Championship Match should be <Anand-Kramnik>... BTW, last summer, <chessbase.com> posted a story that said <Visshy> was supposed to play <Top> for the Championship-- Then later I saw an article saying it would be <kram-top>... signed,
fanatical Anand fan in front row with binoculars... |
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| Mar-15-07 | | WBP: <Jess> thanks for all the avatar stuff--I'll certainly check it out ASAP (hmmm...maybe a hologram); ditto the analysis of your game. I saw Dom's assessment of your strength--yeah, your games are becoming very convincing (fine exploitation of the pinned rook on f7 in the exlixeroflove game). I won't mess wit cha'. <Dom> I wish to humbly submit a correction: the players I mentioned are probably better classified as attackers, rather than mangled/tangeled mazers; but their games do often seem to have welcome and interesting complexities. Good night all. |
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Mar-15-07
| | Domdaniel: <WBP> Thanks. I'm going to check out Emory Tate, about whom I know virtually nothing... |
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| Mar-15-07 | | mckmac: <Domdaniel> Good to hear mention of John Cooper Clarke "The Bard Of Salford" The Rats Have All Got Rickets
They Spit Through Broken Teeth
The Name Of The Game Is Not Cricket
...Caught Out On Beasley Street
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The Boys Are On The Wagon
The Girls Are On The Shelf
Their Common Problem Is
...That They're Not Someone Else
The Dirt Blows Out
The Dust Blows In
You Can't Keep It Neat
It's A Fully Furnished Dustbin
...Sixteen Beasley Street
Tasty stuff--even better heard than read.If only I could still get into my stovepipes.. once had a daydream about JCC walking into The Rovers Return (down here we run about a year late) The build up would have been overwhelming. |
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Mar-15-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> There's an online zine, Kingpin, which seems to fit the chessic/comedic angle -- they had a hilarious spoof <Chess With Raymondo> which <mack> pointed out to me (something vaguely like... "and thanks to three-year-old Allan Curmudgeonly from Grimsby for pointing out that 11.Qg7 is actually checkmate, although I was suggesting that this might be the case back in 1962! A superb example of British play at its finest, first spotted by readers of the Sunday WhereYouAreNow")... kind of thing... anyway, mack knows 'em... I'm off to experiment with Dragons before I go to sleep... will furnish a report if I survive... ta-ra. |
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Mar-16-07
| | Domdaniel: <mckmac> Oh, aye, Johnny Clarke... back when he were half-past famous, I used to get kids shouting "John Cooper Clarke" at me in the street, on account of being tall, skinny, mad hair, dark glasses, etc. Then I stood next to him for a chat and saw he was *much* taller, skinnier, and all other relevant categories. My favorite has to be "I married a Monster from Outer Space" <I fell in love with an alien being
Her skin was yellow
Her teeth were green...
We walked out
Tentacle in hand
You could sense that the Earthlings
Did not understand.
They went "nudge, nudge"
When we got on the bus
Saying "It's extra-terrestrial
- not like us!"
And "It's bad enough with another race,
but, @#$% me, a monster from outer space!"> Like you said, Mancunian helps greatly. |
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| Mar-16-07 | | mack: Oh, it won't hurt to look at Chess by Raymondo one more time: http://www.chesscenter.com/kingpin/... Kingpin isn't an online zine, by the way - there are a few choice articles up on the web, (see http://www.chesscenter.com/kingpin/...) but it's been a proper print mag for years and years and years. |
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| Mar-16-07 | | mack: Ever seen those ads JCC did for Sugar Puffs a few years back? |
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| Mar-16-07 | | mack: FROGSPAWN: It's not heavy, it's just awkward to carry. |
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