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Mar-19-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: HA! Nice try...
I need answers to my questions.
Also, why is the sky blue?
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Mar-19-07
 | | Domdaniel: <Jess> Nah, it's about 9pm of an evening now. But, after a few weeks of behaving myself, I've thrown my body clock into utter confusion again -- getting up at 06:00 one day, staying up late to 06:00 the next... Day for Night, as M.Truffaut almost said. Francophones may know it as La Nuit Americaine. I like the night because phones tend not to ring -- am I anti-social? |
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Mar-19-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: no. I never answer the phone, ever.
No news is good news! |
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Mar-19-07
| | Domdaniel: <Frogspawn> Oh, this really is the penultimate straw. The Guardian, the same newspaper which had the ideological idiocy to drop Mr Nigel Short as chess columnist and bring in a 'chess for ordinary folks' piece of crapology by GM Dan King and novelist Ronan Bennett... has decided to introduce its readers to an opening. And what do they pick? The French. The sheer unmitigated bloody cheek of it... Jess is right, Frogspawn has to get its own website to deal with upstarts like this... |
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Mar-19-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> websites are free and easy to make. They even give you a wide selection of formats. <frogspawn.com> etc. etc. The we advertise the URL throughout the <chess blogosphere> We can also put in cool pics and graphics. etc. etc.
yours.
Mrs. E. Smeets
The Hague
Under that big wooden table thing. |
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Mar-19-07
| | Domdaniel: <WBP> That 'closed' Winawer line played by Ivanchuk was not a novelty -- Petrosian had pioneered the idea, but others have also used it. I had some success with the similar idea (in the Tarrasch): 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 b6 -- with which I drew a simul game vs Tony Miles and beat at least three players rated c.2100. But I had far worse results with the Ivanchuk line -- against strong players, the games tended to go directly from the opening to a lost ending. Which isn't the idea at all... I'm currently eschewing those ...b6 lines in favour of more mainstream lines. Or at least lines with an early ...c5. Seriously, your joke about the light square bishop has a nugget of truth. Black should not contort himself trying to get it out and exchange it, either with ...b6/...Ba6 or ...Bd7/...Bb5. Far better to understand, with a Zen-like spirit, that its lack of function *is* its function. Its absence of future *is* its future... |
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Mar-19-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom>!!
WHOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!!
I just systematically dismantled a very strong player on Yahoo who played Sicilian against my White e4. I castled queenside, he kingside.
I whupped his ass good!!
hahahahahah I'm jumping up and down here!!!
He mounted a very strong attack on my kingside-- he had multiple pins on my Queen and I got myself out of the mess with a very intricate line in which I ended up trading Rook for his Bishop and Knight and relieving the pressure-- He continued his Kinside assault while I picked off a few pawns on his kingside, then traded down to a Queen and Rook endgame in which he missed a FORCED MATE IN THREE!!! hahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHH
I'm so freekin happy!!
(not one to gloat though)
HAHAHAHH
<prince of dragons> is a Moron. Dom, do you realize that all of my weeks of study in my Cosultation Game <asymmetrical Sicilian> and my very tough experience playing against <samikid> has taught me TONS!!! ABOUT <assyrian Sicilians>? CORRESPONDENCE ROCKS!! I've never learned so much so fast in my "chess career" in my life!!! 1848 Here I come!!!!
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee
(actually jumping up and down here)
Thanks so much for your encouragement and letting me be your PROTEGE!!!! la, la la la laaaaaaaaaaa!!
Chess beats Culture Jamming any day.
If everyone played Chess all the time, we wouldn't need to Jam Culture!! I'm thinking of making that my thesis... now that I got an extension. Anyone who doesn't like Chess, and Correspondence in particular, is quite clearly insane!! |
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Mar-19-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: BTW I used to be afraid of trading a Rook for two minor pieces, but no longer!! I finally have enough chess skill to use two minor pieces in combination such that they are more powerful than a single rook!! I owe it all to <CG.com> and Mentors such as yourself. Give me Knight and Bishop for Rook any day... c'mon... I'm ready now... WHEEEEEEEEEEE |
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Mar-19-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> I'd have to check the actual numbers, but there are massively more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the universe... One estimate is: 40-move chess games, 10 to the 115th power; electrons in the universe, 10 to the 79th. So don't expect a computer to stack 'em up any time soon... |
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Mar-19-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Hee I'm not worried about Chess being busted by engines at the moment, since I just delivered a can of whuppass on this guy!! wheeeeee HE'S busted now, not chess. Didn't even have the decency to say "gg".
CHECKMATE AND BOOT for him.
I won't tolerate Rudeness. No rematch unless I get a "gg". Harumph |
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Mar-19-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Congrats. Have you posted the moves in your house so we can admire and dissect 'em? Or here in Frogspawn if you prefer. I totally agree that corr chess can rewire the brain -- my own fascination with the French began when I tried it out in a corr tournament aged 17 and won most of the games. In Bobby's own words, I think you "got good". And YOU did it, not anyone else. Magic. |
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Mar-19-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: I didn't record the moves of the game dang it....
I was so flushed with the win and this guy was so rude I just took his points and left Yahoo to crow about it in here. The price of gloating!! Or Goating!!
This <caps> off a Goat Day!! First an extension, and then a very tough game of chess. Could life be grander? NO. |
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Mar-19-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: I've been trying to copy <Fischer's> style my whole life. Like him, I love the clean, open, classical style.
You never see Bobby erecting some kind of Hedgehog or Hippo with Black!! But I cannot comprehend many, many, many of his moves and ideas on the games I've played through-- even annotated games. I have so much to learn.... |
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Mar-19-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> -- "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold" -- I think mebbe the poet summed up your adventure in these words... lambs to the slaughter, eh? |
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| Mar-19-07 | | WBP: <Dom> checking in very quickly <That 'closed' Winawer line played by Ivanchuk was not a novelty -- Petrosian had pioneered the idea, but others have also used it.> great hearing this--voices in my head keep saying, "Must book up." Will forward soon an early Alekhine endorsement of the Winawer. <Far better to understand, with a Zen-like spirit, that its lack of function *is* its function. Its absence of future *is* its future...> Yes, and please do understand that nothing in this <Frogspawn> stuff I'm posting reflects my actual feelings (except my desire to kill). I am a lifelong e4 player, but have played the French (from the black side) on many occasions. It strikes me as a defense that has much potential for sudden attacks, especially in this day and age of overly prepared Sicilian fanatics (on both sides). |
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| Mar-19-07 | | WBP: <Jess I didn't record the moves of the game dang it....> What??? I'm crestfallen! |
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Mar-19-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <WBP> Check out the game <Topalov Morozevich> from this year's <Linares-Morelia>: Moro plays the French and it's the craziest French you'll ever see, maybe. Highly recommended. Very "human" moves throughout, moves no computer would even consider, IMO (in my opinion) |
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Mar-19-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> Chess is not about slaughter. It's about wiping every trace of your opponent from the face of the earth. Roughly, what Rome did to Carthage...
Saack them cities!!!!
Luddite Chess!! |
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Mar-19-07
| | Domdaniel: What Rome did to Carthage? I hope you're not in love with that Jacques Delenda and his Punic Wars? [complex but still horrible pun which I refuse to retract...] |
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Mar-19-07
 | | TheAlchemist: Perhaps in Jessica's case it should be "Ceterum censeo <name of the opponent> esse delendam" |
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| Mar-19-07 | | laskereshevsky: As MARCO PORZIO CATONE SAID
(AKA like LASKERESHESCUM....):
<"Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam"> |
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| Mar-19-07 | | laskereshevsky: BUT ALMOST EVERYBODY KNOW THIS QUOTE AS:
<Carthago delenda est> |
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Mar-19-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Delenda Meaquarterplease: Private Detective> |
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Mar-19-07
| | Domdaniel: <LKR> - <LASKERESHESCUM>
I'm not sure this is the best way to Latinize your name. There's that nasty 'SCUM' at the end, and also it sounds a bit like a disease. Or a body part. What's wrong with, say, Iulius Tullius Lascius Ceres Receuscius Augustus...? |
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| Mar-19-07 | | Eyal: <What's wrong with, say, Iulius Tullius Lascius Ceres Receuscius Augustus> Maximus...? |
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