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Oct-16-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <mack> good lord is there anything you guys haven't heard of already? <Mandex>.
Heh.
Thanks for the links!!
I just watched an amazing BBC documentary on <Syd> on <google video>. He was amazing.
Regards,
Gerald |
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| Oct-16-07 | | mack: I swear that 'Domdaniel' is the most anagrammable word in the entire world. Regards,
I'D DAMN LEO |
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| Oct-16-07 | | achieve: heh
IL DODE MAN
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| Oct-16-07 | | WBP: Hey <DOM> Just saw your note in my house. Many thanks for dropiing by . I did recall that Wilde had used that name in his travels (and I believe he was related to Maturin--perhaps through his mother?) <Jesus de Sade> Heh! (I believe he was a good minor league shortstop--loved to slap the tag on.) Hi <Niels> <Mack> <Jess> and anyone else I've not mentioned! |
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Oct-16-07
 | | Domdaniel: <Jess> Synchronicity ville strikes yet again. I actually bought a Barrett CD in the last coupla weeks. Replacing the worn out vinyl I'd had since the 70s, of course. Heh. |
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Oct-16-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> ... I actually wrote that last message *hours* ago, then ran off without hitting send. Never mind, it's probably still perpetual midnight in Seoul and environs. What am I? "I know what I am, I'm a gigolo aunt..."
A mind lode
Dando Mile |
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Oct-16-07
| | Domdaniel: Ah, Syd.
"Please lend a hand
I'm only a person
With eskimo chain
I tattooed my brain
All the way..."
Bloody superlative stuff. |
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Oct-16-07
| | Domdaniel: Now I must depart again... havta rewrite an article because I put too much Walter Benjamin in. Flannery's flanerie must have gone to my head ... what was I thinking? It'll be chessic rhizomes next and the <Linda Mode> theory of the centre as contested intertext. So now I'll delete Benji and replace him with somebody that 'real' people have heard of. Some rugby player, perhaps... we shall see. |
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Oct-16-07
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> I haven't forgotten our analysis of <Jyrki's game> -- hope to get backto it tomorrow. I found some analysis by Jon Speelman, in his book 'Analysing the Endgame' on the situation with Rook + opposite colour bishops + pawns. He concentrates on situations where the superior side has two passed pawns, precisely three files apart. I think the implication is that if they're closer the bishop should hold the draw, and if they're further apart - like our case - they should win. A 3-file gap is on the cusp. But it's a very tentative conclusion. Now I'm getting Luzhin Syndrome -- I almost wrote <Room + opposite colour walls> there... chair takes table, mate. |
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Oct-17-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> ta for those sublime <Syd> lyrics. Not only are they beautiful, I have been laboring under the impression that <Michael Stipe> wrote them-- since, as you probably know, <REM> covered that song. Who knew?
I'm finding a goldmine of <Barrett> compositions on <Limewire> and I have to say this is a revelation to me. I think he's bloody brilliant.
Also, I've been reading about him.
This "he went crazy, poor Syd" business:
He spent most of his subsequent life happily painting, gardening, and hanging with his family, growing fat off of <Floyd> royalties, and a psychiatrist saw him and determined he was in need of niether medication nor therapy. I think the "tragedy" of <Syd> may in fact be the "triumph" of <Syd>. I think his <post-music career> life sounds idyllic. GO <SYD>!!
Signed,
A. Bigge Fan
Leiscter |
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| Oct-17-07 | | achieve: <Dom> You noted the other day that <Jyrki's game> hadn't attracted a single, solitary kibitz... Well, I found this "jewel" of a game - completely naked (to my astonishment!) as far as kibitzing is concerned - but my oh my what stunning positional play and surgeon-like execution. I'm even tempted to say that Reshevsky was close to "perfection" here... Euwe vs Reshevsky, 1948
P.S. My previous anagram - "Eddi Loman" - would be a perfectly normal Dutch name... Shalom,
Eli Oddman
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| Oct-17-07 | | mack: <havta rewrite an article because I put too much Walter Benjamin in.> Who on Earth told you that it's possible to have 'too much' WB?? I find the very concept despicable. |
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Oct-17-07
| | Domdaniel: <rant the first> Since we're throwing classic games around, can I put in a word for Geller vs Euwe, 1953 ? It's not only a great game, it also illuminates a crucial point about double-edged GM play which is lost on some (beyond-the-Frogspawn) kibitzers. White gets to play Qxh7+, setting the black king on the run. Then he 'wins' a whole Rook. Then he resigns cos he's going to get mated. This theme -- allowing the opponent to get a dangerous-looking attack in the belief that it's only optical, it can be defended, and a counterpunch at the right moment will win -- is quite a common one. So is the piece sac as decoy, here luring the white queen to h8 where it no longer guards c2. Sometimes, of course, the strategy misfires and the original attack succeeds. After such games (like Aronian in Mexico, opening up his kingside with g4 and getting killed) I've often seen comments like "how could a GM make such patzer moves?" The answer, obviously, is that it's a bit more complex than that. Sometimes you break the beginner's maxims in order to unbalance the game. Sometimes it fails. This demonstrates that the maxims have a purpose, but does not necessarily mean you were wrong to breach them. <Here endeth the Frog chorus> <rant the second>
BTW, them anagrams are dangerous. A highly-esteemed (but touchy) chessgames member, prominent in the GMAN game, stormed off in apparent fury when I used one quite like IdleNomad - but with his username as an integral part. I haven't heard from him since. I can only assume he thought I was accusing him of idleness. And I regret... rien, actuellement. So, anagram users, make sure the safety catch is on.
Mad D O'Neil
MOD Denial
Andi Model
d'ideal mon
Damned Oil
Domain Led
<rant the third>
Finally... an anagram helped to get this forum shut down once: Mean Dil Do, more or less. Newfie villages and artificial phalli notwithstanding. "phalli notwithstanding"? Well, they *would* say that, wouldn't they? Aargh. |
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Oct-17-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Thank you. I went to sleep listening to The Madcap Laughs, over and over. It calmed me down enormously from what had been, by my inert standards, a slightly stressful day. Except now I feel as if somebody's been having an acid trip in my brain while I wasn't using it. And they left roaches under the seats. <Syd on chess> ... "When I woke up today, and you weren't there to play..." |
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Oct-17-07
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> Back to L'analyse... I may use silicon for a while until my cortex recovers... |
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| Oct-17-07 | | mack: Hey, you, the Rock Steady Crew
Show what you do, make a break, make a move
Hey, you, the Rock Steady Crew
White to play and mate in two...
click for larger view |
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| Oct-17-07 | | achieve: <Monsieur d'Homme> Le level d'excitation is almost unbearable, awaiting Anna-Lise in all her blinding beauty. My line from last Sunday was actually pretty sound, after another examination - as I was able to hold the draw very easily as White - never relinquishing the dark squares a1-b2-c3 with the Bishop, and the king being able to get to d2 in time... ( AFTER the line following my last Diagram, after move 6) But that was in the 68...Rh1 line.
I sorta expect you to come up with something different... |
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| Oct-17-07 | | mack: <anagrams are dangerous> A gangrenous arse drama?
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Oct-17-07
| | Domdaniel: Gadzooks! Od's Bods and Gad's Google, 'tis a Mackaroni, a Mackeroon, a MackbethImax. Have at you, Sirrah! [Lunges. Misses. Expires. Exits, dragged by mice.]
Actually, I'm a Gerbil. |
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| Oct-17-07 | | achieve: <White to play and mate in two...> First hunch, first try: Qc3? Threatening mate on c4 or d3? If Rxc3 Nxc3# ?
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| Oct-17-07 | | mack: <First hunch...>
First rule of thumb with mate-in-two problems: you first hunch is nearly always correct. |
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| Oct-17-07 | | mack: <kmac: you first hunch> Oh for @#$%'s sake. |
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Oct-17-07
| | Domdaniel: <mack> This is probably a Cook's Tour, and I haven't fed the mate-in-two to a machine. But ... is there a reason why 1.Qc3 doesn't work? There must be... But Qc4 and Qxc5 are mates, ditto Nxc3 if RxQ, and so on. What am I missing? Don't answer that *too* imaginatively, please. |
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| Oct-17-07 | | achieve: Relax, normally it takes me hours! Honest!
Deletion coming up... |
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| Oct-17-07 | | mack: <Deletion coming up...> No! |
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