When asked "how much stronger is he than you?", vW answered that, of course, Kramnik is the stronger of the two in general- and that he did feel a sense of pride to be valued fully as a partner to discuss chess with the great Kramnik at a more or less equal level.

PS. <Dom> <Jess> ? A few, perhaps nitpicky, questions...

Is it a established rule in the Commonwealth/America to write van Wely as <Van Wely>, capital V ? In Dutch we write the "tussenvoegsels" in a person's name sans capitals... I find this a problem too when using the cg player directory for the very reason it seems inconsistent in that respect... I understand that there may be a difference as far as starting a sentence with the name- as opposed to it being in the middle of a sentence...

In a Dutch phonebook you'd always find it like this:

Wiel, J. van der
Wely, L. van
Oosterom, J. van

For example: Player Directory - In the left column (top) you see the Van- and Van Der names listed down to: VAN DER STERREN, Paul 1974-2001 464 2468 VAN DER STRICHT, Geert - as the "last" two names listed... But Van WELY doesn't appear there. In the right column, though, all the names appear right at the bottom, with VAN DER WIEL, VAN WELY, VAN WIJGERDEN etc. ...

I will copy the Post Scriptum to the Chessgames forumpage as well, because there is an irregularity there, I think.

Listing Dutch names in english obviously goes by the prefixes that are written in capitals, alla time... The irregularity in the CG database on the "Van double You's" remains, though.

heh - I am so irregular

sigh

http://www.chessvibes.com/?p=1371

Wouldn't that make <User mcmack> <User MacMac>?

And there's more--

A <novelty> used by <Kasparov> against <Anand> in their match was actually discovered by <GM Dafdalkdfjafalkdjfajf>, and imagine the shock/irony when it was disclosed that HE had stolen it orginally from <GM Brasdkasalllavivichasdkhk>.

I read it in a book on the <Kasparov-Anand> match last summer.

Clearly I've forgotten the names, but I'm pretty sure I got a rough estimate correct.

All those crazy triple names from France and Holland are condensed to one word for the name... <Jess> knows this better than anybody from those names in the NHL, right Jess?

Like Mario Lemieux and Dirk Vanderbilt etc, etc..

We're lucky they still put some spaces in between, is what I realise by now...

- John Wyndham, The Outward Urge.

-- Márai was "born with the century" (1900)- and In 1919, Márai left the country [Hungary] and continued his career in journalism in Germany. In 1923, he married Lola Matzner and moved to Paris. By then he was a correspondent to several German and Hungarian newspapers and a novelist and poet of growing reputation. He traveled all over Europe and in the Middle East, dispatching travelogues and essays. In 1934, he and his wife moved back to Hungary and settled in Budapest, in Mikó street, just under the Buda Castle, at the edge of the city park, Vérmezõ.

That year, he published 'The Confessions of a Bourgeois' (Egy polgár vallomásai), the recollections of his youth which has remained one of his best loved masterpieces. This work stands with Elias Canetti’s Tongue Set Free and Gregor von Rezzori’s Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, as the most evocative, both deeply personal and philosophical, reflection on the 20th century demise of humanism through the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.--

Most of his work was translated post-humously. (1989)

I wanted to thank you for that lovely <John Cale parody> poem you left in my forum.

Also, since you asked, here is my Correspondence win over <Kingscrusher>.

The first 14 moves are theory so REALLY I only played 10 moves.

1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 Nf6
5. Nc3 e5
6. Nb5 d6
7. Bg5 a6
8. Na3 b5
9. Nd5 Be7
10. Bxf6 Bxf6
11. c3 O-O
12. Nc2 Rb8
13. Be2 g6
14. Bg4 Bb7
15. Qd3 Bg7
16. O-O Ne7
17. Ne3 Nxd5
18. Nxd5 f5
19. Bf3 Kh8
20. Rd1 Qg5
21. Kh1 Rf7
22. a4 Rf8
23. axb5 axb5
24. Ra5 Bxd5
25. Qxd5 fxe4
26. Qxe4 Rf4
27. Qd5 Rxf3
28. gxf3 Qh4
29. Ra8 Qxf2

However, I am 3 for 3 now in <letsplaychess.com> Correspondence and my "provisional rating" is somehow <2099>.

I expect that will drop precipitously after the double round robin is finished- I'm playing against <Kingscrusher, Canstein, and Jrobichess>.

Realistically, I expect to score 2.0.

But I will try for 6.0.

My goodness anyone who doesn't like chess is... well I don't know,

I just

don't

know.

Thanks for posting the game. I shall now study its finer nuances. One of those Sicilian things, innit?

Keeping late hours again are we?

I understand it's half-past elevenses there and you haven't had your "tea" yet.

I shouldn't have tempted fate by posting that cursed game... <Kingscrusher> is CRUSHING me in the double round robin tournament.

Oh well I DESERVED IT for getting uppity, I suppose.

Onwards and upwards! Or downwards!

Regards,
John Cale should Never have Gotten that Goatee Society

Of course it's a <Cohen> song it's just that I like the <John Cale> version so much better than any other.

Including <Lennie's>, <Jeff Buckley's>, and <Rufus Wainwright's>.

Signed,

hamster...

"I can't hammer a nail in with your <Ulf Andersson>!!