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Feb-10-07
 | | Domdaniel: I seem to be an idiot. Either that or the Curse of the Synchronistic Bishop has struck again. When I answered the question about Dutch Schultz I'd only seen it chez Eyal. Then it popped up here as well... Answer and ye shall be asked, or something. |
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Feb-10-07
| | Domdaniel: "A boy has not wept nor dashed a thousand kim" |
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Feb-10-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Yes, I asked you twice. I'm trying to come up with a trivia question to stump our <World historical compadre>... My friend once lived next door to a Cat named <Israel>, so we used to sing to him: "Israel, Israel, the World Historical cat!" |
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Feb-10-07
| | Domdaniel: <One, two, three-letter posts...> Hmm. Maybe it encourages politeness. I can't just say <yes> I have to say <yes, Jess>. As Leonard Cohen put it: we should all study etiquette before we study magic. |
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Feb-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: (secret plan)
To direct all traffic in my forum to this forum....
(don't tell anyone yet) |
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Feb-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: My friend <Andrew Sweeney> is a folk singer, I met him in Montreal. He's now in Paris. He's a Buddhist, he used to meditate at the house <Cohen> owns in Montreal, just off of <St. Laurent> between <Mount Royal and Villeneuve> streets. Three times <Cohen> was at meditation when Andrew was there. All three times, <Cohen> never took off his sunglasses. I don't know what this means, exactly.
But that's what Andrew told me.
BTW Montreal is Canada's best city by far, I lived there for a bit, had a WHALE of a time... |
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Feb-10-07
| | Domdaniel: I had a cat named Marx. Which everyone thought was very political until I explained that her sibling was named Spenser. Then they decided I was just facetious. |
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Feb-10-07
| | Domdaniel: I'm sure Montreal is very, um, pleasant. But Vancouver is still my personal mecca. What a Canadophile, huh? |
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Feb-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: LOL department store humor. You have to like it.
But <Ball's Bridge> is surely King of all locations. Still laughing about it. Does it span <Bollocks Brook>? |
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Feb-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Vancouver's nice to look at. Montreal gots the kultur. <Canadophile> nuttin wrong with enjoying <Commonwealth> countries, even though you guys finally threw off the English Yoke... Is Benny Hill the greatest <English Yoke> of all? HELP I'M FREE ASSOCIATING! |
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Feb-10-07
| | Domdaniel: Eh, that last <huh> shoulda been an <eh>. |
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Feb-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Oh yes, as you probably know, the <eh> stereotype is quite literally true, eh? No joke that. Literally. |
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| Feb-10-07 | | boz: <jessicafischerqueen> I hear you hate the Petrov. Who doesn't? Maybe even its practitioners do. Maybe they just learn to like it knowing how sick their opponents will feel when facing it. Has anyone suggested the line where you hold back the c-pawn for awhile? White concentrates on puttting pressure on that obnoxious Knight on e4. Try to prove it's really a target. The line goes 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Be7 7.0-0 Nc6 (all standard - now, instead of 8.c4 just quietly place your Rook on e1) 8.Re1 Bg4 (indirectly counter-attacking the d-pawn) 9.c3 (defending it and forcing Black to decide what to do with his Knight) ...f5 10.Nbd2. After 8.Re1 Bg4 9.c3 (securing the d-pawn) Black has to decide whether he wants to retreat the Knight to f6 or defend it with 9...f5 weakening the a2-g8 diagonal. Then White plays 10.Nbd2. You have a solid, unpretensious, flexible, position that's easy to handle without needing a lot of theoretical knowledge. And it has the added benefit of being rarely seen - probably because it's not that ambitious. White sometimes makes the mistake of trying to punish ugly Black systems. Often it is better to concede that you can't blow Black off the board...go for a nice flexible set up and try to beat your nemesis in the middlegame. This way, success will depend not on how well you know the opening, but how good a chess player you are. Apologies to <Domdaniel> entering without knocking. |
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| Feb-10-07 | | Eyal: <I had a cat named Marx. Which everyone thought was very political until I explained that her sibling was named Spenser.> I suppose one could put an argument that Marx & Spenser did actually more for the working classes than Marx & Engels. |
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Feb-10-07
| | Domdaniel: Ballsbridge - they've now run it together to make one word - is actually a posh area of Dublin. It contains a weird octagonal concrete brutal 1960s US embassy, built at the apex of three Georgian streets like an exercise in architectural bad karma. Or a pentagon with three spares. Nearby is the suburb of Stillorgan, which I leave to your imagination. |
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Feb-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Boz> thanks so much for the <Petrov> lines... I will be sure to explore them. I got some useful lines from <The Alchemist> as well. <Wikipedia> is useless on the <Petrov>: "Black should not continue to copy white's moves after 3.Nxe5 Thanks a lot <Wiki>
And a sincere thanks to you <Boz>, and thanks for visiting my forum! I'm chessed out at the moment, spent all morning watching the great game in <Wilson's> super MAN V MACHINE game... |
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Feb-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: LMAO <Stillorgan>, is it anywhere near <Viagra Falls>? |
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Feb-10-07
| | Domdaniel: <boz> Not at all, welcome back, and sorry I never responded to your previous post about opening repertoires. Though I did allude to it later. I think etiquette dictates we should all adjourn to Jess's gaff - sorry, forum - pronto. And celebrate its existence. |
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Feb-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> If you are under any illusion that you are NOT a <breath of fresh air> you are sadly mistaken... Your forum has always swept up the <best and the brightest> in my view, but then I'm obssessed with <The Arts> etc. etc. IT'S THE ARTS... lol (Eyal's got me rolling in the aisles with his frenzy of <MPFC> script posts in his forum). FLAMING STAR: THE STORY OF...
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Feb-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: I <were a wunnerful house guest>? Does this mean I can't post in here as much as before? (shudders)
Say it ain't so, Joe? |
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Feb-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: "Truth be told" (Josh Waitzkin's favorite expression), it's really only here, <Wilson's>, <Achieve's>, <brankat's>, and now (thanks to you) <Eyal's> where I really do most of my posting, cuz I like you guys the best. Common interests and all... |
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| Feb-10-07 | | boz: Thanks <Domdaniel>. Kooky forum. The first rule seems to be no rules. I like to read here. But when the subject turns to chess, I might just blurt something out. |
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Feb-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <boz> chess is good. very good. I played through your suggested <Petrov> line-- I've got it now, thanks heaps. Will try it out next opportunity. Thing is, at 14-1600 level on Yahoo, players are apt to play almost anything under the sun. I need to develop better general prinicples. Which is why I like your line. Safe for me. Then I can start playing some chess... No rules in this kooky forum? Not so, not so:
<Rule One>: No Poofters. <Rule Two>: No Poofters. <Rule Three>: No Poofters. <Rule Four>: There is no rule four. <Rule Five>: No Poofters. (From the Dept. of Philosophy at the <University of Wallaballoo, Australia>) |
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Feb-11-07
| | Domdaniel: Good lord, Australians, poofters, and philosophers downed with one fell swipe. Have you been sampling Bruce's sheep dip again? Wasn't it Truman Capote who said "I'm a drug addict, I'm a homosexual, I'm a genius?" Two out of three ain't bad either... and I'm counting the caffeine... |
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Feb-11-07
 | | Open Defence: <boz> nice line there... hmmm |
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