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| May-11-12 | | shivasuri4: <Domdaniel>, after over a year, <eyal> is back to the world of CG! Am looking forward to some great analysis and discussions between you and him on various topics once again. |
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| May-11-12 | | Memethecat: There's 4 of the little bleeders, they're still trying to find their balance when they walk, so look a lot like those wind up toy dogs that take 6 steps, sit down & bark then repeat, without the barking, of course. The great news is I went to town yesterday to put up signs "Free kittens, call 555 4321" (every movie phone No starts with 555), in the 1st shop(cat charity) they asked if they could have them all, & in return would spay my cat for free, well, it would've been rude to refuse. |
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| May-11-12 | | Memethecat: Well today's match was frustrating, not from a playing pov, but because of my desire to watch it live, once I found out about the fide official site. My slow net connection gave 10sec of footage followed by 2min waiting, then same again. I decided I needed a stronger signal, so quickly brewed a flask of coffee, got my tat together & drove my van to the top of the nearest hill. Now I got 30sec footage & 30sec waiting, after about 10mins of this it began to work properly, so they put on a bunch of ads for Russian mega-industry & a brief history of the WC. Back to the game & it was over already. However, that's the only time I've seen 2 GMs sat face to face & I really enjoyed it, seeing the body language, hearing the noisy venue. Natalia P had to put up with a bit of lascivious behaviour, all them chess nerds in the virtual company of a good looking lass who loves the game, you could almost hear the libidos pulsing in tandem. I'm impervious, of course, it didn't even cross my mind what it would be like to have a beautiful partner that would take pleasure in thrashing me regularly. |
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May-11-12
 | | Domdaniel: <a beautiful partner that would take pleasure in thrashing me regularly> Me neither.
Though I suppose one would have to be able to put up *some* resistance, and I'm not sure I could. Anyhow, the delightful Natalia already has a 'manager stroke husband' ... infamous in CG folklore for coining the term 'spacebar masters' to describe weak players who rely on computer analysis. |
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| May-12-12 | | Memethecat: Getting a manager to stroke your husband! she must be busy. 'Spacebar master' does have a nice ring to it, but I thought everybody used engine analysis these days, even 'the best of the best of the best'(US military lingo). I read a 'good' bit of advice t'other day on another chess site(infidelity runs in my family, according to the milkman). It recommended going over your own games with a pen & paper, jotting down thoughts, ideas, better moves if you spot them, for you & your opponent, & only after doing all that run the game through an engine. It sounds sensible to me, so I'm gonna try it for a bit. |
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May-12-12
| | Domdaniel: <meme> -- < It recommended going over your own games with a pen & paper, jotting down thoughts, ideas, better moves if you spot them, for you & your opponent, & only after doing all that run the game through an engine.> I've sometimes *attempted* something like this.
You apply yourself assiduously -- actual acid is not mandatory -- to the task of analyzing your games. At the end of the process, which never truly ends, you have a better understanding of the kind of errors you typically make, and the areas in which you need to apply yourself in order to improve. As long as your rate of brain deterioration is not greater than your capacity for improvement, you might even gain a few rating points. Life's too short.
But nevertheless I *do* analyze my own games. Despite so many changes that I'm effectively a different person, there are certain broad continuities between the mistakes I made 30 years ago and the ones I make now. This is spooky, or slightly depressing (depends on whether it led to a win or a loss). On a good day, I feel a profound connection to the French Defence. On a bad day, it bites me. |
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| May-12-12 | | hms123: <Dom> Like you, I have a real connection to the French Defence. Here's the latest (played OTB): [Event "informal"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2012.05.11"]
[Round "?"]
[White "quelqu'an d'autre"]
[Black "moi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C02"]
[Annotator "hms123"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[TimeControl "?"]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 b6 4. Nf3 Qd7 5. Bd3 Ba6 6. O-O Ne7 7. Re1 Bxd3 8. Qxd3 c5 9. c3 Nec6 10. Bf4 Be7 11. Nbd2 c4 12. Qc2 b5 13. a3 h6 14. b4 cxb3 15. Nxb3 O-O 16. Nc5 Bxc5 17. dxc5 Qe7 18. Be3 Nd7 19. a4 a6 20. axb5 axb5 21. Ra2 Nxc5 22. Rea1 Rxa2 23. Rxa2 Ne4 24. Ra6 Rc8 25. Qb3 b4 26. Nd4 Nxe5 27. f4 Rxc3 28. Ra8+ Kh7 29. Qa4 Rxe3 30. fxe5 Re1# 0-1 After <27.f4>:
click for larger view<27...Rxc3 28. Ra8+ Kh7 29. Qa4 Rxe3 30. fxe5 Re1# 0-1> 
click for larger view |
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| May-13-12 | | twinlark: Message for you guv: Biographer Bistro |
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May-13-12
| | Domdaniel: <HMS> Very nice indeed. I used to play those systems with an early ...b6, years ago -- my notorious draw with Miles was in the dodgy line 3.Nd2 b6, which he later tried a few times with Black. I wouldn't normally play them now, though I still use the Wade Variation (4...Qb6 and ...Bd7-b5) against the Advance. When it works properly, a position that seems drawn suddenly turns into a black win. L'enfer, c'est les autres qui gagne. Sartre missed the last bit, je croix. |
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May-13-12
| | Domdaniel: <twinlark> Cheers -- I'd seen the improvement in the Marin entry (he and Avrukh seem to be two of the best authors currently working on opening theory) but it's also very nice to see the relatively unheralded Reinaldo Vera get a mention. Speaking of great writers, I just finished 'Here on Earth' by that great Australian, Tim Flannery. Brilliant stuff -- I thought I knew the basics of Earth science, but I hadn't been keeping up. Mind-blowing, wonderfully written, and an ecological call to arms to anyone with half a brain. |
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| May-13-12 | | frogbert: to what kind of activities should we apply that half-brain, dom? |
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| May-14-12 | | twinlark: Tim Flannery actually received the Australian of the year Award back in 2007, something Howard the Duck had to deal with before he was turfed. I like Flannery's ideas too, including restocking the niches left by extinct species with close approximations, such as elephants for mammoths and mastodons, Komodo Dragons into Australia to substitute for Megalania (a 20 foot goanna (lizard)). I've thought too about the thoughtful spread of easily controlled endangered animals into habitats to which they aren't indigenous, but which could be beneficial for preserving the species and beneficial for the new environment, like introducing cheetahs onto the Australian plains (tagged and monitored - they're not prolific breeders), to prey on the feral rabbits, cats and foxes etc that plague this country), although Flannery's idea of reintroducing the Tasmanian Devil to the mainland is interesting too. One or both might be pinch hitters for the gap left by our extinct marsupial lions and Tasmanian tigers which would have absolutely feasted on exotic pests, although the thylacaleo would have happily dined out on feral pig, buffalo and camel as well as domesticated cattle and sheep. And probably humans. Come to think of it Britain and Ireland used to have some interesting megafauna not so long ago, such as lions and tigers and bears, not to mention wolves and elephants but I can foresee that an attempted reintroduction might strike a few snags. But it'd be great to see road signs warning of elephants crossing. |
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| May-14-12 | | frogbert: <Mind-blowing, wonderfully written, and an ecological call to arms to anyone with half a brain.> i have no idea of the book's contents, but if it's along the lines of un's "agenda 21" advocating "sustainable development" then it will receive lots of opposition from playground player and companey, see playground player chessforum ... personally i hadn't heard about tom deweese before: http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWees... - maybe for a reason. :o) |
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| May-14-12 | | twinlark: Reckon people waste time trying to convert opponents rather than marshaling the forces of the like-minded. |
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| May-14-12 | | frogbert: well, those who are severely *against* the implementation of agenda 21 don't really have much choice, do they? :o) |
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| May-14-12 | | twinlark: No idea what agenda 21 is. |
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| May-14-12 | | Memethecat: No! I wont go to the dark place, you cant make me. <frogbert> I just noticed your name with a big thank you attached on the 2700 stat site, but that H.A.R was helpful & had a good working knowledge of the rating system, it must be somebody else. Deweese: Its difficult to take someone serious when they class this statement as evil:
“It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class, involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work place air conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
You can disagree with it & give valid reasons why, but once you start categorising others opinions as 'good or evil' you lose the right to breathe...well, at least the right to open your gob. I'd go further, remove the 'good & evil' tag from the political lexicon, the 'Axis of mild annoyance', see, its not so easy to drum up fear & hate, is there another short, perspicuous word that carries the same impact? |
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| May-14-12 | | frogbert: <but that H.A.R was helpful & had a good working knowledge of the rating system, it must be somebody else> yeah, doesn't sound like anyone i know.
<No idea what agenda 21 is.> http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/ |
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| May-14-12 | | achieve: <Deweese: Its difficult to take someone serious when they class this statement as evil: “It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class, involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work place air conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”> Could not agree more.
Couldn't agree less though about the implementations of said statement, planned for a variety of reasons. |
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| May-14-12 | | achieve: <frogbert: well, those who are severely *against* the implementation of agenda 21 don't really have much choice, do they? :o)> A "telling" smiley.
Well spotted, dear. |
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| May-14-12 | | frogbert: hi, achieve! i was looking for you the other day, actually. just to inform you that i'm about to activate my drs, in case you haven't paid much attention to your mirrors lately. :o) |
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| May-14-12 | | frogbert: nothing gloating about the 'telling' smiley, btw - it was simply an observation that *your* side does indeed have little choice except trying to turn people and nations. there are two things i wonder, though: what is it that makes you in particular so opposed to agenda 21, and which (if any) of the numerous conspiracy theories rooted in various agenda 21-related issues do you believe in? after some quick surfing there indeed seem to be a couple to choose from! |
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May-14-12
| | Domdaniel: <frogbert> - < to what kind of activities should we apply that half-brain, dom?> Oh, y'know, the usual ones, combinations and chemistry ... or gonzo anthropology and conceptual art, in my case. Statistics as a palaeolithic hand-axe (used for sexual display rather than cutting), in other cases. Whatever turns you on. I think I mentioned a 'call to arms' ... so half a brain could possibly operate one arm, sinistrality or dexterity optional. I usually avoid normative statements involving the word 'should', however. I try to avoid nations too, and the use of the word 'evil'. |
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May-14-12
| | Domdaniel: <meme> 'Evil' is too quaintly religious and superstitious ("Get Thee behind me, Santa!") ... to be taken seriously as a term of opprobrium. As four-letter words go, I rather like 'daft' -- the Axis of Daftness has a nice ring to it. Like a convention of village idiots. |
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| May-14-12 | | hms123: <Dom> How about <dozy prawns>? |
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