* OK, Korean characters come out as garbage. Ignore them.

One of these years maybe we *won't* make it, and who'll be laughing then, eh? Cockroaches?

<<Domdaniel: <'arry> - <I survived on their stuff in the 90's> Gotcha, 'arry. So if we go back in time and wipe them out, you won't survive?>

That's worth trying.>

CAN YOU SPEAK ENGLISH?

I TOLD YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE NO FCKN INSULTS AGAINST ANYONE IN MY FORUM.

This includes your "little clever digs" against <Harry> as in the message I just reposted here. I'm sick of your "clever putdowns" of other people in my forum.

I don't care what any of you uncivil people say about each other anywhere else on this website, but my forum is my house where I come to relax AND I WILL NOT TOLERATE ANY INSULTS AGAINST ANYONE BY ANYONE IN MY FORUM.

Kevin A Burke vs H Laakso, 2017

In any case - I haven't checked around - I presume you have aimed for some kind of balance by using familiar tropes. Doesn't always work, of course.

And balance itself tends to be overrated.

If it turns out that you've banned me in order to accommodate the idiot <h.lime> then there is no more to be said.

You remain free, of course, to post stuff here. And to be just as insanely excessive as you wish.

And 'arry is *still* a mental midget with the IQ of a fencepost ... but, hey, now that you've decided that fenceposts and philosophers should get equal time, what is there to be said?

But, y'know, well done for spotting the 'snide' stuff... I never thought you were dumb, just a tad misguided.

As Wm Burroughs wrote somewhere: "My name is Clem Snide, I am a private @#$%*@!".

<Ohio> Thank you for your assessment- it's not the first time you've called me on my behavior and you were accurate, as you have so often been in the past.

I didn't get where I am today by ignoring your comments and advice.

<Dom> You didn't deserve the Tirade (as Ohio aptly termed it) on any level. <Ohio> was also correct about my hypocrisy, and that was rampant. I came into *your* forum to insult you and start a fight with you over the issue of me not wanting you to come to *my* forum to start fights.

???

That's not just hypocritical, it's close to insane. I have possibly one of the worst records at cg.com for "flouncing into conversations" and "offering nothing but bias" (as Annie put it), a behavior that is both rude and self indulgent. I have stirred up and promulgated as many or more fights in other people's fora as anyone. I used to do it on a regular basis.

I have been trying to reform myself in this area, but I fell down spectacularly with regard to you- a long standing friend for whom I have great respect and affection.

With regard to my forum being a liberty/free speech zone, that's never been the case and it's never going to be the case. Given that fact, I don't blame you for pledging not to post there on those grounds.

I don't, and I'm not going to, view my forum as a blog where free speech prevails. I view my forum as a virtual apartment where I live.

So just as I would throw people out of a wine and cheese at my real apartment for fighting and insulting each other and causing a ruckus, I'm going to continue to do that at my virtual apartment.

But I'm going to try to do it in a less insane and less hypocritical manner. In future I will simply delete comments meant to personally insult other guests in the context of "having a fight with each other." But I'm going to do that without warning, fanfare, threats or hectoring. I'm just going to delete them without comment.

I'm not sure which "children" you're referring to, but my outrageously rude personal attack on you in your own forum was certainly "childish," so mea culpa on that front.

I'm really sorry to have flipped out on you like that <Dom>.

<Jan-10-18
Domdaniel: Some children have been behaving childishly.>

Good heavens- are you psychic? January 10 was my birthday, so I *literally* became a child on that precise date.

Perhaps there is a correlation between your blow-ups and stress in your real life. This is somewhat analogous to those people who apologize for seemingly everything. They feel guilty about something but certainly not about the trivial things they are apologizing for. Sometimes anxiety reaches a threshold and comes out sideways. In your case, I'm guessing that the decision to leave Korea is a contributing factor. Emphasis on guess there.

I got my pieces into a tangle by move 12 and decided to go for broke -- so I sacked three pieces to expose his king. One piece I regained at once. I could have taken another with check a few moves later - the obvious move - but tried to be too clever, going into a scenario where I had just two pawns for a knight, and both sides had QRR.

Gradually my opponent got a big advantage. I made some errors trying to hold on. He missed a few forced mates - none of 'em that easy, but still.

Then he slipped and let me back into it: I still had Queen and Rook. And I could check his still-exposed king. But it was now my turn to miss some forced mates, though I retained a large edge. I picked off a Knight and Rook and finally mated him on move 70.

Thanks <Dom>. I care about you too.

I also enjoy you. Immensely.

I used to love club matches (the club disbanded) :(

The funnest part were the monthly rapids. This had a tendency to level the playing field. We never knew when a 2200-rated player would get upended by an 1800 rated player, but it was expected and it happened quite often!

Best, morf