Thorski: <lostemperor> At 30, a lot of your poor choices become evident.

<moronovich>: Chess is the ultimate excuse for not dating Julia Roberts.

beenthere240: fewer squares; less scope ;-)

<ChessWhiz2: Black Wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And don't argue with me cuz I have 2700 raqting. (JK)

Red October: I think we found the 0-1 voter (j/k)

<Spassky69:> <Sorry Kaspy but we think one year = 60 point drop for you and a 100 point gain for Anand. You can never pull off a feat like this again. Anand was thinking about other things of course when he lost. He studied so hard over that last year he knows so much more than you learned in your entire 20 year reign of World Champion and although you bench press 285+ you still are in horrible shape and are too old to compete with a man 8 years younger or whatever than you. Although you beat Anand 22 times to 8 you are inferior to Anand who after winning tons of rapid chess that doesn't count will overcome you this year since he knows so much more than you.>

Weeeelll... uh huh
Its a one for the money..
Two for the show..
Three to get ready and go cat go..
But don't ya hide my bathroom keys..

You can do anything...
But don't ya hide my bathroom keys..

You can turn down a draw
Don't shake my hand
Run Rybka 2.0
For all I care

Do anything that ya wanna do
But ah ha honey lay of them keys..
Don't ya ..
Hide my bathroom keys..

You can do anything
But don't ya hide my bathroom keys..

Hit it Hensel!!...

rossvds: <I don't think we will see a resign today. There is still a possiblity of a Draw.>

Chessgames Challenge:

<62...1-0>

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6.Could someone finally beat a group of amateurs please!!!>

<RookFile: No problem. In the 1992 Fischer vs. Spassky world championship rematch, Fischer reached ten wins and did it in a reasonable period of time. It helps that he and Spassky did not prearrange their games ahead of time like Karpov and Kasparov did all their lives.>

The last sentence is magificent.

<Funicular: black to play...position and material even..."very hard" e4 Time to check!

well..dzechiel's analysis' certainly not working for me>

<Red October: <However, <Kingscrusher> told me that one should just assume one's Correspondence opponent is using an Engine if their rating is <2500+>.

> you will be happy to know my gameknot rating is only 2053 :)

WannaBe: You ain't cheating hard enough! You need to get something better than that Fritz 1.1 that you're using!

<whiteshark>: I agree, <0817>. Do you have any special relations with this game ??

<0817>: Only that I played the 10 year-old twice when he was 16 and I 17. By this time his interest in chess was wilting, although he still ended up victorious in both games!

<Aspirador>: <Only that I played the 10 year-old twice when he was 16 and I 17.>LOL, I once played a 21-year old who was 33 at the time. This was about when I was a teenager and had just turned 40.

<0817>: I played THE 10 ten year-old (of THIS game), when he was 16. NOT 'I played A ten year-old, when he was 16'. You clearly need to learn some grammar. "The 10 year-old" is just the name that we are giving to Kasparov's opponent in this game; we could call him by his actual name I suppose: Murugan. Now my previous message, which you quote, reads "I played Murugan twice when he was 16", which is fine.

Good night!

Aug-21-05 turkishgrandmaster: Where is the f7 pawn?

<ganstaman: Please -- the list maker will not be making a list this move: <Hootey: <Boomie: I think we can dispense with the List this move.> There's nothing quite like waking up and seeing that you've been given the day off. :-)>

So stop telling the list your vote. It's really not interesting and just a waste of space. Keeping the number of posts on this main page lower really does benefit us by helping more to read more easily the actually useful posts.>

and of course the very next post is

<karik: Thank you <notyet>, for making this <DEEP> and <AWESOME> combination look so <SIMPLE> for us laymen.

<Once: <MostlyAverageJoe: <Once: 25. Nh6 gh 26. gh+ Kh8 looks tempting, but then what do we do?> How about 27. Qh6 to keep the vulnerable h7 pawn in place, with the idea of bringing the rook to g7. Looks rather deadly.> This is the position at the end of the line I suggested

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So now you want to play 27. Qh6, eh?

That's okay - black has a perpetual with 27 ... Qxe4+(!?@) 28. Rg2 Qg1+

Only joking!>

<MostlyAverageJoe: <Once: <MostlyAverageJoe: <Once: 25. Nh6 gh 26. gh+ Kh8 looks tempting, but then what do we do?> How about 27. Qh6 to keep the vulnerable h7 pawn in place, with the idea of bringing the rook to g7. Looks rather deadly.> This is the position at the end of the line I suggested>

OOPS.

Attacking with Nh6 did not cross my mind when I looked at the puzzle so I guess I translated h-f in your post.

<My GameKnot profile: http://gameknot.com/stats.pl?annie-...

Referring to this position (Tal's 17th move):

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<JG27Pyth: Of course Tringov would have resigned against a <weaker> player. But this was Tal... so after 17.Qxd7 Tringov fought the impulse to stand up in his chair and shreik, "but I'm an IMBECILE" (this a sly reference, perhaps, to the poet Lermontov, who once shrieked: "but I am a poet" in reply to his landlady's request for timely rent) -- no he stifled this impulse and instead shook his head just a bit sadly as if to say, *I expected better from the "great" Tal* (He placed quotes around '"great"' with a slight reverse twitch on the penultimate shake) Then Tringov played through his next few moves quickly with a faint but perceptible contempt, culminating in 19...f5 where Tringov gave his advancing pawn a vulgar little twist as though screwing it into the table, as though this were skittles at an outdoor cafe, in Vilnius, a late spring afternoon with the crows passing overhead their shadows mingling with the leaves and that tristesse that always comes when I think of Cinzia's brunette... but I digress... ...yes Tringonov twisted his pawn into place and looked directly into Tal's eye with a gaze cold and comfortless as the line outside the Riga Department of Motor Vehicles in January -- there could be no mistaking Tringov's meaning <...there Tal, there, do you see, do you see it now?...>