With animus iocandi.>

<hirthman: Is there anything wrong with 28 ...Qb6 and mate on b2 next move?>

I've never even spoke to <PhonyBenoni> before, so i'll refute charges of cronyism if anyone may be so bold to make them... But this quote is soooooo true.

May-01-13: #1) go home, Drawnik, you will not win this your tournament either. #2) well kramnik, what now!? you still think that there are no reasons that magnus is better than you? #3) bronkenstein: Ah, they crawled outta their holes, to the sun =)

#1)if the people who claim kramnik was gifted points by the russian players could have a gun-fight with the people who claim carlsen was gifted points from the non-russians, i'd be grateful.

#1)are you mad? Leko is playing here. the only possible result is draw. #1)sharp game, but Leko will find the way to draw this. #2)right now it's hard to imagine this is going to be drawn, but we all know how it will end. #1)Leko knows how to draw even with two pieces for one. #3)lol, Leko may manage to draw this. #4)He went to this position to teach us how to draw it!! #5)the position Petered out, what a surprise.

#1)Whenever Kramnik plays Topalov again, he should ask the arbiter if he is allowed to write the game on toilet paper instead of a scoresheet. #2)just have a whole roll there right in from of him on the table and wear a hat made from toilet roll.

#1)I think Moro is trying to make a geometrical figure with his pieces. - but now he ruined it. #2)fianchetto the rook, why not. #1)Bishop fianchetto was hypermodern, rook fianchetto is postmodern.

<Jan-08-14
Premium Chessgames Member LIFE Master AJ: http://www.chess.com/livechess/game...

A cheater ... he did not want to even hide what he was. (I will post a link as soon as he is officially on the list.)>

<Jan-08-14
Premium Chessgames Member Jim Bartle: The name "Houdini_4_Pro" is a pretty good hint.>

<Jan-08-14
Premium Chessgames Member LIFE Master AJ: yuppers

He mated me, and used 7-8 seconds on the clock ... same for just about everyone else.>

They changed that great pic, boo!

OhioChessFan chessforum

< To be honest, I don't even remember posting them in the first place. :p However, rules are rules, and you're welcome everyone. >

< WinKing: ...
Can you say that with a straight face? lol >

On the saga of installing the latest JAVA to get chessgames to load:

<After I drink coffee I like to show the empty mug to the IT guy to tell him that I've successfully installed Java.

He hates me.>

heh...

WCC Editing Project chessforum

<Thanks for conceding to them a privilege they already had without your papal edict.>

Colonel Mortimer: <Ohio> You're seen as very dishonest on the Rogoff forum - I'm sure you're better in real life.

Jan-19-14
OhioChessFan:
I can live with that assessment. I doubt you're better in real life.

<<piltdown man: Curse these pampered goldfish!>

Edmontonchessclub: Pampers would not work on a goldfish. They would just soak through and slip off and sink to the bottom of the tank.>

<technical draw: Why is it that a concert soloist always shakes hands with the concert master and never with me the concert accordionist?>

<haydn20: <morphishine,Shamot> You have done the philosopher's job--to turn latent nonsense into patent nonsense....>

R Pikler vs J Rejfir, 1927

<Phony Benoni, Jun-07-09, Wiede vs A Goetz, 1880 >:

I just happen to have an issue of the <Lower Slobbovian Journal of Chess> which gives a full account of this game, and can translate the story for you.

After <1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4>, Wiede noticed that several of his pawns were off center. He adjusted, in order, his b-, h-, and g-pawns, then played 3.Nf3.

"Wait a minute!" said Goetz, who was an unpleasant fellow. "You touched your b-pawn--you have to move it."

"But I was just adjusting", replied Wiede.

"Then you should have said <j'adoube>".

"But I don't speak French!"

"Makes no difference! Move the b-pawn."

Secretly, Goetz was hoping for 3.b4 so he could snatch another pawn, but when Wiede avoided the trap with <3.b3> he reluctantly played <3...Qh4+>. Wiede tried 4.Ke2, but Goetz was alert.

"Wait a minute! You also touched your g-pawn! You must interpose it!"

"What are you talking about? Touch-move isn't retroactive!"

"In this town it is. We're a law-and-order community."

"And anyway, I touched the h-pawn first."

"But that doesn't get you out of check. The rule is that you must move the first piece touched that can be legally moved. You can move the h-pawn next."

So the game continued <4.g3 fxg3 5.h3 g2+ 6.Ke2 Qxe4+ 7.Kf2 gxh1>

"And that's a knight", shouted Goetz gleefully, "With mate!"

"Whaddya mean, knight? You touched my rook; don't you have to promote to a rook?"

"Read the rules, dummy! I can get any piece I like."

"OK, you know the rules. But what's this knight you're talking about?"

"You know. Springer. Caballero. Horsie."

"I don't see one on the board."

"Well, I don't happen to have a third knight handy."

"Then it doesn't exist! Seeing is believing! You think I'm a Platonist or something?"

At this point, the kindly old arbiter arrived at the board, and placed a friendly hand on Wiede's shoulder. "Look, my friend, it is clearly in your best interests to allow the knight promotion with mate. I have watched your play, and the only way you'll ever reach immortality in chess is to go for negative immortality. You can be another Kieseritsky! Another Dufresne! Another Levitsky! You may even outrank Systemsson!

LIFE Master AJ: <James Bowman> <Do you have GM scalps over the board?>..., for the most part, I don't see any GM's at the events I attend. >

He was once world chess champion.

But he gave up chess. He wanted to be President of Russia.

He has given up on that idea.

Then he wanted to be President of FIDÉ.

That was never going to happen!

Now he is trying to become Assistant Deputy Dog-Catcher for East Hackensack, Bollville, Arkansas, Nevada.

And I urge you all to vote for him.