True - he really transformed his personality and proved to be one of the most humble and earthly humans, very sensitive and vulnerable indeed, yet highly responsible a most prominent among servants, despite likely being aware of his hopes for a resurrection in holy engagement with Jesus, in heaven.

Please check out my limerick at my place, borne from pure frustration and humorous reflection following this afternoon's "echec"

heh

Actually, this is the type limerick I enjoy most; current, on the spot, little twist, original

Just turn speech into not-taking-yourself-to-seriously poetry, dash of humour irony and sarcasm, then the limerick is a perfect vehicle..

There once was a man from Nantucket...

Do you think the World Team will beat <WGM Pogonina>?

You know, <PZ Boat 109> may not be the most popular man in the world around here, but I predict his epithet <spacebar masters>, which is now an idiolect, will indeed last and escape the confines of chessgames.com, and become a bona fide idiom.

Is that possible?

To the tune of Steve Miller Band- Jet Airliner

Goodbye to all familiar grandmasters
Goodbye to lines that I've trusted
We've got to go out and make our way
We might get wins, you know, we might get busted

But my heart keeps calling me backwards
As we wait for moves ten and eleven
Riding high with fear in my eyes
You know, you got to go through hell before you get to heaven

Big ol' Theoretical Novelty
Don't carry me too far away
Whoa-oa-oa, big ol' Theoretical Novelty
'Cause it's in book that I got to stay

Whoa-oa-oa, big ol' Theoretical Novelty
Carry me to my home
Ohh-oh-oh, big ol' Theoretical Novelty
'Cause it's in theory where I belong

To the tune of Beatles-Paperback Writer

SPACEBAR MASTER

space bar master (spacebar master)
(instrumental)
Dear Sir or Madam, will you play by book?
It took us days to analyze, will you take a look?
He gazed on the novelty, the man named Peter
And he gave a jab, so we want to be spacebar master? spacebar master?

It's the dirty story of a dirty man
And his clinging wife doesn't understand.

The World is working for the Daily Move,
It's not an easy job but we want to be a spacebar master, spacebar master.

spacebar master (spacebar master)
(instrumental)
It be a thousand pages, give or take a few,
We'll be playing more in a week or two.
We can make it longer if you like the style,
We can change it round and we want to be a spacebar
master, spacebar master.

If you really like it let it run at night,
It could make a billion moves overnight.
If you just have Rybka 3 or Houdini
Just don't take a break if you want to be a spacebar

master,
spacebar master.

spacebar master (spacebar master)

To the tune of Steve Miller Band- The Joker

SPACEBAR MASTER

Some people call me a spacebar master
Some call me the gangster of luft
Some people call me Maurice
Cause I speak of the possibility of luft

People talk about me, baby
Say I'm takin' your pawn, takin' your pawn
Well, don't you worry baby
Don't worry
Cause I'm right here baby, right here, right here, right here at the board

Cause I'm a clicker
I'm a winner
I'm above her
That CC beginner
I play my chess in the sun

I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a real knight forker
I sure want to mate someone

Cause I'm a clicker
I'm a winner
I'm above her
That CC beginner
I play my chess in the sun

I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a real knight forker
I sure want to mate someone
Wooo Woooo
Wooo Hooooo

Kung Fu parody

"But, Master, I am bored."

The young acolyte has been painting the Shaolin temple's fence for hours. Brush on, brush off, brush on, brush off. And all this time, the master had been playing minesweeper on his laptop. Interspersed with googling for videos of Kylie Minogue on Yooftoob.

"Boredom is one of the paths to enlightenment, young grasshopper. Contemplate why you are bored, and what boredom means, and then maybe you will see."

'Yeah, yeah, yeah, yadda, yadda, yadda,' thought the student.

He put down his paintbrush in frustration. "But you promised to show me some kung fu moves today. And all you are doing is playing on your laptop."

The master stroked his ridiculously long wispy beard. "Do not be so hasty to badmouth the laptop, young one. Ancient proverb say that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. And modern proverb says before you take that single step you go on twitter to tell the world what you are about to do."

"But I want to learn kung fu! Praying mantis style. Tiger style. Drunken master style. Anything..."

The shaolin master could be a rigid and tough teacher, but he was also kind. He decided to humour his pupil. "Very well, I will teach you a new style of kung fu. Today you will learn the modern kung fu style of ... keyboard style."

"Huh?"

For the next hour, the master patiently taught him the mysteries of the keyboard style of kung fu. They practised the three fingered blow known as the "control-alt-delete". The pupil was introduced to the secrets of Ctrl A, Ctrl C, Ctrl V - select all, copy, paste.

"And now you must practise what you have learned," said the venerable priest. "I will return in an hour to check on you."

The boy practised until his fingers were raw and bleeding. And at the end of the hour, his master returned. The boy showed him all that he had learned, demonstrating each intricate move on the keyboard.

"No, no, no," said the ancient one. "Your Ctrl-alt-delete is weak, your ctrl-C needs some work, and you keep forgetting the CAPS LOCK."

"Haven't I got anything right?" asked the boy despondently.

The priest thought for a while. "Well, I think you have done well with the spacebar. Yes, you have really mastered it. For your efforts today, I will award you the rank of ...

To the tune of The Who-Pinball Wizard

Spacebar Master

Ever since I was a young boy
Hustling chess on the playground
From Soho down to Brighton
I was the best around
But I ain't seen nothing like him
He's the best by far
That chess playing dumb kid
Sure clicks a mean spacebar.

He sits like a statue
In front of the machine
Blindly follows his Fritz
His quad cores sure are mean
He has no intuition
The evals are the star
That chess playing dumb kid
Sure clicks a mean spacebar.

He's a spacebar master
There's got to be a trick
A spacebar master
He sure can doubleclick.

How do you think he does it?
(IBM)
Dell makes him so good.

He can't do no analysis
Can't see those pins and skewers
Without his Junior helping
His game is in the sewer
Always plays what Naum says
Never thinks too far
That chess playing dumb kid
Sure clicks a mean spacebar.

I thought I was
The correspondence King
But I just gave
My Caissar Crown to him

Parody of the poem If

IF you can observe our posting guidelines when all about you Are breaking them and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait until 14:00 (EST) and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can analyse - and not make analysis your aim; If you can meet with 1-0 and 0-1
And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knights to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out staunton-pattern chess pieces:

If you can make one heap of all your ratings
And risk it on one game of correspondence chess,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your rook and knight and bishop
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with patzers and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with GMs - nor lose the common touch,
if neither opponents nor kibitzers can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;

All I want for Christmas is a brand new
spacebar, something shiny and bright and new

All I want is a spacebar, something nice and shiny and new, that I could boss around like a master in a castle

That's "spacebar master" to you~

Throw the switch and the spacebar master's computing a string of moves that flow across the screen like a rainbow in a glass jar

That's "spacebar master" to you...

I don't need to think, just push a button and blink,

Metallica Parody

Pawns all set to play
Pieces all OK
Get to trading and destruction

A grandmaster's peer
Calculating clear
Leading to your resignation

Computing power needs
More for strategy
Dedicated to
How I'm crushing you

To the tune of Youngbloods-Get Together

Click Together

Stockfish is but the song we sing,
Analyzing's the way we die.
You can make that quad core ring,
And hope it doesn't fry.
Know Rybka is everything,
And you need not know why.
C'mon people now,
Tap on your spacebar.
Everybody click together,
We're the Spacebar Masters right now.

To the tune of Madonna- Hey Mr. DJ

Hey, <Mr A.J.> run your Fritzie on I wanna beat this lady

Do you like to Backslide foreslide,
do you like to Backslide foreslide,
do you like Deep position analysis,
do you like my analysis?

Hey Mr. A.J. write a move down
I wanna crush this lady
And when the game starts
I never wanna stop,
cause PZ's gonna drive me crazy

Chess, chess, correspondence chess
Chess makes the people come together
Chess mixes the old and the young

Don't think of yesterday and
I don't look at the clock
I like to backslide foreslide
It's like slidin' with Rybka and
initiative never goes away
But she's tricky
I have got to make a move every other day

Chess makes the people come together
Chess mix the men and the women

Hey Mr. A.J.
Do you like to
Backslide foreslide, do you like to
Backslide foreslide, do you like to
Backslide foreslide, do you like my sliding?

Hey Mr. A.J. tell us a novelty I
wanna defeat this lady
And when the game starts
I never wanna stop,
cause PZ's gonna drive me crazy

Chess makes the people come together
Chess mixes the masters and the spacebar masters