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| Feb-12-07 | | Squares: Hi OhioChessFan. I am biased towards Short beacuse (as I would be called here) I am a narrow minded little Englander. But having said that I don't see any resolution to what occurred. In terms of their recent locking of horns, I have to respond with an ad hominem (a phrase I have recently picked up by reading other members' contributions) argument- Short surely cannot be wrong, he's English!?! |
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| Feb-12-07 | | Squares: OhioChessFan, just out of interest what was going on with Crackersmack? I could go over his postings, but to be told without having to research is easier. |
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Feb-12-07
 | | OhioChessFan: <I have to respond with an ad hominem (a phrase I have recently picked up by reading other members' contributions) argument- Short surely cannot be wrong, he's English!?!> LOLOL. That's no worse than what often passes for logical discussion on this site.
I am not familiar with Crackersmack. Better ask tpstar on that one. I know several people were very nasty with Ray Keene and Susan Polgar. I've heard some were bad with Eric Schiller. I am really confused by the whole episode with Short/Kamsky. I'm all for free speech, but there's a proper time/place for it. To use a public forum to launch an attack like that is reprehensible. How in the world do people justify that? Is that supposed to give a good impression of the game of chess? And how in the world is it wrong to discuss the matter on a games page-not a User Forum- a games page? What if Topalov made one post on his games page? Would we then be expected to never comment on his recent actions? Come on. I do think the GM's who participate on this site deserve some special treatment. I don't think they deserve us to bow down to them and ignore their improper behavior. And just because a GM happens to sign up as a Chessgames member does not provide instant immunity from reasonable discussion of their actions. In fact, as public figures, they have less expectation of that than the average member. |
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| Feb-12-07 | | Squares: Without wishing to respond glibly by throwing a blanket over all of your words, I pretty much agree with everything you have said.
I would say that Short is obviously still bitter about the whole event. If the chess authorities are at all culpable in terms of negligently handling the affair at the time of the event then perhaps they could do something now to put things right. Somebody has suggested a chess match between the two- I don't actually know what this would achieve, but it would be great!
One question if you ever get chance to answer- What is the differene between the Games page and the User forum? Wow, I feel a little embarressed for having to ask. |
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Feb-12-07
| | OhioChessFan: This is a User Forum. It's the option of any premium member to open up. Chessgames pretty much leaves the content up to the discretion of the member. Some members never bother to open them, some rarely use them, some have thousands of posts on their User Forum. A games page would be that listing of all the games played by a particular player. People generally discuss that player and their games in that forum. There is a games page for Kasparov, Short, Anand, etc. It's my opinion that if GM Short opened up his User Forum, then the posts would be much more restricted in content. That would be much more HIS domain. It's my opinion the games page is much more open to critical discussion of the player and their games. |
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| Feb-12-07 | | Squares: Cheers fellow. I again concur with your judgement. |
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| Feb-15-07 | | shr0pshire: <OhioChessFan> You are cracking me up with some of your posts in the last 24 hours on the whole St. George topic. ;) I think team white is still suffering from some chess hubris, which is unfortunate. |
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| Feb-17-07 | | GeauxCool: <OhioChessFan> Hello! Perhaps GM Short's motive for taunting GM Kamsky was to make that episode public. |
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| Feb-17-07 | | AugustAle: Chessgames Challenge: Battle of the Brains, 2007 |
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Feb-17-07
| | OhioChessFan: Thanks <AugustAle> I ended up on Team Black again. This time, if I see White is going to play Bg1, I'll say so and we will not miss a good move. |
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| Feb-21-07 | | Manic: Hi OhioChessFan,
I'd just like to thank you for the premium membership account that you donated for the "dear santa" competition last christmas, which I won. I have not been on for a long time due to studies and a holiday. Chessgames.com informed me that you were the person I should be thanking for the free one year premium membership, which I hope to be able to use mainly to improve my opening repertoire. So thank you once again for your kindness. |
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| Feb-22-07 | | Dr.Lecter: <OCF> I repeat, can you finish your LOTF series? I just started reading the real book, and it's really interesting, as much as your story is. I'd like to see the ending. |
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| Feb-23-07 | | AugustAle: <OCF> Great! I'll try to do the same. cg put up the game around 4AMEST. They either stay up late or get goin real early. Re: Sir Nomen Nescio NN , Is that an Ipod or a bluetooth? Either way we know he's rockin' to the King. |
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| Feb-25-07 | | Dr.Lecter: <OCF> Alright, I wrote my bad story. Now it's your turn. If you don't know how to spell City of the Moscow, well ask someone else. |
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| Mar-01-07 | | Artar1: OhioChessFan: <Wow, it seems our draw refusal really upset some people on Team Black. It's not like we picked our noses and then wiped it on you all and then stuck a "kick me" sign on your back for extra measure.> While these comments are regrettable, in my unpublished analysis, both 36...Be7 and 36...Bc7 led to draws. Deep Fritz 10, one of the programs that I use, preferred 36...Bc7. Most of my team members also felt that moving the bishop to c6 was a "safer" method of drawing with fewer complications for Black. Later, I demonstrated that Black's fortress was impenetrable after 36...Be7, leading to a drawn position, but my conclusion was not accepted immediately by everyone on my team. Some of my team members were still being influenced by the now outdated dogma, espoused by some chess authorities, that 1...a6 is bad for Black and should lead to an automatic loss every time. Of course this is not the case as this and other correspondence chess games have clearly shown. Thus, it may appear that Team White, as a whole, had feelings of animosity toward Team Black for having played 1...a6. I think the truth is that these feelings of ill will were mostly limited to a few individuals on both sides who became overly invested in our game on an emotional and personal level, allowing their self worth to rise or fall on the game's ultimate outcome. |
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Mar-07-07
 | | Sneaky: <Thus, it may appear that Team White, as a whole, had feelings of animosity toward Team Black for having played 1...a6.> I don't really think so. I posted some comments early about how their move 1...a6 was an "insult" but that was just a good natured way to get my team all fired up for the game which was ahead of us. Honza summed it up when he wrote "If there is a bust to 1...a6 I have never seen it." Of course there's no bust--it's too flexible of a move to possibly have a "bust". I was a little surprised when cg removed my message which tried to diplomatically state that we took the draw offer seriously but wanted to try out one little variation before accepting. I just wanted to let them know that we were not insulted, just that our bag of tricks wasn't completely exhausted quite yet. Some of my teammates seemed a little peeved about the comment. I guess the lesson is that no one person has the right to speak for the team as a whole. |
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Mar-07-07
| | OhioChessFan: <Sneaky> I had you in mind when I made this post: <<Artar> it's the nature of the competitive beast. I think one player on your team made an unfortunate derogatory reference to our opening in a very lighthearted manner. That ended up being taken very poorly by some on our side with lingering ill will. > per the team of clowns statement. I didn't take an iota of insult at that. There are any number of other people who could likewise say something similar, and I'd laugh it off, knowing they were just having fun. But two of your teammates have always been on my bad side, and I really took a quick dislike to some of their comments. Maybe it's not fair, but such is life. |
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Mar-07-07
| | OhioChessFan: I decided a while back not to respond to Nigel Short on his games page. But if I did, one of my first posts would be: Nigel, you mentioned how much you figure Kamsky's actions cost you. Have you figured how much your decision to play a WC outside of FIDE cost all the other chess players? |
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Mar-08-07
| | Sneaky: Maybe I'm too quick to assume that people take everything I post with a grain of salt. Being one of the "old hats" around here my posts probably carry (unjustified) extra weight. |
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Mar-08-07
| | OhioChessFan: I think they do carry extra weight, <Sneaky> That's why it wasn't an issue with me. Perhaps someone without as long a history of reading your posts wouldn't know to laugh at them. Before clicking here, I had just finished addressing people who didn't take some of my posts on another page with a grain of salt. I am really stunned anyone would be insulted by what I posted, but that happens occasionally. |
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Mar-08-07
| | Sneaky: Don't get me wrong though -- I do consider the St. George to be "inferior" !! But was it really an insult? No. It would serve us best to treat it as one, though. Fischer, Kasparov, and all the greatest players held their opponents in contempt--which really is to say, they harbored contempt for the moves they played. But that's the great thing about chess though, the debate for the absolute "capital-T Truth" of a chess position can be so slippery, it exists almost entirely in theory. In chess, the side who best argues their case will win the trial, regardless of whether or not the defendant is really guilty! I personally play a number of variations which I know for a fact are inferior. Once you really study an opening deep enough to intimately understand its flaws, then you're really ready to play it, you know? |
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| Mar-12-07 | | Knight13: <OhioChessFan> Who's that guy on your avatar? |
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| Mar-12-07 | | technical draw: <Knight13> That's blasphemy! Don't joke about the King. |
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Jul-18-07
 | | Tabanus: Hmm... now it's even less exiting :)
I want to hear: Shake, rattle and roll! Or if 1.d4: Love me tender, love me sweet. |
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Jul-18-07
 | | WannaBe: Alright, we're back 'on the air' with <THE KING>!! =) |
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