Congratulations to all of the medalists! Special grats to <Penguincw> on winning his first 'Triple Crown' in this contest. Three more shiny golds for your trophy case - well done! :)

Oh well, many thanks to the crew for running 2 contests in a row. Congratulations to all the winners, especially to <Penguincw> on his amazing Triple-Crown. Well done my friend!

It was an exciting final round as <Penguincw> held on by his fingernails to capture a Triple Gold. <Winky> and <Switch> made a late charge in Bonus+Moves Ranker and #1 Ranker respectively, but didn't quite catch up. <Winky> hung on to win a close race for the Bonus Ranker gold.

In other news, <chessmoron> is thrilled the contest is over as he was again overcome with exhaustion and slept through yet another round. <Switch> was wandering around the playing hall the way we're used to seeing <OCF>, moaning, "Why, me?". <DD> doesn't know how hard this contest is yet, and probably doesn't appreciate what a great result it is to finish a close second. <GE> still doesn't have the Rankers and scoring system figured out yet, and none of the other contestants have any plans to help him.

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If he was playing a sock puppet, he really was as good as Sir Laurence Olivier in Bsing the posters.

Check this kibitz from 2007:

chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #4517)

<Sneaky>'s complaining about some problem with the site that needs to be addressed, and the webmaster (Daniel) responds to his post.

<Sneaky> has not posted since the 21st of last month, that's 12 days ago.

In all due respect, <chancho>, it was <Sargon> that revealed it, and, as I understand it, he is the one who is taking over the reins here on <CG>. And he wrote that he was one of Daniel Freeman's closest friends for over thity years. So how can this not be true? How on earth would he ever write something like this if it wasn't the case? This is what he wrote on July the 30th:

<Sargon: Farewell, my friend <Sneaky>. We'll meet again someday in <glory>.

Dan Freeman ("D") was one of my <closest> friends for over 30 years, starting from our earliest days at college, and then throughout our business partnership, which began in 1995. He passed away before his time and he'll be <dearly> missed. In his memory, I will do my utmost to honor his vision for this community from this moment forward.>

Daniel Freeman (kibitz #288)

Building a distinct enough personality, "conversing" with yourself, always being careful to log in to the right account to not out yourself accidentally, all the while leaving certain hints. And for almost 20 years at that!

Until I looked at the score, I never realized how close it was. I honestly thought, for First Ranker, as long as <SwitchingQuylthulg> doesn't hit 3 games (which is unlikely), I get at least shared gold.

It almost happened.

I will be going to Ohio tonight to campaign for <Troy Balderson> for the big Congressional Special Election on Tuesday. Early voting is on. <Troy is strong on Crime, <the Border & loves our Military, <Vets & 2nd Amendment.>>> His opponent is a puppet of Nancy Pelosi/high taxes.

<Troy Balderson>, running for Congress from Ohio, is in a big Election fight with a candidate who just got caught lying about his relationship with Nancy Pelosi, who is weak on Crime, Borders & your 2nd Amendment-and wants to raise your Taxes (by a lot).

1. Don't support Nancy Pelosi.
2. Don't support baby killers.

As for the current sad proceedings, I know <JFQ> had some gentle discussions with Daniel about this sort of thing, and he brushed it off as no problem. It was set pretty clearly in the context of "Why should we spend untold hours working for this site when it might close up shop?" A valid point, and I know I wasn't reassured by Daniel's response.

No. Yes. You apparently have no sense of how improper what you're doing is. I was reluctant to even post what I did for fear it'd start a flame war, but I felt compelled to say it. Take a minute to think about what you're doing on Daniel Freeman's page. If you feel compelled to discuss it, surely you can find somewhere better to do so.

Zanzy is Velma!

<Ohio> That was a generous account of what happened, thanks for that. I felt rude when questioning Daniel about what he might do to guarantee the future existence of cg.com.

<Ohio> I think the code might already be degrading eh?

I have been trying to split up a few of my games collections to make enough room in the intros to include all the relevant downloaded game pgns from cg.com, and errors keep happening with regard to the punctuation marks on foreign languages.

This was not happening before this morning.

Wow, the memory is the first thing to go.

<Sneaky>