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| Jan-27-19 | | wordfunph: <OCF> <chessmoron> great thanks! hurrahhh to all winners! |
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| Jan-27-19 | | WinKing: Thanks to <chessmoron> & <OhioChessFan> for running & hosting the show. Congratulations to all of the winners! Great job <Penguincw> on picking up your second Triple Crown in this contest. You played many masterful rounds. Also congrats to <lostemperor> picking up a gold in the bonus ranker - well done. Hope to see all of you in the next contest. |
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| Jan-28-19 | | bubuli55: Thank you < chessmoron > and < OhioChessFan > for the fun and games. |
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| Jan-28-19 | | DerDiemer: And here the standings of the new "World Chessgames Chess Prediction Championship 2019". I will keep it up to date after every Tournament whereby the player with the most Gold medals (if tied most silver, and if tied most bronz) in a year becomes the "World Chessgames Chess predictor Champion for 2019" Total amount of medals will count in all 3 Contests of <chessmoron>, <Golden Executive> & <lostemperor>. Will post the standings after each Tournament.
"World 'Chessgames' Chess Prediction Championship 2019" -- Standings as @ end of Tournament 1, Tata Steel'19: 1. Penquincw: 4♔1♕2♖
2. Count Wedgemore: 1♔2♕2♖
3. jsy: 1♔1♕0♖
4. juan31: 1♔0♕2♖
4. WinKing: 1♔0♕2♖
6. Keyser Soze: 1♔0♕1♖
7. lostemperor: 1♔0♕0♖
8. DerDiemer: 0♔3♕0♖
9. cromat: 0♔1♕1♖
9. Golden Executive: 0♔1♕1♖
11. alfamikewhiskey: 0♔1♕0♖
12. wordfunph: 0♔0♕2♖
12. YouRang: 0♔0♕2♖
Total medals in all 3 Contests for <chessmoron>, <Golden Executive> & <lostemperor>
10♔10♕15♖
Congrats to all medal winners and Good-Luck for the next Tournament. |
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Jan-28-19
 | | offramp: Many thanks to <chessmoron> and <OhioChessFan> for great contest. It was a lot of fun. Results were very hard to predict so the winners deserve great credit. The contest was like Jimmy Savile's knickers, constantly up and down. |
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| Jan-28-19 | | lostemperor: Thanks <chessmoron>, <Elvis>! Glad to squeeze a gold here in these Tata Chess prediction contests with a lot of upsetting results, black and underdog game wins! |
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Jan-29-19
 | | Penguincw: Wow. I did not see that coming. But yay me.
Thanks to <OhioChessFan>, <chessmoron> and <WinKing> for helping 2019 get off on the right foot. It'll be a while before we see each other again, but this tournament has a lot of good memories. Oh, and of course, congrats to the winners. |
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| Jan-30-19 | | Golden Executive: Thanks to the crew, <chessmoron>, <ocf> and <WinKing>, for another exciting contest and congratulations to all the medal winners, especially to <Penguincw> on his amazing triple-crown! Just 13 bonus points away from hitting another quadruple-crown See you folks next time! |
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Feb-10-19
 | | Fusilli: Dear <OCF> and other men and women of faith that visit your page: My oldest step-son, Tristan (16), was diagnosed brain cancer back in October. Since then, it's been an ordeal, involving so far two brain surgeries and one more to come soon. At this point, he has finished his 30-odd radiation sessions, has daily fevers, a weakened immune system, chemo lies ahead, and this year will be, well, tough. Really tough. When I pray, my go-to is Matthew 8:5-13. It moves me to tears. We know that God's plans are impossible to understand for us humans, but we know he listens. I pray so that he knows I am asking. I pray for strength for all of us. I just wanted to reach out and ask you if you could please include Tristan in your prayers now and then. Thank you. |
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Feb-10-19
 | | OhioChessFan: Certainly will <Fusilli>. |
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| Feb-10-19 | | Count Wedgemore: I too will include Tristan in my prayers, <Fusilli>. |
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| Feb-11-19 | | WinKing: Tristan is in my prayers <Fusilli>. |
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Feb-11-19
 | | juan31: Señor Fusilli, cuente con mis oraciones |
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Feb-14-19
| | Fusilli: <OCF>, <Count W>, <WinKing>, <Juan>, thank you all. I really appreciate it. |
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| Feb-16-19 | | mckmac: <OCF> I posted this little story in the Cafe last night, where it seems to have sunk without a trace. No suprises there. Perhaps people thought I was making it up. But it really happened! And it was the darndest thing. <Funny thing happened to me the other night. I was out for a most pleasant walk, and was listening to the classical music station on my smartphone. Every now and then I would hear a beep, but thought nothing of it.
When I got home I pulled the phone out of my pocket and was surprised to see the screen showing a game on Lichess. I know all about 'pocket dialing', I've done it a few times, but pocket chessplaying? Because that's what I'd done.Somehow (I firstly must have left the screen on) my phone had loaded the chess site, sought out a rapid game, and blimmin played that game, all while I was blithely strolling along! (Phone was in my jeans' front pocket, fairly snug fit) White:NN
Black:Pocket Man
1.e4 Nc6 2.Nf3 b5 3.Qxb5 Nb8 4.Bc4 Nc6 5.Ng5 Nb8 6.Nxf7 Nc6 7.Nxd8 d6! 8.Qf3 Nb8 9.Qf7+ Black timeout My poor opponent must have thought we'd entered the twilight zone. But he must have been into it. I mean he gave me an extra 15 seconds SEVEN times.> |
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Feb-16-19
| | Fusilli: <mckmac> That's hilarious! These last couple of days, something very annoying is happening with my smartphone. Almost every time I text my wife, my phone also calls her. I couldn't figure out why this is happening yet, but I am trying the old "turn it off and on again" formula. We'll see if that works... |
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| Feb-16-19 | | mckmac: <Fusilli> Mucho gusto señor! Rebooting is my method for trying to fix phone problems too, but what you describe is indeed very strange. You might try to close the messaging app, then turn it back on, but other than that I just don't know. I wish you luck with it! |
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| Feb-16-19 | | Count Wedgemore: <mckmac> I think 7...d6 was an interesting (although desperate) attempt by the Pocket Man to free his king :) |
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| Feb-16-19 | | mckmac: <Count Wedgemore> Do you think so? I thought he was looking to develop his light-squared bishop.🤔;-) |
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| Feb-16-19 | | mckmac: Thank you <OhioChessFan> for putting up with me 'sitting on your front porch' for a minute. Must get myself one of these forum thingees again. :) |
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Feb-16-19
| | offramp: The American phrase "sitting on the back porch" appears in the David Bowie version of Jonathan Richman's song <Andy Warhol>. |
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Feb-16-19
| | offramp: The song Richman wrote was <Pablo Picasso>, not Andy Warhol; a different artist! |
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Feb-17-19
| | OhioChessFan: <mckmac> I read the original on the Kibitzer's Café and got a big laugh out of that. |
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Feb-17-19
| | OhioChessFan: <Fusilli> I prayed for Tristan at church today. Concidentally, before that, the speaker got around to the point of why people pray but also appeal to doctors. |
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Feb-17-19
| | Fusilli: Thank you <OCF>, and interesting. Any particular insight from the speaker? |
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