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Penguincw
Member since Dec-22-10 · Last seen Nov-11-25

♔ MY PROFILE ♔
I'd like to thank the user who gave me a year of premium services from Feb/14/2012-Feb/14/2013, the user who gave me 3 years of premium services from Dec/26/2015-Dec/26/2018, the user who gave me 2 years of premium services from Dec/31/2018-Dec/31/2020, the user who gave me 3 years of premium services from Dec/25/2020 to Dec/25/2023, the user who gave me 1 year of premium services from Dec/26/2023 to Dec/26/2024, and the user who gave me 1 year of premium services from Dec/26/2024 to Dec/26/2025. :)
??? BIOGRAPHY ???
Outside of chess, I also like to watch sports (who doesn't), and even play sports (even though I'm not great at it). Baseball is by far my favourite sport.
??? GAME COLLECTIONS ???
Penguincw's Game Collections
To view all my collections, see here: Game Collection: 0: Table of Contents.
??? CHESS PUZZLES ???
Here are some chess puzzles I composed. I'm not a very strong composer, but they should be fun to solve nevertheless. However, since my forum won't always be open, I decided to use one of my game collections for that purpose:
Game Collection: Chess Puzzles
Here's a sample:
White to move, mate in three

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Solution: (click on above game collection)
??? ACHIEVEMENTS ???
Here's my short list of achievements on this site (other than achievements relating to the prediction contests, which are listed further below):
966th user to open up their forum.
Became the 45th user to reach 13,000 posts (unofficial).
Only the 2nd user (honour shared with 7 other users) to win a membership from the Santa Claus draw twice.
In the ChessBookie Game, finished first in the Championship 2015 preseason with 1727 cbs, 174 cbs ahead of 2nd place. Also, in the Fall 2014 preseason, I finished in 2nd with 1418 cbs, just 40 cbs behind first at the last known update.
4th user, and 3rd overall (after <SwitchingQuylthulg> (x2), <wordfunph> and <Annie K.>) to run the ChessBookie Game.
At the 2016 Caissar Awards, I was nominated and won the "Most Helpful" award for 2015.
In Spring 2016, I became the 172nd user to qualify for the Championship Leg in the ChessBookie Game, finishing in 10th place with 4,204 cbs. (fact-checking needed)
??? PREDICTION CONTESTS ???
I like competing in the prediction contests, and so far, have won these medals (along with the rank listed):
<Golden Executive>
♔♔♔♕♕♕♕♖♖♖♖♖♖♖ (3 gold, 4 silver, 7 bronze; 23rd)
<chessmoron> (hosted by <OhioChessFan>) ♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♘♘♘♘♘♘♘♘♘♘♘♘♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗ (10 gold, 12 silver, 22 bronze; 10th)
<lostemperor>
♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♖♖♖♖ (7 gold, 4 bronze; 3rd)
<Overall>
♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♕♕♕♕♘♘♘♘♘♘♘♘♘♘♘♘♖♖♖♖♖♖♖♖♖♖♖♗- ♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗♗ (20 gold, 16 silver, 33 bronze; 8th)
Updated through Tata Steel 2018.
<Golden Executive>'s Games Prediction Contest: User: Golden Executive
<chessmoron>'s Moves Prediction Contest (hosted by <OhioChessFan>): User: OhioChessFan
<lostemperor>'s Final Standings Prediction Contest: User: lostemperor
Other Notable Achievements:
Only user to ever win a quadruple crown (London Chess Classic 2011) in the Moves Prediction Contest (or any contest for that matter).
Only user to ever win a Betting title crown in the Games Prediction Contest, and defend it the very next year, same tournament (Tata Steel 2014 & 2015).
First user to ever win a gold medal in each of the 3 contests from the same tournament (Tata Steel 2015).
The 4th user to have won at least 3 golds in 3 different contests (after <chessmoron>, <lostemperor> and <SwitchingQuylthulg>). Members of this club are unofficially considered to be "grandmasters" of the prediction contests.
For the 7th consecutive year (2011-2017), I have won at least one gold medal in one of the contests. I am one of just 6 active users to have done so, the others being <chessmoron>, <cromat>, <lostemperor>, <SwitchingQuylthulg> and <WinKing>.
??? NOTABLE POSTS ???
I've made over 13,000 posts, but not all posts are created equally. In fact, most of them don't have too much value, but here are some of my best posts:
Probably my most "viral" post to date (introducing the now defunct Chessgames Playing Zone The Kibitzer's Café
Probably the first <on the internet> to notice the Original Six sweep the Tampa Bay Lightning were going through during the Stanley Cup playoffs, 2015: Mating Net chessforum.
More posts will be added as time progresses.
Here are some of my favourite posts by <other users> around the site (no reason given to some):
The Kibitzer's Café
SwitchingQuylthulg chessforum
chessgames.com chessforum
<YouRang> describes his Hall of Fame (which I am in): YouRang chessforum
Golden Executive chessforum (kibitz #3235)

More posts will be added as time progresses.

>> Click here to see Penguincw's game collections.

   Current net-worth: 1,457 chessbucks
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   Penguincw has kibitzed 16389 times to chessgames [more...]

   Oct-23-25 Chessgames - Sports

Penguincw: Hello <keypusher>.

   Oct-20-25 Daniel Naroditsky

Penguincw: Heard about it from chess.com https://x.com/chesscom/status/19803... R.I.P. Naroditsky. Gone far too young.

   Feb-27-25 Boris Spassky

Penguincw: Rest in peace, Mr. Spassky.

   Feb-04-25 lostemperor chessforum

Penguincw: Thank you <lostemperor> for hosting this. Happy to come away with a gold. Congrats to the other medalists, hope to see you next time, whenever that may be.

   Jan-01-25 Benzol chessforum

Penguincw: Dropping by to wish you Happy New Year, <Benzol>.

   Dec-26-24 OhioChessFan chessforum

Penguincw: Hi <OCF>. Seasonal greetings to you, my friend.

   Dec-25-24 WannaBe chessforum

Penguincw: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, <WannaBe>.

   Dec-25-24 juan31 chessforum

Penguincw: Feliz Navidad <juan31>.

   Dec-25-24 Golden Executive chessforum

Penguincw: Hello <GE>. Merry Christmas to you, your friends, and your family!

   Dec-25-24 FSR chessforum

Penguincw: Hello <FSR>. Dropping by to wish you a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. :)

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March of the Penguins

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Aug-02-16		Penguincw: Ah thanks <tpstar>. Glad you enjoyed it. :) And I will go and fix those typos.

Aug-02-16		tpstar: <Penguincw> Consider these named mates for your collection: 1) Fool's Mate 2) Scholar's Mate 3) Morphy Concealed Mate - Rg7/Rg2 retreat on the g file is a Discovered Check 4) Stamma's Mate - very rare N vs P ending = J Nogueiras vs M Gongora Reyes, 2001 5) The Swallow's Tail Mate is also called a Gueridon Mate = Keres vs Fischer, 1959 I'm not sure if you want to delve into the composition world, but there is also a Pure Mate/Clean Mate where every square is covered only once = A Steinkuehler vs Blackburne, 1863 http://chess-problems-gr.blogspot.d...

Aug-02-16		Penguincw: I could, but if you read the top of the game collection: < "Based on the book 'The Big Book of Chess' by Eric Schiller, here are the checkmates that I found on pages 88-98." > So I didn't really choose the mates; I just used the ones that were already there. The games in my collection were games that I found to fit the criteria. I haven't worked on it (or any of my game collections for that matter) in a while though. Of course, there are plenty of other game collections about checkmate out there. :)

Aug-23-16		WannaBe: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...

Sep-02-16		WannaBe: From http://www.vegasinsider.com/nhl/odd... World Cup of Hockey 2016 Canada 10/13 Russia 5/1 Sweden 11/2 USA 11/2 North America U23 10/1 Finland 12/1 Czech Republic 15/1 Team Europe 30/1

Sep-16-16		WannaBe: http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/... Scott Burnside's rankings: 1. Sweden 2. Canada 3. Team N. Amer 4. USA

Sep-16-16		SwitchingQuylthulg: This will be brutal. Apart from Canada, I don't feel very confident about any team making the semis... though obviously three of them will :) Group B is a complete toss-up where any two teams could advance; USA are probably favorites to take the second spot in Group A, but anything can happen. I'm not sold on Sweden. They'll need to be super-sharp from the beginning to even survive the group stage... and the finals are best-of-three, so if they make it that far they'll have to get lucky twice.

Sep-19-16		WannaBe: Tuesday 8PM Eastern, Canada (1-0) v. USA (0-1), this is pretty much a must win for the Americans.

Sep-20-16		WannaBe: Sweden and Finland will drop the puck in about 15 minutes, any European friends staying up late to watch the game?

Sep-20-16		SwitchingQuylthulg: I'm here... it's not even that late yet. The games that start at 8PM USA/Eastern are late :) We need to win, or at least take the game into overtime... unfortunately, that's probably less likely to happen than not. I never actually saw our first game, but the word is that our team was horrible.

Sep-20-16		WannaBe: Well, 2-0 Sweden. Canada/USA at 8PM Eastern.

Sep-20-16		SwitchingQuylthulg: We weren't horrible this game; we just somehow managed to score no goals. Lundqvist played a good game, but we made him look better than he is.

Sep-20-16		WannaBe: 2 goals for Canada in less than a minute. Ugh!

Sep-20-16		WannaBe: Another goal by Team Canada, when does that SFG/LAD game start??

Sep-20-16		WannaBe: Another goal, right after US had Power Play opportunity. As Bugs would say, "You know, this means war." Time for U.S. to invade Canada and avenge this embarrassment of a game. =))

Sep-21-16		WannaBe: You got to be kiddin' me, North America already scored two goals?

Sep-21-16		saffuna: Canada has a team, the USA has a team. So what's the North America team?

Sep-21-16		WannaBe: <saffuna> Under 25, North America Country. Players on Canada or USA are above 25 years of age.

Sep-23-16		Penguincw: Hope to start watching hockey again, after baseball season is over. Anyway, anyone care to have a mini knockout tournament prediction contests. I know there's only 4 teams, but if anyone is interested: Semis: - <CAN>-RUS - <SWE>-EUR Finals - <CAN>-SWE Same rules as always (you get 1 point if you correctly predict the winner of a match).

Sep-23-16		SwitchingQuylthulg: <Penguincw> Can I copy your predictions? ;-) Sweden is surely hoping Russia will knock Canada out for them.

Sep-23-16		Penguincw: < SwitchingQuylthulg: <Penguincw> Can I copy your predictions? ;-) > Yes, you may. :) There's only 16 possible predictions anyhow.

Sep-23-16		WannaBe: From ESPN: <Steve Levy @espnSteveLevy .@BlueJays smartly moved up tomorrow's first pitch to avoid conflict with Canada's night game in #WCH2016 7pm ET on ESPN2.> Any CFL team changed their time, too, yet?

Sep-25-16		WannaBe: If Team Europe wins World Cup of Hockey, which National Anthem do they play?

Sep-25-16		Penguincw: < WannaBe: If Team Europe wins World Cup of Hockey, which National Anthem do they play? > Apparently Team Europe (or at least the "EU"), has an anthem, Ode to Joy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo_... There are players from Norway and Switzerland, who are not part of the EU, so hopefully they don't mind. Or you know, they can just play all the national anthems...

Sep-25-16		WannaBe: <Penguincw: Or you know, they can just play all the national anthems...> Depending on outcome of games yet to be played, I hope players enjoy standing on the podium for 10 hours.

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