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| May-22-12 | | Jim Bartle: OCF will be thrilled. |
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May-23-12
 | | WannaBe: Another missed tag, appeal/tag play. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highs... |
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| May-23-12 | | Jim Bartle: The umpire should not signal safe if the runner missed the plate. Confuses everybody, including the runner. The girl clearly did touch home, but in general the runner should go back and touch home after sliding by, as you see often in the majors. |
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| May-23-12 | | The Big Lebowski: <Phony Benoni> Hello, I'm new here I was checking out this groovy site when I stumbled upon your forum. Nice handle! So this is the place where guys hang out and talk sports, cool! I'll have to check you out. Speaking of The Benoni, do you play that quite a lot in your repetoire? It's a little bit hairy for me. I play KID and Gruenfeld but mostly the KID. 'The Dude' |
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| May-23-12 | | Jim Bartle: Maybe you can get us up to speed on bowling, Big Lebowski. How's Jesus doing? |
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May-23-12
 | | Phony Benoni: <The Big Lebowski> I played the Modern Benoni so much that occasionally I screwed up and got it right. If you check under my real name (given in the profile) there are some of those atypical examples. It fitted my chess style well enough, since that makes up for the fact that my real life is totally risk averse. Yes, we talk lot of sports around here, though primarily baseball. And, as I hope you've noticed, we don't take things all that seriously. |
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| May-23-12 | | Jim Bartle: Another rules question, something that just almost happened: In the Washington-Philadelphia game a batter broke his bat on a routing solid grounder to second. What was strange is that the broken end of the bat flew right beside the ball and the ball darn near hit it past the mound. What would the ruling be if it hit the bat and the hitter reached? |
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May-23-12
| | Phony Benoni: <JB> That one is specifically covered in a comment on Rule 6.05(h), which states that the batter is out when his bat hits the ball a second time in fair territory: <"If a bat breaks and part of it is in fair territory and is hit by a batted ball or part of it hits a runner or fielder, play shall continue and no interference shall be called."> The difference appears to be based on intentionality. The batter may well use a whole bat to interfere with the ball, but a part that breaks off is out of his control. Now, if the bat breaks in half and the ball bounces up and hits the half the batter is carrying ... that would be interesting. I think he's out, but it's not clear. |
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May-23-12
| | WannaBe: Rule 6.05(h) http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_inf... |
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| May-23-12 | | Jim Bartle: Thanks, PB. I doubt the video will be seen anywhere, but if you do get a chance to see it, the ball comes soooo close to hitting the broken end of the bat, well past the pitchers mound. In the same game the Phils' second baseman (can't remember his name) made a great running catch in short centerfield. What was odd about it was not just that he caught it going full speed away from home plate, but that he caught it with his glove facing centerfield rather than the usual "basket" type catch with the pocket facing the player. Really strange looking. |
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| May-24-12 | | The Big Lebowski: <Jim Bartle> Hello Jim! Jesus is still as nuts as ever. Last week while rolling he slips on some brewski on the floor and his ball goes flying over to the next lane and he strikes! Can you believe it? Anyway Jesus wanted credit for the strike man! I thought Walter was going to shoot em. lol |
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| May-24-12 | | Abdel Irada: Apropos of your self-introduction:
(1) The name David Moody sounds familiar; I seem to recall encountering it in Chess Life in the early 1980s — which probably tells you more than I wanted to reveal about my age. (2) I also had to mate with bishop and knight against king, in the second tournament game of my life, played at the Mechanics' Institute in 1984. Rather funny story about that game. I found my name on the pairing chart, with my opponent listed only as "Winslow." At the time, the only Winslow I'd heard of was IM Elliott Winslow (whose acquaintance I later made in Santa Cruz), so I was surprised to find his rating listed as 2000. I sat down on the appointed day with some feelings of disgruntlement, under the impression that I was about to have my head handed to me by an underrated (and doubtless peeved) IM. Instead, I found that my opponent was actually *Al* Winslow, whose rating was a rather generous estimate based on his long-ago performance as an active player, before the rust set in. His actual playing strength at the time was about 1700 — just strong enough to force me to play out the ♗+♘ ending. I'm happy to say I did win, mating in about 28 moves. But then, his defense was less than perfect; if he'd played the variations I was afraid of, he might have escaped for fifty moves and claimed a draw. Still, it was quite an experience, a grueling battle that I distinctly wished I'd found some way to avoid. |
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May-24-12
| | Phony Benoni: <Abdel Ibada> About the only mention I got in Chess Life around that time was a couple of appearnces in the Soltis Quiz. I can't recall doing anything else particularly notorious, at least not on the national stage. Oh, wait, you don't mean that game I lost to a computer in 1982, do you? I happened to be the first USCF-rated Expert to lose to a microprocessor in a tournament game. There was even a press release about it. I had just started my current job, and didn't have enough money saved up to bribe everybody. |
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May-24-12
| | WannaBe: Ah, <Phony>'s (sordid) past have returned to haunt him! =) We have pictures!! |
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| May-24-12 | | playground player: Wasn't there a David Moody who was kidnaped by Somali pirates and played chess with the captain, with his life and freedom as the stake? Or am I thinking of someone else? |
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May-24-12
| | WannaBe: Let's play balllll!
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-b... |
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May-24-12
| | Phony Benoni: <playground player> No, that must have been a different David Moody, though I did have a worse experience once. One of my co-workers at a different library had a friend visiting from Poland who boasted that he was a good chess player. My co-worker asked if I'd like to take the guy on and put him in his place. This being the 70s, I was still cocky and agreed. So we sat down and my co-worker whispered to me, "Oh, by the way, I bet $50 on you to win." The guy from Poland was a patzer, but I couldn't think straight due to the pressure and lost horribly. If I were a racehorse, my name would be Elmer. |
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| May-24-12 | | Jim Bartle: The Inca emperor Atahualpa played chess with Pizarro and the Spanish invaders in Cajamarca, and learned to defeat him. Didn't do him a lot of good in the end. |
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| May-24-12 | | playground player: <Jim Bartle> Maybe Pizarro was a sore loser. You know, I never understood the conquest of the Inca Empire. In Mexico, Cortez had the support of thousands and thousands of native allies who were frantic to overthrow the Aztecs. But how did Pizarro do it? |
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| May-24-12 | | Jim Bartle: Pizarro had few soldiers and the Incas had a massive army, of course. But just at that time there was a civil war in the Inca empire being fought between two brothers, Atahualpa in the south and Huascar in the north, toward Ecuador. So that distracted them and weakened their forces. Then, the Spaniards had horses, which scared the Incas terribly, plus they had guns. In any case, the Spanish forces were able to vanquish the much larger Inca force at Cajamarca and take Atahualpa prisoner. That didn't end the conquest, though. There was a long and bloody battle at Sacsayhuaman, the fortress above Cusco, and even after the Spanish had seemingly won, terrible battles against holdout rebels under Manco Inca at Ollantaytambo and other sites before the rebels withdrew into the jungle, where the Spanish didn't follow them. |
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May-24-12
| | WannaBe: <Phony Benoni> According to http://www.standards-schmandards.co... your bio got a 9 and a 55. <Jim Bartle> your (Pizarro) post scored 12 and 41. Now, I'm gonna dig up some <Eyal> and possibly some <DomDaniel> and see what happens. =) |
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| May-24-12 | | Jim Bartle: So my hundreds of hours writing photo captions and introductions has paid off to some degree. |
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May-24-12
 | | OhioChessFan: 41 out of 100 is failing. |
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| May-24-12 | | Jim Bartle: Well, I would have scored 20 earlier. |
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May-24-12
| | Phony Benoni: I plugged in a passage from "Green Eggs and Ham" and got an 80. Now I'm wondering what 100 could possibly be like, and whether 41 is truly all that bad. |
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