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Jun-06-11
 | | eternaloptimist: Btw, that was a funny comment about NN @: Shaked vs Kasparov, 1997
I'm willing to bet Shaked was intimidated by Kasparov which led to that blunder. That's y it's better to play the board instead of the player but I'm sure that that's easier said than done against someone of the caliber of Kasparov. |
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| Jun-06-11 | | hangingenprise: <phony> how many of those wins ohio state against michigan will count now?
i know detroit's auto industry is depressed and ohio players were just looking to help out, but 50 cars?? |
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Jun-06-11
 | | Phony Benoni: <eternaloptimist> It's hard to avoid playing the opponent to some extent. I definitely respect my betters, and learned the hard way not to feel contempt for lower-rated players. Once, I was playing a Class D player who uncorked the Traxler (Wilkes-Barre) Variation (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 Bc5!?). I knew the best move was 5.Bxf7+, and that 5.Nxf7 allows Black a fierce attack. But this fellow was rated 1319! It was far more likely he had simply blundered, and I could safely play 5.Nxf7. Bad choice, as I found out when I was mated on move 19 after a harrowing experience. <hangingenprise> As far as I'm concerned, all those wins should count. Yes, he broke the rules, but the punishment seems way out of proportion. I'm getting thoroughly sick of the fans around here gloating at his expense. If you're going to have NCAA rules, they should concentrate on safety of the players and educational requirements. This whole amateur status thing is a sham. |
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Jun-07-11
 | | perfidious: <hms123>: That catch by Jones was outstanding! <Phony Benoni>, <eternaloptimist>: While playing in New England, especially once I got to 2000 level, it was the same events with so many of the same strong players, especially by the time I made master, and a lot of it was playing the player. Gligoric's I Play the Pieces was not a book I ever read in either the literal or figurative sense. As a poker player, of course, so much of what I do is player-dependent. There's practically no such thing as playing in a vacuum. Tressel and OSU are going to get whacked-after USC's malfeasance, it will go rather hard with them, especially OSU. NCAA and their hypocritical methods must, this once, be seen to be doing something. As you say, the whole business of amateurism in big-time college sports is a bad joke foisted upon the public, with Byzantine, nonsensical rules in place which penalise one for walking down the wrong side of the street, but fail to address the meaningful problems. |
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| Jun-07-11 | | TheFocus: <Phony Benoni> I sent the 1956 and 1957 US Open cross-tables to you via e-mail. Let me know if you have any problems with them. |
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Jun-08-11
| | perfidious: Here's a terrific catch from tonight's action: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?c... |
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| Jun-08-11 | | hangingenprise: hey phony, to reiterate what perfidious has stated is that my university football factory-u.s.c.- got whacked as in forfeited games and part of its national championship season taken away all because of a single player. reggie should not have sent his heisman back. now 50 cars is extreme and tressel makes his arrogant statement that the football program will still beat michigan. hey u.c.l.a fans just put up the pink slips and you too can beat ur cross town rival! penn state also recruited pryor hard and lost out, but what does he care. he is headed to the n.f.l anyway. yes michigan you
win since it does not matter whether you cheat and get/got caught only victories. ok i digressed enough. just my thots. no, i don't care for ohio state football since archie won the heisman twice. should of went to
o.j. |
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Jun-08-11
 | | OhioChessFan: <Tressel and OSU are going to get whacked-after USC's malfeasance, it will go rather hard with them, especially OSU. NCAA and their hypocritical methods must, this once, be seen to be doing something.> I haven't heard the latest on Pryor taking money. Before that, I didn't really think it would be that big a deal. Selling the golden pants for extra money hardly rises to the same thing as Bush and Newton. But if Pryor took 10's of thousands, that changes everything. And I'm still waiting and seeing on the cars. |
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Jun-08-11
| | OhioChessFan: <hep: no, i don't care for ohio state football since archie won the heisman twice. should of went to o.j.> If they'd played in the same years, I might agree. I remember thinking back then that Griffin didn't deserve the second one. I might look up the stats for the closest competitors in the 1975 Heisman-Chuck Muncie, Ricky Bell and Tony Dorsett. |
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Jun-08-11
| | Phony Benoni: Sad day in Detroit, at least for my generation of baseball fans: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/base... Always remembered for his two-run triple off Bob Gibson in game 7 of the 1968 World Series. |
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| Jun-09-11 | | Jim Bartle: 1975: Chuck Muncie! This from a Stanford fan. Beyond a great year, he tore Stanford into pieces. Dorsett won next year. |
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| Jun-09-11 | | Jim Bartle: Very sad to hear of the death of Northrup, a key player on a great team. |
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Jun-09-11
| | perfidious: Here's an interview with Trevor Hoffman: http://mlbfancave.mlb.com/fancave/i... In particular, his remarks on the topic of Mariano Rivera breaking his career saves record are well worth a read. Pity he never got a ring in the Big One, as he's a class act himself. |
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Jun-09-11
| | OhioChessFan: Be sure to visit my forum for the Bazna Kings 2011 Moves Prediction Contest which starts Saturday. Click on Elvis for details. |
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Jun-09-11
| | eternaloptimist: <Phony Benoni> that must have been a shocker 4 u against that class d player! some of those guys r better than their rating; i know from experience. they play really well in some games & horribly in others.
<<perfidious>> i never have looked @ that gligoric book but i'm willing to bet that it's a great book! actually i first heard that u should play the board & not the player from IM donaldson @ the last trnt. that i ever played in in denver '03. there were a lot of GMs & IMs there. naka, shabalov, stripunsky, sevillano, wojtkiewicz, kraai & browne were some of the ones there. donaldson had a ? & answer session in between round 1 day & it was definitely 1 of the most memorable experiences that i have ever had @ a trnt.. Another memorable moment was meeting & talking to GM wolff in new orleans @ a trnt. in ~'92 when he was the u. s. champion. |
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Jun-09-11
| | Phony Benoni: <eternaloptimist> At the amateur level, it's certainly better to play your game and not let the opponent influence your decisions. Of course there are exceptions, especially if the opponent is well known to you. Once at the US Open, I defeated a Class B player within a hour and he asked if we could play a few blitz games for fun. In the course of these, I found his rating was geniune but he had the weakness of knowing absolutely nothing about the King's Gambit. Normally, I don't play that in a tournament--but when we got paired in a daily tournament the next morning, i was willing to make an exception! I'll just say the game started <1.e4 e5 2.f4 f6>, and let your imagination take it from there. But generallly amateurs should stick to the board. Masters, however, have more scope for psychology, partly through knowledge of their opponents and partly because of their great experience. it becomes more like the way <perfidious> described master level poker: <As a poker player, of course, so much of what I do is player-dependent. There's practically no such thing as playing in a vacuum.> I imagine it would not be difficult to program a computer to play perfect technical poker; the odds are well known. And I would imagine the best poker players know these odds just as well. But at poker, the best <technical> strategy may not be the optimal <winning> strategy at a particular time against a particular player. There's some of this at chess as well, particularly at master level. |
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Jun-11-11
| | eternaloptimist: <Phony Benoni> u r right that there r exceptions to "playing the board & not the player". i guess IM donaldson was probably just targeting amateurs when he said that. he said that it is better to not look @ the rating of ur opponent if u can avoid it. i guess he meant get the TD to tell u who u r suppossed to play & tell him/her not to tell u ur opponent's rating so u won't c it by looking @ the pairings sheet. of course if u r familiar w/ ur opponent, then there's nothing u can do as far as that's concerned. however, on the master level psychology does indeed play a big part in tourney & match preparation as well as over the board play. here is a link to the tourney that i was referring to the other day.: http://www.colorado-chess.com/event...
it was a very strong tourney indeed! |
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Jun-14-11
| | Phony Benoni: With Derek Jeter likely to reach 3000 hits in a few days, it's time to look at the next few guys in line. Derek Jeter 2994
Ivan Rodriguez 2835
Omar Vizquel 2823
Alex Rodriguez 2737
Johnny Damon 2642
Chipper Jones 2549
Vladimir Guerrero 2496
Ivan Rodriguez might be a longshot. At 39, he's reduced to being a backup catcher hitting around .200. Hard to see him lasting another couple of years. Omar Vizquel would probably need at least two more years as well, and he's already 44. Barring injuries, Alex Rodriguez looks like a lock, especially since he's still only 35. Jones and Guerrero look to be winding down, so the person I really want to focus on is Johnny Damon. He's 37 now, still playing regularly and doing reasonably well. He should easily pass 2700 by the end of the year, then two more 125-150 hit seasons should do the trick at age 39. I think Damon has got a good shot, which raises an interesting question: if he does make it to 3000, is he automatic Hall of Fame material? Not terrific numbers, but he's played on winning teams, is a fan/press favorite, and has some memorable moments. Who will ever forget him stealing second and third base on the same play in the World Series. (OK, you've probably forgotten it already, so maybe it wasn't so memorable.) I see him as a Pete Rose kind of player without the talent. |
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| Jun-14-11 | | Jim Bartle: Verlander out flirting once again. |
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Jun-14-11
| | Phony Benoni: He's been incredible this year; definitely on a Cy Young pace. And this was a big game, since it put the Tigers into first place. OK, maybe not that big, but he surely came through. |
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Jun-15-11
 | | WannaBe: Oh, c'mon, it was a 2-hitter, Sandy Koufax used to toss 2-hitters during batting practice!! And Don Drysdale is known to 'plunk' a few of his own fellow teammates just because they beat him at cards the night before! (Okay, so I took a few liberties with my 'facts'... =) |
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| Jun-15-11 | | Jim Bartle: "Oh, c'mon, it was a 2-hitter, Sandy Koufax used to toss 2-hitters during batting practice!!" Yeah, but that was throwing against the Dodgers lineup. It's not like it was made up of real major league hitters. One year their leading home run hitter hit 12. |
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| Jun-15-11 | | playground player: <Esteemed colleagues> Speaking of pitching masterpieces, the sportscaster on the radio this morning announced that some Yankee pitcher "gave up just four runs in seven innings"! Gee, wow--that translates to an ERA of 5.14. Real Craig Anderson numbers! I mean, when do we start constructing this guy's own wing of the Hall of Fame? Like all of our other institutions, baseball has fallen into the habit of bragging about things it ought to be ashamed of. |
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Jun-15-11
| | Phony Benoni: <playground player> Maybe that's good for the Yankees, who seem to score about half a gazillion runs every game. But this phenomenon is proof that, no matter how bad the economy, there will always be jobs for the PR guys. The Titanic may be sinking, but we're going to look good going down. |
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| Jun-15-11 | | Deus Ex Alekhina: Is the tigers fer real? Hurry up all-star game! (Jinx? hope not). Well Verlander sure is (fer real). He needs a nickname, as does Austin Jackson. How long b4 thedamnyankees grab Verlander away from the cats? |
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