Sneaky Member since Jan-19-02 I live in South Florida USA. Rated USCF ~1800 A long time ago I was a new player in a Miami chess park, and one of the stronger players thought I had real talent, so he suggested that I play the park champ, a Cuban master. After the master destroyed me in a few blitz games, the question was posed, "Is he any good?" The answer I took as a great compliment: "Ehh... he tries to be sneaky." The greatest chess player of all time is Robert James Fischer. The greatest chess problemist of all time is Sam Loyd. The greatest chess site of all time is chessgames.com! Other players who I admire: <Morphy> Possibly the greatest natural chess talent ever. Like Steinitz who followed, he taught the world how the game should really be played. <Najdorf> He was smart enough to make his money outside of chess, so he played for the pure joy of it. <Tal> Proved that even in the modern era, chess is an art more than a science. <Blackburne> Sacrificed his queen more times than I've had hot meals. <Diemer> One of the most original thinkers the game ever has known. His ideas were not always right, but they were HIS ideas. <Topalov> He hates draws so much he'll gladly risk losing to avoid one. I can forgive him for the Elista debacle; his chess is payment enough. <Lembit Oll> When on the attack, Lembit Oll said "Dambit All!" <Kasparov> Strive for perfection, one move at a time. <Alekhine> Swashbuckling play culminating in booming sacrifices. And countless others: Nezhmetdinov, Shirov, Nunn, Shabalov, Nakamura, basically, anybody with cojones. Addendum 2015: <Magnus Carlsen> has to be on the list. He's a modern day Casablanca. The way he squeezes wins out of the tiniest advantages and grinds his opponents down through sheer stamina is right up there with Robert James. You can find me on FICS (freechess.org) ... and lately, on ICC as well. I'll gladly play anybody within 1000 points of my rating. I also really like the site http://www.lichess.org but so far have only played anonymously.

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Jul-21-18 Kramnik vs Giri, 2018    Sneaky: I like the new Giri photo. Sharp dressed young grandmaster.      Jul-21-18 Duda vs Nepomniachtchi, 2018    Sneaky: For those who care what engines think... 52.b4! retains the initiative according to Stockfish. If true, that’s a hard move to see. And I’m not sure if it isn’t just having horizon blindness. It’s in love with the idea of getting Qa2+ in.      Jul-20-18 Biographer Bistro    Sneaky: <if I said "I live 90 minutes from Miami" I am not being ambiguous.> That's entirely ambiguous! 90 minutes by airplane? By automobile? By foot?      Jul-20-18 Chessgames Bookie chessforum    Sneaky: The first music I ever owned in my life were two eight track tapes my mother gave me. One was the Eagle’s Greatest Hits; the other was Pink Floyd’s Animals.      Jul-20-18 Nepomniachtchi vs Kramnik, 2018    Sneaky: <Marmot PFL: <c5/d5 are “hanging pawns” right?> Not really, black doesn't have an open c-file.> You are colorectal. (I’m sorry, I meant “correct.” Stupid auto-colorectal.)      Jul-18-18 Kramnik vs Duda, 2018    Sneaky: Who is it who mockingly said “All rook endings are drawn?”      Jul-10-18 Dortmund Sparkassen (2018)    Sneaky: Coors is like making love in a canoe. It’s ****ing close to water.      Jul-03-18 S Vaibhav vs Carlsen, 2018    Sneaky: <vabe vs vibe> ssssshhhh... don't spoil morf's fun. He lives for this stuff. So what's White's error here? I've never seen the Scandi get so much counterplay so quick. Is 4.f3 the culprit?      Jun-28-18 Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa    Sneaky: Returning to India with a very warm reception :D https://twitter.com/maxinmathewTOI/...      Jun-17-18 E Terpugov vs Petrosian, 1957    Sneaky: The pun is a reference to the movie "300", specifically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZe... .

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 22 OF 58 ·  Later Kibitzing> Sep-26-06    Open Defence: Its funny that 2-3 moves into the computer line and the eval changes.. if the eval was perfect begin with it shouldnt change... Sep-26-06    Domdaniel: Hi <Sneaky> I saw this one coming: <Sneaky: <Sneaky's diaphragm> LOL let's not go there> ... and it still had me making weird gurgling noises for several seconds. We must compile an English-as-she-is-spoke file someday soon. Regards... Sep-26-06    shr0pshire: <Sneaky> I respect your opinion and your play enough to agree to disagree with you. :) I certainly can see why you think that Topalov had a stronger position in the second game, but I just don't agree with you that is all. Now, I think Kramnik is going to try to draw the rest of the games. I will be surprised if there is a single decisive game left in the 9 games remaining. Sep-26-06    Stevens: <Open Defence: Its funny that 2-3 moves into the computer line and the eval changes.. if the eval was perfect begin with it shouldnt change...> i'm assuming this is tongue in cheek right? Sep-26-06    positionalgenius: <Sneaky>I'm organizing a 6 player round robin on Yahoo.If you would compet I would appreciate it.See my profile for info. Sep-27-06    shr0pshire: <Sneaky> Being the venerable chess player that you are you might already know this so forgive me if you already know this. While I was playing <Swapmeet> from chessgames.com on FICS last night I noticed there was a thing called nukebot watching our games (since I am paranoid and I like to know who is watching my games at all times). :) I fingered it and it said it was a python both that gathered games for an online database at wildchess.org. So then I went over to wildchess.org and I searched for my name under the standard variant and I found two games between myself and you. I just wanted you to know that some of your games are up online, and that I didn't put them there. :) And like me you would likely want to know that. Sep-27-06    chancho: Here's the link. http://www.wildchess.org/ Sep-27-06    Sneaky: Wow, cool! Thanks for that. Here's the famous Sneaky-Shropshire game: http://www.wildchess.org/showgame.p... I had a better position but was unclear on how I'd actually cash in, until shrop was nice enough to walk into checkmate ;-) Sep-28-06    positionalgenius: <sneaky>Are you in? or do you just want to play a match with me? Or neither,as you'd be facing the home prep of a <positionalgenius>?? (Our lifetime score:Sneaky 3.5,me 0.5-and the 0.5 was due to a server crash!) Sep-28-06    Sneaky: Hi positional genius, it is 10am Miami time, since cg.com doesn't use timestamps on the posts I'm not quite sure if I missed your message or not... Sep-28-06    shr0pshire: <Sneaky> Even though it seems you have more tournament requests than Topalov and Kramnik combined if you ever want to play another friendly standard game again let me know. I enjoy playing against you, and since you pointed out my loss I feel as if I must avenge myself, lol. Actually come to think of it that is our most recent game, so I am on a losing streak against you . :) Sep-28-06    positionalgenius: <sneaky>Forget yahoo,lets do playchess,its so much better.I'm rated 1570 right now.Let me know if you want to play in the yahoo tournament,which begins 2 October,and runs for 5 days. Sep-28-06    Sneaky: <pg> I can't do playchess, I use a Mac. Sep-28-06    chessmoron: Hey <Sneaky>, Macs are for graphic designers and animators. Sep-28-06    positionalgenius: <sneaky>OK then yahoo it is. Sep-28-06    ChessMan94: Sneaky, you live in south FL, I live in central FL. Hello neighbor! Sep-29-06    Sneaky: <ChessMan> Hey neighbor! Maybe we'll meet up at one of these South Fla tourneys one day. Sep-29-06    Sneaky: <chessmoron> Macs are for human beings! Sep-29-06    chessmoron: Macs are for human beings that do animation and graphic design. Oct-01-06    Sneaky: OK if you say so Pee Wee ;) Oct-02-06    Rocafella: Cojones eh Sneaky, lol, great part of the profile right there! Oct-04-06    shr0pshire: <Sneaky> I posted some really interesting games from a very specific line of the Bird (1.f4) where white sacks his queen in the first 8 moves of the opening. My friend Steve Tomporowski who is a USCF CC master thinks the gambit is sound, and I posted some of his games in my forum for people to discuss. I know you like theory, so I thought I would tell you about it. shr0p. :) Oct-06-06    calmarten: in todays puzzle you can play 27Bxf7 in the line you gave and things are a little less complex than Rxc8 and still wins the full piece. Oct-06-06    Sneaky: calmarten, you are right--I see that now. Thanks. Oct-07-06    Larsker: <mp3 of the day> People who like good British punk-rock from when it all happened back in the 70's and 80's: http://punkmodpop.free.fr/mp3.htm Use this free program to harvest the mp3-files: http://www.songbirdnest.com/ Three good ones from that list: STARJETS: Any danger love EDDIE & THE HOT RODS: Do anything you wanna do SEX PISTOLS: God save the queen Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 58) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 22 OF 58 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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