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Oct-08-06
 | | Sneaky: Cool, thanks Larsker. I'm going to check out this Songbird thing right now. |
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| Oct-09-06 | | NateDawg: <Sneaky> 7977 kibitzes? Perhaps you can be the first to reach 10,000! Of course, those 7977 were spread out over four and a half years, so at that rate, it will be just over a year until number 10,000. Good luck! ;) |
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Oct-09-06
| | Sneaky: First to hit 10,000? Heavens no! User: acirce recently hit 15,000 !!! |
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| Oct-09-06 | | brankat: <Sneaky> This may sound silly, but still: Why is Your Bio/profile identical to that of Chessgames.com? You run this entire show? A mistake? A joke? |
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| Oct-09-06 | | brankat: <Sneaky> <<Chessgames.com><Chess Classics> We copied the WCN info and accidentally copied too much, thanks for pointing that out.>>
Well, not any more. Maybe the above has something to do with it. Anyway it was there only a few minutes ago. |
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Oct-10-06
| | Sneaky: I guess I missed the fun. |
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| Oct-11-06 | | technical draw: <Sneaky> You seem to be one of the orignal members going back to Jan 02 next oldest I've found is ughaibu Nov 02. Do you know anyone of the regular kibitzers earlier than you? |
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| Oct-11-06 | | dakgootje: User: Doctor Who and the oldest one of course the ex-account of the admins: User: Webmaster |
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| Oct-11-06 | | refutor: i've been here since January 02 as well ;) |
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| Oct-11-06 | | technical draw: That's right <refutor>, you're an old-timer. |
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Oct-14-06
| | Sneaky: <Do you know anyone of the regular kibitzers earlier than you?> I'll tell you, it's been so long ago I really have trouble remembering exactly when various kibitzers came onto the scene. I do recall a time very early on when it was just a handful of people including myself, Honza Cervenka, refutor, Dr. Who, dippel, knight, and drukenknight. Here's a little secret: I know the guys who started the site! Several years back they were telling everybody they knew about chessgames and trying to recruit people to start kibitzing. A few south Florida people signed up but I was the only one who really started to kibitz a lot. So I don't think I was technically the very first kibitzer but I was probably the first real blabbermouth. |
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| Oct-15-06 | | positionalbrilliancy: Karjakin vs Anand, 2006
Does this not deserve a place in your game collection "Underpromotions"? |
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| Oct-15-06 | | Open Defence: <positionalbrilliancy> You have found THE game that has completely changed my assessment of Anand (like I am worthy to asses a Super GMs play but nevertheless..) .. I can see that he is a player not only of clear calculation but also of extremely high creative energy and inspiration.. if he did find Nc7!! OTB in that game all the more so.. |
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Oct-15-06
 | | Eggman: <<This is a little different from the Lowenthal Sicilian because ...Nf6 and ...Nc3 is inserted.>> Sneak, just some FYI (also for many others who frequent Chessgames.com) regarding the above quote of yours from H Smith vs G Aspler, 2004: "..." before a move indicates a move made by Black. TTFN. |
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| Oct-15-06 | | positionalbrilliancy: <Open Defense>When I first came on this site this collection Game Collection: Vishy Anand sacrifices away to glory ! was one of the first that caught my eye. You might like this collection if you haven't already seen it, his win over Ponomariov in Mainz 2002 is one of my all time favorites. But his win over Karjakin is simply magnificent... Its not hard to find the idea behind Nc7 but how many ppl actually have what it takes to let 2 pieces go?? Anand is undoubtedly one of the geniuses of our generations. Kramnik vs. Topalov??
Kramnik vs. Radjabov??
I think Kramnik vs. Anand would be 3x more exciting than these two put together, imo. |
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| Oct-16-06 | | refutor: <anand is undoubtedly one of the grniuses of our generation> anand (like leko, and to a lesser extent kramnik) is happy fighting for second place, which is why he played his greatest chess in the kasparov era and hasn't been the best player since kasparov retired. it takes a certain mentality to fight for first place in tournaments all the time, the linares crowd for the most part has the "+1 mentality", where i'm not going to win as many as kasparov, so i'll just win one or two here, gain 5 rating points and draw the rest. looking back, it shouldn't have been surprising that topalov won the WCC... |
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Oct-16-06
| | Eggman: Interesting, Refutor. I never thought of that, but it did seem to me that Anand was a little fatalistic when he contested his World Championship Match against Kasparov back in 1995. |
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Oct-16-06
| | Sneaky: << mp3 of the day >> Haven't had one of these in a while. Here's Arlo Guthrie's "Pickle Song" aka "Motorcycle". http://thwack.no-ip.com/webpub/%28A... |
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Oct-17-06
| | Sneaky: I had a dream where I was talking to God.
"God!" I said, "I have many important questions! I really want to ask you all sorts of trivia about the future of chess!" God yes, "Yes I know that. Continue."
"Will there ever be a teenage world champion?"
He said: "Not in your lifetime."
I asked Him, "Will there ever be a black world champion?" He said: "Not in your lifetime."
Finally I asked, "Will there ever be a woman world champion?" He said, "Not in MY lifetime."
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Oct-17-06
| | Sneaky: << mp3 of the day >> This is the "Halloween Podcast" by They Might Be Giants, 20 minutes long jam-packed with goofy songs and jingles. http://www.tmbg.com/_media/_pod/TMB...
These guys are goofy but so talented. |
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Oct-17-06
 | | WannaBe: I was able to find a good clip on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD-9... (I Wish, S. Wonder) |
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Oct-18-06
| | Sneaky: Great stuff Wannabe |
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| Oct-25-06 | | whatthefat: <Sneaky>
I thought this might really interest you, given your detailed analysis of the 'fairness' of different match formats:
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/son...
It's mostly a good read, although he seems to completely miss the point regarding the use of different time controls for tiebreaks. Namely that some players gain an advantage over others in changing the format. Also, I posted some data on the Alexey Shirov page (20th and 23rd of October) using an unusual measure; I computed head-to-head scores between famous players, based on how early queens were traded. The results were quite interesting, in my opinion. If you're wondering why I was even interested in this, I actually started looking at it during the 2nd tiebreak game in the Kramnik-Topalov match when I questioned the wisdom of Topalov taking an early queen trade. Perhaps I found that Topalov wins only 5% of the time against Kramnik when queens are traded by the 30th move, whereas Kramnik wins 32% of the time! |
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Oct-25-06
| | Sneaky: <whatthefat> That's excellent, thanks. <Also, I posted some data on the Alexey Shirov page (20th and 23rd of October) using an unusual measure; I computed head-to-head scores between famous players, based on how early queens were traded. The results were quite interesting, in my opinion.> Yes, I read that, and it was very interesting. It would be interesting to do a general survey. E.g., we all know that the odds a draw increases when queens go off, but how much really? |
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| Oct-26-06 | | whatthefat: <Sneaky: It would be interesting to do a general survey.> Indeed, but it would take a long time! I believe the main factor in such an analysis would be whether short draws are included or nor. For example, as I just posted on the Shirov page, Kasparov-Karpov actually have a higher drawing percentage with queens on (even excluding games shorter than 15 moves), due to the number of agreed draws. If the game is allowed to run 'naturally', I expect from the data I have seen, that the drawing probability would increase by ~0.2 between grandmasters. |
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