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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.

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

   Sneaky has kibitzed 13504 times to chessgames [more...]

   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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Feb-25-08		playground player: <sneaky> I haven't played on Yahoo, but Pogo has been turning into Chess Hell II lately. Their trick is to boot you out of the room in the middle of a game, tack a loss onto your record, and strip a bunch of points from your rating. This is extremely provoking.

Feb-25-08		Billy Ray Valentine: Sneaky, One more for your underpromotions collection: Karpov vs Timman, 1986

Feb-28-08		positionalgenius: ;Title: Yahoo! Chess Game ;White: aeroszepelin ;Black: whatthefat ;Date: Tue Feb 06 06:22:57 GMT 2007 1. e2-e4 c7-c5 2. g1-f3 b8-c6 3. f1-b5 g7-g6 4. b5xc6 d7xc6 5. o-o f8-g7 6. d2-d3 e7-e5 7. c1-e3 b7-b6 8. d1-d2 f7-f6 9. h2-h3 c8-a6 10. b1-c3 g8-e7 11. f3-h2 a6-c8 12. f2-f4 o-o 13. f4xe5 f6xe5 14. e3-h6 c8-e6 15. h6xg7 g8xg7 16. f1xf8 d8xf8 17. a1-f1 f8-d8 18. d2-g5 d8-d4+ 19. g1-h1 e7-g8 20. h2-f3 d4-d6 21. g5xe5+ d6xe5 22. f3xe5 g8-e7 23. c3-e2 a8-f8 24. f1xf8 g7xf8 25. b2-b3 f8-e8 26. e2-f4 e6-g8 27. h1-g1 e8-d8 28. g1-f2 d8-c7 29. f2-e3 e7-c8 30. e5-g4 c8-d6 31. g4-h6 g8-f7 32. h6xf7 d6xf7 33. d3-d4 c5xd4+ 34. e3xd4 c7-d6 35. f4-d3 a7-a5 36. e4-e5+ d6-e6 37. g2-g4 h7-h5 38. d3-f4+ e6-d7 39. f4xg6 h5xg4 40. h3xg4 d7-e6 41. g6-f4+ e6-e7 42. d4-e4 f7-h6 43. g4-g5 h6-g4 44. e4-f5 g4-e3+ 45. f5-g6 e3xc2 46. g6-h7 c2-d4 47. g5-g6 d4-f5 48. g6-g7 f5xg7 49. h7xg7 c6-c5 50. g7-g6 b6-b5 51. g6-f5 c5-c4 52. b3xc4 b5xc4 53. e5-e6 c4-c3 54. f4-d5+ e7-e8 55. d5xc3 e8-e7 56. f5-e5 e7-e8 57. a2-a4 e8-e7 58. e5-d5

Feb-28-08		positionalgenius: Great game played by Swapmeet and whatthefat last year.

Feb-29-08		TheAlchemist: <Sneaky> Hi! Quite an interesting discussion you had on openings. Pity I'm a bit late, but still, Id like to share something from my own experience. For instance, I like to play the Marshall Gambit a lot. I know a lot of possible schemes, the main lines and I also play the "inferior" Nf6 (instead of c6) and have very good results with it at my own level and have beaten some stronger opponents quite beautifully too. But the problem is that often my opponents, even stronger ones, will deviate early or at least with a4 or h3 (instead of c3) and then let me suffer the "spanish torture", where I often end up losing patience and with it the game. So there's two sides to every coin I guess :-)

Mar-05-08		Sneaky: Alchemist: Well stated. Sometimes these "inferior variations" are played at the grandmaster level for decades before their fallacy is fully realized. To think that my opponent, rated 1800 and change, is going to be intimately familiar with the ins-and-outs of some long forgotten variation is madness. Far more important is to concentrate on the very early deviations and why they are truly inferior. That's the stuff that you meet in tournament play all the time, not some modern T.N. that Topalov uncorked recently on move 16.

Mar-14-08		Knight13: <...that my opponent, rated 1800 and change, is going to be intimately familiar with the ins-and-outs of some long forgotten variation is madness.> Breakin Silman's "Always expect your opponent to play the best move" rule, but then he also mentioned "rules are made to be broken." :-) I'd like to ask him about that thing!

Mar-15-08		brankat: <sneaky> Only 5 more posts and You'll hit 10,000 mark! In case I forget later, please allow me to congratulate You now. Happy posting! Wow, how time flies. It was only a couple a years ago when I congratulated You, in the Cafe, on Your post #2,000 :-) Take care my friend.

Mar-18-08		Sneaky: <knight13> I haven't read that by Silman but he is essentially correct. I remember when I was about your age or younger, I was on the chess team, and I would make some tricky move that I knew could be refuted, but inwardly thought to myself "this patzer doesn't even see the threat, he won't defend." As I got paired with better opponents, I quickly had to drop that strategy. It only works against players who are so very poor, that you could beat them without getting fancy. It reminds me of a blitz game I played with Rashid Ziatdinov. I was totally destroyed by him (effortlessly) and after the game he traced my problems to an over-ambitious "h4!?" move I played in the opening. He called it "suicide". I objected and said "But I've beaten 2000+ players with this system!" I'll never forget his response, he said: "You can beat them with good moves too." <brankat> Thanks!! Wow it says <Sneaky has kibitzed 9997 times to chessgames> and after this blurb it will be 9998. Hmmmm where will I spend my 10K post? The Beer page is traditional. Doing it right here would make sense. Gosh, what will I say?

Mar-19-08		sallom89: yo sneaky, left some Kibitz for u there R Blau vs A Ammann, 1993 :P~

Mar-20-08		Domdaniel: <Sneaky> Do it! The suspense is killing me.

Mar-21-08		TheAlchemist: Hehe, he's gone down to 9998 now.

Mar-21-08		Domdaniel: <Hehe, he's gone down to 9998 now.> Now that's an original move. A bit like an underpromotion. Or one of those games where you have to undevelop your pieces to move forward. There's a French name for it: <Reculer pour mieux sauter> ... very loosely translated as "recoil for better leaping". Truly Deeply Sneaky.

Mar-22-08		TheAlchemist: Ok, back to 9999. Come on, <Sneaky>!

Mar-22-08		cu8sfan: <TheAlchemist: Ok, back to 9999. Come on, <Sneaky>!> Right now I'm searching my forum for <Sneaky> posts I could delete. (-;

Mar-22-08		Sneaky: OK, I did it... my 10K post is at the Kibitzer's Café Then I quickly posted a few more messages to make sure I don't have to make ANOTHER 10K post ;-). Thanks everybody for cheering me on. It feels good to make it to the 10K club.

Mar-22-08		TheAlchemist: YAY! Congratulations! Now hope no more posts will be deleted :-)

Mar-22-08		Open Defence: congratulations <Sneaky>

Mar-22-08		cu8sfan: Congratulations! I was only kidding of course.

Mar-22-08		whiteshark: <Sneaky> You are my 10k hero! :D

Mar-22-08		Domdaniel: I knew you could, ehhh, pull it off. Congrats. It's almost getting crowded up there now...

Mar-22-08		Domdaniel: BTW, <Sneaky>, knowing you respect Topa and others with a no-short-draws attitude, can I suggest you check out <Boris Katalymov>? In a career lasting over 50 years he had precisely ONE short GM draw -- a 12-mover in his very last event, the World Senior Ch'ship in 2002 or 2003. I found only 5 games drawn in 25 moves or less, and the 2nd shortest draw is 23 moves. He also played some interesting openings, with lines in the Sicilian and French (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2/c3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Qd5!?) named after him. Using the Chessbase database, which has many games not in CG, I calculated that 18% of Katalymov's games were draws (of any length). The vast majority of these are endings, often 60+ moves. He didn't give up easily, Boris didn't.

Mar-22-08		Tactic101: 10,000+ quality posts and counting. Not many can say that. Congrats! :)

Mar-23-08		Sneaky: You gotta hand it to acirce, first to the 10K line, first to the 20K line, and what's more he posts real messages and not just stupid little jokes. Domdaniel -- I've seen the name Boris Katalymov but have never really looked at his games much. But I will now, thanks. whiteshark, tactic101, cu8sfan, Alchemist, Open Defense -- thanks to all of you.

Mar-25-08		Buddy Revell: Hi! In case you're interested, for your <Underpromotions> collection: Van Wely vs Mamedyarov, 2004

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