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Dec-24-24 TheAlchemist chessforum   TheAlchemist: Thank you, you too!      Dec-09-24 Ding Liren vs D Gukesh, 2024    TheAlchemist: The genius of Ding's play to me was how (except Nb5) he made moves solely on his own half of the board and in 25 moves he completely outplayed Gukesh.      Oct-28-23 D Lazavik vs Wojtaszek, 2023    TheAlchemist: White played a seemingly clever sacrifice, but the refutation on move 25 was simply stunning      May-09-23 M Kolesar vs O Sikorova, 1998    TheAlchemist: <goodevans: Will we have another Milan-based pun tomorrow when its two big football teams face each other in the Champions League Semi-Final? https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsl... It's a huge reach, but you could call it even timelier. Unfortunately Slovaks call it ...      Apr-30-23 Nepomniachtchi vs Ding Liren, 2023    TheAlchemist: Amazing, what a finish, what a match. Congratulations, Ding!      Nov-08-22 D Citra vs R Vaishali, 2016    TheAlchemist: Great pun!      Aug-08-22 European Team Championship (2001)   TheAlchemist: I'd have to dig out contemporary magazines to be sure, but I think it said Black simply left the playing hall and never returned, leaving everyone puzzled (teammates included).      Jun-26-22 David Moody    TheAlchemist: Terrible news. Rest in peace, PB.      Oct-17-21 Keres vs A Sakovski, 1936    TheAlchemist: I also forgot to add that both of those are masculine forms, the feminine one would be "šahistka". I was a bit too fast with the reply.      May-25-21 A Ilyin vs A Model, 1932    TheAlchemist: <OCF> Zheneral?

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 36 OF 129 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-08-07    jessicafischerqueen: Also, thanks Tons to you three for your recent and timely research, game digging up, and analysis-- I've spent the morning so far looking at the newly posted games, and moving my pieces around to follow the lines you guys analyzed. Excellent Work!!!! Feb-08-07    jessicafischerqueen: Actually, if you count the votes for Nc6 at the moment there are six confirmed... Anyways only 3 hours to deadline so very good work again. A whole page of analysis was up there that my screen didn't show, for some reason, when I posted my first comment of today. Looks like all of our <Big Guns> are on the case, and this is good news. Feb-08-07    Silverstrike: <TheAlchemist> Hey dude, have you heard of your contryman planning to swim the Amazon? Feb-08-07    TheAlchemist: I posted 7...Nc6 Feb-08-07    TheAlchemist: <Silverstrike> Of course. His name is Martin Strel (which, BTW, means "Shot"). It's always big news here. He already swam on the Danube, the Mississippi and the Chang Jiang of those I remember right now, but probably some more. Feb-08-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Captain> Happy Slovenia day, master domo!! And hats off to your <ripaurian ripper>, who appears to be the world champ at swimming big rivers filled with dangerous animals? Nc6 played!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Heh. Let them chew on that, the poor beggars... Feb-08-07    TheAlchemist: How is the new welcoming message in my profile? Warm enough? Feb-08-07    WannaBe: I'll have a shot please, tequila, or fine single malt scotch will do me just fine. =) Feb-08-07    jessicafischerqueen: <welcoming message> I think it's plenty warm. Hot even. Nothing like threatening to shoot people to spice up a life and death chess struggle. <WannaBe> If you are spying for <MFO> you will probably get more than tequila or scotch? Feb-08-07    TheAlchemist: <WannaBe> LOL. Sorry, our J Bar only serves K Vine, Beer and rhum & R Kola. Feb-08-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Captain> J bar? What do I have to do to get a drink around here? Feb-08-07    hitman84: <Welcoming message> <Everything you see or hear must be kept strictly confidential, or you will be shot.> Even better would be.. <Welcome to Area 51> :) Feb-08-07    jessicafischerqueen: G'day <Hitman>. <Antipodean Question>: Do you know what a <Drop Bear> is? Feb-08-07    hitman84: <Jess>Hi, <Do you know what a <Drop Bear> is?> A cross between a Panda and a Werewolf. Feb-08-07    jessicafischerqueen: LOL nope. A girl I met in Montreal was from Oz and she told me that <Drop Bears> were animals that looked exactly like <koalas>, and that if you looked up at them in the tree they would immediately drop on you and bite your face off!! I was young enough to believe her at the time... Feb-08-07    hitman84: Here is the full story... http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Drop_B... Feb-08-07    hitman84: The one I believed, when I was a kid... http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Yeti Feb-08-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Hitman> LMAO- <Victims are humans, usually Welsh or German tourists> Uncyclopedia kicks ass.. Feb-08-07    jessicafischerqueen: Omigod <Hitman> I was obssessed with <Sasquatch> (americans call him Bigfoot) for so long... Where I live, <Chilliwack> BC, is in the heart of <Sasquatch country>. There is a "sighting" recorded a kilometre away from our place, on Vedder road, in 1975 by an RCMP (government police) officer. He wrote it up as a police report and everything. The <Stolo> Indians (they actually still own Chilliwack- the land is leased to us "White folks") believe that <Sasquatch> takes the Indian sleeping closest to the tent flap-- Similarly to <Grendel> in <Beowulf> Feb-08-07    hitman84: <<Sasquatch> takes the Indian sleeping closest to the tent flap> I guess they can be called "Indian taker" :) Feb-09-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Indian taker> LOL very good, very good. Feb-09-07    Silverstrike: <Alchemist> That's what I've heard too. Good luck to him! :) Feb-09-07    Marco65: What's so hard in swimming through Amazon? Just choose a place where banks are very close :-) Feb-09-07    TheAlchemist: <Jessica> Have you heard or perhaps seen the Patterson film? I've only seen a caption from it, where it's supposed to be strolling around the forest. Although I'm very skeptical of the large majority of these sightings and dismiss most of them, I'm still a romantic soul and believe there are things yet to be discovered, be it the Yeti, Bigfoot, Alma or whatever (I don't believe in various lake monsters, though). Perhaps they don't necessarily have to be new species. I think the mountain gorilla was long considered a myth until it was discovered in the early 1900s, same for the Queensland tiger. Feb-09-07    TheAlchemist: So, brief summations of what we've been talking about, just so it doesn't get buried: <8.Be2> Initially 8...Qb6 was suggested (as in V Laznicka vs A Czebe, 2005, Klovans - Murey in my profile). Then, the Schevenigen structures resulting from 8...Nf6. One possibility would then be e.g. 9.Be3 e6 10.O-O Be7 etc. (Opening Explorer) Marco has suggested 8...Nxd4 9.Qxd4 e5, like in <Gagunashvili,M - Molina,T Sharjah 2003> that continued with 10.Qd3 Qh4 11.Bxg4 Qxg4 12.O-O Be6 <8.f3> We have again two serious possibilities: 8...Qb6, as in T Nedev vs Gelfand, 2004, which gave Black a very good position. 8...Nf6, leading to an English attack type of position after, say, 9.Be3 e6 10.Qd2 etc. Opening Explorer <8.h3> Opening Explorer After 8...Nf6 9.g4 e6 a sort of Adams/Keres attack type of position arises, where Black does well in the database. In S Wagman vs B Gruzmann, 2005, Black successfully tried 8...Nge5, although the two players aren't exactly two top level contenders (but still much stronger than me :-)) Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 129) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 36 OF 129 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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