WannaBe Member since Oct-20-04 · Last seen Jan-26-26 Thank you Daniel Freeman and Alberto A Artidiello Not enough words can describe what you created and what we lost.

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Jan-26-26 Chessgames - Sports    WannaBe: Wasn't Schultz on Hogan's Hero and then later started drawing daily comic strips?      Jan-24-26 Tata Steel Challengers (2026)    WannaBe: Personally I am surprised (or shocked) that L'Ami and Ivanchuk are playing in this section of the tournament.      Jan-23-26 Chessgames - Politics    WannaBe: See, if you defund the police, this would not have happened... https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles...      Jan-20-26 WannaBe chessforum   WannaBe: Re: Star Trek Academy <WannaBe: 12m in. Not impressed> So, I did not finish episode one, it's still in my queue, but I did manage to read some of the reviews... And the reviews have not been kind. Some even compared episodes 1 and 2 (released the same day) to the very much ...      Jan-20-26 Hort vs de Firmian, 1986   WannaBe: <Breunor> Good question, I ran this game through the computer game analysis and: 31...Kg6 32.Bxa7 Bc4 33.Nd5 Nc6 34.Bc5 Ne5 35.Ke3 Bf1 36.Bd4 ⩱ +0.87 (41 ply) Possibly white was low on time and don't want to risk the chance to reaching move 40      Jan-19-26 R Toran vs M Valls Tona, 1948    WannaBe: Well, if you play f4, there is mate in 250...      Jan-14-26 Chessgames - Odd Lie    WannaBe: This one is from Henry Cho: "I'm changing the caller ID of my wife's phone number to Potential Spam" If you have not seen or heard of Henry, he is worth some of your time on YouTube.      Jan-14-26 Dickson    WannaBe: Apparently, it was a "far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known"      Jan-12-26 Fischer vs V Pupols, 1955    WannaBe: I was thinking baseball bat, tire iron, or brass knuckles.      Jan-11-26 Tata Steel Masters (2026)    WannaBe: So, the Tata Steel blitz were held in India, and players have 6 days to fly to NED for the next (or 2026 first) major event... What is the flight path? Here are some ideas: https://www.flightroutes.com/CCU-AMS

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 13 OF 750 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-16-06    Robin01: I'm still looking at their reply of 12.Re1. Jan-16-06    Robin01: <Finally, 11...e5 12.Re1 doesn't seem to present any immediate tactical threats.> I do not see immediate threats either, but it looks like a good move. The best I came up with here was maybe 12...Bf5. My reasons: Gives more scope to the bishop, which can then be backed up to g6 if needed there. Frees up more space for the king and the queen. Possibly put the queen on d7 later, so our rook can come over, or possibly even then provides another out for our king if needed. Jan-16-06    RonB52734: <Robin01> Excellent. Then we're completely set for me to announce ...e5 tomorrow morning. The only remotely plausible candidate replies we haven't explicitly discussed are 12.Qd5, 12.Nd5 and 12.Qb3. None of these seem to hold any immediate threat. I'd say we've weathered the first storm. Jan-16-06    Robin01: 12.Bg5 presents us with more problems. We cannot block with 12...Be7 because white will just play 13.Bxe7, and then after we recapture (either with queen or king), white can sink his knight into d5 with a tempo gain. I do not think this is good for us. Jan-16-06    Robin01: On 12.Bg5, I believe we need to play 12...Qa5 and move our queen out. This should be good. We can maybe then put our queen's bishop on e6 to stop the knight from coming into d5 and to also give our king another escape should the king need a square. Jan-16-06    Robin01: After 12.Bg5, 12...Qa5, the bishop move to e6 is possible because white's knight can longer go to g5 because the bishop is there. Jan-16-06    Robin01: The d5 square is weak so we need to be careful of it. We might not be able to stop white from occupying it, but let's not let them gain a tempo on it. Jan-16-06    WannaBe: I think this line has not been covered, and I am quite concerned about this one... 12. Bg5 Be7 13. Ne4 the response can be d5, but Qxd5 will solve that. The other move is 13. Nd5 followed with 14. Bxe7 Qxe7 Nc7+ These are the ones I went though tonight, as mentioned earlier, d6 pawn is not currently supported, white squared bishop is blocking queen support. Now, if 12. Bg7 Qc7 (Not Qc8, don't want to block a8 rook) it very well will present other issues. I have not looked into this line yet. Jan-16-06    Robin01: On 12.Qd5, I believe we can just develop with 12...Be7, because the g5 square is then covered sufficiently. I think we are okay if white plays 12.Qd5. Jan-16-06    Robin01: I think we need to play 12...Qa5 if white plays 12.Bg5 <see my note above> I believe 12...Be7 is not a good mvoe for us after 12.Bg5. Anyhow, we still do not know how they will respond to 11...e5. Jan-16-06    Robin01: I'm going through some answers for white to our 11...e5 and presenting my thoughts and ideas. Jan-16-06    Robin01: <11...e5 12.Bg5 Qa5 13.Ne4 d5(!)> Yes!! Jan-16-06    WannaBe: Okay, great work people! Thanks for looking at that line differently than I did. =) Jan-16-06    Robin01: On 12.Nd5, I think we can also play 12...Qa5, and then possibly think of bringing our knight back to e7 to attack the d5 square again. I think we are okay if they play 12.Nd5. We cannot stop that, but at least they do not take the square with a gain of tempo. Jan-16-06    RonB52734: 11...e5 12.Bg5 Qa5 13.Ne4 d5(!) (I went back and deleted my "NOT Qxd1" because I had my glasses on sideways lol). Jan-16-06    WannaBe: Counselor, it's getting late over there in Pit. PA. Jan-16-06    Robin01: I've been looking at this for about an hour and a half now. That is what's nice about this type of chess versus OTB, is you can devote much more time to studying the position and analyzing it. Jan-16-06    RonB52734: <WannaBe> Again, applying Robin's improvement to another of your challenges: 11...e5 12.Bg5 Qa5 13.Nd5 and I think we're fine Jan-16-06    Robin01: On 12.Qb3, I think we can play 12...Qb6. The trade of queens is okay, I believe. We get doubled pawns on the queen side, but our majority (passed pawn) is not effected by the queen side pawns. Also, if white losses his queen, then I think our extra pawn is even better for us. Jan-16-06    RonB52734: right-o Jan-17-06    refutor: who's the other side? Jan-17-06    RonB52734: <refutor> see <me to play>'s chessforum; that's where the game is going on. his profile lists the teams. There should be a link to it in <WannaBe>'s recent kibitzing list. Jan-17-06    RonB52734: Here: User: me to play Jan-17-06    Robin01: I see we have no move yet from the white team. Jan-17-06    WannaBe: must have confused the bejeezes out of them. =) Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 750) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 13 OF 750 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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