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| Feb-16-07 | | DrDum: Does it have to be an injury? How bout Ted Williams? Arguably THE Best hitter it baseball history who would have had the HR record IF he hadn't been drafted for the war during his prime and later also went to the Korean war. All that bad luck and he is only one of the best instead of THE Best |
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| Feb-16-07 | | DrDum: In football I'd have to say Archie Manning I mean Marino did go to the Super Bowl his Rookie year |
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Feb-16-07
 | | WannaBe: You are <DrDum> Ted Williams served in both WWII (beginning in '44 when he earned Marine's pilot wings) and again in Korea. http://www.militarymuseum.org/Willi... |
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| Feb-16-07 | | brankat: <WannaBe> I saw in one of the forums You are playing in a Team Tournament this weekend, and Monday, too. I hope You'll do well! We should "postpone" our planned game(s) for a day or two then. Unless You have forgotten all about it already :-) We'll set it up next week, when You come back and rest(!!!) for a while :-) |
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| Feb-16-07 | | NakoSonorense: Wannabe: Good luck in the tournament. If you get into a losing position, please don't resign too early! |
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Feb-16-07
| | WannaBe: <brankat> we'll start Monday, first few moves are all 'book' anyway. <NakoSonorense> Thank you, the games will take place in San Pedro, which is a very short (5 min) drive from Long Beach. I'll resign when it's absolutely hopeless. I only resign early on-line... =) |
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| Feb-17-07 | | whiskeyrebel: Bad luck in baseball? There's Shoeless Joe Jackson who was banned from the game for life in spite of the fact that he batted .375 in the "Blacksox" scandal World series ( he was guilty only in my opinion and that of many others of not ratting out his cheating team mates ). There's Harry Haddix who pitched one of the greatest games of all time and lost! ( 12 2/3's innings of no-hit ball ). Vince Coleman was set to be the next Ricky Henderson until an outfield protective "rainout" cover vehicle crushed his leg. Moonlight Graham busted his tail to make the big leagues; he finally at the age of 28 made his debut in right field in a game in June of 1905; he never came to bat or touched the ball and was cut from the roster the next day. Was he lucky to have done that much? I don't think so. As a team the all time bad luck story is the 1994 Expo's who finally were the best team in baseball..kicking butt until the season ended in a strike. Perhaps their franchise might still be up there if not for that. |
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| Feb-17-07 | | brankat: <whiskeyrebel> Impressive! And I thought You were into Alekhine and cult band level music :-) |
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Feb-17-07
| | WannaBe: Speaking of baseball, a game that I absolutely adore, and love... Worst luck athelete, (non-injury division), it have to be Bob Hendley, who threw an one-hitter for the Cubs, and lost!! Who was the winning pitcher?! None other than Sandy Koufax, on Sept. 9th 1965 at Dodgers Stadium. It was the night where Sandy threw his perfect game. But Bob isn't such a poor guy after all, his career record against Koufax is 3 wins, and 1 loss. =) Can you imagine throwing an one-hitter, and lose?!?! And that hit didn't account for the winning run! Another funny tid-bit, Harvey Keunn, who made the last (strike) out as a pinch hitter for Bob Hendley at Dodgers Stadium. Two years earlier, he was on the S.F. Giants team, that's when Koufax threw his no-hitter, and Harvey made the last out too! You can read all about it, in the book "Sandy Koufax" by Jane Leavy. |
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Feb-17-07
| | WannaBe: I'm off!! Will post my pictures/PGNs as soon as they become available. Fear the <WannaBe> Gambit! |
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Feb-17-07
 | | Open Defence: <Fear the Wannabe Gambit!> I can hear the Imperial march from Empire Strikes Back playing in the back ground.... |
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| Feb-17-07 | | DrDum: <Wannabe> Yes, the fact that he served was my point. How many his/Hrs would he have had if I Had NOT served was why I nominated him for bad luck athlete. |
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Feb-17-07
| | WannaBe: Grrrrrrr..... What was I thinking! Our team got wiped off the board, +0 -4 =0 as a team. Hopefully we'll do better in round 2, which is about 3 hours from now. [Event "Amateur West (Team)"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2007.02.17"]
[Round "?"]
[White "WannaBe"]
[Black "NN"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B73"]
[WhiteElo "845"]
[BlackElo "1650"]
[PlyCount "48"]
[TimeControl "40/7200:3600"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Be3 Bd7 7. Be2 g6 8. O-O Bg7
9. Qd2 Ng4 10. Bxg4 Bxg4 11. f3 Bd7 12. Nce2 Ne5 13. b3 O-O 14. c3 Re8 15. Rac1 Qa5
16. Rc2 Rac8 17. b4 Qa6 18. Rf2 Nc4 19. Qc1 b5 20. Nb3 Rc7 21. Bd4 Rec8 22. Bxg7 Kxg7
23. Qa1 Qb6 24. Kf1 Ne3+ 0-1 |
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| Feb-17-07 | | you vs yourself: I lost in the 1st round too wannabe. Our team(avg.1870) lost .5-3.5 to a team whose avg. rating was 2199. |
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| Feb-17-07 | | DrDum: Here's mine
[Event "Amateur Team West"]
[Site "Double Tree, San Pedro"]
[Date "2007.02.17"]
[Round "1"]
[White "David Zimbeck"]
[Black "William Warren"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2267"]
[BlackElo "1564"]
[Source "MonRoi"]
[EventDate "2007.02.17"]
[TimeSpend "2917"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.f3 e6 3.e4 d6 4.Bd3 c5 5.c3 Nbd7 6.Ne2 Be7 7.Be3 O-O 8.g4 Ne8 9.Qd2 Bh4+ 10.Kd1 g5 11.Na3 a6 12.Nc2 b5 13.Ne1 c4 14.Bc2 Bxe1 15.Kxe1 h6 16.h4 f6 17.Ng3 Ng7 18.Qh2 Qe7 19.hxg5 hxg5 20.e5 f5 21.gxf5 exf5 22.Qh7+ Kf7 23.Nxf5 Qe6 24.Nxg7 1-0 |
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Feb-17-07
| | WannaBe: Some preliminary pictures:
Go Team:
http://mysite.verizon.net/jyu1/Team...
http://mysite.verizon.net/jyu1/Team...
(From left, Robert, Brett, <WannaBe> and <DrDum>) Back of a T-shirt:
http://mysite.verizon.net/jyu1/Meta... |
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| Feb-17-07 | | DrDum: While I'm finally catching up on my database, here are those recent wins I've been bragging about [Event "Wednesday Knights Feb"]
[Site "Chess Palace"]
[Date "2007.02.07"]
[Round "1"]
[White "William Warren"]
[Black "Robert Hatfield"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1537"]
[BlackElo "1900"]
[Source "MonRoi"]
[EventDate "2007.02.07"]
[TimeSpend "3803"]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.Ne2 Nc6 5.c3 Nf6 6.e5 Ne4 7.f3 Qh4+ 8.g3 Nxg3 9.Nxg3 cxd4 10.Bb5 dxc3 11.bxc3 Bc5 12.Ndf1 O-O 13.Bxc6 bxc6 14.Be3 Qc4 15.Ne2 Qh4+ 16.Kd2 Bxe3+ 17.Nxe3 Ba6 18.Qg1 Rab8 19.Rb1 Qa4 20.Rxb8 Qxa2+ 21.Nc2 Rxb8 22.Qxa7 1-0 |
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| Feb-17-07 | | DrDum: [Event "Wednesday Knights, Jan"]
[Site "Chess Palace"]
[Date "2007.01.17"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Yogi, ."]
[Black "Warren, William"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E12"]
[WhiteElo "1936"]
[BlackElo "1536"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2007.01.17"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. a3 b6 4. Nc3 Bb7 5. Bg5 Be7 6. Nf3 Ne4 7. Bxe7 Qxe7 8. g3
Nxc3 9. bxc3 Bxf3 10. exf3 O-O 11. Bd3 d5 12. O-O c5 13. Re1 dxc4 14. Be4 Nd7
15. Bxa8 Rxa8 16. d5 e5 17. Qe2 b5 18. a4 f6 19. Qe4 Qd6 20. axb5 a5 21. Qxc4
Nb6 22. Qe4 c4 23. Red1 a4 24. Qg4 Ra5 25. Qe6+ Qxe6 26. dxe6 Kf8 27. Rdb1 Ke7
28. Rb4 Kxe6 29. Kf1 a3 30. Ke2 Kd5 31. Kd2 Kc5 32. Kc2 Nd5 33. Rbb1 a2 34. Rb2
Ra3 35. Raxa2 Rxc3+ 36. Kd2 Rd3+ 37. Ke2 Nc3+ 38. Ke1 Rd1# 0-1 |
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| Feb-17-07 | | DrDum: [Event "Wednesday Knights Jan"]
[Site "Chess Palace"]
[Date "2007.01"]
[Round ""]
[White "William Warren"]
[Black "Binnix"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1537"]
[BlackElo "1700"]
[Source "MonRoi"]
[EventDate "2007.01"]
[TimeSpend "5159"]
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nf3 Bd6 7.Bd2 a6 8.O-O Nc6 9.Re1 Qb6 10.Na4 Qa7 11.c3 b5 12.Ne5 Bb7 13.Nc5 Bxc5 14.dxc5 Nxe5 15.Rxe5 Qxc5 16.Qf3 O-O-O 17.a4 Nd7 18.Rg5 f6 19.Rxg7 Rhg8 20.Qg3 Rgf8 21.Be3 d4 22.Bxd4 Qd5 23.axb5 axb5 24.f3 b4 25.Be4 Qc4 26.Bxb7+ Kxb7 27.Ra7+ Kc6 28.Qc7+ Kb5 29.Rb7+ 1-0 |
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| Feb-17-07 | | brankat: <WannaBe> <DrDum> Cheer up! You'll do better in the second round. Good luck guys! |
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| Feb-17-07 | | chessmoron: <DrDum> is good. Your rating is kinda underrated. Outplaying 1900+ and 1700+ players. BTW Happy new year <WannaBe> and kick some a$$ tomorrow. |
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| Feb-17-07 | | brankat: <WannaBe> I'd better say it today, without waiting for tomorrow, lest I forget:-) HAPPY NEW YEAR, again!!! |
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Feb-17-07
| | WannaBe: And the blundering continues. <suenteus po 147> might give me a pointers or two, since this guy played the Bird's Opening... I know certain tournaments gives away brilliancy prizes, if they give best blunder prize, I'd be a winner every time. [Event "Team Amateur (West)"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2007.02.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "NN"]
[Black "WannaBe"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A03"]
[WhiteElo "1687"]
[BlackElo "829"]
[PlyCount "43"]
[TimeControl "40/7200:3600"]
1. f4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. g3 Nc6 4. Bg2 e6 5. O-O Bd6 6. d3 O-O 7. Qe1 Re8 8. Nc3 e5
9. e4 dxe4 10. dxe4 Bd7 11. a3 Kh8 12. Bd2 Nxe4 13. fxe5 Nxd2 14. Qxd2 Bxe5
15. Ng5 Qe7 16. Nxf7+ Kg8 17. Nxe5 Qxe5 18. Qxd7 Rad8 19. Qf7+ Kh8 20. Rad1 Qc5+
21. Kh1 Rxd1 22. Qxe8+ 1-0 |
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Feb-17-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: no chance, no chance... |
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Feb-17-07
| | WannaBe: <jessicafischerqueen> Hey! I was the one who said that Carlsen's game will be decisive, and it was. (I just didn't pick who would win... And I called the draw in Topalov-Anand game too!!) It's all on the Chess Bookie forum.
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