WannaBe Member since Oct-20-04 · Last seen Apr-07-26 Thank you Daniel Freeman and Alberto A Artidiello Not enough words can describe what you created and what we lost.

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Apr-07-26 Chessgames - Sports    WannaBe: In case I forgot, congrats to them Lady Bruins. =)) U. Mich (69-63) won, but the last spread I saw was -6.5, so if you took UConn w/ spread, you got very lucky, if you bet on them U. Mich, I feel bad; the O/U was 148.5      Apr-06-26 Fusilli chessforum   WannaBe: You too <Fusilli>      Apr-05-26 Chessgames - Odd Lie   WannaBe: Gotta double-triple check for typos in the future, what is "coving my neighbor's wife"?? Are we doves?      Apr-01-26 OhioChessFan chessforum   WannaBe: <OCF> I will now have be a wabbit and dig dipper into Camp Washington Chili. Never hoid of them, don't know if they are canned, fast food, grocery store, etc. Will keep you updated.      Mar-21-26 Chessgames - TV and Films    WannaBe: <CIO> LOL. I remember those mems... <chancho> North by Norwest, totally agree, the audiences know that the plane scene was filmed earlier and played on a screen behind. It was still drama. Same thing with the Mt. Rushmore chase scene.      Mar-18-26 Chessgames - Politics    WannaBe: <plang> Do you have a link to where you got that information/data from? I would love to read it for myself.      Mar-16-26 WannaBe chessforum    WannaBe: Future research project, how did Offenbach - Orpheus in the Underworld became "Can Can" and women kicking legs before the Radio City Hall Rocketts. An history that probably need some "Lookin Into"      Mar-13-26 chessgames.com chessforum    WannaBe: ¡Olé! ¡Olé! this is what I see for "¡Olé! ¡Olé!" (game of the day Mar-13-2026) I also know this issue have been around for a while, and it's not that important, in IT term, it is a level 'C', cosmetic fix. But I just wish to report it again. Can CG.com unify this ...      Mar-11-26 Sebastien Feller    WannaBe: <FSR> March 11 is his birthday, and usually PoD is chosen from the birth date of the player. So unless CG.com decides to change the algorithm on how PoD is decided. We will randomly get "undesired" player(s).      Mar-05-26 G Timoscenko vs Karpov, 1967   WannaBe: So, strictly out of "Morbid Curiosity", I requested an analysis of the position: 1) +12.62 (22 ply) 55...Ke6 56. Nc6 Bg2 57. Nxa7 Ba8 58. Nc6 Kd7 59. Ne5+ Ke6 60. Nxg6 Be4 61. b6 f4 62. Nxf4+ Kf5 63. g6 Kg4 64. b7 Kxg3 65. b8=Q Kf3 66. g7 Bh7 67. g8=Q Bxg8 68. Qxg8 Ke3 69. a7 Ke4 ...

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 212 OF 754 ·  Later Kibitzing> Apr-13-07    WannaBe: <THE pawn> Bd3 was a doozer... what I get for playing fast, should have spent another 2 days looking... =( I did spent a while looking at your Bxa2+ and thought it was okay for white. (Hence the sequence of conditional moves I entered...) That's what happens to 1300+ mouse pusher like me, win a pawn, and then ka-boom. The whole thing blows up in my face. Apr-13-07    THE pawn: Imagine if you had played 30.Bxc1 instead of Qxc1: 30. Bxc1 Qa2+ 31.b3 Qxb3+ 31.Qxb3 Rc8+ 32.Kd5 Rc5# click for larger view WOW! marvelous. Apr-13-07    THE pawn: Yeah, it is not the first time it costs you a game (I heard). Btw, forget the annotations in my first post, there are no ( ) so it's confusing... Apr-13-07    WannaBe: Play slow. Play slow. Play slow... I gotta repeat that to myself. Apr-14-07    brankat: <THE pawn> You just got lucky :-) Apr-14-07    brankat: <WannaBe> It is good to see our old friend Joe W. back. Btw, Sunday afternoon, or so (when I'm done with <chessmoron>'s tourney), I do plan to start a conversation/discussion in <JoeWms>'s forum about the late forties to mid-fifties in the USA (the McCharty era). Since You are a History "buff", You may want to join in. Thanks, my friend. Btw, how are preparations for Chicago going? Apr-14-07    timhortons: dude good to know that youre a fellow gameknot.com wood pusher.... Apr-14-07    WannaBe: <brankat> Re: Joe McCarthy. I'd love to join that! See how much I can recall from "Washington Gone Crazy" by Michael Yberra. Excellent read! <timhortons> Yeah, I'm a mouse pusher on GK, getting slaughtered in this ChessGames.com invitational... =( Apr-14-07    WannaBe: <timhortons> If you are interested: User: gameknot have a list of the people. Apr-14-07    WannaBe: What a week... Had a kitchen leak on Monday, find out later it was in the walls, which means the Home Owners Association will pay for all the repairs. (Thank goodness) Finally got it all done Friday, now I'm waiting for the drywall to be repaired, the plumbers had to knock a couple of holes to get to the pipes. Then last night, I ran over something, sounded like a whole bunch of Christmas tree ornaments, and totally shredded my left front tire, got it into the shop so I can replace all 4 tires and get the alignment adjusted. (The tires were original, after almost 33K, all needed to be changed anyway... But I was hoping to hold out a bit longer...) And also getting my rear-end wooped on GK's tournament... Oh well, could be worse, at least I woke up (!!) this morning. Apr-14-07    WannaBe: So.... I went back to the shop (Pep Boys) to pick up my car... They can't find my car key. Yes, you can laugh... Apr-14-07    WannaBe: Think I'll watch the Padres vs. Dodgers game, unless my TV decides to blow up... Apr-15-07    WannaBe: On the day which MLB honors J. Robinson, 7 games were postponed due to weather... =( Apr-16-07    midknightblue: Hi WannaBe. I finished with 3.5 out of 7 points in the Foxwoods u1600 section last week. My last round was against a 7 year old. I was up 3 pawns and thought I was completely winning, when he suddenly had his Queen and both rooks pointed at my king, and my pieces were all stuck behind my pawns. He had a draw by perpetual at least, maybe even a win. He missed a critical move and I ended up winning (and he cried). Anyway, that game is nothing to be proud of, so not sure if I will post it here or not. On a slightly better note, I sac'ed a pawn to go down 2 pawns in a french defense, saving an opposite colored bishop ending. That was possibly my best moment of the tourney. That one, I plan to post on your forum, when I get home from work. Talk to you later. Apr-16-07    WannaBe: <midknightblue> Very cool, looking forward to that french game!! Apr-17-07    WannaBe: 4-cores! Then '08 8 cores!! Yikes! http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/17/tec... Apr-18-07    AugustAle: Come-on, you know everyone wants your wabbit Wabbit! You wouldn't give it up for a widdle witebulb? Apr-18-07    suenteus po 147: <WannaBe> I have a question for you. Why did you offer a draw in this position?: click for larger view Apr-18-07    WannaBe: <suenteus po 147> The draw in that game guarantees me second place. I will now offer my other opponent in the mini-tournament a draw too. =) Or also known as, the fear of blundering away a game, and not finishing in an acceptable 'rank/position'. Apr-18-07    WannaBe: Second (tie) place. http://gameknot.com/mt.pl?id=19591 Apr-18-07    suenteus po 147: <WannaBe> I do understand your reasoning, and it did pay off. Congratulations on your second place! I knew you could do it ;) However, objectively you still had good fighting chances to win the above endgame, especially if black had taken the poisoned pawn. But I won't dwell on it if you'd rather move on. Apr-18-07    WannaBe: Okay, I may get one... but I'll have to open that beer very slowly... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oUW... Apr-18-07    chessmoron: White wins ♖/♙ with Rg5+ and mating. Apr-20-07    WannaBe: Yes!! "Hot Fuzz" is out today, I'm so gonna see it!! Really enjoyed/loved "Shaun of the Dead". But I think I only got 1/3 of the humor in it... (And I'll probably miss 2/3 of the jokes in "Hot Fuzz", because I don't get it.) Apr-20-07    WannaBe: Ouch... http://blogs.business2.com/apple/20... Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 754) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 212 OF 754 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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