WannaBe Member since Oct-20-04 · Last seen Jan-25-26 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-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-23-26 Chessgames - Sports    WannaBe: I remember when so-and-so (e.g. Troy Aikman) transfers from one school to another (different conference), you sit out a year. If you transfer within conference, it's two years. And none of this 10th year of eligiblity because you were hurt or gone a religion mission to Pluto or ...      Jan-22-26 Memorable Quotes chessforum    WannaBe: <sfod> It's ignore list...      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.

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 28 OF 750 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-23-06    RonB52734: Ok, strike out 18...Be6. Good catch, <Robin> ...still reading your other comments.... Jan-23-06    WannaBe: I think, if 18...Nb4 19. Qd2 followed by 20. Rfd1. Jan-23-06    RonB52734: <Robin01> I don't like 18...Nb4 because 19.Qb5 Qxb5 20.Nxb5 and then, how do we prevent Nc7+? I think at best this loses a pawn, too. Jan-23-06    WannaBe: I'm gonna go w/ Rd8, it lets us put another piece into play. Jan-23-06    RonB52734: Oh, maybe not.... Nc2 instead of QxQ Jan-23-06    RonB52734: I need sleep. I'll look at this again in the morning. Jan-23-06    WannaBe: G'night <RonB52734>. Jan-23-06    Robin01: 18...Nb4 creates a lot of tactical shots by both sides. If we try it we have to be very careful. I looks like fun thought. However, 18...Qe6 and 18...Rd8 are probably safer for us. At least I think so. Jan-23-06    Robin01: I will analyze yet for another hour or so and then sleep on it. Jan-23-06    Robin01: "though" and not "thought". I cannot type tonight. Jan-23-06    Robin01: We still have two other players who have not given any lines or opinions on the position. Jan-23-06    WannaBe: <Robin01> aye, <sitzkrieg> and <NakoSonorense> has yet to check in, maybe <Nako> is busy w/ school. Best if we all sleep on it, but I'm leaning towards Rd8. =) Jan-24-06    Robin01: I like 18...Qe6 better than 18...Rd8, but I am still looking at 18...Nb4. Jan-24-06    RonB52734: ...Rd8 has the benefit of being more flexible and possibly allowing any of the other lines to develop. 18...Rd8 19.Nb4 (threatening a7) 19...b6 20.fxe5 and now I think we're better taking with 20...Nxe5 or our Knight gets stranded later. 21.Nxe5 dxe5 22.Qxd7 Rxd7 and I think we're fine. On ...Nb4, I think they do have to play Qd2 or Qd1 to protect against ...Nc2. Unless we attack quickly with something (and I don't see anything except maybe Bg6), then a3 is likely to follow. That puts us right back where we started. In other words, our move after Nb4 has to either be a strong attack, or else one of the 3 moves that saves our pawn. Also, Nb4 weakens our a7 pawn. So I like Rd8 better. Jan-24-06    RonB52734: And I do like Qe6 better even than Rd8. Jan-24-06    WannaBe: Qe6 does give us the option later to move the a-Rook out and possibly slowly, if need be get our king behind the pawn on the queen-side. Jan-24-06    WannaBe: Ah, very well, I'll go with Qe6. Jan-24-06    RonB52734: 18...Qe6 19.f5 Qf6 does not work because 20.Ne4. So if 18...Qe6 19.f5 Qc4 Jan-24-06    Robin01: Where are our other two team members? Jan-24-06    RonB52734: Good question. We have "all day" to post our move, but I will be completely unavailable from 5:00 p.m. to midnight, Eastern Time. Jan-24-06    Averageguy: <Wannabe> After seeing your game on <aw1988's> forum, I was wondering if you would like to play a correspondance game with me? Jan-24-06    RonB52734: I'm still looking for ways to refute 18...Qe6. Haven't found one. But another possible follow-up is: 18...Qe6 19.Nd2 d5. Now, taking on d5 will cost them a piece for a pawn. So 20.f5 Qd7 (not ...Qd6 because of Nb5) and this looks ok. Jan-24-06    Robin01: Well, I guess I will cast my vote for 18...Qe6 in case I do not get back for a while and you want to post. Jan-24-06    RonB52734: <Robin01> Ok. I saw that <sitzkrieg> posted something on the <me to play> page not too long ago, so he's online. But he's got a lot of reading to do over here. I also vote for ...Qe6. And if we get past 5:00, remember, someone else is going to have to post our move for us. Jan-24-06    WannaBe: <RonB52734> Aye, aye Capt'n! Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 750) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 28 OF 750 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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