WannaBe Member since Oct-20-04 · Last seen Jan-23-26 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-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.      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 61 OF 750 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-21-06    Robin01: <RonB52734> Actually, I do not believe we can analyze the position with any third parties. Feb-21-06    Robin01: <RonB52734> I'm sure you are referring to Mr. Smirnoff!! Feb-21-06    Robin01: Vodka is a great friend to analyze games with. However, after a while he makes it hard to come up with good variations. Feb-21-06    Robin01: <RonB52734> Why cannot you TD and play? Feb-21-06    RonB52734: 39...Re8 simply loses a pawn to 40.Qf7+ Kd8 (or else the Rook is lost) 41.Qxg7. Not only is there no compensation, but our Rook is now cut off from the Queenside. I think 39...Re8 is out of the question for that reason. 39...Ra7 is interesting because it keeps pressure on the a pawn yet prevents 40. Qf7+ from doing any damage (40...Kb6). But I don't like 41.Qd5 Kc7 42.Qd4! in this line. We can't defend all threats. This leaves us with 39...Rf8+, and I agree that 40.Ke2 is likely. Now, if we didn't do anything to prevent it, we'll see 41.Qc3+, forking the pawn. <Robin01> proposes a second Rook check <39...Rf8+; 40.Ke2, Re8+; 41.Kf3, Rf8+; 42.Ke4, Re8+; 43.Kd5, Re5+>. I wonder if White will expose itself to repeated checks in this fashion or will play 41.Kd3 instead of Kf3. However, in that event, it appears that Rd8 is good. Anyway, I think 39...Rf8+ is the only move here. Feb-21-06    RonB52734: <Why cannot you TD and play?> You can, but we choose not to let the TD play for cash prizes. Since I'm not paying to play, and I'm not in for prizes, I go in as a "house" player, used only if a paying player would otherwise receive a bye due to odd numbers. We had an even number of paying customers tonight, so I sat out. Feb-21-06    RonB52734: Mr. Smirnoff, meet Mr. Stol Ichnaya! :) Feb-21-06    RonB52734: Besides, I got an endgame lesson from the chief TD, who is our local endgame wizard. In fact, <Robin01>, I'm going to post a puzzle on your chessforum in a few minutes from my "lesson." Feb-21-06    RonB52734: Actually, 39...Rf8+ 40.Ke2, Re8+ 41.Kd3 and now 41...Kd7 or 41...Re7 may be best because the threat of 42.Qc3+ with the fork of the pawn. Feb-21-06    RonB52734: Ok, I have posted a cute little endgame puzzle on Robin's chessforum. Have at it. Feb-21-06    Robin01: Did this one quickly. Hope I'm correct. Feb-21-06    Robin01: I've got to get some sleep. Talk to everyone tomorrow. Feb-21-06    RonB52734: Bedtime, with the following vote count: <Robin01>, <Cogano> and <RonB> voting for Rf8+. No other votes are clearly apparent to me. Feb-22-06    WannaBe: I shall attempt to answer to the posts in their chrono. order... <Cogano> Here is my complete post: <<Cogano: ... 39.Qxb3 Rf8+ 40.Kf2 Bc5, 41.Qc4 Kd6, 42.a5 Re8+, 43.Kf3 (Best to stay near the pawns & guard them!) Re7...> This line isn't correct, once Rf8+ white's king can't go to 40. Kf2> I never dismissed your line, no where in my post did I intend (to) that tone. If you took/read that post as such, I deeply apologize, and you have my very sincere apologies. I merely mentioned that it was wrong. No (more) different than anyone else who might say such-and-such is wrong. Again, I apologize. < Robin01: <RonB52734> <Russian friend> I sure hope it's Mr. Spassky!> Actually, I hope it's Kasparov!! :-) Or Tal, but Tal might tell us to sac the King! <RonB52734: 39...Re8 simply loses a pawn to 40.Qf7+ Kd8..> No, I think we can play Re7, because the bishop on d6 is backing it up and the rook is protecting g7 pawn. (see my previous line/post.) Unless I really overlooked something. <you vs yourself> There, I explained meself! :-)) Feb-22-06    Cogano: Here's another line for you, but I doubt they'll play it, & I say that only because it is that much worse than the one I last posted (which I consider to be miserable for them, & I can't find anything better for them!) 39.Qxb3 Rf8+, 40.Ke2 Bc5, 41.Kd3 Rd8+, 42.Ke4 Rd7, 43.Kf5 Re7, , 44.Qb5 Bd4, 45.Kg4 Kd6, 46.a5 Re5, 47.Qa6+ Kc7, 48.Kf3 Rc5, 49.Qe2 Rxa5, 50.g4 Kd6, 51.Qg2 Bf6, 52.Qg3+ Ke6, 53.Kg2 (Obviously NOT a pawn move, or 53...Ra3+ forking the Queen!) Re5, 54.h4 Kf7, 55.Kh1 Rc5, 56.g5 hxg5, 57.hxg5 Rxg5, 58.Qb3+ Kg6, 59.Qd3+ Kh6. (& the checks are finished. For if 60.Qh3+, then 60...Rh5, losing the Queen!) Anyway, I'm too tired now. So I'm goin to try to get some sleep. I sincerely hope you find this line a winning one. As always, thank you most kindly for your anticipated & continued patience, tolerance, understanding, consideration & assistance. take very good care & have a great day. Cheers mates! :) Feb-22-06    WannaBe: <Cogano> I don't quite like it, because after 40...Bc5 white have: 41. Qg3+ and if we move the bishop to block, queen takes pawn (g7). Feb-22-06    RonB52734: <WannaBe> What about 39...Re8 40.Qc3+ That's how it loses the pawn. WIth 39...Rf8+, White is practically forced to move the King. Let's say 40.Ke2. As I mentioned above, we're still in a position where, if we didn't do anything to prevent it, we'll see 41.Qc3+, forking the pawn. (Now I'm going to combine two previous posts to eliminate an error in the earlier of the two. Here's what I should have said): <Robin01> has proposed a second Rook check <39...Rf8+; 40.Ke2, Re8+; 41.Kf3, Rf8+; 42.Ke4, Re8+; 43.Kd5, Re5+>. I wonder if White will expose itself to repeated checks in this fashion or will play 41.Kd3 instead of Kf3. In that case, the line would be 39...Rf8+ 40.Ke2, Re8+ 41.Kd3 and now 41...Kd7 or 41...Re7 may be best because (still) of the threat of 42.Qc3+ with the fork of the pawn. I may prefer 41...Re7 here because (a) it sets up a future pawn capture on the dark a7 square, and (b) keeping our King on c7 helps prevent the Queen from invading on the b file. Feb-22-06    RonB52734: Any more votes? Time runs short.... Feb-22-06    sitzkrieg: Rf8!? Nooooo!!! Rc8 Feb-22-06    sitzkrieg: GUess im a little late:P Feb-22-06    WannaBe: <RonB52734> Correct, you are! Feb-22-06    RonB52734: <sitzkrieg> If ...Rc8, then Qf7+ Feb-22-06    sitzkrieg: Woops Ron, i was still with the position after Kc7 but we went the other way; i forgot:P Sorry. Then this move is of course ok.But why are we driving their king to their pawn? Feb-22-06    sitzkrieg: Well i checked ur 1 but last post, i see it. I hope we can hold this position after Re7, but it is sure inventive. Nice job. Feb-22-06    blingice: You seem a little shady regarding Fischer's book collection... Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 750) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 61 OF 750 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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