<rogge: my claim - anyone who has a life can not be bothered by a 'nutcase' posting on these pages, he would keep enjoying these pages unaffected. anyone having a life would not bother to give explanation why frequency of posts here is low. anyone disagrees? >

<I can't explain the persistent viciousness of the attacks. I do understand that AJ makes people crazy--me included--but that doesn't explain much. I don't recommend that you post anything because it will just get you all worked up unnecessarily over the resulting attacks on you. I blame the admins for letting this go on as it has. I would suspend all of them (AJ included) for a few months and then say that they would be banned if they started in again (including AJ's nonsense).

The best course is to write Daniel Freeman at chess@chessgames.com a version of what you sent to me. You are welcome to mention me as agreeing if you wish. I will, of course, be glad to look at a draft if that would help. I am not sure that it would do any good, but enough feedback on this mess might impel them to do something. Perhaps your email would be the last straw.>

We typically try to make an award four times a year. In general, first priority for a <Rinus Award> goes to a non-premium member who makes an excellent contribution to one of the <World vs. GM> games hosted by <chessgames.com>. When there is a break between games, the committee has made an award to someone on another part of the website who has made excellent contributions in that area (e.g., <ChessBookForum>, POTD page).

At this point in the year, it looks to us as though there will be a long break between games. In addition, among the many superb nominations made by the POTD folks, two nominees stood out. Not only did both nominees make consistent, excellent analytic contributions, they also represented the best of <chessgames.com> in their conduct and in their contributions to the creation of a healthy atmosphere at <chessgames.com>.

As we were reading through the posts over the last 60 games (which, by the way, was slow-going only because we kept getting distracted by <Once’s> always-entertaining posts), we ran across this interchange between the two nominees (starting about here: L Shamkovich vs G Lebredo, 1978) that showed how a disagreement and misunderstanding can be settled amicably and with civility and respect all around. We found this conversation to be so refreshing that we decided to make awards to both non-premium members.

It is with great pleasure that User: WinKing User: kutztown46 and I announce that both User: sevenseaman and User: LoveThatJoker will be receiving <Rinus Awards> of year-long premium memberships as soon as they are activated. I have already notified the chessgames.com administrators.

Activate: sevenseaman
Years: 1
New Count: 6

This is complete bollocks. The same foul-mouthed wench got my forum shut down a few years ago, with a tirade of vile language about Blessed Magaret Thatcher, dirty limericks involving sheep, and so on.

The admins locked me in there to clean up the mess, and suggested that Jessica and I should try special dirty limerick websites if our tastes ran in that direction.

History now. But just so you know, my friend. The queen has a killer sensa yuma and a mouth like nobody's business.

It seems a bunch of folks don't like the link that I have been posting. Tough nut.

The trolls have long been out of control. They follow me all over this website> I post something purely about chess and one of the morons of their group will post an insult.

I have asked <REPEATEDLY> that something be done about this ... and nothing has. So I come up with a link ... and someone gets offended? BULL! I don't buy it.

The trolls have insulted me and my family. They have inferred - or stated openly - that I am not a good father. Many have publicly stated that their goal was to "run me off" this site. (Its NOT gonna happen!!!)

I no longer mince words with these low-life, scum-bag punks. I give 'em <<THE LINK>> ... until they get sick of it.

http://www.ajschess.com/for_the-tro...

http://www.ajschess.com/for_the-tro...

http://www.ajschess.com/for_the-tro...

Everytime one of these cockroaches open their mouth and direct an insult my way, they get it. 1,000,000,000 times ... if necessary.

If you really cared about chess as much as you say you do, you wouldn't need to be told to refrain from contributing to the growing pollution on the historical games pages. That's what your detractors have been doing and it's also what you've been doing.

It's irrelevant who is at fault- when historical masterpieces are defaced by your fighting, all of you are at fault.

Have you considered voting for the *gulp*... Democrats??

One way is pointless bashing and finger-pointing on pages like A J Goldsby vs Tkachiev, 1995 or Nakamura vs A J Goldsby, 2003 - who cares?

<this is your usual lying, two-faced, back-stabbing modus operandi and ask you politely to take a long walk off a short pier>

This has been the pattern for the last eight years. The same user demands that our Administrators enforce the Posting Guidelines, then he immediately turns around and violates the Posting Guidelines himself. He doesn't want everybody to follow the rules; he wants everybody else to follow the rules. As the entire group has long figured out, this user wants people angry at him so he can pretend we are "jealous" of his title and his Web pages and his awards and his analysis and everything else.

Those of us who were here in 2005 - I said, those of us who were here ini 2005 - remember when the site wasted one third of their time deleting bicker threads from classic games. Surely they have better things to do, instead of cleaning up after us babies.

The main fault lies with the admins of this site. Too long have they sat on their thumbs and done nothing.

There IS a simple solution, start enforcing the guidelines. Delete all non-chess posts. (ALL!!!!!) Instead of allowing the troop to spray every page with their feces, they could simply put a stop to this nonsense ... if they really wanted to.

The only conclusion I can draw that is as long as people are "tuning in" to read the latest gossip and they are getting lots of "hits," they are quite happy to allow things to continue as they are.

<< Feb-26-12 playground player: <Life Master AJ> Delete all non-chess posts from forums? Whoa! Have you visited my forum lately? Following your prescription, my whole forum would be deleted. I mean, who wants to read anything I have to say about chess? The problem is not "non-chess posts." The problem is personalities.

Realizing that the only way to do this is to insist on civility, I think my own forum has become, consequently, productive, thought-provoking, and interesting. I'm not trying to brag about it: whatever has been accomplished there is the work of a diverse group of kibitzers--<YouRang>, <achieve>, <OhioChessFan>, <cormier>, <Jessicafischerqueen>, <Deus Ex Alekhine>, and quite a few others. Without them, my forum is nothing.

Within this group, we hardly ever agree about anything. We don't have to! Our purpose is to share our thoughts on religious and social issues, and hopefully to inspire independent thinking among our readers.

I think we have all shown that this can be done without anybody getting nasty. Occasionally someone goes a bit over the top, but we've managed to deal with those incidents without involving CG management.

Please don't encourage management to shut us down.

< Feb-26-12 LIFE Master AJ: <playground player> You misread me.

I want them to shut down the trolls (nothing else) ... and I would NEVER encourage tampering with a personal forum ... unless it got just plain nasty. (There have been a number of forums that have been censored over the years. Links to nudity/porn or really filthy language.)

Surely, you know I have this group of people. They follow me all over the site. ANYTIME I post ANYTHING, they try to bring an insult to bear.