cu8sfan Member since Mar-22-04 I live in <♖Switzerland♖>. I've been playing chess since I was eight with some breaks in between. Winner of Time Magazine Person of the Year, 2006 If you're new to this site these are some places you should check out to find out what we do on this site: Oleg Romanishin, City of Moscow, Raymond Keene, [bad player ID], Beer, Raymond Weinstein, John Homer Stapfer, Charles H Storey, Game Collection: Chessgames.com members in action, User: nikolaas Before I forget: Chess isn't my only passion. <Go Cubs!> <WORLD SERIES CHAMPION 2016> -- And I was there! ♔♕♖♗♘♙♘♗♖♕♔♕♖♗♘♙♘♗♖♕♔♕♖♗♘♙♘♗♖♕♔♕♖♗♘♙♘♗♖

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Feb-27-25 Boris Spassky    cu8sfan: Rest in peace, Boris Spassky! I will never forget playing against him in a simul in Zurich.      Jul-13-20 Denker vs D MacMurray, 1932    cu8sfan: This is like Deja-vu all over again!      Mar-11-19 Penguincw chessforum    cu8sfan: Thank you for your kind words on my forum. I have been so busy this year, I never had the chance to check in here on cg.com. I hope the situation has calmed down a bit. At least it seems like the difficulty level of the PotD has been fixed, I now can solve Mondays and sometimes ...      Aug-23-18 N Arora vs B Samhouri, 2008    cu8sfan: I'd go for 32. ... ♖e1. For some reasons, that's the version I find more pleasing to the eye.      Aug-21-18 Helmut Pfleger    cu8sfan: <Pyke> Same here. I have fond memories of watching him on TV talking chess. Remember, chess on TV?!      Aug-21-18 cu8sfan chessforum    cu8sfan: The travellers trotted on, and as the sun began to sink towards the White Downs far away on the western horizon they came to Bywater by its wide pool; and there they had their first really painful shock. This was Frodo and Sam’s own country, and they found out now that they cared ...      Aug-20-18 Sneaky chessforum    cu8sfan: <thegoodanarchist: <Sneaky: In the early days I remember Honza Cervenka, refutor, Knight13, GWGriffiths, pawntificator. Lots of people I can't recall, of course. If you cruise the first few hundred pages of the café you can see them. (Way back then, people actually discussed ...      Aug-20-18 Daniel Freeman    cu8sfan: O my... I was away for a while, sometimes lurking on the site but not posting very often. Then these last couple of weeks I was really away and when I come back I get hit with the news. I am very sad to hear of Daniel's passing. We have interacted a couple of times when I was more ...      Aug-13-18 Topalov vs So, 2016    cu8sfan: Is it just me or is this the second Monday in a row that was awfully hard?      Aug-06-18 K Rohonyan vs A L'Ami, 2008    cu8sfan: Wow, that was difficult, even for me!

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 25 OF 48 ·  Later Kibitzing> May-09-06    WannaBe: I see that Swiss Hockey Team has advanced to the second round. =) See, I do know how to sepll!! May-09-06    cu8sfan: <WannaBe> And guess, what, tomorrow Switzerland is playing against Sweden. Swaziland will win. May-09-06    pawn52: <cu8sfan> Long time no see buddy. How's it going? May-10-06    cu8sfan: <pawn52> Good to hear from you. Long time no see. I'm doing great. When are you ready for another game on gameknot? May-10-06    pawn52: <cu8sfan> Honestly don't know. It's possible I can get going on one, but finals are coming up, so it may not be worth my time for the time being. I'll let you know when I am capable of playing with no school interference ;) May-10-06    cu8sfan: Ah, finally! My forum will be busiest again! (-: May-10-06    WannaBe: <cu8sfan> Are you going to do the Biel predictions too? Men and Women? Generage more traffic to your forum? May-10-06    cu8sfan: <WannaBe> Having seen the lineup I definitely am going to include Biel to this years' cycle. Check out my post on the 38th Biel Chess Festival (2005) page. Naturally, Biel is one of my favorites. I wish I could play this year. May-11-06    cu8sfan: Switzerland - Sweden: 4-4!!! It may only be a tie but for Switzerland that's a win. (-: http://www.eurohockey.net/news/stor... May-11-06    capatal: http://www.rightmove06.org/index.ph... Here is Yasser Seirawan's Open Letter To All Federations ( a must read for us Chess lovers of all Nations! ) <Cu8sfan> May-11-06    YouRang: <Interesting prediction stat>: Nobody thinks that Bacrot can win with the white pieces against Anand. May-11-06    TechN9ne: gee im glad i had no idea this tournament began May-12-06    cu8sfan: <Appaz> According to my newer rules it's OK to join after any round. When I entered the predictions manually into my spreadsheet it was not OK to join after the third round. May-12-06    Open Defence: I missed the end of the Yankees v Red Sox game today .. anyone know what happened ? May-12-06    cu8sfan: <Open Defence> Red Sox won! http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscor... May-12-06    WannaBe: Re: BoSox vs NYankees, Matsui got hurt, will be out 3 month. Broken wrist. May-12-06    YouRang: <Individual highlights for round 2> BEST PREDICTORS (2 for 3): MrMojoRisin, Tassadar, yalie, YouRang(!) There were 17(!) people who went 0-for-3. (Note: largely because there were 12 people who predicted all draws -- of course all games were decided.) BIGGEST PAYOFF GAMES (fewest correct predictions): $8.75,Topalov-Anand[0-1] Predicted by: dimradil + MrMojoRisin + Tassadar + VishyFan $7.00,Kamsky-Bacrot[1-0] Predicted by: Joshka + radu stancu + VargPOD + yalie + YouRang May-13-06    like a GM: Congrats to <Joshka> and <suenteus po 147>! How did you "know" that? May-13-06    suenteus po 147: <like a GM> I figured out back at Corus that Kamsky had discerned some edge against Anand and would somehow exploit it this last round. I was lucky to be right. USA! USA! May-13-06    like a GM: <suenteus po 147: Kamsky had discerned some edge against Anand and would somehow exploit it this last round> So you can participate at our discussion Viswanathan Anand. May-14-06    cu8sfan: Apparently there was something wrong with the initial pairings. So please post predictions for today if you haven't done so already. If you have posted predictions for the whole tournament you don't have to do anything. <YouRang>'s contest manager will just take today's pairings from a later round and use the initial pairings for this round later on. The wrong pairings you posted today or yesterday will be taken for a later round. If you want to change them just post again for later rounds. Hope this is all clear. <YouRang> Please correct me if I'm mistaken. May-15-06    cu8sfan: <me to play: Umm...what happened? I have been away today and all the rd 4 results are different match-ups than the pairings on which I based my predictions !??> It's very unfortunate but someone noticed that the official page had switched the pairings from round 4 and 5. I'm very sorry if you were unable to repost your predictions. May-15-06    lostemperor: round 5 Topalov - Kamsky 1-0 Svidler - Anand 1/2 Ponomariov - Bacrot 1/2 May-15-06    cu8sfan: <lostemperor> Come on, I was just going to predict you'd predict exactly these results! (-; May-15-06    cu8sfan: Some stats you don't want to miss: • Only two players have scored 100% in a single round so far. Both did it in round 1. • Round two was the low point when more than 50% of us scored 0 points. • As a group we scored best in round 3 with a performance of 1.4/3 = 48%. • For the whole tournament we have a performance of 38%. This compares to 39% for Linares and 48% for Wijk. • Mass-Predictor, the guy who predicts what the majority predicts, has a score of 4. • The game with the most predictions for a white win was Anand-Kamsky. The game ended 0-1. • The game with the most predictions for a draw was Kamsky-Bacrot. The game ended 1-0. • The game with the most predictions for a black win was Bacrot-Topalov. The game ended 1/2-1/2. And to explain my last comment to <lostemperor>: I found out that he and <cromat> have made the same predictions for all rounds so far. However I do suspect that it's only a coincidence as there are some rounds where one was first to post and others where the other was first. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 48) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 25 OF 48 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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