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 30 OF 48 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jul-17-06    cu8sfan: <buscher07> OK, you're on the list. Jul-17-06    buscher07: Cool, thanks. Have a good day. :) Jul-22-06    cu8sfan: -----♔----- Announcement -----♕----- Biel International Chess Festival will start on Monday, 24-Jul at 1200 UTC. The cu8sfan prediction contest will be held for both the grandmaster tournament and the ladies tournament. Both tournaments are round robin events with 6 participants each: GM tournament: Alexander Morozevich, Teimour Radjabov, Magnus Carlsen, Lazaro Bruzon, Andrei Volokitin, Yannick Pelletier. Ladies tournament: Pia Cramling, Yelena Dembo, Monika Socko, Anna Muzychuk, Almira Skripchenko-Lautier, Ekaterina Polovnikova-Atalik. I must ask all participants to participate in both events, not just one. Also, please post the predictions for each tournament in one block. You can do it in the same post, but please don't mix the tournaments. Good luck to y'all and thanks for participating! Jul-22-06    cu8sfan: Addendum: In the prediction trophy, Biel will count as one tournament. Points of both contest will be added up and evaluated as one. Jul-22-06    YouRang: <percyblakeney: For Pelletier's sake I hope <YouRang> won't be too correct in his predictions :-)> LOL - I was a bit hard on Pelletier, wasn't I? :-o Jul-22-06    percyblakeney: <I was a bit hard on Pelletier, wasn't I?> At least compared to <NakoSonorense> with his +0 -8 =2 :-) Jul-24-06    cu8sfan: Again: The cu8sfan prediction contest will be held for BOTH the grandmaster tournament and the ladies tournament. I must ask all participants to participate in both events, not just one. Also, please post the predictions for each tournament in one block. You can do it in the same post, but please don't mix the tournaments. In the prediction trophy, Biel will count as one tournament. Points of both contest will be added up and evaluated as one. Good luck to y'all and thanks for participating! Jul-26-06    lostemperor: <cu8sfan> I don't hope your internet broke down because of the heatwave. Jul-26-06    cu8sfan: <lostemperor> Some problem with our provider's backbone. I don't know the cause. It's working again. The heatwave, yes, I love summer but a cooling thunderstorm now and then wouldn't be too much to ask, would it. How's the situation at your place? Netherland it is, right? Here all the vegetables are dying and they have to move the fish 'cus the water's getting too hot. I usually prefer heat over cold, but when you're cold you put on more clothes and run around the house a couple of times. When it's hot, you just bear the heat and move like a tortoise. Jul-26-06    lostemperor: The Netherlands is 34 celcius today. But with it's "sea climate" it's relative cool in comparison to the rest of Europe's continent and the USA. Besides I live near the sea (Scheveningen!) where there is a gentle breeze of 30 degrees :P Jul-26-06    EmperorAtahualpa: <cu8sfan> Hey there! Nice to see you're running another competition. Have you attended the Biel Festival already? I believe you were planning on visiting this year. Jul-27-06    cu8sfan: <Have you attended the Biel Festival already? I believe you were planning on visiting this year.> I'll visit this Sunday. I'd have loved to participate as I did last year but it was impossible due to private circumstances. Jul-27-06    Sneaky: Hey cubs, cg has Swiss flags on the homepage now, did you see? Do you salute every time you come to chessgames now? :D Jul-27-06    cu8sfan: <Hey cubs, cg has Swiss flags on the homepage now, did you see? Do you salute every time you come to chessgames now?> I love it! I was so surprised when I first saw it. Thanks, cg.com. Jul-31-06    WannaBe: I've done so badly in the last 2 (or is it 3?) prediction contests (I think RANDOM beat me once...) I've decided to sit out the Biel and Dortmund. I did post my tournament final standing in <lostemperor> forum. Maybe I'll give it another go at the next tournament. Jul-31-06    chessmoron: <cu8sfan> Cubs got rid of Greg Maddux for Cesar Izturis from the Dodgers just today. Are they crazy? Jul-31-06    YouRang: It's hard to say, but it might be a good deal for the Cubs: Trade the aging star while he still has some value, and in return get a good player who will contribute for a long time to come. Perhaps Cubs have timed this trade just right. (Of course, if it turns out that Maddux still has a couple good years left, it would be a win for the Dodgers.) Aug-01-06    cu8sfan: <chessmoron> I agree with <YouRang>. The season is over anyway. Seems like the spell of the Red and White Sox hasn't been passed on to the Cubs. Aug-01-06    larrewl: <cu8sfan> I would not call your predictions disasterous. You're only one point from first place. Aug-01-06    cu8sfan: <I would not call your predictions disasterous. You're only one point from first place.> Yes, but I did it with prediction almost all of the ladies pairings right. I scored about 6 points in the master tournament. That's why I only changed those predictions. Aug-02-06    chessmoron: ♔ Alexander Morozevich ♔ is the new Biel Champion of 2006. (no matter what's the outcome of tomorrow) Aug-02-06    Robin01: <Alexander Morozevich is the new Biel Champion of 2006.> Yes, and he deserves it. 7 wins and 2 loses with NO DRAWS! Aug-04-06    cu8sfan: And we have a winner!!! Congratulations to <TIMER> for winning the Biel prediction contest with a score of 30 which is exactly 50% of all games played. We have two sub-winners who (unfortunately) will not get any extra points for this: <suenteus po 147> won the GM tournament prediction contest with 16/30 (53.3%) and I, <cu8sfan> won the ladies tournament with 18/30 (60.0%). I will post the overall standings, some statistics and trivia bits on the weekend. Thank you all for participating! <UserID: Score /Rounds /Score/Round> TIMER: 30 /10 /3.00 cromat: 29 /10 /2.90 iron maiden: 29 /10 /2.90 percyblakeney: 29 /10 /2.90 suenteus po 147: 29 /10 /2.90 DRAWER: 28 /10 /2.80 larrewl: 28 /10 /2.80 YouRang: 28 /10 /2.80 cu8sfan: 27 /10 /2.70 TechN9ne: 25 /9 /2.78 chessmoron: 25 /10 /2.50 Legend: 25 /10 /2.50 Montreal1666: 25 /10 /2.50 Robin01: 25 /10 /2.50 810609: 24 /10 /2.40 yalie: 23 /9 /2.56 ahmadov: 23 /10 /2.30 lostemperor: 23 /10 /2.30 sire: 21 /7 /3.00 Tassadar: 21 /10 /2.10 NakoSonorense: 20 /10 /2.00 RANDOM: 20 /10 /2.00 WHITER: 19 /10 /1.90 Jafar219: 18 /8.5 /2.12 BishopofBlunder: 13 /5 /2.60 BLACKER: 13 /10 /1.30 Bobak Zahmat: 8 /3.5 /2.29 Aug-04-06    YouRang: Rats - a poor showing in the final 2 rounds to blow another contest. The story of my life. :-( Congratulations <TIMER>. :-) I see that <cromat> also did very well. He has been doing very well in the Dortmund contest also. Thanks for running the Biel contest, <cu8sfan>. Aug-04-06    Robin01: <cu8sfan> Thanks for doing the prediction contest. <TIMER> Congrats to winning. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 48) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 30 OF 48 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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