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Hi, welcome, come on in, thank you for, urgh, *sharing*. Hideous word, but the concept is tolerable.

<...Mothers aren't anything so dangerous as countries and deserve a modicum of support..."My mother,drunk or sober." seems rather an enlightened attitude to me. And certainly a vast improvement on "Let's shove the old bat into rehab and divvy up the spoils".

That way lies Jacobean tragedy.

And anyway ... if a chunk of turf is a motherland, who's the father? And how was the deed done?>

"The mythological origins of Maori society are laid out in three major myth cycles, beginning with the creation myth of Ranginui, the sky father, and Papatuanuku, the earth mother.

The central characters in the myths are gods, their progeny and their human descendants. The stories are narrated in prose form, with the notion of an evolutionary sequence conveyed by the storyteller linking the main characters through the traditional method of genealogical recital. Inherent in the genealogy of earth and sky, the gods and their human descendants is the notion of evolution and progression.

Ranginui and Papatuanuku prevented light from reaching the world because of their close embrace, and their offspring lived in a world of darkness and ignorance between the bodies of their parents. And they plotted against their parents in order to let light into the world."

- Walker, Ranginui, Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou:
Struggle Without End, Penguin, Auckland, 1990.

The echt-pakeha name Walker - as in the Phantom, the ghost who walks - almost seems appropriate.

Though Black has the option of declining the gambit with 2...e5 and transposing to a Latvian. This only happened to me once, and I won quickly - despite knowing zero about 1.e4 e5 openings in general, and misremembering some analysis by Nimzo.

(1) was the first frog, or proto-frog. Or maybe the first *pair* of frogs (it takes two to spawn). Or the God of Frogs, hippity-ribbit be Her Holy Name. As for this place, why it's just a perfectly normal chessforum like what everyone has.

(2) wasn't me. Well it was, but I was led astray, yer honor. There wuz 12 or 13 others involved, and anyway what harm was done? OK. I plead 1/13th guilty.

It's a bit dubious - Carlsen's style is still evolving, but is generally more Fischer-like: classically forceful, well able to attack but also to grind out endings - whatever is required, really. Also, he'd probably eat Nimzo for breakfast.

But this game has a strange Nimzoesque beauty -- apart from being a black win in the Queen's Indian, one of the Master's favorites. The concept behind Qd8-e7-f8 is incredible -- black sticks his queen out of play on f8, where its only use seems to be some restraint down the f8/a3 diagonal and some propping up of the kingside. It encourages white to play Nf5, leaving the black Q with no moves. Then white plays the tempting Qb6, and everything collapses -- with ...h5 and ...g6 and the black queen emerging on h6 with a mating attack. Seriously deep.

I actually opened my forum purely to act as an analysis forum in the GMAN game. Which it was, for a while, until that game ended and a new direction was needed.

I'm sure *some* people would, such as those who partake of normality (normalcy?) themselves.

But, <Red>, seriously ... you don't imagine that this includes either you or me, do you?

If <mack> was around we could all do a chorus of the Bonzos' song <We Are Normal>:

- Garry Kasparov, How Life Imitates Chess

Well, your daughter, bless her chess-playing little heart, sounds normal.

http://www.xanga.com/laMONDEdafrique/587504979/item.html...

Funny, though -- his openings are excellent. I'm either a fan of, or have trouble playing against, Tarrasch lines like 3.Nd2 in the French or ...c5 against the Queen's Gambit.

It's the Doktor's middlegames that put me to sleep.

Anyone even *thinking* of pointing me towards his sacrificial demolition of Nimzo should note that every Dogmatix has his Day, and that was Siggy's. Bow bleedin' wow.

While we're on the topic of channeling, why not <Ghost of Gufeld> or <Karpovian Karma>? I bet the next wave of engines will have a menu of GMs they can emulate. Suttles might be a problem.

They have <Tal, Reshevsky, Anand, Fischer> etc.

You should ask <Niels> if the programs correspond in reality to the playing styles, as he has done a fair bit of sparring with "them."

I still can't beat a <Java Lokasoft Program set at 1 ply and 1 second forced move>, so I can't offer an opinion myself.

By the way, what do you call a tasty dish of <Blanched Frog>?

FROGWAN!!!

Get it?

HAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAH

(also, I'm no longer collecting or spamming pages in my forum, so soon you will have the biggest "personal thread."

also, you better stop mentioning "Frogspawn" as if you created it... although you did of course.

Just remember that you gave this place it's title because of a recollection you had that was prompted by me unexpectedly referring to the French army as "The Frog."

the only part of FROGSPAWN GENESIS (heh- that's redundant) I wish to take credit for is the racist part that jogged your memory of a friend I believe?

You had bandied about the title before, I think.

and frogs are <bandy legged> as well.

Coincidence?

Hardly.

Finally, check out <Henge's> forum.

He has two links to a special secret website that regards the number <11- 11> to be mystical and powerful etc,

I didn't believe it myself until I realized that 11 + 11 is 22, and then if you add the <eponymous digit- viz- 1> THEN YOU GET THE NUMBRER 23!!!

Ok then.