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Jun-30-10
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| Jun-30-10 | | crawfb5: Duchamp played for France in the 1928, 1930, 1931, and 1933 Olympiads, the last three of those with Alekhine on Board 1. He scored best in the 1928 event, even though this loss was <not> one of his finer moments: [Event "2nd olm final"]
[Site "The Hague NED"]
[Date "1928.08.03"]
[Round "16"]
[White "Mueller, Hans AUT"]
[Black "Duchamp, Marcel FRA"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A28"]
[EventDate "1928.07.23"]
[PlyCount "19"]
1.c4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Bb4 6.Bg5 h6 7.Bh4 Ne4 8.Bxd8 Nxc3 9.Nxc6 Nxd1+ 10.Nxb4
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Jul-03-10
 | | Domdaniel: I seem to have missed that tournament that I was talking about playing in. Oh well. There's always the next one. Like next weekend, which I'm almost certain to skip as well. Hmm. I appear to be giving up chess, gradually but inexorably. The siren call of other stuff, and all that ... Meanwhile, a 24-month double-blind study (with adjustments for the poetry of scoresheets and the narrative structure of opening analysis) produced concrete evidence that I'm not here. Oops, wrong study. No, I meant the one that shows how I get less writing done while playing chess. Something's gotta give... I expect to vanish in much the way I arrived, gradually, bit by bit like a Cheshire Cat. Until, finally, a grin without a cha. |
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| Jul-07-10 | | coffeebean: eating the right amount of proper food is the goal of intelligence, counting calories is a healty-worthy exercise. |
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Jul-07-10
| | Domdaniel: coffeebean, old pal, you've left the same cryptic message in several other places. If you *ever* go on a spamblitz again, check your spelling first. Anyway, counting calories is a waste of numeracy. |
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| Jul-08-10 | | mack: If there are three words I'd use to describe myself, it's 'innumerate'. |
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| Jul-08-10 | | dakgootje: At least you still correctly use the singular for yourself :) |
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Jul-09-10
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> very happy to see you're not only ok but up and full of beans! But not <coffeebeans> it seems. I had to give him a good slapping at my gaffe as well, though I'm not against Spam per se. How could I be? I do it all the time.
Anyhoo thanks for that substantive and interesting post on Duchamp and chess. Did you watch the documentary I posted?
Well worth a look and they might take it down again so try to see it if you get a chance. Poor Marcel- all his games at our site are losses- though he was ranked 85th best player in the world by JEFF SONAS CHESSMETRICS so there has to be some wins somewhere. But this won't be the same as my other chess videos.
I'm going to try to explore the relationship between chess aesthetics and actually winning games- and I'll try to explore the notion that chess obsession will render your life useless. Art, obsession, chess, fame--
This is what I want to explore in Duchamp's chess career, and his life. I have slowed down production now that I actually care if the stuff I put in the videos is true or not. Pillsbury is next. Chaoursek will debut next week.
The Catcher is in the Rye. |
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| Jul-09-10 | | crawfb5: <Poor Marcel- all his games at our site are losses- though he was ranked 85th best player in the world by JEFF SONAS CHESSMETRICS so there has to be some wins somewhere.> Um, Jess...Duchamp's games here are +8 -19 =7.
This was the only Duchamp win from the Olympiad site I could find. [Event "5th olm final"]
[Site "Folkestone GBR"]
[Date "1933.06.15"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Duchamp, Marcel FRA"]
[Black "Feigins, Movsas LAT"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E81"]
[EventDate "1933.06.12"]
[PlyCount "67"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 g6 4.e4 Bg7 5.f3 0-0 6.Nge2 Nbd7 7.Be3 c6 8.Qd2 a6 9.g4 b5 10.Ng3 bxc4
11.Bxc4 d5 12.Be2 e6 13.e5 Ne8 14.b4 Qe7 15.Rb1 Nb6 16.0-0 Nc7 17.a4 Rb8 18.Rfc1 Bd7 19.a5 Nc8
20.Na4 Nb5 21.Nc5 Ra8 22.Bxb5 cxb5 23.f4 Bh6 24.g5 Bg7 25.Kg2 Rd8 26.h4 Be8 27.h5 Qc7 28.hxg6 hxg6
29.Rh1 Ne7 30.Rh3 Nf5 31.Nxf5 exf5 32.Rbh1 Bd7 33.Rh7 Bc8 34.Qe1
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Jul-09-10
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Big> lol yes I know I *did* actually look at our set. I was employing hyperbole.
Thanks so much for posting the Olympiad win here!
I'm putting it straight in to my (now organized) dossier system. Did you know you can make "folders" on your computer? Who knew?
At any rate thanks for all your support this year on the Chess History projects- not only on helping with the videos but also for the material help with Mrs. Alekhine and Russian Grandmasters. They are paid up for two years and probably I'll buy lifetime memberships for them even if they only get two visits each year. I'm in this for the long haul.
"Chess is a school of silence"
--Duchamp
"Chess is best enjoyed slowly, very slowly"
--Me
On that topic, have you heard of the new "Slow Reading" movement? I just read about it in Newsweek today so that means it's probably been well known for at least three years already. And again- the Papal Bull on the Doughboy is more than enough, along with the other sources and snippets I collected, to construct a reasonably accurate Pillsbury film. I really can't thank you enough for going to all that trouble to send it all to me- a story full of intrigue and ingenuity, in which you single handedly repaired old equipment and brought it to life- much like Tesla, or Victor Frankenstein. |
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| Jul-09-10 | | crawfb5: Here's one of Duchamp's CC wins:
[Event "IFSB EU-OL prel-C bd3"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1935.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Boas, J. (NED)"]
[Black "Duchamp, Marcel (FRA)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B74"]
[EventDate "1935.??.??"]
[Annotator "Duchamp FS 1937 p94"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[EventType "team (corr)"]
[Source "Chess Mail Ltd"]
[SourceDate "2008.09.12"]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be2 g6 7.Be3 Bg7 8.O-O O-O 9.Nb3 Be6 10.f4 Na5 11.Nxa5 Qxa5 12.Bf3 Bc4 13.Rf2 Rfd8 14.Rd2 Ne8 15.Ne2 e5 16.c3 Bh6 17.g3 d5 18.exd5 Nd6 19.b3 e4 20.Bg4 Bd3 21.Nc1 Ba6 22.c4 Bg7 23.Rb1 Qc3 24.Bd4 Bxd4+ 25.Rxd4 b5 26.c5 Qxc5 27.b4 Qb6 28.Nb3 h5 29.Bh3 Bc8 30.Bxc8 Rdxc8 31.Kh1 e3 32.g4 hxg4 33.Qxg4 Nf5 34.Re4 Re8 35.Re5 Qf6 36.Qg5 Qxg5 37.Rxe8+ Rxe8 38.fxg5 Re5 39.Rd1 Nh4 40.Nc1 e2 41.Re1 Rxd5 42.Nxe2 Re5 43.a3 Kf8 44.h3 Ke7 0-1 Btw, I thought of another team game -- <Hell 'n Geller>. I guess this means I must be waking up... |
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| Jul-09-10 | | chop suey chow mein: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/755 |
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Jul-09-10
| | Domdaniel: Oh chop, chop. Mein chow or yours? |
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Jul-09-10
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> what's the low down on these mysterious people with no avatars who drop these mysterious things in TOAD HALL? At least the TED lecture series is top rate I've seen a bunch of them. |
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Jul-11-10
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Beats me. Of course, since they have no avatars, they're liable to be detained by the Frogspawn secret police - the Op Cops, in artistic terms. |
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Jul-11-10
 | | OhioChessFan: Avatars? We don't need no stinking avatars. |
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| Jul-12-10 | | mack: '20th Century Fox Aggressively Rejects James Cameron Sequel' |
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| Jul-13-10 | | cormier: <1> 2 glass of water before a meal; or 2 fruits followed with juices(because of the sugar absorbtion). <2> fruits 2 or 3(acid one first in the day). <3> proteins(meat, <fishes salmon sardines, wallnuts(containing omeca3)>, not to much cheese or bacon(it's too fat). <4> vedgetables <5> potatoes brown rices, whole wheats pasta +whole wheat bread if really needed tea or water ... , .... if i can't eat <1,2,3,4,5>. i try <1&2, 2&3, 3&4, 4&5>. <if i cannot do otherwise i eat 12345 all-together> ..... tks ps it's about it, good succes this is syn-energetic way of feasting and get a healtier body ..... tks |
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Jul-14-10
| | Domdaniel: Nah. Feast on yeast.
There once was a pious young priest
Who lived almost wholly on yeast
He said "It is plain
We must all rise again
And I want to get started at least." |
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Jul-16-10
| | Domdaniel: The new Irish champion is Alex Lopez, to whom I've lost three times in the past few years. The 2nd of them was a real what-might-have-been situation -- I saw what looked like a winning line for me, but refused to believe it and played a 'safe' move instead. The 'safe' move eventually got me to a pawn ending which I lost by a tempo - the 'unsafe' line would have nabbed a piece and got away with it. So it goes. In the game after that we were playing for last-round prize money, and he ripped me to shreds. There's a nice story from the championship, which puts all those recent silly FIDE rules about time defaults back in their box. In round 8, Alex was leading the tournament but by no means certain of victory. His opponent, Redmond, seemingly misread the start time for the round and arrived an hour late. He could have been defaulted - a free point for Lopez and near-certain tournament victory - but Alex sportingly agreed to play the game anyway. He then won in 19 moves as Black. The sporting gesture and the style of a real champion. I've submitted the game to CG, but here it is anyway: [Event "IRL ch"]
[Site "Dublin"]
[Date "2010.07.10"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Redmond, John"]
[Black "Astaneh Lopez, Alex"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A11"]
[WhiteElo "2205"]
[BlackElo "2367"]
[Annotator "g"]
[EventDate "2010.07.03"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
1.c4 c6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 d5 4.e3 e6 5.b3 Bd6 6.Bb2 O-O 7.Qc2 Re8 8.Be2 a6 9.g4 e5 10.g5 d4 11.gxf6 dxc3 12.Bxc3 Qxf6 13.Rg1 Bf5 14.Qb2 c5 15.O-O-O Nc6 16.Rg2 Nd4! 17.exd4 exd4 18.Nxd4 cxd4 19.Bxd4 Qxd4! 0-1 [20.Qxd4 Ba3+ is nasty ...] |
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| Jul-18-10 | | turtle turtle ye ye: Warning warning <<chocolate buble in action>> chocolate chocolate ye ye ye, chocolate chocolate ye ye ye, oh, i love turtles |
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Jul-18-10
| | OhioChessFan: Chocolate bubles, bagels, hear how they jing, jinga-linga Chocolate bubles, bagels, sweet jelly beans
Rainbow Sprinkles, spangles, your tongue will sing, singa-linga Eatin' chocolate bubles, bagels and jelly beans |
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Jul-18-10
| | OhioChessFan: Got to let Frank sing it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KX0... |
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Jul-19-10
| | jessicafischerqueen: lol
Ke4!
heh
Now that's out of the way, thanks <Dom>= I was usefully distracted by trying to decipher your kind message at my gaff whilst blocked up on heavy antibiotics. The only reference I'm sure of is to Patrick Stewart. <20.Qxd4 Ba3+> is indeed nasty= picks up a free bishop right off the bat and I was able to convert this position against my Shredder. Your Irish King really did have a great position after that tactical wizardry- You see it's touch and go usually whether I can convert from a middle game against Shredder even at piece odds. But in that game it's not just the material- The King had all the positional trumps as well, and that endgame virtually "plays itself". I hope all is well with you.
The Pillsbury Doughboy and Marcel Duchamp beckon to my mind now. Thanks to <Annie> I just now discovered at this late age that I've been misusing the verb "beckon" all my life. You really have to put that "to" in, I think, in almost all cases. On that topic, I thought David Beckon was washed up 10 years ago. Bloody showoff.
Give me Wayne "caveman" Rooney any day.
Bloody poms don't know real sport anyway.
Irish hurling with full stick contact- a man's game. |
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Jul-19-10
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> - <Irish hurling with full stick contact- a man's game.>
Up to the point the stick makes contact, it's a man's game. But some have been unmanned by it. BTW, I reckon that everyone has a verb which they misuse. I misuse 'misuse'. Also 'promise' and 'to be'.
I think it's OK to say "X beckons" (ie, metaphorically makes a gesture which says 'come to me, little one'). But if one is literally beckoning, then a 'to' should be added. The dictionary beckons. Why does it insist on addressing me as 'little one'? Anyhow, I trust you got well? I don't issue commands often but it looked like to be an emergency. |
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