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Jan-02-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: acirce: <Eyal>, <Domdaniel> You now lead 2-0 in the voting.
Don't forget to vote for youself! This is not a time for modesty. The used to be free world is at the stake. |
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Jan-02-11
 | | Domdaniel: <Jess> Voting for oneself is like ... furniture. It's alright with *castors*.
A-and (sofa so good) *ballot stuffing* ... hey, I could get into this. A hanging chad for the billiards and dead fish room, Madam? Oh yes, all the better class of mansions have a dead fish room. Some are just a bit of a cod, true, but I say pollocks to them. Er, how did I get onto fish? |
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Jan-02-11
| | Domdaniel: <two reasons why 'my' candidates never win anything> 1. Oh, was the election today?
2. Sigh. |
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Jan-02-11
 | | Annie K.: <No doubt some tedious person will disagree> Heh... a lovely application of a priori ad hominem. ;p |
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| Jan-02-11 | | izimbra: <<courtier immobilier> is the modern French term for a mortgage lender.> One can see the logic of dividing material possessions into the categories of the mobile and the immobile. But in these days of economic news filled with stories of bad mortgages leading to financial ruin, and people who can't move because of being "upside down" on their mortgage, this service has extra connotations. |
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Jan-02-11
| | Domdaniel: Yeah, neat trick, innit? Learned it off a Prior I 'ad. Hominem? Nah, I don't think he was... |
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Jan-02-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: On that topic-
Is the Vicar hard to please?
"You're telling me!"
--Peter Gabriel |
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Jan-02-11
| | Domdaniel: < people who can't move>
The Frozen Chosen?
Or just Stuck Inside of Mobile ...? |
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Jan-02-11
| | Annie K.: OK, not just the French... ;)
wheee
[Event "FICS rated blitz game"]
[Date "2011.01.03"]
[White "AnnieK"]
[Black "NN"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nge7 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. d3 Be7 7. Qh5
Bxg5 8. Bxg5 Nce7 9. Qh4 Be6 10. O-O Qd7 11. Bb3 O-O 12. c3 Rae8 13. Qg3
Nf5 14. Qf3 Nf4 15. Bc2 Bd5 16. Qg4 Bxg2 17. Re1 Bc6 18. Bxf4 exf4 19. Rxe8 Rxe8 20. Nd2 Qd5 21. Ne4 Nh6 22. Qxf4 Re5 23. Kf1 Rf5 24. Qg3 Qe5 25. Re1 Qd5 26. Bb3 Qa5 27. Re3 Bd5 28. Nf6+ Kf8 29. Nd7+ Kg8 30. Re8# |
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Jan-03-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Its use by divers GMs notwithstanding, 1...e5 is a grotesque blunder, opening up those 'diagonals' for subsequent 'penetration'. As for 3...Nge7, what on Earth is that? The One-and-a-half Knights Defence? Mate in 30 is too good for it. Your 4.Ng5 is good, of course, but it lets Black transpose into an inferior line of the Two Knights, after 5...Nxd5 -- when 6.Nxf7 (Fegatello aka Fried Liver Attack) and 6.d4 (less adventurous but probably even stronger) are the best continuations. Your 6.d3, I'm afraid, just doesn't sufficiently *punish* Black's transgressions. I also like the immediate 4.d4. But these positions can be crazy. I once lost a won game against a strong player because I wasted a tempo *castling* instead of finishing him off by brute force. Ironically, one of the lines that can be reached via transposition is called the Fritz Variation -- after the Austrian master, not the silicon octopus. And even with the latter's help, I don't seem to be able to refute Black's opening as completely as I feel it should be. |
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| Jan-03-11 | | crawfb5: In digging around in the 1957 <Chess Life>, I ran across this: <YOU ASKED ME FOR A POEM
by A.E. Santasiere
All you ask
is a poem,
a dream of other worlds
and other days,
neither the loneliness
of an isolated pawn
nor the never-satiety
of a whore.
a light so far away,
so beckoning gently,
so dear and sweet and true.
You want only
a poem.
All you ask
is just a poem,
a spirit bold and warmly soaring --
not the cancer of ennui,
nor the fear of doubled rooks,
nor the surfeit of mountaining dominions,
nor the hunger for divorce --
but a God,
a flashing stroke of Grace,
a call to Duty,
a warm embrace,
a light reflected
on lovely crystal,
a haunting memorial musical --
not bliss
but disaster surmounted Heroically --
'tis that you want and need --
a poem.>
What can I say? Serendipity is a major factor in my so-called life... |
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| Jan-03-11 | | mack: Afternoon all. Happy new year. I just wanted to apologise for the fact that I've as yet failed to reply to recent personal correspondence from most of you here. Been a hectic few days. Twenty eleven has been torrid thus far; I got food poisoning from some dodgy mussels on NYE and spent half the night puking. When I woke up a 45 minute walk from home on 1 January I found that my front door key had mysteriously disappeared. As such I didn't get back until midnight. Spent the day sat in the bar where the cocktails are. I need a drink or 14983.
Incidentally, I was rather hoping you might crack my cryptic BPA details and that there would be a Cork encoding on my doormat when I returned to London... |
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Jan-03-11
| | Domdaniel: <crawf> Theriomorphic, that is. Rather daring, too, for a 1950s chess magazine, I would've thought. |
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Jan-03-11
| | Domdaniel: Divers GMs:
Deep Sengupta
and IMs:
Russell John Dive
and silicon entities:
Deep Thought (Computer)
Deep Blue (Computer)
and others:
Ilya Frog |
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Jan-03-11
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Code, yet? I have the artefact in question beside me and I don't see no effin' codes. Maybe it's my 'difficulty' with handwriting. |
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Jan-03-11
| | Domdaniel: I note Santasiere's <never-satiety of a whore> and his <hunger for divorce> and I wonder, idly, which came first. Sex and marriage being such curiously fraught subjects in America. |
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Jan-03-11
| | Domdaniel: <old zines> I have, somewhere, in principle, a copy of Chess (UK) magazine from the early 1980s -- 40+ years into BH Wood's heroic stint as publisher-editor, when the old boy was starting to lose his touch, and shortly before Robert 'Satan is a Fat Man' Maxwell took over ... It shows a full-page colour photo of a dark-skinned naked lady, caressing a human-sized chess piece. As I recall, it was the *innocence* with which sexist - and indeed racist - tropes were snuck into a normally bland publication which caused the mind to boggle. On both cylinders. |
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| Jan-03-11 | | mack: <<mack> Code, yet? I have the artefact in question beside me and I don't see no effin' codes. Maybe it's my 'difficulty' with handwriting.> I was referring to this little exchange during the last Carlsen/Adams encounter: <Domdaniel: G'day <mack>. BPA arrive OK, then? I forgot to ask you to include a RBPA, or even a BRPA. As the case may be.<Dom> Here's a challenge then. My BPA: I live at a palindromic Sophie Germain prime on a road which is named after the birthplace of someone who released four self-titled albums in the years 1977-1982. Think that's all you need, right?> > |
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Jan-03-11
| | Domdaniel: <mack> It certainly narrows it down. Gabriel Close, Walker Boulevard, or Pollard Fen, is the prob. Well, not *reely*. I know Scott's four self-titles were pre-'77. And it's not Zeppelin Avenue ... |
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Jan-03-11
 | | OhioChessFan: <I got food poisoning from some dodgy mussels on NYE and spent half the night puking.> I'll take the food poisoning but hold the mussels. |
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Jan-03-11
| | Domdaniel: <Ohio> I'm sure <mack> will be only too pleased to pass it over. Seconds, anyone? Tea? Shall I be Mother? Who's for tripe, then? |
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Jan-03-11
| | Annie K.: <Dom: <Your 4.Ng5 is good, of course, but it lets Black transpose into an inferior line of the Two Knights, after 5...Nxd5 -- when 6.Nxf7 (Fegatello aka Fried Liver Attack) and 6.d4 (less adventurous but probably even stronger) are the best continuations. Your 6.d3, I'm afraid, just doesn't sufficiently *punish* Black's transgressions.>> Heh. Thanks - I used to play the Fegatello, a lot, some years back. But not recently, as I pretty much stopped playing 4.Ng5 in the Two Knights mainline since I started playing the Ulvestad <against> it. ;) So I wasn't sure I remembered the ropes anymore (although I couldn't resist 4.Ng5...), ;p and thought I'd try something less sharp, because I was getting tired. :) Glad to hear Fritz didn't immediately point out a complete bust from that position. Hey <mack>! :) Glad to hear you at least <got> mails, anyway - I was wondering if you have given up your account altogether. Good news, though, <Dom> seems to be showing some promising progress on the "answering emails" front. =) Although I'm waiting for an answer at the moment... ;) |
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Jan-03-11
| | Domdaniel: For reasons that will be clear to my listeners, where great matters of state are concerned we deny the vote to children, lunatics, poor people, and women. In this manner do we ... Eh? Do they? Did I? Ah, yes, I see. Got my notes jumbled up - that was the intro to one of my classic orations from the 19th century. Turned Lincoln and Disraeli puce with envy, it did, back in the day. I'm sure I have the 21st century versions here somewhere. Ah, yes, here we go. Ahem. Take two. When important stuff is going down, we don't let fetuses, terroristic criminals and space aliens into the polling booth. And there may well be good reasons for this. But, as a little space alien fetus was saying to me recently at a concentration camp in my constituency, there are times ... |
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Jan-03-11
| | Annie K.: Heh. Oh, and I'll be glad to discuss the voting issue or non-issue of the day shortly, I think - lemme just settle down for the evening and play a couple of blitz games on the side... ;) |
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Jan-03-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> seriously do you think something "ought to be done" about the BW bloc voting? Even if you did think that- and I don't want to put words in your mouth, since you are expert at employing irony as a "distancing" mechanism- what on earth *could* be done? Given the current status of this website, and the way the (unofficial!) Caissars are organized, I can't imagine any kind of "action" or even "group advocacy" that would have the slightest possible effect of ameliorating the "BW bloc's" potential power here. CG.com isn't monocultural.
Or agricultural!
I wonder if another big war will happen now.
I'm going on record here- I predict...
No war!
After the BW bloc sweeps every single category, any foofaraw will blow over in a decade or two. Pretty sure.
At least you will get your award again this year for best writing. How many times is that now? Four? Five?
Possibly <MannBee> could add a separate category "Best non-English writing," if necessary, for next year's debacle. |
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