The final position creates a strong impression -- black is quite lost despite the fact that four (!!) white pieces are en prise.

I used to play the English and Mikenas-Carls a lot -- I once managed to steamroll a 2200 guy in a similar way, winning in 18 moves after he made a small mistake in the opening. But I've lost the score of the game, and it wasn't as neat as yours anyhow.

My IQ: 126

3. Audition>

This reminds me of a movie that scared the dickens out of me (no, not a Christmas Carol) when I was a young lad. It was called "The Night Walker" and starred Barbara Stanwyck as a woman whose blind husband dies in an explosion in his science lab (located in their home). She begins having these strange, very realistic, dreams in which the dead husband, with a badly burned face and the pale white eyes of a blind man, shows up occasionally. The tapping of his cane just sent shivers down my spine.

Haven't seen it in years. It probably wouldn't hold up. The musical score was pretty creepy as well. Funny how I can still hear it in my head.

Just checked IMDB. It's directed be the great William Castle, one of my favorite directors. It was released in 1964 (no, I'm not quite old enough to have seen the first run). I caught it later (much) on the late, late, show. Unfortunately, it's apparently not available on DVD. Too bad. A great director, excellent cast, and creepy score and script. What else could one want?

Sometimes I don't see too straight, but I believe I have it right with you now.

Interesting selection you were considering in your forum for your <Kurtz game> project, and some typically challenging comments from <Eyal> as well.

I don't think your project is superfluous, by the way.

Have you downloaded one of those giant databases, by any chance?

As both of us know, the <Chessmaster> database is woefully out of date.

Plus, though the database here is great, there are of course way bigger ones.

If you have a huger database, would you mind telling me how to get one too?

I hope I didn't annoy you by making puns out of the names of all of the wonderful material you sent me!

I have read your section on the <picaresque> as I said, and the first two segments of <Pascal's Wager>.

I was going to read the <Ellin> last night but I was totally exhausted.

I shall email you soon with <responda> (heh) and I have a buncha questions I wanna ask you as well.

Heh. Pretty funny stuff there.

<doctor>, don't go by "IQ" tests.

First, the "raw score" doesn't mean anything. It is merely the expression of a percentile for a given specific test.

There are scads of IQ tests, many have different median raw scores.

Example- Stanford Binet test uses 100 as median. Meaning, if you score in the 50 Percentile, your "raw IQ" is 100.

But Wexler Adult Intelligence Scale uses 110, I believe, as the median.

So if you score 50 Percentile then your raw score is 110.

This is why just quoting raw scores is meaningless.

And more.

There have been scads of academic studies that attempt to find a correlation between IQ scores on various tests and other factors, like how much money a person makes later etc.

Only one correlation has been found so far.

High IQ percentiles scored before entry to University correlate to higher grades achieved at University.

But even this can't tell us much about actual "intelligence."

For example, what if a person enjoys writing tests? They may be likely to score higher percentiles on IQ tests.

And what better personality trait for University grades? Liking tests!

Check out <Multiple Intelligences> theory (GOOGLE it) for a much better IMO method for actually understanding what human "intelligence" might be, and how it might manifest itself.

I have a high <BBQ>. My big brother taught me how to grill deer, moose, bear, and cougar (not a joke) to perfection.

(He is a hunter, and the bear and cougar he shot and we ate are now <rugs> in his trailer by the river (also not a joke).

I just saw the Game result in your forum, and was of course THRILLED at the result. Plus, it looks like I missed the <game of the century> by my favorite player.

When I play the <black pieces> in particular, I try to use as unusual an opening as possible in order to (hopefully) gain a psychological advantage over my opponent.

Plus, I generally like to go "out of book" as early as possible so that I can try to steer the game into an open tactical struggle, though that's not always possible.

I failed to manage this, for example, in my game against <Wilson>.

Good luck in game 4!

First to 6.0 points wins our match.

First <chess match> I ever played in my life, and thanks for suggesting it in the first place.

so glad to see you again chez mow!

This forum isn't the same without your posts.

I will try to find the <Stanwyck> film in the "oldies" section of my video shoppe, and I will keep my eyes peeled on the TV schedule.

We get <Ted Turner> channel which shows scads of old movies.

Speaking of horrifying oldies, When I was a kid I saw Vincent Price in <House of Wax> and Bette DAvis in <Whatever Happened to Baby Jane> on TV and they both scared the crap outta me.

You ever seen them?