You nice people, you.

Or maybe I am already ignored by all.

BTW, have you read the posts of a past user called <FerociousBeast>? If not, I highly advise it. He was an obnoxious and rude member about 3 years ago. Sadly, he's stopped coming. We would all love to keep seeing his hilarious, dumb-witted posts again. Thankfully, his memory still lives on.

Here's one of his gems. Bless him:

<THis is just a childs tournament anyway.. And since I wasn't Entered I mean was there any real chess players even there?>

Heh. Thanks for the link!

Well, <CG.com> has pruned the posts from this forum they wanted to get rid of, and still no email to me. I'm assuming the coast is clear now.

What were the ratings of the people you beat in Correspondence?

All the players I've beaten so far have been 200-500 points lower than me. Only higher rated wins are one against <samikd> and one against you.

I play around 1700 with the white pieces, and 1550 with the black pieces, on average. A sign of a poor chessplayer!!!

Sad but true.

The kind of player I am is <insanely aggressive> I don't like retreating active pieces, I don't like making prophylactics unless absolutely necessary (many times I almost played <Kb1> in our game--but I thought, don't need to yet-- and maybe I won't have to.)

I'm a poor defender, however, and with black I often bust my position trying for the initiative in the opening and early middle game. That blew up in my face in the second game I played with <samikd>. It's in my profile under "completed games."

I look forward to your withering attack with <d4>.

I'm going to take a bit of time selecting my response. I want to research this a bit, I hate playing against <d4>. Hate it.

So a good choice against me.

Maybe <Dutch>? I got killed by <achieve> playing <semi-slav>.

Hmmm. <Hippopotamus>?

I got to decide.

So, just to mention, in case You are not aware of this already.

Vancouver Arts Gallery, on Robson St., is having an exhibition of "modern European artists". Eighty pieces in all, from Cleveland Museum of Arts.

Among others, they include: C.Monet, Van Gogh, Cezane, Degas, Dali, Picasso!!!

It opened Monday last week, and I don't know when it closes.

All in all, if this is a thing "up Your alley", then, I believe, this may be once in a lifetime chance to see the masterpieces in Vancouver.

And who would ever ignore <ragh>?

You guys are the <dog's nuts> of the CG.com scene.

Sorry, I can't stop giggling about that line from the first <braniac> clip you posted here.

I say it to my Mom all the time now.

I'm looking forward to hearing more about your "secret project" via email.

Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure I'm up for it.

Does it involve industrial espionage?

I watched <The Dead Girl> tonight. What an amazing film. It's not a horror film, it's a very powerful character study with many fine actors. It's very reminiscent of <Crash>, IMO. Even a similar structure, and a similar emotional impact. Maybe even MORE realistic.

It's very powerful stuff, not for the weak at heart. But it's got prizes and nominations at film festivals, and for good reason. It's one of those rare films.

It wasn't originally intended to be a chess forum at first.

It was supposed to be a <blog> about <Cricket, Rugby, and Australian Rules Football>

What the heck happened to my dark square bishop??

It is more dangerous :-) That's why I've been delaying. Just joking, of course. It is something that, I think, will be pretty hard to put in place.

But, I'll let You know Thursday. Promise.

He tried his patented <Petrov Raghttack> on me in our current Correspondence game.

FIDE World Championship (2004> I went to this link and scanned up and sdown, looking for a post by <FerociousBeast>, but it's not there. Perhaps LifemasterAJ deleted it.

Here's a little gem form his forum today:
<< who: <LMAJ: I have complete control over these pages now, I can delete ANY post at the click of the mouse. It makes no sense to post something ugly, it will be removed, post-haste.> Is that true? Since when does CG give that sort of power on a player's page? >

Of course its true. (And just to prove my point ... I deleted your post.)> Heheh!

<Jess> Anyway, looks like all this is now behind. Congrats on your win over Tactic. Being one known to sac a piece now and then, I find your style most aggreeable. And good luck to both of you in the rematch.

I can Beat every type of chessmaster blindfolded and with knight odds. SUPER BIG TIME GRANDMASTER OF THE WORLD, FERBY

<iron maiden> Yes, of course you can, but first you have to convince them to put on a blindfold and give you a knight.

C Forbes vs Fischer, 1992

<FerociousBeast: very weak play by a girl. i can see why fischer refused to play in a tournament because a girl was in it.. it is very disrespectful and if a girl was in a tournament i was in i would request her to leave or leave.

ferociousbeast aka the beast>

Great! I'm sure that I can pass the <high intelligence> requirement. I mean, jeez, I seem to be the only person around who knows what estamps are!

Well, I run some extended analysis on that game, and, until the last move, <Jess>'s play was nearly perfect (one minor inaccuracy in the earlier phase, just before you missed that counterattack on the queen side). You had two relatively small inaccuracies elsewhere (I can dig them up, although I recall someone posting them already), and <Jess> exploited them, just chipping away and conducting psychological warfare in her comments.

If anything qualifies as a blunder it would be resigning after <Jess>' worst move of the game (it is not that it was bad, but it left her with maybe 60% of the advantage she had before it) ...