It's an excellent journal, I've published a few things there.

<Frogspawn in Korea>

Awhooogsa(?)

<Rook endings are perhaps the most important and most difficult kind of endgame. Most important, because they occur in practice much more often than other endings. Most difficult, because we must absorb and remember a much greater volume of knowledge than in endings with other material relationships.

The reason is that, in other endgames, situations with a minimum number of pawns on the board are either elementary or not very important. Therefore one needs only to remember a very limited number of precise positions; as it is highly improbable that one would meet them in practical play. So, mastering the basic ideas and methods is fully sufficient in those cases.

In rook endings, however, a sophisticated theory of positions with reduced material exists (for example, those with R+P against R), and these situations occur very often in practice. This means that we cannot omit studying a considerable number of precise positions.>

Thanks for the <R P> endgame advice and game link.

Where were you where there is no internet?

<The Mighty Negev>?

"Eyal earned the trust of the Bedouin.."

Aren't you in the middle of a class?

And please answer me the next time I ask you a polite question.

What's the question?

I have to think hang on...

Ok I had my afternoon classes canceled so I caught up on posting...

and...

(I refuse to scroll back or use search function)...

ok...

GOT IT.

Heh.

The air raid siren!!

Well it went on for about an hour, but I never found out why it was wailing.

As far as I can tell, the village has not exploded or been invaded by North Korea.

It may have been a "test," but knowing this place, it was more likely some kind of commercial advertisement.

Sigh.

Regards,
JFQ.

PS I will even answer "impolite" questions from you.

I just saw a advertisement filled with <incomphrehensible offensive> images to the accompianment of <execrable 10th rate faux Korean "rap music"> and only at the end did I realize they were trying to sell <refridgerators>.

If I were within 20,000 miles of an OTB Chess club I'd pull the plug on this computer as well.

I don't think I was born in the wrong century.

I think I was born in the wrong millenium.

Hey <Jess> I am totally into <Samuel (Schmul) Reshevsky> !!!

There's a whole bunch of great games by him, WITHOUT A SINGLE KIBITZ!!

At this very moment I am doing something about that travesty...

I read lots about <Reshevsky> and he was among the world top ten for a long, long, long time.

No better person than yourself to raise awareness of him here at <CG.com>.

you know <Laskereshevsky> knows a lot about him.

I learn so much from his style, by what I've played through now his style is very sound and beautiful technique..

Sigh..

Well I saw the game you posted but haven't played through it yet.

I've been going insane here I think.

I been fooling around on my chessboard looking at 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5?

I spent hours looking at how wild it gets if white takes 3.exf5...

I'm convinced this is bad for white.

But then I realized why would white take 3.exf5?

No need for white to do this.

Oh well. I guess a problem with analysis is that you can't force the opponent to play what you want them to.

You know I've actually played many games on Yahoo with an ID name that only plays white, and if black doesn't open 1.e4 c5, I resign?

That's crazy eh? It's my "white Sicilian" ID.

Sometimes I'm in a mood when I only want to play a white Sicilian.

I also have a black Id that resigns automatically if white plays <1.d4>.

I have over a hundred Yahoo IDs.

I think I'm going insane.

That way you're ensuring yourself of a chessical identity crisis!

We wouldn't want that, please!

I spent hours looking at how wild it gets if white takes 3.exf5...>

Latvian Gambit

Could go like this:

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5 3. exf5 e4 4. Ne5 Nf6
5. d4 d6 6. Nc4 Bxf5 7. Ne3 Bg6 8. Nc3 d5 9. Ng4 Bb4 10. Ne5 Nc6 11. Be2 Qe7 12. Bf4 *

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Very interesting position this... Very playable for both sides at first glance...

Who knew?

All I knew was that it looked like a million sharp positions after 3.exf5.

I was dying to try it out against someone with me playing black.

I was looking hard at the 3...e4 advance thing too-- That position you posted there looks mighty interesting... the white DSB is on a pretty darn good diagonal there and if I were black I'd think hard about castling queenside.. but white has the tension on the black LSB and if black castled right here then Nxg6 hxg6 and the kingside pawn structure is a shambles... So better maybe Nxe5 Bxe5 then 0-0-0 but then the bishop is pointed right at c7 and is not easy to move out of there...

ACtualy i think white is better here.

If Nxe5 Bxe5 then Nd7, simply Bg3 and the diagonal still belongs to white.

I think white can castle kingside here pretty safely as well.

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5 3. exf5 Bc5 4. Nxe5 Bxf2+ 5. Kxf2 Qh4+ 6. Ke3 Nf6

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<Niels> and I were just mulling over my invention of the <Jessica Gambit>, an innovation hotly disputed by the Latvians.

But come on, there are no good Latvian chess players.

If Nxe5 Bxe5 then Nd7, simply Bg3 and the diagonal still belongs to white.>

I think so too...

I'd consider a Bb4 (from the Dagram) back to <d6> to take care of that DSB diagonal...

May be unorthodox but a long castle for Black would ensure fireworks, for sure...

NTA stands for:

Niels Theodorus Antonius

Who knew?

Both <Tiberius> and <Aurelieus> were Roman Emperors--

Also, <Antonius(Marcus)> was a <triumvar> (1/3 emperor) and <Antoninus Pius> was a full Emperor..

And more...

After the Fall of the West, <Theodoric the Ostrogoth> ruled Rome as German "guest emperor" by right of conquest.

Who knew?

Apparenlty, I did.