-- jessicafischerqueen: <elixir> ooh I just realized we are in the same time zone!! (or close to it--) So if you are free at 1:00 pm <Seoul time> on either Tuesday or Wednesday, we can play then.

Send me an email so I have your email address, which makes it easier to arrange a date and time we can both make.

<Bill- User WBM>

"existential humor" form <Chess Classics>.

<dagootke> (dakgootje) - where the heck did he go?

<..and Lars Von Triers> The "s" at the end is one too many, unless it's plural... like:

Husband: "Honey, the Von Triers are coming over for dinner tomorrow."

Wife: "Yes, so what? You lazy $#@!"

Husband: "Just thought I'd let you know, dear." -- etc...

On second thought, maybe better leave it as it is... AAHHHH

But here's how they do the scoring.

If you can type 40 words in one minute making no more than FIVE MISTAKES, you "officially" are a forty mins a word typist.

Today, I type up to 300 words a minute but make up to 900 mistakes per minute.

as you pointed out!!

aRUBaaa WHOOOEAHAHAHA

hEH- <von Triers> ocming for dinner--

Yes so what you lazy..

HAHAHAHAHAAH

<tell me what you <<<done>>> it for..

No, I won't tell you a thing.

Yesterday I begged you, before I hit the ground

All I leave behind me
Is only
What I've found

If you can abide it
Let the Hurdy Gurdy play...

Stranger ones have come by here
Before
They flew away

I will not condemn you
Nor yet would I deny
I would ask the same of you

But failing, will not die

Take up your China doll...

It's only fractured...

Juuuuuuuuuust a little nervous from the fall

Laaaaa la la la la la laaa>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4CG...

I promise to try to find a 23 year old <Chinese Woman> to be my bride, as you've instructed.

I'm not sure on the details, but as a <Korean foreigner> I believe I'm allowed to purchase <Chinese Citizens> via a catalogue.

I have to save my money!!

Luckily, our new President is a free market right wing nut bar who wants to de-regulate everything while putting tons of money into getting more "native English teachers" into Korea.

Plus they have "tightened the restrictions" to keep bum foreign teachers out.

Since I have a "clean criminal record sheet," and can pass a "drug and AIDS blood test" with flying colors, the new restrictions plus our new President's directives should work in my favor.

the <Korean Herald> is predicting a spike in wages for foreign English teachers next year.

The way I figure it, I didn't vote for president Lee so it's not my fault he is making policy that benefits me and is probably terrible for over half the Korean population.

Ahem...

<I blame society>.

In case you missed it, they changed the schedule for Corus, so you'll need to re-post your predictions in my forum.

Round 1 now looks like this:

<Jess>

Hmm.. I just (30 minutes ago) saw a in depth 90 minute interview with <Garri Kasparov>, taped earlier this month (!) ... Exclusively for Dutch Television. It is a series called "Wintergasten" - and they met with Kasparov, in Moscow, just over a week ago!

At the start Kasparov is clearly establishing himself as a powerful man, with a strong voice (volume) and then... through a very ingenious small intonation by interviewer <Joris Luyendijk>, Garri relaxes, softenes his tone, and starts talking about his early years...

What I found particularly moving, is his recollection of a Tournament in Minsk, 1978, in which he explains that he had had a tough year in 1977, and wanted to have a good tournament among a strong Adult field, for the first time in his young career, as opposed to playing youths (while he was only 14 in '78..),

He had asked his mother what she thought would be the best preparation for him to have a succesful tournament, and her advice was as follows--

She wanted Garri to read, memorize and recite from memory, a few pages from <Pushkin's> 'Yevgeny Onegin' that she had ordered him to read...

Aims were:

-- train his memory

-- learn about and appreciate the beauty of Russian Poetry, Literature

The entire interview is set up around Garri's favorite TV- and Film footage... and as you can expect they showed some of Garri's favourite part of Tchaikovsky's Opera on that work...

Amazingly candid-- and a beautiful experience, as a whole, to watch Kasparov talk about what made him the chessplayer, AND man, that he is now...

I must honestly say that all the critique and filth that is deposited on him, as a person, on various pages, is becoming more and more repulsive to me...

click for larger view

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35 ... ♘b5xd4!! is a tremendous exploitation of the <OVERWORKED> White d2-rook, defending d4-,f2-squares

A stupendous example of <NONRECIPROCAL CONTACT>, the Black attacks on d4, f2, and h2 are -not- met by White attacks from those squares against the attackers. So White is simply tied down meeting all the threats against these squares without any counterplay of his own.

Black has 5 attackers, White has only 4 defenders: something is <OVERWORKED>.

[Event "ICC 3 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2008.01.11"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Pikaso"]
[Black "Gopher"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "3280"]
[BlackElo "3269"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[ECO "B50"]
[NIC "SI.01"]
[Time "12:37:03"]
[TimeControl "180+0"]

Thanks for dropping this fascinating tactic in my forum!!

It really is amazing.

I was thinking White is still OK giving up the Queen for two rooks, but no so-- since if White takes the Knight with Bishop and then takes the second knight with rook, after Rxf2+ Qxf2 Rxf2+ Kxf2, white has Qxh2+ and is up material with a won game.

People yelled at the screen and threw rice.>

Clever grrrrl. Rocky Horror it was. Give her a cowpie doll. I saw that puppy when it was released. A bit of vulgar treacle but a great rock and roll score by Riff Raff.

In the meanwhile. I just came across some material, which I found quite fascinating.

So, in the next 20 minutes, or so, I'll post the links to the thread. I hope You won't mind me spamming Your forum :-)

The "Original Posting":