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Jan-17-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Boomie> good grief-- I read "e5" for "d5"...
I was trying to decide between Bd7 and e5, and played Bd7 in the actual game. I just finished looking at your <d5> suggestion and it looks mighty fine as well. That's the thing-- Qa4 is really a crap move unless he has some kind of secret line or something. |
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| Jan-17-08 | | Boomie: <jessicafischerqueen> I was thinking 2...d5. Gotta be in the OE but I'm too lazy to check it out. My point, if there is one, is to be aware that d5 is something black wants but rarely gets in the Sicksillian. |
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| Jan-17-08 | | WBP: Hey <Jess> It's I, a voice from the remote past. I'm so out of touch it's going to take me weeks to catch up on all the threads, the various nuanced discussions, and so forth. So I have hired several readers who will report back to me soon with all the gory details. Great little mini-lesson above: <5...bd7>! I've seen your voice among the <<Corus> Chorus>--I have looked in a little ther, but not posted yet. is that hour late at tnight for you, or what? And what's happening to Anand? Have you read marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping? Haunting, beautiful novel. Hope all's well with you. Must check in with some other folks! |
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| Jan-17-08 | | achieve: Here's a voice from the lesser remote past...
<Jess> I had been thinking about those coffee-house moves your opponents will occasionally make... and then it dawned to me that there maybe some easy, psychological explanations for that, with the core reasoning being that they haven't jumped to 2200+ over the last few years and therefore are less motivated to play sound openenings than eg. you and I are --- They just start experimenting a little sooner, without showing the respect to the Laws of Chess Opening that we can find in many books. I see this as the main reason, as far as a "reason"is needed, because you are motivated to play the best moves in any position, against anyone... ALSO It may be a way for them to check out a new face and see what quality they are facing with you... It's up to you to show them they picked the wrong one to experiment with and make life difficult as early as possible... The true motivation of all these different types in internet Chess you will never know... They may even have had a drink or a joint, who knows? That's why I predict you will move up considerably at that list with the way you are approaching things at the moment. PS lots of respect for the quality and well thought-out posts by you at my place... These things do NOT go unnoticed and are highly appreciated. Without wanting to sound cheesy your talent for teaching (and co-working) is probably enormous. |
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| Jan-18-08 | | brankat: <Jessicafischerqueen> 3:30AM Vancouver time. Just heard a very sad news on CNN: Bobby Fischer passed away, Thursday, in Reykjavik, Iceland. Since You have been a big fan of Bobby's, My condolences. |
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| Jan-18-08 | | Eyal: Hi Jess, I hope you're enjoying yourself in Seoul.
It's sad news indeed about Fischer. Though, for myself, I have to say I've been thinking (or at least, trying to think) of him as dead for quite a while, since there was something so unbearably awful about his whole post-1972 existence. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | Red October: <Jess> sad news about your hero, but maybe people will choose to remember his great chess rather than the non chess stuff |
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| Jan-19-08 | | Boomie: <Re: coffee-house moves> Hey! I made my bones in a coffee house when you were still going out with cheerleaders. The coffee house in question was the Last Exit in Seattle. I arrived there shortly after the Fischer mania struck and stayed for 10 years. All the best players in Seattle hung out there. That is where Yasser learned to play. I remember a 12 year old lad who's feet didn't touch the floor studying mate with B+N. Within 4 years he was one of the best speed players in the country. Some coffee houses are more equal than others. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | achieve: <Boomie> < I remember a 12 year old lad who's feet didn't touch the floor studying mate with B+N.> Great anecdote and nice to hear-- I've been practising the B+N for over three weeks now and find it super instructive, but then I'm over three times young Yasser's age at that time so I have a little catching up to do. In fact I can't get enough studying it. I read that a Brazilian player studied it mathematically and came up with some of the most ingenious laws of how to control- and then diminish- the space (with B+N+edge-of-board) for the opposing King. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | Boomie: <achieve: <Boomie> < I remember a 12 year old lad who's feet didn't touch the floor studying mate with B+N.> Great anecdote and nice to hear-- I've been practising the B+N for over three weeks now and find it super instructive, but then I'm over three times young Yasser's age at that time so I have a little catching up to do. In fact I can't get enough studying it.> Yaz got a lot of help from the resident masters and experts. Even at 12 he was wise enough to ask for help. Your forum will help you a lot since teaching is the best way to learn. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | achieve: <Boomie>-<Your forum will help you a lot since teaching is the best way to learn.> You hit the nail on the head-- and the whole set-up of my forum is indeed just a mold, in fact an old trick in another jacket, to help my chess in the process of helping others-- and looking for top expert advice to come in and share once in a while. |
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Jan-20-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Oh no
<Don't walk away.
Don't turn away, in silence.
Your confusion,
My illusion,
Worn like a mask of self-hate,
Confronts and then dies.
Don't walk away.
People like you find it easy,
Naked to see,
Walking on air.
Hunting by the rivers,
Through the streets, every corner,
<<<Abandoned too soon>>>, Set down with due care.
Don't walk away in silence,
Don't walk away.>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnAQ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSh7... |
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| Jan-20-08 | | Boomie: <JessieKimChi: Don't walk away> Sounds like a bad case of abandonment issues. "Go or stay but do it because it is what you want to do". (Khan Noonien Singh) |
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| Jan-20-08 | | Boomie: <JessieKim> Just sunk in that it's about Fischer. Sorry about the flip post. |
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| Jan-21-08 | | WBP: <Jess> Just looking in briefly late at night, with almost no time at all at hand. Of course Fischer's passing was a great shock for me--one often maintains the impression that such giants are somehow immortal (i.e., can't suffer a such a hopelessly trivial and banal eventuality as death), until rudely disabused of such fantasies. And although I share <Eyal's> view to a great degree--that Fishcer was more or less "dead" after 1972--I also am old enough to have followed his career in the '60s and to have felt utterly in thrall to his genius. And it also meant something to imagine that he, perhaps, being still alive, was following chess nowadays, had views on where the game was going (beyond his official "disdain" for the game), had favorite players (didn't he get to know Leko and the Polgars a little?), watched tournaments, and so on. Of course he had his flaws. I guess we would all want our heroes to be shining exemplars of the highest virtues. Or, indeed, would we? Some of my favorite writers, artists, composers, et al, were supremely complicated (read: screwed up) personalities. Diseased? perhaps. Flawed? of course. But maybe their great gifts are accompanied by, or even necessitate, such. Anyway, <Jess>, know that I share your great sense of grief and void at the passing of this monumental figire. (Sorry this is so wretched.)
Hope all is well with you.
Best, Bill |
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| Jan-21-08 | | achieve: Hi Jess -- Bill said that very well... while I was a little dumbstruck these last few days... I remember three weeks or so ago you shared your compassion upon Mr. Peterson's passing, as did Bill and a few others, and that support meant a lot to me-- what basically came down to dealing with the loss of a special man that had an impact on me growing up, through his art... Although I never felt an emotional bond with Bobby (I really only zoned in on chess in the early 80s), that certainly has changed in many ways over the last few days through many news items in print and in programs here on Dutch TV with people that spent time around him... Hans Bohm and Tim Krabbe went to Iceland in 1972 on their last penny, and spent the night on public floors in Reykjavik, and applauded and screamed in sheer, uninhibited, excitement when Bobby forced Spassky to resign in that final game... Yes, I witnessed a lot of respect, along with some conflicting emotions, over these last few days from people that were right there and about, mesmerized as Fischer accomplished the (what was thought) impossible. And all the more felt sorry or even disaappointed that he walked away with so much going for him, is what Bohm and Krabbe said... They (these grown men) too, had trouble putting it all in perspective, with all the apparent paradoxes that also defined B. Fischer... I hope and know you'll manage, Jess, and sent you a little emu yesterday in support. |
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| Jan-21-08 | | Eyal: <Jess> http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/event/w... - besides the text, there are several links at the bottom of the page to tributes and obituaries that may be worth reading/hearing. |
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Jan-21-08
 | | Domdaniel: Morning, Jess.
Some old and well-worn threads here. Sic.
"You'll misremember this
Clothes get crumpled
Beds get rumpled
But time never goes by."
... to misquote Brian Aldiss. Movie? Never heard of it. PS. I failed to absorb your advice and am still being beaten by people rated 600 points below me. Call me a cretin, if you like. I now understand that I joined a chess club in order to redistribute my surplus rating points to deserving tennagers (plus a few gnarly old codgers who haven't won a game since 1923). |
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| Jan-21-08 | | talisman: just saw a little bit of a leonard cohen documentary "i'm your man".what i saw was good.there is a you tube video of "heart with no companion"...canadien group singing at a tribute. i wish i knew the singer's name. |
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| Jan-22-08 | | Boomie: Ya gotta pay for Santino, Carlo. Oh, that little ruse you played with my sister...did you think that could fool a Dogbother? |
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| Jan-22-08 | | Boomie: Here's some of the fine work we're doing in the Sock Puppy game. galumph: Boomie is a she
Open Defence: Boomie is a she ?? I thought Boomie is a guy Boomie: OK. Let's put this puppy to bed. The whole "she" thing was started by a typo and perpetuated by me as a joke. JessicaFischerQueen thought I should marry YouRang so our child would be BoomieRang. I guess we've milked that cow dry. I'm officially a guy though it matters little to me and should matter even less to you. YouRang:
1. I matters to me! :-(
2. Is it too late to call off the engagement?
3. That's the last time I use <jessicafischerqueen> for a match-maker. :-o Boomie: Heh. Perhaps there is still hope for us...we could adopt a little BoomieRang. ;-> |
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Jan-22-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: They shot Sonny at the dogrun... We had to put him down... Heh well it's very good to hear that your identity as a <drunk old woman> remains a persistent suspicion among the <great unwashed> here at CG.com. and why not?
BTW why doesn't <YouRang> want to marry you? I think you should be insulted!! |
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| Jan-22-08 | | Boomie: <JessieKimDog: BTW why doesn't <YouRang> want to marry you?> I think he's just hurt and whining. He'll get over it. Besides I gave him an out to adopt a puppy and move to SF. You know who I am? I'm Moe Green. I chewed my bones while you were going out with cheerleaders. |
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| Jan-22-08 | | Boomie: <jessicafischerqueen: They shot Sonny at the dogrun> Dogbother: Looka how they massacred my boy. He's roadkill. |
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| Jan-22-08 | | Eyal: <Jess> Continuing the search for Fischer... a long discussion by John Watson and Andy Soltis (http://webcast.chessclub.com/Watson...). |
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