Hola. ¿Cómo estas?

I must have been dreaming of <Vineland> again. Or playing one of those <pawn finals> people talk about.

You am on the verge of a vortune, vliend.

Coak Mastahs coming up?

I'll be looting for you!

Btw Van Wheely has bounced back admirably against Chucky and Gelfand-- "certain individuals" were already having a ball bashing the Mighty Dutchman; heir to Euwe's throne!

Sadly - in a few weeks the Dutch Championship will be played without Timman, Sokolov and van Wely.

Will Stellwagen take his chance?

Most of the Dutch GMs were "spotted" in <Nice> this week... Can't blame 'em.

Personally, I think "So Suomi" is the best/worst pun I've ever come up with. So sue me.

Finn de partie.

Remember that old cowboy song ... "One Stell on my wagen, but I'm still rolling along ..."?

AXE -- heh

Viking -- oops, risqué

Here's a position that pretty much fools the engines, which I like, from the <Ataturk Women Masters> which I bin analizing this evening, and might amuse hurricane <Jess> as well....

preceding move

1. ... g4 2.Bd1

click for larger view

Atalik, playing Black now plays a move, which gets the definite NONO by (my) engine, but is in fact well timed and judged, well behind my beast's horizon...

Ushenina has the white pieces.

(It's not *that* spectacular, but it's my bit for the day... -- It's not that the engine wouldn't win this as Black, it's just that... well one may see it in a heartbeat I guess...)

<Jess> I left an even stranger message for you in Israel.

I can see that an injun might not like it, but it seems fine to me. Remember what Marlene Dietrich says about the Orson Welles character at the end of Touch of Evil -- "What does it matter what you say about people? He was some kind of a man."

<Dom> yep, Bee caps Sea Five and the Pees rule...

My endjin had it's eval for Bxc5 drop almost 2 full points, having Bc1 as first draft at 14 ply--- and the Bxc5 gaining some ground at over 17 ply...

Funny that the most "clinical" execution is also the "human" one-- the technical, swift, win.

Nice analogy there with the Dietrich quote... (I believe I get it now, pending I got the punctuation right)

Did I write "Atataturk"??

sigh

I just wanted to drop by and correct yet ANOTHER mistake: Today the girls have an excursion of some kind --- very fitting. Tomorrow's last round will see Yifan playing for a draw and become outright tournamant winner.

Did this clear things up?

The Dietrich line is, I think, very ambiguous. More so if you haven't seen the movie. She's talking about the Orson Welles character (he also directed), a *monstrous* Texas sheriff/policeman, Hank Quinlan, who runs his own crooked local empire.

Enter squeaky-clean Charlton Heston - playing, if I remember it right, a Mexican anti-drug agent. A complicated plot, full of holes, ensues. Hank is killed.

Dietrich, his lover - whom we've barely seen - speaks the line in a flat deadpan tone, to Heston. It's in contrast to the passionate intensity of Hank's sidekick, who argues strongly that Hank did things his way, not for petty greed or corruption, but because that's how the law *is*, dammit, on the Tex-Mex borderline.

But Heston is too goody-goody to understand. Plus his new bride has been taken to a weird motel and given, gasp, *marijuana*. And you don't *do* that.

In the original Bible, there was an 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not stone a wife of Chuck Heston.

So... "What does it matter what you say about people?" is both literally true (he's dead, what use are words?) and also means something like "say anything you want, what do I care" -- keeping up her tough, deadpan front. Even though she and Hank were on the same level, understood one another, and now he's been killed by this innocent police-baby, Heston.

So she tries one more line. "He was some kind of a man". Still deadpan, but you can hear an undertow of meaning, ie 'the best kind of man' (but she's not going to admit that to the enemy). So Heston hears the line he expects, the 'evil', amoral one, meaning "there are different types of men, I've known them all, he was one kind".

Not what she means, of course. But one last 'touch of evil' to chill Chuck's blood.

Movie ends not long after. Probably with Chuck and wife reunited, unstoned, sober, and with the law-enforcement problems of one small town nicely cleaned up...

Heh.

I wrote a one-word movie review once, but hardly anyone got it. The movie was National Lampoon's European Vacation. The word was "Incontinent".

... post it here as well, is my suggestion... if you want added expert opinions -- (not being smart here, just dropping your PGNs + questions at various places increases the chance)

Seems that O. Welles' intended cut wasn't respected; only until some 10 years ago, when the film was re-issued with adaptations the master had in mind back when he made the film in 1958...

I watched the opening 4 min scene and several docu's/innerviews explaining the quality of the film...

LOVED IT!!

Concisesivity in two or two-hundred words are irrelevant to me, as long as you convey what you deem appropriate... (you, no doubt, can). I'm just a reader, if I want to have a shout I'd want to go and watch the film anyway...

In other words-- you stimulated my curiosity and I will try and rent 'Touch Of Evil', since several of the clips I've seen are indeed gripping, including the Dietrich line.

THAT'S the trick I feel-- not *just* in cinema -- to steer the mind and imagination of the public in a certain direction, with good chances they *want* to see the next scene.

Intriguing art-form it is indeed!

When I have some more time I'll try and come back to it. For several reasons...

Did <mateo> win a tourney ahead of Garri?

WOW!

Read it at your place... Website/link please?

I must say, from hearing the isolated Dietrich line that is, I *do* hear quite a bit of emotion in the deceivingly "flat deadpan" line...

Another line:

Heston : "You frame them, boy... (thundering voice) FRAME THEM!" -- Pretty impressive...