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| Sep-10-08 | | boz: Hi <jessicafischerqueen> Thanks for the message. I'm getting by somehow. Bibao has been a terrific tournament. Nothing to do with the system. It's what happens when you put genii and natural born killers together in the same room. Speaking of rooms, I always notice when you enter one. Hard to miss because of the commotion. You play a pretty complicated game. PS: Are you Mrs. Alekhine?
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Sep-11-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: What ho <Boz>!
Glad you are liking the fireworks. Me too.
<commotion>
Hey I didn't tell anyone to do anything. Nobody needs any help in them rooms to start yelling at each other. I can't stand <Deep Pi> but I have him on ignore again so it feels so good. <Mrs. Alekhine> no, and I don't like her either. I suspect she is a <sockpuppet> run by <Bill> (User; WBM). He has a bunch of Premium Sockpuppets.
(actually sometimes I think <Open Defence> may be one of them sometimes) |
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| Sep-11-08 | | Red October: <(actually sometimes I think <Open Defence> may be one of them sometimes)
> <Open Defence> is a sockpuppet of the POLITBURO |
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| Sep-11-08 | | hoodrobin: Hi <jess>. Malheureusement I'm not really back for now, but I can hope for future. My best to you. |
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Sep-11-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Where are you <Hoot Robin>? Novaya Zemlya?
If so, I hope you have a warm coat! |
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Sep-11-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Hey! Where'd everyone go??
I'M ON CHESS VACATION!!!
i think <Bilbo> is on rest tonight? But I can at least watch all the rest of the rounds anyhoo. They are on at MIDNIGHT Korea time. |
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| Sep-11-08 | | hoodrobin: Hey <jess>, it's warm here but life makes me feel cold for now. Today I can begin to hope. No problem with chess, please keep playing ;| |
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| Sep-11-08 | | klangenfarben: <jessica>: That's one fine dedication to WCC Fischer. Have you seen the video (still extant I believe) on the nytimes web site where Cavett interviews Fischer? Both are in good form, but the kicker is when Dick asks Bobby, "Where's the greatest pleasure come?" [... when defeating another player]. Naturally, Bobby pauses not a moment and calmly responds with the simple truth: http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/200... In the interest of preserving the suspense while teasing y'all a bit further, the reply triggered a substantial but undeniably nervous giggle/laugh from the audience. Dick even made sure that Bobby didn't misspeak in any way, and he surely didn't. Of the innumerable near-misses of incomparable individuals and vibrant, culturally and cognitively rich circumstances, a music-chess historical analogy forced its way from cortex to cuticle. Further, the ascension of Kasparov (and, yes, Karpov) followed by the march of the machines would have had a much richer narrative. He also would have certainly infused our opening and endgame theory with new and powerful ideas. While it was certainly his life to live, the regret I feel is as when I recently learned that Franz Liszt, the first music performer to earn a living by touring (that is, he required no member of the nobility to subsidize his work, which always cheapened the art in the end) passed away before Edison's audio recording mechanisms were accepted in Europe. I heard Paderewski play Liszt's Sonata in Bminor over two decades ago, never found it again, but still haven't forgotten how imagination and intellectualism can shoot your mind into a sonic stratosphere. |
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Sep-11-08
 | | Domdaniel: There was a composer named Liszt
Whose music no-one could resiszt
When he swept the keyboard
Nobody could be bored
And now that he's gone he is miszt.
"If you and JFQ want to exchange limericks ... make sure they comment on the links between chess and music..." <Jess> I'd have included maths, but you might bite me. |
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Sep-11-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: No, no, no, no...
I like seeing you calculate. Which is why i'm always tempting you. Not bad for the prose with a flourish on <Synaestheisia's> part eh? I think he is more than worthy of <Frogspawn>. Yo <Klangenfarben>! Check out <domdaniel's> forum FROGSPAWN for all kinds of arcania. BTW here is a film trivia question:
Forget Ken Russell's <Lisztomania> as Roger Daltrey kind of ruins it with his incessant mugging for the camera. In Ken Russell's other other film <Mahler>, what is the greatest scene? Heh-
Where <Cosima Wagner> forces <Mahler> to pull down his pants to reveal that he is Jewish. That rascally Ken Russell!! |
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| Sep-12-08 | | Woody Wood Pusher: <JFQ><But I can at least watch all the rest of the rounds anyhoo. They are on at MIDNIGHT Korea time.>
Do they play western chess in Korea? is it popular? or do they play Shogi or Go, more....or have they all been killed off by the GameBoy? |
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Sep-12-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: <The Woodman>
Go and Chiangi <Korean Chess> are only played by old men. Western Chess is played by nobody outside of Seoul, and not many there either. <Star Craft> video game is so popular that there is a professional league that competes 24 hours a day on two (count 'em- two) TV channels. |
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| Sep-12-08 | | Woody Wood Pusher: <<Star Craft> video game is so popular that there is a professional league that competes 24 hours a day on two (count 'em- two) TV channels> Oh yea I remember reading about how popular that is there. It's a good game, but it doesn't have the depth of chess IMO. Imagine if they all switched to chess instead, they would have a Korean WC in no time. So be honest <JFQ>, you went out there for the <star craft> really didn't you?! |
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Sep-12-08
| | Domdaniel: In Greenaway's <Tulse Luper Suitcases>, Tulse goes searching for lost Mormon cities in the deserts of Utah. But he is captured by a sadistic German Mormon, tied to a post, stripped, and has honey applied to his genitals. Back in Europe, Sam Beckett accidentally urinates on his shoes. Or maybe the shoes of his friend, Knockarelli. Does Beckett apologize by saying "Nothing happened - twice" ...? Not really. |
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| Sep-12-08 | | Woody Wood Pusher: <But he is captured by a sadistic German Mormon, tied to a post, stripped, and has honey applied to his genitals.> Why the honey? I don't get that.
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Sep-12-08
| | Domdaniel: Greenaway is also doing a series of films called 'Dutch Masters' -- he's already made Nightwatching, about Rembrandt. My current plan is to try to persuade him to include Max Euwe. |
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Sep-12-08
| | Domdaniel: <Woody> - <Why the honey? I don't get that. > Me neither. A prophecy about the angel Moroni is mentioned, but it's cod-mormonism. Events in PG's films always have explanations, but they don't necessarily make sense. |
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Sep-12-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: heh
<Dom> how can I gain access to this goldmine of <Green Dayaway> art? One of the problems with the <free vid webosphere> is that I haven't found an actual <streaming art film site>. They get posted sometimes, but they can't be reached by any of the popular search engines. So it's hit and miss.
The only <Chewbacca> film I found so far is <Prospero's Books>. What about this <Bobby Fischer> biopic I've been hearing about? Did they run it up the flagpole yet to see if the money salutes? I heard <Matt Damon> was going to play Bobby but he declined after he heard there was "Alaskan Creationist" money behind the project. |
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Sep-12-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Well <Happy Twattin Chew Sock> everyone I just got back from a wild party where I was the only sober person in the room. Actually, the whole country is drunk right now except me. And I lost my freaking cell phone!!
The irony...
It looks like I really picked a bad year to quit sniffing glue after all... Good grief. |
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Sep-12-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: *The German Battleship Tirpitz Overturns in Tromso Fjord After Being Mined by Midget British Submarines* Good gravy. You can't make that kind of stuff up you know. Mrs. World War II |
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| Sep-12-08 | | Benzol: The Tirpitz was reportedly lifted into the air by as much as six feet after being mined by the British X craft submarines but she was actually capsized by Tallboy bombs dropped by Lancaster bombers later in the war. |
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Sep-12-08
 | | Stonehenge: Their homebase was the Green Midget Café in Bromley. The man who finishes other people's sentences.
BTW, very good of you to recognise I'm Free by The Who, jolly good show. |
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Sep-12-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Thanks <Benzol>!
Maybe you can help me with something else.
See my forum header?
Ok that's a <Messerschmidt 109 Fighter plane>, but what is the tank? It's from WWII but it's not German, Russian or American. I don't think. I thought it was a <Churchill> but last year I looked at a big WWII tank website and I couldn't identify it. <Join the Army> had some ideas but he wasn't sure. |
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Sep-12-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Stony>
heh...
"I'm not marrying this lot!" |
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Sep-12-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: *The magazine of the <HMS Hood> was most likely hit by a shell from the <Prinz Eugen>, rather than the <Bismarck>, according to History Channel* |
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