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| Mar-01-09 | | Woody Wood Pusher: <I think I might be like Elaine on <Seinfeld>;;; <Jerry> (to Elaine): "Your'e a man's woman! Woman hate you, and you hate women!"> HAHAHA
This Seinfeld sounds funny, I don't watch TV much, but I may need to look this one up. |
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| Mar-01-09 | | Woody Wood Pusher: <I'll say it again-- NOT A SINGLE OTHER CHESS WEBSITE IN THE WORLD offere <English language service> without bothering to hire a proofreader. Unbelievable slovenliness, no professionalism of any kind. <Chessbase> is merely a marketing platform.> You're right, their websites stinks in general, but they have had some good game annotations recently. |
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Mar-01-09
 | | jessicafischerqueen: No, they haven't.
But how would I know?
I BLOCKED THEIR URL FROM MY FIREWALL
HAHAHAAHAHA
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| Mar-01-09 | | Woody Wood Pusher: Does this mean they have lost the Royal Pharaoh seal of approval? Have you sent them to work on your Great Pyramid?
Backbreaking labour in the baking sun is too good for them, send them to the scarab pit! |
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| Mar-01-09 | | achieve: Full marks for this:
<woody>: <I understand the problem is not the 'scientific method' itself, but the way scientists and politicians mistakenly use it to justify their actions. Religion itself was and is twisted in the same way, to justify actions it was never meant to.> Motives indeed. Questionable, always changing, yet rigid... Is there a surgeon with the right equipment and authority to dissect and judge "what is there? Like in an autopsy?" Maybe "they" will invent a chip, that can do that? In vivo, real time? No, so in absence of such entity, the best we can do is...the least we can do: Enjoy a warm fire on a cold winter night.
A good game of chess.
A ...
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| Mar-01-09 | | Trigonometrist: <Woody>
The second article was mind blowing..
Imagine excavating the Eden that we thought was just a figment of ancient imagination... Remember Sting??
"This Desert Rose,
This memory of Eden haunts us all,
This desert flower,this rare perfume,
Is the sweet intoxication of the fall..."
I loved the lyric so much I wrote a poem myself.."The Eden that haunts us all"... |
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Mar-01-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Eden> is good subject matter for poetry, since it's OBVIOUSLY NOT REAL. See <Wood>?
The effect of such articles?
The most grotesque irony is this--
Those who would dismiss <science> in favor of <religious belief> are the VERY FIRST PEOPLE to get excited when it <appears> that Science has actually help proven something so preposterous. It's more than a little ironic.
<Niels>-- points well taken- But humans make mistakes, and it is a mistake for you to cast aspersion like you just did on the <idea and practice of science>. It may turn out to be a Pandora's box that ruins human existence, sure. Actually that's a pretty good point.
Yes, "science" is merely applied logic.
It's a bit like a <chess engine>. Somebody has to choose the moves in "reality."
We have chosen poor moves, it's true.
Ok I'm undecided on this-- I suspect that science has allowed people to bring the planet to the point of premature extinction. But that doesn't mean I"m going to stop trying to understand what is real- And trust me, reality is real.
Just hammer a nail into your hand if you're unsure about this. That said, if it were my dying breath--
If asked (and I won't be) I would say that applying scientific methods and discoveries to human culture has in fact led- unintentionally of course-- the biosphere to the brink of disaster. That is a bigger issue than epistemology.
It's very very sad if you think about it.
Ok <Niels> in the course of writing this I'm now in agreement with your post. It's a real tragedy it's true.
Luckily, we don't have to be unhappy because of this most unfortunate turn of historical events-- we can play chess while Rome burns. |
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Mar-01-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Ok
CASE CLOSED
(It may be time for some chess talk in here now)
Poor <Magnus Loseson>!! That game was excrutiating to watch.
No shortage of courage for young <GM Loseson>. He will soon regain his status as <Magnus Winsen>. |
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| Mar-01-09 | | Eyal: Btw, I believe what the <lunkhead> said on the <Linares> page was that he could draw this endgame in his sleep, to which somebody responded - <that's nothing, sometimes I fly over the city in my sleep, and last night I made love to a supermodel in my sleep>... Actually I think he <did> play this endgame badly, and that he should definitely have been able to hold the draw once it came down to the rooks alone, but it was certainly not so trivial - rather a tough version of a R+2P vs. R+1P on the same wing, one of the two pawns being a passer. |
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Mar-01-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Maybe <Magnus Loseson> would have played the endgame better if he were asleep. All I could think from the end of the opening was how unpleasant it would be to play the White pieces. I just don't see what <Loseson> got out of that version of the <Shabalov g4 push Variation>. Look how easy a game Black gets just be refraining to take the <g-pawn>. I have enough trouble as it is playing with my King castled- I know these people are wizards- but I don't know- King in the center with a file open on each side of him... Then look how many, many hours <Loseson> had to play a really unpleasant position-- That's one of those situations where if he drew, it would probably feel like he just won the World Championship. I think he probably faded- emotionally and physically-- at the end. I notice from the game thread that you isolated the <losing move>- Thanks for that- I <did> spend some time this morning looking over that critical point with my engine. Mainly I just feel bad for <Magnus>. I still believe he will be a serious challenger for the World Championship in the "next cycle", whenever <Kirsan> invents what that cycle will be and then changes it 90 times. Why doesn't the <Chess Ministry> vote him out? I didn't vote for him.
Why don't they elect <Max Euwe's> ghost? He was a well-respected and much-loved <President of the Chess Ministry>. CASE OPEN |
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| Mar-01-09 | | Eyal: <Jess> Yeah, I also have the impression that turning down White's pawn offer on g4 is basically a sounder strategy for Black, though I'm very far from being an expert on this line. Anyway, it seems to be quite fashionable lately on the top levels and in continual "debate". Aronian did come up with what seems like a strong novelty (14...c5), and he has actually played this line quite a lot of times as White too... (I've posted a link on the game page). The element of fatigue is rather built into this kind of rook endgames, because they usually emerge only after many moves... but I agree that the combination of this with the constant pressure under which Carlsen was most of the game is very hard to deal with. Still, if you want to win super-tournaments like Linares or become a world champion, you have to be able to survive these things. |
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| Mar-01-09 | | achieve: <Jess> I agree with what you are saying, but let me just be clear that it is not <mere science as applied logic> that I intended to cast aspersion on, on the contrary, I in a way was focusing on the lack of integrity and moral judgement, in those who for example "fund" <science> - and how terribly it has been abused by Religious leaders, Politicians, of all ages. You either go along with most of the madness and pick the side that has the power, or you'll get hung. I'm just now listening to a rare Chopin Piano Concerto with orchestra, and it's so beautiful, and so real, that it moves me to tears... All these instruments, though, have been developed over time, through applied Science and Logic!! But unless you use your Cello to whack someone over the head, if in the hands of a trained master, it's a miracle product of applied Science and Craftsmanship. And even still- the young Menuhin, playing his Stradivarius to transcendental perfection, with all these motory skills, the breaking of a soundwave, rising again to a roaring crescendo-- they will remain mysteries. Yet music was, and is, also used as a major brainwasher in war propaganda. It's in who's hands you lay the powerful tools.
It's in that sense that I am pessimistic and distrustful in underlying, or overriding motives. In people. Not in Science itself.
On the contrary: I'm still a frantic s*cker for it. What else is there? But I do not pretend to *know* anything, believe me; my rigorous scientific approaches to handle certain things in my life in the past have had me fall FLAT ON MY FACE - numerous times. In a way it's a miracle I'm still alive, being able to watch and listen to, and marvel in, a Chopin Concerto. But applying logic and sound reasoning, has also helped me uncover things that were previously covered; and I'm glad I did. |
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Mar-01-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Yes, but people are cooking the world like a goose and all they seem to care about is <Jennifer Anniston>. She is a truly bad actor.
I wish she was the biggest problem.
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| Mar-01-09 | | Open Defence: chessbase have pictures of Valie |
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| Mar-01-09 | | achieve: Hmmm... it's probably "marvel <at>"... Reading it back. Stupid languages.
But they're all we've got!
heh
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| Mar-01-09 | | achieve: Sacrifice Jennifer?
As a start?
hmmm...
I don't even remember her last major role...
Probably because there isn't one. |
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| Mar-01-09 | | Open Defence: <She is a truly bad actor.
> its all about the tomatoes aint it |
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Mar-01-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: The tomato is a fruit.
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| Mar-01-09 | | hms123: <jess> Although the tomato is a fruit in most of the world (the whole seed thing), here in the US it is legally a vegetable because of a Supreme Court ruling in the 19th century having to do with tariffs. The law is a ass.
Yours,
Mr. Bumble |
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Mar-01-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: What do vegetables have to do with giraffes?
America is certainly an odd country.
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| Mar-01-09 | | hms123: <jess> They should have raised that objection at the time. The <statue of lime tastings> has now run out. |
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| Mar-01-09 | | hms123: <niels> I am half way through reading <The Chess Artist> and am enjoying it. Kirsan I. and his FIDE buddies don't come off very well so far. What's your take on the book? |
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| Mar-01-09 | | achieve: Here's a clip of the pianist i mentioned in relation to the Chopin Concerto I was watching, here playing Rachmaninoff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RLf... Libanese-French pianist: Abdel Rahman El Bacha -- 3.Rachmaninov Etudes Tableaux Op.33 No.3 c moll <Howard> will no doubt love this. Craftsmanship at its finest. I'm really in awe of this musician. |
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| Mar-01-09 | | achieve: <Howard> I still have 7 items in my possession from the Library, and next Sunday I will bring a bunch back, and pick up The Chess Artist - YES SIR! I have it reserved.
I expect a lot from Jess's recommendation, and want to give it my full attention, esp. now you are reading it, too; don't wanna get "left behind!!" heh
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| Mar-01-09 | | zarg: Ivanchuk and DomÃnguez has most draws now.
CASE CLOSED :) |
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