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Jul-28-09
 | | jessicafischerqueen: The name is Sea Bass.
Jessica Sea Bass.
Fear me. |
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| Jul-28-09 | | achieve: <Jess> I just now informed CG of the tourney, wich is in rnd 7 now, and requested for them to get all the PIG files and upload the games--but the proper procedure here seems to be that if you ask for a page a few days prior to rnd one, they will create a page... But I posted at the CG forum a few hours ago. Bit late huh? Me BAAAAD
heh - I shoulda whined earlier.
But seriously, one would imagine that they'd have an automatic connection plus PIG delivery with a tourny of the stature of the Dutch Open, no?? |
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Jul-28-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: I'd say so.
Good job <Doctor>.
Let's hope that all of the games are uploaded, at the least. |
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| Jul-28-09 | | achieve: Well - that's what surprised me; the fact that they haven't added one single game yet! Position from today's Timman-Giri
after 30...Bd6
click for larger view--- but Timman didn't play Rd1, pinning the B, which seems winning to me, but he played Nf5?! I'm assuming Jan knows what he is doing, but certainly he had the boy reeling there? |
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Jul-28-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Niels> let's take care of this- I will post tomorrow after work requesting that the games be uploaded as well. |
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| Jul-28-09 | | achieve: Yep, damn it! - draw agreed.... Typical Timman; he had the win from the diagram there with Rd1 I believe. Have a look if you guys fancy... 31...Bc7 failes because of the RxR and Nd5 threat! |
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| Jul-28-09 | | achieve: Best defence from the FEN there, with 31 Rd1 Kf8 etc... would lead to this position:
click for larger viewWhite to play... But how to evaluate this??
Maybe Timman was apprehensive to enter this line, if he saw it to begin with... |
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Jul-28-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Good lord yes-
If 31..Bc7 then the Rooks come off and Black must give up his Bishop for the Pawn- To prevent it from scoring a Touchdown |
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| Jul-28-09 | | Hugin: Hey jessica! here is a link to Dr.Frank Brady lecture about Bobby Fischer at Manhatten Chess Club. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWLS... There is several videos there, this just the first link enjoy. |
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| Jul-28-09 | | Boomie: Finally a confirmed sighting of our gracious queen. You can tell she's a no nonsense predator seeking same. She will always give in to her basser instincts. http://shiftingbaselines.org/blog/i... |
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| Jul-28-09 | | Deus Ex Alekhina: Now I need a beer after that |
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| Jul-28-09 | | hms123: <jess> I stirred up the pot at the dogpound. |
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Jul-28-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Howard Sea Bass>
Yes, I had a feeling you wouldn't be able to let <Ohio Sea Bass> go totally unchallenged. If you read back in his forum, you can find a whole series of frankly odious posts in which he lectures people on how they should obey some Paternalistic, literal interpretation of "the" Bible. See my post on <Dawkins> at <Bombadier's>-- He does this on a daily basis eh?
It's a lot easier and pleasant simply to avoid such discussions- mainly because in terms of the interlocuter, they are fruitless- But they are not fruitless in terms of public debate and public policy. Just excrutiatingly frustrating.
Like having to "prove" over, and over, and over that "wheels are made of circles" or something. |
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Jul-28-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: The black sea bass (Centropristis striata) is an exclusively marine fish. It is a type of Grouper (Serranidae) found more commonly in northern than in southern ranges. It inhabits the coasts from Maine to NE Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico. They are most abundant off the waters of New York. They can be found in inshore waters (bays and sounds) and offshore in waters up to a depth of 130 m (425'). They spend most of their time close to the sea floor and are often congregated around bottom formations such as rocks, man-made reefs, wrecks, jetties, piers, and bridge pilings. |
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Jul-28-09
 | | Phony Benoni: Congratulations! You have just been a awarded a distant cousin-in-law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest... |
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| Jul-28-09 | | Boomie: <Jessie on Bass>
The temps here are 20 degrees higher than the surface of Venus. I hope we get this out of our system before you return. Here's a collection of art by Sofia Polgar.
I rather like her bold use of color and van Goghish brush strokes. Kind of a post impressionist Fauvist kinda thing. Like I have any idea what that means. But it does maintain the illusion that I actually know something. Notice there's a Toronto landscape in here.
http://www.sofiapolgar.com/Painting... |
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Jul-29-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: I like this one the best, as it is Sea Bass-related: http://www.sofiapolgar.com/Details.... There are several Sea Bass in the background, if you look carefully. She is a great chess painter, but she can't draw dogs. Some of those dogs had five legs??
????
I think she is melancholy from Chess Struggles past. |
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Jul-29-09
 | | Domdaniel: Weirdly, Polgar's paintings remind me of the work of Bill Hook - the veteran New York/Virgin Islands chessplayer who played Fischer at the Siegen olympiad in 1970. Hook's technically a bit better, but that's not surprising. Nobody should try to paint both animals and abstracts, not even ironically. Abstract is not a subject matter: it's a place that you and the paint and the light need to go. Yeah, there is a kind of semi-impressionism in some of her stuff. I wouldn't go so far as to say fauvist, cos it originally meant 'wild beast': and SP is too tame. Still, arguably the 4th best chessplaying painter, after Duchamp, Grob, and Hook. There was a scary guy named Richard Dadd who painted images with chess motifs, but I don't know how well he played. I've got a PIG of a Duchamp-Hook game somewhere. Don't think it's in the database, so I should submit it before it gets painted over. Painted over? How gouache can I get? The truth is Impasto ... |
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Jul-29-09
| | Domdaniel: Representational painting seems a waste of a chess-hothoused brain. I'd like to see her go deeper into abstraction -- not sub-Rothko decorations, but chess/molecular energy swirls, along the lines of Terry Winters. Or else go conceptual. |
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| Jul-29-09 | | achieve: <Jessieee> Seems your additional plea has pulled the folks at ceegee over the lineeee-- Games from the Dutch Open have by and large been added to the database. We can sleep in relative peace now.
That is, if Timman can win the darn tourney; he blew another guy off the board in a positional gem in today's 8th 'n penultimate round. Only l'Ami, co-lider, stands in the way of eternal glory. This <amiable> object may well be removed. <Amish Guru> suffered a surprise SHOCK loss as Black, and is not in a position to challenge for first place, mathematically. Still another marvelous showing by the youngest GM of the world with that 5/5 flying start, no? Certainly one to watch, and closely at that! |
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| Jul-29-09 | | Boomie: <Dom Do Be Do Dom Dom,,: Yeah, there is a kind of semi-impressionism in some of her stuff. I wouldn't go so far as to say fauvist, cos it originally meant 'wild beast': and SP is too tame.> I was referring to the use of color which reminded me of the Wild Men of Art like Matisse. Here's a typical Fauvist painting by Henri. Wierd colors or maybe she just got up on the wrong side that day. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped... Also to my eye, there is nothing tame about SP's chess. |
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| Jul-29-09 | | crawfb5: <jessicafischerqueen: I'll get you for this...> Sorry, but there's already a long line. You might want to bring a lawn chair and a good book or two... |
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Jul-29-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: I have to agree that "tame" is also, perhaps, the wrong word for her art. Not tame- subdued maybe- a few of those chess paintings are dark, dark dreamscapes with a "whimsical veneer", maybe- But dark. Powerful.
Even patzers like me can recognize the way in which she is addressing the chess obsession and what that can actually feel like. For her- a chess killer- retired from the struggle- I think she is working out some of these feelings in her art. And there is a dark power in these paintings that I would not call tame. <Dom> I understand that you were mainly talking about genre/style approach here- but all the same. "tame" is too tame a word to use for her art. |
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Jul-29-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Niels> Good news indeed- but you know I was thinking- OK this was an "Open Tournament" , but it featured some of the best Players in the world, past and present- And CG.com had no problem putting the Canadian Open on the front page, which is a sprawling, weak, and, as I was complaining about, frankly embarrassing tournament. Penny ante from start to finish.
I think we should get on the ball earlier in terms of the Dutch tournament schedule and get our request in before the next strong Dutch event starts. Just to make sure. |
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| Jul-29-09 | | achieve: <Jess>
I agree - I threw the ally-whoopa pass just about in the buzzer. I will request for a tournament page next time around. Ahead of time that is. Canadian Open had a few Big Names, but overall the level.... Yeah. heh
Bedtime here, but I am reading that brilliant Sandor Marai novel while listening to this exquisite album by Dave Brubeck with the sax magician Paul Desmond... Best company I could wish for. Match made in heaven, it seems. |
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