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| Dec-13-09 | | Red October: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl8m...
Roisin Murphy... |
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| Dec-13-09 | | notyetagm: D Howell vs Carlsen, 2009 (VAR)
55 ... ?
click for larger view55 ... ♖g1xg4+ <remove guards: f5>
click for larger view55 ... ♖g1xg4+ <DESTROYS> the White g4-pawn defender of the White f5-knight while *simultaneously* <DRIVING OFF> the knight's White e4-king defender, hence <REMOVING THE GUARD> twice for 56 ... ♖f2x♘f5. 56 ♔e4-d5 ♖f2x♘f5+
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| Dec-13-09 | | notyetagm: Karjakin vs Mamedyarov, 2009 50 ?
click for larger view50 f2-f4!! <line closing: f-file>
click for larger viewGM Karsten Mueller @ chessbase.com:
http://chessbase.com/cbm/cbm133e/cb...: <50.f4!! Rf2 [After 50...gxf4 51.Rh5 <<<the black f-pawn forms an umbrella against the check rain of Black's rook>>>, so that the back rank mate can't be prevented anymore.]> (VAR)
50 ... g5xf4 51 ♖f5-h5
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click for larger viewTHE POINT: The Black f4-pawn <SHIELDS> the White f7-king from <CHECKS> from the Black b2-rook, resulting in an unstoppable <BACK RANK MATE>. *Brilliant* tactical play by Karjakin. |
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| Dec-13-09 | | Travis Bickle: Jess I put a link of Fire Marshall Bill
on your forum yesterday. It's one of Jim Carrey's famous characters from the old show In Living Color. He's a pyromaniac that happens to be a fireman LMAO!!! Look for my post down your page a bit. It's right before theagenbiteofinwit post. ; P |
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| Dec-13-09 | | notyetagm: Ivanchuk vs Topalov, 2004 33 ?
click for larger view33 ♘c7-e6+! <line opening: 7th rank>
click for larger viewGame Collection: Line opening 33 Nc7-e6+! f7xNe6 opens the 7th rank for White h3-,h1-rooks THE POINT:
35 ♖h1-h7+ <remove guard: d8>
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| Dec-13-09 | | Red October: damn clue!! my mules are on strike in protest!!! apparently upside down mules are taboo in Mulesia |
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Dec-13-09
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Bloody cheek.
If a whole flock of your trained rental mules can't solve it, then what chance does the <laymule> have? |
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| Dec-13-09 | | Travis Bickle: I dont know if its great comedy but there's some funny characters. It's sort of like Mad TV. In Living Color was Jim Carrey's first show before he became a movie star. Also interesting is the fact that JLO got her start on that show as a "fly girl", that is a dancer way before she was a big star! Here's a few episodes to see if you like the zany humor. Here's another Fire Marshal Bill. ; P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-wQ...
Here's Damon Wayans as Homey The Clown LOL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g1e...
Here's two gay film critics "Men On Films" ; P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWdL... |
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| Dec-13-09 | | Red October: for the guy who solved the ass clue:
<Red October: fantastic, congrats, never look a gift ass in the mouth....> |
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| Dec-13-09 | | Eyal: Short on a pawn sacrifice that he played in one of the games in the London Tournament: <I've played a number of interesting novelties lately. Mostly that's because I haven't got a clue what I am doing in the opening.> |
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| Dec-14-09 | | theagenbiteofinwit: Jess, it's totally okay that you got my goat yesterday. btw, my favorite chess player made your favorite chess player cry in 68 moves. ;-) |
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Dec-14-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <age of wit>
heh-
I cry for him as well.
He shall rise again at Corus A!!! |
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| Dec-14-09 | | notyetagm: D Howell vs A Bitalzadeh, 2009 <costachess: 15 ... f5 
click for larger view> I *love* this little tactical sequence.
White (Howell) was able to play 15 ♕d1-g4!, not fearing the <PAWN FORK> 15 ... f7-f5? because he has the resource 16 ♕g4-g3!, attacking the <UNDEFENDED> Black c7-queen. 16 ♕g4-g3!
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| Dec-14-09 | | notyetagm: 30 ?
click for larger view30 g5-g6+!!
click for larger view[Event "ICC 3 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.08.18"]
[Round "-"]
[White "muisback"]
[Black "Caligola"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "3297"]
[BlackElo "3114"]
[Opening "Sicilian: dragon, Yugoslav attack"]
[ECO "B75"]
[NIC "SI.17"]
[Time "14:16:21"]
[TimeControl "180+0"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 a6 8.
Qd2 Nbd7 9. O-O-O b5 10. h4 h5 11. Kb1 Bb7 12. Bg5 Rc8 13. Bd3 Qb6 14. Nb3
Ne5 15. f4 Nc4 16. Qe1 Nxb2 17. Kxb2 Nxe4 18. Bxe4 Bxc3+ 19. Qxc3 Rxc3 20.
Bxb7 Rxb3+ 21. axb3 Qxb7 22. Rhe1 e6 23. Bf6 O-O 24. Rxd6 Qxg2 25. Red1 Kh7
26. Rd8 Rxd8 27. Rxd8 g5 28. f5 exf5 29. hxg5 f4 30. g6+ Kxg6 31. Rg8+ Kxf6
32. Rxg2 Kf5 33. Kc3 f3 34. Rg7 h4 35. Kd2 h3 36. Ke3 1-0 |
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| Dec-14-09 | | notyetagm: And now the exact same tactical idea I saw in a blitz game moments ago. 42 ?
click for larger view42 e3-e4+!!
click for larger view[Event "ICC 3 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2009.12.14"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Silent-Bomber"]
[Black "VerdeNotte"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "3216"]
[BlackElo "3343"]
[Opening "King's Indian: fianchetto, classical variation"]
[ECO "E67"]
[NIC "KI.65"]
[Time "05:18:28"]
[TimeControl "180+0"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. O-O d6 6. c4 Nbd7 7. Nc3 e5 8.
h3 Re8 9. dxe5 Nxe5 10. Nxe5 dxe5 11. Qb3 c6 12. Be3 Qc7 13. Rfd1 Be6 14.
Na4 Nd7 15. Rd2 Nb6 16. Nxb6 axb6 17. Bxb6 Qe7 18. Rad1 Ra6 19. Bd8 Qc5 20.
Qxb7 Qxc4 21. b3 Qb5 22. Qxb5 cxb5 23. Bb7 Ra7 24. Bc6 Rf8 25. Bxb5 Bxh3 26.
a4 Be6 27. Bb6 Rb7 28. Bc5 Bxb3 29. Bxf8 Bxf8 30. Rd7 Rb6 31. Rc1 Kg7 32.
Rc6 Rb8 33. Bc4 Bxc4 34. Rxc4 Rb2 35. Rcc7 Kh6 36. Rxf7 Bd6 37. Rxh7+ Kg5
38. Rc6 Bb8 39. e3 Ra2 40. Rg7 Rxa4 41. Rcxg6+ Kf5 42. e4+ Rxe4 43. g4+
Rxg4+ 44. Rxg4 e4 45. R4g5+ Kf4 46. R5g6 Kf5 47. Rb6 Bf4 48. Rf7+ Kg5 49.
Rb5+ Kg4 50. Rxf4+ Kxf4 51. Kg2 e3 52. Rb4+ Kf5 53. fxe3 Ke5 54. Kf3 Ke6 55.
e4 Kf6 56. Ke3 Ke6 57. Rb5 Kd6 58. Kf4 Kc6 59. Rd5 Kc7 60. Ke5 Kc6 61. Kd4
Kc7 62. e5 Kc6 63. e6 Kb7 64. e7 Ka6 65. e8=Q Kb6 66. Qe6+ Ka7 1-0 |
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Dec-14-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <visayan>
To reply:
The <National Front> is a fascist political party in Britain that campaigns on the "one issue" platform of banning all non-caucasian immigration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britis...
Here is a brief account of the main argument in <Anti-Semite and Jew>- you can also buy it at Amazon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-S...
Briefly, Sartre begins with an historical portrait of Nazi Anti-Semitism and then moves to a broader psycho-social explanation of racism and intolerance in general. He characterizes racism as a perversion of passion, and an unwillingness to take responsibility for the "I"- for one's own individuality-- and for one's personal responsibilities to the "thou"- to other people. The Wikipedia entry is actually quite good IMO, but the entire text is well worth reading- Sartre delves in to all forms of racism and discrimination, including the "battle of the sexes" as I was mentioning. Again- my apologies for directing anger in your direction due to my mistaken belief that you had already read <Jane Eyre's> posts on the page. You and I have always shared good relations at this site in the past, and I hope in continues that way. I must say you are an extraordinarily patient person. |
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Dec-14-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <visayan> oh yes and almost forgot- No, I'm not <Asian Canadian>. Ethnically, I am 1/2 Finnish.
The other 1/2 is Scottish/Irish/Amerindian |
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| Dec-14-09 | | visayanbraindoctor: Interesting article <jessicafischerqueen>. From what I understand, Sartre is saying that anti-Semitism comes from passion and emotion, and thus irrational. Neurologically, emotion comes from our so-called 'reptilian brain', a primitive part of our telencephalon called the limbic system, located DEEP in our cerebral hemispheres. We share this portion of the brain with reptiles and birds (birds are now classified in the same clade as reptiles by the way). It is where our instincts and emotions arise. On the other hand, rationality is a function of out cerebral cortex, the COVERING of the cerebral hemispheres. In brief, passion and rationale thoughts are located on different areas of the brain. Unfortunately while there are a lot of outgoing connections from the limbic system to the cerebral cortex - that is from the emotional part of the brain to the rationale part - there are few connections from the cortex to the limbic system. This means that it is far easier for emotions to influence rationality; passion more often than not dictates to reason. Note that if a person gets angry, he or she cannot just tell the limbic system to stop firing. Such an order comes from the cortex, and there are few connections that travel from the cortex to the limbic system. Furthermore, the limbic system has closed circuit connections. Once some neuronal cell bodies in it fire, the electro-chemical signals tend to travel round and round the limbic system. It's why it's almost impossible to control being in a state of hate or being in love for that matter, and these states can last for a long long time. On the other hand, the more numerous connections from the limbic system to the cortex continue transmitting signals; thus hate or love can and do affect our thinking processes very easily. The peculiar thing is that we often are very much aware of our passions; yet out thinking rationale part cannot control them because of limited connections to the brain area from which the passions arise. If Sartre is right, the tendency for racism is essentially a function of our 'reptilian brain'. Difficult to control by conscious rationale effort. |
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Dec-14-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <visayan> this is an interesting evolutionary angle to add to these ideas. It seems like an unfortunate neural arrangement the way you describe it- and yet we can understand why this arrangement may have been selected for. When it's time to hit the tiger in the face with a pointed stick, there is no time to waste with "thinking" about it. The adrenaline has to shoot from the fear/hate/kill brain stem or the poor caveman dies and fails to reproduce. I think cultural "evolution", or change, has outpaced biological evolution, which requires millions of years for change. Nowadays, we don't really need to worry about tigers leaping at us out of every street corner- and yet our brains are still wired, as you say, so that the limbic connection to the cortex is more persuasive to action than is the cortex connection to the limbic system. I don't think it's a coincidence that one of Hitler's favorite aphorisms was "action over ideas". |
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| Dec-14-09 | | visayanbraindoctor: Very nice way of putting it.
Oh, I am supposed to be of Asian-Malay stock, as most Filipinos, but I look more like Chinese or Japanese. Maybe I could pass myself off as Korean as well if I avoid the sun for two months.(",) So I must have had come Chinese ancestors. However, the only foreigner in my family that I know of for sure is the Grandpa of my Grandmother; he was half Norman (French) and half Spanish more or less. Gotta run to work. |
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| Dec-14-09 | | Red October: is one allowed to be an Anti-@#$%ite ? |
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| Dec-14-09 | | Red October: HEY! I just noticed that you never asked me to go into battle against the Chimp!! Not smart enough eh ? Well going by my performance in the cg.com egg hunt you're probably right... |
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| Dec-14-09 | | Red October: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaU-... |
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| Dec-14-09 | | crawfb5: Hey, I actually <found> Marc Simonet for clue #2, but only had time to check his games as black before running off to work. I'd not deciphered the "Si" abbreviation part... |
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| Dec-14-09 | | technical draw: Thanks for the well wishing JFQ. I have my ups and downs. I don't know if it's the seasonal flu or what but sometimes I feel ok and sometimes I feel like, uh, not ok. I think I'm taking too many medications too, with a lot of interactions. Oh, well I'll just pretend it's the 60's...groovy... |
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