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| Dec-24-09 | | chessmoron: <Jess> Happy Holidays! Hope you like my EMU to you that I send. |
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| Dec-24-09 | | achieve: <Canada> Incredibly powerful poem, Jess. "This bound and bleeding heart"
"your heart" |
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Dec-24-09
 | | jessicafischerqueen: ack Marry Christmas everyone!!
I had to work on Christmas Eve because this is a Heathen country and there was a "teacher training" session that actually was just a bunch of old guys drinking whiskey and laughing maniacally. But it would have been impolitic to try to get out of it. It's Christmas Morning here already because I live in the wrong time zone!! Ok I have not time because I'm going to my friends house to spend day with his family- And I'm trying to finish a Andrew Sweeny music video to send as a present to my REAL FAMILY back home right now <Niels>!!!!!!
I didn't write that poem- that's the lyrics to the last song on Andrew's new record and I'm making a video of it now- I don't have a word processing program on my laptop so I use my forum as a "holder of text" for projects sometimes. I regard word processing programs to be evil.
Insane?
Sure, but there it is
Ok back later tonight with proper Christmas Bleatings to you <Travis> especially I will bask in your Christmassy cheer in your house of music then ok i have to run no time no time Jess |
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| Dec-24-09 | | chessmoron: Did you get my EMU? |
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Dec-24-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Wilson> I will check today MERRY CHRISTMAS <McLovin> I am in a giant rush here apologies I will be sure to reply to your EMU tonight- Love Jess |
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Dec-24-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Jess's fake word processing program
Shine in All Directions
This Mountain cannot be
Scarred by Mere Words
Or the Engines of Progress
Pyramids and Moons
The Sunrise cannot be
Measured or Instructed
It does not need to find a way
To say I love you every day
To say I love you every day
To say I love you every day
This village in the Southwest of France
It does not know the frenzied dance
of Ciphers and skeletons
Who run beneath the Midnight Sun
Who run beneath the Midnight Sun
Who run beneath the Midnight Sun
There's a New Moon
A tear and a Promise
One day your sadness
Will be exhausted
And a star flower
Will shine in all directions
Will shine in all directions
Will shine in all directions
This house of mud and stone
Was built so carefully
with so much affection
And blood and seed
The fruit on this tree
It has no country
No person and no creed
No bible and no Gun
This beautiful morning
Is simply the expression
Is simply the abundance
Of what loves to be
Of what loves to be
Of what loves to be
There's a New Moon
A tear and a Promise
One day your sadness
Will be exhausted
And your star flower
Will shine in all directions
Will shine in all directions
Will shine in all directions |
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| Dec-24-09 | | madlydeeply: i must be old....i saw the nutcracker suite and i LIKED it! ? yeah it was sweet. hmmm. and cute. What the hell? |
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| Dec-25-09 | | Boomie: <jessicafischerqueen> For making slide shows, I've always used Power Point. You can do just about anything with it. You may have Power Point as a part of your Office package. So the price is right for you. Zuzu's Petals! |
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| Dec-25-09 | | Boomie: <JessieMeg at the Movies> I feel so ignorant.
This channel has a Billy Wilder farce on "One, Two, Three". Wilder is my favorite director of all times and I never heard of this gem. James Cagney is a Coca-Cola exec in Berlin at the height of the Cold War. Hilarity ensues. Cagney is at the top of his exasperated game. I recommend it for an uproarious couple of hours.
Wilder's ability to write "smart" dialogue in what was his third or fourth language astounds me. |
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Dec-25-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Music from Canadian/French folksinger <Andrew Sweeny> "Shine in all Directions"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP5I... |
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| Dec-25-09 | | crawfb5: A nice Billy Wilder bio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_...
He practically invented film noir with <Double Indemnity>. He was the director who first paired Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. He cast Bogart as a romantic lead in <Sabrina>. <Sunset Boulevard> <Some Like it Hot> <Stalag 17> <The Seven Year Itch> <The Fortune Cookie> Wilder was a force of nature.
In your travels through cybervideo land, you might be able to find the "American Masters" that was done on Wilder for US public television about ten years ago. |
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| Dec-25-09 | | notyetagm: S Sjugirov vs Svidler, 2009 23 c2-c3 1-0
click for larger viewIs it really 1-0? YES!
http://www.thechessmind.net/storage... <What? 23.c3 and Black resigns? It's obvious at a glance that Black is worse - the mighty knights on c5 and e5 testify to that. But is it really time to throw in the towel? Let's work things out. First of all, White has a threat: 24.Nxe6, because 24...Qxe6 25.Ng6+ and 26.Rxe6 wins. Ok, surely this isn't a problem, is it? Let's try 23...Rfe8. Oops, that fails to 24.Nf7+ winning the queen. Ok, 23...Rae8. That doesn't lose on the spot, but 24.axb5 axb5 25.Ra6 is terrible for Black. He can't protect the pawn with 25...Rc8 because of 26.Nxe6 Qxe6 27.Ng6+ or with 25...Ng7 due to 26.Ned7, while 25...Bxe5 26.Rxe5 creates new problems. The g5 pawn is hanging, Bxb5 is still a threat, and there's the further threat of 27.Qe2 with a double attack on e6 and h5. So what's left in our starting position? There's 23...Bxe5, but after 24.Rxe5 Black has the familiar problem of having to defend e6 and g5. How about 23...Ng7? Then 24.Bxh7 Kxh7 25.Qd3+ followed by infiltration on g6. <<<In sum, once we ignore the equal material and the fact that it's only move 23 and that a player of Svidler's immense ability is playing Black, and just look at the position on its merits, we can see that it really is horrible, really is lost.>>> [23.c3 Ng7 (23...Rfe8?? 24.Nf7+ ; 23...Rae8 24.axb5 axb5 25.Ra6 Bxe5 (25...Ne7 26.Ned7! ; 25...Rc8 26.Nxe6 Qxe6 27.Ng6+ Bxg6 28.Rxe6 ) 26.Rxe5  ; 23...Bxe5 24.Rxe5 ) 24.Bxh7 Kxh7 25.Qd3+ Kg8 26.Qg6 ] 1-0> |
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| Dec-25-09 | | Open Defence: Merry Christmas <Jess> !!! Merry Christmas <Wilson> !!! |
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| Dec-25-09 | | madlydeeply: merry christmas james brown style!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-f1... |
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| Dec-25-09 | | madlydeeply: ok one more james brown christmas
merry christmas baby!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xg6... |
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| Dec-25-09 | | chessmoron: <Jess> Be sure to check your email. |
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| Dec-25-09 | | Travis Bickle: Jess drink down a couple of eggnogs and listen to this song. ; P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCAW... |
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| Dec-25-09 | | notyetagm: S Sjugirov vs Svidler, 2009 I love how Mig says that, <PAWNS THAT MUST NOT BE PUSHED>. :-) 22 ♘b3-c5
click for larger viewThere are *HUGE* <HOLES> in the Black position on e5 and c5, and the e6- and g5-pawns are terribly weak, all because of <PAWN PUSHES>. Game Collection: Every time you push a pawn it weakens squares "Svidler pushed a few too many Pawns That Must Not Be Pushed" Svidler played this game like this 1500 player at one of my clubs. He loves to <PUSH PAWNS>, thinking he is <GAINING SPACE>, while all he is really doing is <CREATING PERMANENT WEAKNESSES>, just like Svidler did in this game. |
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| Dec-25-09 | | notyetagm: <JFQ> Here is my Christmas present to you, some good advice that Svidler failed to live by in the above miniature(!) that he lost: <DO NOT PUSH PAWNS THAT MUST NOT BE PUSHED!> Merry Christmas :-) |
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| Dec-25-09 | | kormier: <jessicafischerqueen> joyeuses fetes.....tks |
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| Dec-25-09 | | notyetagm: Game Collection: If chess was a religion, Morphy would be God. |
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| Dec-25-09 | | notyetagm: A Timofeev vs D Khismatullin, 2009 49 b3-b4!!
click for larger viewGame Collection: The powerful passed pawns 49 b3-b4!! leads to tidal wave of White passed queenside pawns 49 ... b6x♖a5 50 b4xa5
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| Dec-25-09 | | notyetagm: J Sriram vs R Laxman, 2009 <notyetagm: This game has one of the most instructive tactical sequences I have *ever* seen.Figure out why Black resigns after 18 e5xNf6!. Why does the obvious <DESPERADO> 18 ... Qe7xRa3 fail? Hint: <FORCING MOVES>.> (VAR)
18 ... ♕e7x♖a3
click for larger view19 ♕e2x♗f3?!
click for larger view18 ... ♕e7x♖a3 19 ♕e2x♗f3 was *not* the solution I was looking for. <RYBKA 3> gives 19 ... ♕a3-a5! ▢ as equal. 19 ... ♕a3-a5! ▢
click for larger viewAnalysis by Rybka 3 32-bit:
1. = (0.00): 19...Qa3-a5 20.d4-d5 g7xf6 21.Qf3-g4+ Kg8-h8 22.Qg4-h4 f6-f5[] 23.Qh4-f6+ Kh8-g8 24.d5xe6 f7xe6 25.Qf6xe6+ Kg8-h8 26.b2-b4 Qa5xb4 27.Qe6-e5+ Kh8-g8 28.Bd3xf5 Rf8xf5 29.Qe5xf5 Ra8-e8 30.Qf5-d5+ Kg8-g7 31.Qd5-g5+ Kg7-h8[] 2. (5.08): 19...Qa3xd3 20.Qf3xd3[]
So, again, why does the *APPARENT* <DESPERADO> 18 ... ♕e7x♖a3 fail? HINT: I used the terms "*APPARENT* <DESPERADO>" for a reason. |
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| Dec-26-09 | | Bdellovibrio: From Jerome Charyn's <Ping-Pong and the Art of Staying Alive>: <It's ironic that Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest chess champions of all time, also played ping-pong, and at Marty [Reisman's] club. "Fischer played ping-pong the way he played chess: fiercely, ferociously, going for his opponent's jugular. He was not a bad player, though his style was awkward and unorthodox. He had awesome concentration." Reisman remembers him as "a killer, a remorseless conscienceless ice-blooded castrator..."> |
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| Dec-26-09 | | SugarDom: Like i said, if Lady Jessica did not snarl at you and exile you in the iggy bin at one point in your kibitzing career, you're not "made" in Chessgames.com... MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! |
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