<Chess Grief> Check out Nakamura's reactions on the video "Live - Shulman Brilliancy" on http://stlouischessclub.org/2010-us... (after Shulman plays 24...Rxg5 in Nakamura vs Y Shulman, 2010).

Jennifer Shahade: "It looks like he's going through all the stages of grief"

(In case you've forgotten what they are:

Dr. Hibbert: There are five stages. First is denial.

Homer: No way, because I'm not dying.

Dr. Hibbert: Next comes anger.

Homer: Why you little...

Dr. Hibbert: After that comes fear.

Homer: (terrified) What's after fear? What's after fear?!

Dr. Hibbert: Bargaining.

Homer: Doc, you've got to get me out of this. I'll make it worth your while.

Hibbert: And finally, comes acceptance.

Homer: Well, we've all got to go sometime.

Also, great TV- Maurice Ashley if you see him in "sound bytes" he sounds exactly like any other moronic sports reporter but once he finally starts looking at a chess position his grandmasterness shines through.

Plus he's honest- he didn't see that the move was a blunder. He also credited another person with the line he then started exploring which does indeed win by force in all variations.

I triple checked by playing out all variations against my Engine as well.

But when Ashely was "on the scent," he honed in and found the beautiful move that continues the forced win in all variations.

Also, good that you put that Simpsons parody in.

You understand I'm sure that one of the reasons it's so funny is that we uncritically- and incorrectly- assume that *the* five stages of grief are actually something real.

*they* aren't, of course- that's a schematic model, it's not even a real theory.

But the INSTANT such psychological notions, no matter how well grounded, hit the presses and the public imagination, they are converted to "fact" in the public mind.

And they aren't facts.

The "tell tale sign" on this genre of pseudofact is precise numbering.

"The four noble truths, the eight-fold path, etc."

There aren't any precise numbers in philosophy or the humanities.

And with regard to the complexity and multivarious nature of human emotion and behavior, there ESPECIALLY aren't precisely "numbered stages" of anything.

Ironically, the actual social scientists who construct these models understand that they are in fact models, and aren't real.

"White Mexicans" all have some Mayans in the woodpile, and once the Mexicans swim across the Rio Grande they get some of the Brothers in they family sooner rather than later.

And don't get me started on Brazil! It boasts the most racially mixed population on the planet, which is one of the reasons they are ten times better looking than any other people. Bigger gene pool always trends up, never down.

This is why the Astrakhans are the world's ugliest looking people in the history of humanity.

It's well known that in just three more generations all Astrackhanians will look like Gollum.

GHOD

lol right this minute I'm listening to Garry Kasparov make fun of Astrakhan on the radio. He's promoting Karpov to become next FIDE president so the World Championship can return to "real cities" such as London, Amsterdam, Paris.

"Good bye Maurice, good bye Irena"
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA

He thinks Jennifer Shahade is Irena Krush.

Maybe he thinks women chess players are "interchangeable" so there's no point remembering their actual names.

<Jess> <You Bill!

Get Benjy in for his lunch now!> Ah, too late. He's been in the pasture too long...you know, the cow-pies. Actually, there's a Benji-like character who has a very brief, but somewhat memorable, appearance in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God (have you read it?). He bites the feet off a live bird someone's brought him for a pet/companion, and then dies in a fire that destroy's his house. Good Hallmark-moment kind of stuff...

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Heh.

once again. Where the spanish banged the natives but did not exterminate them..you got your beaners. Where the natives were exterminated and required more labor...you got your blacks. The English Royalists, according to a lovely book by a fella named Fischer called "albions seed", set up the exploitive plantation system... in Dixie, Jamaica, Barbados (birthplace of Alexander Hamilton), etc.

Incidentally, they (the English, who are not Celtic, but Germans) tried to set one up earlier in Ireland, using english peasants as labor, exterminating the irish, however the irish would work cheaper, a family living on an acre of potatoes, where english peasants refused to eat potatoes, so were to expensive to be used as peasants, and remained sailors and soldiers. this according to the Smithsonian exhibition "seeds of change". Thus, the Irish were allowed to expand back into ireland as tenant labor. Much like Mexican labor in the USA today.

So, the brit royalist were homicidal bastards. The spanish merely randy exploiters. Except for Christopher Columbus, who exterminated the Arawak and Carib indians, according to "people's history of the united states"...however was he even spanish? No! He was an italian!

you're welcome.

HAHAHAHAAH

My dear <Naked Man> yes your basic facts are on target- the ones you got out of the books. But your conclusions are every bit as wacky, scandalous, and incorrect as mine.

LOLOL

Much like in Canada

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA

You should read one book on Canada, preferably not written by Pierre Trudeau.

At any rate, Pizaro and Cortes and Aguirre weren't Italian you just can't single out the Pommies as homicidal or genocidal. Nor the Royalists- the Roundheads were doing exactly the same thing in Ireland and they cut off the King's head so no they weren't Royalists.

To this day, if you mention Oliver Cromwell in the wrong pub in Ireland you will be dragged in to the street and beaten.

Actually I've never been to Ireland so maybe they do that to you anyway at the Pubs.

AHAHAAHAHAHAAH "beaners" you are more outrageous than me. Likely we will both get banned- and rightly.

Oh well I wouldn't trade you in for anyone.

Oh and you got to include the Sioux they exterminated no fewer that <fourteen> different tribes after they got horses and guns from the Spanish, English, and French.

AHAHAHAAHAH you've never been to western Canada have you?

They also don't have any black people there and yes it's true that they are "not allowed."

There are also no Jews in Western Canada but I suspect that's because why on earth would anyone willingly go to Western Canada?

Tons of Jews in Toronto and Montreal and you may be pleased to know that in the rich neighborhoods, the Jewish and Italian kids used to beat each other up in Montreal, despite the family dynamics in both of these groups being IDENTICAL to the Soprano family.

You think I'm kidding? I spent hours with these people. Right down to the hairdos and terrible kitsch taste in art and threatening people over the phone- or in person.

I spent years with these people.

hmm no mexicans in canada eh? I find that hard to believe. Unless of course there are no crops that need to be picked in canada. Ok. Maybe so.

What i think is fascinating is the usa "melting pot" economic system...different ethnic groups kept in fear and conflict with each other so they can be exploited by the "capitalists"... is simply a distilled version of the British colonial system of exploiting ethnic tensions that already existed in the colonies...by arming one side then the other etc...well in the USA its a similar system but the different ethnic groups are IMPORTED and mixed together in a toxic soup of exploitable anger.

I've never been to western canada nope. You should give me a tour someday... then i can show you the "real cowboys"....that is... people who spend most of their time with cows and have no idea how to communicate with actual people... and they are primarily mexican not those stupid big hat white folks who think they are living a clint eastwood movies driving around their nissan sentras and their sh$#%y "republican" "conservatism"....yeah like that fool from connecticut who just ran our country for eight years...

AHH lets think of some more evil stuff!!!

That's what Blondie says when he watches the Yanks and Rebs fight over the bridge.

I believe one could learn everything they need to know about America from that one movie.

And Steamboat Willie. OK two movies then.

Well I guess technically there are Mexicans in Western Canada except we call them "Chinese people."

And no they never picked crops. They used them as human dynamite sticks to build the Great Railroad over the Prairies and through the Rockies.

Then they put them to work in the coal mines but the Scottish unions successfully agitated to have them all deported back to China.

After, they came back and bought all the real estate around False Creek. At present, Vancouver is about 60 per cent Asian.

Still no "real Mexicans" though.

There are plenty of crops in Western Canada, but they are picked by people known as 'Wheat combine machines.'