Frightening! I'm not against action figures, but these ones are skeery.

Do you still have the bass with photo? Do you keep all your Beatles memorabilia in one place?

Well thank you very much Tim.

Not only have you NOT taken one too many hits off yourself, you've proven yet again that you are "one of the sharpest guys around here," to pass on a compliment to you from <hms123>.

I certainly didn't register. But suffice to say that Mrs. Alekhine now won't be making any "moves" in the Battle of the Beatles game.

I changed the password.

However, it's possible that I registered? When was the registration?

Please let me know when it was so I can rule out myself as the culprit!

Maybe I shouldn't have handed out the keys to my forums to so many people. I have this morbid fear that if I suddenly drop dead all of the stuff I I have squirreled away on any of my 300 premium accounts will disappear forever making all that work to compile chess history "facts" useless.

<chessgames.com: If you are a premium member and played in BOB3 you're already automatically signed up to the opposite color, otherwise you'll be assigned to a team randomly. Good luck!>

Here is a game-lecture I enjoyed you may have it but someone else here may not know of it. It is about a great game Aronian-Anand a couple of years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNdo...

<Time Bong> thanks for the tip and the warning. I shan't need to contact young David, since I don't actually ever vote on the BATTLE OF THE BEAVERS games. Usually I just sign up to see who is there, sometimes read a comment or three looking for any jokes I can steal for later use.

However, thanks for bringing that to my attention.

It's an opportunity to voice my biggest pet peeve about "realistic" TV and Movies.

Protip for directors: Don't put enough facial makeup on the women to stop a bullet. It looks terrible and any illusion of verisimilitude you may otherwise have achieved is immediately shot to hell.

<H> I will now remove the little makeup I use before going to work.

http://www.youtube.com/user/JennaMa...

I'd spell it "comedienne" but I don't hold with swishy feminine word endings. I find them demeaning.

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Now the lecture is great on many levels but I looked more closely at Anand's game and it was really not sound - unlike the beautiful and extraordinary game of Rubinsteins's. (Now there is no doubt in my mind that Anand is or was one of the World's greatest players ever especially his great tactical and combinations, deep endings etc [I've been through his bbook of games, and played the games of the Kasparov-Anand WC Match]]) but I think people (esp. young) see anything old as good but dated etc, and new things are totally new (almost always wrong) This leads to some wrong views.

Anand's play was original, and ingenious, but quite unsound (well,, that is how chess often is at all levels!), and I believe that, given time, playing white I could have defended his attack. My computer only gives Anand an advantage in the last part of the game. [O.k.I only used Fritz so maybe a more powerful comp. will show me something I am missing]

But Aronian did somewhat the same to Ivanchuk in one game. Chess is psychological struggle.

All that said she is fascinating to watch (not because she is beautiful or anything stupid (she is not "ugly" if that matters) she has a great presence and intelligence and a sense of humour as far as I can see.

But Anand's play / combination was quite unsound like many of his hero (Tal's) games. That said I have won games from dubious premises and his attack was ingenious.

I think she was saying that if modern GMs use their opening knowledge, positional and ending techniques them we see "dry" games (but that a game sans sacrifices is dry is a misconception - I think she knew that and referred to the point that relatively lower ranked players often play more "tempestuous" games...

But the implication (perhpas not hers only) that chess is very much stronger cf. "the old days" is dubious.

I don't see that. Kasparov and Karpov haven't really been surpassed and I don't feel nor has Botvinnik or Smyslov and all the other great masters back to Tarrasch and earlier...

Unfortunately Anand has played far better games with extraordinary combinatons that are far more sound and almost if not more beautiful.

If she had referenced vision and imagination and intuition (as well as calculation) and shown how Aronian could have defended and then shown how it pays off to gamble in chess (Fischer rarely did but such as Tal, Nezmet., Larsen and sometimes Kasparov did (more than say Fischer or Karpov [ at a deep level these two were "classicists" who sought the best move, Fischer being overall a bit more aggressive, but both always fixed on fining the best strategical plan ]...but to gamble in chess is also a strategy, In a tournament it might pay off in one or two critical games...psychology comes into play. {But Aronian's style would seem to preclude such an adventure!]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Wm...

A fake commercial made for a class project based on Homer's idea:

Lisa: "Dad! Women don't like to get shot in the face."