Trav, what's the tune called that this interview fades out to? The very last song? I just watched that Beatles interview you posted above, on the steps of Abbey Rd, and George looks cool as f*@k, don't you think? And in my not so infinite wisdom, I was sure "I, me mine" was a typical Lennon McCartney written song with the melodic verses from paul and uptempo heavy sounding chorus from Lennon , but it's a George song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Z4>...

Here's the ultimate Cat Stevens song...
"If I ever lose my head I won't moan and I won't beg, If I ever lose my head I won't have to think when I'm playing chess no more". ; P

I have done the exact same thing dozens of times, thinking I'm posting in Trav's forum but actually posting in mine, and vice versa.

<Hanh> is getting into a master level chess rating. Can you get her to post some of her games?

<Open Defence: I'm thinking of forming a Christmas Folk Music Group called "Peter, Paul & Merry">

Heh... if you do, be sure to upload your famous tracks on your youtube channel.

A relative of yours is rated 2175?
Who is it?

It's okay love, no worries. I actually misread your post anyway, I thought it said the rating was 2715!! But 2175 is still very very good 😃

Very busy with my new canine friend, almost 16 weeks old, and more than a handful! His name is Timmie, or Tim, once he is a big boy...

Today, early during the night, I was somehow reminded by a wonderful Michael Jackson expression, from his Rehearsal DVD, "You must let it simmer....BATHE IN THE MOONLIGHT.." -- and as I looked out my bedroom window I saw this beautiful cloud formation "bathing in moonlight", literally, and I knew exactly what MJ meant, it truly was like that, the individual little clouds were indeed "bathing" in moonlight; a better description would not be available.

I thought it was stunning, and from my 8th floor window I had perfect view. A painting outside my window there, and i could not take my eyes off it! Kid you not, and the expression is so spot on.

At least he could call Lupi 15 days prior to his death:

<‘Fifteen days before his death, I was called on the telephone and heard Dr Alekhine ask me sadly whether I wanted to work with him on “Comments on the Best Games of the Hastings Tournament”, adding: “I am completely out of money and I have to make some to buy my cigarettes”.’> Lupi's "The Broken King" on p. 185 of the October 1, 1946 'Chess World'.

Link: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

It's the saddest chapter of a life full of horrible events.

I doubt it would have been as easy for Johnny to get a phone call through to Mighty Mike in Moscow though.

<Fifteen days before his death>

You know I have looked at many different sources about the "last days of Johnny" and they appear mainly to derive from the <Lupi> article you cite. I think he published his reminiscence in two parts originally, though I haven't checked. All of it is reprinted in <Pablo Moran's> book.

Constructing a reliable time line of the last events of Johnny's life appears to be troublesome, to say the least.

I have archived the research I did on this so far in this mirror, near the top under the heading "NEGOTIATIONS for Alekhine-Botvinnik title match":

Sorry I haven't checked my forum in days, they are trying to work me to death at school, and I spend any free time on the WCC Editing project.

If I don't, it will never get finished.

You sound to be in fine spirits with your new roomate!

Any chance of sending some recent photos of him?

<Larry> has been sending me tons of dog photos, and dog videos for that matter.

Highly recommended.

Love,

I just spent some vacation time laying on the beaches of Antarctica. There's nothing like returning to the homeland!

Of course, the penguins were loud as hell and one of them puked krill in my shoes.

If I don't, it will never get finished.>

Dear friends, no need to worry! I'm just exaggerating and giving myself a pep talk.

They are not really trying to work me to death at my school. If anything, every day there becomes more pleasant because I'm starting to get to know the students.

As for the WCC Project, I work on it any chance I get because I love doing it. I'm not rushing, and I agree there is no rush. We have made good progress as you say, <Karpova>, thanks in large part to your writing.

I enjoy the hunt for information. I was combing through the hundreds of Russian chess history books I have, which is difficult because most of the titles are in Cyrillic letters which I can't read.

But after a few days of careful looking, I was delighted to find that I had two volumes I really need- Mighty Mike's book on the <1961 Rematch with Tal>, and also Vainstein's biography of <Bronstein>.

It takes a long time to convert the pages to PDF "snapshots" and then convert them to a word file and then plug sentences into the Google translator, but I already have a good idea of what I'm looking for because it's referred to by other (English language) sources.

Still, I want to find the original source. Also you usually find something new as well.

It's like finding a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, or like finding a golf ball with your bare feet in the mud beneath the water traps on a golf course at night.

When we were teenagers that's what we used to do. After all night at the golf course, feeling for the balls in the mud with our bare toes, we'd collect several hundred. Then we'd sell them back to the golf course during the day for 50 cents each.

Every time your toes found a new ball, it was like a new day.