I haven't seen the film, but I'm pretty sure they would have benefited from hiring several homeless people to play the recording engineers.

Those "C Movie" actors they got didn't convince me.

As usual, I'll have to wait to listen to your new selection.

Korea is a land of habit. Around dinner time to ten pm, every single person is on the internet, so buffer and download speeds almost halt.

However, from 4 AM until Noon, not one single Korean person is on the internet.

Even if you don't live in Seoul, you should come by on the first and/or third Sunday of the month for a round-robin style tournament!

1:30-6:00pm
2nd Floor of Hana Bank in front of exit #2 of Bongcheon subway Every Sunday (tournaments on the first and third Sundays)

http://yachess.com/club.html

Why didn't you tell anyone? I'm in the Southern part of the country, I've only been to Seoul twice in four years to go clubbing and to the racetrack.

This August I may fly to Europe since my Moms just informed me I have tons of "airmiles."

I can assure you that the drunken "youts" down on Queen Street west would insist that Toronto "owns" North York, if they actually knew where it was. None of them owns a car, so they're a bit fuzzy on even local geography.

I lived in Toronto for around a year and in Montreal for two more. I worked in Scarborough one winter delivering door to door surveys for the Canadian government.

It was pitch black and the rock solid ice was pocked with a deep layer of soot. It looked like the surface of the moon, and in the absence of any kind of structure over one storey, the wind chill factor gusted up into the -40s.

The only people who let me into their homes to do the survey were lunatics and shutins. If they opened the door with one hand and had a fifth of gin in the other I knew I would score.

We had to get a 1/10 ratio to keep our jobs, but we all faked our log sheets because it was impossible to do that.

We knew we were safe, however, since nobody in Scarborough ever answers any call from the government, let alone a "follow up call" to check if a surveyor had indeed come to their door.

<jess>

<None of them owns a car, so they're a bit fuzzy on even local geography.>

I know lots of people like that. Some of them aren't even louts, just CBC lefties.

Now I own a car- but long before I did I was at first year at York U. and a fresh faced kid from out West. I thought I might visit the zoo which as I am sure you know is in Scarberia. (You probably censused the Baboons in order to make your quota). So I decided to take public transit to get to the zoo. I am sure it would have taken less time to visit the Seoul zoo (if they have one- which you wouldn't know about since you don't live there).

Bu they do have a chess club in Scarborough so they can't be all bad.

I can give you some advice about 10 year old girl sleepovers though.

You can enjoy a headache-free experience with this simple formula.

First, lure them into a large room with lots of padding on the floors and walls and no sharp corners and no windows.

Make sure the room has a washroom attached and a nice array of bottled water, soft drinks, and cheesy poofs.

Do not put any chocolate or "energy drinks" in the room.

This worked very well for a few years, but then one year my wife suggested that I stay in town but stay at a friend's house instead. Big mistake. I ended up having to go home at midnight to talk my wife out of her plan to either kill them all, or more likely, to drop them off on their front lawns in the middle of the night.

In looking for the <Chess Review> coverage, I see that there was some controversy over tie-breaking that Open. They had to use <three> systems to do it, as half a car was of no use to anyone, I guess.

A player named Bolton took a break from his game. He came back and later won it when his opponent eventually resigned. Here's where it goes off the rails. A spectator tells Bolton that, while he was away from the board, his opponent made a move, then took it back and made another move. Bolton complained and insisted his opponent be forfeited for the game. This is what happened, possibly because Bolton won anyway and it seemed like the easiest, if not the most correct, solution.

Unfortunately, Bolton's action affected the Rossolimo-Reshevsky tiebreak:

<We hark back now to Bolton’s forfeit. Under the Median Tie-break, a sub-provision had been announced that points won by forfeit would count only half in the tie-break. Instead, therefore, of giving Reshevsky, who had won from Bolton, full credit from Bolton’s final tally, the management deducted one-half point from that forfeit-win.

So here we have the consequences. On a straight win by Bolton in that game, the title and the difference of about $1500 in prize money would have gone to Reshevsky on the Median Tie-break, the method legally pre-announced for settling ties in the tournament. But the management had ruled that game a win by forfeit.

Question: Is than ruling valid?> <Chess Review, 1955, p 289>

And you probably thought odd things only happened at modern tournaments.