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| Jun-20-11 | | hms123: <pulsar> What a fabulous article! I think I see a <jess> special video in the making. |
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| Jun-20-11 | | notyetagm: Gelfand vs Kamsky, 2011 <lost in space: 16. a3?? c4! 17. dxc4 (instead of Qxc4) 17...Nc5 and the queen is gone too.> 
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16 a2-a3?? <self-block: a3>
click for larger view16 ... c5-c4! <clearance: c5>
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17 d3xc4 ♘d7-c5 <trapped piece: b3-queen>
click for larger viewGelfand clearly missed IMHO the most difficult <KNIGHT PATTERN> to see on the board, <THE OPPOSITE SIDES OF A 3X5 RECTANGLE>, here the d7- and b3-squares. This pattern is *especially* hard to see on a crowded board, as it is here. The Black d7-knight just seems to come out of nowhere (the Black 2nd rank) to harvest the White b3-queen, which is <STALEMATED>. <Rob Morrison: Wow!! 16 . . . c4!! What a beautiful move! 16. a3? was a form of helpmate on white's queen but very easy to overlook the stunning reply.> Yes, Gelfand is the new challenger to World Champion Anand, is rated over 2740, and completely(!) overlooked that 16 a2-a3?? c5-c4! results in a fatal loss of material due to a <TRAPPED> queen. |
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| Jun-20-11 | | fab4: So we have a 'secret society' .. This forum is still open I suppose for comments ?! |
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| Jun-20-11 | | fab4: And as a conclusion to my top ten most charismatically handsome chessplayers of all time .. I will add
7. Keres
8.Alekhine ( before the drink)
9. Zukertort
10. Lasker ( early days ) |
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| Jun-20-11 | | TheFocus: I believe <TheFocus> should be in that Top Ten. |
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| Jun-21-11 | | pulsar: <hms123> I thought the same when I read that article. Might be of some use to <JFQ> so I posted the link here. :) |
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| Jun-21-11 | | crawfb5: I had accepted an invitation to join a team at ChessWorld some time back, but with the passage of time forgot about it. Recently, I had a number of new games show up all at once, rather unexpectedly, I might add. Fortunately, I didn't have much of an existing game load. Anyway, here's a position from my first "team" win I thought you might enjoy. crawfb5-NN
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| Jun-22-11 | | Thanh Phan: <jessicafischerqueen> Know you helped provide the ~how to pronounce names for the <Annie K> series at Youtube and both self also sister wish to offer our thanks for the help provide the video series. A notes at <Annie K.> forum yet we had thoughts it would be nice to left a note here as well on yours for your contribute to being able to say names without having to Stop and Point lol Take care all times ~Thanh |
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| Jun-22-11 | | fionas88888: <Jess>,
Read This And Weep!
39. fionas88888 1,562
148. jessicafischerqueen 896
What had gone so wrong??? |
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| Jun-22-11 | | fionas88888: Do you get why 4tmac actually ended up with -26,691 chessbucks?? Weird. And <A<n<i<m<u<s<E<t<O<b<l<i<v<i<o<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (such a weird name) ended up with -3735? Also <w<e<i<r<d>>>>> because in the last championship leg <A<n<i<m<u<s<E<t<O<b<l<i<v<i<o<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (such a weird name) actually came first?! |
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| Jun-22-11 | | fionas88888: I don't mean to insult anyone by my previous comments. What I'm saying is just the clear facts. I hope this clarifies it for any confused readers. -Fiona |
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| Jun-22-11 | | crawfb5: I will have some more stuff to send you in the near future. I am just now working my way through the mid-late 1950s of <Chess Life>. There's a Fischer loss to Bisguier in the 1956 Rosenwald tournament that nobody has bothered to upload. Maybe I'll do that this weekend. To tide you over, here are Fischer's ratings for 1956-1958: May 1956 -- 1726
May 1957 -- 2231!!
Mar 1958 -- 2626!!! (second only to Reshevsky) |
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| Jun-22-11 | | TheFocus: <crawfish> All of Bobby's tournament games are in here. Please see my game collections. Here is the game you mean. Bisguier's win over Bobby. Bisguier vs Fischer, 1956 |
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| Jun-22-11 | | crawfb5: Ah, yes, I overlooked it on the list. Been up too long, I suppose. |
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| Jun-22-11 | | TheFocus: Actually, there are four games and the final moves of the match game 2 against Euwe missing. I posted the game-scores in my collections. I really ought to upload them. |
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Jun-22-11
 | | LIFE Master AJ: A game just played on ICC ...
Its a BULLET game! (One minute, NO delay or increment.) Black is a fairly well-known figure on ICC, he is an IM, and (as I understand things); he also does a lot of lessons there on ICC. (In one minute ...) Sometimes I LIKE to to take things out of book as quickly as possible, to see if your opponent is really thinking, or just pushing wood. A.J. Goldsby I (1742) - Abedov (1892) [C00]
ICC Internet Chess Club, 22,06,2011.
1.e4 e6 2.Nc3 d5 3.f4 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nh6 5.g3 b6 6.Bg2 Bb7 7.Nf6+ Qxf6 8.Bxb7 e5 9.d3 exf4 10.Bxf4 Bd6 11.Ne2 0-0 12.Bxa8 c6 13.0-0 Qd8 14.Bxd6 Qxd6 15.Nf4 Qc7 16.Qf3 Nf5 17.Rae1 Nd4 18.Qf2 Rd8 19.c3 Nf5 20.Nh5 g6 21.Nf6+ Kg7 22.Ne8+ Rxe8 23.Rxe8 Nd7 24.Re3 Nc5 25.Rf3 Ne6 26.Rxf5 gxf5 27.Qxf5 h6 28.Qf3 Ng5 29.Qxc6 Qe5 30.Qg2 Qe6 31.Be4 Nh3+ 32.Kh1 Ng5 33.Qf2 Qxa2 34.h4 Nh7 35.Qf5 Nf8 36.Qf6+ , and Black lost on time. 1-0 Nice crush, I did not miss anything ... at the end, when I was up a lot of material ... I was TRYING hard to crack open his King (by purposely giving back material) and mate, as I only had around 10 seconds (or less!) on my clock. (I give the final position of the game - below.) 
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Jun-22-11
| | LIFE Master AJ: He is not the first IM that I have beaten there, the other night I beat GM Danielsen, also (a few days before that); one of ICC's top one minute players. [I got lucky, he played a line I knew, (and have studied extensively with Fritz); I was able to bang out the first 20+ moves very quickly - thereby accruing a large time edge on the clock.] |
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Jun-22-11
| | LIFE Master AJ: I guess at 53 - the claims that I am "all washed up" (and no longer have "it") might not be true. Feeling good right about now ...
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| Jun-23-11 | | fab4: <LIFE Master AJ: I guess at 53 - the claims that I am "all washed up" (and no longer have "it") might not be true.
Feeling good right about now ... >
For a minute I thought this was <Jess> talking ! ... lol I'm feeling good too <AJ> .. so why don't you take me off 'ignore' you numptie ?! lol |
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| Jun-23-11 | | playground player: <Jessicafischerqueen> Jess, you're the chess historian in this neighborhood, so I appeal to you for information. Do you have any pictures of Thomas Wilson Barnes before and after his weight loss of 130 pounds in 10 months? Is there any information as to the exact cause of his weight loss? Did he put himself in the hands of a quack, or was this his own doing? I didn't get where I am today by losing 130 pounds in 10 months. |
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Jun-23-11
 | | M61MG Wrestler: New entry on my forum.
;-) |
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| Jun-23-11 | | crawfb5: <PGP> This is what <Westminster Papers> had to say in their obituary of Barnes: <His illness has been a long and painful one. This time last year he weighed 16 stones; he went abroad, and his strength seemed suddenly to leave him. With difficulty he got into a cab. He gradually wasted away, until he became 7 st. 8 lb., and this was the last time he was weighed (two months since), and he was certainly much less weight at the last. Physicians were in vain. No one really knows the cause of his death; some have suspected a cancer in the stomach, and, unfortunately, he would not give permission to have a post mortem, so that the real cause will always remain a matter of surmise. Our impression is that he died from "banting." From being an enormous eater he suddenly stopped his food, taking meat only once a week; and soon, from want of use, the stomach refused to fulfil its functions. He died in peace, and desired kind remembrances to all his friends. To us his last words were whispered, "Kind, kind to the last; God bless your wife and little ones." He lost his voice ten days before his death, and for twelve days he ate nothing.> There is an engraving of Barnes on the cover: http://books.google.com/books?id=iy... |
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Jun-23-11
 | | Phony Benoni: A stone being 14 lbs, we're talking a drop from 224 lbs. to 106 lbs two months before his death. "Banting" refers to a popular low carb diet of the time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willia... I'd be more inclined to blame a condition like stomach cancer. |
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| Jun-23-11 | | cormier: fisher's training game -> gligoric |
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| Jun-23-11 | | TheFocus: <cormier> Game Collection: 1992 - 1: Training Games Against Gligoric |
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