Hello Delhi
Well hello Delhi
It's so nice to have you
Back where you belong.

<jameschess> I can't thank you enough for your notice brah.

It appears I put the crosstable in from an entirely different event.

I believe I have fixed it now, thanks to you. I also re-arranged the presentation a little.

<jameschess> Thanks again for your notice. What a fascinating story of <Evgeny Sadovsky> you revealed on his player page: E Sadovsky (kibitz #1)

Thanks to your information, I was able to construct a fuller biography: E Sadovsky

<Deffi> lol I didn't investigate any of the games from <Magnus Carsalesman's pickled herring barbecue challenge> yet.

Might you post the games in question here and give your observations about the <Maximum Louis Vutton> vs <Amish Guru>?

Feel free to load FENs in here. I don't understand much chess without pictures eh.

Have you been playing any chess yourself? I have accidentally become a passable correspondence player by participating in a dozen or more tournaments over at <Kingscrusher's> correspondence site. My OTB at chess club, on the other hand, has been sinking like an Oil Tanker with a not so slow leak.

moved back to Bangalore but don't play chess anymore the way I used to, I do teach kids chess sometimes, though i phone it in and make them watch <Yasser Seirawan> videos on the <You Tub>

<Deffi> That's it exactly eh. Sometimes in OTB at chess club I feel like I'm phoning in moves, but I never feel like that on CC. On <Kingscrusher> site there is no engines allowed, but it's an honor system. I haven't ever suspected an opponent was looking at an engine during a game. At the ratings range I play in, I doubt there's any motive for cheating. At <Kingscrusher>, we play for no money and no glory!!

I used to rent <Yessir! Seirawan> DVDs to play on the TV. At that time, dinosaurs ruled the earth.

Did you ever listen to <Boomie's> video where he phoned in to <Yessir!> during a chess commentary? They were old blitz buddies from Sasquatchewan, Washington State. When <Yessir!> recognized <Boomie's> voice his whole head lit up "UNCLE TIM!" he roared.

<Maximum Louis Vutton> being the fashion icon he is used the <Cole Semi-Slav> to tempt the Amish horse

Notes by Stockfish 9 v010218 (minimum 6s/ply)

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bxf6 Qxf6 7.e3

[bad FEN: rnbrnb1kb1r/pp3pp1/2p1pq1p/3p4/2PP4/2N1PN2/PP3PPP/R2QKB1R]

now in my experience 7...Nbd7 is more common here or 7...Bd6 which could transpose

7...g6 8.Ne5 Bg7 9.f4 O-O 10.Qc2

<as per cg.com's computer analysis better is 10.Be2 dxc4 11.Nxc4 Qe7 12.O-O Nd7 13.Qb3 b6 14.Bf3 Ba6 ⩲ +0.55 (24 ply)>

However a move that caught my eye was 10.g3 now this probably lets Black equalize however if in the long Black trades his DSB for the Knight on c3 in order to double his pawns and stop a White Q side pawn advance, perhaps White has play against the Black King

So after 10.g3 maybe best is 10...Qe7 11.Be2 and after 11.Nd7 its probably equal e.g. 12.0-0 Nxe5 13.fxe5

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10...c5= -0.17 (26 ply) 11.dxc5? <probably the real error> 11.g3 cxd4 12.exd4 Nc6 13.Rd1 Qd8 14.Bg2 Ne7 15.O-O dxc4 = -0.03 (28 ply)

11...Nc6 ⩱ -0.80 (27 ply)

12.Nxc6 bxc6 13.Bd3 Qe714.Na4 e5 15.fxe5 <better is 15.O-O e4 16.Be2 d4 17.exd4 Bxd4+ 18.Kh1 Rd8 19.Rad1 Rb8 = -0.50 (26 ply)>

15...Qxe5 ⩱ -1.11 (27 ply) 16.O-O Qxe3+ 17.Kh1 Be6 18.cxd5 Bxd5 19.Bc4

<better is 19.Nc3 Bxc3 20.Qxc3 Rfe8 21.Rae1 Qg5 22.Qc2 Rxe1 23.Rxe1 ⩱ -0.70 (28 ply)>

19...Rad8 ⩱ -1.31 (27 ply)

<after 19...Bxc4 20.Qxc4 Rae8 21.Rad1 Re4 22.Qb3 Qxb3 23.axb3 >

20.Rae1 Qg5 21.Re2?

<21.Bxd5 Rxd5 22.b3 Be5 23.Qf2 f6 24.Qf3 Rfd8 25.Nc3 Rd3 ⩱ -0.75 (28 ply)>

21...Bxc4 ∓ -1.90 (31 ply) 22.Qxc4 Rd4 23.Qa6?

<23.Qc2 Rh4 24.h3 Be5 25.Qb3 Bc7 26.Kg1 Rd4 27.g3 Rh4 ∓ -1.64 (32 ply)>

23...Be5?

<23...Rh4 24.h3 Qg3 25.Nc3 Be5 26.Rxe5 Qxe5 27.Qxc6 Rc4 -+ -2.75 (28 ply) >

24.g3 ∓ -1.53 (31 ply)

24...Qh5 25.Rg2 <better is 25.Nc3 Bxg3 26.Rg2 Be5 27.Qe2 Qxe2 28.Rxe2 f6 29.Ne4 a5 ∓ -1.60 (30 ply)>

25...Rd1 ∓ -2.17 (31 ply) 26.Qc4?

<26.g4 Rxf1+ 27.Qxf1 Qg5 28.Nc3 Bxc3 29.bxc3 Re8 30.Re2 ∓ -2.08 (32 ply)>

26...Qf3-+ -57.81 (35 ply)

Here White resigned 0-1

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if 27.Rxd1 Qxd1+ 28.Rg1 Qf3+ 29.Rg2 Rd8 30.Qe2 Rd1+ 31.Qxd1 -+ -57.89 (34 ply)

Not given by the engine is the alternative

27.h3 Rxf1+ 28.Qxf1 (if 29.Kh2 Bxg3+ 30.Rxg3 Rh1#)

and now 28...Qxf1+ 29.Kh2 (if Rg1 then Qxh3#) 29...f5 30.Rg1 Qf2+ 31.Kh1 Rd8 32.Nc2 Rd2

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and only abandoning material or waiting moves staves off mate for a couple of moves 33.Ne2 Rxe2 34.Rg2 Qxg2#

Josif Israel Zilber

He ended up in the USA although born in Riga

though he had 3 pages some games appear to be missing for example the 1950 Latvian Chess Championship which I found here...

http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub...

From one majesty to another. Happy birthday to Queen Elizabeth, who turns 94 today.

Also National Tea Day here in Blighty. Celebrating the power of the cuppa.

Oh yeah. Some serious shiit going down.

<Pantaloon>

I hope you are navigating the srs business as well brah. As usual you surmise correctly... just in the last few days my sleepy farm community has had surgical masks galore for all, and today the plastic gloves made a reappearance.

I don't go anywhere without them. If somebody gives me trouble, I simply pretend I'm a medical professional.

Example. Today I was in our version of TESCOS and a kindly old lady appealed to me for help. In fact, she was at least 194 years old, like our Queen (yes she's our Queen too).

She said "Young lady, would you mind getting that tin of lima beans down from the shelf for me."

Imagine her surprise when I thundered "Dammit Jim! I'm a doctor, not a sanitary napkin"!

I thought she was likely a Star Trek devotee, and would enjoy the riposte.

Hi <jessicafischerqueen>, I think the below is the correct crosstable, when I checked in http://periodika.lv/periodika2-view... which their points are tally with the database's result.

Pl Name Fed 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 Pts 1 Bohatirchuk, Fedor Parfenovich UKR • ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 11.0 2 Arlauskas, Romanas LTU ½ • ½ 1 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 10.0 3 Endzelins, Lucius LAT 0 ½ • 1 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 10.0 4 Rankis, Augusts LAT 1 0 0 • 1 0 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 8.0 5 Sadovsky, Evgeny Ivanovich RUS 0 0 0 0 • 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 7.0 6 Repecka, Josef LTU 0 1 1 1 0 • 0 1 1 0 1 0 ½ 0 6.5 7 Tautvaisas, Povilas LTU 0 ½ 0 1 0 1 • ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 6.5 8 Skema, Kazys LTU 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 ½ • 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 6.5 9 Darznieks, Arturs LAT 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 • ½ 1 ½ 1 1 6.0 10 Jursevskis, Walter LAT 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ • 1 1 1 1 6.0 11 Sepp, Leopold EST ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0 ½ 0 0 0 • ½ 1 1 5.0 12 Zemitis, Valdemars LAT 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ • 0 1 3.5 13 Valdsaar, Herbert EST 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 0 0 1 • 0 2.5 14 Liepnieks, Aleksandrs LAT 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 1 • 2.5 Source: Meerbeck 1946 (A.J.Gillam, The Chess Player 2009) pg 2-5

Help me!

I've gone full retro. I've been playing Zork Grand Inquisitor and enjoying it way too much.

The Grand Inquisitor, played masterly by Erick Avari, has banished magic from the kingdom.

He's gone a bit over the top. And when I say a bit I mean the max.

"Shun magic, and shun the appearance of magic. Shun everything, and then shun shunning."

"Who is the boss of you? Me! I am the boss of you."

<jameschess>

All of your corrections appear to be accurate.

Please take a close look at the revised tournament collection, to make sure I haven't missed anything: Game Collection: Meerbeck 1946 Displaced Persons tournament

I stayed up all night figuring things out- apart from me initially putting the wrong crosstable in, which wasn't even from Meerbeck 1946- when I did type up the crosstable for Meerbeck 1946 listed in Gillam's tournament book, it was also incorrect, as you noticed.

Your revised crosstable matches the written descriptions in the Latvian chess column you posted- I translated that with google and included it in the revised games collection.

The game scores Gillam gives are correct and match your crosstable, though ironically, they do not match the crosstable he gives in his own book. The reason those three game results you listed are different than what your revised crosstable predicts is that I uploaded those three games with incorrect scores. I will have to submit correction slips for them. The *actual* scores for those games given by Gillam match your crosstable predictions.

Anyways take a good look at this maybe there is more to correct?

You deserve a lifetime premium membership for this, not just one year.

Ha! Nice one. Bring the Klingons into the conversation if you ever see her again. That would be sure to freak her out.

Regarding PPE, nothing much has emerged here yet, at least not on a scale that allows the masses to equip themselves.

No masks, gloves, sanitiser … nothing. I kid you not.

Without doubt, we’ve had it ‘ard. Openin’ letters wit’ bare hands, lickin’ parcels clean wit’ tongue. All before a 25 hour day down t’ mill. Havin’ t’ virus in yer ‘ouse only entitles yer to knock off 15 minutes early so yer can go home and bury yer dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKH...

(Great to see Marty Feldman in the original screening … and not to forget the recently departed Tim Brooke-Taylor)

But seriously, it feels like our government gets hammered every day over the shortage of PPE in the health service, and so feels pressure to divert every last bit of it away from the public. Not great. Especially when you see footage from places like Japan, where the street food sellers literally give away free sanitiser bottles with each purchase.