Warm regards,

Sir William

Meanwhile back at the Lupercalia, <Switch Owls for Thugs> makes a fine point: < Even <chessgames.com's birthday>, which has its origins in a gory pagan festival.>

This was a proto-chess ritual sanctioned by the prophet Mani, who claimed the cosmos was made of light squares and dark squares. He got the idea from Zoroaster, whose birthday was December 25th, year zero BZ.

<Jess> Two actual questions, you gotta moment? You mentioned an interview that Niels sourced? Any hints where I'd find it?

Second, you said you ordered a Duchamp book. So have I, but I'm still waiting. Is it 'Duchamp, the Art of Chess' ...? Jen Shahade and others? Or is it the incredibly rare 'Opposition and Sister Squares ...' ...?

<I see a total of 2 days in the month of February, the 11th and 14th, where you appeared. Your only other posting in February was on the Kibitzer's Cafe on the 2nd. <<<This is not acceptable.>>>> Well spotted; keep those magic glasses on! ;)

It's been like this for over a year now, maybe more, and a handful if not more heads up(s) have been addressed to Yours Trulies, ...

Seems the genie is out of the bottle, who'll say, but the lack of transparancy is what bugs me (and <tabanus and so many others) the most. It filters through every layer of the "organization".

"I'm sorry and we'll try blah blah blah"

Where the hell have I heard that before.

Just watched Polanski's "The Ghost Writer", I liked it. Poor sod, he's <banned> over there, isn't he.

On rare occasions, a perfect new song comes by. Dive into the calm waters of Radiohead (the best band in the world?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY-p... Don't know if it's your cup of tea. Anyway, set to 1080p for best audio quality.

33 ?

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33 ♘d4-c6! 1-0

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(CONTINUATION)
33 ... ♔d6x♘c6 <decoy: c6>

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34 ♗h3-g2+ <skewer: c6,a8>

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As usual- <Ohio> has hit the nail on the head and many are upset at the moment, who can blame them.

Please don't let the Nukluz dissuade you from using my forum as a "posting home" with unlimited prviliges.

LOL if you happen to remember my password, you could *really* have unlimited priviliges, such as deleting posts and posting under my user account. LOLOL. Sorry Niels but that was a fun episode for me. To this day, me you and Woody have made "posts" where nobody knows for sure who actually did the posting.

At any rate-

If you want to see the most scathing parody of the "situation" <Ohio> spoke of, head over to <Switching Owls for Thugs> house to see his version of the "Terms and Conditions" for our beloved, yet benighted, website.

Love to you and Lars-

I'm sorry to see your forum closed also- feel free to hang out here any time you want. You can have carte blanche- including rants and such.

1. Al Horowitz <From Morphy to Fischer - a History of the World Chess Championship>

http://www.amazon.com/Morphy-Fische...?

s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298265777&sr=1-15

This volume includes behind the scenes historical details about how every world championship

match was arranged- and played. Quite a shocking story in many respects.

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2. Gligoric and Wade <The World Chess Championship>

http://www.amazon.com/World-Chess-C...?

s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298267472&sr=1-6

Covers the years from 1948 to 1969- really in depth history of the personalities of the

players, and how those personalities translated over the board in unique "chess styles." This

book is a must have IMO.

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3. Kotov and Yudovich <The Soviet School of Chess>

http://www.amazon.com/Soviet-School...?

ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298267716&sr=1-1

This is an invaluable document, detailing the history of the "Soviet Chess School," how it

worked, and what impact it had on the evolution of style in chess.

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4. Mikhail Tal <Tal-Botvinnik 1960>

http://www.amazon.com/Tal-Botvinnik...?

ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298267778&sr=1-1

Fascinating first hand account by Mikhail Tal about how he and his trainer Alexander Koblents

analyzed the games, style, and especially opening repertoire of Botvinnik in order to beat him.

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5. Nikolai Krogius <Psychology in Chess>

http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Ch...?

s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298267921&sr=1-1

The first chapter of this book provides an intriguing theory about how the personalities of

various champions influenced their over the board style.

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6. Max Euwe <Meet the Masters>

http://www.amazon.com/Meet-Masters-...?

ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298268018&sr=1-1

Invaluable insight into the personality and chess styles of Alekhine, Capablanca, Flohr,

You were also right on the musical front; I'm arranging and editing songs, transcribing too, etc., aided by a program called <Notation Composer>, which allows me to make real pro looking sheets of music with staffs, clefs, keys, the whole yard.

Thanks for sharing your love and right back at ya. I'm online quite a lot, but 95% goes to music, whilst previously 95% went to CG, hehe, but really, what I'm managing to do right now with ther music is a childhood dream come true, as it were. Is!

And <Jess>, indeed when you are practicing hard, and sometimes just "fooling around" on the piano, you stumble on, or look for, extensions of chords, different positions- more closed or spread out- and some of these "discoveries" work so wonderfully well, really colouring the harmonies, that one just *has* to write them down. If you don't, there's a good chance it will evaporate over time, while the preservation of ideas and experiments are the very building blocks for developing further advanced harmonies and structures, and as you said, even tunes/songs/compositions, which do come with surprising regularity, if you just let your ears do their work, and hear outside the well known boxes and conditioning.

heh- if you can find my password- bound to be in an old email- you could delete EVERY SINGLE POST in this forum....

Seriously though I suspected you were on to creative action when you mentioned you were occupied with music.