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keypusher
Member since Sep-23-04

Scott Thomson
The Perseus Project: The classics in Greek, Latin & English
https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/u...
A link to a page with downloads from the Venetus A, the oldest complete manuscript of the Iliad, courtesy of Harvard:
http://www.homermultitext.org/manus...
From Google Books, a link to Tarrasch's book on the 1908 world championship. I've translated his notes on the game pages.
http://books.google.com/books?id=0C...
Lasker's book on St. Petersburg 1909
http://www.google.com/books?id=o3eC...
Tarrasch's <Dreihundert Schachpartien>, which covers his career from the beginning through his match with Chigorin in 1893
https://books.google.com/books?id=9...
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.
-- H.G. Wells
Chess-play is a good and witty exercise of the mind for some kind of men, and fit for such melancholy, Rhasis holds, as are idle, and have extravagant impertinent thoughts, or troubled with cares, nothing better to distract their mind, and alter their meditations; invented (some say) by the general of an army in famine, to keep soldiers from mutiny: but if it proceed from overmuch study, in such case it may do more harm than good; it is a game too troublesome for some men's brains, too full of anxiety, all out as bad as study; besides it is a testy choleric game, and very offensive to him that loseth the mate. William the Conquerer, in his younger years, playing at chess with the Prince of France (Dauphine was not annexed to that crown in those days) losing a mate, knocked the chess-board about his pate, which was a cause afterwards of much enmity between them.
--Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Just because many great chess players were obnoxious jerks, doesn't mean that if you're an obnoxious jerk you're a great chess player.
--AgentRgent
You are also a machine, as are Anand, Carlsen, Kasparov, and Fischer. You and the others are just inferior machines. Your idea of beautiful chess is simply faulty chess that is not caught in its faults.
--vsaluki
Alas, before the post mortem the gods have placed the game.
--Phony Benoni
A chess engine is a great antidote to human optimism.
--johnlspouge
[Y]ou have not been mean to me. Being mean to me is accepting my sacrifices and then taking me to a lost ending.

--Sally Simpson

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   keypusher has kibitzed 32277 times to chessgames [more...]

   Apr-08-26 World Championship Women's Candidates (2026)

keypusher: <boz: Nobody wants to win this.> Jiner Zhu has finally reached first -- a tie for first, anyway.

   Apr-07-26 Chessgames - Politics

keypusher: NYT article re the decision to go to war -- hopefully not paywalled. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/...

   Apr-07-26 Kibitzer's Café

keypusher: (I Want to Live Like) Common People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxh...

   Apr-06-26 Botvinnik - Flohr (1933)

keypusher: <However....in this event USSR Championship (1944) Flohr and Botvinnik were favorites.> These stories all begin with bull****. Flohr had finished second behind Kotov in the Moscow semifinal. Other than that he had barely played chess since 1939. The idea that he would have ...

   Apr-06-26 Chessgames - Sports

keypusher: <UCLA's Betts will be eaten alive at the WNBA level. They'll take her lunch money.> Alright, I'm calling it. Thanks to HMM Lauren Betts is going to be WNBA Rookie of the Year.

   Apr-05-26 World Championship Candidates (2026)

keypusher: <SFOD> <teyss> <FSR> Thanks for the helpful responses. I think if you picked Sindarov second or even third you're doing pretty well (especially since the tournament isn't even half over).

   Apr-04-26 Caruana vs Bluebaum, 2026

keypusher: Great pun <rcs784>. And a glorious new chapter for the <Fawn Pawn>. Game Collection: Fawn Pawns Hope <Open Defence> sees this game.

   Apr-03-26 Vasiukov vs R Naranja, 1974

keypusher: [DIAGRAM] White finds a pretty win from here.

   Apr-03-26 Y Kraidman vs Vasiukov, 1974

keypusher: Wonderful finale from here. [DIAGRAM]

   Apr-03-26 Manila (1974)

keypusher: Best tournament of Vasiukov's life according to Chessmetrics. http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/Play...

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Jul-18-09		keypusher: <suenteuspo147> Actually, i just don't know how. It's hardly necessary for St. Pete '95-'96, since there were only four participants, but it would be nice for P&D. I really like progressive scoretables too. The Soviets were good about including those in their books. I hand-wrote one for Nuremburg 1896, but couldn't figure out a way to create it on screen.

Jul-20-09		WannaBe: Do you have any comments/opinions on this issue: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/colu... (??)

Jul-20-09		keypusher: <WannaBe> Thanks for the article! Unfortunately I don't have time right now to delve into this very interesting antitrust case, but I did skim the Department of Justice's brief to the Supreme Court urging the Court not to consider the case (which the Court decided to do anyway). The DOJ brief does indicate that the league is going for a home run (or maybe a long touchdown pass) in this case with its "single entity" theory. So stay tuned! Incidentally, the judge in the 7th circuit who wrote the opinion now being considered by the Court is the brother of Gregg Easterbrook, who writes the Tuesday Morning Quarterback column for ESPN.

Jul-20-09		Jim Bartle: Interesting tidbit. Gregg Easterbrook's TMQ is always a lot of fun to read, very witty, even though it always has huge holes in logic.

Jul-22-09		keypusher: <Jim Bartle: Interesting tidbit. Gregg Easterbrook's TMQ is always a lot of fun to read, very witty, even though it always has huge holes in logic.> Some have said the same about brother Frank's judicial opinions. :-) But that is one hell of a smart family.

Aug-01-09		PinnedPiece: <keypusher> You have written in a previous post (Ed Trc chessforum) that you know Jon D S-E. Have you met him in person? I ask because he has requested a phone interview, and I desire to remain anonymous here--especially with anyone I don't know (pretty much everybody, in fact).

Aug-03-09		JonDSouzaEva: I didn't request a phone interview, I asked to speak to you on the phone. I know what Trice sounds like. I've never met KeyPusher in person but we have known each other online for a long time now and have exchanged e-mails and family pictures!

Aug-14-09		keypusher: Yes, if <JohnDSouzaEVa is a figment of Trice's imagination he is a very convincing phantom, since I was in contact with him years before I knew Ed Trice existed.

Aug-14-09		Knight13: <keypusher> Leave me alone you bastard!

Aug-15-09		keypusher: <knight13> Really, I don't bother you as far as I can tell. If you want to see me really abusing someone, look up my posts about RookFile/Analyze This sometime. I abuse people as much as I think they deserve. You do two things I don't like: you occasionally spam the whole site, and you sometimes act as if great masters were idiots (as in your Naiditsch post). Re the former, I usually just put you on ignore, but if I happen to find myself on a page with one of your spam comments, I point it out. And I will go on doing so.

Aug-15-09		Knight13: <keypusher> Then how about you stop abusing <chessgames.com members>? They're entitled to an opinion as much as you do and just because you disagree with them doesn't mean you get the right to bash them. And I'm sure RookFile or anybody else don't like this either. <you occasionally spam the whole site> Uhh the first time I did was in 2004, when I was 13 and didn't speak any english (came to US at age 12.5) and I stopped. The second one about Chessmetrics isn't even spamming. It's just useful information other people would look up anyway and it gives members an estimate of how good the player was compared to others. Any others? Too bad we have different opinions on what is considered a spam and what isn't. For I all know, you going around trashing people's post is considered <spamming> in my opinion. And LEAVE ME ALONE.

Aug-15-09		Knight13: <and you sometimes act as if great masters were idiots (as in your Naiditsch post).> Uhh, again, that's YOUR OWN opinion. I don't see anyone else doing that to piss me off except you. And did you read <I don't use computers when kibitzing. Unless noted otherwise, but rarely. The analysis comes from my head. So it's not always right. And I state things directly, which may sound dogmatic, but I don't intend it to. Just that I don't feel like putting "I think" or "maybe" or whatever in every single post. And every one of my posts are my opinions.> that's been in my profile for a while? No, I don't think so.

Aug-16-09		keypusher: <knight 13> Everyone is entitled to state their opinions. They are not entitled to state their opinions without criticism.

Aug-20-09		Knight13: <keypusher> Then we're square.

Sep-03-09		rchczrms: Hello <keypusher>! If it pleases you, I would like to play correspondence chess with you. Are you at QA or GK? Saw your battles with <OD> and <lethe>. And oh by the way, is your cg.com handle chess related> :)

Sep-07-09		keypusher: <rchczrms> Sure, you can challenge me on Gameknot! I really like my games with <lethe>, even the defeats. Open Defence too, but that last one was pretty gruesome for Black. :-) Yes, when I first played chess online I was using a keyboard to move the pieces rather than a mouse. So keypusher instead of woodpusher.

Sep-07-09		jessicafischerqueen: Thanks for your kind acknowledgement of the "Big Three" project you gave on the <Fischer page>. The "Big Three," as you know, are <suenteus po>, <benzol>, and <Phony Benoni>. I don't exactly work with them, but sometimes they let me park the cars.

Sep-08-09		Open Defence: so the players that faced the big three is the <Axis> ??

Sep-08-09		jessicafischerqueen: That's right <Deffi> and you are one of the "lead countries": Game Collection: The Big Three ??

Sep-08-09		rchczrms: OK <key>. I will challenge you one of these days.

Sep-08-09		keypusher: <jessicafischerqueen: That's right <Deffi> and you are one of the "lead countries": Game Collection: The Big Three ??> Nice! I have had some horrible positions against Peter at gameknot, but haven't lost to him for some reason.

Sep-08-09		keypusher: We should have a Hosea Club, like the old Menchik Club. I'd be a charter member.

Sep-08-09		whatthefat: Hi <keypusher>, I hope you're well. I've recently moved across the Pacific to Boston, so maybe I'll see you at a chess tournament one day. :) I was wondering, do you happen to know of any good chess clubs in the Boston area?

Sep-08-09		keypusher: <whatthefat: Hi <keypusher>, I hope you're well. I've recently moved across the Pacific to Boston, so maybe I'll see you at a chess tournament one day. :) I was wondering, do you happen to know of any good chess clubs in the Boston area?> I don't even know of any good clubs in New York (I find the Marshall depressing as hell)!

Sep-08-09		keypusher: <whatthefat> I think <RookFile/AnalyzeThis> is from Boston...<Boomie> might be. Maybe they can suggest a place.

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