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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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Sep-08-09		whatthefat: Hah! Thanks, I might drop <Boomie> a line then.

Sep-08-09		jessicafischerqueen: <Boomie> lives in Washington State.

Sep-08-09		keypusher: <whatthefat> See fischer page. Say whatever you like about <RookFile> -- I've said it already, and much more harshly. But no man holds less of a grudge.

Sep-09-09		Open Defence: he's a nice guy except when politics are discussed :)

Sep-09-09		jessicafischerqueen: I love <Rookfile>= and he and <Eyal> have posted so much great analysis on the <Fischer game pages> that they should get medals.

Sep-09-09		jessicafischerqueen: Also, <keypusher's> observation about <Rookfile> not holding grudges is very true. Remember when <Rookfile> played the "grudge match to the death" against <Plato> at <Ziggurat forum>? <Rookfile> couldn't stand <Plato> but after the match they became friends.

Sep-09-09		whatthefat: <keypusher> Thanks. Hey, you never know, maybe we'll butt heads over rating systems and the like in person next time. :)

Sep-10-09		Open Defence: I always thought your handle referred to pushing the buttons / keys on the chess clock...

Sep-10-09		whiskeyrebel: I always figured keypusher for a locksmith.

Oct-28-09		tpstar: <keypusher> Very nice posts about 9/11 - thoughtful and composed. I would have been much harsher against such Blame the Victim mentality, as I cannot begin to imagine dancing in the streets over such a horrific tragedy. I have long suspected that the fierce anti-Americanism on this site is actually anti-Semitism, as in the US must "apologize" for supporting Israel. That thread reminded me about Rudy Giuliani declining a $10 million donation from Arab donors who wanted the US to "reconsider" foreign policy, meaning pro-Israel policy. No need to respond. :-)

Nov-06-09		keypusher: <tpstar> thanks. It was not so easy to be calm. For once I thought before typing. :-)

Nov-10-09		whatthefat: <tpstar>, <keypusher> Sorry if I caused any offence. I'm perplexed as to how you managed to read anti-semitism into my posts; I frankly couldn't care less about US support of Israel beyond acknowledging it as a potential source of provocation of fundamentalist terrorists. I take issue with describing a pacifist approach to the fall-out from 9/11 as a 'blame the victim mentality'. If anything, it is an attempt to end the blame cycle that is leading to more and more senseless deaths. In this respect, I think it is a good idea to step back for a moment and ask why the US was targeted over other nations of equal Christianity and equal standards of living. It is only when such questions have been thoughtfully addressed that we can hope for peace. Sadly though, I don't think that will happen.

Nov-10-09		keypusher: <whatthefat> Oh, I didn't see any anti-semitism in what you said. Also, I think the U.S. was targeted not because "they hate our freedom" but because the US supports Israel, had bases in Saudi Arabia, had defeated Iraq in a war and supported sanctions against it, and so on. But I found the notion of apologizing (even if I could figure out who the U.S. was supposed to apologize to) in the immediate aftermath of the murder of several thousand of my fellow citizens contemptible.

Nov-10-09		whatthefat: <Oh, I didn't see any anti-semitism in what you said.> I'm glad. <Also, I think the U.S. was targeted not because "they hate our freedom" but because the US supports Israel, had bases in Saudi Arabia, had defeated Iraq in a war and supported sanctions against it, and so on.> We're on the same page here. <But I found the notion of apologizing (even if I could figure out who the U.S. was supposed to apologize to) in the immediate aftermath of the murder of several thousand of my fellow citizens contemptible.> Fair enough, I expect most people to feel that way. But if the conflict is to ever end, one of the parties needs to take the high ground, and you can be sure that won't be the terrorists. But I do apologize if I've caused offence with these sentiments. Perhaps it is easier to say these things having not lived through such an event myself. You are two of my favorite kibitzers on the site, so I'm very sorry if I've put either of your noses out of joint. Friends shouldn't discuss politics, eh?

Nov-11-09		keypusher: <whatthefat> Well, for what it is worth, I don't respect or like you any less than I did before. I am not a pacifist, but we could use some pacifism in the USA.

Nov-14-09		keypusher: I'll be back for the London tournament.

Nov-26-09		chancho: Happy Thanksgiving Scott!

Dec-03-09		chancho: That's alright.

Dec-19-09		Calli: "ridiculous stretch" Not really. The Carlsen game is Lasker like in the trade-offs of the f5 move. The other one, though, is more of a technical endgame move and not a "secret weapon". Probably not going to modern games in the collextion unless there is something striking about them.

Dec-31-09		chancho: Happy New Year <keypusher> from all of us maggots :-)

Jan-01-10		brankat: Hi <kp>. May You have a very Happy New Year!

Jan-01-10		BoxitJack: hello happy new year

Jan-01-10		tpstar: <keypusher> Best wishes for 2010. =)

Jan-15-10		Travis Bickle: <keypusher> Thanks for the interesting link!

Jan-22-10		technical draw: <keypusher> Thanks for that translation. I sent it out. I'll give you the reply so you can translate it too.

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