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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Apr-06-26 Chessgames - Politics    keypusher: <Elaborate , if you please . I am finding posts of you and <fsr> very insightful and they helping me a lot to expand , grow . I would be grateful if you explain , <keypusher> . Thank you .> I don't think average voter IQ has changed much since the 1990s. But the ...      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 Kibitzer's Café    keypusher: I finally saw <Project Hail Mary>. Some people have claimed it's unrealistic, and they have a point. Easily the craziest thing is that there's a schoolteacher character who's funny, charming, great with kids, and looks just like Ryan Gosling, and he can't even get a date.      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 World Championship Women's Candidates (2026)    keypusher: Wow, so replacement-player Muzychuk is in first place, the only player above .500, and Rameshbabu Vaishali won today. I'm rooting for Pragg in the open, so I guess by extension I have to root for her in this one. Plus I love her expression in this picture. ...      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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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 29 OF 49 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-24-18    keypusher: <WannaBe> Sorry, I never answered your question. The honest answer is, I don't know the ins and outs of this particular case, and ESPN doesn't link to any of the relevant court decisions. What I'm guessing is that the collective bargaining agreement between the NFLPA and the league provides that appeals from league suspensions are going to be heard only in the federal courts for the Southern District of New York -- in other words, in Manhattan, where the NFL offices are. As you remember, the litigation over Tom Brady's suspension also took place in NYC. Normally, a plaintiff can bring a case wherever he wants, provided that the place where the case is brought has some connection to whatever gave rise to the lawsuit and it's fair and not too burdensome to make the defendant litigate there. I'm sure Mr. Elliott or his attorney had some argument for why Texas was a fine place to litigate the suspension, and the trial court agreed with Mr. Elliott. But the NFL appealed to the 5th Circuit (the appellate court that oversees federal courts in Texas and neighboring states) which agreed that the case had to go to New York. The federal trial judge there upheld the suspension, and the Second Circuit (the federal appeals court that oversees the district courts in New York, Vermont, and Connecticut) agreed with her. Jan-24-18    WannaBe: Thanks <keypusher> =) Feb-03-18    chancho: <Any idea what happened to it?> I noticed that yesterday. Did you notice how he spelled Magnus? <Magpus> Did Tolengoof hijack his account? And yeah, I was banned from that page. Haha.. 😇 Feb-03-18    OhioChessFan: I noticed it Wednesday and posted on Odd Lie. I was wondering when other people would take note. I suspect <rogge> is about to get banned. And I'll put 10-1 odds it's Lotis Key ghostwriting. Feb-03-18    rogge: Just happened. I'm honored... :) Feb-03-18    OhioChessFan: I can't believe she tripled down on this. Feb-03-18    chancho: Yup, unbelievable. Feb-03-18    WannaBe: Wesley was jet-lagged and couldn't see the final results correctly, he was tied for first. =))) Feb-04-18    OhioChessFan: <Appaz> is about to get banned. Feb-04-18    OhioChessFan: <I think it's your English.> I've got a bad case of the giggles over that one. Feb-04-18    keypusher: What is this outbreak of sedition on my moribundorum? Feb-09-18    keypusher: PGN notation: [Event "Challenge from keypusher"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/"] [Date "2018.02.05"] [Round "-"] [White "greenwich"] [Black "keypusher"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1534"] [BlackElo "2013"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 d5 4. e3 e6 5. Nf3 Nbd7 6. cxd5 exd5 7. Bd3 Bd6 8. h3 O-O 9. Qe2 Re8 10. Qc2 Qe7 11. Bd2 Ne4 12. Nxe4 dxe4 13. Bxe4 Qxe4 14. Qb3 Nf6 15. Ng5 Qd5 16. Qxd5 Nxd5 17. O-O-O h6 18. Nf3 Bf5 19. Nh4 Bh7 20. Rde1 Nb4 21. a3 Nd3+ 0-1 Feb-14-18    ughaibu: Looking up your friend Burton, I find "he received the first rudiments of learning at the free school of Sutton Coldfield". You know the only other interesting fact about Sutton Coldfield? It was from thence that the magazine Chess issued. Feb-22-18    zborris8: Hello, <keypusher>: The invitation has been sent for the CG Tournament I on GameKnot. Feb-25-18    keypusher: <zborris> thanks. <ughaibu: Looking up your friend Burton, I find "he received the first rudiments of learning at the free school of Sutton Coldfield". You know the only other interesting fact about Sutton Coldfield? It was from thence that the magazine Chess issued.> Who knew? I wonder if you put every issue of <Chess> together you'd get as many words as were in <Anatomy of Melancholy>. Feb-26-18    keypusher: [Event "Challenge from keypusher"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/"] [Date "2018.02.26"] [Round "-"] [White "keypusher"] [Black "greenwich"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2013"] [BlackElo "1534"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. fxe5 Nxe4 5. Qf3 Nc6 6. Bb5 Nxc3 7. bxc3 Qh4+ 8. g3 Qe4+ 9. Qxe4 dxe4 10. Bxc6+ bxc6 11. Ne2 Be7 12. Rf1 O-O 13. Rf4 f5 14. exf6 e.p. Rxf6 15. Rxe4 Bd6 16. Nd4 Bb7 17. Rb1 Ba6 18. d3 c5 19. Nb5 Bb7 20. Nxd6 Bxe4 21. Nxe4 Re6 22. c4 a6 23. Rb7 Rc6 24. Be3 Re8 25. Kd2 Rf8 26. Bxc5 Rf1 27. Rb8+ Kf7 28. Rf8+ 1-0 Mar-03-18    keypusher: [Event "CG Tournament I"] [Site "http://gameknot.com/"] [Date "2018.03.01"] [Round "-"] [White "goodchessactor"] [Black "keypusher"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "1708"] [BlackElo "2016"] 1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. Be2 e6 6. O-O Be7 7. c4 Nb6 8. Nc3 O-O 9. Be3 d5 10. c5 Bxf3 11. Bxf3 Nc4 12. Bc1 b6 13. b3 Na5 14. a3 bxc5 15. dxc5 Nac6 16. Re1 Bxc5 17. b4 Bd4 18. Bb2 Qg5 0-1 Mar-29-18    madlydeeply: Fischer's antics made him a millionaire... so yeah his pr was downright efficient. much more so than "i quit gma i quit pca" kasper Mar-30-18    keypusher: <madlydeeply> Kasparov is a millionaire who's held on to his money...Karpov is a billionnaire according to some, despite having a face like a pencil sharpener and a body like Stephen Hawking. I don't think you can infer PR from wealth. Mar-30-18    keypusher: <madly deeply> I enjoy your posts, by the way. Didn't you clobber me on gameknot a few years ago? Mar-31-18    madlydeeply: maybe we played on gameknot. I just play hundreds of lichess games nowadays. so easy. i guess they are all millionares. Kaspy was good at making money, of course. I'm still upset that he didn't play shirov! maybe i should let that go.... Mar-31-18    madlydeeply: aww gameknot deleted my account! we will never know! my nick there was "reubenfine" Apr-01-18    chancho: <5 Theories Behind The Unsolved Death of Sonny Liston> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyh... Apr-03-18    keypusher: <madlydeeply: aww gameknot deleted my account! we will never know! my nick there was "reubenfine"> Well, maybe you clobbered me on some other site. Nothing wrong with being mad about Kasparov stiffing Shirov... <chancho> Thanks, I look forward to watching. Apr-04-18    madlydeeply: That could have been Shirov's buster douglas moment! anyway Kasparov was exposed at that st louis quad a few years ago... he did ok on the first day... with his meticulously prepared openings.. but then Naka, So and Fab did exactly one night of computer homework and busted them all. Kasparov owns the 80s-90s just like Fischer owns 1972 Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 49) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 29 OF 49 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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