perfidious Member since Dec-23-04 Behold the fiery disk of Ra! Started with tournaments right after the first Fischer-Spassky set-to, but have long since given up active play in favour of poker. In my chess playing days, one of the most memorable moments was playing fourth board on the team that won the National High School championship at Cleveland, 1977. Another which stands out was having the pleasure of playing a series of rapid games with Mikhail Tal on his first visit to the USA in 1988. Even after facing a number of titled players, including Teimour Radjabov when he first became a GM (he still gave me a beating), these are things which I'll not forget. Fischer at his zenith was the greatest of all champions for me, but has never been one of my favourite players. In that number may be included Emanuel Lasker, Bronstein, Korchnoi, Larsen, Speelman, Romanishin, Nakamura and Carlsen, all of whom have displayed outstanding fighting qualities. Besides sitting across the board from Tal, I have a Lasker number of three and twos for world champions from Capablanca through Carlsen.

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Apr-24-26 Chessgames - Politics    perfidious: A precis of how, and why, that self-proclaimed great businessman paid a call to bankruptcy court: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br0...      Apr-24-26 Chessgames - Guys and Dolls   perfidious: Vanessa Angel.      Apr-24-26 W Pulling vs J O'Sullivan, 1845   perfidious: <Enough of the trash.> Then why were you here?      Apr-24-26 Grigory Goldberg   perfidious: <In an attempt to avoid "depraved onions"....> 'Depraved onions'? Really? Quite droll.      Apr-23-26 Frank Marshall    perfidious: <Geoff>, I have never seen any collection of Najdorf's games, but would imagine that he does not relate the story of the local journalist at Wijk aan Zee who cured him of his long-standing habit of asking others how they felt about his position during games.      Apr-23-26 World Championship Candidates (2026)    perfidious: <Atterdag....Bu - Liu - Lu - Zhu - Xu - Xi - they sure like short names there.> When one tries to enter fewer than three characters to search for anyone, the only chance is via the drop-down menu, more's the pity. Long ago I had a co-worker who would not even have made ...      Apr-23-26 Alekhine - Euwe World Championship Match (1935)   perfidious: Capablanca is asked about this match in the presence of Euwe: 'Alekhine's game is twenty pc bluff'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck6...      Apr-23-26 Jose Raul Capablanca   perfidious: From lichess: 'Did the Soviets collude against Capablanca?' https://lichess.org/@/RuyLopez1000/...      Apr-23-26 perfidious chessforum   perfidious: <[Event "21st World Open"] [Site "Philadelphia PA"] [Date "1993.07.02"] [EventDate "1993"] [Round "2"] [Result "0-1"] [White "De Fotis, Gregory"] [Black "Ash, Richard"] [ECO "D79"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 c6 4.Bg2 d5 ...      Apr-23-26 Chessgames - Sports    perfidious: <Even so, Fidrych, who'll pitch Wednesday night against Chicago, finished what he started--his 17th complete game of the season.> Hard to even imagine the last time any <team> racked up that many over a season. In those days, it was nothing.

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 14 OF 426 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jul-10-20    perfidious: <chancho>, thanks! Jul-10-20    perfidious: <Fusilli: Too much poker?> These days, not enough--have not played at all since the onset of the pandemic. Tough to keep the dough rolling in when on the sidelines, but them's the breaks. <theagenbiteofinwit: You strictly a tournament player?> Actually, no; I do not play tourneys other than during my annual visit to the WSOP. I stick to cash. Sep-20-20    perfidious: Looking forward to fresh vistas to come here at CG. Affairs have taken a positive turn of late. Sep-22-20    perfidious: Just for the record, I'm here to tell you, <this> is a free speech zone. Sep-23-20    jessicafischerqueen: <perfidious> regarding your post here: St. Louis Rapid & Blitz (2020) (kibitz #89) The link you provide does not go directly to the post you refer to eh? That post is one page after where your link goes: Biographer Bistro Here are the links that go directly to the posts/conversation in question, unless I'm mistaken: Biographer Bistro (kibitz #15987) and then <z's> response: Biographer Bistro (kibitz #15988) Sep-23-20    perfidious: <jess>, most likely because of those who are invisible, what with one thing and another. (laughs) Sep-23-20    jessicafischerqueen: heh... Sep-29-20    perfidious: Who comes up 'winner' tonight? Sep-30-20    perfidious: We all came out losers last night. One step closer to perdition. Sep-30-20    perfidious: <Fusilli>, that was a most elegant finishing blow by Korchnoi. Oct-08-20    perfidious: Let us begin a treasure trove of quotable quotes from the hand of the master: <Stock market starting to look very good to me!> Oct-08-20    perfidious: <"Don’t be afraid of Covid." "Don’t let it dominate your life."> Tell that to the many who spend the last days of their lives lonely and isolated after contracting this horror. Good grief, is there no end to infamy? Oct-08-20    perfidious: <"This is a flu. This is like a flu." "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner."> <"We're going very substantially down, not up, when you have 15 people and the 15 within a couple days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done."> <"One day -- it’s like a miracle -- it will disappear. And from our shores, we -- you know, it could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens. Nobody really knows."> Oct-09-20    perfidious: <I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate. That’s not what debating is all about....> Oct-09-20    chancho: <"We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated."> Oct-10-20    perfidious: <.... "The police are under siege because of things -- they can do 10,000 great acts, which is what they do, and one bad apple, or a choker -- you know a choker, they choke -- shooting the guy in the back many times. Couldn't you have done something different? Couldn't you have wrestled him? In the meantime, he might've been going for a weapon. And there's a whole big thing there. But they choke. Just like in a golf tournament, they miss a three-foot... "People choke. And people are bad people. You have both. You have some bad people, and they choke."> Rather a bizarre analogy; the death of a man in police custody is thus equated to a game of golf. Brought to you by the foremost citizen of Delusiana, half a world removed from the land of Empathy. Oct-10-20    moronovich: Hi <Perfidious> My niece has actually played for Manchester United ! Yes,Man U in Vermont ....;) Oct-10-20    chancho: Emperor Trumpigula: (on steroids) Don't be afraid of Covid... Don't let it dominate your lives. Oct-10-20    perfidious: <moronovich>, rofl Oct-11-20    perfidious: 'It’s going to disappear. It is disappearing'. Oct-11-20    chancho: <“We’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.”> https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d0/d... Oct-11-20    chancho: Maria Bartiromo asks Trump if there are UFOs: <Donald Trump: "Well I'm going to have to check on that ... I'll take a good, strong look at that."> Oct-11-20    technical draw: I'm voting for Biden, he promises a $15,000,000 minimum wage: https://trendingpolitics.com/watch-... Oct-11-20    chancho: Stop it! You can't vote in the US elections. Oct-11-20    perfidious: Dang, Ah could live on $15m an hour in even California, but them buggers ain't taxin' all mah hard-earned money! Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 426) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 14 OF 426 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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