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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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   perfidious has kibitzed 72543 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Apr-24-26 Chessgames - Politics
 
perfidious: Weismann is not a man I would ever have wished to go up against as a defendant; that exterior conceals one tough, ruthless sumbitch. Small wonder the regime loathes him.
 
   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 (replies)
 
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) (replies)
 
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 (replies)
 
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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Oct-12-20
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  perfidious: <'We’re starting very, very big with the rallies, and with our everything. Because we cannot allow our country to become a socialist nation.'>

Dr Trump has spoken:

<'Once you do recover, you’re immune, so you don’t have a president who has to hide in his basement, like his opponent.'

It looks like I’m immune for, I don’t know, maybe a long time, maybe a short time, it could be a lifetime, nobody really knows -- but I’m immune.'

'I passed the highest test, the highest standards, and I’m in great shape. And I have to tell you, I feel fantastically, I really feel good.'>

Tell that to those who have suffered and gone to their end with rather less than the care you have received.

Oct-13-20
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  perfidious: A classic from another quarter, one of the reigning despot's biggest shills of all:

<Giuliani: "People don't die of this any more.">

Oct-15-20
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  perfidious: 'Suburban women, will you please like me? Please, please. I saved your damned neighborhood, okay? The other thing, I don’t have much time to be that nice. You know, I can do it but I got to go quickly.'
Oct-15-20
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  perfidious: <'Joe Biden must immediately release all emails, meetings, phone calls, transcripts, and records related to his involvement in his family's business dealings and influence peddling around the world!'>

Y'all want to try letting us have look at <your own> private dealings before demanding such of anyone else?

Naw, didn't think so.

Oct-15-20
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  chancho: Try picturing the very people who created this system of governance like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, or James Madison, attacking the very pillars of this great American experiment as Trump is doing.

The very idea of it is sheer lunacy.

And yet, some people applaud his appalling behaviour.

Truly bizarre.

Oct-15-20
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  perfidious: Democracy of the elect is the watchword--if of rather a different type than that espoused by those Southerners of the post-Reconstruction era who would willingly have disfranchised poor whites as well as all blacks in a nanosecond.
Oct-17-20
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  perfidious: <'The light at the end of the tunnel is near. We are rounding the turn. Don’t listen to the cynics and angry partisans and pessimists.'>
Oct-18-20
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  perfidious: 'Liberate Michigan!'
Oct-19-20
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  chancho: <Trump: “People are tired of covid. I have the biggest rallies I’ve ever had. And we have covid. People are saying, ‘Whatever — just leave us alone.">

I'm sure all those people struggling to take a breath at an ICU are just begging to be left alone... they don't care about Covid!

Their family and loved ones are saying they don't care about Covid either, leave us alone!

Seriously, is that azzzh0le quite sane?

Oct-19-20
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  perfidious: <....“President Trump has always listened to the advice of his top public health experts, who have diverse areas of expertise,” (Sarah) Matthews said in a statement. “The President always puts the well-being of the American people first as evidenced by the many bold, data-driven decisions he has made to save millions of lives. Because of his strong leadership, our country can safely reopen with adequate PPE, treatments, and vaccines developed in record time.”....>

'Reopen! reopen!' whilst so many have suffered because of vacillation and poor decisions already taken, on both sides of the aisle.

Oct-19-20
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  chancho: <The President always puts the well-being of the American people first as evidenced by the many bold, data-driven decisions he has made to save millions of lives.>

Having super spreading events at the Rose Garden where many people got sick, and holding rallies where many people are crowded and not wearing masks... Yup, he puts the well-being of the American people first.

Oct-19-20
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  perfidious: The capacity of the human to engage in self-deception can be thoroughly confounding indeed.

<chancho: Having super spreading events at the Rose Garden where many people got sick, and holding rallies where many people are crowded and not wearing masks...>

All those reports of attendees being required to sign waivers were, as you well know, a canard.

Oct-20-20
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  perfidious: <'He is a criminal! He got caught. Read his laptop. And you know who’s a criminal? You’re a criminal for not reporting it. You are a criminal for not reporting it.'>
Oct-20-20
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  chancho: Calling reporters criminals and bastards with two weeks remaining...Trump's flailing like a drunk in a bar trying to hit a pink elephant.
Oct-21-20
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  perfidious: Thirteen days to go before a journey to Demiseville, or another chapter in the continuing saga through Wretched Bayou.
Oct-21-20
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  chancho: <perfidious> Hopefully the former.

(crosses fingers)

Oct-21-20
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  perfidious: <chancho>, y'all think the Tinpot Despot is flailing now, any guesses on how things would go during the death rattle, beginning as soon as ruination became clear on 3rd November?
Oct-21-20  technical draw: I don't take sides in US politics but I do like to play oddsmaker. So my calculations show DT winning at 6 to 5 odds. If someone offers 2 to 1 bet the house.
Oct-21-20
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  saffuna: I've already got $100 at +340 for Trump to win.
Oct-21-20
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  chancho: If he does win but the Dems retake the Senate and keep the House then it's still a giant positive.
Oct-21-20  technical draw: <chancho> <If he does win but the Dems retake the Senate and keep the House then it's still a giant positive.>

If that happens it won't be positive, it will be civil war.

Oct-21-20
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  chancho: The "positive" was in keeping the moron in check.

But I get your point...

Oct-21-20  technical draw: <saffuna: I've already got $100 at +340 for Trump to win>

Those are good odds. Bet a thousand.

Oct-21-20
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  chancho: If those odds don't pan out?

};-)

Oct-21-20
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  perfidious: Think I'd have take to some action on Biden at those odds. (laughs)
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