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 newly created account and the first post of same turns up here. Imagine that. Sockie or not? You decide.      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 16 OF 426 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-21-20    perfidious: By no means am I wild about Biden, but it beats the alternative. Oct-21-20    chancho: Historian Professor Allan Lichtman predicts that Biden will win and his predictions have been proven right since the presidential elections in 1984, but who knows... Crazy times nowadays... Oct-21-20    moronovich: <perfidious: By no means am I wild about Biden, but it beats the alternative.> Think even a goldfish could do a better job than the orange monster on Capital Hell. I am not ironic. Oct-21-20    chancho: <Perfidious> Indeed. I would vote for an inanimate object rather than Trump if I could. Alas in Puerto Rico I don't have that luxury. Oct-21-20    technical draw: <chancho: If those odds don't pan out?> Tell them I took the juyilanga. Oct-21-20    chancho: If the bungling and deliberate lying by Trump of this pandemic (that has cost 226,944 American lives and counting) were happening under the leadership of a Democratic president... is there any doubt <whatsoever> that the Republicans would be screaming for his head?? Hypocrisy in politics is part and parcel of the game, sure, but at some point, it's a simple matter of right vs wrong. Trump's lying and misplaying of Covid, made it possible for the victims to underestimate the dangers of the virus and it lead to fatal repercussions. Oct-21-20    perfidious: <chancho....Hypocrisy in politics is part and parcel of the game, sure, but at some point, it's a simple matter of right vs wrong....> No party is clean, but amorality rather than any true sense of morality carries the day for too many, whose definition of an honest politician is: <once bought, stays bought>. Oct-22-20    perfidious: The Tinpot Despot moving one step closer to ruination by his trademark negativity, rather than campaigning in any sort of positive vein: <'It’s good. There was nobody that campaigned harder for crooked Hillary Clinton than Obama, right? He was all over the place....I think the only one more unhappy than crooked Hillary that night was Barack Hussein Obama.'> Oct-22-20    chancho: First 60 minutes interview with Leslie Stahl: Trump: Bring it on! Second 60 minutes interview with Leslie Stahl: Trump: Waaaah! Waaaaah! Leslie is treating me unfair!! https://youtu.be/oL2B-AAnsHo?t=45 Oct-22-20    technical draw: Now with the Hunter Biden case Trump is odds-on favorite to win at 4 to 5. Oct-22-20    chancho: Don't count your chickens before they hatch, pana... 😉 Oct-22-20    technical draw: <chancho> I'm not counting chickens, I'm just making book. Oct-22-20    chancho: Cooking the books. :-) Oct-22-20    perfidious: Bovada still list Biden on -165. Oct-22-20    technical draw: Latest from oddsmakers: Biden at 66% and Trump at 33% to win the elections. Oct-22-20    perfidious: A margin clearly greater than Bovada's -165. Twelve days to go. Oct-22-20    perfidious: <'Because of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, 2020 will be the most RIGGED Election in our nations [sic] history — unless this stupidity is ended. We voted during World War One & World War Two with no problem, but now they are using Covid in order to cheat by using Mail-Ins!'.> Oct-22-20    chancho: Haha... Trump is an idiot. What, does he believe troops were running through minefields and machinegun fire to get to a polling station? https://www.history.com/news/vote-b... Oct-22-20    technical draw: The bettors are going wild. Biden just might be dead meat. Oct-22-20    technical draw: You see, somebody can say, "Biden is going to win!" But then somebody else says, "Put your money where your mouth is." And that is the true poll. How much are you willing to wager? Do you get the "Olympic Chill" when you make a bet? I don't pay too much attention to polls since they don't have skin in the game. Follow the money, that's the real poll. Oct-23-20    technical draw: Allow me to retort. What does Joe Biden Look like? Way a minute that's from a movie. Let me tell you about polls. All the polls that are taken will give the probability of winning the popular vote. Now we know that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but lost the election. Unless a pollster does a state-by-state polling and can come up with a reasonable Electoral College estimate then looking at polls is a waste of time. Can anyone link to an electoral college poll? Oct-23-20    perfidious: Hang the polls, I want a die-wreck pipeline to the source: who-all is gonna win this thang? Oct-23-20    perfidious: <'So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just a very powerful light - and I think you said that hasn't been checked because of the testing. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you're going to test that, too. I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.'> Dr Charlatan has spoken. Oct-24-20    chancho: <Trump: "We're roundin' the turn with or without the vaccines."> Isn't this guy special? Oct-24-20    perfidious: <'This is their new hoax. It’s one person coming in from China. We have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.'> Break out the snake oil, babee--y'all heard it here from the man who has every degree known to mankind--except that of how to behave as a human being. 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