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 20 OF 426 ·  Later Kibitzing> Nov-07-20    chancho: Wow, just... WOW! Nov-08-20    perfidious: <td: To show how useless polls are, in one poll the candidate "biteme" is winning by a million votes....> The incumbent is telling the world to 'biteme'. Nov-09-20    chancho: Kinda throws for a loop Trump's lamestream media B.S. claim about their calling the election for Biden, don't it? <Jon Favreau @jonfavs I’m sorry, what? McConnell is holding a photo op with candidates in Senate races that were only called by...the media?? Chad Pergram @ChadPergram · 1h McConnell to hold photo op with newly elected GOP senators at 4 pm et today> Nov-10-20    perfidious: McConnell the Obstructive, along with most other Republicans, has been noticeably silent in recent days. Time to pander to his stable of freshman senators. Nov-10-20    chancho: <Mike Sacks @MikeSacksEsq [Justice] Roberts with the knockout punch: "It's hard for you to argue that Congress intended for the entire act to fall if the mandate were struck down when the same congress that lowered the penalty to zero did not even try to repeal the rest of the act."> <Roberts will let the rest of the law stand: "I think, frankly, that [Congress] wanted the court to [strike down the whole law], but that's not our job." Roberts + Kavanaugh + 3 Liberals = 5 votes to uphold the ACA even if they strike down the mandate.> Nov-10-20    chancho: Looking more and more like Arizona will go blue: <Dave Wasserman @Redistrict Although Trump continues to narrow Biden's AZ lead, the share of the remaining ballots Trump needs to catch up keeps getting higher - now needs ~64% of ~48k. That's extremely unlikely, given 15k of the 48k are in Pima (Tucson). Quote Tweet The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru @Garrett_Archer · 19m Maricopa county has posted 5,291 ballots. Breakdown Biden: 2,213 (41.8%) Trump: 2,982 (56.4%) This was a net gain of +769 for Trump. Biden leads Trump by 12,813 in Arizona.> Nov-10-20    perfidious: While the early call by Faux News for Biden in Arizona was premature in my view, no more doubt, despite the post-midnight machinations of the Tinpot Despot. May he go gentle into that good night and disturb the well-being of others no more. Nov-11-20    chancho: Covid-19 cases are on the rise in the US and a moron in the White House is feeling sorry for himself, in a state of denial. With each passing moment, he is adding further to his bank account of embarrassment. Why is he doing this to himself when the endgame is clearly hopeless for him? The only explanation in all of this is that he is not a stable genius after all. Nov-11-20    perfidious: <chancho>, I have no idea what you are maundering on about. Ah, now I understand: the pandemic that <did not happen>, according to its leading denier. <No worse than the flu If I can beat it, anyone can> Yeah, <that> pandemic. Nov-12-20    perfidious: <'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.'> Still waiting on the 'miracle'; perhaps Tinpot Despot the pathological liar can take five precious minutes from his efforts to slay the imaginary dragon and mobilise his infinite resources to better the lot of the American people. Nov-12-20    chancho: Another Trump sycophant tests positive for Covid-19. Corey Lewandowski. 15, soon to be zero! Nov-12-20    perfidious: Still waiting.....that nice round number a-comin' up soon? Mebbe Ah'll play me some of that there roulette! They tells me zero comes up a lot in that game! 'Sycophant' is an apt description of anyone in the coterie which surrounds the Tinpot Despot, but arse-licker has its points. Nov-12-20    technical draw: <They tells me zero comes up a lot in that game!> And did they tell you that the double zero comes up twice as many times? Don't bet on it. Nov-12-20    perfidious: <td>, the powers that be give me just enough information to get good and broke as <Ah> need! Nov-12-20    chancho: Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Y... Nov-12-20    perfidious: <td>, good thing there is no triple zero--that game is tough enough the way it is now Stateside. Nov-12-20    technical draw: Well, you're close. They pay out 35 to one but with zero and double zero the honest payoff should be 37 to one. And in some casinos they also add an Eagle which you cannot bet on and that makes the odds 38 to one. The good thing about roulette is that it's enjoyable for system players. You see them around the table writing down the winning number and making their calculations. Casinos love system players because they claim they are using science to win! Nov-13-20    perfidious: <td>, here in the land of the free, the odds are 5.26 per cent, which makes craps look good; roulette is a mug's game. Nov-13-20    technical draw: <perfidious: <td>, here in the land of the free, the odds are 5.26 per cent> Those are not the odds but the house advantage. But the pick three lotteries have a 50% advantage for the house. You might as well mail them your money. Nov-13-20    perfidious: <thegreatwanker....Dems will pack the court.....> Guess it was the 'libs' who made the Crazy Elephant rush Amy Coney Barrett through, in very much the opposite fashion of their handling of Merrick Garland in '16. <....Remember, Harris wants to make all of America look like socialist hell hole California. Druggies shooting up on the streets. Human feces in the streets....> You <are> a supreme expert in faecal content; I defer to your superior knowledge this once. Nov-13-20    chancho: Da Map! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Emuhse1... Nov-14-20    perfidious: <chancho>, your map is very obviously biased; Biden cannot possibly have won the same number of states as Trump, an infinitely superior being. (rolls eyes) Nov-14-20    chancho: Trump's twitter feed the number #1 site for disinformation. I just realized... seeing as how he is already on record as one of the biggest lying scum with over 20 thousand lies, it's to be expected that he'd be tops in any category that involves deception! Nov-15-20    perfidious: <He won because the election was rigged.> roflm*ao One might term this a concession. Nov-16-20    chancho: <Ben Ginsberg: All the [Rudy Giuliani] cases are falling apart... cases with no basis.> From America's Mayor to Trump's Chump. What has happened to the poor dolt? He is not even getting paid for this buffoonery. 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