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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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   Apr-23-26 Chessgames - Politics (replies)
 
perfidious: <FSR....All of this is bizarre. I guarantee that if Biden had ever made such a claim, let alone done so many times, we would have heard an unending chorus of statements that he was senile and must be removed from office....> Had Biden spewed such foolishness, one can only ...
 
   Apr-23-26 Chessgames - Guys and Dolls
 
perfidious: Vesta Williams.
 
   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) (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.
 
   Apr-22-26 K Treybal vs C Carls, 1912
 
perfidious: The irony here is that the white king castled and wound up in mortal danger once the position opened out, but his black counterpart wandered in the centre and somehow remained perfectly safe in the end.
 
   Apr-22-26 R Cosulich vs Parma, 1968
 
perfidious: <farticchio: Draw? Why? Stockfish gives -17.22 for white> Yeah, things look ugly for White here. I suspect an error in the result was handed down from one DB to another.
 
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Nov-24-20
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  perfidious: <'Since when does the Lamestream Media call who our next president will be? We have all learned a lot in the last two weeks!'>

Since when was he anything but a narcissist and sociopath?

Nov-25-20
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  perfidious: Dabo Swinney following the cancellation of Clemson-FSU:

<....'This game was not canceled because of COVID. COVID was just an excuse to cancel the game....'>

First cousin to the Tinpot Despot?

A powerful lot of people simply trying to survive and all this pompous ass can do is whinge over a frigging game.

Nov-25-20
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  perfidious: Another word salad from 1600 Pennsylvania:

<'I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little later you wouldn't have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said, 'There's no reason for this.' People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why? People don't ask that question, but why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?'>

Wonder whether he has ever heard of Dred Scott; perhaps James Buchanan might ring a bell.

Nov-25-20
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  perfidious: This is from <DocW> last year:

<.... I could be lording it up in Australia, regardless of where I am I guarantee you one thing. Donald Trump will not leave office when he's voted out. I've known less wealthy versions of him alllll my life - the President of the United States is a <crook!>>

<thegreatwanker> lampooned him for this, but <DocW> has not yet been proven wrong--the Tinpot Despot has shown no inclination to go quietly when that dreaded day comes.

Nov-25-20
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  perfidious: <'I am your President of law and order, and an ally of all peaceful protesters'.>

As you ham it up on behalf of such law-abiding types as the Proud Boys, whilst inciting them.

Nov-25-20
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  perfidious: <jussie kudzu> in full flower, before he turned tail and played moral coward, a role he performs to perfection:

<....If there was any justice at all in America, Pelosi, Schiff, Comey, Rosenstein, Hillary, Obama, Clapper, Brennan, Peter Strzok and others would be hanging on the White House lawn.

These governors that [sic] bow down to BLM, they need to be stripped naked and flogged publicly 40 lashes on 5 different occasions for a total of 200 lashes.

The cop that [sic] aborted Floyd, if found innocent, should be awarded megabucks, which would be taken from the welfare fund. If the cop is found guilty, he hangs.

I would guess that about 80% of the American people are in lock step with me on this. Some are afraid to admit it, but I say 80%.>

The dear boy <heart attack giver> seems obsessed with hanging; perhaps playing coupe de corde is his thing.

There then followed:

<saffuna....This really has turned into the Fascism page. some people seem fine with that.>

No doubt.

Nov-26-20
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  perfidious: <'We have to turn the election over. This was an election that we won easily. We won it by a lot. This election has to be turned around.'>
Nov-26-20
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  perfidious: According to the Tinpot Despot:

Black Lives Matter is 'a terrible term, a racist term'.

Nov-26-20
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  perfidious: <'Just saw the vote tabulations. There is NO WAY Biden got 80,000,000 votes!!! This was a 100% RIGGED ELECTION.'>

That settles it--the election <did not happen>.

Nov-26-20
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  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!'>
Nov-27-20
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  perfidious: <'I’m the president of the United States, don’t ever talk to the president that way.'>

Here, let me help:

<I'm one of the most powerful narcissists the world has ever seen.

In spite of the whole world being against me from the day I was born, I got to be president and you m*****f*****s are gonna bow down to me, every single day. Bottom rail's on top now, a*****s!>

Nov-27-20
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  perfidious: Tomi Lahren, shill for Faux, at it again:

<'Might as well carry a purse with that mask, Joe.'>

Nov-27-20
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  perfidious: From mid July:

<<Nisjesram....Why don't you idiots take this theological conversation to elite idiots forum....>

Ah, yes: that lovely echo chamber, whence they get to parrot their lines of the day and tell each other how wonderful they are, with <dicetwat> along for the ride, playing lead attack dog to provide <heart attack giver> a break. Tough being even a paper emperor, innit, <kingmaggot>?>>

Must have been such unrelenting efforts as this which finally drove the Far Right here out of the Rogovian miasma. (rolls eyes)

Nov-27-20
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  perfidious: More from the above press conference of the attack on Reuters journalist Jeff Mason:

<'Well if they do, they made a mistake, because this election was a fraud. Don’t talk to me that way.”

You’re just a lightweight. Don’t talk to me that way. I’m the president of the United States. Don’t ever talk to the president that way.'>

Mason has one helluva f***ing nerve, trying to do his job.

Nov-27-20
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  perfidious: The death knell for Le Not So Grand Orange and his efforts to subvert the democratic process?

Stay tuned!

<'the campaign’s claims have no merit.

Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here.'>

Nov-27-20
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  perfidious: <....'Biden can only enter the White House as President if he can prove that his ridiculous “80,000,000 votes” were not fraudulently or illegally obtained.'>

So lemme see: by this standard, if even one single, solit'ry vote in the camp of Le Not So Grand Orange were found to be either fraudulent or illegal, think he would agree to step aside on the spot?

Nah: I didn't think so either. (rolls eyes)

Nov-27-20
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  perfidious: <saffuna: Another fact:

No Trump campaign lawyer has alleged fraud in a single court appearance.>

With nothing having changed, five days on, despite the exhaustive efforts of the shills to make something out of nothing.

Nov-28-20
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  perfidious: Biographer of Le Not So Grand Orange believes he 'cannot even succeed at being a loser':

<Michael D'Antonio, a biographer of President Donald Trump, has described the president as a "loser" who can't accept his defeat by former Vice President Joe Biden in the recent election.

D'Antonio, a Pulitzer Prize-winner who wrote the 2016 book The Truth About Trump, spoke to CNN on Friday about what he called the president's "buffoonery." He is a contributor to the network.

"He is profoundly an incompetent person—a loser, if you might say," D'Antonio said, using an insult Trump is famously fond of lobbing at his critics and political opponents.

"He's so incompetent that he cannot even succeed at being a loser," he said.

D'Antonio was referring to Trump's refusal to concede the presidential election. The president and his campaign have repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud and other irregularities.

The author said Trump was "failing at this essential task," which was accepting the fact that "we all lose at various moments."

He said the president won't "acknowledge that the system worked, that there was no fraud" in the election and claimed Trump was "dragging us through this show and it's really redolent of all of the flaws in his personality and character that have been present almost since birth."

On Twitter on Friday, Trump again asserted that he had won Pennsylvania and alleged fraud. The state went to Biden by 50 percent to 48.8 percent and his campaign's attempt to challenge that result have been unsuccessful.

"This is the creature he has always been," D'Antonio added.

Trump has hinted that he may not attend Biden's inauguration on January 20 and D'Antonio said he was "quite capable" of skipping the event. It is usual for outgoing presidents to appear at their successors' inaugurations even when they've been defeated but refusing to go would not be without precedent.

"The answer to that will be determined by what he thinks will profit him the most," D'Antonio said. "By 'profit,' I mean literal profit [...] but also what he imagines will profit him going forward."

D'Antonio said Trump could "very well declare a 2024 run before Inauguration Day and thereby try to deprive Biden of the attention that he deserves." Other reports have suggested the same—that Trump could seek to pre-empt inauguration coverage with a 2024 announcement.

"I don't think we can assume he'll do anything normal," D'Antonio said.>

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...

Nov-28-20
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  perfidious: With all the recent talk of 'sanitising' the Rogovian miasma, one petty but droll bit comes to mind from a time ago.

On the stats page, all posts which had been made on Rogoff no longer counted towards the overall number; then one day, those numbers magically reappeared.

Best guess is that such a hue and cry ensued from the Far Right faction, such as <thegreatwanker>, <jussie kudzu>, <ohiyuk> et al, that it was easier to keep peace by giving the crybabies their way.

Nov-28-20
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  chancho: <Marc E. Elias
@marceelias

BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court DISMISSES Republican's lawsuit seeking to invalidate mail-in ballots and block certification of the election.

Trump and his allies are now 1-39 in post election litigation.>

Nov-28-20
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  perfidious: <1-39>

Where <Ah> come from, that winning percentage is .025.

#Winning!
#MAGA!

Nov-29-20
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  perfidious: <What Is Narcissism?

Narcissistic people often have trouble forming deep relationships because of their lack of empathy and the superficial way in which they assign value to people.

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), or narcissism, is a personality disorder characterized by a sense of grandiosity, the need for attention and admiration, superficial interpersonal relationships, and a lack of empathy. It often accompanies other psychiatric disorders and can be difficult to treat.

Nine Signs and Symptoms of Narcissism
Symptoms – called core features – of narcissistic personality disorder (narcissism) include:

1. Grandiosity

Exaggerated sense of self-importance

Feeling superior to others and that one deserves special treatment

Feelings are often accompanied by fantasies of unlimited success, brilliance, power, beauty, or love

2. Excessive need for admiration

Must be the center of attention

Often monopolize conversations

Patients feel slighted, mistreated, depleted, and enraged when ignored

3. Superficial and exploitative relationships

Relationships are based on surface attributes and not the unique qualities of others People are only valued only to the extent they are viewed as beneficial

4. Lack of empathy
Severely limited or totally lacking ability to care about the emotional needs or experiences of others, even loved ones

5. Identity disturbance
Sense of self is highly superficial, extremely rigid, and often fragile Self-stability depends on maintaining the view that one is exceptional Grandiose sense of self is easily threatened
Patients retreat from or deny realities that challenge grandiosity

6. Difficulty with attachment and dependency
Relies on feedback from the environment
Relationships only exist to shore up positive self-image Interactions are superficial
Intimacy is avoided

7. Chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom
When attention and praise are not available, patients feel empty, bored, depressed, or restless

8. Vulnerability to life transitions
Difficulty maintaining reality-based personal and professional goals over time Compromises required by school, jobs, and relationships may feel unbearable Young adults may have a “failure to launch”

9. Narcissistic personality disorder is also a significant risk factor for suicide and suicidal attempts.

How Is Narcissism Diagnosed?

Narcissistic personality disorder (narcissism) is diagnosed using The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) criteria. A person must meet five of nine of the following traits for a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder.

A grandiose sense of self-importance

Preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love

Belief that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by or should associate with, other special or high-status people or institutions

Requires excessive admiration

Has a sense of entitlement

Is interpersonally exploitative – takes advantage of others

Lacks empathy

Envies others or believes others are envious of him or her

Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors and attitudes>

Nov-29-20
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  perfidious: <'They send millions and millions and millions of mail-in ballots. I'm sure you know people that got two, three, four -- because I do. They got four ballots. They got one at a country home. Dead people were seeing ballots. But even worse, dead people were applying to get a ballot. They were making applications to get ballots. Many. And we're not talking about 10 people, we're talking -- there are a lot of dead people that so-called voted this election.

This is total fraud. And how the FBI and Department of Justice -- I don't know, maybe they're involved. But how people are allowed to get away with this stuff is unbelievable. This election was rigged. This election was a total fraud.'>

Nov-29-20
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  perfidious: Required reading for the putative dictator:

<'We are unique among militaries. We do not take an oath to a king or queen, a tyrant or dictator. We do not take an oath to an individual. No, we do not take an oath to a country, a tribe, or religion. We take an oath to the Constitution, and every soldier that is represented in this museum, every sailor, airman, marine, coast guard, each of us will protect and defend that document regardless of personal price.' >

Gen Milley on Veterans Day

Nov-29-20
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  perfidious: Now there appear to be preliminary manoeuvres by the Tinpot Despot to gain potential pardons for himself, contradicting the assertion above.

Another masterpiece from 1600 Pennsylvania, that fount of sweetness and light, and typically risible.

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