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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 72530 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Apr-23-26 Chessgames - Politics (replies)
 
perfidious: Yesterday, a 'role model': today, charged as a sexual deviant. https://www.aol.com/articles/ex-ala... No more husband, no more career.
 
   Apr-23-26 Chessgames - Guys and Dolls
 
perfidious: Trini Alvarado.
 
   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 World Championship Candidates (2026) (replies)
 
perfidious: <Geoff....Sindarov,....has been in the shadow of Abdusattorov for a few years.> As well as Yakubboev.
 
   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.
 
   Apr-22-26 I Sokolov vs Topalov, 1996
 
perfidious: I remember playing the White side of this line in 1980 but do not recall how the play went after 14.Be3.
 
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Dec-09-20
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  perfidious: <Refused....Anyway, about the orange one being the most corrupt and incompetent POTUS in history. Probably true. FSR knows his US history better than I do, but I think a case could be made for Harding. But it's really a race to the bottom of the barrel and then some....>

Just had a go at Wikipedia, which lists two presidential rankings in which Le Not So Grand Orange has appeared: he came 42nd of the 44 men who have served in the first and, in the later poll, was ranked dead last.

Dec-09-20
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  perfidious: The polls cited in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histo... rank the following by the most frequent appearances in the fourth quartile (in chronological order):

Wm Henry Harrison

James Tyler

Millard Fillmore

Franklin Pierce

James Buchanan

Andrew Johnson

Ulysses Grant

Warren Harding

Trump

How Harrison, in a grand total of thirty-one days served, makes any of these polls at all escapes me, but that's another story for another day.

Dec-09-20
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  perfidious: Speaking of Harrison, was just reviewing the article on him, and the map of the 1840 electoral votes makes for strange reading, 180 years on: Vermont got seven (!) votes while Illinois were allotted five and Michigan and Arkansas, a mere three apiece.
Dec-10-20
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  FSR: <perfidious> Buchanan is usually cited as the worst President ever. I have no doubt that Trump has wrested that mantle away and that historians will agree he's #1 in horribleness. I'm with you on the treatment of poor "Tippecanoe" (William Henry Harrison). It's ridiculous to include him in these polls.
Dec-10-20
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  perfidious: <FSR>, fortunately many of them omit Harrison altogether.
Dec-11-20
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  chancho: Positively Insane.

<Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump· 21m
Now that the Biden Administration will be a scandal plagued mess for years to come, it is much easier for the Supreme Court of the United States to follow the Constitution and do what everybody knows has to be done. They must show great Courage & Wisdom. Save the USA!!!>

Dec-11-20
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  perfidious: <Save the USA!!!>

From the Tinpot Despot.

Dec-11-20  Refused: Yeah, the infamous scandal plagued Biden years to come, which will make Americans yearn, for the calm and steady no drama days of President Twitler.

Fun trivia.
One Preisdential term lasts: 1461 days, or 146.1 Scaramuccis. Which is of course, the only valid way to measure a time frame in politics.

Dec-11-20
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  chancho: All the clowns who signed into Trump's moronic quest at trying to invalidate an election should be held accountable. Big time.
Dec-13-20  Refused: Good luck with that.

I mean this American fascism fling (let's be blunt here, Trumpism = fascism, altho in its dumbest form, with the dumbest possible person in charge, sorta if Mussolini were on a lead paint based diet), is basically a case of political mad cow disease.

The Republicans started with their dance and worship around their deranged orange calf. Now said calf is milking the most stupid of this electorate for cash (to challenge the election results, with 60% being used to pay off debts from his campaign), and he will continue to do so, as long they give him sweet milk. The GOP happily indulges him, and eat up the s*** burgers made from the meat of his rigged election @#$%*&!#, to get their vote in a future run (lying Ted, Graham etc.) and to keep those mad cash cows stoked up enough for the two Georgia run offs in January. I exclude Romney to some degree from that describtion, as he has displayed basic level of decency, belief in democracy, and a backbone. That's pretty much the only Republican currently holding a national office. There are also Republican on state levels, who are not too impressed with that shenanigans (credit where credit is due).

Dec-13-20
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  chancho: <Chris Christie: “The legal theory put forward by his legal team and by the president is an absurdity,” the reason why the Supreme Court didn’t take it is because it’s an absurd idea to think that any state, or any number of states, no matter how good they are, can challenge another state’s right to run the election as they see fit. And also, there’s no evidence.”>

Trump is an imbecile, no two ways about it, but what does it say about the many sycophants who keep on kissing his arse, even as the evidence keeps showing them that Trump's premise is completely wrong, not to mention nuts.

Dec-13-20
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  perfidious: <deranged orange calf>, indeed.
Dec-14-20
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  perfidious: 'Fair and impartial', don't you know:

<Fox News contributor Rachel Campos-Duffy, guest co-hosting Fox & Friends on Sunday, said she “feels for” President Donald Trump after his new interview with Brian Kilmeade.

In the interview, the president once again repeated false claims of victory with baseless claims that the election was stolen from him — claims that even Kilmeade noted “your guys have been unable to prove.” The president complained about judges rejecting their cases, claiming they don’t have “courage.”

After part of the interview aired, Campos-Duffy said the following:

“I just feel for the president. I see the pain and the frustration. You do everything you’re supposed to do. You run the country well, you campaign your heart out while the other guy’s in a basement, and then in the end, fraud and shenanigans at the local level — you’re robbed. And we’ve all been robbed, because when the elections don’t go well, when there’s fraud, when there’s these kinds of shenanigans, we all lose".....>

Why didn't the shill state that Biden abandoned Scranton while she was at it?

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

Dec-14-20
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  chancho: <Let's talk about Trump, concession, and decisions....>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltT...

Dec-14-20
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  saffuna: I like Beau but I have to keep replaying what he says. He just talks too fast.
Dec-14-20
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  chancho: <Don't be afraid of covid. Don't let it dominate your life.>

So sayeth the most incompetent, moronic, sociopathic pile of shyte there ever was.

<A White House official who fell ill with Covid-19 in September is recovering after three months in the hospital, though he lost his right foot and lower leg in his battle against the virus, according to a friend.

Crede Bailey, the director of the White House security office, was the most severely ill among dozens of Covid-19 cases known to be connected to the White House. Bailey’s family has asked the White House not to publicize his condition, and President Donald Trump has never publicly acknowledged his illness.

Bailey’s friends have raised more than $30,000 for his rehabilitation through a GoFundMe account. The White House declined to say whether Trump has contributed to the effort.

“Crede beat COVID-19 but it came at a significant cost: his big toe on his left foot as well as his right foot and lower leg had to be amputated,” Dawn McCrobie, who organized the GoFundMe effort for Bailey, wrote Dec. 7.>

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...

Dec-14-20
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  perfidious: Yeah, maybe Le Not So Grand Orange can explain to Crede how it <did not happen> to him.

Jaysus, wot a dumbass.

Dec-15-20
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  perfidious: McConnell the Obstructive has, after six weeks of silence, resigned himself to what has long been apparent: his horse will be, one might say, horsie de combat.
Dec-16-20
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  FSR: <perfidious> The MAGAts have reacted by pronouncing McConnell a member of the "Deep State." https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/he...
Dec-16-20
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  perfidious: <FSR>, McConnell's wily ploy of waiting those six weeks was not clever enough by half: the Trumpettes sussed him out anyway! Always knew the shtick of McConnell the Obstructive was a cover for his nefarious activities on behalf of the monolithic Deep State!
Dec-16-20
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  perfidious: <saffuna....I get at least five messages asking for money every day. Often with a very desperate tone.>

Get those myself, and in a rather different vein than the <A Clockwork Orange> line of 'Can you spare some coppers, me brothers?'

Dec-16-20
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  chancho: King Trump the Turd thinks January 6 is where he can save the day.

Haha... no.

Problem is that even if he could get a moron Representative and Senator to raise an objection, you need majorities in both the Senate and the House.

And last I checked, the Dems hold that chamber, so the stunt is doomed to failure.

Dec-16-20
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  perfidious: <chancho>, any port in a storm.
Dec-16-20
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  perfidious: What is, perhaps, most galling of all about the Tinpot Despot's conduct throughout this annus horribilis is that extraordinary capability to assign blame elsewhere, even in the face of such widespread death and devastation wrought by the pandemic.

He is incapable of even a twinge of compassion for anyone other than himself. The world could descend straight into the Fiery Pit and his only concern would be the loss of any opportunity to gain from matters in some way.

Dec-16-20  Refused: You think that's the most galling thing?
For me it was the number of elected office holders, who abandoned their oath of office to protect the US (constitution) from enemies within, and idly stood by or cheered him on, while he did his best to burn down the house.

Well, that and that this open racist POS got elected in the first place. Altho, I assume Ohio Elvis still pretends that neitehr Trump, nor the GOP, and least of all himself are any shape or form racists. I just wonder if he had dialed down his faux outrage after I called those tea party clowns racists a couple of years ago here.

Anyway, what I found amusing was and still is, how the party of Jesus and family values, basically made the living embodyment of everything they supposedly stand for their standard bearer, making him god's candidate, with that imperfect vessel justification. It was really quite a sight to behold. Given that he caused a recession, and how wildfires and hurricanes are raging over the US, and topped of with that pandemic, I'd think god (if you believe in her/him) wants to tell them something. But alas, they all seem to be a few corinthians short of a full bible, if you allow me that quib.

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