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-28-26 Chessgames - Politics    perfidious: As Fetterman continues playing footsie with his newly adopted Fuehrer in the role of <quisling>: <Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) criticized Democrats for opposing President Donald Trump’s proposed White House ballroom, prompting some of those same Democrats to point out ...      Apr-28-26 Kavalek vs B Toth, 1976   perfidious: <Howard: Kavalek analyzed the opening to this game very extensively in the February, 1977 issue of CL&R. He concluded after roughly about 22 moves that White had "a small but endearing endgame advantage."> I rather suspect that, in the above narrative, 'endearing' should be      Apr-28-26 Chessgames - Guys and Dolls   perfidious: Maria Canals-Barrera.      Apr-28-26 G Chandler vs D Campbell, 1978   perfidious: At least when the late John Curdo brought his board, it was not that garish red, and the pieces, which were the same, were weighted.      Apr-27-26 Liam Penny   perfidious: Bad penny, or, perhaps, in for a penny, in for a pound?      Apr-27-26 Karjakin vs X Bu, 2008    perfidious: <Dlb>, in bygone days I was good at taking oceans of time--too often to be useful for my game.      Apr-27-26 Chessgames - Music    perfidious: <FSR>, speaking of which: Lucille Bogan--Shave 'Em Dry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ph...      Apr-27-26 perfidious chessforum   perfidious: Nixon practised deniability with greater plausibility than this, ah, president: <President Donald Trump clashed with “60 Minutes” contributing correspondent Norah O’Donnell during a Sunday interview after she read portions of the alleged would-be assassin’s manifesto. ...      Apr-27-26 Dubov vs T Gareyev, 2023   perfidious: <....Not much will catch Gareyev by surprise. He's not [sic] stranger to unorthodox openings.> His, shall we say, predilection for gambit play was finally bared before the world and came in for a rough go.      Apr-27-26 Dildarav Paratazham   perfidious: <Overall record: +1 -4 =1 (25.0%) "an easier target" ? ?> Matters are beginning to change, <fredremf>, despite your pronouncement from On High. #heartlandscumowned

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 3 OF 427 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-31-12    OhioChessFan: Hey <perf> <Shams> here's an interesting take. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/etic... It is really hard to believe that no blacks in Ole Miss could be true only 50 years ago. Oct-31-12    perfidious: <Shams> Ross Barnett as governor was only too typical of the attitudes of many, I'm afraid. Then there are such charming relics of the past as James K Vardaman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_... Oct-31-12    Shams: <OCF> Did you happen to catch the show? ESPN makes really good documentaries, I have to say. <It is really hard to believe that no blacks in Ole Miss could be true only 50 years ago.> Yes it is. There's a phenomenon I have noted with an older friend, which for lack of a better term we sometimes clumsily call "time-stretching". I'm sure you'll know what I'm talking about: how certain events, mainly those that happened just a bit before you are born, can seem impossibly remote from your existence even though their relative antecedence isn't that great when you compare it to similar intervals between events that happened in your own life. For example: I was born in 1975, the year the "police action" in Vietnam finally ended. The Kennedy assassination was only twelve years prior to that, but it has always felt like another epoch to me. Even the Vietnam war-- well, my uncle was actually a government historian in the war, his deafness keeping him out of active duty ("It hurts very much not to have been a part of it," he said-- as a patriot and arch-conservative; you would like him a great deal) and he once told me that I spoke about the war "like it was as long ago as the Peloponnesian War". And he wasn't wrong; after all, we learned about both in history class. But that twelve-year interval, Kennedy's death to my birth, is much longer than the time interval that has passed since the first gulf war. And that was bloody yesterday. Time is funny...there's a parallax thing that happens when you look backwards at it. Have you seen "Mad Men"? Part of the immense pleasure of the show is how the mannerisms are both strange and familiar at the same time. Oct-31-12    Shams: <perfidious> Glad I clicked through on your link-- now I know where the term "rednecks" comes from. <By 1910, his political coalition, comprising chiefly poor white farmers and industrial workers, began to describe themselves proudly as "rednecks", even to the point of wearing red neckerchiefs to political rallies and picnics.> Oct-31-12    perfidious: <OCF> Of course, even at places in the North, it was the case not so many years before. May we live to see the day that prejudice is a thing of the past; I'm hopeful, though not optimistic. Nov-05-12    perfidious: Has Mike Shanahan thrown in his hand? One must wonder, as others have: http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/e... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs... Nov-14-12    perfidious: Jeffrey Loria, cockroach extraordinaire? One thing sure: he has mastered the art of the fire sale, though this time he did not wait for them to come close to winning anything except possibly the title of Most Disappointing Team of 2012. http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/... Nov-18-12    perfidious: <Jim Bartle> If you should read this, big one for your alma mater tonight!! They're most likely dancing in the streets in Tuscaloosa. Notre Dame-Bama for the big prize looks odds-on now; may any opponent of ND win! Nov-18-12    Jim Bartle: Alabama is really back to being #2? They should wipe out Notre Dame if they get the chance. Stanford should have beaten ND, losing in overtime. They just don't seem that good. So many years it seems to happen. Everyone's worried there will be more than two undefeated teams. Then November comes, and there's only one undefeated team left, and a whole bunch of one-loss teams. Going by the past, I had no hope Stanford would beat Oregon. It still doesn't seem possible. It must be karma for those horrendous uniforms. Nov-18-12    perfidious: <Jim> The SEC survivor vs ND for the Big One? Who'da thunk it? It's possible, though. Nov-18-12    OhioChessFan: I thought the same thing last night, Notre Dame vs. Alabama. I'll take Alabama minus 21. Nov-19-12    brankat: <perfidious> Thanks for dropping by and posting the link to: <J Simmelink vs A Shaw, 1998,> Pretty wild game. Double edged all the way through! Perhaps it is too bad You guys didn't continue the play after <36.Qb6+>. Risky for both, yes, but.. :-) On the other hand, it was a correspondence game, so, I guess Draw agreement was a sensible solution. Nov-19-12    perfidious: <OCF> IF that game comes to pass and the line is anything like ND +21, I'll take the points all day! Nov-19-12    perfidious: <Jim> Ah, yes-good old karmic retribution. Nov-24-12    perfidious: RIP Larry Hagman. As the duplicitous, slimy, double-dealing JR Ewing, you were the best! Nov-24-12    morfishine: Thanks <perfidious>! Geller seems to have been an anomaly as far as chess players go. Nov-24-12    achieve: <perfidious> Thanks again for linking to your J Simmelink vs A Shaw, 1998 Open Ruy correspondence game a week ago at <Brankat>'s - it's indeed very instructive, very tactical most of the time, but I tells you I think I found a win for Black on move #30, if my analysis is correct. I posted it at your game page. Looking forward to your reaction. :) Nov-27-12    achieve: *Off Topic* Announcement/Invitation -- to participate in a "fun" Prediction Contest over at the Hans-Joachim Federer page. I know a number of the regulars here might be interested, may find it fun, so hereby the invitation! Also, I have commented on your correspondence game (RIGA), so check it out if you happen to read this!!! ;) Nov-28-12    perfidious: <achieve> No problem; I'll peruse your thoughts on that game. Get back to you in a bit. Nov-28-12    perfidious: <achieve> I'll check out Federer for that. Thanks! PS There are no off-topic subjects here. Once in a while, even chess manages to find its way into the mix. Nov-29-12    achieve: Ok then - on the topic of that dreadful game they call Chess, it is: Here's in fact a visual reminder, after master Simmelink's <30.Kf2>: click for larger view And kidding aside, I really think there's a winning move/plan here for Black (you), and it doesn't look that far out; not at all, in fact, quite a natural move... But, as I said, I did post some analysis on it on your gamepage. My intuition tells me the analysis is close to sound, but as we know in chess you can almost never be 100% sure. Nov-29-12    perfidious: Tea Party acolytes take note: this is what 'tea-bagging' can get you. http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo... Dec-07-12    Fusilli: <Tea Party acolytes take note: this is what 'tea-bagging' can get you.> That is awful. And why does he get away with not being registered as a sex offender? Dec-07-12    Fusilli: That kid at the live broadcast was something else, eh? Dec-11-12    perfidious: Nice thumbnail on the greatest players to have worn both pinstripes and Red Sox colours: http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/e... Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 427) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 3 OF 427 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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