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playground player
Member since Oct-01-06 · Last seen Apr-26-25
NJ--no rating. Favorites, Morphy, Marshall, Anderssen. Played a lot as a teen, then let it go for 40 years. Trying to reconstitute myself as a chess player.

Meanwhile, let this forum serve as a refuge from wild-eyed loony leftism. Here there will be no admiration for Hugo Chavez, Castro, or any of the other tin-pot dictators admired by chess players from the safety of freedom-loving Western democracies. Here will be found a premise that most of the nations of the world today are governed by Godless fools. Ours, too, unfortunately.

I was also going to say some uncomplimentary things about Queen Pawn games, the Sicilian and the French Defenses, Semi-Slav games, and a few other chess matters. But as those are purely questions of personal taste, I have chosen to leave them alone.

Since setting up this forum, I have also had several novels published: "Bell Mountain," "The Cellar Beneath the Cellar," and "The Thunder King." For more information about them (and me), visit my website, http://leeduigon.com/

Update, much delayed: my fourth book, "The Last Banquet," came out last year, and my fifth, "The Fugitive Prince," I expect to be published sometime this Spring. For book covers and free sample chapters, visit my blog.

Update again: "The Fugitive Prince" is out now and the next project is "The Palace." Editing is well advanced, but we're still waiting for a cover.

Update: "The Palace" is in print now along with No. 7, "The Glass Bridge," with No. 8, "The Temple," waiting in the wings. The first seven are all available via amazon.com.

Update: No. 8, "The Temple," and No.9, "The Throne," are now in print, with No. 10, "The Silver Trumpet,"due for release any day now.

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   playground player has kibitzed 7335 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Apr-26-25 playground player chessforum
 
playground player: <OCF> The only remedy is to pull the kids out of those schools.
 
   Sep-06-24 K Supatashvili vs E Matsuura, 1995 (replies)
 
playground player: (If only I had something wise to say!)
 
   Aug-30-24 Aronian vs Carlsen, 2019 (replies)
 
playground player: White can't do anything. I hate it when that happens.
 
   Aug-01-24 Schlechter vs P Meitner, 1899
 
playground player: Holy moly!
 
   Jun-13-24 Kramnik vs Sadvakasov, 2001
 
playground player: That pin of the rook was deadly.
 
   May-10-24 M Sinner vs N Miezis, 1997 (replies)
 
playground player: And I thought I had a problematic surname!
 
   Apr-25-24 P Delekta vs Geller, 1992 (replies)
 
playground player: Great pun!
 
   Apr-19-24 J Taylor vs NN, 1862 (replies)
 
playground player: How come NN never wins? Maybe he should switch of Chutes & Ladders.
 
   Apr-19-24 J Tarjan vs D J Strauss, 1978 (replies)
 
playground player: I can't believe no one offered the pun, "Me Tarjan..."
 
   Apr-05-24 Tal vs NN, 1963
 
playground player: Amazing! Tal's games are always a treat.
 
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Mar-29-19
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  playground player: <perfidious> "Repair to West Virginia"--love it! I haven't seen that use of the word since I wrote, in a term paper for a college biology report, "Let us repair to the laboratory." Would you believe that cost me points?
Mar-29-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <pgp>, was your instructor an idiot?

You may treat that as a rhetoric, not a question if you wish. (laughs)

Mar-30-19  diceman: <cormier:

'' Humanity does not have money to extract water in arid zones ....>

...but he does have a printing press!

Mar-30-19  diceman: <playground player:

Don't they have any sane people left in that party?>

The politicians.
They live Trump lifestyles off the backs of their voters.

It's the folks who vote for Democrats who require the sanity check.

Mar-30-19  cormier: Gospel

<I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former.>

Your words, Lord, are spirit
and they are life.

<If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.>

Your words, Lord, are spirit
and they are life.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Mar-31-19  cormier: Gospel

<Your brother was dead and has come to life again.>

Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus.

<I will get up and go to my Father and shall say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.>

Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Mar-31-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <perfidious> She was indeed.

<diceman> I can't understand why anybody votes for Democrats.Can it be that they honestly believe all that rubbish?

Apr-01-19  cormier: Gospel

<You may go; your son will live.>

Your word, Lord, is truth,
and your law, deliverance.

<Seek good and not evil so that you may live, and the LORD will be with you.>

Your word, Lord, is truth,
and your law, deliverance.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Apr-01-19  diceman: <playground player:

<diceman> I can't understand why anybody votes for Democrats.Can it be that they honestly believe all that rubbish?>

It's like a mass psychosis.
In the real world, history has shown
every "idea" they have to be a failure.

Apr-02-19  cormier: Gospel

<Immediately the man became well.>

Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus!

<A clean heart create for me, O God; give me back the joy of your salvation.>

Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus!

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Apr-03-19  cormier: Gospel

<As the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes.>

Glory to you, Lord,
honor, power and majesty!

<I am the resurrection and the life, says the Lord; whoever believes in me will never die.>

Glory to you, Lord,
honor, power and majesty!

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Apr-03-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: Here's a new way to exert political control over the news media!

https://leeduigon.com/2019/04/03/de...

See, if you don't run an anti-Trump story, that's an "in-kind contribution" to the Trump campaign and a violation of campaign finance laws. But if you do run it, it's an in-kind contribution to the Clinton campaign and a violation of campaign finance laws. No matter what you do, or don't do, they've got you.

Most of the nooze media have already voluntarily submitted to control by Democrats. But the Party won't be satisfied until they own Fox, too.

Apr-04-19  cormier: Gospel

<The one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.>

Praise to you, Lord,
King of eternal glory!

<God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him might have eternal life.>

Praise to you, Lord,
King of eternal glory!

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Apr-05-19  cormier: Gospel

<They tried to arrest him, because his hour had not yet come.>

Your word, Lord, is truth, and your law, deliverance.

<One does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.>

Your word, Lord, is truth, and your law, deliverance.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Apr-06-19  diceman: Dirty shaming

<Public schools provide lunch, breakfast, in some schools dinner, clothing and now laundry

Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.)

Kids who come to school wearing dirty clothes can get laughed at, and the shaming can lead to missed school days, inattentiveness in class and lack of motivation, research shows. A new Whirlpool washer and dryer, along with a $10,000 grant from Care Counts, recently arrived at Carmel Middle School in Harrison School District 2.

Health tech Elsie Angostini starts washing kids’ school uniforms daily at 8:45 a.m. in a nook off the gym.

“The program is intended to provide students with clean clothes in the hope of improving attendance rates and make a positive impact on students, the school and the community,” Assistant Principal Monica Glickman said.>

Just another day in the Liberalmacht.

Apr-06-19  diceman: <Democrat Jerrold Nadler: Religious rights must bow to LGBT

As the House Judiciary Committee chairman, Nadler impressed that under the Equality Act, everyone must fall subject to the LGBT agenda – with churches and religious employers, organizations and colleges being afforded no exemptions whatsoever.>

Even liberal nutjobs hate it.
(only because they think it's anti-women)

<Giving testimony against the pro-LGBT bill – also known as HR 5 – was Julia Beck, who is a self-described radical lesbian feminist and the former law and policy co-chair for Baltimore’s LGBTQ Commission.

“This would eliminate women and girls as a coherent legal category worthy of civil rights protections,” Beck revealed, according to Liberty Counsel. “There is no way to tell if someone is lying about being transgender.”

She said that if gender identity becomes recognized under federal law, Americans can expect to see the following scenarios regularly play out:

Male rapists will go to female prisons and will likely assault female inmates – as has already happened in the UK.

Female survivors of rape will be unable to contest male presence in women’s shelters.

Men will dominate women’s sports and girls who would have taken first place will be denied scholastic opportunity.

Women who use male pronouns to talk about men may be arrested, fined and banned from social media platforms.

Girls will stay home from schools when they have their periods to avoid harassment by boys in mixed-sex toilets.

Girls and women will no longer have a right to ask for female medical staff or intimate care providers – including elderly or disabled women who are at serious risk of sexual abuse.

Female security officers will no longer have the right to refuse to perform pat-down or intimate searches of males who say they’re female.

Women undergoing security checks will no longer have the right to refuse having those searches performed by men claiming a feminine identity.

And these shocking instances are by no means farfetched …

“It’s already happening,” Beck insisted. “And it’s only going to get worse.”>

Oh what a tangled web we weave.

Welcome to your world, Julia!

Apr-06-19  Count Wedgemore: <diceman: Oh what a tangled web we weave.>

Indeed. And yes, many of these things are already happening. For instance, take sports: transgender athletes have already won girls' events in scholastic sports, in the US and Australia, I believe.

Former tennis ace Martina Navratilova recently spoke out against this madness, and received a lot of harassment in social media for it, you know, from the usual suspects: LGBTQXYZ..etc. (I've lost track) "Social Justice" Warriors. Total insanity.

Apr-06-19  cormier: Gospel

<Is it from Galilee that Christ comes?>

Your word, Lord, is truth,
and your law, deliverance.

<Blessed are they who have kept the word with a generous heart and yield a harvest through perseverance.>

Your word, Lord, is truth,
and your law, deliverance.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Apr-06-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <Esteemed Colleagues> At the risk of falling into the category of famous last words, I think it's inconceivable that the wicked and asinine "Equality Act" would ever been approved by the Republican Senate or signed by President Trump. Why the Dems are pushing it now, I can't be sure: but I think it's to fire up their Far Left Crazy base.
Apr-06-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Hi <pp>, have you tried to clear cache (again)? And did it help/resolve your issue?

Another idea, still post the article, (even if image did not appear on your PC) and post the link here, that way I can see the HTML code and also possibly see the image(?) on my PC.

If you know, or Mrs. <pp> can help, what browser do you use? Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome? I will try to view your page with the same browser.

Apr-07-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <WannaBe> This morning I'm more confused than ever. Behold:

https://leeduigon.com/2019/04/07/wh...

As you can see (unless it disappears!), I was able to paste a Bing image onto my blog post--something I couldn't do yesterday. The browser being used is Firefox. The method is the one you taught me: copy the image onto the mouse and paste it onto the blog post. I'd done it thousands of times up until this weekend, when suddenly it stopped working for no reason.

Someone at Wordpress told me Bing is blocking me from using their images. I don't see what's the point of having them if no one's allowed to use them. I'd pay for permission to use them, only I see no way to contact Bing and ask them.

Clearing the cache did seem to work at first, on Friday afternoon; but by mid-morning Saturday it was back to not working, couldn't post an image.

And so far this morning, it's b ack to working. This is quite confusing!

I'm afraid that if I clear the cache again, <Mrs. PGP> will not be amused. But if that's what you recommend, I'll try to talk her into it.

Apr-07-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: <pp> Let's NOT clear the cache, I can see pictures in "So far so good", "Lady Margo Gets Out of Bed", and the one you linked to.

(I also don't quite buy the story Wordpress tech told you about using Bing images...)

Keep me posted...

Apr-07-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <WannaBe> So far, so good today. I've posted two videos and three images without a problem. The problem has disappeared as mysteriously as it came. Could it have been some glitch in Wordpress that the "happiness engineer" didn't know about?

Thanks so much for your help, and I'll let you know if the problem recurs.

Apr-07-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: <pp> Yeah, problem is more likely on Wordpress side than your side. =))
Apr-07-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: Dailey and Vincent-He Bore It All

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98_...

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