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01 Sep 11
24 Sep 11
Originally posted by Shallow BlueFine was the better player as his +5 record against Kashdan would suggest.
Of course. The thing is, I'd heard of Fine and Reshevsky (obviously) and also of Denker*. Never of Kashdan. He may well have been a great player, but prefering him over Fine could only ever have had political reasons.
Richard
* If only for his remarkably apt name - it means "Thinker" in both Dutch and German.
25 Sep 11
Remember my note in the Fine - Najdorf game
where I said if Black plays 1...g3 and he losses after 2.Ke4.
Sa DQ - rayfur2002 RHP 2010
Here with Black to play he transposed into the exact same
lost position I was telling people to avoid.
1..Kg2 or 1...Kh2 or 1.Kh3 all draw.
Black played 1...f4+ 2.Ke4 1-0 It is the very same postion.
Alas I posted one year too late for rayfur2002
26 Sep 11
Originally posted by Paul LeggettHonestly, this is why I don't accept draw offers except in clearly drawn positions and I only resign in the clearest of losing situations. In other words, I'm not sure if I'm ahead or behind until the lead is quite large one way or the other.
The longer I play, the more I think that words and phrases like "obvious", "schoolboy", and "even a 1400 player would/wouldn't" should be banned from chess discussion.
It seems like any time we use such words or phrases, we set ourselves up for a correction or refutation.
On the other hand, they may be the catalysts that get us started on the path to the truth, so they may well have value. But I wonder sometimes.
21 Oct 11
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Skeeter's recent performance has been rather disappointing. Down to 1615 now.
User 34969
In that past this has happened when a highly rated player was informed by the mods that he/she was about to be banned...
21 Oct 11
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Originally posted by Fat Ladytis a fall of Shakespearean proportions, tragic, who will the munchkins look to now to
Skeeter's recent performance has been rather disappointing. Down to 1615 now.
User 34969
In that past this has happened when a highly rated player was informed by the mods that he/she was about to be banned...
start awesome skeety threads? Meh, we can always wind up the Frenchies and the
Colle haters!
21 Oct 11
Originally posted by Proper Knobyou mean epic proportions! the Bible being a volume of epics! this news of skeetys
I'm thinking the fall is of more Biblical proportions.
demise has actually saddened me, i thought i should be joyful, but we do not know the
circumstances and it could be anything really. One only hopes that he or she is well
and the bitter experience of tumbling does not diminish his/her appetite for the royal
game.
