User Profile: Check It Out

Check It Out
Member since Feb-17-06

"The worship of Caissa is, however, so alluring, so fascinating, that the mind, after an interval of repose, returns to it with renewed vigour, greater hope, and redoubled energy, intent on wresting the palm of victory from the majority of opponents. "
*** The Gentleman's Magazine, 1881
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I played competitive chess as a kid inspired by the 1978 match Korchnoi vs. Karpov, and chessgames.com has renewed my enthusiasm for the game. I play occasionally at chess.com and gameknot.com, with more or less accuracy.
I think the greatest players are/were Kasparov, Fischer, Capablanca, Alekhine, Lasker, Morphy, Anand, and Kramnik, but my favorite players are Tal, Nezhmetdinov and Bronstein.
Up-and-comers I like: Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Anish Giri and Fabiano Caruana.
Other interests include:
Karate, music, reading, food, drink, people, business, hard rock, guitars, poker, weightlifting, performance, competition, action, lounging, being lazy, gardening, movies, sleeping, and working outside in bad weather.
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***Useful Chess Links***
Chessgames.com links:
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Game of the Day Archive
Fischerandom Chess Generator
Gift Membership Page
Gift Membership Page (The Rinus Scholarship)
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External sites:
Play online chess:
Blitz/Rapid:
http://www.chess.com/home/
http://www.chesscube.com/
Correspondence:
http://gameknot.com/
http://chessworld.net/chessclubs/as...
http://www.queenalice.com/
Youtube Links:
Live blitz commentary and game reviews:
http://www.youtube.com/kingscrusher
http://www.youtube.com/user/ChessNe...
Name pronunciation by User: Annie K.: http://www.youtube.com/user/AnnieK1...
Chess documentaries posted by User: JessicaFischerQueen: http://www.youtube.com/user/jessica... http://www.youtube.com/user/chessdo...
Live feed:
http://chessbomb.com/site/
Live Ratings:
http://www.2700chess.com/
Improve your chess:
http://chesstempo.com/
http://www.chessvideos.tv/
http://chess.emrald.net/
Chess news:
http://www.chessbase.com/
http://www.chessvibes.com/
http://www.chessdom.com/
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/
http://www.chessintranslation.com/
Chess Federations:
FIDE: http://www.fide.com/
USCF: http://www.uschess.org/images/splas...
Game database: http://www.365chess.com/
Namilov Endgame Tablebase: http://www.k4it.de/?topic=egtb&lang...
Various chess stats:
http://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/records/
http://members.aon.at/sfischl/stat....
http://www.truechess.com/index.html
Historical Chess archives:
http://www.chessarch.com/excavation...
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...
Article by User: hms123 on the Chessgames.com World Team (p. 32-35): http://content.yudu.com/A1t744/Ches...
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Amazing game collections:
Phony Benoni's Game Collections
suenteus po 147's Game Collections
kevin86's Game Collections
SwitchingQuylthulg's Game Collections
TheAlchemist's Game Collections
MorphyMatt's Game Collections
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Awesome profiles on this site:
Lots of game collections here: User: Benzol
Photos: User: brankat
Game Mapping Project: User: Bridgeburner
User: Domdaniel
Lots of useful links: User: hms123
Tons of Robert J Fischer here: User: jessicafischerqueen
User: morfishine
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   Check It Out has kibitzed 3860 times to chessgames [more...]

   Jun-19-13 Anand-Carlsen World Championship (2013)

Check It Out: <Tiggler> Do you imagine India is filled with rabid humans like in the new Brad Pitt vehicle World War Z?

   Jun-19-13 Tal Memorial (2013)

Check It Out: <MTuraga> Did Carlsen say this in the post-game conference? Is there perchance a link if so?

   Jun-18-13 Gelfand vs Carlsen, 2013

Check It Out: Wait, <whiteshark> is female??

   Jun-18-13 Kenneth Rogoff

Check It Out: <Shams>: "What have I done to the Rogoff page? I never should have started this."

   Jun-18-13 Nakamura vs D Andreikin, 2013

Check It Out: Ezzy was right, we should have watched the carlsen-Anand game. But who can predict these things? Thanks Chessgames!

   Jun-18-13 Rybka vs Houdini, 2011

Check It Out: This is like Karpov playing himself back in the '70s/'80s.

   Jun-14-13 perfidious chessforum

Check It Out: Weigh in here, perf

   Jun-14-13 Caruana vs Gelfand, 2013

Check It Out: Here's the Shredder approved ending: 42.bxc3 Qe2+ 43.Kb1 Qd1+ 44.Ka2 Qc2+ 45.Ka1 Qxc3+ 46.Ka2 Qxc5 47.Qd5 Qc2+ 48.Ka1 Qc3+ 49.Kb1 d2 50.Qa8+ Kg7 51.Qd5 Qc1+ 52.Ka2 Qc2+ 53.Ka1 d1(Q)+ 54.Qxd1 Qxd1+ 55.Kb2 Bc5 56.Ka2 Qc2+ 57.Ka1 Bd4# [DIAGRAM]

   Jun-14-13 Carlsen vs Caruana, 2013

Check It Out: Someone's going to get run over by a Car.

   Jun-14-13 D Andreikin vs Anand, 2013

Check It Out: That's some crazy opening but it's probably book for days.

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Jan-09-13		Check It Out: & #9833 ; = ♩ & #9834 ; = ♪ & #9835 ; = ♫ & #9836 ; = ♬ & #9837 ; = ♭ & #9838 ; = ♮ & #9839 ; = ♯ & #9840 ; = ♰ & #9841 ; = ♱

Jan-09-13		WannaBe: & #119070 ; 𝄞 is treble clef but I can only see a block & #119071 ; 𝄟 is bass clef, but again, I can only see a block. ☹

Jan-10-13		Check It Out: Ah yeah, this URL is genius: Tournament Index

Jan-10-13		WannaBe: †♥ Here are some: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_s... Best way, is to google/bing/yahoo search with "HTML code <what you are looking for>" and it will be out there. By the way, do you see the treble/bass clef? Because I am still seeing a box, not sure if CG is supporting all HTML char set, or just my stupid browser is not supporting it …

Jan-10-13		OhioChessFan: Tata Steel Moves Prediction Contest, sponsored by the legendary <chessmoron> and hosted in my forum, is now open. First round begins Saturday the 12th. Click on Elvis for details.

Jan-11-13		Check It Out: 𝄢

Jan-11-13		WannaBe: It's a block. Do not worry, I will solve this.

Feb-26-13		Check It Out: I took the forced draw due to time trouble. [Event "Dojo Chess Match"] [Site "Ballard Dojo"] [Date "2013.02.25"] [Round "2"] [White "Tom"] [Black "Matt"] [ECO "A68"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f4 O-O 6.Nf3 c5 7.d5 e6 8.Be2 exd5 9.cxd5 Bg4 10.O-O Bxf3 11.Bxf3 Nbd7 12.Qc2 Ne8 13.Bd2 Nc7 14.Rae1 b5 15.Ne2 b4 16.Ng3 Qf6 17.b3 Nb5 18.Bg4 Nb6 19.e5 Qd8 20.e6 Nxd5 21.exf7+ Kh8 22.Be6 Nd4 23.Qe4 Nf6 24.Qd3 d5 25.f5 gxf5 26.Qe3 Ng4 27.Qg5 Qxg5 28.Bxg5 Nxe6 29.Rxe6 Rxf7 30.h3 Bd4+ 31.Kh1 Nf2+ 32.Kh2 Rg8 33.Bf4 Ne4 34.Rd1 Nxg3 35.Rxd4 Rd8 36.Be5+ Kg8 37.Rh4 d4 38.Bxg3 d3 39.Bf4 d2 40.Bxd2 Rxd2 41.Rc4 Rg7 42.h4 1/2-1/2

Mar-11-13		Abdel Irada: <CIO>: Although we disagree as to some specifics (which is as it should be, since we're not the same person), I think we share an understanding of some of the fundamental moral imperatives facing our societies. I note that you have a special expertise regarding the Federal Reserve and related issues � about which I know very little � and I would like to know if you have any interest in writing about them for some venue other than on the <Kenneth Rogoff> forum. If so, I'd like to invite you to have a look around my site and see whether what you see there seems essentially in accord with your own understanding and ethos. If it is, I'd be interested to know if you'd like to write some articles for the site. I can't pay you � I can offer only blood, sweat, tears and controversy � but if that bargain is not loathly to you (and you can bear with my own far different writing style), I think your contributions could add a dimension to my own work. Please let me know what you think.

Mar-20-13		Abdel Irada: Have you had a chance to look over the site yet?

Mar-22-13		frogbert: cio, then we're off to london again! well, at least i am. ;o)

Mar-22-13		Check It Out: <frogbert> Have a fun trip, eat some Italian food!

Mar-22-13		Abdel Irada: <CIO>: I want to make this very clear: I am perfectly willing to take "no" for an answer, and I will not be offended in the least. Since I have in effect solicited your opinion, I cannot object to whatever opinion you may offer. So, please don't feel that politesse obliges you to remain silent if you'd prefer not to write for my site, for whatever reason or none at all. One aspect of Asperger's Syndrome that you will probably have noted is that its "sufferers" are extremely forthright. To a man (or woman), I would say that we would always prefer an honest answer, however unflattering, to none at all. (This is, of course, among the principal reasons why "normal" folk find us hard to understand, and why we often unwittingly offend by applying the same principle to our own utterances.)

Mar-23-13		Check It Out: <AI> I haven't decided one way or the other. I'm just taking my time :) I'll look at your site (which I have a bit already), and if I think I could add something I'll let you know.

Mar-23-13		Abdel Irada: Thank you for letting me know where things now stand. Unfortunately, I am also congenitally impatient. If, as <al wazir> says, this is his "besetting sin," it is also (among) mine. :-S By all means do take your time. No decision of any moment should be rushed.

Mar-25-13		Abdel Irada: I got your note on my forum and will look forward to seeing the article.

Apr-04-13		Check It Out: Hi Jim, some friends of mine are visiting Peru in a week for 2 or 3 weeks. They are Juniper and Chris, wife and husband. Juniper is a student of mine at the karate dojo, and also participates in our chess club with <Shams> and myself. Very friendly people and adventurous. might be interested in your books, or simply chatting it up about places to go, hikes, etc. Would you be willing to correspond or meet with them?

Apr-04-13		Jim Bartle: Sure, I'm in the Lima phone book.

Apr-04-13		Check It Out: Great. Can they contact you by email?

Apr-04-13		Check It Out: That's fine if not. I've sent them a message to look you up when they arrive. They know me as Matt or Sensei, not Check It Out. I've asked them to purchase your best book for me - which should it be?

Apr-10-13		hms123: <CIO> BOB4: Chessgames Challenge: Team White vs Team Black, 2013

Apr-26-13		Abdel Irada: I gather your Fed article is turning into a significant research project? ∞

May-29-13		Shams: Fighting words! Anchor Steam buries Lagunitas!

Jun-07-13		perfidious: <One other note, I really dislike the idea that being alcoholic, or, especially, having gasp received treatment for it is some sort of indicator of being a lower form of life. Please.> While I don't recall whether I responded to this post by you of two years ago, I will say this: if I had used the above as a criterion to decide whether or not to maintain contact with others, much less form and maintain friendships with them, my life would not be the better as a result. One of my co-workers is someone who has battled that bete noire as long as we have known each other and is one of the finest people I have met, a person of uncommon decency with a gentle, giving nature like few I have ever encountered. What kind of friend would I be if, when she needed help-if only someone to listen, which has been the case-I turned away?

Jun-08-13		Check It Out: perf, exactly. There's something about the impersonal nature of a chess site such as this (and chess obsessives in general perhaps) that causes what might otherwise be decent people in person to say the meanest, nastiest things they can when typing. It's a disconnect of sorts from being human. It's ego I suppose and we all fall for it from time to time; I'm certainly no angel. Our worth is probably measured by how we help and uplift others, particularly when they need it. Dehumanizing those with alcohol or drug problems certainly doesn't help.

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