Shams Member since Oct-21-04 · Last seen Dec-01-09 uscf ~1870 Seattle -> Osaka -> San Francisco -> Seattle net-chess.com (diggitus) "When society comes under great stress, words lose their meaning." --Thucydides "More than twenty years ago, I stood packed in at the back of [the London Institute of Contemporary Arts], listening to a lecture by Arthur Koestler. He propounded the thesis that language, not territory, was the prime cause of aggression, because once language reached the level of sophistication at which it could express abstract concepts, it acquired the power of totemization; and once peoples had erected totems, they would go to war to defend them..." --Salman Rushdie digphillips at gmail I call passed pawns "rabbits". My contribution to chess slang. Also, the two-threat strategy dovetails nicely with a Zen saying: "You can't chase two rabbits at the same time."

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Dec-01-09 Magnus Carlsen    Shams: <Augalv: <Shams>, I apologize for the sarcasm.> completely not a problem.      Nov-30-09 Vassily Ivanchuk    Shams: <Now also revoke the part about the opponent playing bad and the party is complete> oh for God's sake. Does somebody need an ice cream cone? So even admitted he played poorly.      Nov-30-09 Bologan vs A Adly, 2009   Shams: lovely use of the long light square diagonals! what a clinic.      Nov-30-09 D Jakovenko vs Areshchenko, 2009    Shams: <Andrew Chapman> white's king hides on a7. The easy way is to make sure black can't meet Ka5 with ...Qa3+, since that allows a check on c5; but even that doesn't avail as soon white will have Ka7/Nb6.      Nov-29-09 Kibitzer's Café    Shams: <Eduardo Leon> well, you're 22, so if I may... Just remember this, the truly arrogant don't need to brag. Insecure people brag. Arrogant people simply know they are better than other people and require zero corroboration of that fact. (I've never been able to pull this off.) In ...      Nov-28-09 Wesley So    Shams: I'm pleased at So's ascendancy; I wonder if we could have parallel player pages for him: one English, one Tagalog?      Nov-28-09 Karjakin vs Navara, 2009    Shams: The *French* is Navara's choice to draw?      Nov-27-09 Kamsky vs W So, 2009    Shams: 19...Bc4 and "f6 is coming", GM Christian Bauer on chessdom.com      Nov-26-09 Navara vs Shabalov, 2009   Shams: So obviously, what was wrong with my 19.e6 Qe7? line was that I missed 20.Bg5. Thanks.      Nov-26-09 jessicafischerqueen chessforum    ...

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