TheFocus Member since Jun-23-09 Site record holder for most posts in a day with 221. A dubious honor. Game Collection: Historical Tournaments 1: Updated, but need work Game Collection: Historical Tournaments 2: The Waiting List Game Collection: Historical Tournaments 3: To be Updated Game Collection: Historical Tournaments 4: To be Collected chessgames.com chessforum Chessgames Editor Guide PGN Upload Utility FEN Help Page Player Directory Game Collection Voting New Tournaments Tournament Index Game Collection Search CG Librarian chessforum JessicaFischerQueen's Alekhine Collections Game Collection: Alekhine Tournaments Collection (complete list) Game Collection: Alekhine Matches Collection (complete list) Lasker Game Collection: Emanuel Lasker Metacollection Fischer Game Collection: Robert J. Fischer Metacollection Fischer Photos http://www.echecs-photos.be/BobbyFi... Country Codes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o... List of Strong Chess Tournaments by Year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o... Historical Photo Collections http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... From Chess Notes: Chess History Research On-Line http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... Google Newspapers http://news.google.com/newspapers Royal Dutch Library for magazines and Newspapers http://kranten.kb.nl/ User: jnpope Chess Archeology site. http://www.chessarch.com/ List of German Tournaments and Cross-tables http://archiv.berlinerschachverband... Game Collection: WCC Index Quotes By and About Robert Fischer http://www.chessquotes.com/player-f... Videos about Fischer's Games by <kingscrusher> http://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Newspaper Archives http://newspaperarchive.com/free-ne... Currently submitting games for these tournaments: Vienna 1899/1900 http://pakchess.org/games-by-tourna... Berlin 1907 http://pakchess.org/games-by-tourna...

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Jun-18-13 Timothy Taylor    TheFocus: Thank you Trooper. Truer words were never spoken. <The Troop paid a price for the current peace.> And we do have peace now. Does anyone want to go back to the old days? Do you think <AJ> will behave? I know the Troop will behave. None of us has gotten out of line ...      Jun-18-13 Robert James Fischer   TheFocus: Well, <Focus> is going home early today. I have a headache, stomach ache, fever and hemorrhoids threatening to unleash more pain if I don't go. Chow for now!      Jun-17-13 Kenneth Rogoff    TheFocus: Yech! These Japanese men are a kinky bunch of buggers. Japanese porn is also crazy. Or... so I have heard. ;^ )      Jun-16-13 Kibitzer's Café    TheFocus: <TD> I hope he at least calls you to say "Happy Father's Day." And in case he doesn't... Happy Father's Day to <technical draw> and all the other Fathers on the site!!!      Jun-16-13 TheFocus chessforum    TheFocus: <parisattack> Ho, first wait fo' me fo' get to 10,000, den I wen go to pineapple field myself, brah! Den sit and wait fo' you fo' catch up! I wen wishin' you one Happy Faddah's Day, my friend! I gonna toss one haole off da Pali Lookout fo' celebrate da kine. Tell Ulu to bring      Jun-16-13 Odd Lie    TheFocus: Once you go Martha, you don't go Wendi.      Jun-15-13 chessgames.com chessforum    TheFocus: Oops, I deleted that before the Admins did. LOL!      Jun-15-13 J Brunner    TheFocus: OK, I checked in <Quarterly of Chess History>, <American Chess Bulletin> and <Alekhine Alekhine's Chess games 1902 - 1946> by Skinner and Verhoeven. All have J. Brunner. Skinner has an earlier simultaneous game against J. Brunner. <ACB> has a photo of the ...      Jun-14-13 Anand-Carlsen World Championship (2013)    TheFocus: That would be a good name for a band - The Dead Morphys. I have heard of a band called The Dropkick Murphys.      Jun-14-13 Mikhail Botvinnik    TheFocus: Yes, that was a nice article. I was playing some Botvinnik games last night. Such a great player.

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 8 OF 8 ·  Later Kibitzing> Mar-09-13    OhioChessFan: http://qz.com/54762/makers-mark-lea... Apr-26-13    TheFocus: Nominated <Spassky - Korchnoi Candidates Final Match> and <Hastings 1977/78>. Added dates and rounds. Apr-29-13    TheFocus: This post is 7,750. Can we make 10,000 by year's end? Stay tuned. Apr-30-13    TheFocus: Did a little Wikipedia editing today for a friend. Nice to add to the collective. May-02-13    TheFocus: So I finally get my work schedule changed so that I am off on Saturday and Sunday. First thing I do is call up a friend of mine to see if he has any weekend work in entertainment security. There's a concert this weekend. I will be working in the pit as a bouncer. Free concert and paid in cash. Sometimes I will be working in nightclubs. Nothing like getting paid to watch pretty girls dance. Best of all is when those girls use your body as if pole dancing. It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. It's all about getting to the magic $1,000,000 mark if you know what I mean. May-02-13    TheFocus: So now I work 2 full-time jobs and 2 part-time jobs. May-03-13    TheFocus: This will be my first weekend off in the last year. I think I will sleep in late. A 55 hour vacation. May-03-13    TheFocus: Not doing the bouncer job this weekend because I have gout in my hand. Hurts, oh yeah! May-03-13    TheFocus: Hope to get my weight under 200 pounds by Monday. That will be a 10 pound loss in a week. May-03-13    TheFocus: 7,800th post. Ho hum. May-06-13    Phony Benoni: I ran across the dates and games for London 1900, and had just submitted a couple of games when I noticed you had started Game Collection: 1900 London. Would you like the information, or should I continue? (I'm calling it the City Club Masters/Amateurs; there were other tournaments at London in 1900.) May-06-13    TheFocus: <Phony> I need to check again, but I believe that the games and dates are in <The Field>. Why don't you continue. I am swamped with other tournaments right now. May-08-13    TheFocus: Finally got all the games entered for <Ostende-B 1907> entered, but 109 games have to be submitted. May-10-13    TheFocus: 7,850 posts. <Shrugs> Ho hum. May-14-13    TheFocus: Don't you hate finding some of your posts were deleted overnight. You can't remember them all, yet you know nothing offensive was posted. Hmmm. May-22-13    TheFocus: Oh, golly. Post 7979. Only 992, 021 till I get to a million. May-25-13    Phony Benoni: A brief account of Fischer's simul in Little Rock, Arkansas, March 29, 1964. http://www.memphischess.com/LittleR... The game with Berry is not in the database; he appears to be <Gary Berry> of Arkansas (1964 USCF rating list). Also, in Fischer vs J Hurt, 1964, Black's name should be <John> Hurt, not Jim. See http://www.memphischess.com/JohnHur.... May-28-13    TheFocus: <Phony> I have Gary Berry and John Hurt in my database. Nice that it is confirmed. Thanks. I only have four games from that simul, taken from John Donaldson's book of the tour. May-28-13    TheFocus: <Phony> I have Gary Berry and John Hurt in my database. Nice that it is confirmed. Thanks. I only have four games from that simul, taken from John Donaldson's book of the tour. Berry's is the only one missing here. Donaldson identifies the opponent in this game as C. Richard Long. Fischer vs R Long, 1964 May-28-13    TheFocus: This is the other game Fischer vs L H Weaks, 1964 May-28-13    Phony Benoni: <TheFocus> C Richard Long appears to be correct: http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwphi/Media/D... This is a PDF file; a memorial article and picture are on p.11. Can you tell it's from Atlanta? Here is some more information confirming the Fischer connection: http://www.fshs58.com/long.html I think we have enough to change "Rick Long". He would have been 22/23 in 1964, so it may have been a nickname. (I'm concerned because he played in the Atlanta 1967 US Open.) Jun-10-13    TheFocus: Giving a big shout out to my buddy <lamont>! Get well soon! Jun-15-13    parisattack: 8200 CG posts in four years to my 2400 in nine years! I may have to have my brah Ulu drop you in da kine Lanai pineapple field for a few years so I can catch up <TheFocus>! Jun-16-13    TheFocus: <parisattack> Ho, first wait fo' me fo' get to 10,000, den I wen go to pineapple field myself, brah! Den sit and wait fo' you fo' catch up! I wen wishin' you one Happy Faddah's Day, my friend! I gonna toss one haole off da Pali Lookout fo' celebrate da kine. Tell Ulu to bring some some Longboard beers instead. We watch one sunrise and drink. Jun-16-13    parisattack: Tell da haole you know where is da kine pakalolo! He follow you up Pali road, then WHOOSH! Dey make you Kamehameha VI, big statue when you go to meet Big Kahuna. Ulu bring Longheads for you, me - but he like da Chivas half-and-half wit da chocolate milk. Maybe we have da Green Flash party, brah. A wonderful Father's Day to you, good sir. Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 8) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 8 OF 8 ·  Later Kibitzing>		Advertise on Chessgames.com

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