keypusher Member since Sep-23-04 · Last seen May-17-13 Scott Thomson The Perseus Project: The classics in Greek, Latin & English--hyperlinked http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper... A page from the Venetus A, the oldest complete manuscript of the Iliad, courtesy of Harvard's Multitext Library: http://chs119.chs.harvard.edu/venic... A collection of chess links, including tons of tournament crosstables and games: http://www.worldchesslinks.net/inde... From Google Books, a link to Tarrasch's book on the 1908 world championship. I've translated his notes on the game pages. http://books.google.com/books?id=0C... Lasker's book on St. Petersburg 1909 http://www.google.com/books?id=o3eC... Chess-play is a good and witty exercise of the mind for some kind of men, and fit for such melancholy, Rhasis holds, as are idle, and have extravagant impertinent thoughts, or troubled with cares, nothing better to distract their mind, and alter their meditations; invented (some say) by the general of an army in famine, to keep soldiers from mutiny: but if it proceed from overmuch study, in such case it may do more harm than good; it is a game too troublesome for some men's brains, too full of anxiety, all out as bad as study; besides it is a testy choleric game, and very offensive to him that loseth the mate. William the Conquerer, in his younger years, playing at chess with the Prince of France (Dauphine was not annexed to that crown in those days) losing a mate, knocked the chess-board about his pate, which was a cause afterwards of much enmity between them. --Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy "Just because many great chess players were obnoxious jerks, doesn't mean that if you're an obnoxious jerk you're a great chess player." --AgentRgent

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May-17-13 Norway Chess Tournament (2013)    keypusher: <True to some degree, his ratings were earned by beating rabbits via cheap endgame tricks, but what can he do but to eat what is served.> As frogbert demonstrated at length, Carlsen's rating owes less to beating <rabbits> (if by rabbit we mean GMs rated 2700-2750, ...      May-17-13 Carlsen vs Wang Hao, 2013    keypusher: Looks hopeless to me. Luckily I'm incompetent.      May-17-13 Svidler vs Karjakin, 2013    keypusher: <chessdgc2: caissafan1963: Have you looked at ...Bxb5? After 1...c6 then 2.a5 and if 2...Bxa5 then 3. Bxd7 Qxd7 4. Rxa5 Seems like White is trying to trick Black :)> 3.Bxd7 is unplayable. Strongest Force's 14....c6 15.a5 Bxd4 is the official site's engine's choice but it ...      May-16-13 Anand-Carlsen World Championship (2013)    keypusher: <nok: <rhickma4> was witty and an answer wasn't quite necessary, we all know that.> One man's witty is another man's moronic.      May-16-13 Kenneth Rogoff    keypusher: <OneArmedScissor: <kb2ct is a loon. He claims to trade currency or something, but he doesn't even know what GDP is. His nonsense is not attributable to anyone but himself.> Why do you need to know what GDP is in order to trade currency?> I've never known anyone who did      May-16-13 Viswanathan Anand    keypusher: <We need a REAL champion like Muhammad Ali was for boxing, like <Morphy>, Steinitz or <Fischer> for chess.> Champions who don't play? Chess deserves better than that.      May-15-13 Karjakin vs Nakamura, 2013    keypusher: Carlsen: "c4 next, and then no earthly power can stop the a-pawn"      May-15-13 Carlsen vs Radjabov, 2013    keypusher: <SirRuthless> <Beating the bottom tablers and draw the stronger players is a good strategy.> Evidently Karjakin is employing the same strategy, since he's hammering Nakamura.      May-14-13 Women Grand Prix Geneva (2013)    keypusher: <John Abraham: <dx9293> Nonsense. The skills that are necessary to achieve a high level in chess (such as concentration, discipline, and abstract thinking) can be applied to other pursuits as well. Bobby Fischer once said, "I do not consider myself a chess genius, but a ...      May-14-13 Anand vs Karjakin, 2013    keypusher: It's like we've moved back 100 years in the Ruy Lopez recently.      May-10-13 Tamaz Gelashvili     May-10-13 Nigel Short     May-10-13 Wesley So     May-08-13 Magnus Carlsen     May-08-13 Fischer vs Fine, 1963     May-07-13 Norway Chess Tournament (Blitz) (2013)     May-07-13 Jeremy Lim     May-06-13 Duke Karl of Brunswick vs Prince of Villafranca, 1870     May-06-13 Gary Senior    May-05-13 World Championship Candidates (2013)     May-05-13 Robert James Fischer     May-03-13 Fischer vs Larsen, 1971     May-03-13 Phony Benoni chessforum     May-02-13 Larsen vs Fischer, 1962    May-02-13 K Treybal vs Nimzowitsch, 1926    May-02-13 Veselin Topalov     May-01-13 FIDE Grand Prix Zug (2013)     May-01-13 Alekhine Memorial (2013)     May-01-13 Fischer vs Panno, 1970     Apr-30-13 E Pospisilova vs I Kopecek, 1968    Apr-30-13 Topalov vs Karjakin, 2013  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Rubinstein, 1907    Apr-06-13 H E Atkins vs W Schwan, 1899     Apr-06-13 Christiansen vs Karpov, 1993     Apr-05-13 Mikhail Botvinnik     Apr-03-13 Tal vs Petrosian, 1959     Apr-03-13 Vassily Ivanchuk     Apr-02-13 Carlsen vs Ivanchuk, 2013     Apr-01-13 keypusher chessforum     Apr-01-13 Ivanchuk vs Kramnik, 2013     Apr-01-13 Carlsen vs Svidler, 2013     Mar-31-13 Radjabov vs Carlsen, 2013     Mar-31-13 Grischuk vs Kramnik, 2013     Mar-30-13 Kramnik vs Gelfand, 2013     Mar-30-13 Ulf Andersson vs M Basman, 1974     Mar-29-13 S Novikov vs G Newerovski, 2005     Mar-28-13 Svidler vs Aronian, 2013     Mar-28-13 Grischuk vs Carlsen, 2013     Mar-26-13 Anastazia Karlovich     Mar-25-13 O Bender vs D Benge, 1962     Mar-25-13 Gelfand vs Aronian, 2013     Mar-24-13 Carlsen vs Aronian, 2013     Mar-23-13 Carlsen vs Grischuk, 2013     Mar-23-13 Carlsen vs Radjabov, 2013     Mar-16-13 Carlsen vs Kramnik, 2013     Mar-16-13 Averbakh vs Purdy, 1960     Mar-15-13 Aronian vs Carlsen, 2013     Mar-14-13 Spassky vs Fischer, 1972     Mar-14-13 Kramnik vs Carlsen, 2011     Mar-12-13 Jose Raul Capablanca     Mar-07-13 F Papastathi vs O Nikolopoulos, 2001     Mar-05-13 M Muzychuk vs P Rout, 2013    Mar-04-13 Garry Kasparov     Mar-01-13 Znosko-Borovsky vs E Cohn, 1909    Feb-28-13 Chigorin vs Lasker, 1897     Feb-27-13 Tal vs Botvinnik, 1961    Feb-27-13 Lasker vs Blackburne, 1892    Feb-27-13 Morozevich vs M Vachier-Lagrave, 2009     Feb-27-13 Lasker vs Blackburne, 1892     Feb-27-13 Reykjavik Open (2013)     Feb-26-13 Zurich Chess Challenge (2013)     Feb-26-13 Anna Ushenina     Feb-26-13 Elliott Forry Laucks     Feb-26-13 London (1851)     Feb-25-13 Anand vs Gelfand, 2013     Feb-24-13 Kasparov-Karpov World Championship Match (1987)     Feb-24-13 Tal vs Botvinnik, 1961    Feb-22-13 Karpov vs Stein, 1971     Feb-22-13 Botvinnik vs Tal, 1961    Feb-21-13 Y Yu vs Y Shulman, 2013    Feb-21-13 Lou Yiping vs Y Yu, 2013     Feb-20-13 Miles vs Plaskett, 1983     Feb-19-13 Aeroflot Rapid Open (2013)     Feb-15-13 F Bindrich vs D Fridman, 2010    Feb-15-13 GRENKE Chess Classic (2013)     Feb-15-13 Alexander Alekhine     Feb-14-13 D Fridman vs Naiditsch, 2013     Feb-14-13 Caruana vs Anand, 2013     Feb-13-13 Biographer Bistro     Feb-13-13 Daniel Freeman     Feb-12-13 Rubinstein vs Lasker, 1909     Feb-10-13 Botvinnik vs Tal, 1961     Feb-08-13 C Lolli vs D Ercole Del Rio, 1755     Feb-08-13 Bronstein vs Botvinnik, 1952    Feb-08-13 Botvinnik vs Tal, 1961    Feb-08-13 Tal vs Botvinnik, 1961    Feb-07-13 R Kola    Feb-05-13 Carlsen vs Nakamura, 2013     Feb-05-13 Botvinnik vs R Mongredien, 1967     Feb-04-13 Tata Steel (2013)     Feb-03-13 Botvinnik vs Tal, 1961     Feb-02-13 Botvinnik vs Tal, 1961    Feb-02-13 USSR Championship (1945)     Jan-31-13 Reshevsky vs Fischer, 1966     Jan-30-13 Capablanca vs Kevitz, 1924    Jan-29-13 Baden Baden (1925)     Jan-29-13 chessgames.com chessforum     Jan-26-13 Alistair Compton     Jan-26-13 Hikaru Nakamura     Jan-25-13 Yifan Hou vs Anand, 2013     Jan-24-13 V Ciocaltea vs Fischer, 1965    Jan-23-13 Kasparov vs Portisch, 1983     Jan-22-13 TheFocus chessforum     Jan-22-13 W Shinkman vs T Thompson, 1875     Jan-22-13 Yifan Hou vs Carlsen, 2013     Jan-22-13 Cochrane vs Mohishunder, 1854     Jan-18-13 Carlsen vs I Sokolov, 2013     Jan-17-13 Lasker vs Burn, 1889     Jan-17-13 Harikrishna vs Van Wely, 2013     Jan-17-13 Anand vs Carlsen, 2013     Jan-16-13 Kashdan vs Reshevsky, 1932     Jan-15-13 Wang Hao vs Yifan Hou, 2013     Jan-14-13 Carlsen vs Van Wely, 2013     Jan-11-13 Samuel Reshevsky     Jan-09-13 Velimirovic vs A Zontakh, 1998     Dec-21-12 Kotov vs Keres, 1950     Dec-17-12 SportAccord World Mind Games (Men's Rapid) (2012)     Dec-14-12 Lasker vs P Romanovsky, 1925    Dec-13-12 Lasker vs E Delmar, 1892     Dec-11-12 H Wimmer vs A Caoili, 1998     Dec-10-12 London Chess Classic (2012)     Dec-10-12 Carlsen vs Anand, 2012     Dec-09-12 Kramnik vs G Jones, 2012     Dec-08-12 Adams vs McShane, 2012     Dec-08-12 Nakamura vs Carlsen, 2012     Dec-07-12 Carlsen vs Judit Polgar, 2012     Dec-07-12 Kramnik vs Carlsen, 2012     Dec-07-12 Emms vs J C Hawksworth, 1986    Dec-06-12 Efim Bogoljubov     Dec-06-12 Adams vs Carlsen, 2012     Dec-06-12 Karpov-Korchnoi World Championship Match (1978)     Dec-05-12 St Petersburg (1914)     Dec-05-12 J F Barry vs Pillsbury, 1899     Dec-04-12 Carlsen vs G Jones, 2012     Dec-02-12 Carlsen vs Aronian, 2012     Dec-02-12 McShane vs Carlsen, 2012     Nov-30-12 Keres vs Hug, 1973     Nov-19-12 Alekhine vs Capablanca, 1927     Nov-15-12 Botvinnik vs Fischer, 1962     Nov-09-12 J Peters vs Seirawan, 1984    Nov-09-12 Marshall vs Tartakower, 1930     Nov-09-12 St. Petersburg 1895-96 (1895)    Nov-08-12 David Moody     Nov-06-12 Fischer vs Myagmarsuren, 1967     Nov-06-12 P Petrowitsch vs C Orpinas, 1993     Nov-05-12 D Sheppard vs R Fischer, 1995     Nov-02-12 Karpov-Fischer World Championship Match (1975)     Nov-01-12 SPICE Cup (2012)     Oct-25-12 Yifan Hou vs Nakamura, 2012     Oct-23-12 Nakamura vs Yifan Hou, 2012     Oct-22-12 J Rowson vs A Ledger, 1995     Oct-18-12 Plachetka vs L Zinn, 1974     Oct-18-12 Keres vs Fischer, 1959     Oct-17-12 Bilbao Masters (2012)     Oct-12-12 Carlsen vs Anand, 2012     Oct-11-12 Anand vs Caruana, 2012     Oct-09-12 Caruana vs Karjakin, 2012     Oct-08-12 Ernesto Ché Guevara     Oct-08-12 R Wojtaszek vs Ponomariov, 2012     Oct-08-12 Carlsen vs Caruana, 2012     Oct-03-12 Louis F Stumpers     Oct-02-12 Hector vs M Antonsen, 2010     Oct-02-12 Marmaduke Wyvill     Oct-01-12 Hirschfeld vs Anderssen, 1860    Sep-26-12 Vallejo-Pons vs Carlsen, 2012     Sep-25-12 Karjakin vs Caruana, 2012     Sep-25-12 FIDE Grand Prix London (2012)     Sep-21-12 Botvinnik vs J Penrose, 1962     Sep-21-12 B Andersson vs Botvinnik, 1962    Sep-21-12 Seirawan vs J Benjamin, 1989     Sep-21-12 Botvinnik vs A Pomar-Salamanca, 1962    Sep-14-12 S Atalik vs Nisipeanu, 2012     Sep-12-12 Paul Keres     Sep-11-12 M Hawelko vs Blatny, 1990     Sep-11-12 Kasparov vs S Thomson, 2003    Sep-10-12 Chess Olympiad (2012)     Sep-07-12 Karpov vs Miles, 1980     Sep-03-12 McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834     Aug-24-12 Boris Spassky     Aug-24-12 Keres vs W Winter, 1935    Aug-23-12 R Byrne vs Fischer, 1967     Aug-22-12 Chigorin vs F J Lee, 1899    Aug-17-12 Spassky vs Karpov, 1982     Aug-17-12 Hans-Joachim Federer     Aug-17-12 H E Atkins vs W Meiners, 1899     Aug-16-12 Fischer vs Spassky, 1972     Aug-14-12 Svetozar Gligoric     Aug-13-12 Fischer vs O Celle, 1964     Aug-09-12 F J Lee vs Lasker, 1899     Aug-07-12 N Kosintseva vs T Kosintseva, 2012     Aug-02-12 World Blitz Championship (2012)     Jul-31-12 Biel Chess Festival (2012)     Jul-26-12 Spassky vs Fischer, 1972     Jul-26-12 A Giri vs Bacrot, 2012     Jul-25-12 Znosko-Borovsky vs L Forgacs, 1907     Jul-14-12 Anand-Gelfand World Chess Championship (2012)     Jul-14-12 Maroczy vs Spielmann, 1908     Jul-13-12 Maroczy vs Spielmann, 1907    Jul-12-12 Unzicker vs M Czerniak, 1954     Jul-11-12 Paul Morphy     Jul-10-12 Botvinnik vs Vidmar, 1936     Jul-08-12 Alekhine-Bogoljubov World Championship Match (1929)     Jul-08-12 Tartakower vs H Wolf, 1907     Jul-06-12 Geller vs Bronstein, 1953     Jul-06-12 Judit Polgar vs Svidler, 2005     Jul-05-12 Karpov vs Spassky, 1974     Jul-02-12 Petrosian vs Fischer, 1970     Jun-30-12 Tartakower vs Maroczy, 1907     Jun-29-12 Flohr vs Botvinnik, 1933    Jun-29-12 Smyslov vs E Jimenez Zerquera, 1965     Jun-26-12 James Swain Mucklow     Jun-21-12 P Moran vs E Franco, 1955     Jun-20-12 Grischuk vs Nakamura, 2012     Jun-19-12 Pillsbury vs M Judd, 1898     Jun-19-12 Yifan Hou vs A Stefanova, 2012    Jun-19-12 Tal Memorial (2012)     Jun-16-12 Carlsen vs E Tomashevsky, 2012     Jun-15-12 Petrosian vs Portisch, 1974     Jun-13-12 Kan vs Capablanca, 1936     Jun-13-12 Radjabov vs Carlsen, 2012     Jun-12-12 Keres vs Filip, 1956    Jun-12-12 Viktor Korchnoi     Jun-10-12 Caruana vs Nakamura, 2012     Jun-09-12 Morozevich vs Carlsen, 2012     Jun-04-12 Karpov-Timman FIDE World Championship (1993)     May-31-12 Gelfand vs Eljanov, 2009     May-28-12 Anand vs Gelfand, 2012     May-16-12 Ljubojevic vs Ulf Andersson, 1976    May-09-12 Robson vs Kamsky, 2012     May-09-12 Nakamura vs R Hess, 2012     Apr-27-12 Morphy vs A Meek, 1857     Apr-26-12 Borin Topic     Apr-23-12 Janowski vs Lasker, 1896    Apr-20-12 Anderssen vs Morphy, 1858    Apr-19-12 Bronstein vs Benko, 1969     Apr-14-12 Robert Lee Hess     Apr-09-12 Tal vs Kavalek, 1979    Apr-06-12 Scott Thomson     Apr-06-12 Kolisch vs C W Vitzthum von Eckstaedt, 1859    Apr-05-12 crawfb5 chessforum     Apr-05-12 King's Gambit Accepted (C33)     Mar-22-12 Wilhelm Steinitz     Mar-19-12 Christiansen vs R Hess, 2011     Mar-17-12 Vitacek vs Duras, 1900     Mar-15-12 David Bronstein     Mar-12-12 Anderssen vs Blackburne, 1862     Mar-06-12 Vidmar vs Przepiorka, 1906     Feb-26-12 Kupchik vs Capablanca, 1918     Feb-26-12 Karpov vs Spassky, 1973     Feb-23-12 Krum Georgiev vs Kasparov, 1980     Feb-22-12 Spielmann vs Nimzowitsch, 1931    Feb-22-12 Pillsbury vs Tarrasch, 1895     Feb-16-12 Bronstein vs Browne, 1990     Feb-16-12 Flohr vs O Naegeli, 1933    Feb-16-12 Lev Alburt     Feb-13-12 J Mortimer vs J Mason, 1887     Feb-11-12 Pillsbury vs Albin, 1895    Feb-07-12 Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1938     Feb-03-12 Bogoljubov vs Nimzowitsch, 1920     Feb-02-12 Mieses vs Nimzowitsch, 1907     Feb-01-12 Anderssen vs Steinitz, 1866     Jan-28-12 Steinitz-Zukertort World Championship Match (1886)     Jan-26-12 Aron Nimzowitsch     Jan-25-12 Tal vs Spassky, 1965     Jan-24-12 Carlsen vs V Gashimov, 2012     Jan-23-12 Tata Steel (2012)     Jan-23-12 Petrosian vs Mecking, 1971     Jan-16-12 Harry Nelson Pillsbury     Jan-13-12 Raymond Keene     Jan-12-12 J O H Taylor vs Steinitz, 1865     Jan-11-12 Lasker vs A Ettlinger, 1893    Jan-10-12 Fischer vs O Neikirch, 1958     Jan-10-12 Ivanchuk vs Nakamura, 2012     Jan-06-12 Lisitsin vs Botvinnik, 1933    Dec-25-11 Christiansen vs Seirawan, 1978     Dec-23-11 Johann Hermann Bauer    Dec-22-11 B Chesney vs Gulko, 1986     Dec-22-11 P Brandts vs Fischer, 1971     Dec-21-11 De Riviere vs Morphy, 1863     Dec-21-11 W Winter vs Lasker, 1936     Dec-21-11 Judit Polgar vs Kasparov, 2002     Dec-20-11 J H Donner vs Botvinnik, 1967     Dec-12-11 London Chess Classic (2011)     Dec-11-11 McShane vs Kramnik, 2011     Dec-11-11 Luke McShane     Dec-10-11 Carlsen vs Adams, 2011     Dec-10-11 A Artidiello vs D Freeman, 2001     Dec-09-11 Snowdrops and Old-hands (2011)     Dec-09-11 McShane vs Nakamura, 2011     Dec-09-11 Anthony Santasiere     Dec-09-11 Kasparov vs Speelman, 1989     Dec-08-11 Aronian vs Carlsen, 2011     Dec-06-11 Carlsen vs Kramnik, 2011     Dec-06-11 Carlsen vs Nakamura, 2011     Dec-06-11 Keres vs Botvinnik, 1948     Dec-05-11 Petrosian vs Larsen, 1965     Dec-04-11 Morphy vs Maurian, 1866     Dec-04-11 Carlsen vs D Howell, 2011     Nov-29-11 A K Robinson vs Lasker, 1892     Nov-28-11 Korchnoi vs Karpov, 1974     Nov-25-11 Nakamura vs Carlsen, 2011     Nov-23-11 Yifan Hou vs Koneru, 2011     Nov-23-11 Tony Palmer     Nov-22-11 Tal Memorial (2011)     Nov-22-11 Carlsen vs Svidler, 2011     Nov-20-11 James Kulbacki     Nov-20-11 Ivanchuk vs Carlsen, 2011     Nov-16-11 Mikhail Tal     Nov-08-11 Ftacnik vs Vallejo-Pons, 2007     Nov-06-11 Nakamura vs Aronian, 2011     Nov-03-11 Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883     Oct-28-11 Samuel Schweber     Oct-26-11 Feuerstein vs Bennett, 1955     Oct-21-11 Von Popiel vs Tarrasch, 1896    Oct-07-11 Vallejo-Pons vs Ivanchuk, 2011     Oct-06-11 4th Bilbao Masters (2011)     Oct-03-11 John Cochrane     Sep-30-11 C H Alexander vs Botvinnik, 1936     Sep-29-11 Kmoch vs Rubinstein, 1926     Sep-28-11 Carlos Torre vs F E Parker, 1924     Sep-24-11 twinlark chessforum     Sep-21-11 Kasparov vs M Vachier-Lagrave, 2011     Sep-16-11 Seirawan vs A J Mestel, 1982     Sep-06-11 Botvinnik vs Kan, 1952     Sep-05-11 Judit Polgar     Sep-04-11 Aronian vs Anand, 2011     Sep-03-11 Karpov-Kasparov World Championship Match (1984)     Sep-03-11 Mecking vs Botvinnik, 1967     Sep-02-11 jww chessforum     Sep-01-11 Anatoly Karpov     Sep-01-11 Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960     Sep-01-11 Carl Schlechter     Aug-31-11 Anderssen vs Dufresne, 1852     Aug-31-11 Karpov vs Kasparov, 1984     Aug-30-11 T Kobe     Aug-24-11 Wolfgang Uhlmann     Aug-23-11 Tartakower vs Vidmar, 1907     Jul-31-11 Kramnik vs Nakamura, 2011     Jul-30-11 Reshevsky vs S Tatai, 1973     Jul-29-11 Gruenfeld vs L Asztalos, 1918     Jul-29-11 Ponomariov vs Nakamura, 2011     Jul-29-11 Dortmund (2011)     Jul-29-11 Edward Winter     Jul-29-11 Caruana vs Carlsen, 2011     Jul-28-11 Carlsen vs M Vachier-Lagrave, 2011     Jul-27-11 D Bowman vs D F Wilson, 1947     Jul-27-11 M Vachier-Lagrave vs Pelletier, 2011     Jul-26-11 Botvinnik vs Spielmann, 1935     Jul-26-11 Morozevich vs M Vachier-Lagrave, 2011  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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 22 OF 22 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-05-12    WannaBe: Here, I'll make it easy for everyone: <Oct-05-11 tpstar: Happy Birthday!! Upload more games! Oct-05-11 WannaBe: Boithday?! Boithday!! Well, happy boithday, me friend! Oct-05-11 chancho: Happy Birthday Scott! Oct-05-11 twinlark: Great, Scott! Happy Birthday! Oct-05-11 whiteshark: Many happy returns of the Day, dear <keypusher>! Oct-05-11 Benzol: Many happy returns Scott. :) Oct-05-11 chancho: http://whoknew.news.yahoo.com/who-k... Oct-05-11 Annie K.: Happy Birthday! :) Oct-05-11 SwitchingQuylthulg: Happy birthday <keypusher>! Oct-05-11 TheFocus: Happy birthday <keypusher>. Oct-06-11 brankat: Best wishes for Your Birthday! > From Scott Thompson Page. Last Year. =)) Oct-05-12    SwitchingQuylthulg: <WannaBe> Yes, but his player profile says November 5 ;-) Happy birthday <keypusher>! Oct-05-12    WannaBe: Boy, that's a long labour(ing). Nov-30-12    KKDEREK: Hy man, my advise, blow the whistle against those socks on Wesley page..Im doing that and its working thats why he keep's on changing nicks. Hopefully someday Cg's blocks his IP or else.. Dec-24-12    wordfunph: <key> Merry Christmas! Dec-24-12    chancho: Merry Christmas Scott! Jan-31-13    madlydeeply: I'm sure you read this gossip, about botvinnik's shenanigans, lots of creepy allegations. http://www.chesscafe.com/text/skitt... Jan-31-13    madlydeeply: Especially chilling is his admission of engineering tal's removal from a candidates tournament, claiming that tal could beat anybody from his hospital bed. Ick. Disgusting person this Averbakh. But honest I'll give him that. Unfortunately i still can't find that smyslov quote, which is driving me crazy, because that had such a profound impact on me... It collaborated Bronstein's similar contention, which made me dismiss Botvinnik as nothing but a scoundrel. This feeling lasted, say, ten to fifteen years, until I started dwelling on Fischer appreciation of Botvinnik's "iron will". I thought about that for about five years, and then I realized that Fischer admired all the political moves that botvinnik pulled to keep the title, and this led to Fischer making a more grand plan to winning the championship, which included his own "PsyOps". Ok, so all these champions where more than just good players, they were all ruthless people. Except maybe Tal who was pure genius. All the rest are ruthless and have ruthless people working for them, so I'm a little jaded about the pure sportsmanship that some might think exists in the chess world. This is different than the strings of games which are (finally) played, which are the pure forms of chess art that are left behind. I wrote this here because you seem like a good listener. Thanks for listening! Jan-31-13    Jim Bartle: Averbakh: "Botvinnik thought he was champion in everything: chess, politics, economics, and including, by the way, computers." So Kasparov was from the Botvinnik school in more ways than I'd realized. Jan-31-13    madlydeeply: Ha that's funny Feb-01-13    keypusher: <madlydeeply> Really couldn't disagree with you more about Averbakh removing Tal from the candidates' tournament in Curacao. It wasn't some sort of intrigue. Tal was desperately ill and in last place when he withdrew. See for yourself. Curacao Candidates (1962) He was absolutely no threat to win that tournament. In his own autobiography he said that all his fellow Soviet contestants and the team persuaded him it was best to withdraw. He consoled himself with the thought that he was withdrawing after the third cycle, so that all the competitors would be equally affected by his withdrawal. Feb-01-13    madlydeeply: Huh ok. You seem to know more about it than me. I thought Averbakh said so much in that interview. What do you think of the notion that Karpov was more of a game day player than Kasparov? Were other gms providing him with openings? So could he make a superficial look at the ideas, and come to real terms with them over the board? I find this pretty incredible if so. I was reading once about Miles' st George win over Karpov, 1...a6 somewheres, and during the game some sort of icy stare from Karpov to his team revealed his fury that his team didn't prepare him for this. Which sorta tells me that he was the "game day" ringer for team Karpov. It makes me so happy to see that carlsen seems to have this quality to him... "Let's play this position to death. Since I am better than you, I will beat you." Was Karpov's lack of opening study discipline what prompted Botvinnik to dismiss young Karpov's potential? This is a big contrast to the Kasparov/Botvinnik style, of planning middle games and endgames from the opening, which is admirable, vicious and effective, but in my opinion de-emphasizes such things as scrappy defense, reevaluatIng plans as a result of the opponents scrappy defense, and endgames, because, really, how well can an endgame be planned from the opening? So a flaw int the Kasparov/Botvinnik school, would be the player is focused on the "advantages" that are supposed to result from the opening prep, and a lack of resiliency to game day happenstance. I remember that at sometime during the four k/k Wc matches, Kasparov stated (as usual, I don't remember source), that the only opponent worth playing is Karpov, Karpov was the only opponnent playing at kaspy's level. Were these matches Kasparov's final stage of his chess education, playing "at the board" against a Wily opponent? I wonder what you think. Later! Feb-01-13    keypusher: I think that story about Miles is "transposed" from another game: Seirawan vs Karpov, 1982 See the commentary and in particular this quote from a JimBartle post: <When he played 20.Bf3, Karpov broke his poker face with a nasty glare at the watching Geller. And Seirawan knew he'd won the opening battle. Karpov and Geller had figured black could either take the e-pawn or keep white from castling.> Of course Geller, or maybe Karpov himself, later made up for it with some nice prep for this game. Seirawan vs Karpov, 1982 There is no way Karpov would have expected anyone to prep him for 1....a6. As a matter of fact Miles often played offbeat stuff against Karpov and usually got hammered for it. Karpov vs Miles, 1977 Karpov vs Miles, 1978 Karpov vs Miles, 1992 Only the St. George game is remembered, though. I doubt Karpov was prepped for any of those games. I don't think Karpov was particularly reliant on opening prep in general. He had a very solid, relatively unambitious repertoire. He didn't use many super-sharp lines. Home analysis definitely got him some victories against Korchnoi, but I don't think that he relied on it day in and day out. Note, also, that he remained #2 in the world for a decade after Kasparov took the title and presumably most of the best help also. Feb-02-13    perfidious: <keypsuher> In Karpov's early days, his repertoire was actually fairly broad, but by the end of his title battles with Kasparov, one could count on 1.d4 as White and facing the Caro-Kann or 1....e5 in reply to 1.e4, resulting in a portfolio scarcely wider than those of Taimanov or Andrei Sokolov. Karpov's tremendous positional understanding enabled him to play at top level well into his forties. Feb-07-13    TheFocus: <keypusher> I provided the dates to the games in Game Collection: Tarrasch-Walbrodt Match 1894. Do you care if I nominate it? Can you add a cross-table and an intro? Feb-07-13    keypusher: <TheFocus> I'd be happy to, though I don't know how to do a cross table and don't know much about the match. Feb-08-13    TheFocus: <keypusher> OK, I may nominate and do those things afterwards. Just wanted to run it by you first. Mar-11-13    Jim Bartle: KP: concerning the bet, I'm under no illusion tolengoy and torrefan will stop posting when they lose. And I see little or no chance I will lose. What I don't like is that they will pollute the Candidates page throughout the tournament. If I've contributed to that, I regret it. Mar-11-13    chancho: <tolengoof and turdfan> are one and the same. Mar-11-13    Jim Bartle: I don't think so. Styles are too different. We can pick out a dozen tolengoys in an instant, nut torrefan is different. Mar-11-13    perfidious: <Jim '....nut Torrefan'....> Freudian slip? Just ragging-I do it all the time. A typist I am not. Mar-11-13    Jim Bartle: Saw it, decided not to correct it. Apr-01-13    keypusher: <Jim Bartle: KP: concerning the bet, I'm under no illusion tolengoy and torrefan will stop posting when they lose. And I see little or no chance I will lose.> Congratulations on winning the bet. :-) Apr-01-13    Jim Bartle: Yeah, betting it would snow in Saskatchewan in February was a bigger risk--Carlsen would finish in the top three... Apr-23-13    Eggman: Hi, <keypusher>. I'll respond here to what you said on the Topalov vs Nakamura, 2013 page about the 'Fischer ending'. You may indeed have a point. To answer your question though, if the knight wins it's called the 'Browne ending'! :) Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 22) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 22 OF 22 ·  Later Kibitzing>		from the Chessgames Store

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