perfidious Member since Dec-23-04 Behold the fiery disk of Ra! My name is Alan Shaw and I have given up active play in favour of poker, though even that's by the wayside at the moment. In my playing days, one of the most memorable moments was playing fourth board on the team that won the National High School championship at Cleveland, 1977. Another which stands out was having the pleasure of playing a series of rapid games with Mikhail Tal on his first visit to the USA in 1988. Even after facing a number of titled players, including the young Teimour Radjabov when he was 'only' an IM (he still gave me a beating), these are things which I'll not forget. Fischer at his zenith was the greatest of all champions for me, but has never been one of my favourite players. In that number may be included Emanuel Lasker, Bronstein, Korchnoi, Larsen, Romanishin, Nakamura and Carlsen, all of whom have displayed outstanding fighting qualities.

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May-19-13 D Edelman vs J Curdo, 1983   perfidious: <AJ: ....BTW, I once heard someone say - I shall not say who - that Curdo was NOT a creative player....> Be curious to know who made such a foolish statement-this one takes the cake. Had they been on the receiving end of a Curdo attack, one would be hearing rather a ...      May-19-13 Phony Benoni chessforum   perfidious: <Phony Benoni>: Another team I tried to work through on the HOF list were Pirates: In order: Honus Wagner, Max Carey, Paul and Lloyd Waner, Arky Vaughan, Al Lopez and Ralph Kiner (ending in 1953), before too many years of being putrid left them with yet another hundred-loss      May-19-13 Jeremy Lim    perfidious: <Riverbeast>: Don't Knicks have a problem with bumping up against the luxury tax, so that they might not have the mid-level exception, thereby limiting their options on signing anyone who's been around a while and could make decent money?      May-18-13 Magnus Carlsen    perfidious: <SoUnwiseTheKnight B4:....The time is right to jump on that double decker bus the Carlsen haters are driving all the way to India.....> The bus will be fuelled by the hatred of the anti-Carlsen faction; they really should be giving rides for free.      May-18-13 AylerKupp chessforum   ...      May-18-13 Norway Chess Tournament (2013)    perfidious: <Rama: Wang Hao joins Vassily Ivanchuk in defeating the world champ and his contender, consecutively in his case.> While this statement is correct, we are left to wonder whether this might have happened, had either player named above had anything left to play for, beyond ...      May-18-13 FSR chessforum    perfidious: <FSR>: Goddard offers a pleasant setting in which to go to school; I imagine your aunt enjoyed rural Vermont in the late sixties-quite a contrast from Chicago.      May-17-13 Svidler vs Topalov, 2013    perfidious: <Everett: The Moscow is 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 and then usually 4..Nc6 5.Bb5....> The subvariation beginning with 4.Qxd4 is most commonly called the Chekhover, but I have never seen it referred to as the Moscow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicili...      May-17-13 Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1914   perfidious: <catlover>: The Russian masters who had played in Mannheim were interned at Rastatt, so that what <JimNorCal> states is correct-they were not prisoners of war.      May-17-13 Hikaru Nakamura    perfidious: <SirRuthless: Naka....(s)hould promptly destroy hammer tomorrow.> Nakamura still actually has to show up and play the game which you have mentally chalked up to his credit.

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 4 OF 4 ·  Later Kibitzing> Nov-29-12    achieve: Ok then - on the topic of that dreadful game they call Chess, it is: Here's in fact a visual reminder, after master Simmelink's <30.Kf2>: click for larger view And kidding aside, I really think there's a winning move/plan here for Black (you), and it doesn't look that far out; not at all, in fact, quite a natural move... But, as I said, I did post some analysis on it on your gamepage. My intuition tells me the analysis is close to sound, but as we know in chess you can almost never be 100% sure. Nov-29-12    perfidious: Tea Party acolytes take note: this is what 'tea-bagging' can get you. http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo... Dec-07-12    Fusilli: <Tea Party acolytes take note: this is what 'tea-bagging' can get you.> That is awful. And why does he get away with not being registered as a sex offender? Dec-07-12    Fusilli: That kid at the live broadcast was something else, eh? Dec-11-12    perfidious: Nice thumbnail on the greatest players to have worn both pinstripes and Red Sox colours: http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/e... Dec-15-12    Shams: <perfidious> Can you help with this endgame? I feel like I'm missing something obvious. Karpov vs Gurgenidze, 1975 Dec-16-12    Jim Bartle: Notable that almost every Yankee/Red Sox went from Boston to NY. Not many the other way. You kills on the Yankees is irritating, as he was a symbolic Sox. But he was treated badly last year by Valentine and discarded, so I don't blame him. Dec-20-12    Phony Benoni: <perfidious>: Abbazia (1912) When a collection is used as the basis of an historical tournament page, the event name and other data are standardized. All games now have "Abbazia", and the "Opatija"s have disappeared. Dec-25-12    Check It Out: Merry Christmas, <perfidious>! Dec-26-12    andrewjsacks: <perfidious> A very happy holiday season to you! Thank you for being an asset to CG. Dec-29-12    sevenseaman: Thanks <perfidious> for the concern shown. Yes I am fine and able to enjoy your comments from time to time. Happy new year. Jan-06-13    Patriot: <perfidious> LOL, thanks! I like BK's fish sandwich as well...and DQ...and Captain D's. I like just about any fish sandwich! :-) Jan-13-13    stunningmove: Thanks for joining the discussion over at my forum for the next game. First off our analysis for a couple weeks ago agrees with you. In the Moscow Nd2 is our best chance to win. About a week ago I posted stats that show in the last five years blacks winning percentage against Adams is under 10% in the Ruy. French and open Sicilian. In the Moscow it's zero! One opening shows a glimmer of hope, the Rossolimo. If you head back to the site check the stats out. Tell us your thoughts. I'm not a Rossolimo player myself but what I see in the 3...e6 variation has me interested. Jan-30-13    morfishine: <perfidious> Referencing your request <If you manage to extract a pearl of wisdom from that, drop by my forum and post> No pearls yet Feb-16-13    Shams: The great State of Atchafalaya welcomes you! Feb-24-13    mckmac: < Perfidious > Greetings from sunny Auckland. I hope you don’t mind me posting this here. Stalker So he’s saying “Has she ever actually gone out with you, have you even so much as bought her a cup of coffee, or gone to the movies, you know, like normal people do?", and then he called me Sir, real polite like He called you Sir, that’s nice, plainclothes was he? did he take you in, or did he come to yours? He was expensively plain and rather well spoken he gave me a call and suggested I drop in You’ve got to watch them, briefed up were you? we’ve got time for one more if you’re quick No need, they got nothing, they know they got nothing, and they know I know they got nothing Right, so when did he play the crazy card, when does he say, “Sir, do you have any mental health history?” Right then, so I insisted on my phone call, got the Lawyer in and we were out of there by lunchtime, it’s not good though Mate I told you, there’s an order to things, buy her coffee before you propose, that kind of thing, speaking of orders… Mar-17-13    thomastonk: <perfidious> Thank you and <TheFocus> for your nice words on the Alexander McDonnell page. I stopped participating there, as soon as AJ begun with personal attacks. I only live once, you know. Mar-17-13    Jim Bartle: Well, once someone posts five or six times in a row, become more unhinged each time, it doesn't need to be taken seriously. How saying Chernev was not a primary source turns into calling him a "miserable puke" is incomprehensible. Mar-17-13    perfidious: Been a long while since I posted here, or even read this page, as I typically move on to other matters. <thomastonk> Pity things had to take that route. There is always hope for something better, but dealing with that poster and the negativity could make anyone throw it over in despair. <Jim> Had no idea what generated the responses on McDonnell, then I reviewed the kibitzing, which displays even those posts by users on ignore. Every such piece of negativity justifies the decision I took regarding that poster, on coming back after a long absence. Apr-04-13    jessicafischerqueen: Thanks for weighing in on the bitter "Archie vs. The Fonz" dispute. I'm always happy to see you in my place. I do see you regularly, however, because I read almost all of your chess posts. Thanks for those, they are a welcome breath of sanity and actual knowledge at a site where all of us are guilty, at times, of just shooting our mouths off without thinking first. Apr-04-13    OhioChessFan: User: Fonzie User: said User: you User: Nerd Apr-26-13    FSR: <perfidious> You might find the recent commentary at A J Goldsby amusing. The subject trashes some young player who beat him in a tournament game, says that the player will never be a master, and responds to some commenter (I don't see the comment - dunno if the guy's on my ignore list, or if it was deleted) by remarking that the commenter speculated on the young player's chances of becoming a GM, but (inexplicably) said nothing about the subject's chances. Imagine that! The subject does acknowledge that his chances of becoming a GM are decreasing as time goes on. (The phrase "when pigs fly" comes to mind.) Feel free to delete this comment. Apr-28-13    perfidious: <FSR> Saw excerpts of that posted elsewhere (which I wouldn't have read otherwise, because he's on the <perfidious> version of <Perdition In Real Life>). The bit about his own chances of making GM lessening was indeed funny-barring a miracle win at the World Senior, none of us over-fifty types have a shot-but I was dismayed to see that, apparently, nothing else has changed. There's always room for hope, but it's hard to remain optimistic in the face of the stark reality that appears to inhabit that corner of the Magic Kingdom. Apr-29-13    TheFocus: I bet he has his sights set on the World Senior Championship. Doesn't winning that guarantee you a GM title? Apr-29-13    perfidious: <TheFocus>: It does; without running through all the titleholders, I believe Okhotnik and Kapengut got their GM titles at this event. He'll have to wait a few years, though, because if I remember aright, sixty is the minimum age for participation. 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