Feb-17-04 | | Whitehat1963: I've heard of hypermodern chess, but white's must be a "post-hypermodern" opening. If chessplayers were authors, perhaps Basman = Foster Wallace, Pynchon or DeLillo? |
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Jul-09-04 | | Everett: DeLillo? Julian "Flaubert's Parrot, History of the World in 10.5 Chapters" Barnes, maybe, but not DeLillo. White Noise, certainly, may be a condemnation of TV, supermarkets and biochemical accidents (and maybe having children in this day and age), but it's not hyper- anything. My opinion only, of course |
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Oct-27-05 | | aw1988: <Creepy Crawly Formation: Classical Defense. (A00)> |
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Oct-27-05 | | hintza: <Creepy Crawly Formation: Classical Defense. (A00)> You're having a laugh, surely? |
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Oct-27-05
 | | WannaBe: I guess the original <Yucky, Gross, Disguesting, Yewwwwwwww: Classical Defense. (A00)> Didn't get approved. =) What does the modern version looks like, I wonder. |
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Oct-16-13
 | | Domdaniel: < Foster Wallace, Pynchon or DeLillo? >
I yield to no-one in my admiration for Pynchon -- I even wrote an MA thesis on Gravity's Rainbow, in which chess (structure) is contrasted with chaos (no structure, anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything else...). And structure, in Pynchon's cosmos, suggests intent or conspiracy -- "The mackerel sky looks less like a moire, and more like a chessboard". But Basman is perhaps even *more* radical. William Burroughs, maybe? Cut-up chess? "Boys, take the place apart..." |
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Oct-16-13 | | Pulo y Gata: <Creepy Crawly Formation: Classical Defense. (A00)> A00 opening you must play before you die. |
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Oct-16-13
 | | Domdaniel: <WannaBe> -- < I guess the original <Yucky, Gross, Disguesting, Yewwwwwwww: Classical Defense. (A00)> Didn't get approved. =)
What does the modern version looks like, I wonder.> Heh. I reckon the modern version should be called the BUG Opening (Bizarre, Unprecedented, Grotesque...) For Bug-eyed Monsters everywhere. |
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