Oct-29-22
 | | fredthebear: Backsliding Church |
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Dec-10-22
 | | FSR: Fortunately Mr. Church knew more about chicken then he did about chess. |
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Dec-10-22
 | | HeMateMe: when was the bio done? I haven't seen a church chicken anywhere in 20 years. |
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Dec-10-22
 | | perfidious: There is one off W Flamingo in Las Vegas; have driven by it numerous times when playing the WSOP, but never quite found my way there so far. Too many other choices. |
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Dec-10-22
 | | FSR: <HMM> The bio was done earlier today, by a certain FSR. "As of 2022, Church's Texas Chicken operates more than 1,500 locations worldwide.[6] Its international locations include Bahrain, Belarus, Cambodia, Canada, CuraƧao, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Vientiane (Laos), Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand,[22] Oman, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, St. Lucia, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.[23]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churc... |
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Dec-11-22
 | | FSR: It's a mystery why anyone ever memorialized this horrid game. Ben Finegold discussed it in a video about his father, again for a reason I can't fathom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLA... (starting at 6:45). Obviously 5...Qxd5 was correct, with a well-known position in the Chigorin Defense. Two hundred people in the database played that move. Only Mr. Church found 5...Nb8?? Opening Explorer Was he too "chicken" to recapture the pawn? |
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Dec-11-22
 | | HeMateMe: I'm sold! Next time I'm in Kuala Lumper I'm getting the three piece special. |
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Dec-11-22
 | | FSR: <HMM> I like Church's Chicken. There are 10 in Chicago, none anywhere near me alas, and I have eaten at Church's thrice in the last 15 years. https://locations.churchs.com/searc... I once asked the girl serving me if she knew that Church's had sponsored a major chess tournament in San Antonio in 1972. She looked at me like I was from Mars. |
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Dec-11-22
 | | perfidious: <FSR>, that story is hilarious; wish I had been there to see the look your server gave you. Maybe I will try it, next time I make for Sin City. |
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Dec-11-22
 | | HeMateMe: They were in NYC for a time. I knew about the founder and chess. The premium fast food chicken here now is Popeyes. The cheaper, more low quality fast food chicken here is called Kennedy Fried chicken. They outnumber Popeyes and KFC 3-1. It's nasty, greasy stuff, heavy on the batter. The skanks and homeless people crowd in at night, white castle people. |
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Dec-11-22
 | | perfidious: Popeye's is the essence of awesome--unfortunately, none to be had in this wasteland. |
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Dec-12-22
 | | FSR: Oddly enough, my family and I drove by a Church's today en route to my daughter's graduation. I wanted to stop by on the way back and get some chicken to go, but everyone else vetoed that idea. |
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Dec-12-22
 | | FSR: <perfidious> People's knowledge (or rather lack thereof) of chess history is appalling. Have you ever tried asking someone in New Orleans if they've ever heard of Paul Morphy? I also once asked a tour guide in Sicily if she'd ever heard of the Sicilian Defense. (No, of course.) I may have to become a door-to-door chess evangelist. |
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Dec-12-22
 | | perfidious: <FSR>, indeed it is; one would think that sort of thing should be part of the curriculum. <....Have you ever tried asking someone in New Orleans if they've ever heard of Paul Morphy?> Not that I recall.
<....I also once asked a tour guide in Sicily if she'd ever heard of the Sicilian Defense. (No, of course.)> Dreadful lack of basic knowledge, I tell ya. |
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Dec-12-22
 | | HeMateMe: I've met a handful of people in NYC who are from the baltic shelf, and their eyes lit up when I asked them if they had heard of Paul Keres and Mikhail Tal. They smiled and seemed quite surprised to hear those names mentioned. I was in a club playing speed chess with a guy who had grown up in Minnesota. I casually asked him if he had heard of Kurt Brasket (a local top player). The guy jumped up, genuinely shocked that I knew of one of his local heroes. |
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