cu8sfan Member since Mar-22-04 I live in <♖Switzerland♖>. I've been playing chess since I was eight with some breaks in between. Winner of Time Magazine Person of the Year, 2006 If you're new to this site these are some places you should check out to find out what we do on this site: Oleg Romanishin, City of Moscow, Raymond Keene, [bad player ID], Beer, Raymond Weinstein, John Homer Stapfer, Charles H Storey, Game Collection: Chessgames.com members in action, User: nikolaas Before I forget: Chess isn't my only passion. <Go Cubs!> <WORLD SERIES CHAMPION 2016> -- And I was there! ♔♕♖♗♘♙♘♗♖♕♔♕♖♗♘♙♘♗♖♕♔♕♖♗♘♙♘♗♖♕♔♕♖♗♘♙♘♗♖

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Feb-27-25 Boris Spassky    cu8sfan: Rest in peace, Boris Spassky! I will never forget playing against him in a simul in Zurich.      Jul-13-20 Denker vs D MacMurray, 1932    cu8sfan: This is like Deja-vu all over again!      Mar-11-19 Penguincw chessforum    cu8sfan: Thank you for your kind words on my forum. I have been so busy this year, I never had the chance to check in here on cg.com. I hope the situation has calmed down a bit. At least it seems like the difficulty level of the PotD has been fixed, I now can solve Mondays and sometimes ...      Aug-23-18 N Arora vs B Samhouri, 2008    cu8sfan: I'd go for 32. ... ♖e1. For some reasons, that's the version I find more pleasing to the eye.      Aug-21-18 Helmut Pfleger    cu8sfan: <Pyke> Same here. I have fond memories of watching him on TV talking chess. Remember, chess on TV?!      Aug-21-18 cu8sfan chessforum    cu8sfan: The travellers trotted on, and as the sun began to sink towards the White Downs far away on the western horizon they came to Bywater by its wide pool; and there they had their first really painful shock. This was Frodo and Sam’s own country, and they found out now that they cared ...      Aug-20-18 Sneaky chessforum    cu8sfan: <thegoodanarchist: <Sneaky: In the early days I remember Honza Cervenka, refutor, Knight13, GWGriffiths, pawntificator. Lots of people I can't recall, of course. If you cruise the first few hundred pages of the café you can see them. (Way back then, people actually discussed ...      Aug-20-18 Daniel Freeman    cu8sfan: O my... I was away for a while, sometimes lurking on the site but not posting very often. Then these last couple of weeks I was really away and when I come back I get hit with the news. I am very sad to hear of Daniel's passing. We have interacted a couple of times when I was more ...      Aug-13-18 Topalov vs So, 2016    cu8sfan: Is it just me or is this the second Monday in a row that was awfully hard?      Aug-06-18 K Rohonyan vs A L'Ami, 2008    cu8sfan: Wow, that was difficult, even for me!

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 47 OF 48 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-30-09    talisman: hope the cubs do right by Theriot...arbitration...the man is one of a kind...work ethic...smart... a winner. Feb-17-10    WannaBe: That goalie for Swiss Women Hockey Team is an absolute cutie!! Can you find out what her phone number, hobby, favourite food are for moi?? Please, pretty please?!?! Feb-20-10    cu8sfan: <WannaBe> That's funny, until now I didn't even know we had a women's hockey team. :-) When I tuned in the other night I thought they were showing a game in slow-motion. Well, if you mean Florence Schelling (http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympi...), she's apparently studying at Northeastern University in Boston so you might be closer to her than I am. Mar-23-10    Honza Cervenka: Hi cu8sfan, I don’t know whether you have read my recent messages at Kibitzer’s Café or not and so I am posting it here too. On Monday of last week I have become proud father of (the second) daughter named Aneta. You can see her picture on the site of regional newspaper “Kladensky denik” (Kladno’s Daily) at http://kladensky.denik.cz/miminka/m... where is just now till this Friday (12:00 A.M. CET) running a polling contest for the most sympathetic baby born last week in regional maternity hospitals organized by the newspaper. Personally I am not much interested in such a kind of competitions but my wife likes it very much and she would be much happy to see our little girl on the top. Right now we are on the second place in very tense and close race with two other contenders and so every additional vote is very important for the final outcome. If you would like to help me to make my wife even happier than she already is now, just click on the link above, flag “Aneta Cervenkova, Stredokluky” (the first name in gray box on the right side on the screen) and hit the “hlasovat” button below. It is possible to vote repeatedly always after 60 minutes from one IP address... :-D Thanks and warm regards, Honza Jan-24-11    Honza Cervenka: Call for Aneta’s voters! Vote early, vote often! We are losing the race with a great favourite Alex Loukota. Despite of getting in just two days more votes than in both previous one week long rounds the gap between leader and our girl is widening more and more. They are ahead of us for more than one thousand votes now. Your help is much needed! If you want to support Aneta, just click on http://kladensky.denik.cz/miminka/m..., flag the name <Aneta Èervenková> in the grey box on the right side of the screen and hit the <hlasovat> button below. If you see a notification “Dìkujeme za váš hlas” (Thank you for your vote) after that, then you have voted successfully. And if you see a notification “Došlo k opakovanému hlasování” (Repeated voting has occurred), then you should try to vote a bit later again....:-D Dec-05-11    YouRang: Any Cubs fans around here may be interested in knowing that Ron Santo (long ago Cub's 3rd baseman) finally made it to the Hall of Fame: http://news.yahoo.com/santo-elected... Dec-05-11    technical draw: I saw Ron Santo play in Wrigley field in 1961. Jan-06-12    cu8sfan: <YouRang> This was so long overdue. In fact, it's very sad: He never made it in and the only thing that changed since they last said no was that he died. He would have been so happy going to Cooperstown and the HoF just waited to elect a dead man. :-( I wouldn't be surprised one bit if they made him wear a White Sox cap on his plaque... Jan-06-12    WannaBe: <cu8sfan>!!!!!!!! Good to see you Charlie Brown! =) Caissar is going on right now, please participate! (See my profile for details.) Jan-06-12    Shams: <cu8sfan> Great to see you, man! Sometimes I see funny pictures of Spassky, and I think of you and I can almost hear him saying, "Choooo-kee!" Jan-11-12    timhortons: hello cu8sfan, if im right we come across each other at gameknot.com real time blitz game, just a month ago. Jan-12-12    cu8sfan: <WannaBe> Great to see some old traditions still up and running. At the moment, my life situation does not allow for chess and so I've been away. It's nice to know I'm not forgotten. :-) <Shams> Sometimes I dream of him screaming CHOOKEE! CHOOKEE! and then I wake up, drenched in sweat and can't go to sleep for fear of the Chookeemonster. :D <timhortons> I hope not because that would mean someone's hacked my account. I wasn't on gameknot in about two years. My user name is *surprise!* cu8sfan, by the way. Jan-12-12    timhortons: lol, aws, except playing real time chess, im not plaing anymore long games. but i want to keep my gameknot.com account, someday ill go back playing modern correspondence chess again and gameknot.com is the best on this:) maybe im wrong, but i think its cu8sfan really:) Dec-16-12    Tal7777777: Why on earth do you keep missing that football? I mean, don't you know that she is just going to pull it away? Dec-24-12    wordfunph: Maligayang Pasko! Dec-25-14    wordfunph: <cu8sfan> Merry Christmas! Jan-08-15    OhioChessFan: ** Tata Steel Moves Prediction Contest ** Conducted by the Legendary <chessmoron> and hosted at Graceland, home of Elvis. Click on Elvis for details. Oct-19-16    HeMateMe: We'll see more of you if the Cubs finally break through and win the Series? Go Cubbies! Oct-21-16    cu8sfan: <HeMateMe> Yeah! Go Cubs!!! :-) Oct-21-16    YouRang: I find myself rooting somewhat for both the Dodgers (my home team) and the Cubs. At this point, I'm hoping that Kershaw can make force a seventh game. After that, may the best team win. :-) Oct-21-16    saffuna: Unfortunately the Cubs in the Series this year will/would be a bit of an anti-climax, because it will mean one of the teams with the long drought will definitely win: Cleveland or Chicago. Now if Cleveland had had a bit more luck in game seven in 1997... Oct-23-16    YouRang: Well, congrats to all of the Cubs fans out there! The 71-year streak is over. Now they can go to work on the 108 year streak! Dodgers seemed to run out of gas after the first 3 games... Oct-23-16    cu8sfan: I never thought I would live to see the <Cubs> win a pennant - now all they need is four more wins! :-) Oct-23-16    saffuna: <I never thought I would live to see the <Cubs> win a pennant - now all they need is four more wins! :-)> I can understand why. The Cubs had lost six straight games where a win would have sent them to the Series. Three in 1984 and threee in 2003. Nov-03-16    cu8sfan: I think this is the happiest day of my life! Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 48) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 47 OF 48 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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