Bishoprick Member since Feb-23-04 · Last seen Sep-16-25 My favorite player is Tal, although I also like Alekhine and early Karpov. Long ago, Tarrash was my favorite. My "current" rating is 1800, although if I were active I don't think I could maintain that. I've been a couple of hundred points higher, but that too was a long time ago.

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Aug-17-25 Lauren Bacall    Bishoprick: Karpova: Sour grapes?      Aug-17-25 Najmes vs J Balogh, 1943    Bishoprick: At the end of this clever Q trap, White is left with more material than black, about one Rook's worth. Am I wrong? Should be an easy win for White.      Jul-18-25 Stockfish vs Houdini, 2021    Bishoprick: FSR: Instead of 4.B-c4, what would you recommend?      May-17-25 M L Hanauer vs F Reinfeld, 1928   Bishoprick: Hanauer, in 1963, was my first boss. For several years we shared lunch hours and informal games of chess, which he won with singular regularity. Those were the days!      Mar-19-25 E Andersen vs C Carls, 1930   Bishoprick: Not quite, but it does lose a piece.      Feb-23-25 M Babic vs J T Miklavec, 1991   Bishoprick: 25... Rd1 also picks up a piece.      Feb-10-25 Freestyle Grand Tour Weissenhaus (2025)    Bishoprick: The question of players keeping score sheets now-a-days is of special interest to me. At 89, I now play terrible chess, and there's nothing I can do about that. A long tine ago I had an over 2,000 rating. Now I have trouble beating 1700 rated players, and at rapids 1,400 rated ...      Dec-24-24 Ruy Lopez vs G da Cutri, 1560    Bishoprick: Excuse me, but I see nothing so dramatic after ...Q-f8. It is still a probable win for White, but no drama.      Dec-10-24 Ding - Gukesh World Championship Match (2024)    Bishoprick: Petrosianic, you really can't compare a chess championship to a team sport in which luck plays a much larger role than in chess, although chess players in New York used to say that somehow the better player was always luckier. However, it was World Champion over many years ...      Dec-06-24 D Gukesh vs Ding Liren, 2024    Bishoprick: Does it really matter who wins this championship? The best that could be said for the champion is that he is first among equals, as Botvinik said of himself.

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