magilla has kibitzed 104 times to chessgames   [more...]

Jun-03-07 RonB52734 chessforum    magilla: Scrabble ipsa loquitur.      Jun-03-07 Duncan Suttles    magilla: <Mack> My information was from the same message board to which Mr. Day refers - I don't know Bruce Harper personally.      Jun-03-07 magilla chessforum    magilla: from game #5 - Ruger vs Gebhard, 1915 after 13. ... h6 [DIAGRAM] 14. d6 - opening up pin on Black pawn at f7, leaving Knight at g6 effectively undefended from capture by White queen with resulting considerable kingside pressure once the h file opened for White's rook by hxg5.      May-27-07 Kibitzer's Café    magilla: <Richard> thanks for your response. In looking back at my earlier kibitz to you I see I was kinda babbling a bit and did not mean to attribute to you some of the comments about the legal profession - I was mostly just stumping in general and in response to the earlier kibitz ...      May-26-07 Colle vs J Delvaux, 1929    magilla: Chernev's book (Batsford's New Algebraic Edition) has the following move order: 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 e6 as opposed to the present game: 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 d5 I note the Chernev move order more closely tracks the traditional D05 Colle System move order      Apr-10-07 L B Hansen vs J Kristiansen, 2007    magilla: I'm adding this game to my (long) list of things I do not understand in life.      Apr-02-07 Vasily Smyslov    magilla: I hope I don't come to regret this, but if I might offer a suggestion for the benefit of all (all here being both the Chessgame members who might like to see the Vasily Smyslov pages devoted to Vasily Smyslov instead of to verbal sparring as well as the participants in the verbal ...      Apr-02-07 Kashdan vs Euwe, 1932    magilla: I'm surprised that Max Euwe (or is that pronounced Euwe?) would have failed to see the threat opened up by his 28. ... Rg8. I gather he was keen on his own mating attack against the White king, but I don't readily see Black's threat even with R-Q-R lined up - doesn't White have too ...      Mar-31-07 E Berg vs J Hector, 2001    magilla: <bebop1> yep, 33. ... Qe6 is checkmate (as would be 33. ... Qh5# or 33.... Qf6#). There is a "suggest your correction" link below that can be used for reporting minor errors in notation to help clean up stuff like this.      Mar-18-07 brankat chessforum    magilla: Hey Brankat, Greetings from a fellow Vancouverite. I notice with approval your recent self-described hobby of spamming (yourself). In addition to your humourous postings, perhaps you would consider putting this hobby to some advantage (my advantage, actually). I am keen at some ...

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