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Jan-01-08
 | | moronovich: Happy New Year ! |
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Jan-01-08
 | | Eric Schiller: Happy New Year to all. With Corus, Linares and Kramnik vs. Anand it should be an exciting year. Soon at least 4 of my students will be on the top 100 list for their age so I'll be busy. One of my 6-year old students just played his first tournament, and won it with 4.5/5 plus a blitz playoff win! My optimism about chess 2008 is greater than my despair over politics 2008. I'm more interested in bowl games than Iowa, as reflected in my "report at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/.... Go Hawaii! |
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Jan-02-08 | | brankat: Thank You for the Iowa Report. Very enlightening and entertaining! |
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Jan-02-08 | | Jim Bartle: Gee, Eric, if you can apply the same clairvoyance to chess that you did for Iowa, you'd really have something. Just think, if you could see to the end of a game you'd avoid all errors. |
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Jan-02-08 | | Larsker: American elections are always a hope for the lesser evil - that the biggest scumbag doesn't get elected. Nevermind whether the one elected has anything reasonable to say. |
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Jan-11-08 | | Shams: Eric, I know you lost but would you mind uploading the games from your G/45 (?) match vs. Nicholas Nip? |
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Jan-11-08
 | | Eric Schiller: Mea non culpa. Chessgames has had them for some time, complete with notes, but they aren't online yet. |
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Jan-11-08 | | Shams: Nip terrifies me. I got to work with him a couple years ago when he was just seven...watched him go from like 1600 to 2000 over the course of a summer. He would come in with, say, the 4...Qb6 line of the sicilian, which he'd seen for the first time a couple nights before, and feed me my ass on a plate with it. remarkable talent. anyway...CG-- get on it! I want to see those games! thanks Eric. |
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Jan-17-08 | | Knight13: What happend to your chess rating, Mr. Schiller!!!?? |
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Jan-17-08 | | Dr. Siggy: Dear Mr. Schiller: would it be too much to ask you to comment on what I've just kibitzed in <Littleton vs Drira, Skopje 1972> about the Tarrasch Gambit? Thank you, very much! |
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Jan-21-08 | | pawnofdoom: Hey look I foudn the tournament link for the Schiller-Nip match. Match (2007) |
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Jan-27-08
 | | Eric Schiller: <knight13> As I became heavily involved in teaching chess my rating fell quickly. It is hard to keep up when you study your students' openings more than your own. I am basically a home-run hitter. I care more about producing one artistic game than about winning tournaments. I've always been seduced by a temptation to sacrifice. Ratings don't impress me. What I want to know about a player is "who have you defeated" and "show me your best games". Since my stroke, I haven't played as much and am unhappy that the annual Berkeley tournament, which I planned to play next month, has been canceled. My doctor prefers that I not play blitz or 2 games a day at slow controls. I'm kind of limited to one-game-per-day internationals and game/60 events. |
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Jan-27-08 | | adair10: Mr. Schiller, are you officiating the Gibraltar tournament this year as you were last year? If yes, can you comment on some surprises so far, Nakamura's start being one of them. Thanks |
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Jan-28-08 | | gerard01: Hi, Eric. I hope you are feeling better from the effects of that stroke. I have poured over your book "Unorthodox Chess Openings". I've used some of the openigs you list, mostly the Mongoose. I have found to be a very shocky opening. Thanks. I'm 50% with right it now, but I am improving. Feel good...welcome back to the board. |
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Jan-28-08 | | RookFile: <Mr Schiller, Can you give me some advice on Albin countergambit, Lasker trap line?> My suggestion is: don't fall for the trap. |
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Feb-19-08
 | | Eric Schiller: I wasn't in Gibraltar this year. I'm playing occasionally. This weekend my opponent resigned before I could uncork a great finish. click for larger viewBlack mates with a rook and knight sac after 29.Kd3 R8a3+ 30.Ke4 Nf6+ 31.Kf4 Rxf2+!! 32.Bxf2 Nxh5+!! 33.gxh5 Bg5+ and 34...f5#. I sent in the whole game (Purcell vs. Schiller) so it should be available soon. |
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Mar-06-08 | | timhortons: nip broke the record of hikaru nakamura and these 9 year old boy is a strong blitz player, guess another upcoming cyber master well be found soon at icc and playchess.com,is he youre student mr schiller? |
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Mar-20-08
 | | Benzol: Happy Birthday Eric.
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Mar-20-08
 | | Gypsy: <Benzol: Happy Birthday Eric.> Ditto. Nice K-hunt! |
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Mar-20-08 | | DrGrobb: Happy Birthday!!! I didnt know about your stroke,hope you are doing well. |
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Mar-20-08 | | tldr3: Happy Birthday MR. Schiller may you have a hundred more |
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Mar-20-08 | | suenteus po 147: Happy birthday! |
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Mar-20-08
 | | moronovich: Happy Birthday - And many many more to come ! |
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Mar-21-08
 | | Eric Schiller: Than you all for your birthday wishes. It wasn't a great day as I lost my usual web outlet and am looking for a new home for my articles and videos. Nip is not my student. He's a bit old, as most of my students are 5-8 years old these days. Hopefully they will also rise to Master. Nip is a student of Eric Hicks and Liina Vark and has been for years. He is one of many very talented young players in the Bay Area. Many of them are members here, as I encourage them to study games here. |
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Mar-21-08
 | | Eric Schiller: I have some birthday presents for all of you. At www.chess.com I placed zip files of many excerpts from my books for free download. They are on their downloads page. |
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