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| Jan-02-08 | | Jim Bartle: Then Mitt's perfect. |
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| Jan-08-08 | | Helios727: Actually we need Ron Paul to revamp our monetary and foreign policies. |
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| Jan-08-08 | | Jim Bartle: Oh no! The last Ron Paul-free bastion of the Internet, breached!! |
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| Feb-04-09 | | blacksburg: Jan-02-08 <There's no way that a successful, articulate, handsome Republican could lose to a woman or an ethnic. The GOP have this one in the bag.> oh, goodness. an "ethnic"? silly republicans. |
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Mar-08-09
 | | LIFE Master AJ: Stuart and I (I = A.J. Goldsby I) have played many games. At least four or five of our encounters are in old copies of "The Alabama Chess Antics." If I remember clearly, we drew our games in 1983 and 1984 at the AL State Championships. There was also a nice article in "Chess Life" a while back about Stuart, Vivek Rao and Tal Shaked. |
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| Jun-13-10 | | Caissanist: In today's NYT Rachels is quoted as saying that he has not returned to tournament chess because “It would be disappointing to come back and be mediocre.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/c... |
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| Sep-26-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Stuart Rachels. |
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Mar-29-19
 | | Richard Taylor: It depends on how one defines anything. One can decide on his or her intelligence: as not being 'cleverness' etc but being psychologically successful in life. But Chess seems to me to be a complex of possibly sport, artistic aspects (the beauty of a great game of whatever type), intellectual challenge and puzzles (related to other aspects), and certain aspects of human struggle in combat. So it is a struggle as Lasker used to say. It is also a pastime and a game. But officials can decide for practical reasons that it is a sport. It is to the degree it is competitive and so on.
Thus it is not philosophy as such.
Which is what Rachels is involved in. He (according to Seirawan) and his father are philosophers and academics in that area. I suppose this has been noted already. Rachels seems one of the most interesting of those who won the US Champs in their debut appearance. I saw this on Chess24, someone digging up statistics. |
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| Apr-06-19 | | wordfunph: from Chess Life 1982 February:
He is a vegetarian because he doesn't approve of killing animals. |
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| Jun-03-20 | | wordfunph: "I try not to laugh at my opponents after I beat them, so I maintained a poker face." - IM Stuart Rachels
Source: NIC Magazine 2020 #3 |
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| Jun-04-20 | | Granny O Doul: I just read the essay noted above, which by the way is now located at http://www.jamesrachels.org/stuart/... . In it, Rachels attributes "I see one move ahead, but it's always the best move" to "Al Jaffe" (not Charles Jaffee); apparently having read too much MAD magazine as a kid (or perhaps well beyond childhood; Jaffee was still at it when MAD more or less folded a short while back). Anyway, since that approximate quote is usually attributed to Capablanca, I searched for it coupled with "Edward Winter" just now, but all I got back was one of my own uninformed posts on this site. When there is a difference in attribution, my money tends to go on the less famous candidate, aware as I am of "Churchillian drift", or the "Matthew effect". |
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| Jun-07-20 | | Granny O Doul: As a postscript to my comment just above, Al Jaffee has announced his retirement after 65 years at MAD and 78 years in the business: https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts... What does this have to do with chess?
Both are full of drawing.
Chess? Aha! I thought that was the tartan of the Stuart clan. Patzers we be, and potrzebie.
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| Feb-03-21 | | pazzed paun: Stuart Rachels has written a splendid book !
Candidate for book of the year! |
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Feb-03-21
 | | keypusher: < pazzed paun: Stuart Rachels has written a splendid book !
Candidate for book of the year!>
What is it? |
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Feb-03-21
| | keypusher: There's a Beck video that has a bunch of Jaffee-style fold-ins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkC... |
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Apr-25-21
 | | Dionysius1: Thanks for the link <Granny O Doul>. That was a wonderful essay. |
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Apr-25-21
| | Dionysius1: The Best I Saw In Chess, by Stuart Rachels. Published by New In Chess, 2020. Substantial extracts, and ordering details here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Saw-C... |
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Apr-25-21
 | | saffuna: Just started reading it. Very good. |
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| Apr-26-21 | | Granny O Doul: @keypusher: Very cool; I'd never seen that before. Beck is Jeff Beck's kid, right? |
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Apr-26-21
| | keypusher: < Granny O Doul: @keypusher: Very cool; I'd never seen that before.
Beck is Jeff Beck's kid, right?>
No, I think his born name is Beck Hansen. His parents were first generation scientologists, which accounts for the anti-pharma fold-in in the video. I think he renounced Scientology recently. |
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| Nov-28-22 | | Ninas Husband: This guy wins the US Championship at the age of 20, then retires at 24? What a shame! :( |
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| Mar-21-25 | | arbivara: Dr. Rachels is no longer retired. He is the current Alabama State champion and has just played World Team Senior Chess Championship |
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| Mar-21-25 | | Nosnibor: Surely Reshevsly preceded him has the first American to gain the level that Stuart obtained. Of course in Reshevsk`s case G.M. and I.M. titles did not exist. You could also argue that Paul Morphy also fell into this category. |
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| Mar-21-25 | | Petrosianic: <Ninas Husband: This guy wins the US Championship at the age of 20, then retires at 24? What a shame! :(> Not really. He wanted to make money, and Chess wasn't the way. Rachels did win a US championship tournament, but he won it with the worst winning score of all time (+2). He got what he wanted out of chess (a FIDE title and a national championship), so he moved on. It's not like he would have been a cinch to keep winning US Championships if he'd kept playing. More likely, like John Grefe, he'd never have won it again. |
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| Mar-22-25 | | Granny O Doul: Rachels actually scored +4 in that championship, along with Dzhindzhi and Seirawan. It was Wilder who won (clearly!) with +2 the year before (and also retired, without even an Alabama state title to his credit afterward). I do think Rachels was a pretty big talent, and I even take his claim to have lacked the killer instinct at face value. |
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