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playground player
Member since Oct-01-06 · Last seen Apr-26-25
NJ--no rating. Favorites, Morphy, Marshall, Anderssen. Played a lot as a teen, then let it go for 40 years. Trying to reconstitute myself as a chess player.

Meanwhile, let this forum serve as a refuge from wild-eyed loony leftism. Here there will be no admiration for Hugo Chavez, Castro, or any of the other tin-pot dictators admired by chess players from the safety of freedom-loving Western democracies. Here will be found a premise that most of the nations of the world today are governed by Godless fools. Ours, too, unfortunately.

I was also going to say some uncomplimentary things about Queen Pawn games, the Sicilian and the French Defenses, Semi-Slav games, and a few other chess matters. But as those are purely questions of personal taste, I have chosen to leave them alone.

Since setting up this forum, I have also had several novels published: "Bell Mountain," "The Cellar Beneath the Cellar," and "The Thunder King." For more information about them (and me), visit my website, http://leeduigon.com/

Update, much delayed: my fourth book, "The Last Banquet," came out last year, and my fifth, "The Fugitive Prince," I expect to be published sometime this Spring. For book covers and free sample chapters, visit my blog.

Update again: "The Fugitive Prince" is out now and the next project is "The Palace." Editing is well advanced, but we're still waiting for a cover.

Update: "The Palace" is in print now along with No. 7, "The Glass Bridge," with No. 8, "The Temple," waiting in the wings. The first seven are all available via amazon.com.

Update: No. 8, "The Temple," and No.9, "The Throne," are now in print, with No. 10, "The Silver Trumpet,"due for release any day now.

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   playground player has kibitzed 7335 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Apr-26-25 playground player chessforum
 
playground player: <OCF> The only remedy is to pull the kids out of those schools.
 
   Sep-06-24 K Supatashvili vs E Matsuura, 1995 (replies)
 
playground player: (If only I had something wise to say!)
 
   Aug-30-24 Aronian vs Carlsen, 2019 (replies)
 
playground player: White can't do anything. I hate it when that happens.
 
   Aug-01-24 Schlechter vs P Meitner, 1899
 
playground player: Holy moly!
 
   Jun-13-24 Kramnik vs Sadvakasov, 2001
 
playground player: That pin of the rook was deadly.
 
   May-10-24 M Sinner vs N Miezis, 1997 (replies)
 
playground player: And I thought I had a problematic surname!
 
   Apr-25-24 P Delekta vs Geller, 1992 (replies)
 
playground player: Great pun!
 
   Apr-19-24 J Taylor vs NN, 1862 (replies)
 
playground player: How come NN never wins? Maybe he should switch of Chutes & Ladders.
 
   Apr-19-24 J Tarjan vs D J Strauss, 1978 (replies)
 
playground player: I can't believe no one offered the pun, "Me Tarjan..."
 
   Apr-05-24 Tal vs NN, 1963
 
playground player: Amazing! Tal's games are always a treat.
 
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Jan-20-19  cormier: Gospel
Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs at Cana in Galilee

Alleluia
God has called us through the Gospel to possess the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Jan-20-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <Esteemed Colleagues> I was very much surprised this morning when a reader told me that my book, <Bell Mountain>, has been translated into Portuguese.

https://leeduigon.com/2019/01/20/be...

I wonder if it's good in Portuguese.

Jan-20-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: <PP>?? Your agent or publisher did not notify you?
Jan-20-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: Some people live in a different universe............

<Tanya Faison, founder of Black Lives Matter Sacramento said, “There are definitely a lot of racial undertones.” Faison says the Thin Blue Line Flag, along with the Blue Lives Matter movement, are a direct response and attack on the Black Lives Matter movement. “I mean, people yell this at us and then in the same sentence call us thieves, call us criminals, call us leeches off the system, tell us to get jobs. So, basically it’s a new version of the Confederate flag,” said Faison.>

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/g...

Jan-21-19  diceman: <Tanya Faison, founder of Black Lives Matter>

I wonder how much she gets paid throwing minorities under the bus?

<5 shot in Chicago during first day of 2019>

You'd think an organization called,
"Black Lives Matter" would have gone into Chicago on day one, and never left.

Jan-21-19  cormier: Gospel
The Bridegroom is with them

Alleluia
The word of God is living and effective,
able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Jan-22-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <WannaBe> This translation project was offered to us some years ago--so long ago, that I forgot it. But at the time, the publisher said he'd take care of all the business details. I'm waiting to her that he has done that.

Meanwhile, the latest from feminism:

http://leeduigon.com/2019/01/22/fem...

Complete with all-new academic gibberish.

Jan-22-19  cormier: Gospel
The Sabbath was made for the, and not the man for the Sabbath

Alleluia, alleluia.
May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
enlighten the eyes of our hearts,
that we may know what is the hope
that belongs to our call

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Jan-23-19  cormier: Gospel
Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath, to save life rather than to destroy it

Alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia.
Jesus preached the Gospel of the Kingdom and cured every disease among the people. Alleluia, alleluia.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Jan-24-19  cormier: no time today, working hard thou ...

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings... .....

nite nite guys ....... ths G

Jan-25-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <Steamed Colleagues> Socialized medicine--it really works! Now British doctors can screen for cervical cancer in men who say they're women!

http://leeduigon.com/2019/01/25/tra...

When you need a doctor right away, pray he or she isn't busy doing a cervical screening on a man.

Jan-25-19  cormier: Gospel
Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel

Alleluia, alleluia.
Praise the LORD, all you nations;
glorify him, all you peoples!
Go out to all the world, and tell the Good News.

Alleluia, alleluia.
For steadfast is his kindness toward us,
and the fidelity of the LORD endures forever.
Go out to all the world, and tell the Good News.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Jan-26-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <Esteemed Colleagues> I'm trying to have a nooze-free weekend on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Really, I've had nooze up to here, gotta take a break. When they start expecting you to know the names of politicians' lawyers, that's just too much.
Jan-26-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: I have a friend whose mom went through clinical depression, and part of her regimen was no news, period. TV, radio, internet, nothing.
Jan-26-19  cormier: Gospel
His relatives said, "He is out of his mind

Alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia.
Open our hearts, O Lord,
to listen to the words of your Son.
Alleluia, alleluia.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Jan-27-19  cormier: Gospel
Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing

Alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia.
The Lord sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor, and to proclaim liberty to captives.
Alleluia, alleluia.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Jan-28-19  cormier: Gospel
It's the end of Satan

Alleluia, alleluia.
Our Savior Jesus Christ has destroyed death
and brought life to light through the Gospel.
Alleluia, alleluia.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Jan-28-19  diceman: We've had this experiment going on for decades. (with about the same results)

It's known as "The Great Society."

Death, incarceration, the only way government has found to "eliminate" poverty.

<That Time a Guy Tried to Build a Utopia for Mice and it all Went to Hell>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m7...

Jan-28-19  Robed.Bishop: <diceman> Interesting video.
Jan-29-19  cormier:

Gospel
For whoever does the will of God
is my brother and sister and mother

Alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia.
Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth; you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the Kingdom. Alleluia, alleluia.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Jan-29-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: diceman> Thanks for the video, I posted it on my blog yesterday.

What cats, mousetraps, and poisons couldn't do to all those mice... socialism did.

Jan-30-19  cormier: Gospel
Now the sower sow the word

Alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia.
The seed is the word of God, Christ is the sower; all who come to him will live for ever.
Alleluia, alleluia.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

Jan-30-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <Esteemed Colleagues> I'm having a problem, covering nooze each day. It's just so awful.

And so, instead, some nature video: the narwhal.

https://leeduigon.com/2019/01/30/mr...

To this day, nobody knows what the narwhal's tusk is for.

Jan-31-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: I got my 1,000th blog follower yesterday. I wonder what it means.
Jan-31-19  cormier: Gospel
The lamp is brought to be placed on a lampstand? The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.

Alleluia

Alleluia, alleluia.
A lamp to my feet is your word,
a light to my path.
Alleluia, alleluia.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...

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