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playground player
Member since Oct-01-06 · Last seen Mar-08-25
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 7334 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Mar-08-25 playground player chessforum (replies)
 
playground player: <P.S.--I've had several medical procedures that have flattened me pretty good, so I'll have to rest and recover before they can do more surgery. I turned 75 and the roof fell in.
 
   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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Feb-11-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: There is something massively wrong with a country when people as wantonly stupid as AOC and Maxine Waters can be elected.
Feb-12-19  hashtag: #MABA

Make
Alex a
Bartender
Again

Feb-12-19  cormier: Gospel

You disregard God's commandment but cling to human tradition.

Alleluia

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Incline my heart, O God, to your decrees;
And favor me with your law.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Feb-12-19  cormier: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings...
Feb-12-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <OhioChessFan> I can't bring myself to call something a conspiracy when it's done right out in the open for everyone to see. We can watch the media massage this story, step by step. Now it will astound me if Northam suffers any consequences at all (political, I mean) for supporting a bill to womens-health babies as they're being born, or even after they've been born.

Looks like premeditated murder isn't a big deal anymore.

Feb-12-19  diceman: <OhioChessFan: There is something massively wrong with a country when people as wantonly stupid as AOC and Maxine Waters can be elected.>

The plan.

What happens when you let politicians
who depend on stupidity, "run" education.

Feb-12-19  cormier: chinese abc ... !! ..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA-... .......
Feb-13-19  cormier: Gospel
What comes out of the man, that is what defiles him.

Alleluia

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Your word, O Lord, is truth:
consecrate us in the truth.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

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

Feb-13-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <diceman> And the teachers' unions, Far Left Crazy par excellence, run the politicians. Here in New Jersey, the New Jersey Education Assn. owns the Democrat Party.

Many years ago I predicted that the Baltic States would be free of communism before New Jersey was free of liberalism. I hate it that I was right about that.

Feb-14-19  cormier: Gospel

The dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.

Alleluia

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

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

Feb-15-19  cormier: Gospel

He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.

Alleluia

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

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

Feb-15-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <Esteemed Colleagues> There are patterns in history, many of which are displayed for us in the Bible. For instance:

https://leeduigon.com/2019/02/15/ki...

Eerily family, wouldn't you say?

Feb-16-19  cormier: Gospel

People ate and were satiated

Alleluia

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
One does not live on bread alone,
but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God. R. Alleluia, alleluia.

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

Feb-16-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: Where's <OptimalPlay> been lately?
Feb-17-19  cormier: Gospel

Blessed are you who are poor! But woe to you who are rich!

Alleluia

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Rejoice and be glad;
your reward will be great in heaven.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

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

Feb-17-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: I'm on tenterhooks--does anybody know what a "tenterhook" actually is?--waiting for the release of my 11th <Bell Mountain> novel, <The Temptation>. It should be any day now, depending on how many tenterhooks are available.
Feb-17-19  Count Wedgemore: <playground player> I have no idea what a tenterhook is, but I had no clue about the meaning of the expression ("I'm on tenterhooks"), either.

So, I just looked it up in the dictionary:

<When someone is in a state of uneasiness or suspense, you might say that person is on tenterhooks>

English is such an immensely rich language. I think I'm pretty good at it for a non-native speaker, but I still continue to learn new words and expressions regularly. Thanks for having made me learn a new expression today, Lee!

Waiting for your new book to be released, I can certainly understand you being on tenterhooks :)

Feb-17-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: Tenterhooks was an old race horse, lost a match race to Molly.
Feb-17-19  diceman: <playground player:

Where's <OptimalPlay> been lately?>

I was wondering the same.

Feb-17-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <Count Wedgemore> Your English is just fine--and I know it's a hard language to learn.

I looked up "tenterhooks." They are a kind of hook used for hanging cloth or clothing up to dry. I've never seen one in my life.

Feb-18-19  cormier: Gospel
Why does this generation seek a sign?

Alleluia

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
I am the way and the truth and the life, says the Lord; no one comes to the Father except through me.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

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

Feb-19-19  cormier: Gospel

“Watch out, guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

Alleluia

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Whoever loves me will keep my word, says the Lord; and my Father will love him
and we will come to him.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

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

Feb-19-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <Esteemed Colleagues> Has there been any "hate crime" that was not a hoax?

https://leeduigon.com/2019/02/19/th...

But even after the hoax is revealed as such, liberals insist on believing these BS stories--because they **want** them to be true.

Feb-19-19  diceman: <playground player:

But even after the hoax>

Speaking of "hoax"

<7 days ago · California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday in his “State of the State” address at the California State Capitol in Sacramento that he would abandon the state’s high-speed rail system because it was too expensive.>

<too expensive> That's what happens when you don't give each state a printing press.

Remember, these folks want to get rid of airplanes. They want to rebuild all buildings. They will control the planet's temperature. They will control your air and water.

Feb-20-19  cormier: Gospel
"The blind man was healed, and he saw clearly, he could see everything distinctly

Alleluia

R. 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 his call.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

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

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