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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-20-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: Covington kids sock WaPo with $250 million defamation lawsuit.

There ought indeed to be a stiff price to pay for fake news. I hope they get every penny of it.

Feb-21-19  cormier: Gospel

You are the Christ. - The Son of Man must suffer greatly

Alleluia

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life;
you have the words of everlasting life.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

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

Feb-22-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <Esteemed Colleagues> Some of you might enjoy this piece I've written about my Bell Mountain books.

https://leeduigon.com/2019/02/22/wh...

P.S.--Happy Birthday, President Washington.

Feb-22-19  cormier: Gospel

You are Peter, and I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of heaven.

Alleluia

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church; the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. R. Alleluia, alleluia.

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

Feb-23-19  cormier: Gospel

He was transfigured before them

Alleluia

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
The heavens were opened and the voice of the Father thundered: This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

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

Feb-24-19  cormier: Gospel

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Alleluia

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
I give you a new commandment, says the Lord:
love one another as I have loved you.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

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

Feb-24-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: R.J. Rushdoony explains why socialism is immoral.

https://leeduigon.com/2019/02/24/la...

We're going to need these arguments, going into the next election.

Feb-25-19  cormier: Gospel

I do believe, help my unbelief!

Alleluia

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

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

Feb-26-19  cormier: Gospel

The Son of Man is to be handed over to men. If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.

Alleluia

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
May I never boast except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. R. Alleluia, alleluia.

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

Feb-26-19  Robed.Bishop: <pp> Here's an interesting article. I wouldn't describe the results as "shocking," but then again I'm not in the business of selling ad space for a news outlet.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/nas...

Feb-26-19  diceman: <playground player:

R.J. Rushdoony explains why socialism is immoral.>

Obama gets the mansions, the folks he "helps" get the ghetto/slum.

Civil rights champions allow the minority
to die for a vote.

That's all you really need to know.
It's not like it's something new.
We've been destroying families/lives
for decades under egalitarian/socialism.

Take note:

The mid-1960's "Great Society" is when the Democrat party started to turn. The siren song of owning folks, and handouts was too much. Growing government was the easy way to wealth and power.
(and as a bonus, you can pretend to have a heart of gold)

JFK was basically Ronald Reagan with a "D" after his name. You will never hear Obama, or any modern Democrat say: "ask not what your country can do for you."

Feb-26-19  diceman: <playground player:

We're going to need these arguments, going into the next election.>

By design, hate pulls the Democrat voting handle, so that rational <arguments> don't muddy the waters.

That said, it wouldn't hurt if some "real" Republicans won. Who would represent the Constitution/American people, vs a Republican party.

It would be nice when a Trump wins, if he actually had some members on his team.

Are we supposed to wait until Republicans can't win an election, to say: "Now we need to elect some real ones."

Feb-26-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <Robed.Bishop> Not so much "shocking" as ridiculous, given the irreducible complexity of a living cell.
Feb-27-19  thegoodanarchist: < Count Wedgemore:

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.>

Did you learn the cuss words first?

My anecdotal experience is that most folks want to learn the cuss words first, if they are at all trying to learn a foreign language.

Perhaps NOT doing so is the mark of a sophisticated person?

Feb-27-19  cormier: Gospel

Whoever is not against us is for us.

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-27-19  diceman: A Millennial Job Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo0...

Must be a treat dealing with today's workers?

Feb-27-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <Steamed Colleagues> Did you know knitting can be, uh, racist?

https://leeduigon.com/2019/02/27/no...

I think I'd better watch myself, lest I say anything intemperate.

Feb-28-19  cormier:

Gospel

Better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna

Alleluia

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Receive the word of God, not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

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

Mar-01-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: <Esteemed Colleagues> A little gospel music instead of politics today:

https://leeduigon.com/2019/03/01/a-...

Mar-01-19  cormier: Gospel

What God has joined together,
no human being must separate!

Alleluia

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

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

Mar-02-19  cormier: Gospel

Whoever does not accept the Kingdom of God like a child will not enter it

Alleluia

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

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

Mar-02-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: Example No. 551,798 for why all public funding to colleges and universities should be cut off.

https://leeduigon.com/2019/03/02/mo...

Why in tarnation should a math professor have to provide a "diversity statement"? What kind of neo-Stalinist horses*** is this?

Mar-02-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  playground player: Just in! President Trump says he'll sign an executive order to cut off federal research grants from colleges and universities that won't support free speech.

https://leeduigon.com/2019/03/02/go...

Ooh, the little Maoists won't like that!

Mar-02-19  ragtag: I LOVE the smell of triggered snowflakes in the morning ..... it < SMELLS LIKE VICTORY !!! >
Mar-02-19
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  WannaBe: Hawaiian shirts OK, but no leis, go fig...

https://www.argusleader.com/story/n...

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