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Reply to this topic Return to forumplease don't present famous chess games as your own for analysis and or discussion. Thank you.
That reminds me of this famous game I won against Jean Dufresne. I called it the evergreen game.
good one, Tommah!
To see Tommah's famous game in quick review board:
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1018961
Or to see a good U-tube video with verbal annotations to Tommah's famous game:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3AILal_FyM
There was also that time I beat Levitsky with 23 …Qg3. Everybody got a kick out of that one.
What was plasticbishop's claim to fame?
I set up my own barebones, no-nonsense chess service a while ago; it sends the position in an email, so that once you open the email, all you have to do is make two clicks to play your turn. It was the only way I could persuade some of my friends to play!
Claim to fame? Don't think it really ha(s)(d) one. The site runner wants to spend more quality time with family. That and it is/was running at a deficit. The forums and messaging will apparently still function.
I figured that since there are so many chess sites already, anybody who made a new one would have to have some distinguishing feature. But it actually looks as if his site started out for the same reason as mine did, just to play with some friends. Luckily, mine only has about 10 users, so its expenses are minimal :)
Oh, chesscircle.net is the site with the random adverbs. I thought it looked familiar.
goldtoken.com turns 13 on Friday. the admin of chess-server.net gave the members 500 free games. schemingmind.com updates ratings monthly
the current world correspondence chess champion is Ron Langeveld of the Netherlands.
I was threatened with banning from chesscorner.net for asking what the highest current game number is :(
Don't worry, you have no fear of getting banned from here. No matter how many semi-spam posts you do about mediocre sites.
(I actually like the posts, this thread should be renamed: “Little Twitting Golem”)
the forums at chesscorner.net are down for maontenance but I doubt their return
I had to cancel the credit card I used on the offer due to recent fraudulent activity.
dragonheelslair.com is offering a christmas package-ask that site's admin for details. feliz navidad
an admin on chesshere.com quit his position when the owner refused to kick 2 players out of a prize tourney after they purposely lost games so they could enter a lower rated class of the tourney.
They're in the same class as me but not the same section…yet.
a “competing” site is offering paying members(as of July 1.2013) of another “competing” site free one year memberships.
Please contact the USCF about their Paul Morphy offer before 6-22-13. Gracias and good luck :)
For each year of premium membership bought (limit 3) you'd receive a certificate for $18.63 off an order > $99.99 from USCFsales.
Use coupon code:teamplay at chessclub.com and get 10% off any membership plan
For your perusal… http://livingrevolution.co/2013/08/06/why-i-quit-my-dream-job/
chesscorner.net has 202 full members and 423 guests. 3moves.net is now a Bitcoin Wallet site.
Filming for Pawn Sacrifices begins next month. FIDE has an online chess site. Research FIDE online arena for details.
There are currently 17 slots left in the KingChess.de site championship tourney.
See that site for details.
Unique, in about a week all your vacation days will be consumed. You will lose all your games then? Hope everything is allright with you?
2 players died at the Olympiad :( caissa.com needs more members asap. thank you
2014/15 Fide Grand Prix Series…………4 events……..16 players…………12/event…………….All 3 events/player count……….prize fund = 120K euros/event
Afterhours
In 2014 in the Netherlands summer fell in the spring and autumn fell in the summer, with temperatures on average 5C below average, and double the rainfall. Bad weather matching the bad news.
I passed the time playing a lot of Pit of Pillars and where Havannah lured me into inventing abstract games, half a lifetime ago, PoP released me from the blessing or curse (depending on how it worked out). It's autumn now, which is my usual time, but there's nothing to indicate an impending outburst of creativity. I've finally reached immunity! Here's why.
After a couple of month of investigating PoP's unique strategical dilemma (which I will leave you to encounter yourself) I was convinced that the chances to ever top it were extremely low. It made any ambition to even try vanish. To go through yet another wave and coming out with a couple of tactical small affairs with no guarantee of striking a significant one, suddenly looked like a silly prospect. I've always felt that my final game should be a major strategy game, and here I am, playing just such a game. At 67 it seems the right time to call it a day.
As far as abstract strategy games are concerned, I love playing games at LG and Mindsports (currently Havannah, Symple, Ayu, Stapeldammen, Rotary and of course PoP) and I'm afraid I'll keep on haunting the halls of BGG too, as Rey put it so eloquently. I'll try to catch up on my reading, go fishing (got a large pond nearby, next to a coffee bar - a real coffee bar, not a 'Dutch' one, but I have my own weed), enjoy the wheather (if applicable) and suffer a general lack of problems.
And, of course, care for the animals. Five of them, barring the yearly litter of raccoon doggies.
Last summer Lyme knocked out my left knee (among other temporary inconveniences) which made carrying Kobus down the stairs somewhat problematic. He very well manages going back up the stairs, to his room, but refuses to go down. Since he's 40k+ I figured weight might be a factor so I lost 20k in about six month using a revolutionary concept: eating less. Moreover my knee slowly improved so I can move like Jagger nowadays and carrying Kobus is no longer a problem.
For the time being at least and hopefully for several years to come. He's currently catching up on sunshine because we got a gorgeous Indian summer to make up for the lost Dutch one.
I've had to move Snowy, a white raccoon dog that I've had for four years, to a zoo in Germany ([url=http://wordpress.solinger-vogelpark.de]Solinger Vogel- und Tierpark[/url]) because his father (the white one below) suddenly saw him as a rival. Raccoon dogs are exceptionally silent creatures, except when they fight. Then they're worse than cats, I can assure you, and fights are inevitable once the relation is hostile. To fill the gap I kept a wild coloured one of this years litter. He's already bigger than his parents now and always keeps his distance, which suits me fine because he's otherwise unproblematic. He's the one in the background.
Since this is both an update and an afterword of sorts, I'll include Flurry for completeness:
I found him some four years ago while walking the dogs on a wood path nearby. The first two days he could only fly at a 45 degrees angle downwards, but eventually he managed longer flights. He's lived in my living room ever since but has never landed on me. Nor do I invite him to. You see him here at base camp, a bird cage that he's never seen from the inside. He commutes to an outpost, a bookshelf at the other end of the room. He never lands anywhere else, which is convenient, guano wise. The pile in his cage is too fascinating to remove anyway.
So if and when I fade away into the background and someone asks, know that I'm busy living happily ever after, till the time comes that time stops and I'm bound face the same problems I had before I was born. I'm not at all in a hurry to get there, but I've chosen Afterhours for just such an occasion.
Sorry this landed in the Chess forum :(My bad, I wasn't paying attention. It should be in the general forum but I don't see how I can delete it. Can anyone help?
Looking at my profile, my membership doesn't seem to be expired yet. Members used to be able to modify or delete posts. Looking at the FAQ's I get a load of gibberish. Whatever it is, it's the same load for every category of FAQs. Not everything seems quite right in the state of Denmark.
Hi Christian,
That was a nice epilogue. I was there when Havannah was played at the university Twente (and for the record, it really did start with size 8 boards! I even made an etch of it…).
But just out of curiosity, if by accident an idea about a new fun game crosses your mind, would you really be able to resist the designer drive? ;-).
Hope to play a lot of good games with you.
Paul.
Hi Paul,
This is still in the wrong forum - I've mailed Richard about it. In the meantime my mind is pleasantly and totally detached from any “designer drive”. Like Roger Murtaugh I feel I'm “too old for this shit” :)
Members can still remove their posts (not that you should) using curl :
You search in Firefox for your login cookie (in Preferences/Privacy, Remove individual cookies) which looks like yourlogin#a_number, example john#123456, then just do in a cmd (execute->cmd)
curl -b “login2=john#123456” -G -d “forum=10&topic=205&msg=72” www.littlegolem.net/jsp/forum/actionremovetopic.jsp
replacing these by your cookie, the forum number, the forum topic, the msg number you get by counting 76 minus the last messages before yours…
Considering the likelihood of yours truly messing things up even more I'll go for the “not that you should” part, hoping that the Chess forum at large won't take offence :) Thanks anyway.
Perhaps this site can do business with www.chesshood.com or http://chesshood.acoxi.com/ after November ends. Thank you.
6 days ago I gave a wind-up chess clock,my first chess set and a dual Omega/Regular Chess Set to the local Good Will store. Hope they find good homes.
The best chance for chess success imo is to fully learn and only play one opening
Carlsen will defend the world championship against Sergey Karjakin in NY,NY later this year
Play a USA inmate…latest address is… Rusty King D38967
PO Box 5242 D2 205
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No promises
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I see you've retired undefeated and untied in chess. well done young man. well done.
after an absence of 139 days the owner of chesscorner.net was there on 6.24.16