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Meanwhile, Bobby Fischer verbally shits all over the U.S. as he gets off his jet in Iceland

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 25 March 2005 09:23 (nineteen years ago) link

He's not looking so well.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 March 2005 09:28 (nineteen years ago) link

0 for 3!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

chris: I have no idea what is going on.
julia: is beating me.
ambrose: I will avenge my queen.
tiefschwarz: is wiley.
cathy: I have no idea what's going on.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I also have no idea what is going on.

I grow tired of Sundar having a life. I am way too interested in the outcome of this game!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link

julia put the smack down on me!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link

well played, too good.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 March 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link

yay, thanks!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 25 March 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link

You are all taking far too long! I am stuck in Rugby, and all I have for entertainment is chess and Michael Caine's "Not Many People Know That" Almanac of Amazing Information. Did you know that Napolean had a pathological fear of cats?

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 25 March 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, feel free to hit me up again if you'd like.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I am already playing the maximum number of people, unfortunately. Did you know that Wagner composed some of his music while wearing fancy dress?

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Does it mention Satie and the lobster?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link

No, but it should. Did you know that lobsters have blue blood?

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

did you know how to spell "napoleon"?

; )

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Did you know?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I may not be able to spell Napoleon, but I did just beat you. ; )

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 25 March 2005 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link

wait, did you?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 26 March 2005 00:57 (nineteen years ago) link

it's napoleOn.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 26 March 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link

hard o.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 26 March 2005 01:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Moving drunk, there. Arse.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 26 March 2005 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link

haha! haha!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 26 March 2005 02:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Son of a bitch! I didn't even see that coming. Oh well, lasting 49 moves is still an achievement for me.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 26 March 2005 02:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Now THAT time I saw an endgame!

That was a kick-ass game. When you moved your rook back up to H1, did you realize I could take it?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 26 March 2005 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I wanted to get your knight out of the way. I was scared of that knight-pawn team at my home row. Maybe it would have been wiser at the time to move the rook closer to my queen and just trade the bishop for the knight? My biggest weakness was in letting your pawn get that close in the first place.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 26 March 2005 03:14 (nineteen years ago) link

The first move you made that I wasn't sure of was when you moved your rook down from -- wait, I was black... -- A1 to A5 when I was threating the massive triple knight fork. I thought you would move it to B1. I wasn't sure if you were being superclever, though! Also you had your knight fork waiting so you nearly escaped unscathed.

I thought it was a great game with many excellent moves (once we got past the very cautious opening). But who knows, experts might think we missed a million opportunities!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 26 March 2005 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Right, I see it. I think I actually missed that your bishop was protecting B4 + I was being overcautious in wanting to watch my queen's back. B1 would have made more sense in retrospect but for some reason I don't think I even thought of that.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 26 March 2005 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link

i think when i finally lose this game i'm going to retire from chess... it's very tiring!!

...and four days later still it grinds on. From the position I'm in I

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Sunday, 27 March 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link

{OOPS} ...should win easily, but I'm starting to get jittery.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Sunday, 27 March 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

i had an opportunity to have possibly made things really difficult a couple moves back

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 28 March 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Miccio's in! I didn't realize this

no i'm not. I finally checked this thread after Ken C implied there might be pictures of girls here. There aren't and now I find out somebody is imitating me on a chess online forum. wacky. some pals in town went chess-mad last year and I burnt out. THE REAL ANTHONY IS NOT PLAYING CHESS ONLINE. HE IS PLAYING A GAME CALLED DIAMONDMINE ON SHOCKWAVE.COM. ALONE. AS HE WANTS IT.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 28 March 2005 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link

haha so who the fuck am I playing?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 28 March 2005 07:26 (nineteen years ago) link

whoever has been imitating you has been rubbish! that's all i can say.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 28 March 2005 07:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I just mated blueski without, um, without realizing I had done it until the computer told me.

Just as well, I have to catch a train. Back in a few days.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link

It was all "rematch" and I was all "how did he resign so quickly?"

That said, 28 ..Nf6e4 is my favorite move I have ever made ever, I think. I waited half the game to pull that sneaky-sneak off.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

dude, the game's almost up - we should've wrapped it up tonight - it's going right to the wire!

i beat ambrose on exactly 50 moves i think

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

The game IS up!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

the penny hasn't dropped yet

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

i am on course to lose every game now

:(
anyone who wants to win for a confidence boost, im yr man

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

The game IS up!

oh crap, i didn't see that coming. how disappointing.

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

My first win! And appropriately, against the first person to whom I lost.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Ken is back in it! Wow.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 04:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Just....can't.....finish...him....off
Powers....fading.....
Heading....for....a....draw.....

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 08:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Stupid chess.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link

poor cathy's queen :(

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link

i wish we could set up a tournament

― Sven Basted (blueski), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Goddamn, thought I had ambrose for sure. Like I had an ending in my sights that has run away forevah.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Ken, I meant to do something else! I am so furious.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I almost had you, there, ken.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

2 wins!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

(and 4 losses of course). I just challenged Julia (julesb74, right?).

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link

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