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Grampy Bobby
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Achilles' Heel



Few of mine include gross mistreatment of helpless children, a mother's

bona fide tears (including Mom's) and Iris Dement's happy/sad songs.



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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Achilles' Heel



Few of mine include gross mistreatment of helpless children.



-gb
you should urgently seek help for that, and stay away from children until you get it sorted out.

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I was wondering that too. Is it a problem he has with himself or with other people doing the mistreating.

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Originally posted by Chucklets37
I was wondering that too. Is it a problem he has with himself or with other people doing the mistreating.
Of course "... other people doing the mistreating." To be expected

from Blackamp but why would you stoop to cheapen a man's post?

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About Blackamp

"It is better to have played and won, than not to have played" - Schachspeare

All skulls crushed on sight - sorry, but I just like that crunching sound they make when I grind them beneath my heel. Feel free to crush mine if you see it.

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About Grampy Bobby

No longer capable of tactical brilliancies. Quite content nowadays to hang about familiar
turf, festina lente, hopeful my opponents' errors/blunders may often exceed my own.

"You need not play well, just help your opponent to play badly." -Genrikh Chepukaitis.
“The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist
must know what to do when nothing needs doing” -Savielly Tartakover. “It is the aim
of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but
according to the principle inherent in the position” -Richard Reti. “Chess is life” -Bobby
Fischer. “Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack” -Wilhelm Steinitz.

"My left is weakened. My right is broken. The situation is excellent. I'm on the attack."
Field Communiqué to Headquarters, Marshal Foch (French Commander, 1851-1929)

'There's a hole in the heart of man in the shape of God. If I believe in the risen Christ
and it's all falsehood, there's nothing to lose. If true, I've everything to gain.' -Pascal


August, 2009

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Current Profiles:



About Blackamp

"It is better to have played and won, than not to have played" - Schachspeare

All skulls crushed on sight - sorry, but I just like that crunching sound they make when I grind them beneath my heel. Feel free to crush mine if you see it.

Founder and organiser of Thematic Tournaments Inc. - Club 217. Join ...[text shortened]... e's nothing to lose. If true, I've everything to gain.' -Pascal


August, 2009
I like how you did that. You claimed that profiles and avatars say a lot about a person....right after you put some pretentious, fakely erudite nonsense on your profile.Maybe you should've put on it that you were a stud muffin in bed aswell.


I suggest you seek therapy.

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exactly. this bit is precious: "No longer capable of tactical brilliancies". of course, the implication is that he was once capable of tactical brilliancies. the man just can't help seeking to glorify himself.

this thread is itself an example. the implication is that his only weaknesses are things we should in fact admire him for. his real Achilles' heels are his lack of insight into himself, and his desperate need, surely born out of a deep-seated sense of inferiority, to try to build himself up in the eyes of others, at every opportunity.

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Of course "... other people doing the mistreating." To be expected

from Blackamp but why would you stoop to cheapen a man's post?
maybe you should learn to express yourself more clearly. it's hardly your strong point. then again, you don't seem to have a strong point.

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Originally posted by huckleberryhound
I like how you did that. You claimed that profiles and avatars say a lot about a person....right after you put some pretentious, fakely erudite nonsense on your profile.Maybe you should've put on it that you were a stud muffin in bed aswell.


I suggest you seek therapy.
Quite secure in my manhood... both in and out of bed. By the way,

Huck, wondering how your autumn wedding plans are coming along.

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Originally posted by Blackamp
exactly. this bit is precious: "No longer capable of tactical brilliancies". of course, the implication is that he was once capable of tactical brilliancies. the man just can't help seeking to glorify himself.

this thread is itself an example. the implication is that his only weaknesses are things we should in fact admire him for. his real Achilles' hee ...[text shortened]... ense of inferiority, to try to build himself up in the eyes of others, at every opportunity.
Sophmore student grade: C- (would have been a flat D except that

the inclusion of the Harvard born word 'precious' impressed me).

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Originally posted by Blackamp
maybe you should learn to express yourself more clearly. it's hardly your strong point. then again, you don't seem to have a strong point.
Exactly! Mom forgot to dip me in the River Styx. Consequently, I'm less than invincible

and forever left to fumble with my weaknesses, while others showcase their strengths.

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Originally posted by Chucklets37
I was wondering that too. Is it a problem he has with himself or with other people doing the mistreating.
Anticipated you might reply, Chucklets...


Of course "... other people doing the mistreating." To be expected

from Blackamp but why would you stoop to cheapen a man's post?

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Originally posted by huckleberryhound
I like how you did that. You claimed that profiles and avatars say a lot about a person....right after you put some pretentious, fakely erudite nonsense on your profile.Maybe you should've put on it that you were a stud muffin in bed aswell.


I suggest you seek therapy.
Purpose of this post, Huck, is to thank you. An overflow of some meaningful quotes from a recent conversation regarding tactics and

strategy with Robbie Carrobie in a Greenpawn thread in Only Chess resulted in a residue of profile format overkill. Took some out.


Thanks again for your candor.


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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Purpose of this post, Huck, is to thank you. An overflow of some meaningful quotes from a recent conversation regarding tactics and

strategy with Robbie Carrobie in a Greenpawn thread in Only Chess resulted in a residue of profile format overkill. Took some out.


Thanks again for your candor.


-gb
and here we see a classic GB technique, typical of his kind: we see him here trying to defuse one of his detractors by 'buddying up'. the crowd tenses: will Huck fall for it? stay tuned...

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Of course "... other people doing the mistreating." To be expected

from Blackamp but why would you stoop to cheapen a man's post?
In all honesty, I was confused at first as well.

But, on second reading, knew what you were saying.

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