Skeeter back at 2400.

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Of course. The thing is, I'd heard of Fine and Reshevsky (obviously) and also of Denker*. Never of Kashdan. He may well have been a great player, but prefering him over Fine could only ever have had political reasons.

Richard

* If only for his remarkably apt name - it means "Thinker" in both Dutch and German.

Fine was the better player as his +5 record against Kashdan would suggest.

Remember my note in the Fine - Najdorf game


where I said if Black plays 1...g3 and he losses after 2.Ke4.



Sa DQ - rayfur2002 RHP 2010

Here with Black to play he transposed into the exact same
lost position I was telling people to avoid.


1..Kg2 or 1...Kh2 or 1.Kh3 all draw.

Black played 1...f4+ 2.Ke4 1-0 It is the very same postion.


Alas I posted one year too late for rayfur2002

Originally posted by Paul Leggett
The longer I play, the more I think that words and phrases like "obvious", "schoolboy", and "even a 1400 player would/wouldn't" should be banned from chess discussion.

It seems like any time we use such words or phrases, we set ourselves up for a correction or refutation.

On the other hand, they may be the catalysts that get us started on the path to the truth, so they may well have value. But I wonder sometimes.

Honestly, this is why I don't accept draw offers except in clearly drawn positions and I only resign in the clearest of losing situations. In other words, I'm not sure if I'm ahead or behind until the lead is quite large one way or the other.

Skeeter's recent performance has been rather disappointing. Down to 1615 now.

User 34969

In that past this has happened when a highly rated player was informed by the mods that he/she was about to be banned...

Originally posted by Fat Lady
Skeeter's recent performance has been rather disappointing. Down to 1615 now.

User 34969

In that past this has happened when a highly rated player was informed by the mods that he/she was about to be banned...

tis a fall of Shakespearean proportions, tragic, who will the munchkins look to now to
start awesome skeety threads? Meh, we can always wind up the Frenchies and the
Colle haters!

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
tis a fall of Shakespearean proportions, tragic, who will the munchkins look to now to
start awesome skeety threads? Meh, we can always wind up the Frenchies and the
Colle haters!

I'm thinking the fall is of more Biblical proportions.

or it is silent protest to the amount of motor oil at the top...

Could be 'motor oil' or it could be the death of Gaddafi...who knows, but either way I'm quite sure guesses abound..

Skeeter was Gaddafi? Could be.

Means s/he met Kirsan. Means his/her life wasn't completely wasted then.

Oh...

Kirsan will be sad at 'all this', of that I'm sure...

Originally posted by Proper Knob
I'm thinking the fall is of more Biblical proportions.

you mean epic proportions! the Bible being a volume of epics! this news of skeetys
demise has actually saddened me, i thought i should be joyful, but we do not know the
circumstances and it could be anything really. One only hopes that he or she is well
and the bitter experience of tumbling does not diminish his/her appetite for the royal
game.

Interesting... most but not all games resigned.. no forum posts for a while either...

It is interesting.......

As this thread is titled Skeeter back at 2400. I'm thinking
we need a new thread.

I'll start one. (give me 5 to 10 minutes to see what is what.)

hope, you are doing well, skeeter. and will stay around for a game or so... or a chess post...