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CHESS!
Aug 13, 2019 20:15:40 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Aug 13, 2019 20:15:40 GMT
Chess chess chess chess, chess chess chess chess, chess chess chess chess, chess chess chess chess....
Don't get chance for much 'over the table action' at the mo, but I have two correspondence chess buddies. One opens me a new arse hole regularly, but is a most challenging opponent, the other is more evenly matched, and in our most recent game has opened with...
wait for it....
THE KING'S GAMBIT!!!
A Hub favourite, of course.
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CHESS!
Aug 13, 2019 20:26:40 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Aug 13, 2019 20:26:40 GMT
If Shinzon wanted Picard to find B4, why did he scatter him in pieces across a planet populated by monsters with machine guns?  ? Don't forget their SPACE dune buggies. -Ralph Oh my Godfathers, oh man, reading this thread (the first two pages in particular) is just HILARIOUS. Oh my God. And this quoted post just 'did me in', wine through the nose style. God I love The Hub.... I need medical attention now... help me.... something hurts inside.... |
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CHESS!
Aug 13, 2019 20:29:28 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Aug 13, 2019 20:29:28 GMT
UUUURRRRAAAGGGHHHAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!! OH NO, NO, I NEED SURGERY...... |
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 13, 2019 20:35:06 GMT
See, two years ago we were young, carefree, light-hearted... Happy...
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 13, 2019 20:53:59 GMT
SPACE DUNE BUGGIES.
-Ralph
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CHESS!
Aug 13, 2019 20:56:02 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Aug 13, 2019 20:56:02 GMT
OH MY GOD!!!! IN THE MIDDLE OF READING THROUGH THE CHESS THREAD THIS IS JUST JUST JUST BRILLIANT!!!!! |
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CHESS!
Aug 13, 2019 21:01:41 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Aug 13, 2019 21:01:41 GMT
That's utterly ludicrous.... A game where only two pawns remain on the board is an impossiblity!
AHAHAHAHHAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHH!!!!!!!!!OH MAN!!! Oh Man, it's so nice when you can make yourself laugh.... |
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CHESS!
Aug 13, 2019 21:03:15 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Aug 13, 2019 21:03:15 GMT
I would watch chess if it was in space. -Ralph genius |
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CHESS!
Aug 13, 2019 21:21:51 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Aug 13, 2019 21:21:51 GMT
Have you seen FIDE's World Championship logo? You're closer than you think to laughing pawns... Prawns. I wish they'd stop trying to make Chess cool. It's already cool. Word. |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 19, 2019 20:26:27 GMT
 Martin |
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CHESS!
Aug 19, 2019 20:43:39 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 19, 2019 20:43:39 GMT
Oh. My Godfathers.
I want a Countdown figure.
See, guys? I Told you chess was cool!
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CHESS!
Aug 19, 2019 20:52:47 GMT
Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 19, 2019 20:52:47 GMT
 Martin |
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CHESS!
Aug 20, 2019 6:52:53 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 20, 2019 6:52:53 GMT
Fantastic! I could never have believed that chess was so interwoven with GI Joe!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 25, 2019 17:47:38 GMT
Martin
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CHESS!
Aug 25, 2019 21:14:51 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 25, 2019 21:14:51 GMT
Ahhh yes. The Magneto/Xavia chess rivalry. One to rival Capablanca/Alekhine! Fischer/Spassky! Or even Kasparov/Karpov!
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CHESS!
Aug 31, 2019 17:30:07 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 31, 2019 17:30:07 GMT
I would like to share this excellent video from the fantastic British Grandmaster Daniel King, one of his monthly 'hangouts' on his Power Play Chess YouTube channel. If you don't want to watch the entire thing (ALTHOUGH WHY WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO?!?!?!), then if I could draw your attention to about the 39 minute mark for a rather special personal moment over which I am still smiling.
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CHESS!
Aug 31, 2019 17:35:28 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 31, 2019 17:35:28 GMT
His current series on Fischer, 'The Road to Rekyavik', is quite excellent, by the way.
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CHESS!
Oct 28, 2019 18:59:47 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Oct 28, 2019 18:59:47 GMT
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CHESS!
Oct 28, 2019 19:02:07 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 28, 2019 19:02:07 GMT
Impressive. Was that taken in your living room yesterday?
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CHESS!
Oct 28, 2019 19:15:40 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Oct 28, 2019 19:15:40 GMT
Only if my living room is a chess hall in Bled, Yugoslavia, in September 1959.
I love this picture. From the famous Candidates tournament in 1959, to determine who would face the legendary Soviet chess patriarch Mikhail Botvinnik in a world championship match. The young bristling Bobby Fischer sitting across from the calm veteran and reluctant Soviet, Paul Keres, with the extrovert Hungarian-American Pal Benko looking on.
And scoreboard guy! Hawkish, watching the game, giving every ounce of his concentration to his task with barely contained enthusiasm.
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CHESS!
Mar 17, 2020 12:38:40 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 17, 2020 12:38:40 GMT
THE 2020 CHESS CANDIDATES TOURNAMENT BEGINS TODAY!!!!
Eight of the world's strongest players battle it out in a double round-robin event to determine who is the Challenger to World Champion Magnus Carlsen.
The 2018 WC Challenger, the American Fabiano Caruana, who equalled Carlsen in the Classical games in 2018, is favourite and has been consistently strong. But the talented Chinese player, Ding Liren, has been very potent of late and has really come of age. MVL (Maxime Vachier-Lagrave) from France is a late entrant after Tiemour Radjabov pulled out due to concerns over Coronavirus. MVL has missed out on taking part in the last two Candidates, so he'll bring everything he's got to the party. Anish Giri, often a critic of Carlsen's, has been preparing for this tournament a long time, he's very strong and determined. The veteran Russian Alexander Gruschuk is always dangerous, as is the very unpredictable Russia Ian Nepomniachi. Both these experienced Russians could cause trouble. Finally there is another Chinese player, Wang Hao, who isn't experienced at quite this level, but he's been very strong this year, and the Wild Card, the young Russian Kirill Alekseenko, a solid attacker, surprisingly chosen ahead of the strong and very experienced Russian and former WC Challenger Sergey Karjakin.
Exciting times!
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CHESS!
Mar 17, 2020 21:49:17 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 17, 2020 21:49:17 GMT
WANG HAO BEAT DING LIREN IN ROUND ONE!!!
CHINESE NUMBER TWO BEATS CHINESE NUMBER ONE!!!
BIG SHOCK!!!!
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CHESS!
Mar 17, 2020 21:50:01 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 17, 2020 21:50:01 GMT
Are they playing in hazmat suits?
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CHESS!
Mar 17, 2020 21:53:10 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 17, 2020 21:53:10 GMT
They are not.
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CHESS!
Mar 17, 2020 21:54:49 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 17, 2020 21:54:49 GMT
Are they washing their hands between moves?
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CHESS!
Mar 17, 2020 22:05:22 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 17, 2020 22:05:22 GMT
Yes.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 18, 2020 0:43:40 GMT
WANG HAO BEAT DING LIREN IN ROUND ONE!!! He won't beat WangPhil! Martin |
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CHESS!
Mar 18, 2020 22:09:18 GMT
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 18, 2020 22:09:18 GMT
Another tense day.
Ding's gone two down... This is the man who went 100 Classical games unbeaten last year.
Fabi's cruising. MVL and Nepo looking sharp.
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 18, 2020 22:13:24 GMT
And you accuse *us* of making names up.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 18, 2020 22:17:28 GMT
"Well, er, Jacko and the Badger bought it at the first Ypres front, unfortunately — quite a shock, that. I remember Bumfluff’s house-master wrote and told me that Sticky had been out for a duck, and the Gubber had snitched a parcel sausage-end and gone goose-over-stump frogside."
"Meaning...?"
"I don’t know, sir, but I read in the Times that they’d both been killed."
"And Bumfluff himself...?"
"Copped a packet at Galipoli with the Aussies — so had Drippy and Strangely Brown. I remember we heard on the first morning of the Somme when Titch and Mr Floppy got gassed back to Blighty."
Martin
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