All-time TOP 5 fights on Chesstalk

[Noam Davies]

Originally Posted by ben daswani

predescu-smith and "winchester"-smith could have also made the list

on a related note, i hit up another double-bill at a DIFFERENT independent cinema tonight. two kurosawa flicks. good times for all. know what i brought to the theatre? a salad, consisting of lettuce, mushroom, yellow pepper, red bartlett pear and a balsamic vinaigrette.

THAT'S RIGHT, I PUT EFFING PEARS IN MY SALADS. NOW WHO'S INDIE?! i'm indie. WANNA KNOW WHO ISN'T INDIE?! you, compared to me

p.s. yes, was wearing skinny jeans and sk8 kicks, AS PER USUAL. maybe gonna switch it up tomorrow. SKINNY CORDUROYS?! you know it...

wasn't too pleased about being able to smell this during the movie... definitely gonna narc you out next time

[ben daswani]

Originally Posted by Noam Davies

wasn't too pleased about being able to smell this during the movie... definitely gonna narc you out next time

yeah, because your bubble tea crap didn't make a shit-tonne of noise or anything, weeaboo

[Nigel Hanrahan]

Know what guys? This is a really lousy topic - ideally suited for contributors to re-hash old battles and generally get rude and fling dung - and, being the authoritarian so-and-so that I am, I'm gonna open a can of whup ass on this thread and close it.

Seriously, there are too many demeaning remarks addressed to other ChessTalkers lately and this is just adding fuel to the fire.

your friendly, neighborhood moderator,
Nigel Hanrahan

[Lucas Davies]

Man, I am fucking glad that I didn't go to those movies now...

[Hugh Siddeley]

Originally Posted by Adam Cormier

Wow Duncan Smith has been in half of the TOP fights...he must piss off alot of people.

I think he was going through a rough patch and also paranoid about his daughter's chess results. For example you could say "It's a beautiful day outside!" and he'd take offence to that and somehow think you were criticizing his parental abilities or his daughter's chess skill. Like MMA fighters or boxers he had a short career here on Chesstalk due to too many concussions I think. I've heard he's taken up curling now, I guess that's less painful.

[Zeljko Kitich]

Originally Posted by Hugh Siddeley

I think he was going through a rough patch and also paranoid about his daughter's chess results. For example you could say "It's a beautiful day outside!" and he'd take offence to that and somehow think you were criticizing his parental abilities or his daughter's chess skill. Like MMA fighters or boxers he had a short career here on Chesstalk due to too many concussions I think. I've heard he's taken up curling now, I guess that's less painful.

correction, he's been doing curling for a long time from what I gather, he used to suggest that it wouldn't do me any harm to get some 'exercise' curling

[Jean Hébert]

Originally Posted by Hugh Siddeley

10. Hebert vs anyone who can speak English

What a cheap shot... I don't discriminate. I will talk even to Zeljko.

[Hugh Siddeley]

Oh my bad, transcript error, it was Nic Haynes who suggested "Jean Hebert vs. Anybody who will talk to him...."

[Kevin Pacey]

Originally Posted by Hugh Siddeley

I'd like to conduct a poll (unconstructive) to see what posters believe are the All-time TOP 5 fights on Chesstalk.

By coincidence I gave this idea a passing thought myself last week, but dismissed it as being distasteful (what, you say, is too distasteful on chesstalk? ).

Gary Ruben used to have some pretty heated discussions with Tom O'Donnell. It may be my imagination, but Tom may have mellowed since tying the knot.

Myself, I normally preserve my tussles for the chessboard, though sometimes I get drawn into them. If a person's last post allows one to not reply without much loss of face then as a rule I think it's best to end a developing conflict. Otherwise it can go on for days and preoccupy one completely, sort of like a wolfpack vs. convey WWII battle. The last time I was tempted to continue a 'battle' was when a friend in a certain profession told me that a certain chesstalk poster's views were ignorant, despite their being in the same profession. But I decided to let sleeping dogs lie.

One master once told me that allowing one's opponent in a chessgame to win a post mortem was 'weak for the next round'. I have never been good at post mortems. I just take my wins as they come and often don't mind conceding the loss of a post mortem (though after two particular losses to a GM only in his twenties, he each time thought my chosen opening line was trash; it took me awhile, in my shock, to recall for him that Miles played the one line often, while in the other case a line was also playable, reached by transposition in ECO). In general arguments never prove anything. You have to do your own research.

[Ernest Klubis]

Originally Posted by Kevin Pacey

It may be my imagination, but Tom may have mellowed since tying the knot.

It's a shocker, but I'm very happy for Tom. I hope he learned how to compromise!

[Hugh Siddeley]

Wow Kevin nice to meet you. It's great that you play chess as well. I really enjoyed your work in "The Usual Suspects" and "American Beauty" was great too.

That's interesting what you say about post mortems, some players are just amazing at them. Are you saying it's weak for the next round to be beaten in a post mortem or weak for the player winning the post mortem?

[Kevin Pacey]

Originally Posted by Hugh Siddeley

Wow Kevin nice to meet you. It's great that you play chess as well. I really enjoyed your work in "The Usual Suspects" and "American Beauty" was great too.

That's interesting what you say about post mortems, some players are just amazing at them. Are you saying it's weak for the next round to be beaten in a post mortem or weak for the player winning the post mortem?

Er, sorry I'm not Kevin Spacey, if that's who you're seriously thinking of .

My master acquaintance (let's call him BH) felt that one should try not to deliberately lose the post mortem, or refrain from asserting what one believed, if one felt that the opponent was incorrect in his post mortem assertion(s). To do so in his view would (I think he meant) be demoralising, and possibly embarrasing, more so if the post mortem was attended by other people.

In my case I'm more of an intuitive player, or at least my memory of what I was thinking of in a game afterwards is often quite far from complete, so I'm not the best at post mortems anyway. Plus I'm often tired from the struggle and may wish to save energy by not looking at a game too long afterwards.

[Hugh Siddeley]

Originally Posted by Kevin Pacey

Er, sorry I'm not Kevin Spacey, if that's who you're seriously thinking of .

Dammit, I thought I was talking to an Oscar winner.

Well you wouldn't deliberately try to lose a post mortem, just let the opponent do all the yapping, while you think about what to have for dinner.

Cheers,
Brad Itt

[Adam Cormier]

Siddeley-Sarcasm doesn't work very well on the internet...*sigh*...
When will the poll be up?

Paul Bonham- John Cleese is my favourite comedian of all time(a close 2nd is Bill Maher)

[Hugh Siddeley]

Originally Posted by Adam Cormier

Siddeley-Sarcasm doesn't work very well on the internet...*sigh*...

When will the poll be up?

Sarcasm is the lowest form of writ.

Tomorrow afternoon at some point, before I head off to Kitchener.

[Gary Ruben]

Originally Posted by Kevin Pacey

Gary Ruben used to have some pretty heated discussions with Tom O'Donnell. It may be my imagination, but Tom may have mellowed since tying the knot.

Nothing to our discussions. Merely a case of exchanging pleasantriies and a bit of chain yanking.