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BigCityChief
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Okay, one more.
finesse_r
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Swami Rhami Here
OK I will confess. I am a mystic and I do have a large crystal ball. For only $9.99 I will take your name and do a reading for you and send you the best numbers for you to play based on your name and address. While I am not allowed to guarantee you will win, I will guarantee you will have your best chance playing the numbers I select for your. I suggest you take advantage of this weeks special where I give you not one but three sets of numbers for only 19.99.
Don't wait, remember, the drawing is coming up soon and you need your numbers in time to buy a ticket. Just think what you could do with 1.5 billion with a B, dollars and then $19.99 is a small price to pay.
I will post where to send the money a little later tonight.
OK I will confess. I am a mystic and I do have a large crystal ball. For only $9.99 I will take your name and do a reading for you and send you the best numbers for you to play based on your name and address. While I am not allowed to guarantee you will win, I will guarantee you will have your best chance playing the numbers I select for your. I suggest you take advantage of this weeks special where I give you not one but three sets of numbers for only 19.99.
Don't wait, remember, the drawing is coming up soon and you need your numbers in time to buy a ticket. Just think what you could do with 1.5 billion with a B, dollars and then $19.99 is a small price to pay.
I will post where to send the money a little later tonight.
BigCityChief
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shouldazagged
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That guy's nuts...
Kind of a shame that such a superior intellect will never be able to reproduce.
Concealed carry
Rumor has it he's still hiding a #2 Smith and Wesson
somewhere......
Chuck
The World Chess Champions....
Boy was this a pain to put together. It started out as 'chess', then became 'FIDE chess', the the chess world split and for a few years there were two 'World Champions' causing some overlap. Then it came back together with some format distinctions. This causes the line from 2000 on to be somewhat muddled. In the end Bobby Fischer stated that he was STILL the World Champion, though he never defended his title after winning in 1972.
Boris Spassky is the oldest living champion at 78. He married and moved to France, then back to Russia. He seemed glad to be rid of the burden of the championship and cold war antics. His life belonged to the State before leaving.
20 years after the 1972 match, Spassky and Fischer met a again for a 'rematch' in Yugoslavia. Fischer won, but they both got a LOT of money just for being there. This led to Fischer to charged with breaking the no-trade embargo and became an outcast unable to move back to the US.
This marks the beginning of the Official World Championship, having had several unofficial champions before this time.
1. Wilhelm Steinitz 1886-1894 Austria Hungary
2. Emanuel Lasker 1894–1921 Germany
3. José Raúl Capablanca 1921–1927 Cuba
4. Alexander Alekhine 1927–1935 and 1937–1946 France
5. Max Euwe 1935–1937 Netherlands
6 Mikhail Botvinnik 1948–1957 and 1958–1960 and 1961–1963 Soviet Union (Russia)
7 Vasily Smyslov 1957–1958 Soviet Union (Russia)
8 Mikhail Tal 1960–1961 Soviet Union (Latvia)
9 Tigran Petrosian 1963–1969 Soviet Union (Armenia)
10 Boris Spassky 1969–1972 Soviet Union (Russia)
11 Robert J. Fischer 1972–1975 United States
12 Anatoly Karpov 1975–1985 Soviet Union (Russia)
13 Garry Kasparov 1985–1993 Soviet Union (Azerbaijan)
14 Alexander Khalifman 1999-2000 Russia
16 Viswanathan Anand 2000–2002 India
17 Ruslan Ponomariov 2002–2004 Ukraine
18 Rustam Kasimdzhanov 2004–2005 Uzbekistan
19 Veselin Topalov 2005–2006 2007-2013 Bulgaria
20 Vladimir Kramnik 2006-2007 Russian
20 Magnus Carlsen 2013–present Norway
Gary Kasparov was 22 when he became Champion. Magnus Carsen was a few days older when he won.
Note the cold war domination by the Soviet Union. This was when they said that the world championship was decided by which Russian beat the other Russian.
WWII interfered with the championship in a huge way. Many that should have had chances for the top slot couldn't travel freely in Europe. Alekhine was literally trapped in Portugal during and after the war. The Nazis had a hold on his wife's property in France and was compelled to play for the Nazis for a time branding him a collaborator. (He was originally Russian before the Revolution caused him to leave for France). He was shunned by the world and could not defend his title against Mikhail Botvinnik. Botvinnik arranged a match, but right before receiving the news, he died in his hotel room. Given the amount of war intrigue and bad blood, it's very likely that he was 'eliminated'.
Boy was this a pain to put together. It started out as 'chess', then became 'FIDE chess', the the chess world split and for a few years there were two 'World Champions' causing some overlap. Then it came back together with some format distinctions. This causes the line from 2000 on to be somewhat muddled. In the end Bobby Fischer stated that he was STILL the World Champion, though he never defended his title after winning in 1972.
Boris Spassky is the oldest living champion at 78. He married and moved to France, then back to Russia. He seemed glad to be rid of the burden of the championship and cold war antics. His life belonged to the State before leaving.
20 years after the 1972 match, Spassky and Fischer met a again for a 'rematch' in Yugoslavia. Fischer won, but they both got a LOT of money just for being there. This led to Fischer to charged with breaking the no-trade embargo and became an outcast unable to move back to the US.
This marks the beginning of the Official World Championship, having had several unofficial champions before this time.
1. Wilhelm Steinitz 1886-1894 Austria Hungary
2. Emanuel Lasker 1894–1921 Germany
3. José Raúl Capablanca 1921–1927 Cuba
4. Alexander Alekhine 1927–1935 and 1937–1946 France
5. Max Euwe 1935–1937 Netherlands
6 Mikhail Botvinnik 1948–1957 and 1958–1960 and 1961–1963 Soviet Union (Russia)
7 Vasily Smyslov 1957–1958 Soviet Union (Russia)
8 Mikhail Tal 1960–1961 Soviet Union (Latvia)
9 Tigran Petrosian 1963–1969 Soviet Union (Armenia)
10 Boris Spassky 1969–1972 Soviet Union (Russia)
11 Robert J. Fischer 1972–1975 United States
12 Anatoly Karpov 1975–1985 Soviet Union (Russia)
13 Garry Kasparov 1985–1993 Soviet Union (Azerbaijan)
14 Alexander Khalifman 1999-2000 Russia
16 Viswanathan Anand 2000–2002 India
17 Ruslan Ponomariov 2002–2004 Ukraine
18 Rustam Kasimdzhanov 2004–2005 Uzbekistan
19 Veselin Topalov 2005–2006 2007-2013 Bulgaria
20 Vladimir Kramnik 2006-2007 Russian
20 Magnus Carlsen 2013–present Norway
Gary Kasparov was 22 when he became Champion. Magnus Carsen was a few days older when he won.
Note the cold war domination by the Soviet Union. This was when they said that the world championship was decided by which Russian beat the other Russian.
WWII interfered with the championship in a huge way. Many that should have had chances for the top slot couldn't travel freely in Europe. Alekhine was literally trapped in Portugal during and after the war. The Nazis had a hold on his wife's property in France and was compelled to play for the Nazis for a time branding him a collaborator. (He was originally Russian before the Revolution caused him to leave for France). He was shunned by the world and could not defend his title against Mikhail Botvinnik. Botvinnik arranged a match, but right before receiving the news, he died in his hotel room. Given the amount of war intrigue and bad blood, it's very likely that he was 'eliminated'.
A fascinating experiment become real.....
A very bold psychological experiment driven to completion.
Three sisters born to Hungarian psychologist Lazlo Polgar and his educator wife Klara were subjected to an 'experiment'. The were home schooled from the beginning and their time was highly regimented. This was on the premise that any child could become a genius in any field if they started school at 3 and specialized by age 6. Their father was a chess writer and they liked the game so....
At four and one half years old, ZsuZsa (Susan), the oldest, was taken to the Budapest Chess club where she demolished all comers. Second daughter Judit was right behind and then Sophia. Fortunately, they all lived and worked well together and were highly cooperative as a family so progress was fast. The daughters brushed off comments about them being subjected to concentrating on chess and they got a very rounded education. They learned to fend off very nasty comments. They were threatened with being dragged off to conventional school. Lazlo's philosophy was "work, love, freedom, luck and... more hard work. Work makes luck, work and luck make genius. And a genius is more likely to be happy."
They fought to enter men's tournaments because that was the toughest competition. They all excelled. Later Zsuzsa decided to change careers while Sophie and Judit went on to new heights. Especially Judit, who became a grandmaster at 15. Except for a few months, she was the number one woman in the world for 20 years and number eight on the 'big list' of all the players in the world, men and women. She has defeated eleven world champions. She has now retired but is the coach for the Hungarian National Men's Team.
Lazlo has thought up more challenges but Klara has talked him out of raising more children but she does say that it worked just as Lazlo said.
Polgar's 'experiment' is widely studied. The issue of females competing in a male dominated world as well as the value of his educational philosophy.
https://www.google.com/search?q=the...hVB6iYKHUwdCZsQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=rDVW-Bm_WuC4kM:
A very bold psychological experiment driven to completion.
Three sisters born to Hungarian psychologist Lazlo Polgar and his educator wife Klara were subjected to an 'experiment'. The were home schooled from the beginning and their time was highly regimented. This was on the premise that any child could become a genius in any field if they started school at 3 and specialized by age 6. Their father was a chess writer and they liked the game so....
At four and one half years old, ZsuZsa (Susan), the oldest, was taken to the Budapest Chess club where she demolished all comers. Second daughter Judit was right behind and then Sophia. Fortunately, they all lived and worked well together and were highly cooperative as a family so progress was fast. The daughters brushed off comments about them being subjected to concentrating on chess and they got a very rounded education. They learned to fend off very nasty comments. They were threatened with being dragged off to conventional school. Lazlo's philosophy was "work, love, freedom, luck and... more hard work. Work makes luck, work and luck make genius. And a genius is more likely to be happy."
They fought to enter men's tournaments because that was the toughest competition. They all excelled. Later Zsuzsa decided to change careers while Sophie and Judit went on to new heights. Especially Judit, who became a grandmaster at 15. Except for a few months, she was the number one woman in the world for 20 years and number eight on the 'big list' of all the players in the world, men and women. She has defeated eleven world champions. She has now retired but is the coach for the Hungarian National Men's Team.
Lazlo has thought up more challenges but Klara has talked him out of raising more children but she does say that it worked just as Lazlo said.
Polgar's 'experiment' is widely studied. The issue of females competing in a male dominated world as well as the value of his educational philosophy.
https://www.google.com/search?q=the...hVB6iYKHUwdCZsQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=rDVW-Bm_WuC4kM:
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...How do you know when you are done?
You are done doing nothing, when you fall asleep.
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Who dozes in front of the TV...
vonn
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Good morning all,very entertaining drift overnight,the night shift did a good job! Hope everyone has a good Friday. Tarrant county DA is getting a dog to help comfort victims so they handle the stress of testifying in court. Apparently it is becoming common practice around the country.
FastFossil
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Thanks! I should get it today or tomorrow.
I'll be posting a Karma later today so stay tuned.
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