Feb-04-08 Kibitzer's Café
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pawntificator: Woo hoo! I wished myself happy birthday in this thread 5 years and almost 3000 posts ago. (page 84) Hard to believe I'm 30. And I'm probably worse at chess than I ever was!
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| | Oct-13-06 Topalov vs Kramnik, 2006
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pawntificator: I guess I'm not surprised that the Champion of the entire world will be decided by quick chess. It makes me a little sad, because I'm not good at fast chess, but I guess It makes a degree of sense. I guess we will find out who understands chess better. But the death of ...
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| | Oct-07-06 V Kovacevic vs S Martinovic, 1981
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pawntificator: That was awesome.
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| | Oct-03-06 J Kulbacki vs T Manion, 1989
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pawntificator: Obviously not to difficult since it's Tuesday. Still, it takes a brave man to sac. his queen. Also, subsequent checks could have been given by either rook and the correct one had to be selected.
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| | Sep-25-06 The World vs A Nickel, 2006
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pawntificator: The thing that is scary, most of the people who vote don't even read this. Do you??? You pansy! (just checking)
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| | Sep-16-06 Keene vs Kavalek, 1981
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pawntificator: I read an enlightening anecdote yesterday about this game in <Andre Soltis's> book, Karl Marx Plays Chess. Soltis was relating the trend chessplayers have begun to follow, namely the rude and disrespectful resignation. In counterpoint to that trend he noted this game: ...
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| | Aug-30-06 Sneaky chessforum
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pawntificator: Woo hoo! The Dead!
Actually I'm not a huge fan. I'm cheering as a matter of principle. Keep up the good work, <Sneaky.>
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| | Aug-15-06 Adams vs Miles, 1993
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pawntificator: These guys really put up a good fight. No easy early draws here.
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| | Jul-23-06 Robert James Fischer
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pawntificator: I bet Bobby is playing Sudoku.
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| | Jul-21-06 Seirawan vs Wojtkiewicz, 1992
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pawntificator: I don't think you can count yourself as solving the puzzle if you didn't figure out that you had to promote a pawn. Therefore, I didn't solve the puzzle. It was so easy to solve my way, that I didn't even look at the black pawn promotion. I fail. But sometimes, in endgames, I ...
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