Eyal Member since Jun-20-05 I'm 36 years old and live in Tel Aviv (Israel). I teach literature at Tel Aviv University, and am mainly interested in theory and study of narrative - my PhD deals with problems of narrative closure (e.g., what makes endings of stories "open" or "closed"). I've also published a book about Franz Kafka, based on my M.A. Thesis. I used to play chess a lot when I was in high-school, and began participating in tournaments. But at a certain stage, I felt that since I wasn't going to become a professional chess-player, chess was becoming too addictive and time-consuming and I left it altogether. About two and a half years ago, when I got curious about the Adams-Hydra match and was searching the web for some information, I ran into this site. Since then, I became a chess-addict again...

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Oct-09-08 Svidler vs K Maslak, 2008   Eyal: Yeah, 50...Nc4 would have been quite spectacular - putting the knight where it can be captured by two white pieces (but 51.Rxc4 allows 51...Rd2 as noted; whereas 51.Nxc4, which removes the knight's protection from d1, loses instantly to 51...Qf3+ followed by Rd1). And especially after ...      Oct-09-08 Karpov vs Kasparov, 1984   Eyal: <HR [Hanon Russell] : Let's spend a little bit of time on games thirty-one and thirty-two. After game thirty-one, which was a draw, you still hadn't won a game, yet you write on page 175 "This draw was a great moral victory for me... it marked a psychological turning-point." Can you      Oct-09-08 D Jakovenko vs Morozevich, 2008    Eyal: <where Jakovenko went wrong> With 21.Bxf6 Jakovenko apparently squandered any advantage he might have had - Nd5 was probably a better idea; maybe he over-estimated his chances after 23.e5, which looks menacing but turns out not to be so dangerous for Black. Later, it's hard to ...      Oct-08-08 A Timofeev vs A Riazantsev, 2008    Eyal: A more elegant finish would have been 32.Qe6+ Kh8 33.Rxg7!      Oct-08-08 Russian Superfinals (2008)    Eyal: After 50.Qe3+, Rybka gives the position in Alekseev-Inarkiev a +299.87 evaluation...      Oct-08-08 Team White vs Team Black, 2008     Oct-08-08 Anand-Kramnik World Championship Match (2008)    Eyal: <#5 vs. #6> Btw, right now it's <#4> vs. #6! (as Morozevich has dropped to 5th place in the live ratings, because of 6 points he lost so far in the Russian Superfinals). Maybe that would put Topalov's mind more at ease...      Oct-07-08 D Jakovenko vs E Alekseev, 2008    Eyal: Btw, anyone who wants to get an idea of how strong an endgame player Jakovenko is, might check the following games: D Jakovenko vs Sutovsky, 2007 , D Jakovenko vs Z Rahman, 2007 , D Jakovenko vs Z Almasi, 2007 , D Jakovenko vs I Cheparinov, 2008      Oct-07-08 Domdaniel chessforum    Eyal: <Dom> Very nice game from Galway - interesting to note how hopeless Black's position is after 17.Nf3, even though materially he's only a pawn down. A couple of comments: 11.bxc5 was already good on move 11 (and more forcing than Ng5) - 11...dxc5 loses to 12.Nxe5!; 11...O-O ...      Oct-06-08 jessicafischerqueen chessforum    ...

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 160 OF 160 ·  Later Kibitzing > Sep-24-08    jessicafischerqueen: OK Starting date for <mckmac> FOLDING SENTENCES GAME is this Sunday coming up. If you want to play, check his forum for further details. Sep-28-08    jessicafischerqueen: <CABIN> Heh I went through your new lines from my game this morning. You know I really DID cut off the "move tree" in my brain at your FEN, thinking <I can probably beat him from here>, but I DID also have a bit of a nagging feeling worrying about him doubling his Rooks on the <e-file>. So I noticed that you didn't even bother posting <Rae8> in your candidate moves list, and I saw why this morning. In the FEN, I control the <e-2,3,4,5, and 6> squares, so Black cannot make any progress with <Rae8>.... Heh not to mention that he loses his Knight if he plays it.... INTUITIVELY I knew I would be OK if your FEN happened.... Hopefully I would have noticed that <Rae8> was a chimerical threat if the position had actually occurred. I didn't play today, too tired to justify the effort-- I'm more interested in producing quality games under optimal conditions. Given the amount of time I spend studying chess, I don't think I'm going to get rusty if I can only play two or even one games a week. Obviously, I'd rather not have a job and play one game a day maybe 4 or 5 days a week. Mrs. Loves her chess, but is rarely happy with her results when she plays "tired." Sep-28-08    Eyal: <Jess> Well, if you intuitively judge positions as good for you even without rigorously calculating lines beyond that point, and turn out to be correct, it's a good sign. Such calculations always have to stop somewhere, and many times it's before a definite conclusion about a forced result can be reached - in which case, it's necessary to rely on some sort of intuitive positional judgment anyway. I remember that when Anand analyzed at a press conference his win over Topalov from Corus this year, he mentioned at a certain point considering a line which he judged as leading to an "unclear" position, and choosing instead another line which he thought was leading more safely to an advantage. As it turned out, the line which he rejected would have actually led to his loss, since exactly at the point where he stopped calculating Black had a nice combination by which he could trap White's queen (but without it White would have a clear advantage). So it was interesting to note that even though Anand didn't actually "see" this possibility, and in this sense fell short in his analysis, he did have the intuition to avoid the line as somehow unpromising for him - and that was what mattered in the end. Btw, did you have a chance to go beyond the (non)-title of my paper? (no pressure, I know it's rather long...) Sep-28-08    jessicafischerqueen: HI <CABBA>!! heh thanks for the further insights... Coincidentally <The Woodman> was posting about how good it is to practice "pattern recognition" which also helps the "intuition" I believe. Your Master work is still on my desk at school. Luckily, I'm an English teacher in <England: 9 AD>, so I'll have plenty of time to read it this week, so long as I bring a good supply of "tallow lights" and a good bucket to go to the bathroom in. Mrs. in the lap of luxury Sep-29-08    jessicafischerqueen: Could you please lend me a hand with this fellow <frogbert>? He has been harrassing me the past few weeks-- following my posting history in order to post threats-- he has me on ignore, but takes me off ignore to scan my posting history on a daily basis. In short, he is stalking me. Lurking in my forum and posting threats to me. He has also been emailing me obsessively with constant veiled and open threats to get me banned. I have copied and pasted the post he just made here in your forum and "blown the whistle" to the administrators. I have also just sent the following email to <Daniel Freeman>: <Dear Mr. Freeman-- Would you please instruct <User: Frogbert> to cease from harrassing me? He has taken to tracking my posting history in order to bully and threaten me with getting the administrators (you) to censor me or sanction me or something. He has also taken to obsessively emailing me and I have these emails ready to send in to you if necessary. They contain constant threats, and I want a stop put to it. Please this man is out of control-- I don't care how "important he is" -- I haven't broken any posting guidelines for a long, long time-- not since you so throughly warned me. I expect you to hold this man to the same standard you have held me to in the past. Please, please, please do something about him-- all I want you to do is to A: tell him in a forceful way to stop posting to me threatening to "turn me in " to you-- B. tell him to refrain from sending me any further emails. Please get back to me , OK Mr. Freeman? Thank you- > Sep-29-08    Eyal: <Jess> Good grief, he's been pestering you by e-mail as well?! This seems exceptionally tiresome even by <his> standards. Anyway, it seems to me that for the moment you've done everything within reason in terms of letting the administrators know etc. Not sure how I can lend you a hand in this business beyond that right now, but let me know if you have anything specific in mind. Maybe the best thing I can do is advising you not to mind him so much and try to <really> ignore him as much as possible (unlike the way he puts people on his ignore list while obsessively keeping track of all their posts...) - when all is said and done, it's rather a pity to waste so much energy on such stuff, isn't it? Sep-29-08    Red October: just put him on ignore block his mail id and dont worry we are behind you (or in front of you if you prefer) Oct-01-08    jessicafischerqueen: oroeritoqergioek egr g ewg ewgr geg r geg[eg (your new nickname- and the precise spacing MUST be observed) you may be pleased to know that I read the first dozen pages of <<FLAMING STAR-- ONE NARRATOLOGIST'S HARROWING JOURNEY INTO etc.> today at work. I enjoyed it as well. It certainly beats teaching!! I liked one observation in particular. But I'm not telling which one, as you'll have to guess. I will report back after reading more... Oct-01-08    Eyal: Hi Jess! Did you close your forum for "renovations" yesterday? oroeritoqergioek egr g ewg ewgr geg r geg[eg Oct-01-08    jessicafischerqueen: oroeritoqergioek egr g ewg ewgr geg r geg[eg Yes, I did as a matter of fact, but the builders smashed a few lamps so I had to scuttle the operation. I used "Orly men", contrary to what my wife <Sybil> suggested, with predictable results. BTW I'm glad you enjoy your new nickname, and I'm even happier you took proper care with the spacing. Oct-01-08    Red October: <I used "Orly men", contrary to what my wife <Sybil> suggested, with predictable results.> que ? Oct-01-08    Eyal: Sarah Palin explains why Alaska's proximity to Russia enhances her foreign policy credentials - hard to decide what's funnier, reality or satire: http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=h1PXH... (segment of the original interview) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/... (Saturday Night Live sketch, relevant segment starting at about 4:00 to the end) Oct-01-08    jessicafischerqueen: And MIlton's-- "Can you lend me two bob till Thursday?" HAHAHAAHAHAH Whoopa <Sarah Palin> Crabba-- well chosen topic, as she could be the most dangerous person on the planet-- given the chance. Oct-02-08    jessicafischerqueen: Quack! Oct-02-08    Eyal: <Quack!> Good point. Oct-02-08    jessicafischerqueen: <Good point.> Well, that's probably debatable. In the interest of discursive rigor, one would likely benefit from canvassing this particular group of scholars: http://www.bathroomheaven.com/uploa... Oct-03-08    jessicafischerqueen: Hi CZPPAw#qq what RE YOU doing up in the middle of the night? I've been doing some more serious investigating. Here's all I've come up with so far- http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdp9M... Oct-03-08    Eyal: Bloody Vikings. Btw, have you ever read the real thing? <Njal's Saga> is quite impressive, full of beautiful lyrical passages; for example: <Then Thorwald snatched up a fishing-knife that lay by him, and made a stab at Thiostolf; he had lifted his axe to his shoulder and dashed it down. It came on Thorwald's arm and crushed the wrist, but down fell the knife. Then Thiostolf lifted up his axe a second time and gave Thorwald a blow on the head, and he fell dead on the spot [...] Then Glum got angry, and cut at him with his hand-axe, but he threw his axe in the way, and the blow fell on the haft with a downward stroke and bit into it about the breadth of two fingers. Thiostolf cut at him at once with his axe, and smote him on the shoulder, and the stroke hewed asunder the shoulderbone and collarbone, and the wound bled inwards. Glum grasped at Thiostolf with his left hand so fast that he fell; but Glum could not hold him, for death came over him. Then Thiostolf covered his body with stones, and took off his gold ring.> Oct-03-08    Red October: <full of beautiful lyrical passages> thats almost like Shipov Oct-04-08    jessicafischerqueen: Hi CZPPAw#qq !!!! The latest market research indicates that your new nickname <CZPPAw#qq> scores particularly well in the "loose women between 17-25 years old range"! Good news all around there. I loved your real life <Njorl's Saga>, and I agree about the lyrical beauty. Sadly, such writing languished in the West until the publication of William Wordsworth's immortal <Upon First Reading Chapman's Homer>: <stabbed in the head knives are like the hands of a crab jabbin your flab till you wrapped them and bled throw you off a building killin off your children drillin' holes in your corpse till your spillin' the colours of a million i'll split your <<<brains>>> i'll slit your vains the impact of a bat cracked across your back is like gettin hit by a train > Here is a nice young man reciting this, one of Wordsworth's finest, at a poetry reading: http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=U-r43... Oct-04-08    Eyal: <Deffi> Heh... definitely a contender for <The Shipov Award for Random Poetry>. <Jess> Would you like to chat in the box sometime today? Oct-05-08    jessicafischerqueen: Hi CZPPAw#qq !!!! Heh I've been playing chess all day... Are you around tonight? I posted parts of my last game I played in my Forum. Back to work tomorrow... But for how long? Oct-05-08    Eyal: Hi Jess, I'm going out now but I'll be back around 10PM your time. Will take a look at what you posted in your forum later. Oct-05-08    jessicafischerqueen: Hi CZPPAw#qq !!!! I'm at work and I'm busy reading more of your prize winning work. I have to say that your <translation> is flawless. There is no way whatsoever to tell that this is a translation. none. Your academic "english voice" is that of a native speaker. By that, I mean to suggest that you are an Indian. OK Back later... Oct-06-08    Eyal: Hi Jess - short EMU sent your way. Jump directly to page #    (enter number from 1 to 160) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 160 OF 160 ·  Later Kibitzing >		Sign-up and play against other members

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