Well when you have guys who believe they are at a high level
( whatever that is? ) and feel they are immortal, then when they fall
they fall pretty hard and realize mortality. Yes it is true. There
are guys with worse attitudes than Sam Sloan. Frightening indeed!

EZoto

EZoto wrote in message news:379e1ac4a02330a98e312ff3c6f7afb7@TeraNews.. .
Well when you have guys who believe they are at a high level
( whatever that is? ) and feel they are immortal, then when they fall
they fall pretty hard and realize mortality. Yes it is true. There
are guys with worse attitudes than Sam Sloan. Frightening indeed!

EZoto


You know Mig takes a lot of undue heat from player-haters and it's
pretty childish from what I've been reading. I've personally watched
Mig play casual games with other masters and I'll be DAMNED if anyone
is going to tell me he is sub-1900 strength. I watched him play a
series of blitz games against a 2400 IM and in nearly every game Mig
got the better position but lost on time. No sub-1900 is going to
outplay a 2500 like that on such a consistant basis. I've watched
dozens upon dozens of Mig's blitz games and he is easily 2200
strength.

I don't know where this vile crap comes from on some of the
player-haters here, but Mig has done nothing to deserve it in the time
I've known him. He puts out a lot of work and effort for chess fans,
so all this "Mig's a liar and a faker" crap is just weak. If I were
him, I'd tell you guys to suck a fart out of my ass.

You know Mig takes a lot of undue heat from player-haters and it's

There is a reason why. You know Sam Sloan takes a lot of heat from
people for his behavoir. Rightly so. But when you try to justify his
actions then you get it far worse. Here you are ignoring the post.
Mig and Nakamura are just a couple of obnoxious snobs. Live with it.
What is the big deal? Narcissim is a condition and you just gotta
deal with it.

EZoto

"Ed Seedhouse" wrote in message
. ca...


FirebrandX wrote:

I don't know where this vile crap comes from on some of the
player-haters here, but Mig has done nothing to deserve it

Certainly he has. He has posted witty informative articles and he,
unlike most of the cheap critics has actually done something for chess.

On the principal that "no good deed goes unpunished" he obviously richly
deserves it!

Hear, hear! Well said, Ed...

--
Looney
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http://www.patzersprogress.com

On 30 Jul 2003 09:25:28 -0700, (FirebrandX)
wrote:

EZoto wrote in message news:379e1ac4a02330a98e312ff3c6f7afb7@TeraNews.. .
Well when you have guys who believe they are at a high level
( whatever that is? ) and feel they are immortal, then when they fall
they fall pretty hard and realize mortality. Yes it is true. There
are guys with worse attitudes than Sam Sloan. Frightening indeed!

EZoto


You know Mig takes a lot of undue heat from player-haters and it's
pretty childish from what I've been reading. I've personally watched
Mig play casual games with other masters and I'll be DAMNED if anyone
is going to tell me he is sub-1900 strength. I watched him play a
series of blitz games against a 2400 IM and in nearly every game Mig
got the better position but lost on time.

I see. But, have you ever seen him actually win a game? I mean like
has it ever happened that his opponent extended his hand across the
board and said, "I resign".

You see, we in chess think that it does not matter much that a player
gets the better position in nearly game. What matters is whether the
player actually wins a few games.

Have you ever seen Mig win one?

Sam Sloan

"Sam Sloan" wrote in message
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On 30 Jul 2003 09:25:28 -0700, (FirebrandX)
wrote:

EZoto wrote in message
news:379e1ac4a02330a98e312ff3c6f7afb7@TeraNews.. .
Well when you have guys who believe they are at a high level
( whatever that is? ) and feel they are immortal, then when they fall
they fall pretty hard and realize mortality. Yes it is true. There
are guys with worse attitudes than Sam Sloan. Frightening indeed!

EZoto


You know Mig takes a lot of undue heat from player-haters and it's
pretty childish from what I've been reading. I've personally watched
Mig play casual games with other masters and I'll be DAMNED if anyone
is going to tell me he is sub-1900 strength. I watched him play a
series of blitz games against a 2400 IM and in nearly every game Mig
got the better position but lost on time.

I see. But, have you ever seen him actually win a game? I mean like
has it ever happened that his opponent extended his hand across the
board and said, "I resign".

You see, we in chess think that it does not matter much that a player
gets the better position in nearly game. What matters is whether the
player actually wins a few games.

Have you ever seen Mig win one?

In "Searching for Bobby Fischer," Fred Waitzkin relates a match of 1 minute
bullet games between (IM, IIRC) Victor Frias and an unnamed "weak master"
who played in a park in LA. Victor lost every game on time, often only a
couple of moves from checkmate. When Victor suggested increasing the time
to 75 seconds, the man refused.

Who was the stronger player, Sam?

--
Looney
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http://www.patzersprogress.com

Are you posting in order to gloat that Mig wasn't invited to join your
clique of friends?

(buh bye) wrote in message . com...
Mig wrote in message . ..
Mini-Mig is already taken, it's Alexander Shabalov! With our similarly
shaved heads we were doing the Dr. Evil little finger thing together
in Seattle at the US Championship but I don't think it was ever caught
on film. Probably for the best!

Saludos, Mig
http://www.chessninja.com



I was at the US Championships, and I delighted at how many of the
players shunned contact with Michael Greengard, who has just turned
into a complete ****. The only one who granted him some deference was
Nakamura, which is appropriate because the regulars dislike Nakamura
as much as they dislike Michael. I loved Sloan's analysis of
Michael's chess "strength." God I hope he's keeps playing so we can
continue to show him that only he believes he isn't a fishie.