..
BTW, I am fully aware that Fritz can easily refute all my analysis here,
but
that is beside the point, for he *is* using a chessboard, while I am not.
Try
smearing PB&J all over your Fritz install disk, and then let him compete
with my unrivalled blindfold analysis skills....


Okay, I just realized that my "brilliant try," Bd3, is illegal, because White
has not yet advanced his e-pawn. Had Fritz done this sort of thing, he
undoubtedly would have tried to blame the cdrom drive for letting a little PB%J
muck-up his install process.


You got a point there. I'd like to see someone play g4 against Fritz
or CM. You get a lost position by force.


I wonder what sort of "book" lines are programmed into them? I mean, do
they try to follow the "main lines," as determined by pathetic humans, or did
the programmers decide that they (Fritz or CM) could best "take care of
themselves" against such inferior slop? Heck, why am I asking you, when I can
just take the install disk back out of my dishwasher, and pop it in for a
look-see....

On 18 Apr 2004 04:40:15 GMT, eepmeep (John
Fernandez) wrote:

At 06:14 PM 4/17/2004, Sam Sloan wrote:
I never said that Anna Hahn was not a strong player. She is a strong
player. You are a strong player. I am a strong player. We are all strong
players.

I think it is quite offensive to Anna Hahn to put her in the same category
as myself. Of course, to include yourself is quite arrogant, and offensive
to me! Get over 2000 again, get a FIDE rating, and then we'll talk.

Why not? Your rating is less than 100 points below her's and as you
correctly point out you had a better result than she did at Foxwoods
except for the fact that you dropped out before the end. (Why did you
do that?)

As to your claim that I am not a strong player, I can point you to one
million chess players that I can beat blindfolded. Does that not make
me a strong player?

After all you've claimed I have no GM draws (I now have 7, I think?) and
said I had never gotten a performance over 2280 I think. My performance in
Foxwoods was over 2350 FIDE, even though your statement was false well
before then.

When did I say that? Again you lie. I never said that you have no GM
draws. I am aware that you have a number of draws against
grandmasters. You even beat my son twice. However, I am not aware of
you ever beating a grandmaster.

But everything is relative. Dashze Sharavdorj is a weak player, a weak GM.
Compared to most GMs he is a weak player. His USCF rating after this
tournament will be 2480. That makes him weaker than almost every other GM.
He is still strong compare to you and me, however.

I wouldn't knock Sharavorj too much. He's still a GM and beating one is hard.

What's offensive is calling her performance there the "tournament of her
life" when it certainly wasn't.

John Fernandez keeps making things up. I never said that Foxwoods was
the "tournament of her life". It certainly was not. Her USCF rating
was 2352 in 1997. That is higher than her performance rating at
Foxwoods. Therefore, most of her tournaments back then must have been
better than her result at Foxwoods.

I did say that her result in Foxwoods was her best result in a few
years. That is undoubtedly true. Otherwise, how could her rating have
dropped from 2352 to 2215 in the last seven years?

I did not know that you had had a sex change operation. We should both do
that. Then we can both play on the Woman's Olympiad team. However, I will
have to work on and improve my Diamiano's and Spike first, so I can get my
rating up.

Uh, no thanks. I'm just trying to refute your point that Goletiani is a
good player because she played 5 GM/IM players. She's a strong player. But
she didn't show that she's infinitely stronger than Anna, and you know
what, she didn't show was stronger than Anna at all, in Foxwoods.

Personally, I like Anna's 9 US Championships, Olympiad experience and FIDE KO
experience. Goletiani doesn't have any of those things, yet.

Any time you compare an older declining player to a younger improving
player you can show a lot of results from years ago where the older
player achieved results that the younger player has not yet done.

However, Goletiani won the world championship for her age group three
times. Nobody in all of chess history has done that. Also, Goletiani
was not allowed to compete for four years from 2000 to 2004 because of
the stupid USCF rules as interpreted by Tom Brownscombe. In 2000,
Goletiani qualified to play a match for the Woman's World Chess
Championship but she could not leave the US to compete because she
could not get advance parole from the INS. (Funny thing. The man in
charge of advance parole at the INS is a rated chess expert who was at
Foxwoods. Too bad that he could not let Goletiani go to India to play
for the world championship.) The fact that Anna Hahn played in the US
Woman's Championship 9 times back when a 2100 rating was good enough
to get in the US Championship does not mean much compared to the fact
that when Goletiani was nine years old she won the Soviet Under-12
Championship finished 4th in the World Championship for Under-12 at
Fon du Lac, Wisconsin.

What is unfortunate is that Anna Hahn's rating has been declining
while she is still a very young woman. Looking at her rating chart and
seeing that she has declined more than one hundred points in seven
years, one would assume that she is much older than she actually is. I
imagine that her fuill time job at Goldman Sachs while the other top
women are essentially professional chess players has a lot to do with
this.

Are you sure about that? Can you name another GM that Anna Hahn has ever
defeated?

Sure. Fedorowicz. Goletiani has no GM wins in Mega 2004, although I'm sure
they are out there.

Anna Hahn earned the right to play in the 2004 US Championship. That will
be held in June, 2004. The winner of that tournament earns the right to
play in the 2005 US Championship. Of course, of AF4C is willing to pay the
money so that both the 2003 US Woman's Champion and the 2004 US Woman's
Champion are allowed to play in the 2005 Championship, then I am sure that
the USCF will not object. However, are you certain that AF4C has agreed to
this??

Sam Sloan

Yes. I am certain. If this wasn't the case, she would have been the woman's
qualifier from Foxwoods.

John Fernandez

She would have had to pay $75 in advance.

Sam Sloan

Chess One wrote:

snip

.....
How can any person in a demanding profession afford this much
preparation time?

Tush! I doubt what she does for a crust (sorry, make that cake) can
accurately be described as a profession. Any idea what exactly she does
do btw?..

Sam Sloan wrote:

nip

It was not until many years later that I obtained the books by Grob
and Bloodgood. I found those books to be useless to me because their
opponents were all weak players. Most of the opponents were all Class
B and Class C players. Not one game was against a master in either
book. By that time, I had defeated many masters with 1.g4 and so the
books by Grob and Basman were useless to me.

I still have never seen Bill Wall's book but I am sure that it must be
much better.

....

Ah yes! The Definitive Grob by S. Sloan - a 'must' for my xmas
stocking..

"michael adams" wrote in message
...
Chess One wrote:

snip

....
How can any person in a demanding profession afford this much
preparation time?

Tush! I doubt what she does for a crust (sorry, make that cake) can
accurately be described as a profession. Any idea what exactly she does
do btw?..

Heuch yourself! She is a financier and earns over $100,00 per year.

PS: Crust is okay, some us speak Strain, Stritch.

NoMoreChess wrote:

.
Didn't Anand try a ...g5 in a variation of the Petroff against of all
people Kasparov? Maybe the shock value is whats important. Then
again no one is playing that goofy line anymore.

Sounds reasonable to me -- if Anand wins, it is because he is a highly
"original" genius.

...

Y'know sumpthing 'no mo'? - I don't believe this beastie (highly
"original" genius) is logically possible. Pls. be more circumspect when
employing gross exaggeration in my presence. Thankyou for your time &
consideration..






And if he loses, it must be because he is playing Kasparov.
Plus Garry wil sit there for half an hour, trying to recall his in-depth,
pre-game preparation for that line. :-)

Sam Sloan insists that he doesn't play 4.g5, because he can't think of a good
move after 4....h6, threatening to open the h-file for Black's Rook. Yet,
despite the fact that I have never once played the Grob (unless you count
offhand, blitz games), I have no trouble at all coming up with a good reply,
even blindfolded (which is to say, I am definitely NOT using a chessboard):
5.g6?!! fg!?? 6.Bd3?!!? ...Bf5!??! 7.Bxf5!?!^! ...gxf5 (forced), 8.e4!?!?
And now: ...fxe4??! 9.Qh5+, etc. / Or if ...dxe4, there could follow 9.Qh5+
...Kd7, 10. Qxf5+, etc., with "reasonable" compensation. In other words, what
is "reasonable" depends on the player -- and any player who likes the Grob....
:-)

BTW, I am fully aware that Fritz can easily refute all my analysis here, but
that is beside the point, for he *is* using a chessboard, while I am not. Try
smearing PB&J all over your Fritz install disk, and then let him compete with
my unrivalled blindfold analysis skills.... :-)

Chess One wrote:

"michael adams" wrote in message
...
Chess One wrote:

snip

....
How can any person in a demanding profession afford this much
preparation time?

Tush! I doubt what she does for a crust (sorry, make that cake) can
accurately be described as a profession. Any idea what exactly she does
do btw?..

Heuch yourself! She is a financier and earns over $100,00 per year.

You missed a zero, methinks. I see, she's a 'financier' is she. Does
that mean she goes around financing things with other peoples money?..

N. Leeson.


PS: Crust is okay, some us speak Strain, Stritch.