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| Posted by kansaspatzer mailcafe.net 4/04/2008 23:27:21 Play online chess |  Subject: Chess tattoosMessage: I was wondering if anybody else had any or knew anybody who has any. I haven't come across anyone else but surely I'm not the only one. I know somebody who got a certain poker hand (Jack-Ten) tattooed on his arm. I feel that mine is less "tacky", although people approach mine with mixed results. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by ccmcacollister mailcafe.net 4/05/2008 22:10:44 Play online chess | NO ... Message: *** Seems like an interesting idea & your Knight looks good ... maybe more players will go in for it if they see yours. Doesn't seem tacky at all to me. Personally, I see it as expressive Art, like the game itself. Are you thinking of adding to the "set" ? }8-) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted by ionadowman mailcafe.net 4/06/2008 13:22:24 Play online chess | Let's see... Message: I hope i haven't sarted anything... ;-) Ion ——— Chess: The Year in Review — Chess again crossed paths with politics in 2011, with the most remarkable moment occurring in Tripoli, Libya, during the NATO bombing campaign against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the World Chess Federation president, flew to Libya in June and played Qaddafi. Ilyumzhinov had known the Libyan leader since at least 2004, and there was speculation that he was on a mission to try to end the war. The game ended in a draw, but the war continued. (Tripoli fell to the rebels two months later, and Qaddafi was killed in October.) Politics also shadowed an achievement by Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, an Iranian chess grandmaster who set a record in February by playing 614 people at ... Posted by kansaspatzer | mailcafe.net 4/10/2008 22:35:38 Play online chess Message: I do think that more players should get a chess tattoo. At the very least, it makes for an interesting conversation piece ——— Marc Lang catches the eye by breaking world blindfold record — When Miguel Najdorf played 45 chess games simultaneously blindfold in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1947 the exhibition took over 23 hours, including an interval for Najdorf to change his perspiration-soaked shirt and rest his eyes. Later the Hungarian Janos Flesch played 52 games without sight of the board, but his claim unravelled because many opponents resigned after a few moves, and it seemed that Najdorf's performance would never be approached. But last month a little-known 41-year-old 2300-rated German chess master, Marc Lang, toppled the record with 46 games in 21 hours. In previous years Lang set a German record, then broke George Koltanowski's historic European mark of 34 games played at ... Posted by tag1153 | mailcafe.net 4/11/2008 00:52:00 Play online chess Guilty........Message:  gameknot.com ——— The World Chess Hall of Fame — The World Chess Hall of Fame celebrated the 10th anniversary this month in a new location in St. Louis, Missouri. The history of the Hall and portraits of inducted chess players are available on the impressive web site. When it first opened in Miami in December 2001, I was inducted there together with five great chess players: the unofficial world chess champion Paul Morphy (1837-1884) and the official ones such as William Steinitz (1836-1900), Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941), José Raúl Capablanca (1888-1942) and Robert James Fischer (1943-2008). I shared the same birth city, Prague, with Steinitz and as fate would have it, we both ended up in America. "The decision of Lubomir Kavalek not to return home from a foreign chess ... Posted by wschmidt | mailcafe.net 4/11/2008 12:26:08 Play online chess how about...Message: ——— 2011 Year in Review — And what a year it has been! 2011 started with St. Louis’ own Hikaru Nakamura winning the 2011 Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Holland, against the world’s best chess players. It was the biggest tournament victory for an American since Bobby Fischer, and his performance catapulted him to No. 7 in the world chess rankings. Although he has experienced some ups and downs this year, Hikaru is currently holding onto the No. 10 spot in the world and is looking forward to an exciting 2012. World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen, who turned 21 in December, proved he is worthy of his top spot as he turned in solid performance after solid performance all year. He is steadily climbing toward Gary Kasparov’s peak rating of 2851 and ... Posted by eqj2 | mailcafe.net 4/11/2008 14:03:03 Play online chess ????????Message: ——— Shooting the chess rapids for the holiday season — The holidays are traditionally a season of hustle and bustle, so what better time is there for holding a major rapid chess championship? Georgian GM Baadur Jobava emerged as the new European rapid chess champion, topping a high-powered field this month with a 9-2 score in Warsaw. Once something of a curiosity, the rapid Game/25 format is now firmly ensconced in international play, with the faster time control often leading to more combative and aggressive play while allowing an entire continent to hold an 11-round championship tournament over the course of a long three-day weekend. While not as chaotic (and random) as faster blitz chess play can be, rapid is clearly a different animal than chess played at ... Posted by ionadowman | mailcafe.net 4/11/2008 14:20:18 Play online chess Wha' hoppen??Message: Curious... Posted by tag1153 | mailcafe.net 4/11/2008 19:17:38 Play online chess eh?Message: ion - ???? huh?????? The knight tat is about 3 years old....i got it after my first 4/4 performance OTB.....I have a few others as well, but surely will be banned for posting them:) Posted by chessnovice | mailcafe.net 4/11/2008 19:21:53 Play online chess ...Message: I'm sure he meant to link to his own profile: gameknot.com Posted by eqj2 | mailcafe.net 4/11/2008 22:55:04 Play online chess YepMessage: Posted by heinzkat | mailcafe.net 4/12/2008 03:24:13 Play online chess Does anyone else have a...Message: Posted by ogedei | mailcafe.net 4/12/2008 11:46:01 Play online chess Message: Posted by chessnovice | mailcafe.net 4/12/2008 13:07:02 Play online chess ...Message: The only kind of tattoo I've considered getting is something along the lines that Tyler Florence (from Food Network) got. He says his favorite is this tattooed script that he got from a Buddhist monk. It sounds cool. But then I figured that the ink probably has some kind of metal in it. If I ever have to undergo an MRI, I'd rather it be as painless as possible. Posted by kansaspatzer | mailcafe.net 4/12/2008 15:26:54 Play online chess Message: j/k. I like Gameknot, but not THAT much. Posted by wschmidt | mailcafe.net 4/13/2008 16:42:17 Play online chess My stepson is a tattoo artist Message: * That was a few days ago. He came home from work yesterday and said someone had come in and asked for a large pawn on his back. Interesting timing and interesting choice of images. * And actually, this thread has got me thinking..... |