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  • 5 weeks ago · Quote · #361

    richie_and_oprah

    and if we going by single games, then i'm gonna hang my own hat on the one win i have against igor ivanov (in rated uscf game standard time controls) when he was actually rated 2710 (uscf)

    of course, he took one look at my rating and went to the bar before the game and blundered on the black side of a milner barry attack, but a win is a win

    Smile

     

  • 5 weeks ago · Quote · #362

    AndyClifton

    Yes, Duchamp was master strength.  He played in Olympiads, and (as I recall) once drew Alekhine.

    Did Kubrick ever play in Olympiads?  Or even tournaments?  Just sounds like more hearsay to me...

  • 5 weeks ago · Quote · #363

    richie_and_oprah

    stanley was a prodigy, photographic memory, master stegonographer, and would have been a gm had he put in 20,000 hours and played tournaments

    of this i have zero doubt 

  • 5 weeks ago · Quote · #364

    AndyClifton

    Well, glad to hear you did better against I Ivanov than I did.  He read the paper the whole time during our game (and then refused to go over it with me afterwards).

  • 5 weeks ago · Quote · #365

    AndyClifton

    richie_and_oprah wrote:

    stanley was a prodigy, photographic memory, master stegonographer, and would have been a gm had he put in 20,000 hours and played tournaments

    of this i have zero doubt 

    lol...Well, I think he could've been a forest ranger!  Or a fireman!

  • 5 weeks ago · Quote · #366

    richie_and_oprah

    igor was a real trip ... if i had  lit a match near him during our game i think the entire hotel would have gone up in flames

    also, he was quite a pianist 

  • 5 weeks ago · Quote · #367

    richie_and_oprah

    AndyClifton wrote:
    richie_and_oprah wrote:

    stanley was a prodigy, photographic memory, master stegonographer, and would have been a gm had he put in 20,000 hours and played tournaments

    of this i have zero doubt 

    lol...Well, I think he could've been a forest ranger!  Or a fireman!

    you coulda been a contenda!

  • 5 weeks ago · Quote · #368

    AndyClifton

    richie_and_oprah wrote:

    igor was a real trip ... if i had  lit a match near him during our game i think the entire hotel would have gone up in flames

    also, he was quite a pianist 

    He was once reportedly so drunk during a game that he poured a thermos of hot coffee into his hand...without putting the cup there first. Smile

  • 5 weeks ago · Quote · #369

    AndyClifton

    richie_and_oprah wrote:
    you coulda been a contenda!

    Yeah, but I can't, because I'm just a bum.  And a puppethead.

  • 5 weeks ago · Quote · #370

    richie_and_oprah

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC2rJuOgrw4

  • 5 weeks ago · Quote · #371

    richie_and_oprah

    btw, how is witchie poo these days?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06R80-I8tcI 

  • 5 weeks ago · Quote · #372

    AndyClifton

    A lot better since she got rid of all that damned makeup:

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