It's too bad about Fiveofswords...

Well, that's the same as not being here, in my view.  I never said or thought he'd been booted.  If he'd just "man up" and admit that he'd lied I'm sure all would be forgiven...

                                     I AM STILL WAITING ...

He might be immune-- generally the bigger the font people use against me, the more fun I find it to ignore. 

Well, I will give him a few days to provide the " various forum posts " he claims I made in which I said he never played Reshevsky and if he doesnt then all will know he's simply telling a bald faced lie......

Which thread is this?

The easy way to prove your OTB rating is to put a link to it in your profile. If anyone can be bothered checking my profile, i have put my rating and a link to the official ECF site, with my name and official rating. Nobody has ever told me i wasnt the rating i say i am :)

"Nobody has ever told me i wasnt the rating i say i am :)"

Be fair, who is going to argue with Charlie Bronson's tougher-looking big brother?

 It's all relative.

Uh oh watch out when you get tonydal and Reb coming at you together it's like harmonic convergence.  There will either be peaceful coexistence or bloodshed (followed by peaceful coexistence).  Tread lightly spammers, liars, trolls and fools of all stripes...

Just started following this today.  What is it with all the slander about FiveofSwords being a "liar".  Just read the original thread (D Class vs. GM? What's a guy to do?)  On April 9,  FiveofSwords says he's around 2300 in 'strength' but qualifies that, saying he doesn't ever actually go to tournaments, but plays titled friends a lot.  Then FirebrandX immediately finds out FiveofSwords' last rated tournament was six years ago when he was 1559.  So, no lies here.  He admitted he didn't go to tournaments.  Nevertheless FirebrandX has some tortured logic as to how swords could not possibly be 2300 by now.  Then there isn't a single commment on that thread for nearly two months, when NM Reb comes back to it to say he discovered Five of Swords just played in a tournament in the under 1600 group and didn't win. So two months after his original comment, FiveofSwords goes to a tournament - his first in over six years.  Why did he elect to play in the under 1600 class? Who knows, perhaps the same reason SoCal and Texas schedule cream puffs early in their schedule each season. But anyway when is the NM Reb - FiveofSwords match to be played at chess.com.  We all want to see that.

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Wait a minute - if his rating 6 years ago was 1559 would he have to play in the under 1600 group.

Actually, his rank was C class, and his performance rating for his last tournament was C class as well.

It would require a tortured logic to declare he was 2300.

OK, maybe not quite "tortured logic".  NM Reb and FiveOfSwords need to play a game here though that we can watch.  Why can't that happen.

Even better, let them meet otb when Reb moves back to Georgia in a few months and put a camera on the board. From there to youtube.

I don't think either one of them would cheat.  So why not online here.  It could have been live and monitored by everyone under Live Chess 1.0, but that's long gone of course.

FYI - To overestimate or err is not synonymous with lying.  Lying generally means to intentionally deceive when you know the facts to be different than what you have portrayed.  There is no evidence of that here.  Am I splitting hairs to say lets not label the guy before 1.5 million viewers as a "liar".  And I find it incredible that you believe him to be an actual "liar" who is probably capable of cheating but you still wish he was around.

i excel at lying

Saying you're 2300 is beyond overestimating. Either he is mentally handicapped or a liar. I'm going with the latter.

"I have many friends with are titled players and I play with them a lot." I mean, seriously, how many people on Chess.com can back up this claim? Probably only a few handfuls, i.e. IM Pruess and IM Rensch, etc.

Gotta love the guy's advice though. The best way to beat a GM is to shoot yourself in the foot and sac a piece. This way, you'll be unpredictable and win. I mean, seriously, I can see piece-sacing intensions from weaker players coming a mile a way. I'm sure the eyes of a GM are about 10x better.

Other 5ofswords favorites of mine:

So I uh in this tournament I'm playing I drew against this 1500 guy and I'm pretty bummed because I know for a fact all my moves were spectacular because the computer loved them all.

I realized [insert move] could have been a mistake, but I analyzed it and found that it contained no errors . . . (fast forward 5 turns later) . . . so I know [said move] is perfect, but I just missed this one continuation from my opponent that makes the game a likely draw, but of course no one can be expected to see such things. It is beyond the realm of human comprehension.

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Seriously, what engine on the market will approve of moves that lead to draws against untitled players? GMs aren't afraid of engines for nothing.

Who cares what he says his rating is.