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This week on "One Life to Get"...
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Actually, I was hoping more stuff was gonna be happening...but I'll go ahead and give it a shot anyway:
Firepower, alone in his wizard's laboratory, makes an astounding discovery: that the people of chess.com do indeed resemble their avatars. It is a notion which can only fill members like corrijean with delight, but unfortunately is not exactly tidings of great joy for the rest of us. In other news, woodshover is amazed to be informed that chess talent is just so much pixie dust, while the fine citizens of Plainview get ready to rumble.
Will "keres with a 'y'" ever get his sixth queen? Will jan2 ever stop smoking that stuff? Will we ever have live tourneys? All these questions and more may be answered (maybe) in the next spellbinding (Maroczy-binding?) episode of "One Life to Get"...
Nov 12, 2011
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Great thread you have going here AndyClifton ! Reminds me of " The Edge Of Wetness " that the late Johnny Carson had going on his TV show, please keep the thread going !
winnersp develops a remarkable new system to instill profound chess insight, which he quickly christens Diagrammetics. Although it looks superficially merely like a series of numbers scribbled over a chessboard, on closer inspection it becomes...well, a series of numbers scribbled over a chessboard. He soon decides that it is not merely The Modern Science of Chess but is in fact a bona fide religion; he retreats to his yacht somewhere in mid-ocean and awaits the end of the world (which, for so his diagrams assure him, will take place sometime next year, precisely as the Mayans have foreordained).
Meanwhile, jetfighter hangs out with a few old haunts, flags takes advantage of an extended photo opportunity to practice being a corpse, and CHESS.COM, a "nice friendly" organization which has no use whatsoever for "mean people," sends one of their help-wanted notices to...ME! 
In other news...renumeratedfrog continues his series of incisive (if somewhat improbable) queries, goldendog tells The Guy With The Goal to "Get serious" about joking around, kco's sisters display their lavish collection of unwrapped cigarette filters, and BF72 leaves the arid wastes of Plainview behind him for a country (and a leader) far more suitable to his style.
At the risk of being 'blocked' for, whatever, a couple of questions for Andy- 1, The photo, the photo! -who, when, what, why? and 2, Where can I meet the mean people? Please! Oh, and 3, What sort of a rumble left Plainview an arid waste?(and where can I get some!)
Details Andy, I need the details ! (ps Don't ever let those Extreme Makeover people near you again!) -lol.(whatever that might mean)
Actually, this is how I looked before the makeover:
Definitely not in Kansas anymore...
Tonight on BBChess1:
An absorbing discussion on the intricacies of the following opening system: 1 e4 c6 2 Nf3 c5.
Tonight on BBChess2:
Tonight on BBChess3:
Our analyst earnestly solicits viewers' opinions:
And then tells anyone foolish enough to respond what he really thinks of their views:
Yep, it's just another typical week on the Chess.com forums...
Nov 20, 2011
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Well since we haven't had any major crimes yet on this fun little Soap-opera thread I think that I should steal that great photo of Doctor McCoy for my Star Trek thread ( Grand Theft McCoy, a new type of felony lol ).
This week sloughterchess moseys back into town, accompanied by his ever-faithful pet, Fritz. Two more callow souls fall under his mysterious spell as he sets out to solve opening questions which have lain dormant (and largely uninteresting) for well over a century. Watch as sloughter rides his boat up a creek among the many tortuous byways of long-forgotten theory...determined more than ever to partie like it's 1899.
Meanwhile, GambitKing also reportedly crawls out of the woodwork; members wax rhapsodic while uncorking a torrent of favo[u]rite things; a list from watchdog organization CMIBU inexplicably has its plug pulled in midseason, only to resurface in substantially the same form on another network; and LOUDY, alarmed by a recent assault on the fine citizens of Elk Grove, unleashes the ultimate threat, one guaranteed to strike terror into the hearts of the entire third grade.
(Being a periodic recap of recent events in the soap-operaish quasi-world of chess.com)...
theoreticalboy is chagrined to discover that all of his mental problems & stuff have been enumerated by a psychologist of rare discernment for all the world to see (well, the forums anyway). Meanwhile, AndyClifton, that bane of millions, or maybe thousands (okay, dozens), is called out by a 9-year-old with a chip on his shoulder bigger than his last homework assignment, who's been harboring this grudge for even longer than recess.
In other news, hallo1 finally becomes the hero of his own never-ending story (which is good) but somehow seems to keep coming up against zombie chicken legs (which is not so good). Additionally, some people still refuse to resign, Kasparov achieves a draw in play (or non-play) against Fischer yet again, and erik finally gets down to his fighting weight.
(More updates as they occur...like for example if anyone here actually ever does manage to get a life.)