" Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a Single Moment --- the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is " from Jorge Luis Borges.
Chess for Oldtimers --- Good Idea !
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Oct 29, 2018
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#2123
I figure I played this one pretty well for a 62-year-old. Apparently I'm not senile yet!
Oct 29, 2018
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#2124
Did you know it was book until your improvement on Move 28, Mr. Stewart, or did you discover this subsequently? If the former, then you only had to make 5 moves, which should still be within a 62 year old's capabilities. 
But seriously, I did like the game and your entertaining annotations.
Oct 29, 2018
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#2125
Yes, I knew we were following a game by IM Sznapik, and I had my "opening improvement" 28. ... Kc5 ready (although I only found that move after the game had started but before we passed move 10).
It's not often that you see an opening improvement that involves putting your King on the fourth rank!
Oct 29, 2018
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#2126
That is a great quote from Jorge Luis Borges, Ralph. Actually, the work of fiction by Sherwood Anderson known as Winesburg, Ohio personifies this quote in the existential encounters of each character with their loneliness and inability to communicate their deepest feelings in this masterpiece.
Nov 4, 2018
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#2128
I quite like this item from Madeleine L'Engle: " The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. "
The forgotten years...
Nov 4, 2018
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#2130
Yes, Ralph, but tell that to someone with Alzheimer's. That is my greatest fear, a sort of death in life, but both my parents maintained their mental faculties up to their passing in their 80s, and my living paternal aunt and maternal uncle, both in the 90s, are still sharp. ... Did I tell you my aunt and uncle are still sharp? Perhaps that's not so ... ahhhhhh ... funny.
If i should ever have it,I hope I find the joy of rediscovery
Nov 4, 2018
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#2133
Looking on the bright side, ey Larry? Perhaps it's another universe, so to speak, that is if you don't get violent and make it tough on the loved ones around you. Perhaps it's always worse for those around you because in the late stages you are in your own universe with just a narrow tunnel -- a wormhole for all you astronomy lovers -- into this one. That's the way I imagine it.
Never having had fits of anger or violent tendencies,I don't forsee that occurring.
I hope that I don't lose my sense of humor tho! 
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I hope I never lose my sense of humor tho!
Nov 4, 2018
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#2137
Waiting (2005) doesn't get a great rating on IMDb, but that's a funny scene. Thanks, Al.
no need to thank me, fighter. i just happened to remember the scene due to the conversation.
to your comment about rating, there are some popular, enduring movies that weren't taken well when first released.
(i think waiting is a funny flick)
yrral, i hope that joke isn't over everyone's head!
Thanks for all of the new posts.