Chess for Oldtimers --- Good Idea !

I had no idea he was ill, but he had suffered a stroke and hadn't played since 2012.  I agree with Leonard Barden who said he was "the greatest player never to have been world champion."  Fischer thought he was one of the strongest Soviets, and his longevity was remarkable.

Thanks for letting us know, badenwurtca.  There is a nice retrospective on the man at ChessBase, complete with photos.

(pulp fiction reference)

I didn't get it either because I've never seen the film, Pulp Fiction.  Though I love film as an art form, I could care less about Quentin Tarantino.  I'll take the works of the man who influenced him, the director Sam Fuller, any day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lvAIuJAn3w

Thanks for the posts.   ---   A little item from George Clemenceau: " When a man asks himself what is meant by Action, he proves he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. "  

   ---   Thanks for the nice post AlCzervik. I've been interested in history since I first started in school ( boy was that a long time ago   lol ).  

That's an excellent quote, badenwurtca.  I used the word "character" as in a man's character and integrity and my next door neighbor's girlfriend said it depends on what you mean by character.  I knew that woman lacked any ... well ... character, and she was trouble to boot.

one doesn't have to be an an admirer or care less about filmmakers to recognize good work. i'm not the biggest fan of tarantino, but, pulp fiction is on the list of great films, if, for nothing else, the recognizable sayings that some use in everyday language.

and, that's what at least two of tarantino's movies had-dialogue.

I agree about Tarantino's dialogue, at least in the film I saw, Reservoir Dogs.

Thanks for the posts.

A cute item from the one and only Groucho: " I'm not feeling very well, I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course ."  

The incomparable Groucho.  Now there was a Marx I could believe in, along with his talented brothers.  He always made me laugh, him and W.C. Fields.  Loved Keaton and Chaplin from the silent era too.  They don't make them like that anymore.

W.C.Fields:

If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

Somebody's been putting pineapple juice in my pineapple juice!

Hi, Mil, we haven't heard from you in awhile.  Thanks for the humorous W.C. Fields quotes.  I always get kick out of this "diner scene" from Never Give a Sucker an Even Break.  The screenplay was based on an original story written by Fields.

---   Thanks for the nice new posts.

Since we are not Magnus Carlsen we are forbidden to have an opinion on anything. Singing, writing, doing anything out of the ordinary, other than meditation, in church obviously, for some 40 years, will be regarded as insanity. 

Waitress, enraged:  "Baloney Mahoney Malarky! Ya big Kabloona!"

Fields (softly to self):  " 'Kabloona'?'.... I haven't been called that for ..... two days..."

 (lovely)

fields: i'm going to play poker.

sweet young thing: Isn't that a game of chance?

fields: Not the way I play it.

I needed a good laugh, Steve.  Thanks.

glad you liked it Bob, one of my favorites from mr. fields.  comedy was so different back then, it didn't have to be off color to be funny.  to this day i can still laugh at a 3 stooges skit. 

one in particular i think of often while playing chess.  moe was berating curley and his reply was

"i try to think,  but nothing happens."

i'm sure more than one opponent of mine wondered why i was smiling as they were kicking my butt.