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The guy with Karpov, Vitaly Sevastianov, is the famous cosmonaut-turned-chess functionary.
I don't know, Sarah, those cards look marked to me. Or it could be my own paranoia after being in Tombstone earlier this year. But I don't think Doc Holliday would have thought very highly of them.
And in chess, going postal has an entirely different meaning.
Ha!
What a coincidence. I found the ad in the Tombstone Epitaph under the heading "Best Chess in the West."
I hope you had a good time out there and avoided Boot Hill...and the Crystal Palace Saloon.
I was only a visitor at Boot Hill, so I was able to walk out, unlike the residents there. It's strange how many people drowned out there in the desert. I was drinking shots of Old Overholt rye whiskey, which the bartender said was Doc Holliday's favorite, in Big Nose Kate's Saloon, which was Doc's favorite bar (and partner). It was a weird feeling doing shots in the same place as all those guys involved in the OK Corral fight, I almost felt like taking some cap-gun pistols and start shooting them at the ceiling. And there's a couple of places in town where you can get a buffalo burger, my favorite burger. It's "touristy" like Gettysburg but a lot smaller and you really notice walking on the wooden sidewalks.
BTW, in that picture of Mr and Mrs Karpov, there's some woman on Karpov's arm, and not his wife, Florencio Campomanes. Just thought I'd clear that up.
Did you drift along with the tumbling tumbleweeds?
I wonder what the Earp brothers drank?
I'm more a veggie burger type cowgirl.
It sounds like a good time.
dashkee94 wrote:
BTW, in that picture of Mr and Mrs Karpov, there's some woman on Karpov's arm, and not his wife, Florencio Campomanes. Just thought I'd clear that up.
She is his bride, Irina Kuimova. (Ирина Куимова)
I found some pages for this name on google, but seems tobe another girl with the same name.
For Irina Kuimova Karpov, there are a lot of pics.
This seems to be a recent photo. I can't find the date for it.
Pan_troglodites wrote:
dashkee94 wrote:
BTW, in that picture of Mr and Mrs Karpov, there's some woman on Karpov's arm, and not his wife, Florencio Campomanes. Just thought I'd clear that up.
She is his bride, Irina Kuimova. (Ирина Куимова)
I found some pages for this name on google, but seems tobe another girl with the same name.
For Irina Kuimova Karpov, there are a lot of pics.
This seems to be a recent photo. I can't find the date for it.
Dashkee94 was making a joke. The photo you found is that of Karpov's second wife, Natalia Bulanova
batgirl wrote:
Chess by mail was once a big thing.
I played chess by mail in the late-1970s early 1980s, and then again 1996-2002. Then email. In 2003, I started playing correspondence chess on websites like this one (most other sites have fewer qualms about calling it what it is).
Websites transmit data (like postcards) and store it for you (postcards required a separate storage media).
Ziryab wrote:
batgirl wrote:
Chess by mail was once a big thing.
I played chess by mail in the late-1970s early 1980s, and then again 1996-2002. Then email. In 2003, I started playing correspondence chess on websites like this one (most other sites have fewer qualms about calling it what it is).
Websites transmit data (like postcards) and store it for you (postcards required a separate storage media).
Nice to see I am not the only old school c.c.player here. The days of a wallet full of postage stamps and Blue airmail envelopes. Happy days!
simaginfan wrote:
Ziryab wrote:
batgirl wrote:
Chess by mail was once a big thing.
I played chess by mail in the late-1970s early 1980s, and then again 1996-2002. Then email. In 2003, I started playing correspondence chess on websites like this one (most other sites have fewer qualms about calling it what it is).
Websites transmit data (like postcards) and store it for you (postcards required a separate storage media).
Nice to see I am not the only old school c.c.player here. The days of a wallet full of postage stamps and Blue airmail envelopes. Happy days!
Does anyone still play postal chess?
Online "turn-based chess," as we used to call it, or "Daily Chess" here, is similar in many ways, but I imagine postal chess involved more of a ritual, something that must have been an intrinsic part of the experience, that is missing in turned-based chess. Plus, since it also involved certain costs, the contestants most likely took each game more seriously.
My main ritual when playing postal chess was spending an inordinate amount of time looking at the position in my Post-a-Log, or even on a physical board. In the opening, there was considerable research of opening books and game collections. Often I would play out and record possible lines while deciding on a move. Each move was the result of several days consideration.
I still do this with online correspondence, but the Post-a-Log has been replaced by database software.
I'm thinking postal players did set up a board, maybe even kept several boards set up, then using whatever processes to determine a move and recording one's ideas, filled in the post card or whatever one used, put on a stamp, took to the post office or mailbox.... it's all seems very involved and probably ritualistic. Such rituals tend to become gratifying in their own right, but minimally add something to the whole experience. It's far different than making three clicks with a mouse, then going to then next game which, I suspect is what a majority of people do (more like a quick bite of fast food as opposed to dining in a fine restaurant0. I never played postal chess, but that's my impression.
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