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I guess it's decided then! Chess.com finally has a question for kurogkug. What a historic moment. Please kurogkug, enlighten us about the Barangay.
BorgQueen wrote:
See I thought that question was already answered... what a n00b I am!
That's where you go wrong, BorgQueen. In this thread... no question is ever answered (evil grin).
Haha... but I feel it is time to turn the tables on kurogkug. However he seems to disregard all the semi-off topic posts...
modernchess wrote:
BorgQueen wrote:
See I thought that question was already answered... what a n00b I am!
That's where you go wrong, BorgQueen. In this thread... no question is ever answered (evil grin).
It's the ultimate information paradox!
Questions can appear to be answered, sometimes for a long time. But eventually, when you least suspect it, kurogkug will come back asking the meaning of strategically position and waiting to your answer.
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tonydal wrote:
God, I hate the Doors...
Don't you be ragging on Abba though, kco, they're truly great! And hey, CCR anyone...?
Check out a latterday cool (and unlikely) song by Kiss: "New York Groove."
CCR is good, but the Doors . . . are classic.
Man! That's like saying Dos Passos was good, but Grisham...classic.
I didn't think anybody still liked the doors after they had grown up.
Wow, there is so much wrong with that comment. First of all, who wants to grow up?
Second of all, CCR relies on one really interesting voice. The Doors actually write some pretty good music for guitar and keyboard. And they also have good vocals, for a different genre.
As for Dos Passos, I haven't read his stuff, but I've heard it compared to Hemingway, so if that's a fair comparison, I guess I'm pretty impressed.
And hey, I like Grisham. I mean, I wouldn't choose to read his books over something really good. But they're still fun to read.
I don't think anybody wants to grow up. Unfortunately, some folks are forced to. Luckily, I'm not one of the poor suckers!
You're right, though, that analogy wasn't great. It would have been much more appropriate had you advocated the doors as classic, and Woody Guthrie as merely good. CCR is no Dos Passos;)
Dos Passos is only compared to Hemmingway because they were contemporaries and had similar experiences during the Great War. As far as writing style, they are night and day. Hemmingway wrote sparse narrative and was really much more skilled as a short story writer. Dos Passos' writing was extremely layered, descriptive, and subtle. The novel was his canvas.
thank you borgqueen,i have another question ''my brother in law teach me where side im gonna castle,he said that if my opponent castle in the king side i have to castle in my queen side because its much easy to me to attack the king side of my opponent where he or she castle himself or herself,so did my brother in law is right or wrong?''.my 2nd question is ''i notice that everytime i watch a grandmaster game they pretty much castle themselves[both of them]in the king side,and its not often in their queenside,so why?''.i wait again to your response borgqueen.
BorgQueen wrote:
kurogkug wrote:my brother in law teach me where side im gonna castle,he said that if my opponent castle in the king side i have to castle in my queen side because its much easy to me to attack the king side of my opponent where he or she castle himself or herself,so did my brother in law is right or wrong?
Your brother-in-law is wrong. If you castle the same side as your opponent, the game is generally quieter. If you castle opposite side to your opponent, both players are in a race to attack the king and the game is usually fiery and vicious.
Huh, so why wouldn't his brother in law be right in saying that it is much easier to attack then?
BorgQueen wrote:
contrapunctus wrote:
BorgQueen wrote:
kurogkug wrote:my brother in law teach me where side im gonna castle,he said that if my opponent castle in the king side i have to castle in my queen side because its much easy to me to attack the king side of my opponent where he or she castle himself or herself,so did my brother in law is right or wrong?
Your brother-in-law is wrong. If you castle the same side as your opponent, the game is generally quieter. If you castle opposite side to your opponent, both players are in a race to attack the king and the game is usually fiery and vicious.
Huh, so why wouldn't his brother in law be right in saying that it is much easier to attack then?
So you agree with the red then?
Well I don't agree with it 100% but I do to a certain extent (hey I'm a poet and I didn't know it). Not that I am a good player by any means I do agree that it is easier to attack in opposite side castling since you can simply ram the pawns down in a now or never fashion. I don't however agree to the word if my opponent castle in the king side i "have" to castle in my queen side Of course this is a generalisation.
modernchess wrote:
...However he seems to disregard all the semi-off topic posts...
...and half the on-topic posts.
tonydal wrote:
bigpoison wrote:
You're right, though, that analogy wasn't great. It would have been much more appropriate had you advocated the doors as classic, and Woody Guthrie as merely good. CCR is no Dos Passos;)
Dos Passos is only compared to Hemmingway because they were contemporaries and had similar experiences during the Great War. As far as writing style, they are night and day. Hemmingway wrote sparse narrative and was really much more skilled as a short story writer. Dos Passos' writing was extremely layered, descriptive, and subtle. The novel was his canvas.
OK, we are off in some surrealistic analogy limbo by now...I mean, razor blades are slicing eyeballs and I see watches drooping over the sides of buildings...I'm not even sure what John Fogerty would (or could) say to the charge ("charge"?) that he was "no Dos Passos"...definitely not something his handlers would've prepared him for...
Anyway, about the two designated Big Shots: Hemingway's style was mannered and boring (like Cormac McCarthy's...hm, come to think of it, exactly like Cormac McCarthy's). And Dos Passos was over the top and about as subtle as a diatribe (as befits the commie that he was...at least, until he became a Nazi).
His writing style was subtle Tony, not his message. It's obvious that he was a pinko during the height of his prowess, but the plot, storyline, and character interactions are not like Hemmingways, "let me hit you over the head with a sledgehammer repeatedly to ensure that its sunk in."
I found it amusing that you lumped Hemmingway in with Proust, Joyce, and Faulkner. The latter three can be, at times, indecipherable to a dope like me, whereas understanding Hemmingway is about as tough as understanding a grocery list.
And why is it that the liberal writers all become right-wing nutjobs towards the end of their lives? Black or white for those fellas, no grey.
thank you borgqueen.
hey guys did the globe knows the equation how to get the e=mc2?
tonydal wrote:
bigpoison wrote:
I found it amusing that you lumped Hemmingway in with Proust, Joyce, and Faulkner. The latter three can be, at times, indecipherable to a dope like me, whereas understanding Hemmingway is about as tough as understanding a grocery list.
And why is it that the liberal writers all become right-wing nutjobs towards the end of their lives? Black or white for those fellas, no grey.
I grouped them together because they're all literary and boring and unfun and ofttimes darned near unreadable. And reading Hemingway is a lot like reading a grocery list. I always liked what Bukowski said about Faulkner trying so hard with every sentence...very extremely damn hard...in fact, way too freakin hard.
And yeah, the old left/right switcheroo...something I've done myself a bit (I guess), but not carrying it to Dos Passos' extreme.
Hemmingway is all about style. He is best when his economy of expression suits the theme of his story - which is rarely too profound - like the old man and the sea. I really like Faulkner. He is possibly our greatest American novelist. When I read Ulyses in college and had to look up all of Joyce's literary references, the main thing I took away from the experience was the fact that he had read way more books than me. I don't know how you feel about Jack Kerouac, but he's another writer who made that left to right flip near the end of his life. Never read Proust, maybe I should.
Tonydal, if you wanna save some more time, don't read NIetzche; but Doestoyevsky will give you some wonderful insights to the human psyche. A KGB defector once told his CIA controllers who were asking him about psychological training - "Psychological training ? we don't need it, we make 'em read Doestoyevsky" 
tonydal wrote:
funkeymoves wrote:
I miss Mr Rogers.
Can you say "barangay"? Sure.
bah-rang-gay. Can you say the same? Might sound like bare and gay, which I am sure, the OP and the whole barangay will take offense.
I luurrrvs Dostoevsky - though I has trouble spellin' his name 
tonydal wrote:
smileative wrote:
Tonydal, if you wanna save some more time, don't read NIetzche; but Doestoyevsky will give you some wonderful insights to the human psyche. A KGB defector once told his CIA controllers who were asking him about psychological training - "Psychological training ? we don't need it, we make 'em read Doestoyevsky"
Cuz it's like mental torture...? :)
No way, man! Dostoyevsky is the best! He's not even tough to read. I would qualify him as "fun".
@ BorgQueen
According to kurogkug ".... barangay or neiborhood..."
Neighorhood community where people live and play together.
http://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/mrrogersneighborhoodlyrics.html
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi514654489/
Barangay is what they call a village or community in the Phillipines.