My ex thought she would get the house and my pension and a bunch of other stuff if she divorced me. She had no right to the house as it was there when we were married. She got some money but in a year she spent it all and became bankrupt and is now barely making it and owes me back child support. I think it is called "karma"!?
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My ex thought she would get the house and my pension and a bunch of other stuff if she divorced me. She had no right to the house at it was there when we were married. She got some money but in a year she spent it all and became bankrupt and is now barely making it and owes me back child support. I think it is called "karma"!?
I don't want this thread locked, but can't help to say, if such thing would exist, the Azores trio would be suffering of wild burning bleeding piles forever and ever.
Jul 12, 2018
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Weird things are happening on chess.com indeed.
No one knows I saved half the universe from turning to dust.
Like you guys are alive because I gave up my green rock...
Jul 12, 2018
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thx chess.com finally heard my voice.
they're sponsoring me
love from titan.
DoctorStrange escribió:
Weird things are happening on chess.com indeed.
No one knows I saved half the universe from turning to dust.
Like you guys are alive because I gave up my green rock...
Couldn't my mother in law have been taken away instead of T'Challa for example?!
Jul 12, 2018
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ponz111 wrote:
Bad_Dobby_Fischer wrote:
ThrillerFan wrote:
Pastuszek wrote:
And you are still alive?!?
Yes, but he is probably the living soul from the following story:
Two men both live to their early 90s when one ends up deadly ill. The other comes to visit him one last time to talk about their memories. He also asks the dying man one question. "When you go to heaven, can you see if there is baseball in heaven?" The dying man says "Sure, anything for my best friend." He dies. A couple of nights later, when the living man goes to bed, he hears his friend. "I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is that there is baseball in heaven!" The living man asks "What is the bad news?", to which the response was "You are the scheduled starting pitcher for Wednesday's game!"
there's a chess version of it
This would be good news to me!
I bet it would be.
The bad news is, you have black versus Morphy next Monday.
He did beat her at chess 500 times in a row. 
Weird things? You want weird things? OK, I got a few:
I was in a band that the only time we were able to play out live, the audience couldn't hear us because they were deaf. 80-90 people in the crowd and maybe 5 could hear.
When I was a carny we played the Apache reservation. I am the only non-Apache that could drink the "res water" and not get the runs. They were more impressed than I was about it.
In 1994 I was in an off-set head-on MVA with multiple fractures from my left ankle to my right forehead and was in the condition the EMTs called no pain. For three emergency squads I am the only patient that was in that condition and didn't die.
There are others but I'll leave it at that. Suffice it to say that in my life, normal is weird and weird is normal.
At age 6 or 7 I asked my (Episcopalian) pastor if dogs and cats go to heaven, and he said no, it isn't in the Bible. I asked him if there is baseball in heaven, and he said no, it isn't in the Bible. About ten years after that, I stopped going to church. Karl Marx was right about religion.
@Ponz111: I would most assuredly have sued the first neurologist (because I grew up to be a litigator). He told you to bring your wife to his office? Nuh-uh buddy, if I'm the patient, you're gonna run it by me first. Use the money from the lawsuit to build a college fund for your boys so they won't have to take out student loans and live in debt servitude ever after. Act now before the statute of limitations runs out.
I was telling this story just the other day, the time I hopped a freight train (Washington state) and rode my boxcar for several hours before the train uncoupled me and all the cars behind me on a spur track in the middle of nowhere. I looked out my boxcar at a string of cars on a parallel track, and something was moving in one of them, so I went over to check it out...
Two escapees from a North Carolina pen (drugs, they said). Seven raw Army recruits from Georgia who had just gone AWOL from Fort Lewis. 6-7 cases of cold Budweiser in a stack, and a very friendly black Lab. Party time!
The next morning I awoke in my boxcar to discover that the North Carolinians were long gone. I persuaded the Georgians to go back to their fort voluntarily because it would be a better outcome than being arrested by the MPs, and we and the dog walked back to civilization over the logging road they had come in on.
Jul 12, 2018
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ponz111 wrote:
Bad_Dobby_Fischer wrote:
ThrillerFan wrote:
Pastuszek wrote:
And you are still alive?!?
Yes, but he is probably the living soul from the following story:
Two men both live to their early 90s when one ends up deadly ill. The other comes to visit him one last time to talk about their memories. He also asks the dying man one question. "When you go to heaven, can you see if there is baseball in heaven?" The dying man says "Sure, anything for my best friend." He dies. A couple of nights later, when the living man goes to bed, he hears his friend. "I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is that there is baseball in heaven!" The living man asks "What is the bad news?", to which the response was "You are the scheduled starting pitcher for Wednesday's game!"
there's a chess version of it
This would be good news to me!
A chess master died - after a few days, a friend of his heard a voice; it was him!
"What's it like, where you are now," he asked.
"What do you want to hear first, the good news or the bad news."
"Tell me the good news first."
"Well, it's really heaven here. There are tournaments and blitz sessions going on all the time and Morphy, Alekhine, Lasker, Tal, Capablanca, Botvinnik, they're all here, and you can play them."
"Fantastic!" the friend said, "and what is the bad news?"
"You have Black against Capablanca on Saturday."
Sorry that you had to go through that ordeal, Ponz. That's terrible.
oregonpatzer wrote:
At age 6 or 7 I asked my (Episcopalian) pastor if dogs and cats go to heaven, and he said no, it isn't in the Bible. I asked him if there is baseball in heaven, and he said no, it isn't in the Bible. About ten years after that, I stopped going to church. Karl Marx was right about religion.
@Ponz111: I would most assuredly have sued the first neurologist (because I grew up to be a litigator). He told you to bring your wife to his office? Nuh-uh buddy, if I'm the patient, you're gonna run it by me first. Use the money from the lawsuit to build a college fund for your boys so they won't have to take out student loans and live in debt servitude ever after. Act now before the statute of limitations runs out.
I was telling this story just the other day, the time I hopped a freight train (Washington state) and rode my boxcar for several hours before the train uncoupled me and all the cars behind me on a spur track in the middle of nowhere. I looked out my boxcar at a string of cars on a parallel track, and something was moving in one of them, so I went over to check it out...
Two escapees from a North Carolina pen (drugs, they said). Seven raw Army recruits from Georgia who had just gone AWOL from Fort Lewis. 6-7 cases of cold Budweiser in a stack, and a very friendly black Lab. Party time!
The next morning I awoke in my boxcar to discover that the North Carolinians were long gone. I persuaded the Georgians to go back to their fort voluntarily because it would be a better outcome than being arrested by the MPs, and we and the dog walked back to civilization over the logging road they had come in on.
I was very depressed and had some of the sympoms of Alzheimers but still if he had given a simple test [start at 100 and keep subtracting 7] he would have known I did not have Alzheimers. After that office visit I was LESS DEPRESSED but got depressed again when my wife filed for divorce in 2 weeks. She did a dirty trick on me one week after the doctor visit. Went to court and said I was a danger to her. I was mostly confined to one room due to knee surgery coming undone but still was made to leave the home.
Before the divorce was final she stole all the money out of college funds for both of my boys. However, after the divorce, I redid their college funds and now they are both set up to go to college. It is expensive as hell.
You story is quite interesting!
I wrote a couple of books [one co authored with IM Keith Hayward] on the Ponziani Opening (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3). Over the years there have been many people writing that the Ponziani Opening is a bad opening. I disagree. Recently the #2 player in the world played Black vs the Ponziani and very quickly was losing.
There was one particular player who was always deriding that Opening. He did this to an extreme...
Later I was a member of a vote chess club which played only the Ponziani in all of its games. To play against our team--you had to take the Black side of the Ponziani. We, of course, had a very good record. Most teams we played were losing right out of the opening.
Over time we added new members to our team. We had a rule about no early voting-- and also all moves must be put out for discussion before voting on that move. In one game, all of a sudden, 3 new players all early voted for the same move. It was a move where our Queen would be placed where it could be taken by a Pawn! We outvoted the 3 and soon ousted the 3 from our team.
Many on our team were sure that the particular person [mentioned above] did this dastardly thing to our team [I was not sure he did it but thought there was a fair chance he did this]. Accusations were flying.
Finally this accused person contacted me. He said he was innocent and wanted me to help him prove his innocence! I did not like this person and still do not like him. But it is wrong to accuse someone without proof. And I agreed to help him. When I mentioned this to some on our team they were enraged! About 6 or 7 players were upset with me. This included the Super Administrator.
It took about a month but we determined that my "client" was completely innocent! A person who lived in London made up these 3 characters and placed them on our team so that later he could have fun by having them all vote for the same losing move!
My "client" and I contacted Chess.com and gave them the proof we had gathered. Chess.com closed the account of the guilty party.
Some on our team were still upset with me. The Super would not even look at the evidence. He went on a leave of absence and gave up being Super and was no longer on our team. He made me Super and our vote chess team continued on with good results.
Two months later the Super came back and wanted to be made Co Super. I allowed this [my mistake] but soon after he started saying how disappointed he was with our team and he was going to set things straight. After about a month, we had words and I resigned from the team.
Ponz, I could not play against your club because I don't believe in symmetrical first moves for Black. I'm trying to beat this guy, not draw him, and the way to do that is to make better moves, not copy his moves.
I also believe that chess and voting are two great tastes that don't go great together. A week before the Kasparov versus the world game, the leading newspaper in my old area contacted the 4-5 most prominent, quotable characters in the local chess world. It had a chess columnist who published about once a month, and he asked us to predict the outcome, and we were unanimous. I was quoted in the paper "Chess doesn't lend itself to democracy very well."
oregonpatzer wrote: PONZ in red
Ponz, I could not play against your club because I don't believe in symmetrical first moves for Black. I'm trying to beat this guy, not draw him, and the way to do that is to make better moves, not copy his moves. Any normal response to 1. e4 is good including
1. ...e5. But in any event our tean playing the Ponziani every game was a big advatage for us!
I also believe that chess and voting are two great tastes that don't go great together.They do in vote chess. Playing on a vote chess team which analyzes moves is a great way to learn.
A week before the Kasparov versus the world game, the leading newspaper in my old area contacted the 4-5 most prominent, quotable characters in the local chess world. It had a chess columnist who published about once a month, and he asked us to predict the outcome, and we were unanimous. I was quoted in the paper "Chess doesn't lend itself to democracy very well." It does in vote chess.
However a supergrandmaster playing against the world which has many below average players is a very big advantage for the supergrandmaster just because he is so much stronger. At a key point in that game the world could have drawn but there was not enough votes for the drawing move.
Vote Chess is a different story than the world playing Kasparov.
Miaoiao wrote:
Wrong, not all players in a team have time enough to particpate in the analysis with full intensity. Also, 'sleeping over' some idea is a good idea, it allows you to look at an analysis with an unbiased mind.
What happens on the vote chess teams I have been on is that all players are encouraged to ask questions and make suggestions for moves.
Then some of the strongest players comment on the moves--pros and cons. Diagrams are used and lines of play are analyzed.
No voting until the last 24 hours. By that time--usually one move is seen to be best and gets most of the votes.
Not all vote. If they have not had time to analyze [or at least to view the analysis] they often do not vote.
But the whole process is quite instructive to all the players, including the top players.
Today is Friday the 13th. On another Friday the 13th about the year 1964 I am a senior in college and applying for a job.
Before the application for the job [with the State of Illinois] I had been given a test and scored highest out of 18 applicants. Apparently they interviewed only me and the person who scored 2nd hightest.
There were two ladies interviewing me. One was the mother of my girlfriend.............. When I was in the interview the other lady said
"You know Mrs Park, don't you?" and I said "yes".
My girlfriend was pregnant. After the interview my girlfriend and I got married and also found an apartment. A busy day on Friday the 13th!?
PS I got the job...
I'm lucky, my wife would agree with me if I say that a person with Alzheimer deserves more the custody than one who flies away when his/her partner falls ill.