Originally posted by Proper Knobpistols at dawn then it is, for this slight of character! or you may choose French foils, if
A gentleman for admitting your ungentlemanly conduct? Mmmmm, dunno about that?!
you please, but not the French defence for i have made it my life's work to refute it and
so far have failed miserably in every way! 🙂
Originally posted by robbie carrobieSo does my wife. However, her choice of car (TVR) marks her down as more manly than most so she is known as Big Steve.
my unassailable logic, gentlemanly conduct, masterly treatment of chess praxis etc etc
but the most incontrovertible evidence is, I open with 1.e4
Originally posted by robbie carrobieAlas Roberto in a weeks time i shall be flying to Thailand for 3 weeks, so the pistols at dawn will have to wait. In the meantime i'll get round to moving in that game i've been putting off for the last two weeks.
pistols at dawn then it is, for this slight of character! or you may choose French foils, if
you please, but not the French defence for i have made it my life's work to refute it and
so far have failed miserably in every way! 🙂
Originally posted by Proper Knobno worries, i was gonna ask you if you wanted to start another game, white is
Alas Roberto in a weeks time i shall be flying to Thailand for 3 weeks, so the pistols at dawn will have to wait. In the meantime i'll get round to moving in that game i've been putting off for the last two weeks.
practically busted in that game, the result of an oversight in the opening, from then on
it was really tough, but its your call. wish i was going to Thailand, what are you rock
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Originally posted by thaughbaerI have a beard, she doesn't so we know who is who and who is allegedly what! This all stemmed from a comment on the TVR Club website "TVR because Porsches are for girls".
I don't like to pry.. and each to his own.. but does this not make it awkward in the bedroom ?
Originally posted by robbie carrobieI need somewhere to keep the remains of my breakfast to serve as lunch. I actually grew the thing early in life due to a lack of shaving facilities while mucking about drilling cores in sea bed and ice cap - in the latter case it helps reduce wind chill to the face. My wife saw me without beard once and made me promise never to shave again.
whats with the beard?
"....mucking about drilling cores in the sea bed and the ice cap....reduce the wind chill...."
What a lot of tosh. He's grown a beard 'cos he's ugly.
Steinitz was the only world champion who had a beard when he held the title
(thought I'd better stick in some chess content.)
So Steinitz was ugly as well. (not a bad chess player though.)
Lasker and Alekhine had moutaches. (half ugly).
All the rest were clean shaven whilst they world champions.
I'm not counting that blib between 1993–2006 when the title split.
I'm staying with Kaparov who was undisputed world champion in 1992
before the split and lost it to beardless Kramnik in 2000, who lost it
to the current clean shaven World Champion Anand in 2007.
Today's quiz.
Between Steinitz amd Fischer three players lost the world title and got it back.
Name all three.
Originally posted by greenpawn34I thought it was only two, Alekhine and Botvinnik. Euwe won 1 cycle, Alekhine won it back, Botty won, lost to Tal, then won it back. I don't think there was another either blitz or womens champs. So who it be?
"....mucking about drilling cores in the sea bed and the ice cap....reduce the wind chill...."
What a lot of tosh. He's grown a beard 'cos he's ugly.
Steinitz was the only world champion who had a beard when he held the title
(thought I'd better stick in some chess content.)
So Steinitz was ugly as well. (not a bad chess player though.)
Lask ...[text shortened]... einitz amd Fischer three players lost the world title and got it back.
Name all three.