No problem, Robert will be White, then. It's okay Chris, we'll just do it this way next time, is all.

Robert, You're on. Post your first move.

Do you guys want any changes made to the thread starter or title, while I'm here? Let me know now, because I'm leaving soon. Tx

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will go look now....I have a board that I just got from storage and opponent can use his Octagon inspired paint program.....at any time noone has to move as it is not time determinate.

Let's get it on!

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will go look now....I have a board that I just got from storage and opponent can use his Octagon inspired paint program.....at any time noone has to move as it is not time determinate.

Let's get it on!

Maybe a couple of quick moves?

I have "Skulking der NC posten eyballin' es hurtin" from keeping abreast of the fray over there. It's at least somewhat calmer, but there has been some permanancy in the exodus of a few.

I'm truly saddened by all of this.

But, let the games begin!

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Sorry to be "off topic"

will go look now....I have a board that I just got from storage and opponent can use his Octagon inspired paint program.....at any time noone has to move as it is not time determinate.

Let's get it on!

Maybe a couple of quick moves?

I have "Skulking der NC posten eyballin' es hurtin" from keeping abreast of the fray over there. It's at least somewhat calmer, but there has been some permanancy in the exodus of a few.

I'm truly saddened by all of this.

But, let the games begin!

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Sorry to be "off topic"

I've read a bit of that but don't know what to say except that it is a bad situation.

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I've read a bit of that but don't know what to say except that it is a bad situation.

....appalling...

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Good morning everyone!

Our CPOTD is the "Blitz King" and the 7th Undisputed World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera, (born November 19, 1888 – died March 8, 1942).


Referred to by many chess historians as the Mozart of chess, Capablanca was a chess prodigy whose brilliance was noted at an early age.

According to Capablanca, he learned the rules of the game at the age of four by watching his father play. He said he noticed his father make an illegal move with his knight, accused him of cheating, and then demonstrated what he had done. Capablanca was taken to the Havana Chess Club when he was five, where the leading players found it impossible to beat the young boy when giving him the handicap of a queen. In 1901, just turned 13, he defeated Cuban national champion Juan Corzo by the score of 4 wins, 3 losses, and 6 draws.

In 1909, at the age of 20, Capablanca won a match against US champion Frank Marshall. Marshall insisted that Capablanca be allowed to play in a tournament at San Sebastián, Spain in 1911. It was one of the strongest tournaments of the time. All of the world's leading players except world champion Emanuel Lasker were in attendance. At the beginning of the tournament Ossip Bernstein and Aaron Nimzowitsch objected to Capablanca's presence because he had not won a major tournament. But after Capablanca won his first round game against Bernstein, with an effort which was to win the tournament's brilliancy prize, Bernstein quickly acknowleged Capablanca's talent and said that he wouldn't be surprised if Capablanca won the tournament.

Nimzowitsch took offense when Capablanca made a comment while watching one of his blitz games, and remarked that unproven players should hold their tongue in the presence of their betters. Capablanca quickly challenged Nimzowitsch to a series of fast games, which he won easily. The assembled masters soon concluded that Capablanca had no equal at fast chess, a distinction which was to remain his until virtually the end of his life. Capablanca went on to win his tournament game with Nimzowitsch as well, using an opening setup much admired by Mikhail Botvinnik. By tournament's end, Capablanca had astounded the chess world by taking first place at San Sebastián, with a score of +6 -1 =7, ahead of Akiba Rubinstein, Carl Schlechter and Siegbert Tarrasch.

In 1911, Capablanca challenged Emanuel Lasker for the world championship. Lasker accepted his challenge but proposed seventeen conditions for the match. Capablanca disapproved of some of the conditions and the match did not take place.

In September 1913, Capablanca secured a job in the Cuban Foreign Office. He appears not to have had any specific duties other than playing chess, but what he had he was reported to have carried out conscientiously. For many years, he was the most famous Cuban alive.

Then he played in a series of matches in Europe against some of the top players of his day. In Berlin, he defeated Jacques Mieses and Richard Teichmann; in Moscow, he played a six-game series, two games against Alexander Alekhine, Eugene Znosko-Borovsky and Fyodor Dus-Khotimirsky, losing once to Znosko-Borovsky and winning the rest—his first encounters with Alekhine, who was outclassed; then in Vienna he defeated both Richard Réti and Savielly Tartakower 1.5-0.5 each. Then he beat Bernstein in Moscow in a game listed in many anthologies as a brilliancy for winning move ...Qb2!! and for the new strategy with hanging pawns, and defeated Nimzowitsch in an elegant opposite-colored bishop endgame. Capablanca also gave many simultaneous exhibitions noted for their speed and very high winning scores.

At the great 1914 tournament in St. Petersburg, with most of the world's leading players (except those of the Austro-Hungarian empire), Capablanca met the great Lasker across the chessboard for the first time in normal tournament play (Capablanca had won a knock-out lightning chess final game in 1906, leading to a famous joint endgame composition). Capablanca took the large lead of one and a half points in the preliminary rounds, and made Lasker fight hard to draw. He again won the first brilliancy prize against Bernstein and had some highly regarded wins against David Janowsky, Nimzowitsch and Alekhine.

However, Capablanca fell victim to a comeback by Lasker in the second stage of the tournament, including a famous victory by Lasker. Capablanca finished second to Lasker with a score of 13 points to Lasker's 13.5, but ahead of third-placed Alexander Alekhine. After this tournament, Tsar Nicholas II proclaimed the five prize-winners (Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Tarrasch, Marshall) as "Grandmasters of Chess"...and that's where the term Grandmaster comes from.

In 1920, Lasker saw that Capablanca was becoming too strong, and resigned the title to him, saying, "You have earned the title not by the formality of a challenge, but by your brilliant mastery."

Capablanca wanted to win it in a match, but Lasker insisted that he was now the challenger. They played a match in Havana in 1921, and Capablanca defeated Lasker +4 -0 =10. This feat of winning the world title without losing a game to the incumbent went unequalled for almost eight decades, until Vladimir Kramnik's win over Garry Kasparov +2 -0 =13 in 2000.

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I think that man tried to have me killed one time........
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Mike Buckingham, if you want a game start a thread (or let me know) and we can play simultaneous to my current game with CDR. Beethoven, I think, will post the pics for us....You can be white if you choose.

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Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data!
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I think that man tried to have me killed one time........

Hahahah! Capablanca must've looked intimidating even across even a chessboard, eh? I bet you he had weaker players quaking in their boots. LOL

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I think that man tried to have me killed one time........

Hahahah! Capablanca must've looked intimidating evan across even a chessboard, eh? I bet you he had weaker players quaking in their boots. LOL

Seriously, Capablanca had tried to kill me after I slept with his granddaughter....seriously.

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-no, of course not, but I WISH it were true....I mean if you have to choose tobe killed by a chess Grandmaster it would be him.

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Our CPOTD is Rosemary Giulian, one of the few International Masters (IM) of Scotland, FIDE rated at 2050. She is married to another Scots IM, Phillip M. Giulian FIDE rated at 2295. They live and work in Edinborough.

Rosemary is currently representing Scotland on the women's team at the 2006 Olympiad in Turin, Italy.

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Good God! These chess babes get hotter and hotter,,,I'm about to go apoplectic...

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Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data!
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Good God! These chess babes get hotter and hotter,,,I'm about to go apoplectic...

Chessalicious, aren't they? lol

But don't try to play them, Robert, or you'll lose your pants.

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This is strange. I just noticed one of my team members is crunching Seti Beta. I don't have an anchor over there. Can someone explain how that works?

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Founder of BOINC team Objectivists. Oh the humanity! Rational people crunching data!
I did NOT authorize this belly writing!

Our CPOTD is Rosemary Giulian, one of the few International Masters (IM) of Scotland, FIDE rated at 2050. She is married to another Scots IM, Phillip M. Giulian FIDE rated at 2295. They live and work in Edinborough.

Rosemary is currently representing Scotland on the women's team at the 2006 Olympiad in Turin, Italy.

It is strange that all the female chess players you have posted have been extraordinarily pretty. Do you think that if a woman does not possess good looks she has less worth no matter how successful in other ways she might be? Or is it as I suspect that you are using this as a thinly veiled excuse for ogling women. Either way, I find your Chess player of the day demeaning.

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It is strange that all the female chess players you have posted have been extraordinarily pretty. Do you think that if a woman does not possess good looks she has less worth no matter how successful in other ways she might be? Or is it as I suspect that you are using this as a thinly veiled excuse for ogling women. Either way, I find your Chess player of the day demeaning.

Especially Deep Blue :-)

I had noticed something of a pattern forming, but I think the selection is hinging more on celebrity than anything else. Fairly or not, celebrity comes more easily for attractive people (especially females).

Maybe a countdown from highest FIDE score on down would be more appropriate? (It's not my thread so I have no control over it)

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No animals were harmed in the making of the above post... much.

It is strange that all the female chess players you have posted have been extraordinarily pretty. Do you think that if a woman does not possess good looks she has less worth no matter how successful in other ways she might be? Or is it as I suspect that you are using this as a thinly veiled excuse for ogling women. Either way, I find your Chess player of the day demeaning.

Especially Deep Blue :-)

I had noticed something of a pattern forming, but I think the selection is hinging more on celebrity than anything else. Fairly or not, celebrity comes more easily for attractive people (especially females).

Maybe a countdown from highest FIDE score on down would be more appropriate? (It's not my thread so I have no control over it)

Octagon, you are right. The sad truth is that good looks count more than success, especially for women. Beethoven's posts only reinforces this prejudice. Let's see some females who have been judged by their skill, not their looks and skill.

I wasn't aware that Deep blue was female though. ;-)

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Reality Internet Personality

It is strange that all the female chess players you have posted have been extraordinarily pretty. Do you think that if a woman does not possess good looks she has less worth no matter how successful in other ways she might be? Or is it as I suspect that you are using this as a thinly veiled excuse for ogling women. Either way, I find your Chess player of the day demeaning.

Especially Deep Blue :-)

I had noticed something of a pattern forming, but I think the selection is hinging more on celebrity than anything else. Fairly or not, celebrity comes more easily for attractive people (especially females).

Maybe a countdown from highest FIDE score on down would be more appropriate? (It's not my thread so I have no control over it)

Octagon, you are right. The sad truth is that good looks count more than success, especially for women. Beethoven's posts only reinforces this prejudice. Let's see some females who have been judged by their skill, not their looks and skill.

I wasn't aware that Deep blue was female though. ;-)

Ever seen a computer with a fatherboard? :-)

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No animals were harmed in the making of the above post... much.

It is strange that all the female chess players you have posted have been extraordinarily pretty. Do you think that if a woman does not possess good looks she has less worth no matter how successful in other ways she might be? Or is it as I suspect that you are using this as a thinly veiled excuse for ogling women. Either way, I find your Chess player of the day demeaning.

Especially Deep Blue :-)

I had noticed something of a pattern forming, but I think the selection is hinging more on celebrity than anything else. Fairly or not, celebrity comes more easily for attractive people (especially females).

Maybe a countdown from highest FIDE score on down would be more appropriate? (It's not my thread so I have no control over it)

Octagon, you are right. The sad truth is that good looks count more than success, especially for women. Beethoven's posts only reinforces this prejudice. Let's see some females who have been judged by their skill, not their looks and skill.

I wasn't aware that Deep blue was female though. ;-)

Ever seen a computer with a fatherboard? :-)

But I thought everybody had a mother? Even men!

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Heh. It's funny how the posting of attractive women chessplayers attracts so much hostility by some.

Yes Octogon, I am also presenting celebrities and those who are attractive players (both male and female) on this thread, for the time being. Good looks invite views.

I never said that the CPOTD would be only the highest ranked or most skilled players, only that they would genuinely be chessplayers that are either professionals or highly FIDE-rated amateurs. If I want to select among them those that invite viewers on account of their celebrity, surely that's within my purview. Not that this thread is anything like the BOTD, for example, which is based solely on looks. On this thread we offer a lot more than just pics. And all the women depicted here are achievers.

Does anyone here have an FIDE rating of 2050 or higher?

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It is strange that all the female chess players you have posted have been extraordinarily pretty. Do you think that if a woman does not possess good looks she has less worth no matter how successful in other ways she might be? Or is it as I suspect that you are using this as a thinly veiled excuse for ogling women. Either way, I find your Chess player of the day demeaning.

Especially Deep Blue :-)

I had noticed something of a pattern forming, but I think the selection is hinging more on celebrity than anything else. Fairly or not, celebrity comes more easily for attractive people (especially females).

Maybe a countdown from highest FIDE score on down would be more appropriate? (It's not my thread so I have no control over it)

Octagon, you are right. The sad truth is that good looks count more than success, especially for women. Beethoven's posts only reinforces this prejudice. Let's see some females who have been judged by their skill, not their looks and skill.

I wasn't aware that Deep blue was female though. ;-)

Ever seen a computer with a fatherboard? :-)

But I thought everybody had a mother? Even men!

A countdown by FIDE score might seem more straightforward, but some like Shirin Shawabi and Bobby Fischer are just more... colorful. One is a heroic genius shattering barriers and the other is named Bobby.

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No animals were harmed in the making of the above post... much.