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Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-05-18 04:05:20)
Flag
Hi, when I registered and created my account, I put Australia by mistake, I am an Australian resident, but my nacionality is Venezuelan. Would it be possible to change it, so the Venezuelan flag will be besides my name?
Thibault de Vassal (2007-05-18 15:47:15)
Flag updated
Hello Rodolfo. It's updated !
Best wishes.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-06-24 14:11:22)
Nicknames
I love nicknames, for example my name is Rodolfo d'Ettorre, therefore mi nick would be ... Rodolfo_dEttorre_TheGreat
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-06-25 03:18:38)
Second division.
If there is a second division, I will be in, I am not a strong player so I cannot participate now.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-06-25 08:34:42)
Using nicknames or fake names
A small suggestion, I do not mind the members of the other team to use nicknames, as long as we can access their past games and possible their real names. Can that be achieved?
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-06-27 14:52:24)
Ficgs vs Igame.ru
I am looking forward for this match, of course as a humble spectator. Maybe we should have cheer leaders ...
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-06-30 12:59:09)
Nicknames
To make things more interesting, in some countries it is allowed to change the real name and surname...
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-07-01 15:48:37)
Re
These are times of glory, old lines will be refuted, new systems will be invented and the games will be used as examples in the opening books to come, and we will have the right to say " We were there!!!"
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-07-05 10:06:36)
Re
Maybe Thibault does not exist, he is probably a chess engine with a touch of personality?
Wolfgang Utesch (2007-07-05 10:20:45)
Thibault de Pierrefeu
Rodolfo I don't think so: From my some discussions with him is clear that his chess knowledges are much bigger than from just engines. Just the question is staying, why is he doing so mystically about his own foretime of chess?
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-07-06 02:08:09)
Re
Could it be Thibault de Bergerac?
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-07-19 06:43:54)
DMD / DMA
Imagine a DMA / DMD thematic tournament ...
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-08-03 04:47:00)
re.
Polina, are you the sister of Antoneta?
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-08-03 09:24:14)
re
I think I saw the light, in Polina's text, remove "command" and put "team" instead and everything will be clear as water. But I do not think that narcisism is so bad.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-08-03 14:59:54)
re
It would be nice if everything could be solved with a game of chess, disputes, wars , etc
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-08-08 15:45:00)
Re
Most of us are very far from Russia, so there is nothing we can do about it. If the threat has been made in public, the local police should be able to act. So, really I think discussing this here is useless, it just gives material for silly jokes.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-08-08 15:55:11)
Re
Just curiosity, how many IM and GM are killed every year?
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-08-09 04:45:15)
Re
Nature, peace, love and understaning? Why not sex, rock and marijuana? This whole thread looks like a storm in a glass of water or gossip in a little village.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-08-09 16:33:38)
Re
I van see IGame is a big happy family ...
Ivan Pljusnin (2007-08-09 18:58:05)
2 Rodolfo d Ettorre
"I van see IGame is a big happy family ..."
The forum of igame is very popular. Some topics there contain several thousands responses and more than 100000 views. Sometimes murders of igame chessplayers are discussed, it usually makes a topic very popular. Unfortunately, some moderators do not like that, and most interesting authors are banned. :-(
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-08-10 13:50:37)
re
In the future there will be three kind of nations: territorial nations like the ones we have now, corporative nations, like big firms , microsoft for example, and cyber nations with FICGS and IGAME being two of them. So, FICGS could offer refugee status to Sexy God and try to extradite --- [moderator : name deleted]...
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-08-14 15:04:17)
I read it in someone's t-shirt
Rules and bones are meant to be broken.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-08-16 15:00:43)
a latin one...
Vae Victis!
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-08-20 06:36:44)
Re
Vladimir Ras - Putin is still alive ... He is also a good actor, I s saw him in the Lord of the Rings.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-08-21 08:57:52)
Re
There is no good or evil, there is only fun and dull
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-08-28 07:23:19)
Re
I tried with IE and Opera and I only got the black crown ...
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-08-31 10:10:07)
Re
What makes that document unique and impressive is the fact that the word "toilet" appears 26 times...
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-08-31 14:59:16)
Not a chess website ...
http://rodolfo_3.tripod.com/
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-08-31 16:55:29)
I read it in someone's T-Shirt....
Practice, practice and practice, I will always beat you.
Don Groves (2007-09-02 00:08:08)
Another one about practice
Rodolfo wrote he saw this on t-shirt: "Practice, practice and practice, I will always beat you." In New York City, a tourist once asked someone how to get to Carnegie Hall (New York's most famous concert hall). The answer: "Practice, practice, practice!"
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-09-05 06:58:46)
Paragraphs
Hi Garvin, :P I am trying but it does not work for me, :P I cannot separate the paragraphs.
Garvin Gray (2007-09-05 07:28:39)
paragraphing
Hello Rodolfo,
From the top of this thread.
(please use
html tag to begin a new line)
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-09-05 07:54:18)
Testing
Hello <BR>Hello
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-09-05 08:56:52)
It Works!!!
La donna é mobile
qual piuma al vento
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-09-09 14:42:29)
re
The word centaurs may be insulting for some people. I propose to use "cyborg" instead, it is more accurate.
Also instead of
FICGS__CHESS__NO_ENGINES_TOURNAMENT__000001
We could use:
FICGS__CHESS__HUMANS_TOURNAMENT__000001
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-09-11 07:25:33)
Tolerance
Also the only moderator we have is Thibault. Unfortunately he is human, so he sleeps and has other activities ... FICGS sans frontieres
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-09-10 04:05:57)
Re ...
Hi Thibault, really the whole site is very impressive, especially the board diagrams. Any chance you publish that part as a library? The reason is just curiosity, the few times I had to do web development, was just boring stuff, shopping basket and inventory, and at work I never did PHP development, only small things at home.
Thibault de Vassal (2007-09-10 04:37:17)
Diagrams
Thanks Rodolfo :) .. But nothing complicate in these chess diagrams. No need to make a library, just have a look at the HTML/CSS code... then make some loops with PHP, very simple. The only 'real' algorithm was to capture the dead groups at Go.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-09-11 08:08:48)
Re
France without Platini and Argentina without Maradona are not the same ...
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-09-11 09:44:09)
Re
Sorry, I confused it with football (soccer).
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-09-12 03:54:50)
draggy and droppy
Hi Thibault, I found this link:
http://www.walterzorn.com/dragdrop/dragdrop_e.htm
It is abount drag and drop without java, but I think it will restrict us to IE
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-09-12 05:00:46)
Italian
I think it is better:
Collegamenti sponsorizzati
Thibault de Vassal (2007-09-12 16:45:49)
drag and drop
Thanks Rodolfo, that's very interesting anyway, I'll have a deeper look very soon on it.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-09-17 02:18:24)
Best quotes
"The rules has nothing to do with honor"
is a nice one. It should be added to the best quotes.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-09-24 10:19:26)
Log out
I think if the keybord or mouse are not touched for maybe 15 - 20 minutes the server logs you out, it is not a bug, but a security feature I think.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-09-28 03:16:26)
Private Message
That new feature works, I have just sent a private message to myself ...
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-10-07 13:23:08)
Thibault de Vassal
Hi Thibault, do you belong to the nobility? Do you have a castle and huge estates, so you would not need a fool time job and dedicate time to FICGS ?
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-10-07 13:54:31)
Sorry...
It is full time job ...
Thibault de Vassal (2007-10-07 15:18:17)
Rodolfo
Well, as far as I know nobility has no more something to do with huge estates :) ... Anyway, just trying to always do what I like most, this is a question of organization first IMO.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-10-11 02:38:48)
Re.. Lager?
Instead of a lager sometimes I drink a dark ale ...
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-10-17 02:46:08)
Spanish
Haga click en la casilla de destino
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-10-17 02:50:47)
Spanish
Haga click en la pieza que desea mover
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-10-31 01:46:29)
Another one ...
Maybe it is a little late, but I found this one:
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
-- Jean-Paul Kauffmann:
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-11-24 12:07:32)
:P
I have an idea, can Mr. Cirulis play only with black?
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-12-02 23:53:19)
This is mine ...
Good never defeats evil, unless it uses evil as a weapon.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-12-04 13:01:36)
(repetition)
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-12-04 13:03:37)
More...
This is something I read in a SF short story from the writer Ursula K. Le Guin:
Our difference is our beauty ... together we could build a splendid harmony.
It could be interpreted as something against prejudice or the fact that in FICGS race, religion or politics do not matter, only chess.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2007-12-13 12:06:00)
Just an idea ...
What ever categories we decided, maybe we could add in some cases a "wild card", I mean, allowing one player with lower rating.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-01-05 15:51:09)
Illegal ...
I found this one:
Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
Alexander Woollcott
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-01-09 02:26:36)
Income ....
If chess were as popular as Tennis, we would see the GM's with advertisements on their clothes when they are playing tournaments.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-01-23 11:51:33)
FICGS vs. IGAME.RU
Viva il signor Gaetano Laghetti, abbasso i russi
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-02-03 04:16:53)
Equations ...
I think this is what happens:
FicgsRate = ChesshereRate - 34
FicgsRate = (cc_rate / 2) + 250
Thibault, am I right?
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-02-11 02:39:18)
Next thematic tournaments
Caro kann panov attack?
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-02-12 12:53:55)
Good Cinema ...
What about Arnold Schwarzenegger as Fischer and Sylvester Stallone as Spassky? Woody Allen whold be a good Max Euwe and Sandra Bull-Dog as Nona Gaprindasvili
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-02-12 13:32:16)
Icelandic Gambit ...
i have an old opening book, semi open openings written by Ludek Pachman, and it does not mention the Icelandic Gambit, so there must be plenty of "unexplored country" in it, so ... I am in!!!
Can we one day have a Centre Opening thematic ? I used to play it very often when I was young, happy and unemployed.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-02-15 14:14:52)
Command line browser ..
Hi Mr Jankovic, sorry if I am a little off topic, but I am curious, which command line browser do you use?
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-04-28 15:00:21)
Another idea ...
The chat, instead of grouping it by country, would it be possible to group it by language? For example, there are many spanish speaking south american countries, each one maybe too small to keep a comunity going, but maybe togather the y could carry on "talking". Just an idea.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-05-01 14:53:52)
Free
Confusing FICS with FICGS is like cinfusing Austria with Australia, after living 11 years in Vienna...
Thibault de Vassal (2008-05-01 18:58:46)
Country chat
Hi Rodolfo, that's an idea but I think we should keep "closed" chat rooms too (it couldn't be the case with languages), as an alternative.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-05-02 01:31:20)
Test matches ....
Hi, I use ARENA, a free user interface compatible with most chess engines. With it is possible to organize matches and tournaments between engines.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-05-04 14:23:28)
Commodore 64
Also for Commodore 64 a good chess program was Sargon 3. It was great! I will try to find a good C64 emulator
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-05-07 13:01:32)
From's Gambit ...
Hi, is there a valid way to decline the From's Gambit without falling onto the Kings Gambit? Even if the Froms Gambit may not be sound, I do not like to be defending, especially against players stronger than myself.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-05-10 15:28:38)
Silly quotes ...
I found this one in a Simpson coffee mug:
Trying is the first step towards failure.
Omer Sympson
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-05-13 14:10:21)
Books .....
I have the opening books of Ludek Pachman, 1976 edition, in Spanish. A little old but still good!
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-05-15 15:51:10)
Ruy Lopez!
I have just got nice drawns with black against a Ruy Lopez, Open Variation, game 20196.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-05-22 16:15:45)
Game ...
According with Crafty, 27. ... Rb8 is a better move.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-05-31 04:46:39)
Scientology
There was an important breakthrough, scientology is a desease, the virus was just found, it is a close cousin of the HIV virus.
A colateral effect is a temporary sterility, that's why Tom could not have children before.
The only cure is the euthanasia.
Don Groves (2008-05-31 09:53:29)
Scientology virus
This new virus is also called HIV, Rodolfo. Instead of Human Immunodeficiency Virus, it is the Human Intellideficiency Virus ;-)
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-06-04 13:05:05)
Poker ...
Poker is a great game, but I am not sure it is a board game, like chess or go. Maybe we should consider Monopoly or even Jumanji.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-06-10 08:45:20)
Thematics ...
It would be nice to have the Ponziani opening, I know, it is unsound, but it is a nice opening.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-06-12 15:12:47)
More thematics ...
Also the old indian defence or janowskey indian thematic tournament would be nice, Tal used the latter occasionally. They are solid, a bit passive. I played a few times the janowskey indian and I felt like I was playing a Philidor with steroids.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-06-17 16:36:06)
Quotes ...
I have got this quote, it is in Italian:
Chi troppo s'abbassa mostra il sedere
Unfortunately my English is not very good, if some Italian bilingual could translate it...
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-06-18 13:58:28)
Quotes - translation
I think it is something like:
Who bows down too much shows his bottom.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-06-29 08:05:35)
From a silly movie ...
Religion is like wine, it most be tabken with moderation.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-06-29 08:07:01)
Sorry about the spelling...
Religion is like wine, it most be taken with moderation.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-07-04 07:17:27)
Open Games
Try the scotch opening, the central pawns are exchanged early.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-07-10 05:17:34)
Free willy
When we make mistakes is comfortable to blame something else:
We are just toys in the hands of the gods
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-07-12 06:00:43)
More deconstruction ..
Hi, complete out of context, but this link explains the difference between deconstruction and demolition:
http://www.ilsr.org/recycling/decon/deconfaq.html
Normajean Yates (2008-07-13 04:52:23)
I MEANT DECONSTRUCTION
I *meant* deconstruction, NOT demolition, thank you!
oops, Rodolfo d Ettorre's post is maybe not aimed at me! But, today I celebrate paranoia day ;)
Normajean Yates (2008-07-13 04:54:16)
Hahahaha !!
Oh, please follow Rodolfo's link! :) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR POSTMODERNISTS ;)
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-07-15 09:16:50)
Good idea!
We could use it, especially in Thematic Tournament!
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-07-18 06:34:32)
Good Question
I found this in the Wikipedia:
The term Norma Jean can refer to several people:
* Norma Jeane Mortensen, the given name of actress Marilyn Monroe.
* Norma Jean (band), a Christian metalcore band.
* Norma Jean (singer), a Country music singer, nicknamed "Pretty Miss Norma Jean"
* Norma Jean, the stage name of Norma Jean Wright, R&B vocalist and former lead singer of the disco group, Chic
* Norma Jean (album), the 1978 debut solo album of Norma Jean Wright
* Norma Jean, a circus elephant with a marked grave in Oquawka, Illinois
* Norma Jean, Song by the Danish Heavy Metal band Mevadio
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-07-18 15:35:26)
Names
My apologies, [moderated ;)]
Normajean Yates (2008-07-18 16:53:24)
Apology and Apology
Apologies to everyone including Mrs Rodolfo d Ettorre
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-07-22 00:23:13)
Women
Also is a question of critical mass, non enough woman playing chess. In my chess club there were only two, and when they came many men stopped what they were doing just to talk with them, so their competition was more like the queen with more satellites around, so they would not play as much chess as men.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-07-22 00:25:50)
Women
So, if there were more women playing chess, their average strength would be similar to men's
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-07-24 04:05:02)
Against Humanity
I agree, humanity is bad for the health of our planet, but there is hope, our species can be improved, have a look at this URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee
Normajean Yates (2008-07-24 04:31:21)
Mark, Rodolfo - great posts!
:)
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-07-25 05:01:17)
quote was Gloria Steinem's iirc...
The opposite is also true:
A married woman looks like a fish riding a bicycle.
Normajean Yates (2008-07-26 00:44:24)
Rodolfo which side are you on?
Both sides, it seems. Reminds me of Italo Calvino's short story - the name of the english translation was 'solidarity'. I forgot the name of the original italian.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-07-26 10:44:11)
C'era Un Ragazzo ...
I have got that song, it is from Gianni Morandi, it was against the Vietnam war. I have it somewhere, a gift from a friend ...
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-07-26 10:46:03)
Algebraic notation ...
I thought the algebraic notation was invented by Rene' Descartes.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-07-26 14:21:34)
Jill the Ripper
Many people, including the famous historian Johann Sebastian Mastropiero there was not Jack the Ripper, but a female assassin called Jill The Ripper.
Normajean Yates (2008-07-26 14:27:09)
Rodolfo ... I am playing that song ..
right now on this computer - can you hear it? :)
Andrew, the woman who said all that you cited [Martha Stewart?] is in the ultimate analysis a victim of social programming.
Mark Hailes (2008-07-26 18:52:52)
Descartes
@Rodolfo. Just to be pedantic - I'm pretty sure that the well known *fact* that Descartes invented the "Cartesian coordinate system" is actually a myth.
So, in Descartes day, the notation for 1.e4 might be something like this:
"The white king, for his first draught, commands his owne pawne, and places him into the fourth house before his owne place."
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-08-04 15:06:15)
A silly one .....
I read this somewhere ...
Comparing George W Bush with Bill Clinton is worse than comparing Monica Lewinsky with Condoleezza Rice
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-08-09 13:40:31)
Spacebar!!!
If you do not want to hit the spacebar, look at this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Casanova
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-08-14 14:11:36)
FICGS, acronym for.
Feminist Inter Continental Gastro Sympathetic
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-08-21 17:43:41)
Latvian ...
I hope I am not asking too much, but can we have a Latvian gambit thematic tournament?
Since there are good players here, after such a tournament the theory about the Latvian gambit will have to be rewritten.
Normajean Yates (2008-08-21 21:31:44)
Rodolfo I second that proposal!
I second Rodolfo's proposal of a latvian thematic here at ficgs.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-08-23 09:10:08)
IGAME.RU...
Could it be that their server is temporarily down?
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-08-24 11:07:55)
IGAME.RU
If IGAME.RU has been killed maybe Thibault can consider a Memorial IGAME.RU tournament.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-08-25 12:09:56)
Me defender too!
Darkness vs Light, I am black!
Thibault de Vassal (2008-09-09 18:32:31)
One player needed to save Latvian gambit
Current teams :
Defenders : Michael Aigner, Rodolfo d'Ettorre
Refuters : Ilmars Cirulis, Iouri Basiliev, Scott Nichols
We need one more player in the defenders team ! One game to play against each player of the opposite team...
Thibault de Vassal (2008-09-09 23:29:51)
Latvian gambit team match
Here we are.. the teams :
Defenders : Michael Aigner, Rodolfo d'Ettorre, Denis Ivanchenkov
Refuters : Ilmars Cirulis, Iouri Basiliev, Scott Nichols
I'll create the games tomorrow if everything's ok :)
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-09-10 04:30:29)
Ok for me ...
Per me va bene
Denis Ivanchenkov (2008-09-10 17:50:43)
I'm ready as well.
Just looked ratings: Defenders: Michael Aigner, 2561 Rodolfo d'Ettorre, 1900 Denis Ivanchenkov 1741 Refuters: Ilmars Cirulis, 1628 Iouri Basiliev, 2154 Scott Nichols 1980 Looks like team match will be quite interesting
Denis Ivanchenkov (2008-09-10 21:01:07)
It depends upon
what my team-mates think. I'll be playing WITHOUT chess engine. If Michael Aigner and Rodolfo d'Ettorreare are OK with it then I'm in. If they think I should use chess engine (to avoid giving an advantage to opponents) then I leave.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-09-11 04:20:36)
It is ok for me....
Using a chess engine is allowed, just an option, but is not mandatory. So, Denis should be in, even if he chooses not to use brain prosthetic, I mean chess engines.
Thibault de Vassal (2008-09-12 15:02:52)
Latvian gambit tournament just started !
You can find the tournament in "SPECIAL TOURNAMENTS"
http://www.ficgs.com/category__ficgs__chess__special_event.html
http://www.ficgs.com/tournament_FICGS__CHESS__LATVIAN_GAMBIT_EVENT.html
Good luck to Michael, Rodolfo and Denis :)
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-09-26 01:27:50)
Second language
In South America I think only Bolivia has got more than one official language, and it is not Russian, I am afraid.
Alexis Bromo (2008-09-26 07:38:46)
Rodolfo
in ukraine, the most of people speak russian. but it is not official language. and as far as i know canada and switzerland are multi-language counties. so why russian can not be official language in ukraine?
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-09-27 06:10:36)
Languages .....
That reminds me something, years ago I had a friend who was studing Russian, and he tried to adapt the Cirillic alphabet to the Spanish language.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-09-27 06:13:29)
Politics ...
I think something universal about politicians, they do not mean what they say, or they do not say what they mean, so they only say what they advisers tells them to say, so, probably they do not know or are not responsible with what they say.
Denis Ivanchenkov (2008-09-27 11:41:28)
and...?
Rodolfo what was the result? Viglyadelo bi prikolno! :)) Буэнос Диас!
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-09-27 13:58:06)
The result ...
Nothing special, he showed me some senteces in cirillic, he liked languages, especially slavic ones. Since I did not share his passion, I did not follow up. I have not seen him for many years.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-09-28 15:34:26)
Languages ...
This is very interesting, in the olimpic games in Barcelona, the King of Spain spoke a few sentences in Catalan, someone told me it was the first time in History that a King of Spain spoke publicly in Catalan, instead of Spanish, also in Italy, in Bolzano, the streets names are in both Italian and German and the region I think have the status on bilingual.
In my opinion a second language is always a wonderful thing, been able to speak another language always enriches a person.
There was a SF writer in one of his stories he said that langiage gave shape to thoughts, not the opposite, and in the novel 1984 of George Orwell there was the concept of eliminating dissident movements by creating a new language without words that could be used for thoughts against the government.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-09-28 23:00:55)
Democracy ...
Democracy is just an illusion, only simple minds believe in it. Market and power are the crude reality.
Denis Ivanchenkov (2008-09-29 10:11:21)
Rodolfo d Ettorre
"Market and power are the crude reality." Yeah! You are right! here in Ukraine and in Russia we already know it! and we know the real price of "democratic" blah-blah-blah - and this IS what makes adepts of "democracy" (like Iouri Basiliev) nervous.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-10-01 06:26:42)
re and...?
Thanks Denis, I just found out now, that was "Buenos Dias" written in Cyrillic.
Iouri Basiliev (2008-10-06 12:30:18)
Latvian gambit
My first two games with Michael and Rodolfo simply confirmed - "LG is bad opening". 15-20 moves and black can resign. I choose 3.Nxe5 as most difficult for black. 3.Bc4 has been played with Denis. Do not expect more than 20 moves here as well.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-10-11 07:03:49)
Promotion
I did not have any promotion in Latvian Gambit Team challenge ...
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-10-12 13:22:16)
Quotes
I was watching a TV movie and I heard this:
The dance is a vertical expression of a horizontal wish.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-10-13 00:34:25)
Jennifer Lopez
Yes, it was Jennifer Lopez, last night.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-10-22 08:08:51)
Alzazsia
There is some informazione here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace-Moselle
Normajean Yates (2008-10-24 00:39:28)
thanks Rodolfo
Thanks for the link!
It (en-wikip. on Alsace) is rather badly organised e.g. Alsace or Alsace-Lorraine don't have a prominent link to there, etc.
It doesnt mention any special status on official languages for Alsace-Moselle.. but hell, english-wikipedia is not God :) Specially, on politically controversial issues it is mainly trash...
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-10-26 04:05:15)
Latvian
Maybe the Damiano is more sound than the latvian Gambit. :-)
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-10-27 12:25:59)
Thanks Thibault
Hi Thibault, your site is probably the best chess postal site ever.
Une question, after a few years, when you grow older, do you have any grand children to whom to pass this legacy?
Don Groves (2008-10-28 04:58:16)
Grandchildren?
I think Thibault needs to have children first, Rodolfo ;-)
Thibault de Vassal (2008-10-30 12:32:47)
:)
Hi Garvin, yes this is a small "display" bug that will disappear by itself, not a clock problem.
To Don, Normajean and Rodolfo: don't worry I already thought about that (well, about FICGS at least) :-)
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-11-04 00:12:23)
5 Queens problem
The queens problem for a 5x5 board has 10 possible solutions, time ago I build a small java application to solve the N queens problem, and I used it for a 5x5 board.
Normajean Yates (2008-11-04 03:43:33)
Rodolfo, this is not n queens prob!
1. 5 queens prob [none attacking any other] on 5x5 board has ZERO solutions, as is easy to see.
2. n queens problem - fast solution, all solutions, all solutions excluding symmetry etc. is routine exercise after teaching back tracking in a programming course. Also, writing recursive program in lisp, tail recursive program, program with function being called with itself as a parameter [in untyped languages - otherwise you get 'infinite type' error], lazy-eval-function-program [typically for Haskell] - are routine exercises for leaerning a new fundamentally different language for experienced programmers.
BUT I DO NOT SEE THE RELEVANCE OF THE N QUEENS PROBLEM HERE! WE ARE DISCUSSION 5X5 COMPETITIVE CHESS WITH START-POS rnbqk/ppppp/8/PPPPP/RNBQK w Qq !
nxn queens is 2 minutes programming exercise! Writing a good engine for above is a big project!
Continuing the topic of engines for above (nowadays called Gardner minichess) - we also need some endgame tablebases. That should not be difficult: modifying source code of nalimov tablebase generators. [download tbgen.c - or is it cc (c++)? I have the source - it is GPL anyway...
We are not talking about future ficgs things - we are discussing a point of some academic interest, that is all.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-11-04 04:20:01)
5x5 Queens problem
There are solutions, one is a1, b3, c5, d2 and e4
Normajean Yates (2008-11-04 12:13:13)
0h sorry [to rodolfo] :)
Oh sorry - brain tooo fatigued - thats why I am on vacation. Even 4 queens on 4x4 has solutions: a2,b4,c1,d3. [unique upto symmetry -I THINK], Isnt the 5 queens solution also unique up to symmetry? Or can all solutions be obtained by rotation, reflexion or combination of rotation+reflection; of a1, b3, c5, d2 and e4? [JUST DONT FEEL LIKE THINKING IT OUT - BRAIN HAS SHUT OFF...]
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-11-06 13:11:01)
Berliner!
JFK also was a fan of Berliner, he said:
Ich bin ein Berliner
Which means:
<>br> I like Berliner!
Normajean Yates (2008-11-06 15:51:34)
:) [to rodolfo]
It means 'I like Berlin' - but nice joke :)
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-11-07 02:18:43)
Re Kennedy's famous (mis)quote
I see, so in Paris he would have said:
je suis un croissant
Normajean Yates (2008-11-07 09:27:35)
:0 - and Don Groves - thanks for ..
.. the German lesson! :) I stand corrected...
to Rodolfo : je suis'un croissant - :O :)
thibault, shouldn't they be liaisoned, suis and un to get suis'un - or is <<je suis'un croissant>> wrong?
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-11-08 10:03:24)
Games ...
What I do is to download ALL the games and I use a freeware chess database tool called SCID to get the games with the opening I want.
Normajean Yates (2008-11-09 04:26:24)
Rodolfo, I do *exactly* the same thing!
"What I do is to download ALL the games and I use a freeware chess database tool called SCID to get the games with the opening I want." - I do *exactly* that!
Specially, the newer versions of scid are *very* convenient! [I am using scid 3.6.23 - but 3.6.26 is available I checked.]
Thibault de Vassal (2008-11-09 15:19:50)
All games...
Doing the same as Rodolfo is clearly the best method, the FICGS search by opening is limited to 500 games.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-11-09 23:13:52)
All the games ...
Hi Thibault,
Maybe the games could be compressed, in zip format perhaps, so it will save bandwidth
Normajean Yates (2008-11-10 00:10:05)
to Ben Milton -
You can download *all* chess games ever played at ficgs [well that pgn file is not fully up-to-date, but ...].
And then filter with scid.
That is what Rodolfo, Thibault, and I meant..
Do you want *more* spoonfeeding? ;)
Thibault de Vassal (2008-11-10 01:42:37)
Zip
True, Rodolfo... but this file did not take a lot of bandwidth until now... maybe later :)
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-11-11 23:39:28)
There is one God!!!
In IGAME.RU there was a player whose nick was "Sexy God", and he definitively existed.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-11-11 23:40:47)
'the silence of God' trilogy...
I have not seen that Ingrid Bergman's movie yet.
Denis Ivanchenkov (2008-11-12 06:16:44)
God or not God...
> By the way, is/are it/he/she/they necessary to anywhat ? necessary to pray to during financial crisis.
> Maybe we should open a new topic :) good idea! and then ficgs.com will look even more like igame.ru - there also were endless flames of one notorious user - I think his nick is translated as AllPeopleAreTheOne. Hope he doesn't speak English
Rodolfo d Ettorre > In IGAME.RU there was a player whose nick was "Sexy God", and he definitively existed :))
Normajean Yates (2008-11-13 11:28:36)
no more posts from me re 'God'. :)
Just to remind rodolfo: 'the silence of god' is not one film, it is a trilogy as I said i.e. the collective name of three films:
1. Through a Glass Darkly (Swedish: Såsom i en spegel ("As in a mirror"))
2. Winter Light (Swedish: Nattvardsgästerna)
3. The Silence (Swedish: Tystnaden).
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-11-13 13:47:13)
Bergmans and Bergmans
Something not related, a frienf I have called Ingrid, got married with a man whose name was Igmar, funny thing, she did not know who Igmar Bergman was, she knew about Ingrid because of Casablanca. Anyway, they got two children and after five years they separated.
Normajean Yates (2008-11-13 15:09:03)
to rodolfo: another strange coincidence
So we have two Ingmar Bergmans and three Ingrid Bergmans:
1.Your friend's husband and your friend.
2. The famous film director and his last wife [she was Ingrid, and took the husband's surname after marrying him]
3. The famous female actor Ingrid Begman, who was never Ingmar Bergman's wife! :)
PS: films reminded me: has Telesur started showing more literary and artistic programs? My friend Tariq Ali is on the board of advisors of Telesur, and he keep pressing them...
Anyway, please convey my greetings and solidarity message to President Chávez!
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-11-14 00:28:24)
wrzody
I tried to find out more about the "wrzody boom", but I only got this page, which is about peptic ulcers of the stomach and duodenum:
http://www.resmedica.pl/zdart6982.html
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-11-21 00:20:33)
Re almost there..
I think Normajean is right, I have never seen published a photo of a naked GM.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-11-25 11:54:03)
1433 Char Chess Engine
It compiles with mingw32 as a windows console application I used Dev-c++, which is a freeware ide that wraps the mingw compiler ...
Normajean Yates (2008-11-25 22:07:41)
thanks rodolfo...
for compiling to windows-console code I used to use djgpp, the GPL dos port of gcc [gnu c/c++ compiler]- but starting windows 98SE specially graphics programs complied with djgpp dont work any more ... I'll try mingw32 + Dev-c++..
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-12-03 00:22:53)
More Doping
Lasker use to smoke cigars during a chess game and karpov used Yogurt, which contains the bacteria Lactobacillus acidophilus. New studies seem to indicate that that bacteria may enhance concentration.
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-12-12 11:40:15)
This one from Robin Hood
You should stay home and do some embroydery.
Robin Hood to Lady Marian
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-12-15 07:13:45)
Hydra!!!
I found this one:
http://www.ricardo.com/engineeringservices/engine.aspx?page=hydra
Rodolfo d Ettorre (2008-12-15 12:22:46)
More hydra ...
This time seriously, I have got an old version here:
http://tonythomas.mylivepage.com/file/240/5286
I have played with it using Arena but this old version seems not as strong as Toga.
Normajean Yates (2008-12-17 18:09:10)
thanks to rodolfo and Robin Hood..
I really should do some embroydery.
(chess overdose has hit!)
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