Category Archives: humour
Today’s winning DILEMMA!
Watermelon or Coconut??
“We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.” –Ken Levine
Chess, cinema, potpourri and nonsense!
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I was watching TV the other night with my wife, the FOX CRIME channel, in particular the Poirot series and I really enjoyed ‘The Big Four‘, an adaptation of the 1927 Agatha Christie novel which revolved around solving a mystery that began with a chess match at which one of the grandmaster’s died unexpectedly while playing his third move:
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 (opponent suddenly keels over and dies) 0-1
I have to say that I really enjoyed it, descriptive notation and all! Infact, fate would have it that I have recently been watching a lot of oldish films where chess is an integral part of the plot. Is it just my imagination, or can it be true that chess has always been part of Hollywood? (Food for thought for a later blog?!)
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Deadlier than the Male is a 1967 mystery drama that might be considered something of a James Bond-ripoff that apparently was all the rage back then.
You can actually find the entire film over at YouTube, and a short synopsis can be found HERE.
But the best part of the film (for me) is a scene near the end where the film’s star and his arch-rival settle things once and for all in a GIANT ROBOT chess game:
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AN INTRIGUING PHOTO!
I have been trying to find out more of this photo of a young Jane Seymour, but without success so far. Readers might remember Jane as being a Bond-girl back in the early 1970’s, before going on to greater things.
But getting back to the photo, I love it! Jane is packing (count. 3-guns) and showing her underwear at the same time. And the chess set? Certainly not a coincidence! There must be some hidden meaning…that escapes me.
Perhaps some reader might be able to help out?! I thought of asking Winter (over on ChessHistory) but had second thoughts when I realized that Winter had probably already copyright-ed the photo and would just ask me to remove it.
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Because some things are worth fighting about
Suicide Girl Harley Quinn. A real ball breaker. http://showbiz.liputan6.com/read/2509032/harley-quinn-bakal-dibuatkan-film-bareng-cewek-cewek-super
Grabbing
Morning Shave. It is the only time of day that I take a smoke….Ok, its not really me. David Gandy https://www.murdocklondon.com/themurdockman/tag/david-gandy/
Jean Claude Van Damme http://giphy.com/gifs/conan-jean-claude-van-damme-kickboxer-NE7jb7UsQ3S48
You know that cold feeling…
The future of the Catholic Church in France? Joking aside, this is a shot from the film MS.45 (1981)This rape/revenge flick follows Thana (aptly named after the Greek God of Death), a deaf mute in New York City who is viciously attacked twice in the same day. Thana snags the second assailants .45 caliber pistol and begins taking down the Big Apple’s gentlemen. The chaos culminates at a Halloween party where Thana (played by the stunning Zoe Lund) dresses as a nun. Ms .45 also features one of my favorite soundtracks, which was recently giving a snazzy record release via Death Waltz. http://www.fangoria.com/new/the-dreadful-ten-rebekahs-top-10-nunsploitation-films/
The French PM has declared that France will have to change its relationship with Islam. Is this part of what he has in mind?
Rachel Welch and fan
1970’s movie
Got’a love Goth! https://pt.pinterest.com/pin/28147566399969377/
I wish I could spell Siguerney properly
Hillary without makeup!
Next door neighbours. thank god for the bovine growth hormone
Best shot from Aliens.
Deadlier than the Male 1967
Deadlier than the Male 1967
Deadlier than the Male 1967
Jane Seymour
Let’s try that one more time…this game is so much fun!
I know the feeling…especially after losing a won game!
Isabeli Fontana
Carpe diem
I saw the matric last night and loved it even more than the first 999 times I saw it! Thanks Neo and Trinity!
Leather
Leather and chessboard
Hal Bond CFC chess organizer
Leather and coffee
My 2nd grade school teacher….a mother figure!
Nice! Kandi Barbour. born Linda Jean Smith in 1956, died January 2012 was an American adult model, pornographic actress and exotic dancer She was very popular with audiences in the Golden Age of Porn in the 1970s and 1980s. You can find out more about her life, career and death: https://kandibarbour.wordpress.com/
The best cook has nothing to hide.
Victoria Cunninham
My grade one elementary school teacher…this must explain how I turned out the way I did.
Odds and Ends
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THOUGHTFUL OPINION
LINK
“A recent article in the New York Times saw as a problem the fact that females are greatly under-represented among the highest rated chess players. Innumerable articles, TV stories and political outcries have been based on an “under-representation” of women in Silicon Valley, seen as a problem that needs to be solved.
Are there girls out there dying to play chess, who find the doors slammed shut in their faces? Are there women with Ph.D.s in computer science from M.I.T. and Cal Tech who get turned away when they apply for jobs in Silicon Valley?
Are girls and boys not allowed to have different interests? If girls had the same interest in chess as boys had, but were banned from chess clubs, that would be something very different from their not choosing to play chess as often as boys do. As for chess ratings, that is not subjective. It is based on which players, with which ratings, you have won against and lost to.
Are women and men not to be allowed to make different decisions as to how they choose to spend their time and live their lives?
Chess is not the only endeavor which can take a huge chunk of time out of your life, and unremitting efforts, to reach the top. If you want to become a top scientist, a partner in a big law firm or a top executive in a major corporation, you are very unlikely to do it working from 9 to 5, or taking a few years off, here and there, to have children and raise them.
Applying the same unsubstantiated assumption to differences in “representation” between different racial and ethnic groups likewise produces many loudly expressed grievances, political crusades, and millions of dollars from lawsuits charging discrimination — all without a speck of evidence beyond numbers that do not match the prevailing assumptions.
People who base their conclusions on hard facts often reach very different conclusions than those who base their conclusions on the preconception that outcomes would be even or random in the absence of somebody treating somebody wrong.
Something as simple as age differences among groups can doom any assumption of even or random outcomes.
If every 20-year-old Puerto Rican in the United States had an income identical with the income of every 20-year-old Japanese American — and identical incomes at every other age — Japanese Americans as a group would still have a higher average income than Puerto Ricans in the United States. That is because the median age of Japanese Americans is more than 20 years older.
People with 20 years more work experience usually make higher incomes. And age difference is just one of many differences between groups.
You can study innumerable groups in countries around the world today, or over centuries of recorded history, without finding a single example of the even or random outcomes that are used as a benchmark for determining discrimination.
Nevertheless, courts of law — including the Supreme Court of the United States — use something that has never been found anywhere as a norm to which current realities are to be compared. Billions of dollars, in the aggregate, have changed hands as a result of individual lawsuits charging discrimination.
Life is undoubtedly unfair. But that is not the same as saying that the unfairness occurred wherever the statistics were collected. The origins of this unfairness often go back to different childhood environments for individuals or different geographic or cultural settings for groups and nations.
These differences between nations, as well as differences between individuals and groups, reflect the fact that the world “has never been a level playing field,” as economic historian David S. Landes put it. Renowned historian Fernand Braudel said, “In no society have all regions and all parts of the population developed equally.”
How long will we continue to take something that has never happened, and never had much chance of happening, as a norm?”
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Sevilla Monologues
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And taste them while you are at it…
The catholic doctrine (that not even priests respect) that is , was and never will be reasonable.
From my talented goddaughter, Mariana. https://www.instagram.com/chemi_the_snail/
Fidel being corrupted by some good Chop Suey!
Passion! Love this photo! Both seem ready to jump each other infront of everyone…that is what lust should be like! Agree?
Making a cup of coffee and cleaning up from the night before…. the first thing in the morning…
Next door neighbor.
1969. The good old days. Zvonko Vranesic has just won the Canadian Championship. Take a look at a super-young Hugh Brodie over on the left. http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/10863/1/Zvonko-Vranesic-Croatian-Canadian-International-Chess-Master-and-Professor-at-the-Univeristy-of-Toronto.html
Western thinking is quickly turning against ISLAM. Trump is going to start deporting hundreds of thousands of them (even if they are law abiding citizens). The Dark Ages revisted. But what choice do we have against sharia?
lost in translation
Uncertainty over NYC location for WCC increasing by the day. When will FIDE come out and clarify?
Nigel today on his twitter
Explains a lot
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Glasses and pretty Asian girls
(Part I)
Today’s political incorrect chuckles!
Today’s winning laughs!
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MORE EUROPEAN BREXIT HUMOR!
This exchange in Brussels earlier today reminds me of the time I was in highschool…there were not too many ADULTS in today’s classroom.
Why you should always FLUSH before taking a crap….
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ROBOTICS SUFFERS MAJOR SETBACK!!
Now we know how to defeat them!
The Girl in the Golf…
(Pin-up by Jay Scott Pike,1964)
“I don’t let birdies and pars get in the way of having a good time” ― Angelo Spagnolo
REPORTAGE VETEMENTS ENTRE 1972 ET 1976 – TIRAGES 18X24 CM
Chess,news,music,sex,nonsense (Yes!)
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TODAY’S CHESS NEWS AROUND THE WORLD!
(mostly)
Google! They can not distinguish between CHEST and CHESS! Type in ‘chest game’ to see what I mean…
Photographer Llada with one of his favourite subjects.
Congrats!! Nakhchivan Tournament Results; http://chess-results.com/tnr221300.aspx?lan=1
Smoke, Lips, Lipstick…
Great article!! http://www.alexcolovic.com/
If it were only possible…
Cool!
“Paris is like a whore. From a distance she seems ravishing, you can’t wait until you have her in your arms. And five minutes later you feel empty, disgusted with yourself. You feel tricked.” ― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Let me guess: does this have to do with memory?
Chess Cafe! On this day…
One of the oldest chess clubs in the world. http://homepage.eircom.net/~ninki/dublinchessclub/index.html
Emma! My favourite Porn Star is always naughty…
European Chess Union photos from the European Chess Championship in Kosovo today. https://www.facebook.com/europeanchessunion
Fide home page.
Morozevich playing GO!
Do you ever visit the ICCF website looking for tips and information? I do !
Cool!
Iranian Chess Federation I don’t understand a word! http://chesstehran.ir/
Imagine the nerve of the Judge! He was not even worried about making a mistake! Read more here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iranian-judge-tells-man-if-you-re-innocent-you-ll-go-to-heaven-after-youre-hanged-a7032876.html
Oldest chess club in Dublin http://homepage.eircom.net/~ninki/dublinchessclub/index.html
Grandmaster Ivan Salgado is having a great tournament in Kosovo
Topalov is going to be an author! Psychology? The famous Bulgarian Kitchen: http://veselin-topalov.com/index.php/47-frontpage/frontpage/226-veselin-topalov-collaborates-book-psychology
Philosophy
Wow! Won’t a zillion students be relieved!
Suing english publications for mixing up names from the Panama file..http://www.chessdom.com/quinn-emanuel-law-firm-to-represent-russian-chess-federation/.
Rowson is alwyas worth reading! https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Rowson
My friend Paunovic has died of a heart attack today! A really strong competitor,and a true gentleman! RIP http://www.chessdom.com/in-memoriam-gm-dragan-paunovic/
Available at ChessBase!
Stuart is reflecting…
Peter Long’s weekly column: FIDE beware! http://www.themalaymailonline.com/opinion/peter-long/article/yet-another-look-at-fide-and-russia
Who is Peter Long? For those who are not aware…
Kosovo round 7 today. Early report.
Canadian Liza Orlova in Rome!
Shahade giving a simul and warming up to play some poker! http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/poker-returns-ac-boardwalk-taj-mahal-resorts-casino-article-1.2641842
PubChessToronto!
Springtime,. Parks. Always worth visiting (take your camera along!)
GREAT LASKER PICTURES!!
I came across these photos of Emanuel Lasker on the great Blog ”Quienes jugaron ajedrez” Some I had seen before, but most were completely new to me. ENJOY! I suggest you take a look at the blog and investigate….
Lasker was a champion of many games. Here he is playing (?)
Lasker’s brother Berthold and his wife Else Schuler
Lasker with his older brother, Berthold, who was also a strong player.
Lasker, his wife Martha and the family pet at his farm.
Lasker’s travelling chess set.
Lasker playing golf.
Martha sewing. Lasker always wanted her to attend his games, and she did a lot of knitting!
Lasker and Martha
Martha knitting away…
Martha was a wonderful wife to Laskr.
CHESS PUB IN BRAZIL!
Readers of this blog will have noticed that I like to post material about chess cafes and pubs (and disco’s) that use the name or theme or whatever with ‘CHESS’. Today it is the turn of a popular site in Brazil. WEBSITE INSTAGRAM FACEBOOK.
Today’s chess(?!) videos
Good Monday morning to all of my readers! Keeping with this blog’s tradition of promoting chess-art thru the divulgation of short films/videos that have some sort of chess(?!) content while delivering the film’s message, I present a few shorts that I came across this past weekend. ENJOY!
CHESS, MARRIAGE AND MUSIC
CHESS, HUMOUR AND FUNDRAISING
CHESS, PHILOSOPHY AND DIEING YOUNG
Little girl lost in the city. She doesn’t understand the traffic. But one day she probably will or can the things change ? DEEP question for the philosophers…
Chess, news, tidbits and potpourri
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Emma, my favourite PORN star. Great sense of HUMOR! https://twitter.com/EmmaEvins
Aronian Interview! He is the MAN! http://champord.am/levonaronyan-victories-are-built-upon-defeats/
Anti-Cheating precautions at next Olympiad. http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/9609-interview-with-the-fide-vice-president-israel-gelfer.html
Great advice from my friend Alex. https://twitter.com/GMAlexColovic
Oh, SHUT UP! (but he is PROBABLY correct!)
REXasaurus. BBC article must read. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36257742
Congrats!! She wins the Kazakh championship! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhansaya_Abdumalik
My favourite DAME. http://damerebel.tumblr.com/
This is how you look if your girlfriend dropped you?? It also looks likea MEETING of the Chess Club!.
