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MNb God Member Offline Rudolf Spielmann forever Posts: 10777 Location: Moengo Joined: 01/05/04 Gender:	Re: WHAT IS COWARDICE IN CHESS? Reply #219 - 03/02/09 at 10:54:04	Post Tools	Print Post
	Gambit wrote on 03/02/09 at 04:28:37: I am a Capricorn by Zodiac sign. As you may know, Capricorns can be very unorthodox in a lot of ways! If you believe in astrology that explains a lot of nonsense you write. For your information: the configuration of the stars has shiften two months since the Zodiac "system" was invented. So astronomically speaking you are not a Capricorn at all. Only cowards think their Zodiac sign important. They are too afraid to take full responsibility for their deeds and so describe them to "the starts".

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Gambit God Member Offline I love ChessPublishing .com! Posts: 1397 Location: Newark Joined: 07/26/05 Gender:	Re: WHAT IS COWARDICE IN CHESS? Reply #218 - 03/02/09 at 04:28:37	Post Tools	Print Post
	Let's see... I am not listed in USCF??? I'm a boy from Brooklyn, New York??? Wow, what a bunch of misconceptions some people have here about me! First, I am not from Brooklyn, New York. I live in New Jersey. Second, the USCF uses a variant spelling of my surname: Zilbermintz. I spell it with an "s", not a "z" at the end, so it is easy to see where you can go wrong. A guy can spell his surname "Fernandez" and "Fernandes", with both being correct. My origins? I am originally Russian, with Polish Jewish ancestry going back to 1715. I am a Capricorn by Zodiac sign. As you may know, Capricorns can be very unorthodox in a lot of ways! As for my playing style, why, gambits were invented before the closed games! What other games do you know that have names like "Evergreen Game", "Immortal Game" ? Only gambit games from the 19th century! Anderssen-Dufresne, 1862. Morphy-Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard, 1858. Just to name a couple... I trust that answers your questions?


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Markovich God Member Offline Posts: 6099 Location: Columbus, Ohio Joined: 09/17/04	Re: WHAT IS COWARDICE IN CHESS? Reply #217 - 03/02/09 at 02:40:20	Post Tools	Print Post
	Gambit wrote on 03/01/09 at 12:30:03: TN wrote on 03/01/09 at 05:54:45: That's a pretty cowardly decision by your opponents - playing your own favoured openings against you. Doing this is tantamount to sucide. On the contrary, it shows bravery! Pardon me Lev, but I looked you up on USCF and you're not there. There are no Zilbermints at all, in fact. Is your real name not Zilbermints, or are you just a loudmouthed patzer posing as a serious chess player? Or are you not an American, something I would find most remarkable in view of many of your character traits?

	The Great Oz has spoken!
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MNb God Member Offline Rudolf Spielmann forever Posts: 10777 Location: Moengo Joined: 01/05/04 Gender:	Re: WHAT IS COWARDICE IN CHESS? Reply #216 - 03/01/09 at 21:10:04	Post Tools	Print Post
	What's more - this thread is superfluous. In quite a few other threads LDZ has displayed his opinion that everyone is a coward who does not play according to his taste. Having a nasty character (sometimes) this thread is an invitation to me - and I have noticed to a few others as well - to write posts as distasteful as possible without becoming completely improper.

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Markovich God Member Offline Posts: 6099 Location: Columbus, Ohio Joined: 09/17/04	Re: WHAT IS COWARDICE IN CHESS? Reply #215 - 03/01/09 at 20:42:50	Post Tools	Print Post
	Smyslov_Fan wrote on 02/28/09 at 19:27:40: Hi all, here's a quick poll question that I will leave up for about a week. If anyone has some constructive suggestions to encourage more people to add interesting comments, please post it here! There is not one damned thing about this thread that is interesting, dear chessfriend, not even my own absurdly indulgent posts here. What I suggest is that you delete this thread, since a large majority is in favor of that. To me and I think to many, this topic is as distasteful as any other. I fail to see why this forum should be a venue for anyone's puerile rantings purporting to equate choice of system with moral inferiority. The whole concept is profoundly offensive, and this forum should not give space to it. If some not-very-well-brought-up boy from Brooklyn has contempt in his heart for people who don't play unsound gambits, he should keep is mouth shut about it and post instead about chess opening theory itself -- which, not cowardice, is what this forum is devoted to. Deleting this thread would discourage this person's participation here along his present, obnoxious lines, and ought to be done.

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Gambit God Member Offline I love ChessPublishing .com! Posts: 1397 Location: Newark Joined: 07/26/05 Gender:	Re: WHAT IS COWARDICE IN CHESS? Reply #214 - 03/01/09 at 12:30:03	Post Tools	Print Post
	TN wrote on 03/01/09 at 05:54:45: That's a pretty cowardly decision by your opponents - playing your own favoured openings against you. Doing this is tantamount to sucide. On the contrary, it shows bravery!


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TN God Member Offline Posts: 3420 Joined: 11/07/08 Gender:	Re: WHAT IS COWARDICE IN CHESS? Reply #213 - 03/01/09 at 05:54:45	Post Tools	Print Post
	That's a pretty cowardly decision by your opponents - playing your own favoured openings against you. Doing this is tantamount to sucide.

	All our dreams come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Gambit God Member Offline I love ChessPublishing .com! Posts: 1397 Location: Newark Joined: 07/26/05 Gender:	Re: WHAT IS COWARDICE IN CHESS? Reply #212 - 03/01/09 at 04:58:53	Post Tools	Print Post
	SWJediknight wrote on 03/01/09 at 00:55:25: So do I, but then again Zilbermints will win because he is rated some 400 points higher than I am lol. I played against the BDG in 1996 and the Englund (3...Qe7) in the same year. Then again, I played against the Englund just recently. I will post these old games later.


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SWJediknight God Member Offline Alert... opponent out of book! Posts: 916 Joined: 03/14/08	Re: WHAT IS COWARDICE IN CHESS? Reply #211 - 03/01/09 at 00:55:25	Post Tools	Print Post
	So do I, but then again Zilbermints will win because he is rated some 400 points higher than I am lol.


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Gambit God Member Offline I love ChessPublishing .com! Posts: 1397 Location: Newark Joined: 07/26/05 Gender:	Re: WHAT IS COWARDICE IN CHESS? Reply #210 - 03/01/09 at 00:50:20	Post Tools	Print Post
	SWJediknight wrote on 02/28/09 at 20:38:46: Playing a BDG or Englund Gambit against Lev Zilbermints might just do it. Except that Zilbermints knows both gambits very well and will win.


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SWJediknight God Member Offline Alert... opponent out of book! Posts: 916 Joined: 03/14/08	Re: WHAT IS COWARDICE IN CHESS? Reply #209 - 02/28/09 at 20:38:46	Post Tools	Print Post
	Playing a BDG or Englund Gambit against Lev Zilbermints might just do it.


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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: WHAT IS COWARDICE IN CHESS? Reply #208 - 02/28/09 at 19:28:53	Post Tools	Print Post
	Here's my suggestion: What is humor in chess?


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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: WHAT IS COWARDICE IN CHESS? Reply #207 - 02/28/09 at 19:27:40	Post Tools	Print Post
	Hi all, here's a quick poll question that I will leave up for about a week. If anyone has some constructive suggestions to encourage more people to add interesting comments, please post it here!


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Smyslov_Fan God Member Correspondence fan Offline Progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~GBS Posts: 6902 Joined: 06/15/05	Re: WHAT IS COWARDICE IN CHESS? Reply #206 - 02/28/09 at 19:23:39	Post Tools	Print Post
	I have just deleted a thread because it may have been offensive to visitors and was at the very least distasteful. I hate deleting any threads, and I do not intend to delete this one. I do believe that this forum has the ability to monitor itself and to remember that many people read these threads without responding. Please try to show "a modicum of decorum" in this forum! I'm going to delete the current poll since its creator has posted what he considers to be the final results. I encourage you to come up with an interesting poll question to replace this one! ~Cheers


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Gambit God Member Offline I love ChessPublishing .com! Posts: 1397 Location: Newark Joined: 07/26/05 Gender:	Re: WHAT IS COWARDICE IN CHESS? Reply #205 - 02/28/09 at 16:25:42	Post Tools	Print Post
	TN wrote on 02/28/09 at 06:38:56: Results of the poll: 8 people want the thread to be locked. 15 people want the thread to be deleted. 10 people do not want the thread to be locked. That's a margin of 23-10. @Gambit I couldn't find the answer to your joke on the Internet, although I suspect the answer has something to do with one of Nevada's legalised industries. About the poll: I asked the moderator to lock it awhile back. At the time I was leading in the poll. He responded with "Let's wait awhile." About Nevada: Which industry is that?


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