Re: and for old men

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Date: 18 Jan 2008 00:51:38
From: marika
Subject: Re: and for old men

trying to repost this didn't work the first time

>> My first Poast as ika January 7, 1999 (I think this was the first)
>> excerpt
>> Boris Bacynskyj died this week, no one can quite find out how or why.
>> He was in his late 50s.
>
> he is the cousin referred to
>>
>> I memorialized him here with some of my first poasts.
>>
>> Here's a copy of his book
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Chess-II-David-Welsh/dp/0697099113
>>
>> there's lots of other links about him on the net
>>
>> =======================================
>>
>> Speaking of religion, this is Christmas and I feel somewhat sad,
>> because I have no family nearby. I made a traditional Christmas
>> eve dinner, I called out the forces of nature and invited the
>> ancestors to dine with me. Tomorrow, friends will take me for
>> Christmas dinner and a play, so I won't be too lonely.
>>
>> I'm sorry if I sound a little disorganized here, but I am so
>> terribly missing my family.
>>
>> I just got a Christmas card and my friend put in a Japanese
>> inscription. That is one of the languages I have not yet
>> studied. It may be a while before I get the translation
>> because there are no Japanese in the city where I am now
>> residing. I am thinking of xeroxing it and sending it to my
>> American cousins in Cambridge. One is a social worker in a
>> South East Asian nonprofit organization. Obviously, Lao,
>> Cambodian and Vietnamese are not the same. Still, she might
>> just know someone who knows the language. In addition, her
>> brother Boris might, too, because he spent Peace Corps stint
>> in the Far East. He is achessmaster who many years back
>> worked on one of the firstchesscomputer programs. He also
>> lived in perhaps Syracuse, maybe Albany, where he edited achessmagazine.
>> He abandoned that comfort to play "pick up"chesson Harvard Square.
>>
>> Speaking of coumputers, I don't know very much about them.
>> I wish I understood what those lines with x mean. I read
>> somewhere that x-face is to remind women to put on their makeup
>> before they write email. I don't believe this. It sounds like
>> a joke.
>>
>> In addition, I wonder what it means when someone says at the top
>> of the post in the headers: X-ks-the-Spot. I must learn a
>> great deal more about computing.
>>
>> I also was wondering if anyone out there is a numerologist. I
>> wonder if believers in numerology will not read the posts that
>> have numbers of lines that do not fit with their lucky number
>> for the day. I saw someone, I do not remember where, post a
>> message about the New Year, and it had exactly 99 lines it.
>> That was very clever.
>>
>> Happy Christmas everyone
>> ika
>> ***************************
>> EVERYWHERE
>>
>> May Language Kiss Your Hearts With Poems,
>> And Every Blessing On This Earth Be Yours,
>> And Those From Other Worlds As Well...
>>
>> Alan Kaufman
>>
>>> I would only agree to play if we drew random numbers, and kept only that
>>> many random pieces and arranged them randomly on the board according to
>>> yet
>>> another random numbering system. Making up the random numbering system
>>> was
>>> the only way I could keep my mind on the game.
>>
>>
>> My cousin used to make up many variance. For example, when he was in
>> Southeast Asia during Vietnam war, chess were played as if there were no
>> war and all the pieces cooperated.
>>
>>> Chess cereal. Now there is a great name for cereal, especially cos
>>> those
>>> little pillows in the party mix look like mini chess boards.
>>
>>
>> Yes when I see this cereal I think - Oh ChEKA the cereal of secret
>> police.
>> I don't know how to make Italics, and I don't like these American quotes
>> so I will make quotes with commas.
>> ,,Come with the supernova, l'il sister"
>> Worked a long time to jump ,,this" bad.
>> And she sashays, she struts, she levitates...
>> Patricia Smith
>>
>> There might be someone out there that still remembers him
>>
>> mk5000
>>
>> "Having been there in those conditions, and having taken the possibly
>> bold step of removing my feet from the deck, I have had the chance
>> to ?" Levitate "? inside a G-pod for what seamed like a considerable
>> time. My point here being, that when so isolated ?? from regular ??
>> gravitional forces { while levating }? time ( seamed to me to slow )
>> {visual precption become acute} < and tranquility prevail >
>> [ in what otherwise was a nontranquil surroundings ] "--Manley Hubbell
>

Date: 24 Jan 2008 19:12:28
From: marika
Subject: best fracture

> *Boris Baczynskyj ***
>
> *Visitation:*
> Saturday, January 26, 2008
> 1:00 PM until 2:00 PM
> St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church
>
> Jenkintown, Pa 19046
>
> *Service:*
> Saturday, January 26, 2008
> 2:00 PM
> St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church
>
> Jenkintown, Pa 19046
>
>
>
> Boris Baczynskyj, an internationally known FIDE Chess Master, popular
> local
> chess instructor and journalist died suddenly on January 16, 2008.
> He was 62. Mr. Baczynskyj was born in Vienna, Austria to the late Dr.
> Wolodymyr and ia Sodomora Baczynskyj. He was a long time resident of
> Philadelphia, attending grammer school and graduating from St. Joseph's
> Preparatory School. He went on to earn a B.A. in Political Science from
> Yale
> University.
>
> After graduation, Mr. Baczynskyj served with the Peace Corps in Thailand
> and
> later remained in Cambodia, Southeast Asia, working as a freelance
> journalist for UPI, *Far Eastern Economic Review* and other publications.
>
> After Cambodia was overrun by the Khmer Rouge, Mr. Baczynskyj returned to
> the U.S. and immersed himself in the world of chess, competing actively in
> national and international tournaments.
> At one point, he was the third ranked chess player in the US. He also
> served
> as editor of one of the major national chess publications, *Chess Life*
> and
> was Chess Advisor for the world's largest manufacturer of computer chess
> products, Fidelity International. He became a well-known chess tutor,
> instructor, and commentator. He co-authored *Computer Chess II* with
> Charles
> Welsh, (Dubuque, IA; WM. C. Brown, 1985), annotated the games of various
> Chess Masters, including Bobby Fischer, and worked on the the 3rd *Sargon
> Manual* (Hayden Software Company, Lowell, MA). In addition, he wrote
> theoretical and instructional articles on chess and computerized chess.
>
> As a chess instructor, he tirelessly taught and promoted chess, especially
> to young children in private and public schools. Boris provided many
> simultaneous chess exhibitions in venues such as schools, shopping malls
> and
> public fairs. He deeply cared about his young students and celebrated
> their
> achievements, such as during the Philadelphia Schools (Benjamin Franklin
> High and Vaux Junior High) chess teams' chess trip to Yugoslavia.
>
> During the early years of Ukrainian independence, Mr. Baczynskyj again
> worked as a journalist for a few years in Kyiv, Ukraine and his articles
> were published by Intelnews, Cox Publishers and The Ukrainian Weekly. He
> returned to Philadelphia and continued teaching, writing, lecturing and
> chess promotion. In Philadelphia, he was an active member of the Franklin
> Mercantile Chess Club.
>
> In his youth, Mr. Baczynskyj belonged to the Ukrainian Scouting
> Organization
> "Plast" and was a member of its "Burlaky" fraternity. He was active in
> Ukrainian-American Chess life, belonging to the USCAK Chess Club and
> participated in Ukrainian-American tournaments, winning championships
> several times.
>
> His personal values were reflected in his life-long promotion of civil
> rights. During his college days, he participated in several protests
> supporting racial integration and was once even caught up in a mass arrest
> during a protest ch in St. Petersburg, Florida. He promated the concept
> of "Equal rights for all" to his community by translating "We Shall
> Overcome" into Ukrainian. Surprisingly, it became the theme song at the
> Scout's East Chatham "Plast" camp that summer. His anti-war convictions
> during the Vietnam era led him to organize a ch on the American Embassy
> in Thailand to protest Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia.
>
>He will be sorely missed.
>
>
> May he rest in Peace!
>
>
>
> Funeral services will be held on Saturday (January 26) at 2:00 PM with
> family greeting friends at 1:00 PM at St. Michael's Ukr. Catholic Church,
> Jenkintown, Pa. Services to be followed by burial at St.
> y's Cemetery, Elkins Park, Pa
> In lieu of flowers, the family request that donations be sent to:
> USCAK-CHESS (Ukrainian Sports Federation of USA & Canada) \>

Date: 24 Jan 2008 19:11:23
From: marika
Subject: Re: and for old men