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Date: 14 Dec 2008 10:17:03
From: dgcoulter
Subject: Holiday Quiz
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Is the chesscafe holiday quiz on this year? I haven't seen any mention
on the website
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Date: 02 Jan 2009 17:01:07
From: Offramp
Subject: Re: Holiday Quiz
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On Jan 2, 9:53=A0pm, [email protected] wrote:
> Dear all,
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> The Quiz organized by the CREB (Cercle Royal des Echecs de Bruxelles)
> starts this 03/01/2008.
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> End of the Quiz : 15/02/2009 at 23:59
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> The Quiz is open for everyone.
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> All the questions are in french. Good luck !
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> Infos on :www.creb.beand [email protected]
Thanks, =C9tienne I may well take part!
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Date: 02 Jan 2009 13:53:31
From:
Subject: Re: Holiday Quiz
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Dear all,
The Quiz organized by the CREB (Cercle Royal des Echecs de Bruxelles)
starts this 03/01/2008.
End of the Quiz : 15/02/2009 at 23:59
The Quiz is open for everyone.
All the questions are in french. Good luck !
Infos on : www.creb.be and [email protected]
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Date: 17 Dec 2008 12:04:10
From: Offramp
Subject: Re: Holiday Quiz
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On Dec 17, 7:20=A0pm, [email protected] wrote:
> On Dec 17, 1:55=A0pm, [email protected] wrote:
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> > On Dec 17, 1:32=A0pm, Offramp <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > On Dec 14, 6:17=A0pm, dgcoulter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Here are the answers to non-questions 1 to 10:
>
> > > 1. 64.
> > > 2. It stands for "en passant".
> > > 3. Standing on his head in the corner shouting, "Must I lose to this
> > > idiot?"
> > > 4. The board was showered with golden coins worth millions of
> > > stotinki.
> > > 5. The previous moves to the "Everbrown Game" were 1. Nb1-c3 d7-d5 2.
> > > d2-d4 f7-f6 3. e2-e3 g7-g5 4. Bf1-d3 Nb8-d7.
> > > 6. The player opposite Boris Spassky is Robert J Fischer.
> > > 7. Filip, Kramnik and Smyslov.
> > > 8. The Tsar did it; that famous Tsar famously qualified to award ches=
s
> > > titles.
> > > 9. J D Salinger, Thomas Pynchon & Edward Winter.
> > > 10. He went to watch Tosca, left early, came back and found that the
> > > position was the same.
>
> > =A0 No, the answer to #1 is 42.
That reminds me of the question, "How many squares are there on a
chess board - and it is more than 64?"
Gah!
Gah!
Gah!
Gah!
Gah!
Gah!
Gah!
The answer being 204 (64 + 49 + 36 + 25 + 16 + 9 + 4 + 1 =3D 204). The
board itself is one big square, and there are two squares of 7x7 etc.
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Date: 17 Dec 2008 11:20:38
From:
Subject: Re: Holiday Quiz
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On Dec 17, 1:55=A0pm, [email protected] wrote:
> On Dec 17, 1:32=A0pm, Offramp <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Dec 14, 6:17=A0pm, dgcoulter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Here are the answers to non-questions 1 to 10:
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> > 1. 64.
> > 2. It stands for "en passant".
> > 3. Standing on his head in the corner shouting, "Must I lose to this
> > idiot?"
> > 4. The board was showered with golden coins worth millions of
> > stotinki.
> > 5. The previous moves to the "Everbrown Game" were 1. Nb1-c3 d7-d5 2.
> > d2-d4 f7-f6 3. e2-e3 g7-g5 4. Bf1-d3 Nb8-d7.
> > 6. The player opposite Boris Spassky is Robert J Fischer.
> > 7. Filip, Kramnik and Smyslov.
> > 8. The Tsar did it; that famous Tsar famously qualified to award chess
> > titles.
> > 9. J D Salinger, Thomas Pynchon & Edward Winter.
> > 10. He went to watch Tosca, left early, came back and found that the
> > position was the same.
>
> =A0 No, the answer to #1 is 42.
Oh, and #3 should be that he liked to shout "Fire! Fire!" and
disrobe on a city bus while standing on his head in a bathtub full of
women's shoes, after giving God odds of knight, smashing up all his
furniture and urinating on his opponents while drunk at a blindfold
simul, the strain of which drove him mad from chess fever.
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Date: 17 Dec 2008 10:55:13
From:
Subject: Re: Holiday Quiz
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On Dec 17, 1:32=A0pm, Offramp <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Dec 14, 6:17=A0pm, dgcoulter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Here are the answers to non-questions 1 to 10:
>
> 1. 64.
> 2. It stands for "en passant".
> 3. Standing on his head in the corner shouting, "Must I lose to this
> idiot?"
> 4. The board was showered with golden coins worth millions of
> stotinki.
> 5. The previous moves to the "Everbrown Game" were 1. Nb1-c3 d7-d5 2.
> d2-d4 f7-f6 3. e2-e3 g7-g5 4. Bf1-d3 Nb8-d7.
> 6. The player opposite Boris Spassky is Robert J Fischer.
> 7. Filip, Kramnik and Smyslov.
> 8. The Tsar did it; that famous Tsar famously qualified to award chess
> titles.
> 9. J D Salinger, Thomas Pynchon & Edward Winter.
> 10. He went to watch Tosca, left early, came back and found that the
> position was the same.
No, the answer to #1 is 42.
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Date: 17 Dec 2008 10:32:11
From: Offramp
Subject: Re: Holiday Quiz
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On Dec 14, 6:17=A0pm, dgcoulter <[email protected] > wrote:
Here are the answers to non-questions 1 to 10:
1. 64.
2. It stands for "en passant".
3. Standing on his head in the corner shouting, "Must I lose to this
idiot?"
4. The board was showered with golden coins worth millions of
stotinki.
5. The previous moves to the "Everbrown Game" were 1. Nb1-c3 d7-d5 2.
d2-d4 f7-f6 3. e2-e3 g7-g5 4. Bf1-d3 Nb8-d7.
6. The player opposite Boris Spassky is Robert J Fischer.
7. Filip, Kramnik and Smyslov.
8. The Tsar did it; that famous Tsar famously qualified to award chess
titles.
9. J D Salinger, Thomas Pynchon & Edward Winter.
10. He went to watch Tosca, left early, came back and found that the
position was the same.
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Date: 15 Dec 2008 18:40:06
From: crawf
Subject: Re: Holiday Quiz
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On Dec 15, 9:49=A0am, [email protected] wrote:
> On Dec 14, 11:05=A0pm, Offramp <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Dec 14, 6:32=A0pm, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > > On Dec 14, 1:17=A0pm, dgcoulter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Is the chesscafe holiday quiz on this year? I haven't seen any ment=
ion
> > > > on the website
>
> > > =A0 There will be no Holiday Quiz this year.
That is disappointing. I was hoping to improve my result over last
year, although it was going to be tough. My three girls (one human,
two canine) are relieved to not be chess widows and orphans this year,
but worry about what outlet I can find for my obsessiveness now...
> > Oh? Any reason?
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> =A0 I am not entirely sure; it was Hanon Russell's decision. Perhaps it
> was getting hard to get sponsors to donate prizes. Also the
> administrative overhead may have been too big a burden. When Hanon
> started ChessCafe.com, it was more or less just a hobby, but now it's
> a business enterprise requiring full-time attention.
I wonder if he is planning to make any sort of announcement on the
website.
> =A0 Personally, as the main writer of the quiz, I always enjoyed
> composing the questions, but with more and more chess info getting
> onto the web now, it was getting harder and harder to come up with
> questions that couldn't be answered with a few minutes of online
> searching.
There were not that many quick finds last year, IIRC. Using more
pictures certainly slowed us down, for example.
Larry Crawford
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Date: 15 Dec 2008 06:49:07
From:
Subject: Re: Holiday Quiz
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On Dec 14, 11:05=A0pm, Offramp <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Dec 14, 6:32=A0pm, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > On Dec 14, 1:17=A0pm, dgcoulter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Is the chesscafe holiday quiz on this year? I haven't seen any mentio=
n
> > > on the website
>
> > =A0 There will be no Holiday Quiz this year.
>
> Oh? Any reason?
I am not entirely sure; it was Hanon Russell's decision. Perhaps it
was getting hard to get sponsors to donate prizes. Also the
administrative overhead may have been too big a burden. When Hanon
started ChessCafe.com, it was more or less just a hobby, but now it's
a business enterprise requiring full-time attention.
Personally, as the main writer of the quiz, I always enjoyed
composing the questions, but with more and more chess info getting
onto the web now, it was getting harder and harder to come up with
questions that couldn't be answered with a few minutes of online
searching.
For example, one of my regular themes was chess players'/writers'/
composers' pseudonyms. Then Anders Thulin compiled a cross-reference
of names and pseudonyms from Gaige's "Chess Personalia." So much for
that kind of question.
> I used to enjoy that. I used to get about 5 right on
> my first read-through and end up with about 7 in all.
That's about what I got on the first quiz, which was written by
Edward Winter.
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Date: 14 Dec 2008 22:54:41
From: dgcoulter
Subject: Re: Holiday Quiz
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On Dec 14, 10:05=A0pm, Offramp <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Dec 14, 6:32=A0pm, [email protected] wrote:
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> > On Dec 14, 1:17=A0pm, dgcoulter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Is the chesscafe holiday quiz on this year? I haven't seen any mentio=
n
> > > on the website
>
> > =A0 There will be no Holiday Quiz this year.
>
> Oh? Any reason? I used to enjoy that. I used to get about 5 right on
> my first read-through and end up with about 7 in all.
> I bet you its absence is something to do with a lack of prizes owing
> tp the dispute with USCF caused by their lack of money due to the
> ongoing legal cases involving Sam Sloan and others.
I'd compete for free.
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Date: 14 Dec 2008 20:05:32
From: Offramp
Subject: Re: Holiday Quiz
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On Dec 14, 6:32=A0pm, [email protected] wrote:
> On Dec 14, 1:17=A0pm, dgcoulter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Is the chesscafe holiday quiz on this year? I haven't seen any mention
> > on the website
>
> =A0 There will be no Holiday Quiz this year.
Oh? Any reason? I used to enjoy that. I used to get about 5 right on
my first read-through and end up with about 7 in all.
I bet you its absence is something to do with a lack of prizes owing
tp the dispute with USCF caused by their lack of money due to the
ongoing legal cases involving Sam Sloan and others.
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Date: 14 Dec 2008 10:32:24
From:
Subject: Re: Holiday Quiz
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On Dec 14, 1:17=A0pm, dgcoulter <[email protected] > wrote:
> Is the chesscafe holiday quiz on this year? I haven't seen any mention
> on the website
There will be no Holiday Quiz this year.
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