Matt: White, Brad: Black, November 28, 2006.

1. e2-e4, e7-e5.
2. ng1-f3, d7-d6
3. c2-c4, bc8-g4.
4. bf1-e2, ng8-f6.
5. 0-0, nf6xe4.
6. d2-d3, ne4-c5
7. b2-b4, nc5-e6.
8. nb1-c3, g7-g5
9. qd1-a4+, qd8-d7.
10. be2-d1, h7-h5.
11. nc3-e4, h5-h4.
12. ne4-f6+, ke8-e7.
13. nf6xd7, nb8xd7.
14. nf3xg5, ne6xg5. 
15. bc1xg5+, f7-f6.
16. bd1xg4, f6xg5.
17. bg4xd7, a7-a6.
18. ra1-e1, rh8-h6.
19. a2-a3, c7-c6.
20. re1-e4, bf8-g7.
21. qa4-a5, g5-g4.
22. d3-d4, ke7xd7.
23. d4xe5, rh6-e6. 
24. re4xg4, bg7xe5.
25. rg4xh4, re6-e7.
26. qa5-a4, re7-e8.
27. b4-b5, a6xb5
28. qa4-b3, b7-b6.
29. rh4-h6, be5-d4.
30. g2-g3, bd4-c5.
31. h2-h4, bc5xa3. 
32. rf1-a1, ba3-c5.
33. qb3-b2, b5xc4.
34. rh6-f6, b6-b5.
34. qb2-c1, re8-f8.
35. qc1-f4, c4-c3.
36. rf6xf8, ra8xa1+
37. kg1-g2, c3-c2.
38. rf8-a8, c2-c1=q
39. qf4xc1, ra1xc1. 
40. ra8-g8, rc1-c2.
41. rg8-f8, kd7-e7.
42. rf8-c8, bc5xf2.
43. rc8Xc6, rc2xc6.
44. kg2Xf2, b5-b4.
45. h4-h5, rc6-c8.
46. h5-h6, rc8-h8.

White resigns.
End of Round One.
Next Up: Gino vs. Sex Machine, B-God vs. D-Mac.

Dropping the Soap

Ever wondered what the highest rated Soap Opera's of all time are?
I just found myself wondering that while watching my roommate feed her "The Young and The Restless" addiction.
So, here is a list ranking the top soaps of all time. Take a look at Number Nine!

"...and play the odd game of chess."

Odd Indeed

Warwick Davis Is Dead

Or, maybe he just lives in Alabama now.



Update: Now, with added hit single goodness!

Great Album Covers, Part 2

Larry Young - "Unity", 1965

Youtubin' It To Death

"I got to take you higher!"



Imagine you had just woke up on THIS side of the bed: You find yourself on national TV after having just been released from prison on bail. You are charged with allegedly hitting your wife with a lead pipe, then firing a few rounds at her car as she fled your home. How would you then face the nation?

Probably not the way James Brown did.

Great Album Covers, Part 1

Mel Torme With The Marty Paich Dek-tette: "Lulu's Back In Town", 1956

Clapping Music

Video

Pull Out Method Acting

aka "From Kings of Church & Wellesley to Beyond: A True Story"

Let me tell you a tale, dear reader. A tale which seems to flutter in the winds of fable like a kite on a spring day, but, much like the person holding the kite's string, is actually quite grounded in fact.

Fact #1: Prior to landing roles on MTV's Undressed, our two heroes, seen here, were but two faceless Joe's blending in as seamlessly as two straight men can while within Toronto's famed Church & Wellesley district.

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In an effort to avoid burdening this urban fable with details, it shall suffice to note that our heroes' meteoric rise to the annals of Church & Wellesley's newly bitheic mythology was fuelled by many a Jagermeister one December weeknight, as our boys rose Phoenix-like from the smoldering ashes of one lesbian bartender's deeply felt personal tragedy.

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Move over Cher, there are new icons in town!
And move over F. Scott Fitzgerald, as we now usher in a new venerable maxim for the modern era: "A beefcake seen twice is twice as nice!"

The Oldest Surviving Recording?

"The world earliest playable sound recording – voices from 1878 of an experimental talking clock."

Transferred from the original lead cylinder, here is Frank Lambert's Talking Clock

"Consquatch" rhymes with "crotch".

Luckily, so does "watch!"

Live at Sasquatch.

From Stripe To Checkerboard Order On The Square Lattice

Delmaestro seduces the truth out of the doped cupric oxide planes, and finds that the Charge Density Waves in these planes are fickle mistresses.

Abstract

Gino vs D-Mac, November 11, 2006

Gino: White, Doug: Black
White Resigns (0-1)

Link

Eye of the Tiger

And so it begins!

The 801 Chessmasters

Until one of us is crowned 801 Chessmaster, may God have mercy on our souls.

The Life Of The Party

"Let us say the game may be continued in two ways: one of them is a beautiful tactical blow that gives rise to variations that don't yield to precise calculation; the other is clear positional pressure that leads to an endgame with microscopic chances of victory.... I would choose the latter without thinking twice. If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic."

- Anatoly Karpov

Brad: White, Doug: Black, November 7, 2006

1. e2-e4, e7-e5.
2. ng1-f3, nb8-c6.
3. c2-c4, ng8-h6.
4. d2-d3, f7-f5.
5. e4xf5, nh6xf5.
6. qd1-e2, bf8-b4+.
7. bc1-d2, 0-0.
8. h2-h4, d7-d6.
9. qe2-e4, h7-h6.
10. g2-g4, g7-g6.
11. g4-g5, qd8-e8.
12. g5xh6, nf5xh6.
13. a2-a3, bb4-c5.
14. bd2xh6, nc6-a5.
15. h4-h5, na5-b3.
16. rh1-g1, nb3-c1.
17. rg1xg6+, kg8-h8.
18. bh6-g7+, kh8-g8.
19. nf3-g5, bc5xf2+.
20. ke1-d2, nc1-b3+.
21. kd2-e2, qe8-c6.
22. h5-h6, rf8-f5.
23. h6-h7#

Chris: White, Doug: Black, November 1, 2006

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Chris: White, Doug: Black, October 29, 2006

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Doug: White, Brad: Black, October 7, 2006

1. e2-e4, c7-c5
2. d2-d3, Qd8-c7
3. g2-g3, Qc7-e5
4. Ng1-f3, Qe5xe4+
5. d3xe4, e7-e5
6. Nf3xe5, Bf8-d6
7. Ne5-g4, Ng8-f6
8. Bf1-c4, Nf6xg4
9. Qd1xg4, h7-h5
10. Qg4xg7, Rh8-f8
11. Bc1-g5, Bd6-e7
12. Qg7-e5, d7-d6
13. Qe5xe7#

Chris: White, Doug: Black, October 6, 2006

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Brad: White, Doug: Black, Sept 28, 2006

1. b2-b4, d7-d5.
2. d2-d4, Ng8-f6.
3. e2-e3, Bc8-g4.
4. bf1-e2, e7-e6.
5. h2-h3, Bg4-h5.
6. g2-g4, Bh5-g6.
7. b4-b5, a7-a6.
8. b5xa6, Ra8xa6.
9. be2-b5+, c7-c6.
10. bb5-e2, Ra6-a4.
11. c2-c3, Nf6-e4.
12. qd1xa4, Nb8-a6.
13. f2-f3, Ne4-g5.
14. be2xa6, b7xa6
15. a4xc6+, Qd8-d7.
16. Qc6-a8+, Qd7-d8.
17. Qa8xa6, Bf8-d6.
18. Bc1-a3, 0-0.
19. Ba3xd6, Rf8-e8.
20. h3-h4, Qd8-c8.
21. Qa6-a7, Bg6-d3.
22. h4xg5, h7-h5.
23. Rh1xh5, Re8-d8.
24. Bd6-e5, Qc8-d7.
25. Ke1-d2, Bd3-c4.
26. a2-a4, Qd7xa7.
27. a4-a5, f7-f6.
28. g5xf6, g7xf6.
29. be5xf6, Qa7-c7.
30. Rh5-g5+, Kg8-f7.
31. Bf6-e5, Qc7-e7.
32. f3-f4, Qe7-f8.
33. a5-a6, Rd8-a8.
34. Nb1-a3, Bc4xa6.
35. Ra1-b1, Qf8-h6.
36. Rg5-g7, Kf7-e8.
37. g4-g5, Qh6-h2+.
38. Ng1-e2, Ba6xe2.
39. f4-f5, Ra8xa3.
40. Be5xh2, Ra3-a2+
41. Kd2-c1, Be2-d3.
42. Rb1-b8#,

Chris: White, Doug: Black, September 25, 2006

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Chris: White, Doug: Black, September 25, 2006

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Chris: White, Doug: Black, September 18, 2006

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Chris: White, Doug: Black, September 12, 2006

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Chris: White, Doug: Black, August 14, 2006

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Brad: White, Doug: Black, July 26, 2006

. b2-b4, e7-e5.
2. a2-a4, a7-a5.
3. c2-c3, Ng8-f6.
4. e2-e4, d7-d5.
5. bf1-b5+, Nb8-c6.
6. Ng1-f3, Bf8-d6.
7. h2-h4, d5xe4.
8. Nf3-g5, 0-0.
9. b4xa5, Ra8xa5.
10. Bb5-c4, Nf6-g4.
11. f2-f3, e4xf3.
12. g2xf3, h7-h5.
13. f3xg4, Bc8xg4.
14. qd1-c2, e5-e4.
15. ng5xe4, Bd6-f4.
16. d2-d3, Ra5-f5.
17. a4-a5, Nc6-e5.
18. bc4-b5, c7-c6.
19. bb5-c4, b7-b5.
20. bc4-b3, Bf4xc1.
21. qc2xc1, Ne5xd3+.
22. ke1-d2, Nd3xc1+.
23. kd2-xc1, b5-b4.
24. c3-xb4, Rf5-f4.
25. ne4-d2, Qd8-d4.
26. rh1-e1, Qd4xa1.
27. nd2-e4, Rf8-d8.
28. a5-a6, Qa1-xa6.
29. ne4-g5, Rf4-xb4.
30. bb3-xf7+, Kg8-h8.
31. re1-e6, Rd8-f8.
32. re6-h6+, d7-xh6.
White resigns

Brad: White, Doug: Black, July 12, 2006

1. d2-d4, d7-d5
2. e2-e3, Nb8-c6
3. b2-b4, Bc8-f5.
4. b4-b5, Nc6-b4.
5. h2-h4, Nb4xc2+.
6. ke1-e2, Nc2xa1
7. bc1-d2, a7-a6.
8. b5xa6, Ra8xa6.
9. nb1-c3, Bf5-c2.
10. qd1-c1, e7-e5.
11. qc1xa1, e5xd4.
12. nc3xd5, qd1xd5.
13. qa1-b2, d4-d3+.
14. ke2-e1, Ra6xa2.
15. qb2-b4, Ra2-a1+.
16. bd2-c1, Bf1xb4#.

Brad: White, Doug: Black, May 10, 2006

1. g2-g4, d7-d5
2. Bf1-g2, e7-e6
3. Ng1-f3, Nb8-c6
4. d2-d4, h7-h5
5. bg2-h3, e6-e5
6. nf3-nxe5, Nc6xe5
7. d4-xe5, h5-xg4
8. bh3-xg4, Bc8-xg4
9. f2-f3, Bg4-h3
10. 0-0, Bf8-c5+
11. kg1-h1, Rh8-h6
12. rf1-g1, Rh6-g6
13. rg1-g3, Rg6-xg3
14. h2-xg3, Qd8-d7
15. g3-g4, d5-d4
16. nb1-d2, 0-0-0
17. nd2-e4, Bc4-b3
18. a2-a3, Qd7-e7
19. a3-xb4, Kc8-b8
20. kh1-h2, Qe7-h4
21. bc1-g5, Qh4-h7
22. bg5-xd8, Bh3-xg4+
23. kh2-g1, Bg4-e6
24. qd1-xd4, Qh7-g6+
25. kg1-f1, Be6-h3+
26. kf1-f2, Qg6-b6
27. kf2-e3, Ng8-h6
28. c2-c3, Nh6-f5+
29. ke3-f4, Nf5-xd4
30. e2-e3, Nd4-e2+
31. kf4-g5, Qb6-h6#