Queens had its team meeting at the Wall Street Baths on Sunday. GM Pascal Charbonneau came along to spy for the NY Knights, and brought his lovely sister, Anne Marie.
IM Dmitry Shneider and GM Pascal Charbonneau
A few carefully chosen words from my teammates on our upcoming match against Baltimore:
board three FM Andrei Zaremba: "I don't know my opponent, but he probably knows me."
board one and team captain, IM Dmitry Shneider:
"I'm just going to take it one move at a time. I think it's going to be a tough match, but we have chances to win."
Pascal and Andrei are having a who-can-not-laugh-first contest.
Pascal keeps his cool, but Andrei is clearly already under pressure.
Andrei lost maybe 6 times in a row.
Pascal and Anne Marie playing tandem
against Andrei and Dmitry
I went directly from the baths to Philly to visit League Commissioner Greg Shahade and his lovely girlfriend Susan:
League Commissioner IM Greg Shahade
In other news, I'm reading a great book Greg lent me called "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty," an excerpt of which is available here. It's led me to a great website, Give Well, which evaluates charities on how effective they really are. It's also inspired me to realize that I'm spending my money on ridiculous luxuries when people around the world are suffering terribly. I've committed to start by donating $50/ month to Greg's charity project. I'd like to ask you guys to also contribute, if you can, either to Greg's project or to some nonprofit of your choice. thanks!!
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ReplyDeleteEquality even!
ReplyDeleteThere are plenty of places on the internet where you can find barely-clothed pictures of women… like chessbase.
ReplyDeleteYou noticed that?
ReplyDeleteAbout ChessBase, I mean.
ReplyDeleteDo Canadians dress like that?
ReplyDeleteThe one female photo is almost topless and worse than Chessbase.
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Is it me or did you use two of the same person's picture when showing Dmitry Schneider and Andrei Zaremba? They look like identical twins!
ReplyDeleteWhat if we dont trust charity but would be willing to donate to a needy person who wants to play in the world open?
ReplyDeletethat's very nice also. did you wnat to be on the list?
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ReplyDeletesorry, polly, I didn't realize it was confusing
ReplyDeleteI'm easily confused. :-) Zaremba's name and quote looked like a caption to the second picture of Schneider.
ReplyDeleteZaremba is a shining hunk of chess man meat.
ReplyDelete"I'm spending my money on ridiculous luxuries when people around the world are suffering terribly".
ReplyDeletewell said, so I'm going to act on that thought.