Yates, Normajean (GBR)  [FICGS member # 3879]
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Normajean Yates
Last status : quote#14: Yeats on hypermodern chess ;)
age 46+,(b. Oct 1961), London (Calcutta mostly for the next 3 years ... work to do here and I don't mean earning money!)
Very private person. The chatty nature of the above paragraph can be misleading.
Favourite film director of all times: Luis Buñuel!
Also: Jean-Luc Godard, Charlie Chaplin, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick.
Favourite film directors currently still making films: Woody Allen, Lars v. Trier, Stephen Frears ['The Queen' is good, but his old films e.g. 'My Beautiful Laundrette' and 'Sammy and Rosie get laid' were better!]
That pic is Salvador Dali's 1972 painting 'portrait of Marilyn Monroe'.
Normajean Yates has currently 0 running correspondence chess game(s), won 7, lost 2 and drawn 3 other games against an average elo of 1848, played advanced chess at fast time controls, now 0 running, 0 won, 2 lost, 0 drawn, played big chess, now 0 running, 20 won, 4 lost, 0 drawn, does not play Go (wei-ch'i, baduk), and does not play poker, finally Normajean finished a total of 38 games and is not playing any game right now.
Advanced chess statistics :
vs. Garvin Gray (2343) : 0% (2 games, 0 wins, 2 losses)
Big chess statistics :
vs. Sandor Porkolab (1293) : 100% (2 games, 2 wins, 0 losses)
vs. Arne Sigvald Engo (1307) : 100% (2 games, 2 wins, 0 losses)
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Last messages by Normajean Yates in the forum :
seems... a more powerful secret-society (2009-08-12 15:53:19)
.. wants to save ficgs ;-) (...)
mistype: I meant 1.Nh3 and 1.Nc3: (2009-07-10 22:26:08)
I meant 1.Nh3 and 1.Nc3 in my prev post that quoted larry evans... (not 1.Nf3 and 1.Nc3 of course: 1.Nf3 was routine even in 1958 or so when larry eva (...)
chomsky quote from above article.. (2009-07-10 20:04:24)
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The Obama administration announced that it would appeal the ruling, thus placing Obama's Department of Justice "squarely to (...)
chomsky on Obama v Bush; 'idea' of USA (2009-07-10 19:58:45)
http://www.zmag.org/zmag/viewArticle/21609 (...)
icc offers live shatranj, that's why... (2009-07-09 04:25:46)
that's why I said 'theschemind mind' is the only site i knew that offers correspondence-time-control shatranj...
(should hav (...)
to: Mladen Jankovic : shatranj was... (2009-07-05 23:39:17)
shatranj *was* the regular chess once (long ago) ;) I wonder if Al-Adli, Firdawsi et al would be befuddled by today's regular chess (just assume they (...)
ficgs v 'the scheming mind' .. (2009-07-03 14:03:22)
well 'the scheming mind' seems to be a no-engines no-tablebases site. But, for ficgs v 'the scheming mind' engine-use a matter of negotiation.. (...)
The Scheming Mind (2009-07-03 01:38:27)
I provided a quote from Arthur Conan Doyle where Sherlock Holms says that excellence at chess is a mark of a scheming mind.
Voi (...)
Oh ! Thanks! (2009-06-25 21:39:33)
Thanks for pointing it out, Mr/Ms Russi Román!
I should have just search for benko/volga games (in the standard move-order) to (...)
Benko, definitely! (2009-06-25 06:01:09)
After KG thematics (#81-83) there was supposed to be benko gambit thematic, no?
#89 - benko gambit: I second Daniel's proposa (...)