Totally off-topic, but did anyone else that gets Chess Life Magazine catch the side article saying how well MonRoi and Zeljka did with the U.S. Championship?

Totally off-topic, but did anyone else that gets Chess Life Magazine catch the side article saying how well MonRoi and Zeljka did with the U.S. Championships?

Actually, the change "the equivalent of weight" from year to year...
Some years ago Kiril Georgiev got his weight in cheese :))

>> Some years ago Kiril Georgiev got his weight in cheese :))

Must have been a funky trip back home.

KDG:

Everyone and his neighbour knows that the Monroi device and $2.75 can get you inside the Montreal metro. The fact is that the US Chess Federation and Monroi are both run by hysterical housewives. When they do not spend their time thinking of other women having orgasms, they try to push their worthless products onto us. Of course, they will never tell you that nobody is buying or paying attention, but political correctness is about image, not facts.

Chess Auditor

Mig:

Why no US Open coverage on your site?

Does anyone have on update on Steve Rosenberg?

Susan Polgar won the elections. Let’s audit you, I bet we find no achievements, psychiatric treatments, skeletons in the closet and prejudice against women. Your only supporter is Mig Geenliver, who appears to be against Susan, Dalia and about any other talented female chess player. It is unfortunate for you that there are some great women like Susan, Irina Krush, Elisabeth Vicary, Jennifer Shahade... They should get together and file a complaint to the US chess federation. The USCF Executive Board chairman could decide on measures to be taken. Good luck.

Mig,

Don't know who the previous poster was but they've used the handle I've had on here for years.

Is there a way to make handles unique? I really don't don't want to be associated with the previous comment.

Thanks.

"Your only supporter is Mig Geenliver, who appears to be against Susan, Dalia and about any other talented female chess player" hmmm.... It appeared to me that Mig followed the US Women's Championships almost as closely as he followed the open championships. He, like the rest of the world, gives women's events about ten times as much coverage as they would get if the players were all men. Yeah, he is against CERTAIN talented female chess players, such as Susan. And it is very hard to call a 1700 talented.

Howdie Chess Auditor!

Don't let all em' girlie men get ta ya. But there'll be lots of em. When the barn is burnin', all da pigs run out. Good for ya for exposin' em' good-for-nottin' bimbos. "Great women chess players," das precious! Wah-all know dat great women chess players, when not playin', should be on pregnancy leave, not bloggin'! D'em no good Zelk--whatever she calls hersef and Susan Polgar don't play no chess, no sir! Dey juss shillin' der products!

This has to be one of the worst strings of comments ever seen on the Daily Dirt. Not quite as bad as the discussion a while back of whether GM Shirov and his family were "occupiers" of Latvia because they were ethnically Russian, but close. Most amazingly, these comments had absolutely nothing to do with Mig's actual post.

dignify... I started this cause it was the most recent posting. No one would have noticed if i tacked it on to a U.S. Championship thread.

"This has to be one of the worst strings of comments ever seen on the Daily Dirt."

New in town?

lmao @ greg koster!

Hey, since this seems to be a thread to talk about anything, I have a question. Does anyone know what the biggest upset in chess history is? I've been thinking about Carlsen's draw and how sometimes things just don't turn out "like they're supposed to." I've heard that each 200 rating points should mean a 70% winning chance for the higher rated opponent. So, if I'm 1700, I should have about a .243% chance of beating a 2700. Of course, I'm not sure that the 70% thing is even accurate. Anyway, I just got curious about big upsets that anyone knows about.

I think there were 3 400 over 2000 upsets at the U.S. Amateur Team East.

CA: "The fact is that the US Chess Federation and Monroi are both run by hysterical housewives. When they do not spend their time thinking of other women having orgasms, they try to push their worthless products onto us."

This might be the first thing I've ever read that made me consider actually joining the USCF. Common goals, similar agenda, etc... If I'd only known sooner what their charter was, damn it.

If they are running the USCF and Monroi, aren't they by definition not housewives?

An astute observation, Elizabeth, but you can not help but wonder how much happier both of these nutcases would be if they did not insist in going against millions of years of evolution.

If you would like recent examples of women in power, look no further than that paranoid wacko at Hewlett Packard, or perhaps Private England holding a leash on men at Abu Graib, or even Belinda Stronach cheating everyone in Canada.

Susan Polgar is notorious for eliminating any reasonable banter from her blog in order to make it appear that her delusional squealing is never called into question. As for the Monroi psycho, entire threads have been devoted to how she threatens people with lawsuits for disagreeing with her.

An astute observation, Elizabeth, but you can not help but wonder how much happier both of these nutcases would be if they did not insist in going against millions of years of evolution.

If you would like recent examples of women in power, look no further than that paranoid wacko at Hewlett Packard, or perhaps Private England holding a leash on men at Abu Graib, or even Belinda Stronach cheating everyone in Canada.

Susan Polgar is notorious for eliminating any reasonable banter from her blog in order to make it appear that her delusional squealing is never called into question. As for the Monroi psycho, entire threads have been devoted to how she threatens people with lawsuits for disagreeing with her.

"An astute observation, Elizabeth, but you can not help but wonder how much happier both of these nutcases would be if they did not insist in going against millions of years of evolution."

Again, I'm mostly concerned about the word usage. To me, "evolution" is synonymous with change, and I would think that Susan and Brana/ Zelca (sp?) are not "going against millions of years of evolution" but pushing the (r?)evolution along. Probably you meant to use some other phrase, like "biological destiny" or "the way God intended things"?

Ah yes, the "biased sample" fallacy.

Evidence that five professional women are whackos tends to prove that all professional women are.

I cannot help but wonder how much happier this nutcase would be if he hadn't personally missed out on several millions years of evolution.

Is it so obvious that these 5 women are "whackos"? I'll be the last person on earth to defend Private England, but I think the attacks against Monroi are a little hysterical themselves. When I was in Stillwater, I didn't even have cell phone reception in my room, and the internet connection was dodgy at best, so I'd guess that Monroi did a fairly good job with what they had to work with at the US Championships. I'm 100% sure that if they weren't there, we would have been watching only the top 3-5 boards.
I know everyone is going to say "they threatened a lawsuit," but the point is they didn't actually do it, so really it gets down to someone posted something nasty about Monroi, and they posted something nasty back. Which seems kinda par for the course, internet chesswise.

Susan Polgar is genius. Preview of My Brilliant Brain: http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2007/08/preview-of-my-brilliant-brain.html

The International Women’s Grand-Prix, which recognizes women in chess was not even mentioned on DailyDirt. www.monroi.com/GP

It appears that Mig Greengard blog supports prejudice against women and under “anonymous” names. Mig was also mocking the Canadian National Anthem, a scholastic female player etc. I noticed that he likes to promote tournaments in Elista and ridicule North American ones.

Elizabeth,

Even if one doesn't follow throough, threatening to file suit against:
a) people who voice their grievances about one's product and
b) people who run the websites in which those grievances are posted (Mig)

stifles our lively, free-spirited Daily Dirt discussion.

Unless you think it's allright to point a gun at someone provided don't actually shoot them, comparing Monroi's legal threat to routine internet nastiness is thoughtless and silly.

provided you don't

Ha, ha. Why would two high profile people – one former world champion and one patent inventor have anything to do with Mig/Greg Koster/Chess Auditor/Sterns (however he calls himself). You are dreaming to have some importance, using some threatening language trying to intimidate Elizabeth. Why gun, why not artificial intelligence guided nanoparticles shooting in your left eustachian tube with a purpose of extracting Freudian SuperCalaFragalisticExpialidotious. Provided you do.

Why gun, indeed.

There is no excuse for incompetence. Working Internet connections exist in the North Pole and in some remote parts of Africa. If there were any technical problems, it was up to Monroi to resolve them. Well, we now know that giving trusting Monroi to run things is like giving a monkey a Thinkpad, though you may get better results with the latter.

It is a common trait of all losers to blame other people for their lack of know-how. However, as the Monroi morons are no doubt figuring out, the business world is not as forgiving as the PC sports world. When you do not perform, it is Goodbye Charlie.

I would not be so proud to have patented a bogus product that hardly ever works. Nor would I brag about a bogus "World Championship" title that exists only to satisfy PC losers who would otherwise never win anything. I do not know "Mig," but I believe he is friends with the _real_ world champion, Garry Kasparov.

There is no excuse for incompetence. Working Internet connections exist in the North Pole and in some remote parts of Africa. If there were any technical problems, it was up to Monroi to resolve them. Well, we now know that giving trusting Monroi to run things is like giving a monkey a Thinkpad, though you may get better results with the latter.

It is a common trait of all losers to blame other people for their lack of know-how. However, as the Monroi morons are no doubt figuring out, the business world is not as forgiving as the PC sports world. When you do not perform, it is Goodbye Charlie.

I would not be so proud to have patented a bogus product that hardly ever works. Nor would I brag about a bogus "World Championship" title that exists only to satisfy PC losers who would otherwise never win anything. I do not know "Mig," but I believe he is friends with the _real_ world champion, Garry Kasparov.

Cry baby. The Internet connection is responsibility of the organizer and the Internet provider, not the company which provides electronic notepads. You can’t buy the internet connection from monroi. It is obvious. IBM computer support will not guarantee you the Internet connection, but your local New York ISP will. In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exist. The new monroi technology outperformed old paper notation and electronic boards. Ola, already saw it. Good By old stuff, that’s how tech (r) evolution works. Big deal. Cry me a river, for your amusement: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/justintimberlake/crymeariver.html