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Dazz nuffin. Check out Glenn Atwell. He physically tilts his head sideways to get his eye lined up.. It's hard to see in this picture, and I couldn't find a better one.. But it is pretty extreme.

Yeah... It totally sounds shady, without any effort whatsoever to explain "why" they can't make all the match data public.. By "we can't do that", I assume one of three possibilities... 1. They CAN in fact, make all the games public... But don't want to, because of the gamblers who will get...

I'd be curious as to how the stats play out in the year that the pockets were 4 1/8", versus the larger pockets this year. I think the winning expectation changes for the breaker, depending on tightness of the pockets..

Fargorate already gives a "handicap" calculator, that is very accurate in predicting outcomes. But herein lies the problem... It's right there in the site fairmatch.fargorate.com. The entire site is built off of the idea of figuring out what two players need to "gamble" somewhat fairly. But...

Oh, and one more point... The only reason this "sandbagging" sh*t has the "possibility" to work in Fargorate.. Is because not all the data is 100% completely public. Both tournament directors AND players should be able to review the match/rating history of ANY player in the field in the run up...

It is debatable whether Fargorate is more "accurate" than chess ratings or not... But one thing that is not debatable is that the vast majority of the data a player might be interested in, is hidden from the player base.. Unless you subscribe to the app. And even then.... Players interested in...

Mike.... One big problem I have seen is not "homogenizing" names written with English letters, but having foreign accented characters. I was looking up a Polish player from the Italian Open, and could not find them, because they have a single accented character in their name. I literally could...

Well, speaking personally for me... One of the biggest failings I see in Fargorate is the fact that players can "choose" to make all their games public, or not. Chess is not this way. I can see the results of every tournament game I have ever played in my entire LIFE. I am turning 50 years old...

Yeah.... "Pool players".

Nope.. 100% was City Lights. I spent the vast majority of my pool playing time outside the barracks in that pool hall. Rick probably took his cue from the way they did the tournaments at The White Spot. Rick Jones REALLY played some jam up barbox 8 ball. He didn't like our One Pocket action by...

Let me tell you.. That Wednesday night tournament at City Lights got TOUGH there for a while.... Don McKay was a good player who tended to be in the final 8, but not necessarily win the tournament... But one Wednesday night.. His first opponent broke and ran a three pack out the gate to put him...

I never played for the amounts you guys did, because in my playing days, I was a poor soldier, with not a lot of spare dollars to risk. But this does remind me of a story back in WA. At one of my regular small tournament in Lakewood, I met this dude "Semo", who I found out to be a player from...

Coming from you.. That is quite the compliment.. Thank you!

Your lack of an attention span is not my problem, sir. Go watch some shorts on Facebook or summin. Let the intelligent adults converse amongst themselves, please. Was that short enough for yah, brocephus?

I am currently in a practice cycle right now, to correct quite a bit of laziness and apathy in my game, mostly dealing with working night shift for the past 7 years or so, and not having opportunity to play many smaller local events, so basically having "nothing to practice for". I am making...

As a general rule, during the English Renaissance, there were efforts made to change spelling of specific words to make their Greek and Latin origins more evident, whether those extra letters were "pronounced" or not. As someone who has studied German, let me tell you this is very much...

Filler is just starting a match, and there is commentary. You can't blame them for not bothering to commentate the early first round matches.. Some of them were pretty trash. Oortmann played terrible.

It's "utility" is the Democratization of the game. Every other sport allows for matching up players of similar levels, so people can get stiff competition without getting absolutely skulldrug. EVERY other sport/game... Amateur chess players are not expected to be forced to play Grandmasters...

Dude.. WTF? You are posting on a public forum. The EXPECTATION is that everything on here that you post is public forever. People have brought up threads of mine that are 15+ years old. I got no problems discussing my opinions, no matter how far back they go..

If you are talking about the long butcher papers on the wall that wrapped around City Lights in Tacoma? I thought Mike Zimmerman was the consistent winner.. At least when I was there 95-98.. I actually made the top 2/3 on that list a couple of times before I PCSed to Germany. I beat J.D. once or...