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This was the temporary home of my
<big> Angel-Fire chess website for a few days. ( "Big," = www.angelfire.com/games3/lifemasteraj.
)
I had "corrupted" that site and did not know how to fix it. So,
for just a few days ... I moved it here. Initially, I was not sure of what I was going to utilize this space
for.
(I have now decided to try and make this the home of an extensive on-line end-game school! Later ... I may also add some pretty and interesting end-game studies.)
I need your help!! I have many bills that are directly connected to my many Internet sites. (ISP services, software needed to create the pages that you seem to like, phone bills, a monthly bill for my main web site, etc.) Would you consider sending a donation? I suggest 25-35 dollars a year. But even if you could only send a few dollars in an envelope, it would mean a great deal to me.
Help make this a better site! Please send a donation, (or a contribution); today!
A.J.
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P.O. Box 11718
Pensacola, FL 32524
(My thanks to everyone who has sent something!)
Click to see my latest creation!!!
(This will change every time I post a new page!!!)
Feb. 16th, 2003: After several straight computer crashes, I am finally back on line. (Apparently Windows '98 died on me. I had to upgrade to Windows XP.) Many of you sent me material, questions, endgames, etc. Thanks to the computer crashes, much of this information is ... GONE!! If you would like to re-send it, I would greatly appreciate it. Otherwise, I will not be able to retrieve this information.
This distinguished body of experienced journalists has chosen to honor this site with the following award:
BEST Web-based Analysis! (For the year, 2004.)
For the following game: David Janowski versus Frank J. Marshall; ICT / Cambridge Springs, 1904.
(My deepest and sincerest thanks!!!)
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I just got an e-mail from a fairly well-known IM ... he also has a regular column in one {relatively large} news-paper.
This is what he said about my prize-winning analysis:
"Dear
A.J. - - Great job of analysis, ..." (He
went on to praise my work in some detail.)
(I asked him for permission to use his name ... however he declined
for reasons that I will not divulge here.)
Saturday; October
24th, 2004.
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Mark Weeks provides the following information.
The CJA awards generated some recent controversy. Writing in
< Chess Notes, #3157: Awards, (see ChessCafe.com archives);
>
English chess historian, Edward Winter
condemned the CJA as:
<< a dazzlingly undemanding body with a track-record of dispensing hundreds of awards, often to self-nominees with no realistic hope of an accolade from elsewhere. The winners read like a
"Who’s Who," of persons who deserve absolutely nothing. The one blot on the CJA’s copybook is that a few deserving chess writers have, just occasionally over the years, found their way onto the prize-list.
>>
CJA President Daniel Lucas defended the awards in a recent issue of the CJA's in-house publication The Chess Journalist. After comparing Winter to film maker Woody Allen on Oscar night, the column President's Message continued: "Can Winter truly believe our prize winners 'deserve nothing'? Why? Because we don't meet his ivory-tower standards? What does he mean by 'no realistic hope of an accolade from elsewhere'? If not us, then who? We are the only show in town."
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Here
is what a few friends, chess contacts, and other people had to say about the
great Mr. Edward Winter:
(I give no names ... simply because I do not wish for
these people to endure any backlash because of my web sites.)
<<
Winter's column has been dumped ... more than once ... for many <good>
reasons. He thinks too highly of himself. >>
(A famous chess author, who has published
MANY best-selling chess books.)
Winter's
column is, "tedious, and of no real use to me."
(A former Internet student of mine, who is about to win a major prize in the
2004 FIDE World Youth Competition.)
{The same player's Dad called Winter's writing ...
"extremely boring, and of virtually zero importance to anyone,
PERIOD!"}
"His
books are awful, simply dreadful. They are very poor sellers, I
cannot give these things way!" - said while laughing.
(A fairly well-known book-seller in the South-east U.S. and a very
good friend. He called me to discuss a number of things.)
"I
have met him personally, Winter is a complete arse - who is full of himself!
Further, he cannot play a decent game of chess."
(A fellow Florida Chess Master.)
My
suggestion would be for Mr. Winter to simply hold his tongue, but he seems
incapable of such action.
(A former USCF Policy Board member told me that Mr.
Winter might have an axe to grind, and might simply be out
for revenge. Apparently he was nominated for
some award several years ago, but failed to win even an honorable
mention. Apparently such a set-back was more
than Mr. Winter's ego could possibly ever handle.)
Thursday; November 11th, 2004.
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One well-known chess player recently wrote me and suggested that I remove the above piece. I declined on the grounds that Mr. Winter's tyranny (of pen) and criticism of others cries out to be addressed ... and rebutted. Saturday; March 18th, 2006.
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My FABULOUS (& BIG!) Geo-Cities
(Chess) Web
Site!!!
(I think this is the nicest, private [chess] web page on the Internet!!)
My nice (big, chess)
web-site on Angelfire.
(Features the BEST Annotated Chess Game ... on the whole Internet!!!! Many other features
too!!)
(A French Chess Organization has named this as one of the finest
sites on the web!!!)
My "Chess
Downloads" web-site.
(Lots of cool stuff here now! You should really check this one
out. This site is now home to many great annotated games!! )
My
"HUMAN's
HOME PAGE." Check this out ... it is pretty cool!!!
(ALL the Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz and
ALL the Kasparov vs. Deep Junior games are covered here ...
and they are DEEPLY annotated!!! Plus
Kasparov vs. Fritz_X3D!)
I now have my own DOMAIN!!! Your really have to CHECK THIS OUT!!!
NICE
See
the articles
that I am planning to write for "CV-Chess."
Click
(This was supposed to be a monthly
feature.)
My little website for ... "The Game of The Month." Its pretty good, so ... (please) TAKE A LOOK!!
( HERE ON THIS SITE!
- - Very detailed!!!)
( All the basics of Rook-and-Pawn are now here!! ) LOTS
of good stuff. Check it out! I have added many more
new games and positions! (Many titled players
have written me and said this is one of the finest resources available
on the
Internet!!)
My
MORPHY, "Grand-Central Station."
(HERE, on this site!)
( A DETAILED Biography of
Morphy,
PLUS ... links to
..... OVER THIRTY
{30} web-sites with
stuff and/or info,
and/or pics ... and/or {re-playable} games
.... on one of the greatest players who ever
lived! )
My
web page devoted completely to Emanuel LASKER. (Here,
on this site)
(Lots of stuff will eventually go here, plus a list of MANY annotated
games.)
My
web page devoted to the life - and Games! - of the
great Mikhail TAL.
(Eventually I hope to have dozens of his games, even if they are only
briefly annotated. Right here
... on this site!)
My
page devoted entirely to a
great
American Player ... FRANK J. MARSHALL,
right here on this site. (First posted here:
Sunday; September 07th, 2003.)
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