Chess fear........

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Nimzovik
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Chess fear........

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Yikes! I just had a depressing thought. I have been working on Larsen's opening (1.b3) since the 1970's. It is all on a couple of flash drives. The issue is this: I have something of a bum ticker. If I suddenly pop off one day..... Well think about it. The wife remarries and cleans house. "Oh we don't need these flash drives anymore...they are obsolete." Then off to the trash they go! :shock: :shock: :shock: Almost 40 years of labor just GONE! :shock: (she always did resent my hobby....... :twisted: ) Hmmmmmmmmmmmm .... Now I know why I caught her 'relocating' my nitroglycerin heart meds.
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Marek Soszynski
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The thing to do, Alex, is to wipe those drives yourself right now. Okay, forty years of work gone, but at least you'll have extra storage space.
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:!: :?: :!: :?: I am not a masochist :!:
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Bill Rogers
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How about copying it to your hard drive and then making a little program called "My Will" and in it leave instructions on giving that file to a friend.
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Or write a computer virus that spreads your work all around the world! :D
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Just step aside or you might have a bit of heat
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Can the people ever change their ways
Sherwin the covid's after you
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Thomas Mayer
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Michael Sherwin wrote:Or write a computer virus that spreads your work all around the world! :D
Oh, you don't need a virus for that, just publish your research / thoughts / whatever in the web and it will be there forever, whatever you do... ;) once published, forever published !

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Nimzovik wrote:Yikes! I just had a depressing thought. I have been working on Larsen's opening (1.b3) since the 1970's. It is all on a couple of flash drives. The issue is this: I have something of a bum ticker. If I suddenly pop off one day..... Well think about it. The wife remarries and cleans house. "Oh we don't need these flash drives anymore...they are obsolete." Then off to the trash they go! :shock: :shock: :shock: Almost 40 years of labor just GONE! :shock: (she always did resent my hobby....... :twisted: ) Hmmmmmmmmmmmm .... Now I know why I caught her 'relocating' my nitroglycerin heart meds.

How 'bout this, encrypt these findings in a file and send them to me. Give someone you trust the key, and of course this person wont have access to the encrypted copy you sent me. So when the time comes, I can contact this person and get the key. Then I will publish your work and you will live forever, assuming you've discovered something.
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fern
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You should simply kill her

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Dr.Wael Deeb
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fern wrote:You should simply kill her

Fern
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Nimzovik wrote:Yikes! I just had a depressing thought. I have been working on Larsen's opening (1.b3) since the 1970's. It is all on a couple of flash drives. The issue is this: I have something of a bum ticker. If I suddenly pop off one day..... Well think about it. The wife remarries and cleans house. "Oh we don't need these flash drives anymore...they are obsolete." Then off to the trash they go! :shock: :shock: :shock: Almost 40 years of labor just GONE! :shock: (she always did resent my hobby....... :twisted: ) Hmmmmmmmmmmmm .... Now I know why I caught her 'relocating' my nitroglycerin heart meds.

Not to worry ... 1. b3 loses in all variations so 40 years of work just confirms that :P