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Northampton County will begin to bring its historical documents back within its borders after county council voted tonight to purchase a Forks Township location to use as its archives building.
By a 5-2 vote, Northampton County Council elected to purchase the 9,750-square-foot building at 999 Conroy Drive for $750,000. The county plans on converting the building, which houses a plumbing, heating and air conditioning company, into an archives building by installing approximately $1.5 million worth of shelves, lighting and climate control devices at the facility.
Most of the county's hundreds of thousands of historical documents have been in storage at Iron Mountain, an Allentown information services company, since the former archives building was torn down in 2004 to make way for an expansion of the Northampton County Prison. County Executive John Stoffa called the decision to store the material at Iron Mountain shortsighted, saying the county has paid more than $1 million in rent to Iron Mountain since then along with accompanying fees any time someone wanted to access the information they contained.
"I just believe this is a terrific step forward," said Stoffa, who named the acquisition of an archives building as one of his priorities in January.The decision to purchase the building had its detractors. Councilmen Lamont McClure and Tom Dietrich both supported the cause, but said the county could not afford to commit funds to the building. Between approving the West Easton treatment center lease, expected state cuts to human services, buying out the swaption and obligations to improve Gracedale, the two county councilmen said the county shouldn't tie itself down with another major project.
After the meeting McClure criticized his fellow council members, saying it would be more prudent to follow up on purchasing the property later in the year when they start laying the groundwork for the 2013 budget. The county only set aside $832,000 for the project, and the rest will come from the county surplus.
"I don't think any of us can say with any certainty what any of these big ticket items are going to do," he said.Council President John Cusick dismissed those concerns, however, pointing out that between the savings in rent and revenue generated through access to historical deeds and documents, the building should be paid off within a few years. Cusick had previously criticized the county for not acting more swiftly to ensure historical documents weren't being lost to the inadequate conditions at Iron Mountain.
"I think when you look at our record in fees in the long term, this will be a good investment for the keeping of our records and history," he said.That perspective was shared by Andy Daub, president of the Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society. Daub said the county most likely possesses deeds signed by William Penn and other irreplaceable pieces of history in Iron Mountain, but the lack of proper climate control and other conditions put them all at risk. He urged the council to make the purchase before its vote.
"You've got to bite the bullet now, make the purchase and do the proper thing to secure those documents," he said.
Barron presented council with minutes of a January human services mental health staff meeting, which noted a discussion about providing information to elected officials. The note said division head Kathleen Kelly instructed staff members to "not give too much information" to Barron and other elected officials because it is an election year for the county executive.
Barron, who noted it is not an election year for the position, urged council members to make sure they pay their due diligence before making votes about Human Services. The department is likely to face steep cuts from the state this year, and council members need to make sure they are getting accurate information.
Stoffa said he was not aware of the discussion and that it is against county policy to withhold information from the controller or the council. He defended his administration's track record, saying, "Nobody communicates as much as this administration does."
"When you do cast your votes, make sure you're making an informed decision," he said.

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Bootlegging goes high-tech
It was a filmi chase on a sweaty Ahmedabad night. The sirens on the police jeep were blaring as it tailed the SUV criss-crossing the city streets. And the wireless was crackling with the sound of senior officers barking orders. After a half-hour chase, Santosh Dubey, 35, his car laden with around 100 bottles of the best brands of Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL), was finally cornered. If it was any consolation for Dubey, 114 other people have been arrested so far this year in Ahmedabad for ferrying IMFL in a dry state.
When you have a drink in Ahmedabad, you pull the curtains over your windows and look suspiciously through the peephole each time the doorbell rings. But almost everybody knows that you will be opening a bottle of scotch or vodka as you walk home hauling a sagging bag full of soda bottles and snacks (better known as 'bitings' ) from the neighbourhood grocer.
That is the irony of Ahmedabad. Everybody knows that the best brands of liquor are easily available through the well-oiled network of bootleggers in Gujarat, one of the few states in the country that still has prohibition. But no one should see you open a bottle. Dubey must have broken many hearts that night, a whole lot of Amdavadis forced to party without a drink.
Every year, Gujarat police catches liquor worth Rs 100 crore. But that is just the tip of the iceberg compared to what slips through as bootleggers use some really inventive methods to skirt the few cops who are not ready to turn a blind eye.
"In the Dubey case, we came across a new modus operandi employed by bootleggers, " says MB Joshi, Ahmedabad assistant commissioner of police. "He was given a car by one of his associates near Himmatnagar. That person had come from Rajasthan and had no idea where the liquor was headed. In turn, Dubey was asked to abandon the car near a designated spot in the city. From there, other persons would take possession of the bottles. This MO makes it impossible to break the supply chain. "
Senior state police officials say that these days the liquor comes mostly from Haryana. Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra too contribute their share. Trucks laden with IMFL cross the Rajashan border and then divide into smaller groups where the bottles are concealed in cartons of cotton, vegetables or industrial goods.
These mini trucks enter Gujarat through designated routes where the police are bribed generously. The stock is then transferred to SUVs that enter the city and reach the bootleggers.
"Bootleggers are the most innovative people around, " says a local crime branch (LCB) police inspector who has conducted more than 50 raids in the area. "Making cavities inside vehicles and bribing policemen is passê. New-age bootleggers wield laptops and employ GPS to figure out where the stock has reached and how to distribute it optimally. In a recent raid which netted us IMFL worth Rs 1. 5 crore from two trucks, we learnt that that a syndicate of bootleggers had purchased an entire farm near
Himmatnagar, considered an important transit point. They had converted it into a makeshift garage for trucks. From here the liquor went around the entire state. We raided the place several times but conniving bootleggers always knew of our plans. "
Citing an example of how the trade has changed over the years, police officials say that bootleggers no longer travel in twos. They have started employing women too. Police are less likely to check a car for liquor if it has a couple in it. "We have often seen children being used as couriers. They get detained, are sent to rehabilitation homes, come out and again join the gang. This practice is more prevalent in south Gujarat where children earn anything between Rs 2, 000 and Rs 5, 000 every month doing this work, " says an official.
"Bootleggers are no longer shabbily dressed men who conceal bottles wrapped in newspapers under their clothes. They speak English, drive cars and wear designer clothes. Their client list is stored in a separate smartphone used only to give missed calls. If you are a regular, he will call back - you cannot call him. Your favourite brand will arrive hidden in a bag of groceries or a bouquet of flowers, " says a senior police official.
In a recent raid, a bootlegger confessed to having 600 bottles with him. When he was asked to show his cache he nonchalantly tugged at a tap on the kitchen sink. An entire chunk of the wall came off;the booze lay in the cavity.
"These days, the demand comes mostly from college-goers, professionals with new money and migrants. Girls and women prefer beer and vodka. Vodka's market has shot up by 20 per cent in the last three years, " says a bootlegger.
As many as 36 policemen including police inspectors have been suspended or transferred in the last one year either for their alleged involvement in the bootlegging trade or for negligence (when another team raids their jurisdiction and recovers liquor).
"Seizures are often just a sham - a way for the police to show they are acting against bootleggers. But if they seize 10 bottles, they let 100 through. Cops go into overdrive during Holi, Diwali and New Year when the demand is at its peak, " says a seasoned bootlegger of Ahmedabad.
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While I will admit to previous consumption of alcohol, I'm not willing to concede that this substance assisted me while I spent time at wedding receptions perfecting dance moves that have hopefully never been imitated.
I mean, those same convulsions have occurred after an early-morning shot of V-8.
Seriously though, it was both comical and maddening to hear Mark McGwire's unwillingness to concede that steroids allowed him to morph into one of the most powerful creatures the game of baseball has ever seen.
As McGwire continued to speak to Bob Costas during his hour-long acknowledgement address on Monday night, I could only think that it might be time for Saturday Night Live's producers to resurrect that "Really" skit they did about Michael Vick a few years back.
McGwire has the right to maintain his opinion that these steroids didn't serve as performance or statistical enhancers. But as he minimizes their benefit by saying that he simply used them in a therapeutic manner to expedite the healing process, doesn't he also show disregard for the determination many others have shown while dealing with the daily grinds of this game.
While watching Monday's interview, I couldn't help but think about Tom Glavine. Here's a 300-game winner who arguably came close to maximizing the potential success he could gain through the game. But how much better might his troublesome left shoulder felt had he consumed these chemicals that allow the body to bounce back quicker than normal?
Over the past couple of years, Chipper Jones has said that he is disturbed about the fact that history will forever look suspiciously at the statistics that he and every other player from this era produce.
Like this is sad but true, so too is the fact that we've reached a point where very little surprises me when it comes to this subject.
Of course if you were to tell me that Glavine was structurally enhanced by anything more than the occasional shot of cortisone, then I'd probably respond with something like, "yeah and Lane Kiffin will become as USC's version of Joe Paterno."
Cy Young Trio: Some of you were discussing the fractured state of Atlanta's Cy Young trio after Greg Maddux was hired as an assistant to Cubs general manager Jim Hendry.
While I understand why some of you wonder whether this was a slap in the face to the Braves, I didn't see this as surprising. When he was still with the Braves, Maddux told me that the game's business model had always led him to stay away from making anything other than Las Vegas his family's permanent residence.
Maddux loved the Braves and his family loves the city of Atlanta. But his earliest ties are to the Cubs and his more recent dealings have been with Cubs GM Jim Hendry. Truthfully, I really don't know how well he got to know Frank Wren, who joined the Braves in September of 1999 and was still the club's assistant GM when Maddux went to Chicago after the 2003 season.
These special assistant roles are usually reserved for guys who have strong relationships and some kind of history with the GMs. With this in mind, I just think the better fit at this time was for Maddux to lock horns with Hendry.
My question is, does this arrangement provide any more reason to debate which hat Maddux should be wearing when he is inducted into the Hall of Fame?
Now to round up the update on the Cy Young trio, John Smoltz took time about two months ago to begin mending his relationship with the organization. Everything seems to be heading in the right direction on that front.
So while Smoltz might never again throw a pitch for the Braves, I don't think he'll feel the desire to stay completely away from Turner Field during his retirement years.
As for Glavine, I think he still has a right to feel just as infuriated as some of those Tennessee students and fans who have creatively found ways to destroy their Lane Kiffin t-shirts. But this guy is a class act I get the sense that his relationship with the organization will also be repaired in the near future.
Speaking of former Braves left-handers, Chuck James is expected to begin throwing for teams within the next week. The 28-year-old southpaw missed all of the 2009 season while recovering from shoulder surgery.
While the Braves might have a need for somebody like James to improve their organizational depth in the starting pitching department, the southpaw may still be upset about how they handled his shoulder which bothered him for more than a year before he was completely shut down.
Chris Resop spent the past season and a half pitching in Japan and now he's ready to once again compete for a spot in the Braves bullpen. He has signed a Minor League contract and received an invitation to Spring Training.
The 27-year-old right-hander, who made 16 appearances with the 2008 Braves, is excited about his arm strength and the sink that he's recently gained with his two-seam fastball.
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Smoltz will forever be a Brave
This was truly a sad afternoon for the Braves. While John Smoltz might have spent the past few months wearing a Red Sox uniform, he's forever a Brave and arguably the most succesful athlete to ever play for one of Atlanta's professional organizations.
When the Red Sox announced this afternoon that Smoltz had been designated for assignment, Braves general manager Frank Wren didn't pump his fist or perform a celebratory dance.
Instead like everybody else who has ever known the veteran hurler, he felt sympathetic to emotional battle that is waging within Smoltz.
While Wren might have been correct in his assessment that Smoltz's shoulder would prevent him from being an asset in the Atlanta rotation this year, Smoltz was anything but wrong to accept yet another great challenge in foreign territory.
Smoltz's days as a starting pitcher are likely complete. But after he takes some time to mull his options at his Atlanta residence this weekend, there's a chance he'll opt to go to the Minors and prepare himself to spend the final weeks of this season as a reliever.
Smoltz sent me a text earlier this afternoon saying that he'd call later. If that call doesn't come until Sunday or Monday, I won't be surprised. For the first time since he struggled during the first half of the 1991 season, he's in a position where he's wondering if he is still capable of finding success at the Major League level.
While I wouldn't completely rule out the possibility that Smoltz would sign with the Braves and attempt to regain his form with Triple-A Gwinnett, I think it's much safer to assume that he'll return to the Red Sox and spend the next couple of weeks attempting to right himself with their Triple-A affiliate in Pawtucket.
Right now, Smoltz doesn't even know for certain whether he'd be capable of coming out of the bullpen as few as three times in a week. This is a question that can only be answered by him going to the Minors and testing the strength and durability of his shoulder.
The Red Sox seem to be open to this arrangement and the ever-competitive Smoltz would seemingly welcome the ability to accept yet another challenge.
But if this was indeed the end of Smoltz days on the mound, Braves fans can shed a tear for one of their legends and then celebrate the fact that he at least now will be returning home with the opportunity to be a part of their organization for the rest of his life.
There's no doubt that Smoltz has some hard feelings toward the Braves organization. But hopefully his relationships with members of the club's upper management can be mended qhick enough for him and Tom Glavine to soon have the opportunity to experience the same kind of joy that Greg Maddux found a few weeks ago, when his Braves career was celebrated at Turner Field.
Maddux open to helping Braves during Spring Training
Braves manager Bobby Cox has said that he'd like to have Greg Maddux serve as a special instructor during Spring Training and it appears the four-time Cy Young Award winner is interested in the possibility of spending at least a week or two in this role.
"I would 100 percent think about it, absolutely," said Maddux, who played for Cox in Atlanta from 1993-2003.
After ending his 23-season Major League career with his retirement in December, Maddux opted to spend a week this year serving as a special Spring Training instructor for the Padres, who had utilized him in their starting rotation during the 2007 and '08 seasons.
"It was pretty easy for me to get to Arizona," Maddux said. "I played with that team the last two years so I knew all the players. It was more of a fun thing than an actual coaching experience. Having an opportunity to sit back with the coaches and hear what they say about the players, it was something I enjoyed."
This Spring Training assignment with the Padres provided Maddux the opportunity to remain close to his Las Vegas home. But Cox remains hopeful that he'll be able to lure the legendary hurler to Florida for a few weeks to benefit the Braves pitchers with his great intellect.
"We'd love to have him," Cox said. "He's welcome any time."
While Maddux hasn't completely closed the door on the possibility of accepting a full-time coaching role in the future, it seems he's currently more interested in spending time with his wife and two children.
Along with watching his 12-year-old son, Chase, play baseball, Maddux has enjoyed the regular father-son outings that they've regularly shared on the golf course.
"I don't miss (playing) as much as I thought I would, which is a good thing," Maddux said. "I'm enjoying being home. It does feel like it's still the offseason. I still consider myself a baseball player, but it's the offseason still. I'm enjoying going to my kids' games and playing catch-up."
Cox was certainly moved on Friday, when the Braves inducted Maddux into their Hall of Fame and then retired his No. 31 jersey. The 11-0 win his club claimed over the Mets only brightened a day the 68-year-old manager will seemingly never forget.
"I'd have to say that was one of the best days I've ever experienced in baseball," Cox said.
Maddux: The Great Entertainer
While driving to Greg Maddux's Hall of Fame induction ceremony this
morning, I was thinking I'd blog about some of my best Maddux-related
stories. But upon further review, I decided that in the best interest
of remaining employed, I'd keep some of those hilarious comments and
events out of the eyesight of innocent children.
When I was
working on Maddux's retirement story in December, Chipper Jones
referred to the four-time Cy Young Award winner as the "the same
dirtbag he's always been."
"He's one of the grossest guys I've ever been
around in my life," Jones said. "That was part of his charm. That's how he kept the
clubhouse mood light. That's how he entertained himself."
might have occasionally tainted some sanitary socks before throwing
them back in the clubhouse bin for an unsuspecting teammate to grab.
And there might have been some occasions when was thoroughly amused by
the telling of some of the world's crudest jokes.
But at the
end of the day, he was essentially just a guy's-guy, who would have
been the one of the most popular inhabitants of the nation's best frat
While his 355 career wins, four consecutive Cy Young
Awards and 18 Gold Glove Awards made him extraordinary, the fact that
he remained ordinary is the primary reason that he was so beloved by
teammates, coaches, media members and anybody else, who had the
pleasure to know him as something more than simply the greatest pitcher
of his generation.
During Friday's induction ceremony, Braves
broadcaster Don Sutton may have provided Maddux the greatest compliment
while pointing out that he'd watched Sandy Koufax, Tom Seaver Roberto
Clemente, Hank Aaron and Willie Mays play.
"None of them gave
me the thrill that I got while watching you," Sutton said. "It was a
remarkable experience. I used to sit up there and try to think with
you, but then I'd realize that I was as overmatched as those hitters."
were a number of comical stories told throughout the day and with
little surprise some of the funniest were provided by Maddux's longtime
pitching coach, Leo Mazzone.
Mazzone once again told the
story about the exchange he had with Maddux during his 89-pitch,
three-hit masterpiece at Yankee Stadium in 1997. After umpire John
Hirschbeck stopped Maddux as he came back toward the dugout after a
half-inning, Mazzone asked, "What did he say to you."
"He told
me, I'm as good as advertised," Maddux replied. "Isn't that (something)
Leo, now I also have to live up to the expectations of the umpires."
also talked about a dominant stretch of Maddux's career, during which
the legendary hurler pointed out that he'd gone at least two months
without being visited on the mound by his pitching coach.
said Leo you haven't been out to the mound this year and I said, "What
for?" Mazzone said. "Then he said, "Well it gets kind of lonely out
there." He said, 'I'm tired of talking to Chipper, you know you have
to pick your spots with the umpires and Eddie Perez doesn't speak
after Maddux arranged for Mazzone to visit the mound when he looked
into the dugout during his next start, this was essentially the
exchange that ensued:
Maddux: How you doing coach, how am I looking?
Mazzone: Pretty good Mad Dog, you've got a three-hit shutout going.
Maddux: Well it was nice talking to you.
also repeated the story about how he ran over Maddux during the first
inning of his Opening Day start in 1995. For those who forget, Jones,
who was beginning his first full year with the Braves, aggressively
attacked Barry Bonds' pop-up to the first-base side of the mound and in
the process rolled the man who had won the previous three National
League Cy Young Awards.
When he looked up and saw Maddux also
on the ground, Jones heard a message that he relayed during Friday's
ceremony by regularly utilzing the words, "bleep" and "bleepin".
"I got a tongue-lashing that my father never even thought about giving me," Jones said.
a portion of the story I'd never previously heard, Jones said that
Maddux did at least congratulate him after he drove home the season's
first run during the bottom half of the same inning.
According to Jones, Maddux said, "Hey Larry, nice job. That's awesome. Now stay the bleep away from me."
he was at his son's baseball tournament in Florida, Tom Glavine wasn't
able to attend Friday's events. But via a video he provided a
congratulatory message and talked about how special it was to be part
of the great Braves starting rotations that included himself, John
Smoltz and Maddux.
"It's a well-deserved honor and I hope
someday that the trio of Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz can meet up again
in Cooperstown," Glavine said.
McCann deserves an All-Star start
As an objective journalist, I'm not supposed to serve as Brian McCann's campaign manager. But while presenting the facts, it seems like it would be pretty easy to persuade you to click here and show McCann the final-week support he needs to earn the nod as the National League's starting catcher during this year's All-Star Game.
When the latest ballot results were released on Monday, it wasn't too surprising to see that Yadier Molina was still leading the way among NL catchers. St. Louis fans have always shown strong All-Star support to their favorite Cardinals.
But it didn't make much sense to see that over the course of seven days, Molina had doubled his lead over McCann to 315,973 votes.
While hitting .279 with five homers and a .736 OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging percentage), Molina is enjoying a solid season and if you want to bring defense into the equation, then maybe you can make a case for him pleasing the hometown fans with his presence in the starting lineup during this year's All-Star Game, which will be played at Busch Stadium on July 14.
But even while accounting for their gloves can you truly say that Molina is more deserving than McCann, whose .318 batting average is 39 points higher than Molina's mark, which ranks second among NL catchers?
In addition, McCann's .915 OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging percentage) is 169 points better than any other NL catcher.
Having essentially missed the month of April while dealing with blurred vision, McCann doesn't possess the same kind of power number that have helped him gain an All-Star selection during each of his first three full Major League seasons.
But even with this long absence, McCann ranks second among NL catchers in homers (6) and third with 29 RBIs.
With 52 fewer at-bats, McCann has tallied five more RBIs than Yadier Molina. And in 63 fewer at-bats, he has moved to within 12 RBIs of the leading mark posted by San Francisco's Bengie Molina, who also paces the NL catchers with 10 homers.
Dating back to the start of the 2006 season, McCann leads all Major League catchers in doubles, homers, slugging percentage and on-base percentage.
While these marks shouldn't necessarily affect this year's voting, they do serve as further proof that McCann and Minnesota's Joe Mauer have undoubtedly established themselves as the game's top offensive catchers.
With this in mind, there's little doubt that McCann will gain a fourth consecutive All-Star appearance. But while he'll never admit it, the satisfaction of this latest selection would be accompanied with the disappointment that will be felt if he doesn't get the starting nod that he seemingly deserves.
Fans can cast their votes for starters up to 25 times with the 2009 All-Star Game Sprint Online Ballot at MLB.com and all 30 club sites until July 2 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
The Yankees are here: When the Yankees last visited Turner Field in 2000, the opener of that three-game series pitted Greg Maddux against Roger Clemens. During this battle between eventual 300-game winners, Maddux allowed seven earned runs and 13 hits in 5 2/3 innings. But with Clemens allowing six runs — four earned — in five innings, the Braves claimed an 11-7 win that was aided by Brian Jordan's four-RBI performance.
With Tommy Hanson slated to start against Chien-Ming Wang tonight, this week's series opener doesn't provide the same kind of epic pitching matchup. But it's going to be fun to see how Hanson handles himself while staring at the Yankee pinstripes during what will be just his fourth Major League start.
When asked yesterday about the potential anxiety he might experience while pitching to Derek Jeter or Alex Rodriguez, Hanson said, "They're hitters, so if I make my pitches, I feel like I'm going to be alright."
If asked to compare Hanson to former Braves, I'd have to say he possesses Kevin Millwood's quiet confidence and John Smoltz's dominant arsenal. The kid is going to be special and his celebrity will instantaneously grow if he produces a gem in front of the New York media tonight.
Heyward update: Jason Heyward missed three weeks with a strained right oblique. Since returning to the Class A Myrtle Beach lineup last week, he has four hits in 17 at-bats. The rosters for this year's Futures Game will be announced later this week and there's obviously a chance that Heyward will be among those invited to participate.
Something memorable will occur
During the final day of last year's September series in Philadelphia, Jeff Francoeur sat in the dugout and talked about how he was looking forward to being back in that same spot to open this season.
At the time, he specifically mentioned being here on the afternoon of April 6. But that was before the Phillies won a World Series and prompted ESPN to choose tonight's game as the one that will kick off Major League Baseball's season.
This marks the second straight year that the Braves will participate in the first game played on United States soil. Last year in Washington, the Nationals were opening a new stadium and George Bush was present to throw the first pitch, which drew an ovation only trumped by the one elicited after Ryan Zimmerman drilled the evening's final pitch over the left-centerfield wall.
After tonight, this long marathon will include 161 more regular season games and
there's sure to be some pitching matchups that will create some
midseason energy. But until you get to October, it's hard to match the
adrenaline you feel leading into an Opening Night (Day) game.
Something will happen tonight that you'll remember for many years to come.
I seriously can't remember the second game that was played during any of the past four seasons. But Ihave vivid memories of each of the Opening Day contests that were played during this span. In 2005, the Marlins ruined John Smoltz's return to the rotation and in 2006, Tim Hudson teamed with Derek Lowe to allow the Braves and Dodgers to stage an 11-10 offensive slugfest that was decided by Ryan Langerhans' eighth-inning solo homer.
In 2007, Edgar Renteria hit a late-inning opposite-field homer that propelled the Braves to victory over the Phillies and then last year, Zimmerman gave Nationals fans reason to celebrate by christening the stadium with its first walk-off homer.
The Braves opened the 2007 season with a three-game sweep in Philadelphia and then, six months later, watched the Phillies celebrate the first of two consecutive division titles.
Obviously nothing will be detemined tonight, this week or even this month. But you can be assured that something memorable will happen tonight.
Speaking of memorable, I'm looking forward to July 17, when the Braves retire Greg Maddux's number. It was an absolute pleasure to watch him on the mound and a true honor to get to know him. Analytical, hilarious, crude, competitive and humble are all appropriate descriptions.
To provide an example that his analytical skills functioned away from the mound, I'll tell you about a day in 2003, when we were in Puerto Rico. Chipper Jones told me that Mark DeRosa had visited a store and bought a can of dip that he was sure must have been transported on The Mayflower.
After relaying DeRosa's humorous line, Maddux simply looked at me and said, "It wouldn't have been the Mayflower. I think the Pinta or Santa Maria were the boats that would have landed down here."
It doesn't matter whether the Pinta or Santa Maria actually arrived in Puerto Rico. The point is that Maddux was always thinking and while taking joy in his argumentitive skills, he always made you feel like he was that much smarter than you. But he always did so in a very humble manner.
Maddux had a great impact on a number of pitchers, including Derek Lowe, who will make his Braves debut tonight against Brett Myers and the Phillies.
This marks the fourth straight year the Braves have opened on the road and their only two Opening Day wins during this span came in games that were started by Lowe (2006 Dodgers) and Myers (2007 Phillies).
Will Jordan Schafer be the one who provides the lasting memory while making his Major League debut tonight? Or will it be Francoeur, who would love to take the opportunity to show a national television audience why this year will be so much different than last year.


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The one Lincoln lesson that Roh should learn
By John Parker
On December 19 last year, Roh Moo-hyun, the underdog political activist and nominee of the Millennium Democratic Party (MDP), was elected the ninth president of South Korea. Most accounts of the election in the international press described it as a come-from-behind contest in which Roh rode a groundswell of anti-American sentiment to electoral success.
But one detail seemed strikingly at odds with this interpretation: the candidate described Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States during the American civil war, as his political idol. Even a cursory examination of Roh's interest in Lincoln shows it to be deep and sincere. Bizarrely, however, Roh seems to misunderstand the basic lesson of Lincoln's presidency: Lincoln used force, at an appalling cost in human life, to reunify his divided country. But Roh was elected by advocating a policy of peace at almost any price.
Indeed, some of Roh's rhetoric bore discomfiting similarities to the views of the former Republic of Vietnam's last president, the accommodationist Duong Van "Big" Minh, who also advocated peace and reconciliation in his divided country. Minh's tenure came to an end after only 48 hours in office, as communist tanks battered down the gates of the presidential palace in Saigon. Whether Roh's career will more closely resemble Lincoln's or Minh's remains to be seen, but the question is critical to 70 million Koreans and to the future of northeast Asia.
There were many surprising aspects to Roh's victory: he is a liberal in a country famed for its conservatism. His party, the MDP, was widely considered to have been discredited by corruption scandals during the previous administration. He is a high school graduate who did not attend college in a society where university attendance is considered a prerequisite for success. And he has been noted for his anti-American views, in a nation which owes its political existence to the US.
Ironically, it was a traffic accident that converted the last of these "liabilities" into an asset that carried Roh all the way to Blue House (Korea's presidential mansion). On June 13 of last year, an armored vehicle driven by US soldiers on a training exercise ran over two Korean school girls, killing them instantly. Despite profuse, immediate US apologies for the accident and generous compensation to the girls' families, the incident eventually led to a wave of passionate anti-US demonstrations on Korean streets, especially after the two soldiers most directly involved were acquitted in separate court martial proceedings accusing them of negligent homicide.
The demonstrations turned an election campaign that had mostly been about ruling party corruption into a referendum on Korea's relationship with the US. In this environment, the candidate perceived (rightly or wrongly) by the electorate as the most anti-American had an automatic advantage, and most Koreans clearly believed Roh Moo-Hyun to be that man.
Much was made of the fact that Roh had never visited the US (unusual for Korean presidents); that he had once called for the withdrawal of US troops; that he had, during his democracy-activist days, associated with others who had even more radical anti-American views. Still, the candidate himself was careful not to make comments that could be interpreted by older, more conservative voters as reckless: Roh answered queries about US-related relations by blandly promising that he would "endeavor to enhance the relations of the two countries to a more balanced level based on reciprocity".
Such cautious answers showed what a sophisticated, careful politician he had become, after an uneven political career that included four losses in previous campaigns (remarkably, Roh's presidential victory increased his win-loss record in elections to only 3-4). But the mere perception that Roh was anti-American was enough for many voters to choose him over his most significant opponent, Lee Hoi-Chang; Lee's conservatism and distrust of North Korean intentions made it easy to depict him as the Bush administration's lapdog.
With North Korea busily ejecting International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, launching test missiles and hurling threats in every direction, it is hardly surprising that Roh's election caused a certain amount of nervousness in Washington. This was exacerbated after the election when a representative sent by the president-elect to meet senior Bush officials sent shock waves through US government circles by reportedly asserting that South Korea would prefer a nuclear-armed North Korea to a sudden North Korean collapse, although eyewitnesses would later say that the representative had been misquoted. In spite of such missteps, and the circumstances of his election, it would be gravely mistaken to simplistically paint Roh as anti-American. The most compelling demonstration of this was, and remains, Roh's astounding (and highly publicized) admiration of Abraham Lincoln.
In an apparent response to international interest in Roh's Lincoln connection, the Korea Information Service produced an English-language pamphlet after the election entitled "Roh Moo-Hyun's Encounter With Lincoln". Cynics could be forgiven for thinking that this was merely the president's attempt to smooth ruffled American feathers, but nothing could be further from the truth. Roh's admiration for Lincoln is genuine and profound.
The pamphlet itself largely derives from sections of Roh's own book on Lincoln. It is remarkable enough that a busy politician like Roh could have found the time between 2000 and 2001 to write such a book (he was serving as minister of maritime affairs during this period), but the book itself is even more remarkable for the insight it gives into Roh's political philosophy, the man himself, and where he might lead South Korea.
According to the book, Roh first discovered Lincoln in elementary school and regarded him simply as "honest and great". However, on April 13, 2000, while awaiting the results of vote-counting for the 2000 General Assembly election, an election which he ultimately lost, Roh happened to read one of Lincoln's greatest speeches, his second inaugural address of March 4, 1865. This is the speech which contains the famous passage:
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
Roh described this "exciting reunion" with Lincoln as "thrilling" and "inspiring", and even went so far as to compare it with Mahatma Gandhi's famous encounter with a segregationist at a South African train station (Pietermaritzburg), and the apostle Paul's meeting with Jesus on the road to Damascus. The experience so moved him that only three days later, in a concession editorial published in the Shisa Journal, Roh not only echoed Lincoln's themes of forgiveness and reconciliation, but urged his readers to study Lincoln and learn from his example. And this was not all: Roh followed up his Shisa Journal article with a "self-imposed assignment" to write a book on Lincoln. Whatever Roh's lack of academic credentials, as a student of Lincoln he certainly proved to be industrious and determined:
Roh Moo-Hyun Meets Lincoln
was published by Hak-go-jae the following year.
Though not all of the book, to my knowledge, has been published in English, the excerpts that have been are fascinating. Clearly, a major reason for Roh's admiration of Lincoln is the similarity between the two men's lives: both were men from humble backgrounds who rose to lead their countries at times of national division. Both had little formal education, but became lawyers, then politicians in spite of this shortcoming. Both were reformers who suffered numerous political setbacks before attaining high office. Both were famously plain-spoken.
But Roh seems to be most fascinated by those characteristics which he sees as lacking in Korean politics, or in his own personality. For example, Roh lauds Lincoln's "reconciliation and love", because he sees it as the antithesis of the winner-take-all, zero-sum character of Korean politics. Although foreigners typically perceive Korea as homogeneous, in reality, Korean society has often been characterized by major interregional and intergroup divisions: not only between North and South, but between different regions of South Korea; labor and management groups; political parties (which often correspond to geographical regions); and most recently, between a conservative older generation and a more radicalized younger generation. Referring to Lincoln's 1865 speech, Roh says: "the oration of anguished Lincoln makes me feel ashamed of our political reality", and he excoriates the practice of "fueling anger and hatred among different groups".
Roh also approves of Lincoln's pragmatism, describing him as "a strategical realist who always confronted reality, not falling prey to illusions". Some of the president's recent policy decisions, such as sending Korean troops to Iraq, might have surprised his supporters who expected a greater degree of dissociation from US policies. But no one who had read Roh's book on Lincoln could have been surprised: Roh admires, and is now seeking to emulate, Lincoln's "[seeking for] the best within a realistic boundary". Roh also admires Lincoln's realism because he believes this quality has been lacking in Korean politicians, including the famous patriot Kim Gu, whom Roh always cites as his other political hero. Regarding Kim Gu, Roh wonders "why are venerable men in [Korea's] modern history all losers? Although [he] was certainly a righteous man, he was a loser in real politics." To Roh, Lincoln's "cautiously calculated steps" were inspiring because they showed "promising evidence that 'justice will prevail'."
Roh praises many of Lincoln's personal qualities, including "honesty", "sincerity", and "wisdom", in addition to his political success. But surprisingly, the quality he stresses most is Lincoln's "graciousness, something not easily found in other successful men". Roh uses this quality to argue against "some people in Korea" who "feel nostalgic for the era of Park Chung-Hee, a strongman", saying pointedly that "a strong leadership is not synonymous with a repressive leadership ... only [a harmonious, horizontal, liberal and autonomous] leadership can heal the divided Korean peninsula and cure the chronic disease of our society, that is, regional and inter-class confrontation."
Lastly, Roh coins the phrase "humble power" to describe Lincoln's political approach, calling him "the model of an unassuming man creating a strong country with humble power". As the president plaintively observes: "[Korean] history has created a misleading concept that it is inevitable to take an unjust path to success and that honesty hampers success. It is high time that we create a society in which honest and hard-working people and fair competition succeed." To Roh, simply stated, Lincoln's "righteous path" is an example worthy of emulation.
Towards the end of his book, Roh states that "Our times, in which the entire Korean people, divided in the south and north, and the east and west, remain at constant strife, seem to be analogous to the times of Lincoln." This is an obvious connection to make, and clearly does a great deal to explain Roh's interest in the late American president.
But this is also why, to a reader familiar with the American Civil War period, there seems to be a peculiar gap in Roh's understanding of Lincoln. As noted, Roh admires Lincoln for his reconciliation, love, honesty, pragmatism, graciousness, and "humble power". But Lincoln isn't considered a great president by Americans because of these qualities. He is considered great because he preserved the Union - ie, he prevented the US from fracturing into two nations. And this achievement was not effected by Lincoln's personal qualities per se: it was effected by a massive application of military force, accompanied by levels of bloodshed so appalling that they make the September 11 attacks look like the proverbial Sunday picnic.
Casualty figures from the American Civil War are shocking, especially to those who may be predisposed, based only on very recent history, to regard the US as the instigator of wars which invariably result in many foreign deaths and few American ones. A few examples will suffice: at the battle of Antietam, over 22,000 men were killed or wounded in a single day. The more than 40,000 casualties at Gettysburg included at least 5,000 dead; in places, the battlefield literally ran red with blood. The estimate for the total military death toll, including Union and Confederate dead, is 623,000 (although most were killed by disease, not in battle).
Civilians were not spared: Richmond, Savannah and Atlanta were burned to the ground. Thousands died in the New York City draft riots. And epidemics swept through civilian and military alike during and after the war. It is worth pointing out, too, that these deaths occurred in a far more sparsely populated US than exists today: the US population in 1860 was a mere 31 million (less than one-ninth of the contemporary figure). Thus, these military death tolls constituted a startling 2 percent of the entire US population at that time, making them even more significant than they appear at first sight.
The most astounding thing about Roh's book on Lincoln - at least those parts of it which have been translated - is that he never mentions Lincoln's use of force, and the loss of life which resulted. For all his arduous research, Roh seems to have missed the main point: it is as though he had written a biography of Tiger Woods, praising his personal qualities at great length, without ever once mentioning that Woods plays golf.
Roh never seems to make the connection between Lincoln's decision to use force to reunify the divided US, and the fact that he, as the new president of South Korea, might conceivably be called on to use force to effect the reunification of Korea. If Roh is known for any single policy position, it is his repeated statement that "the North Korean nuclear weapons issue must be resolved peacefully and through dialogue."
But his hero Lincoln didn't resolve the secession issue peacefully and through dialogue: he resolved it militarily, by crushing the Confederacy with superior numbers and industrial output. To be sure, Roh is not wrong to think that Lincoln was a great advocate of reconciliation. But the time for this reconciliation came only after the military turning point of the conflict; Lincoln's "with malice towards none" remark was made in 1864, after it was clear to most observers that the Union would eventually win the war.
Unfortunately for Roh, the ultimate resolution of the Korean civil war is not yet so clear, at least not to the North Koreans. However compelling the humanitarian motives for North-South reconciliation, is it realistic to call for reconciliation when North Korea is still digging tunnels into South Korea (an action which has no conceivable defensive purpose), and steadily building up its conventional forces just north of the demilitarized zone? Actions such as these, even more clearly than North Korea's budding nuclear program, demonstrate the North's intentions: it doesn't want coexistence, it wants to win. And South Korean leaders forget this at their grave peril.
Many specific actions taken by Roh since his election - such as highly publicized visits to American bases and his recent sending of noncombat forces to Iraq - show that he has no intention of allowing the US/South Korea alliance to wither. It appears that Roh will not let down South Korea's military guard. But if he ever did, a ghost stalking the corridors of history would surely remind him of the risks of alienating his American ally, and that ghost isn't Lincoln. He is Duong Van "Big" Minh, the last president of the late Republic of Vietnam (aka South Vietnam).
Overly facile comparisons should not be made between Roh and Minh; after all, a false equation of Vietnam with Korea by some American leaders was a major factor in the Vietnam fiasco. Nonetheless, disturbing parallels do exist, however unfashionable it might be to point them out. Minh, like Roh, was a charismatic, well-liked politician who sought a moderate "third way" between communism and hardline anti-communism.
Minh, too, sought accommodation and reconciliation between the halves of his painfully divided nation: as he famously announced in 1975, "The Republic of Vietnam policy is the policy of peace and reconciliation, aimed at saving the blood of our people." The similarity to Roh's stated policy towards North Korea is apparent. Unfortunately for Minh, less than an hour after he spoke those words over Vietnamese radio, North Vietnamese tanks broke down the gates of the presidential palace in Saigon and completed the conquest of South Vietnam. Minh had been in office only two days.
The fate of Duong Van Minh after reunification ought to interest Roh as he ponders the implications of North Korean military deployments. During the war, the North Vietnamese carefully avoided criticizing Minh; partly because his brother Duong Van Nhut was a high-ranking general in the North Vietnamese army, but it was also because Hanoi wanted to encourage neutralist forces in the South in order to make their final victory less difficult. Consequently, Minh, unlike most other senior South Vietnamese officials, was not arrested after reunification; he simply disappeared into his Saigon villa, raising orchids and birds, for eight years.
There was speculation that the communists intended to provide him with a political role in the post-reunification government. This proved incorrect; like communist parties everywhere else in the world, the Vietnamese version was too paranoid to allow the political participation of any person who was, in their estimation, less than completely trustworthy. In 1983 Minh finally went into exile; first to France, then finally to the US.
On August 7, 2001, after a fall at his California home, he died at a Pasadena hospital at the age of 86. He had wanted to spend his last days in Vietnam, but poor health made that impossible. Respectful, if not complimentary, notices appeared in the party-controlled newspapers in Vietnam; this was permitted by the government on the grounds that Minh had hastened the end of the war. But few mourned him in the US.
Vietnamese-Americans, probably the most anti-communist of any American ethnic group, still mostly regarded him as a traitor to the cause of the late Republic. In Vietnamese museums today, Minh barely exists: small, grainy, unflattering photographs of him, Nguyen Van Thieu, General Khanh, Ngo Dinh Diem and other South Vietnamese leaders are helpfully labeled "leaders of the Saigon puppet regime", for the edification of young Vietnamese students and foreign visitors.
These museums should be required viewing for South Korean politicians as they contemplate the future of the US/ROK alliance. Again, Vietnam is not Korea for a thousand reasons. But Vietnam, too, had anti-American street protests by young people calling for the withdrawal of US troops. Many South Vietnamese also decried deaths of their countrymen at American hands, while ignoring the vast death toll attributable to the Northern communists, in manmade famines, purges and other atrocities.
The Vietnamese demonstrators achieved their goal: the US tired of the conflict and left. But the result was not the peaceful reconciliation they longed for - it was military conquest of the South by the North. Within three years of the withdrawal of American forces, the Republic of Vietnam no longer existed; it had been forcibly annexed by the single-party dictatorship of North Vietnam. Virtually the entire professional class of South Vietnam - professors, doctors, managers and bureaucrats - either languished for years in communist "re-education" camps or fled outright.
Vietnamese starved as the South's market economy plunged into a communist time warp for the next 14 years. Only since the introduction in 1989 of the famous
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Ironically, one important consequence of South Vietnam's collapse, long since forgotten by most, was a strengthening of the Washington-Seoul alliance. With the memories of the Republic of Vietnam's startling implosion so fresh, then-president Park Chung-Hee took great care to maintain good relations with the US. Twenty-eight years on, has the prudent example he set been forgotten? South Korea's destiny now lies in Roh Moo-Hyun's hands. His pragmatism since taking office shows that he is aware of the slippery slope that led to South Vietnam's downfall and has no intention of sliding down it. But truly living up to the legacy of his hero, Abraham Lincoln, would require much more than simply preserving the status quo: it would require putting the military option for reunification back on the table. And of this Roh has given no sign.
Of course, there are extremely good reasons for taking force off the table, eg, Seoul's proximity to North Korean artillery, and the frightful possibility of nuclear weapons use on the crowded Korean peninsula. The possibility of following the German model instead, which always seems to dangle just out of reach as Pyongyang lurches from one crisis to the next, is another excellent reason to reject the "Lincoln model" for reunification at this time. Unfortunately, North Korea is not defeated, and still wants the Vietnamese model. Officially at least, Roh excludes all three of these historical models in favor of some kind of gradual reconciliation leading over many years to reunification. But what will he do if North Korean intransigence, or American unwillingness to tolerate North Korean nuclear weapons, forces him to choose between the path of Lincoln and the path of "Big" Minh?
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Igor's Chess Doubles - ICD #4 - A Bishop or A Pawn, which one do you pick?
Here is the next set. I will not post the answers or solutions until after a week or so, to give readers a chance. You are welcome to post your solutions and explanations. Please don't use computer help. The best response can request a copy of my Chess Exam You vs. Fischer book (you pay only for shipping/handling). The earliest response gets a node, when similar answers are given. Use variations only as necessary. See my answers to ICD #1 as example.
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Check these pairs of positions. For each pair –
1. Determine what is different between setups (A) and (B). White is always at the bottom (a1 = bottom left corner). 1 point for each pair. Maximum of 4
2. You always have BLACK pieces, no matter Who is to move – determine if you (Black) would rather have position (A) or (B), or indifferent. Make sure you have a good reason! You get 2-10 points, depending on complexity. Adjust your score, if your reasoning wasn't 100%. Maximum of 24 for set #4.
Overall, the maximum score for set #4 is 28. How will you do? Invite your friends to compete! Enjoy!
In the position #2- Would Black rather have a B or a P? Why?
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#3 Moderate
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Answers - 1. Black prefers <B>, since in <A> White can play 1.Qxe5 and then respond to 1…Qg4 (1…dxe5 2.Rxd7+-) with 2.Qe4. This is the only move that stops the checkmate and preserves the Q, leaving White with extra piece. Moving the P from c4 to e4 eliminates the Qe4 defense and keeps the e5-N safe .
2. Black prefers <B> since having the P on f4 instead of the B eliminates White's drawing idea – to sacrifice the N for the g-P, leaving Black with the 'wrong' B and the h-P. In fact, in <A> White can play 1.Nf2 and Black can't prevent 2.Nxg4= (1…Kxf2 leads to a stalemate).
3. Black prefers <A> since having the P on c6 instead of b7 allows for a key interference after 1…Rxd3! 2.Qxd3 (else Black has an extra N) Pxd3 3.Rxe5 Pd2 4.Re8+! Kh7 5.Rd8 Nd5. In <B> the last move isn't helpful, hence Black shouldn't capture on d3.
4. Black prefers <A> since having the K on b8 instead of c8 allows White to strike along the diagonal b8-h2. Black has a beautiful move – 1…Nf3+, trying to break the threat to the Q. 2.Nxf3 or 2.Pxf3 or moving the K, allows 2…Nxa5-+. After 2.Bf3 Qe5+, White has a saving idea 3.Ne2 Nxa5 4.Bf4, regaining the Q due to pin (but only if the K is on b8!)
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#4, Im going with A, since my king seems safer, preventing a Bf4 with check.
#1 Difference: white has pawn on e4 instead of c4. I rather (B) because in (B) Qxe5 doesn't work, if white does Qxe5 then then black can play Qg4!! attacking the Q since the d-pawn is not pinned anymore and threatening mate on g2. in position (A) this does not quite work since there is no pawn on e4 now therefor white can play Qe4! stoping all threats so white will win a piece for nothing.
#2 Difference: Black has a pawn on f4 instead of a bishop. Black rathers (B) since in (A) the game would continue 1.Nf2!! (the black king cannot take the kight because that would be stalemate) and black can't stop Nxb4!! on the next move which would leave the game drawn since black has the wrong colored bishop. Nf2 doesn't work in (B) because Kxf2 doesn't make stalemate.
I'll make #3 and 4 in a sec
So, Puzzle number 4. Difference in black's king position. I pick position A, explanation at the end. As black I play 1. ... Re8. White queen is hanging 2. Kd2 is met with 2. ... Qd5+ picking up the queen next move. So white has a choice of two moves Queen on c3 or d2. First, let's take a look at 2. Qc3. Then 2. ... Nd4 threatening bishop on e2 3. f3 Qh4+ [3. Qd2 Ndf3+ 4. gf Nxf3+ 5. Kf1 Nxd2+ (5. Nxf3 Qh1+ Ng1 6. Qxg1 mate). There are also interesting variations with 3. ... Rxd2+ and 3. ... Qg6. I am not sure which is the best] 4. Kd2 Qf4+ 5. Ke1 Qg3+ 6. Kd2 Nhxf3+ 7. gf Qxg1 (7. Nxf3 Rxe2+ wins; 7. Bxf3 Qe1 mate).
Now about 2. Qd2. Then anyway 2. ... Nd4 threatening Nf3+ as before. Here white is almost out of moves. 3. Ne3 is met by 3. ... Rxe3 4.Qxe3 Nc2+ winning the queen (4. gf Qh4+ 5. g3 Qxg3 mate). Another sensibly looking move is 3. Nc3, but then again 3. ... Ndf3+ 4. gf Nxf3+ 5. Kf1 Nxd2+ (5. Nxf3 Qh1 mates).
In position B after 1. ... Re8 white responds with 2. Bf4+ and 3. Bxh2 basicly eliminating almost all threats.
1st Puzzle. In A white has pawn on c4, in B pawn is on e4. I pick position B as black, because then white cannot win a piece whith 1. Qxe5 because of 1. ... Qg4 threatening mate and white queen. In A white has a defence 2. Qe4, in B pawn on e4 makes that impossible.
2nd Puzzle. Difference is obvious. I pick position B again, because it is won for black. In position A white has an escape path: 1. Nf2 if Kxf2 it's a stalemate, if any other move then next move white plays 2. Nxg4 and then it's a draw - h pawn with a wrong colour bishop.
3rd Puzzle. Difference is in one black pawn - in A it's on c6, in B it's on b7. I would pick position A, because then it's won for black: 1. ... Rxd3 and if 2. Qxd3 then: 2. ... ed 3. Rxe5 d2 4. Re8+ Kh7 5. Rd8 and the key move 5. ... Nd5. Now the importance of the pawn on c6 is obvious - it protects the knight, in position B this would be impossible.
4th Puzzle comes in the next comment - many variations.
I never read comments before I post my own comment...with that said.
position 1-Qxe5 is obviously the threat. in both positions, white takes the knight, black can respond Qg4...white must play g3 to stop the mate, black plays Nh3+, and then Qf3++...however, in position A the absence of the e-pawn makes the difference in the defense. white plays the queen on the h1-a8 diagonal and problem solved. therefore i prefer position B.
position 2-the pawn looks valuable, but its not that great. with the bishop, the knight is trapped, and available to be taken when necessary. black has to be careful to avoid a stalemate, which shouldn't be too difficult. since the pawns are 3 squares away. actually i just had another look and it is in fact a stalemate for the white king, so white has to move the knight away. but he goes to f2, and back to h3. maybe the pawn is better? I'd go with position B.
position 3-the difference is the doubled pawns. pawn on b7 or pawn on c6...the pawn structure in position b is better, but does that really matter? I see the knight has no role there, so it needs improvement, in both positions. it can go c8 to d6, or d7 to c5 or f6...it can be improved. taking the white knight in either position loses the exchange and most likely the game, so that is not an option. after qd6, white can simply move the knight away and keep a superior position. i'd prefer position A, because the pawn on c6 helps to control the squares d5 and b5. it can also go forward and have the pawn on c7 go to c6.
position 4-the desperado tactic Qxe2+ followed by Nxa5 regains the piece. however in position B, it loses it to the bishop check Bf4+ followed by taking that knight on h2. position A--it doesn't work. can black win with the extra pawns? probably not. but he certainly can draw.
I would prefer position B
For position one, A has a pawn on c4, while B has a pawn on e4. Position B is better for black. This is because white is going to take the knight e5 in A. Qxe5 and dxe5 fails to Rxd7. Black wants to get the queen out of the rooks scope with tempo, and queen g4 is the only way. In position B, white has no way to stop this plan, and will have to stop the check with g3, losing the queen. Position A allows the queen to go to e4, protecting against mate, and saving the queen.
For position two, Position A has a bishop on f4, while in Position B it is a pawn. I believe B is better because white wants to play Nf2 to try and blockade the pawns. In B, black can just capture the knight in that case, but in position A, that will cause a stalemate because the bishop blacks h2 from the white king. So position B forces white to play Ng1 if he wants to try and swing the knight around in front of the pawns, which will be too slow.
For position three, A has a pawn on c6, while B has it on b7. I Think A is better for black because of the simplifying tactic that black has. Qd6 (protecting Rook and threatening knight) c5 attacking queen and knight, rook takes d4 and pawn takes b6 (not queen takes d4 because then queen takes d4 is winning for black) and black can fix his pawn structure with cxb6. in B, black's pawn structure is good and he will ruin it with the same tactic. If white protects the knight with the rook to d1, black will play c5.
For position four, A has the king on c8, while B has the king on b8. I think A is better because Black wants to play Rd8 pinning the light squared bishop, and maybe in some cases threatening checkmate. White will play bf4+ in B , forking the knight and king, but also setting up lots of threats like qc7# if black is not careful. blocking the check will cause black to lose his queen to bxh5. This forces Ka8 for black in which qc7 is deadly. In position A, white can not move his bishop to f4 with tempo, and will lose his queen to nxa5 if he tries.
I am not too confident about the last two positions. This was fun, thanks Igor.
#1 It looks like Qxe5 wins a piece, but in B black has Qg4! Threatening mate in one and capturing the white queen. In A, white has Qe4 saving both, So B is better.
#2 Black wants B, since white has Nf2! With Nxg4 coming, if Kxf2 stalemate and if black plays h3 white plays Nxh3! And black has the wrong colored bishop
#3 Black wants A, because of the nice tactic Rxd3! Qxd3?! exd3! Rxe5 d2 Rd8+ Kh7 Rd8 Nd5!! Cutting off the line of whites rook. In B, white plays Rxd5 since the knight is unprotected.
I need a little more time with #4, so I will post later with my ideas.
Great puzzles as always!
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