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1 "Righteous!" in the '90s
5 Capital of Turkey
9 Speed deterrents
14 Like cried-overmilk
19 Apiece
20 Fever with chills
21 Caver's cry?
22 Vaughan of jazz
23 Kiss during a nature
walk?
25 Showy parrot
26 Muse for Shelley
27 Protein-building acid
28 Matter basics
30 First-year law student
32 Has —: knows someone
33 Optimist's words
35 Window installer's
course of instruction?
38 Jam component?
42 Creator of Horton the
Elephant
43 —Paulo
44 Life's work
45 Largish chamber
group
47 Part-time player
51 — standstill
52 Rich kid in "Nancy"
comics
54 Charles Goodyear,
notably?
57 Breather
59 Hurled weapons
61 Breaks down
62 LiMu —_: bird in
Liberty Mutual TV ads
63 Tiny dividers
65 Strikes lightly
68 Soothes70 Eccentric who has
status in the
community?
74 Quaker in the woods
77 Like most pretzels
78 Porcupines and prairie
dogs
82 Arthur of "The Golden
Girls"
83 Thriller writer Hoag
85 Four-door, usually
87 Court filing
88 Big galoot serving as
first mate?
93 Site of Hercules' first
labor
95 Self-esteem
96 Promising young
actress
97 Café container
99 Narrow shard
101 Its Jun. 2019 additions
include "bae" and
"yeesh"
102 Cook-off dish
104 Dent in the hockey
arena's protective
shield?
106 Cesar Millan
specialty?
111 Linguist Chomsky
112 Deposed Iranian
despot
113 Quod —
demonstrandum
114 Daggers of old
116 Shore thing for a
sailor?
120 Hanna-Barbera's —
Doggie and Doggie
Daddy
122 Cybercurrency
124 Measure of
complacency?
126 Cornered,inaway
127 British county
128 Domus Aurea builder
of 64-68 AD
129 Not mad
130 Flippant
131 Calcutta wraps
132 Good name for a
tuxedo cat
133 Defib specialistsDOWN
1 Animal rights gp.
2 Damage
3 Three-syllable berry
4 Skating no-no
5 Black —
6 Spiny lizard
7 Auto body concern
8 Greek fabulist
9 Misleading lead
10 Article in Spain's El
Mundo
11 Feud group
12 Infiltrators
13 Betsy Ross, notably14 Lincoln-to-Topeka dir.
15 What "strikes deep," in
Stephen Stills' "For
What It's Worth"
16 Tabriz native
17 Language for the
Masses?
18 Barely-there
beachwear
24 Gym storage
29 Is required to
31 Some beams
34 Circus swinger
36 "Swan Lake" skirt
37 Two-syllable foot
38 Milan's La —
39 Stride pianist Art
40 Seventh planeta
41 Wad in a pocket
46 Formal jacket feature
47 Ready to proceed
48 JFK but not SFO
49 "La Dolce Vita" setting
50 Responsibility53 MGM co-founder
55 Expands
56 City on the Rhine
58 Code carrier
60 Satirist Mort
64 Carl's Jr. bread
66 L.A. setting
67 Notre Dame figs.
68 Terminate
69 A month of Sundays
71 Schools of thought
72 Apothecary's weight
73 "Rhinoceros"
playwright
74 Basics
75 Politician'spursuit
76 Bearded Smurf
79 New, in Nicaragua
80 Clemson athlete
81 Baby carrier?
83 Colorful tee
84 Tiny farm worker
86 Thought-provoking
89 Prizesonthemantel90 Brewpub orders
91 Gas or elec.
92 Rainy day wear
94 Acid neutralizer
98 Symptom
100 Colossal
102 Cuban dance
103 Gasbag's bagful?
105 On the fence
106 H.S. exams
107 "Star Trek" officer who
famously kissed Kirk
in 1968
108 Novelist's output
109 Pungent salad green
110 —question
115 Retired, as a prof.
117 Rock's Queen + —
Lambert
118 Let off steam
119 Former flames
121 Big name in ice cream
123 Indian title
125 Half a musical doll?Last week’s solution:
“Wide-Screen Display”Edited by Rich Norris
and Joyce Nichols
LewisBy Pancho HarrisonOh, It's You
Again
Tribune Content Agency © 2019SUDOKU
Dear Amy:I did some vol-
unteer work at an eldercare
facility. I was sad to see how
many people’s families paid
for their care but didn’t come
to visit.
But after a while I learned
that many of these people
who were so nice to me at the
eldercare facility had been
terrible parents.
They had alienated their
children for years and now
when they needed their fam-
ilies, they had no relation-
ship to draw upon.
Been There
Dear Been There:A friend
of mine does important re-
search on family estrange-
ment. He told me that quite
often elderly parents will re-
port that an estrangement
happened “for no reason.”
When he digs deeper into an
interview, he frequently un-
earths a good reason — along
with a lot of denial.
I assume that nursing
home staff have a lot of in-
sight into family dynamics
and its impact on the care
and attention elders receive
from their children. But it is
challenging, and perhaps
unfair, to judge people based
on a narrow knowledge of
them close to the end of their
lives.
Send questions to Amy
Dickinson by email to ask
[email protected].
ASK AMY
The World Series of Poker
held a special $1,500-buy-in
event this summer that was
open only to former gold
bracelet winners. That
meant the tournament,
which attracted 185 runners,
was filled with players who
had obtained poker’s highest
honor.
In Level 5 (300-600 blinds
with an ante of 600), Blair
Hinkle, winner of a 2008 no-
limit event, raised under the
gun to 1,500. The short-
stacked Ron Ware, who won
a six-handed, eight-game-
mix event in 2017, called from
the button. I was in the small
blind with 7♠ 6 ♥and a stack
of roughly 55,000. I called,
and two-time bracelet win-
ner Vitaly Lunkin came
along from big blind.
The flop came Q♣ 2 ♦ 4 ♠.
Everyone checked, and the
dealer burned and turned
the 5♦to put two diamonds
on board. I bet 2,000 with my
up-and-down straight draw,
and much to my surprise, I
received three calls.
A3♣river gave me the
nuts but also put four to a
straight on the board. I
opted to check, hoping one ofmy three opponents would
bet behind me.
This was a tricky spot. I
usually want to get value
when holding the nuts, and
the only way to ensure a
chance of doing so is to bet. I
know many folks who always
bet the nuts on the river be-
cause they don’t want to risk
others checking behind.
Most of the time I’d do the
same, but this was a special
circumstance. Here’s why.
Given that it was four-
way action preflop, and ev-
eryone called my turn bet, it
seemed likely that at least
one of my three opponents
would hold an ace, which
would give them a wheel. If
so, they would have made an
inferior runner-runner
straight that they should
think was the best hand and
bet accordingly.
By checking, I hoped to
give myself the opportunityto check-raise, get more
chips in the pot and present
my opponents with a tough
decision. If one of them hap-
pened to have a six for the big
end of the straight, I was
primed to win a monster pot,
as they’d surely bet, I’d
check-raise big, and they
would either call or possibly
move all in.
I was licking my chops
just waiting for someone to
bet, but one by one they all
checked. I failed to get value,
and to make matters worse,
Ware did show an ace. Some-
thing must have smelled
fishy to him because he
checked last to act, playing it
safe and saving himself a lot
of chips in the process.Holloway is a 2013 World
Series of Poker bracelet
winner and head of live
reporting USA for
PokerNews.com.POKER Chad Holloway
Chad
Holloway’s
hand Flop Turn RiverIn this new millennium,
astounding young chess
masters have been popping
up frequently everywhere.
The uprising became espe-
cially notable in India after- That was when Vis-
wanathan Anand first be-
came the official World
Chess Champion.
Anand had become In-
dia’s first grandmaster and
eventually won five world
championship matches. In
his own country, he achieved
national stardom and re-
ceived India’s highest sport-
ing award named after a for-
mer prime minister.
With Anand providing
great inspiration to his fellow
countrymen, chess rose in
status in India and began to
flourish. Indian names were
added to the international
Top 100 rating lists and
young stars started to gain
notoriety regularly. Three of
them are now listed among
the top six youngest grand-
masters ever.
Most recently, a 14-year-
old prodigy from Chennai
with a long name has been
grabbing headlines. Rame-
shbabu Praggnanandhaa is
already a grandmaster, hav-
ing become one when he was
just 12, the fourth youngest
ever. Before then, at the
World Youth Chess Champi-
onships, he won the Champi-
on’s title in the Under-8 and
in the Under-10 divisions. At
age 10, he became the young-
est International Master in
history.
“Pragg” continued to
amaze. Most recently, he
competed in one of the
world’s biggest chess tourna-
ments, the Xtracon Chess
Open in Denmark. In a mas-
sive event of 365 competitors,
including 25 GMs and 57
other masters, he finished
undefeated and in clear first.
One of his greatest chal-
lenges occurred in round six
when he faced three-time
Ukrainian Champion GM
Anton Korobov. The game
began with a standard
Nimzo-Indian Defense. Both
sides had optimized their po-
sitions by move 20. A series of
exchanges (25-28) led to a
relatively even ending. More
trades left each side with a
king, bishop, and five pawns.
Pragg then achieved a
passed pawn (45-46) which
his foe failed to neutralize. In
the final position, the black
king can go pawn grabbing at
will. Instead of 47.Bg6?,
White could have drawn by:
47.Bd3+ Ka4 48.Kc5 Ka3
49.Bb5 a4 50.Kd6 Bb3 51.c4
Kb4 52.Bxa4 Bxa4 53.Kxe6
Kxc4 54.Kf7 Kd5 55.e6 g6
56.e7 Kd6 57.Kxg6.Game of the week
Korobov, Anton-
R. Praggnanandhaa
Xtracon Chess Open
Elsinore, Denmark1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4
4.e3 0–0 5.Bd3 d5 6.Nf3 c5 7.0–0
dxc4 8.Bxc4 cxd4 9.exd4 b6
10.Bg5 Bb7 11.Re1 Nbd7 12.Rc1 Rc8
13.Bd3 h6 14.Bh4 Be7 15.Bc2 Nh5
16.Qd3 Ndf6 17.Bxf6 Nxf6 18.Ne5
Qd6 19.a3 Rfd8 20.Rcd1 Qc7
21.Re3 Bd6 22.f4 a6 23.Bb1 b5
24.h3 Ba8 25.f5 Bxe5 26.Rxe5
Qxe5 27.dxe5 Rxd3 28.Rxd3 Nd5
29.Kf2 Kf8 30.fxe6 fxe6 31.Rf3+
Ke7 32.Bg6 Nxc3 33.Rf7+ Kd8
34.bxc3 Bd5 35.Rf8+ Kd7 36.Rxc8
Kxc8 37.g3 Kc7 38.Ke3 Kb6
39.Kd4 Bg2 40.h4 Bd5 41.g4 Bf3
42.g5 hxg5 43.hxg5 Bd5 44.Bc2
Ba2 45.a4 a5 46.axb5 Kxb5
47.Bg6 a4 48.Bd3+ Ka5 49.Ke3 a3
50.Kd2 Bb3 51.Kc1 Kb6 0–1[email protected]Sept. 8, 2019
Position No. 4589:White
mates in two.Position No. 4588:1.Rd4!
Hint: White mates next with:
Rd6, Re4, Qxf5 or Qf5.CHESS Bill Cornwall
Aries(March 21-April 19):
It takes time to find the
nexus between what you
want and what people want
from you.
Taurus(April 20-May 20):
It’s the simple decisions of
timing that will matter more
than anything else to the suc-
cess of an endeavor.
Gemini(May 21-June 21):
This is a worldwide game
you’re playing — an idea you
might find inspires you to
play bigger than you were.
Cancer(June 22-July 22):
Admit upfront what you
don’t know so you can ask for
help and get up to speed.
Leo(July 23-Aug. 22): So
many people will forget to re-
lax, smile and connect with
the people they share a space
in time with. Don’t let that be
you.
Virgo(Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
The world at large and your
inner world are developing at
different rates, and that’s par
for the course today.
Libra(Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
What matters is the way ev-
eryone feels about their role
and their collective purpose.
Scorpio(Oct. 24-Nov. 21):
You’ll arrange an environ-
ment leaving room for every-
one’s imagination to flood in.
Sagittarius(Nov. 22-Dec.
21): The experiences you’ve
lived do not remain as they
were. No, the memories
change upon viewing.
Capricorn(Dec. 22-Jan.
19): Don’t force yourself to go
any faster or work any harder
than your natural inclination
dictates.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): The deal you’re investi-
gating gets complicated.
Your gut feeling will override
the logistical aspects.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March
20): You don’t like relying on
others to meet your needs,
but sometimes there’s no
getting around it.
Today’s birthday(Sept.
8): Things will change in the
way you’ve been wanting
them to for a long time now.
As the cosmic favor tips in
your direction, you’ll be gen-
erous wherever you can and
keep your ego in balance. It’s
the giving you do in October
that leads to the building of
something remarkable.
Year-end adventure is ro-
mantic. Libra and Scorpio
adore you. Your lucky num-
bers are: 6, 13, 1, 22 and 45.
Holiday Mathis writes her
column for Creators
Syndicate Inc. The
horoscope should be read
for entertainment.
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