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Jun-27-12
 | | karnak64: <JB>: my recurring nightmare is that someday Chessmaster 12 (or whatever they are up to) will play 1. f3 and declare mate in 146 moves in any variation. At that juncture we'll see the division between human and computer chess, not a bad thing, but I am still thinking hard about what that means. Well, thank Dog the computers don't play football. Back to the Portugal-Spain match ... |
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| Jun-27-12 | | Jim Bartle: Trying to spoil my day with your 1.f3, karnak?
But I'll tell you, the players who believed 1.f3 was a guaranteed winner and had tried to memorize monstrous lines, would lose (overall) to the serious players who applied classical principles. There's just no way the f3-ites could memorize enough variations. |
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Jun-27-12
 | | Shams: Look at Chess960, it's just as solvable as chess is (might take a bit longer) but as a competitive challenge its prospects look invulnerable. |
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Jun-27-12
| | karnak64: <JB> Heh. I honestly believe you're right. I have to, or I'll go mad, King Lear style, or Hamlet style, or whatever. It's just that computers keep kicking my kiester. Hard. Painfully hard. |
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Jun-27-12
| | Shams: Someday my grandchildren will ask me, "Shams, when did you turn against portmanteau words?" I will reply: "The day I first heard the word 'gustnado'." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustnado |
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Jun-27-12
| | Shams: White to play and win: (Wednesday level of difficulty)
click for larger viewh/t: Kevin Spraggett |
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Jun-27-12
 | | Check It Out: <Shams>:
A)
1.Re8+ Kc7 2.Qc8+
A1)
2…Kd6 3.Qd8+ Kc5 4.Re5+ Qd5 5.Rxd5+ cxd5 
A2)
2…Ka7 3.Ra8+ Kb6 (3…Kxa8 4.Qc8+ Ka7 5.Qxb7#) 4.Qa5+ Kxa5 5.axb6+ Kb5 6.b8(Q)+ Kc5 7.Qe5+ A2a)
7…Qd5 8.Ra5+ Kb6 9.Rxd5
A2b)
7…Kb6 8.Qa5+ Kb7 9.Ra7+ Kb8 10.Qc7# |
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Jun-27-12
 | | technical draw: Another chess themed episode from the old Mission Impossible TV series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpHV... |
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| Jun-27-12 | | cormier: D Pustovoitova vs N Pogonina, 2012 |
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| Jun-27-12 | | cormier: T Shadrina vs N Pogonina, 2012 |
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Jun-27-12
| | technical draw: In the mission impossible episode above there was a secret code: In 1892 Steinitz beat Chigorin in 29 moves. What was the last move? The answer was Q-B4. There is no 29 move game in 1892 between those two players. And in today's notation the final move could be 29.Qb4 or 29.Qg4 or 29..Qb5 or 29..Qg5 and no games in the database end that way. The movies and TV can't get anything right chesswise. |
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Jun-28-12
 | | HeMateMe: Chess is so deep. That's why I have no sympathy for professional players who claim that their opponents can draw at will, because the "best" moves have been found, deeper and deeper into all well known openings. I guess one has to do what the chess software programs do--find some new moves of your own. |
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Jun-28-12
 | | Phony Benoni: <td> They undoubtedly used this well-known game: Steinitz vs Chigorin, 1892
Our score has Black resigning after 28.QxN+:
click for larger viewSince the forced continuation would be 28...K-B4 29.Q-B4#. Descriptive Diehards would claim that the move doesn't need to be written 29.Q-KB4#; since 29.Q-QB4 is not mate, the fact that the move is mate sufficiently differentiate the moves. There may well be other copies of the score that include the mate as the final move. |
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Jun-28-12
| | HeMateMe: Spain is in the Euro final, against winner of Germany/Italy. Vamos a Ukraine! |
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Jun-28-12
| | Check It Out: That solution needs revision:
A)
1.Re8+
A1)
1…Kc7 2.Qc8+ Kd6 3.Qd8+ Kc5 4.Re5+ Qd5 5.Rxd5+ cxd5 A2)
1…Ka7 2.Ra8+ Kb6 (2…Kxa8 3.Qc8+ Ka7 4.Qxb7#) 3.Qa5+ Kxa5 4.axb6+ Kb5 5.b8(Q)+ Kc5 6.Qe5+ A2a)
6…Qd5 7.Ra5+ Kb6 8.Rxd5
A2b)
6…Kb6 7.Qa5+ Kb7 8.Ra7+ Kb8 9.Qc7# |
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Jun-28-12
| | technical draw: Very good detective work there <Phony Benoni>. I didn't think to check the games for forced mate. They probably continued the game to mate for the audience's sake or it may very well have ended in mate. Thanks. |
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| Jun-28-12 | | Chess Magician: Can anyone tell why the chess games of computer Houdini not included in chessgames.com database |
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| Jun-28-12 | | Wayne Proudlove: Bugs Henderson, "Anthem For The Blues":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k75Z... |
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| Jun-28-12 | | Wayne Proudlove: Golden Earring, "Twilight Zone":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf... |
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Jun-28-12
 | | whiteshark: <Chess Magician> Here you are: Golden Executive / Houdini |
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Jun-28-12
 | | chancho: Shalamar
Make That Move
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvdT... |
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| Jun-28-12 | | The Big Lebowski: Yes - I've Seen All Good People: Your Move
http://youtu.be/m1I4Q6Px_78 |
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Jun-28-12
 | | harrylime: Been playing thru the games from the Tal memorial tournament and reading Tkachiev's blog .. Tkachiev is in love with Morozevich. Fact. Can't help being impressed with how top chess players look and dress nowdays.. They all look so cool and debonair in the pics from this tourney.. Radjabov could be mistaken for the fifth Beatle. |
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Jun-28-12
| | harrylime: Top ten Ameriacans of the 20th century.
1 Elvis Presley
2.Marilyn Monroe
3.Henry Ford
4.John Wayne
5.JFK
6.FDR
7. James Dean
8. Al Capone
9. Michael Jackson
10. Theadore Roosevelt.
These touched Americans more than .. they are there for this and their iconicity. Ofcourse it's a huge list and open to different interpretations. I've gone on overall impact on the populace and American culture. |
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| Jun-28-12 | | I play the Fred: I'm impressed by the diversity of your list, <harry>. I was expecting: 1. Bobby Fischer
2. Robert D. James
3. Wolfman Jack
4. impact
5. Robert James Fischer
6. lol
7. impact
8. history
9. The Kid From Brooklyn
10. Dr. Jonas Salk
11. lol |
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