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It was dated Tuesday; Feb. 21st, 2012. (10:24 AM)

Here's a tougher one: I've spent about 20-minutes total and am getting closer, but still not there: 'Fine art of the impossible'

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I had to set this up on my wooden peg set, the diagram was just too small for my old eyes ... (I probably need glasses). I did NOT move the pieces, just wrote down my thoughts ... you may want to check this with an engine, I have a vague feeling that I missed a few things ... maybe, maybe not. (I am still sure of the first move, though.)

Its pretty simple, the first move (to me) is very obvious ... the capture on e5. HOWEVER ... it begins to branch out and I used close to 30 minutes ...

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Any Player - A.O. Player
Round # 01; 25,02,2012.

[A.J.G.]

("The fine art of the impossible.")
Black to move and win.

1...Bxe5; 2.Qb1;

This is forced, I think.

[ The simple recapture on e5 does not work out too well for White ... (Worse is: </=) 2.Nxe5? Qxe5;
We could stop here, Black is up a piece and two pawns. However, there is a matter of the pinned (Black) Knight on e4 ...

3.f3 Qd4+ 4.Kh1!? Nf2+! 5.Kh2 Nd3 6.Red1 Qe5+; " " and Black is winning easily. ]

2...Qb2; 3.Rxc6!?,
Call this pure desperation, but to simply swap off all the pieces is very bad. (I think.)

[Much, much worse would be: <3.Qxb2?? Bxb2; (White is a piece down ... and the Q's are off the board as well.) ]

3...Qxb1 4.Rxg6+ Kh7 5.Rxb1 fxg6 6.Nxe5 Nd2 7.Rb2 Nxb3 8.Rxb3 b5;

The second player has a relatively simple win.

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Black is up an exchange and a Pawn ... 0-1

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I don't have time right now, later I will go over this with Fritz or Houdini ... and see how much I missed.

Maybe I did NOT need to go this deep ... and the further that you go, the greater chance that you will miss something.

By the way, if you really want to improve, you should do this. [I have done this for YEARS. Solve problems, and WRITE DOWN your solutions. (Sometimes I do OK, and other times I am so far off, it isn't even funny.) Many times when you check them, you will not believe what you missed or waht a good chess engine will find.]

In 'Training for the Tournament Player' by Mark Dvoretsky and Artur Yusupov, great emphasis is placed on writing. The connection:

BRAIN - HAND + PENCIL = NOTES

is so valuable it can't even be measured. We are using our brain to recall and then using our hand to put those thoughts into words.

A good analogy is watching a basketball game on TV or listening to the same game on the Radio. Its much more beneficial to simply listen to the game on the Radio. Why? The TV provides all the vivid colorful graphics. Net result is the imagination portion of our Brain is turned off since all that is being provided. In other words, all those graphics leaves us nothing to imagine.

The problem is not "non-chess posts." The problem is personalities.

Realizing that the only way to do this is to insist on civility, I think my own forum has become, consequently, productive, thought-provoking, and interesting. I'm not trying to brag about it: whatever has been accomplished there is the work of a diverse group of kibitzers--<YouRang>, <achieve>, <OhioChessFan>, <cormier>, <Jessicafischerqueen>, <Deus Ex Alekhine>, and quite a few others. Without them, my forum is nothing.

Within this group, we hardly ever agree about anything. We don't have to! Our purpose is to share our thoughts on religious and social issues, and hopefully to inspire independent thinking among our readers.

I think we have all shown that this can be done without anybody getting nasty. Occasionally someone goes a bit over the top, but we've managed to deal with those incidents without involving CG management.

You misread me.

I want them to shut down the trolls (nothing else) ... and I would NEVER encourage tampering with a personal forum ... unless it got just plain nasty. (There have been a number of forums that have been censored over the years. Links to nudity/porn or really filthy language.)

Surely, you know I have this group of people. They follow me all over the site. ANYTIME I post ANYTHING, they try to bring an insult to bear.

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 Be7 8.0-0-0 0-0 9.Nb3 Qb6 10.f3 a6 11.g4 Qc7 12.Bxf6 Bxf6 13.Qxd6 Qb6 14.Qc5 Qc7 15.Qd6 Qb6 16.Qc5 Qc7 17.Kb1 b5 18.g5 Be7 19.Qe3 Ne5 20.f4 Nc4 21.Qg3 Bb7 22.Bd3, Black to play.

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