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| Jul-07-16 | | drollere: i also thought Bh6 was the continuation.
the theme is to clear out the 3rd rank for the queen, and if Bxh6 then Nxh6+ gains a tempo, clears a defender, and forces either Kf7 or Kh8 (Kg7, N(4)f5+, etc.) however, the point is that after Bh6, black can play N(d)f6 rather than capture, and his pieces have more options for defense. Bb6 takes the knight out of play. i am pretty sure spraggett did not look 16 moves ahead. he just assessed the position was lucrative, which is why the computers score the different bishop moves as equivalently favorable. |
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| Jul-07-16 | | mel gibson: <drollere: i also thought Bh6 was the continuation. the theme is to clear out the 3rd rank for the queen, and if Bxh6 then Nxh6+ gains a tempo, clears a defender, and forces either Kf7 or Kh8 (Kg7, N(4)f5+, etc.) however, the point is that after Bh6, black can play N(d)f6 rather than capture, and his pieces have more options for defense. Bb6 takes the knight out of play. i am pretty sure spraggett did not look 16 moves ahead. he just assessed the position was lucrative, which is why the computers score the different bishop moves as equivalently favorable.> Good post -
B-h6 was a far more obvious move &
that's why many here saw it as the solution.
It's still an excellent move which wins. |
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| Jul-07-16 | | Olsonist: The queen desperately wants to give check. But there's a bishop blocking her. Pretty much downhill from there. |
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Jul-07-16
 | | gawain: 31 Bf4 is not as forcing as some other moves but it seems to win. Black's best reply is to capture the bishop 31... exf4 in spite of the invasion 32 Rxe8. White cannot play the intended Qg3 but that's OK, he has several ways to win from here. |
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| Jul-07-16 | | thegoodanarchist: Got the main idea in about 5 seconds, a clearance sacrifice to allow the White queen to come to the g-file for attack. |
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| Jul-07-16 | | RandomVisitor: After 30...Bc8
click for larger viewKomodo-10-64bit:
<+11.10/34 31.Bb6 Nxb6 32.Qg3+ Qg7 33.Nh6+ Kh8 34.Ng6+ Qxg6 35.Qxg6 Bxh6 36.Qxe8+ Bf8 37.Qc6> Ra6 38.Rb1 Ra7 39.Qxb6 Rg7 40.Qe3 Bb7 41.Qf3 Kg8 42.Qxh5 Ba6 43.Qe2 Nf6 44.Rb8 e4 45.Ra8 Bb7 46.Rxa5 Rg6 47.g4 Bc8 48.Ra8 Bd7 49.Qe3 Kf7 50.Qf4 Bxg4 51.Rxf8+ Kxf8 52.Qxd6+ Kg7 53.hxg4 Nxg4 54.Qe7+ Kh6 55.Qf8+ Rg7 56.Qf4+ Kh5 57.Qf5+ Kh6 58.Kf1 e3 59.Rb1 Rg6 60.Qf4+ +7.60/34 31.Bh6 Bxh6 32.Nxh6+ Kh8 33.Qg3 Ndf6 34.Ng6+ Kg7 35.Nxe5+ Bg4 36.Nf5+ Kg8 37.Nc6 h4 38.Nxh4 Qg7 39.hxg4 Qxg4 40.Qxg4+ Nxg4 41.Nf5 Rxe1+ 42.Rxe1 Kf8 43.Nxd6 Ng5 44.f3 Nf6 45.Kf2 Ne8 46.Nf5 Nf6 47.g4 Nf7 48.Re7 Ng8 49.Rb7 Ngh6 50.Nxh6 Nxh6 51.Nd4 Nf7 52.Ne6+ Kg8 53.c5 Nd8 54.Nxd8 Rxd8 55.c6 Rxd5 56.c7 Rc5 57.Rb8+ Kf7 58.c8Q Rxc8 59.Rxc8 Kf6 60.Ra8 Ke5 61.Rxa5+ +6.66/34 31.Bd2 Ndf6 32.Qg3+ Ng4 33.hxg4 Bxf5 34.Nxf5 h4 35.Qxh4 Qf7 36.Bh6 Be7 37.Qh3 Qg6 38.c5 dxc5 39.Qd3 Nf8 40.d6 Bxd6 41.Qxd6 Qxd6 42.Nxd6 Re6 43.Bxf8 Rxf8 44.Ne4 Rc8 45.Nxc5 Re7 46.f3 Kh7 47.Kf2 Kg6 48.Kg3 a4 49.Red1 Rec7 50.Rd5 e4 51.fxe4 a3 52.e5 Kf7 53.Kf4 Ke7 54.Ke4 |
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| Jul-07-16 | | JimNorCal: Quite an imbalance at the end: rook plus four minors against queen and two rooks. |
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Dec-17-16
 | | WannaBe: Oh, ah, errrrr, hmmm.. Okay, I did not get the pun, so I went to google and looked it up. It's a 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Ne... Okay, I'm really quite lost on this one. Please enlighten; on what the pun is... |
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| Dec-17-16 | | zanzibar: Maybe it's not a pun, but the truth.
Ever visit his site? |
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Dec-17-16
| | WannaBe: <Z> You mean the one on wordpress? Or is there another site? Am I suppose to guess and pick & choose???????? How about a freakin link here, for a dumb bunny like me? Since I can't decipher the pun from a school massacre fiction??? |
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| Dec-17-16 | | zanzibar: <WannaBe> well.... Let's do a google search on <spraggett chess>, and pick the obvious top listing link <Just nice to look at> https://kevinspraggettonchess.wordp... There's a reason I like to run with GIF animations turned off, and this ain't, err, I mean this *is* one of 'em. Now, you might not have a problem with this admixture, but my doctor warned me against ... etc. But I'm sure Kevin's Wordpress stats blow mine off the map due to the different, err, graphical styles we present. (Anyways, the pun is a bit tongue-in-cheek. I'd give it a good fruity Beaujolais rating) |
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| Dec-17-16 | | zanzibar: BTW <WannaBe>, you are over 18 aren't you? * * * * *
<“Life is mostly pain and struggle; the rest is love and deep dish pizza.”> (Benedict Smith) Kevin Spraggett |
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| Dec-17-16 | | PhilFeeley: <WannaBe> It's a movie title: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242460/ |
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| Dec-17-16 | | ISeth: Played like Kasparov/Fischer .Gem Game . |
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| Dec-17-16 | | ninja warrior: correct me if I'm wrong, but i think the pun refers to a line from 'home alone', which is a popular christmas movie for those who don't know. :) |
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| Dec-17-16 | | Absentee: <ninja warrior: correct me if I'm wrong, but i think the pun refers to a line from 'home alone', which is a popular christmas movie for those who don't know. :)> "We Need To Talk About Kevin" is the title of a novel and of its movie adaptation. |
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Dec-17-16
 | | Richard Taylor: <Absentee: <ninja warrior: correct me if I'm wrong, but i think the pun refers to a line from 'home alone', which is a popular christmas movie for those who don't know. :)>
"We Need To Talk About Kevin" is the title of a novel and of its movie adaptation.> I didn't know the reference. But it's like these Xmas cg.com have to drive people mad: they often refer to movies or movie stars, TV shows, plays or novels. Most people, or many, go to watch a movie and are blissfully ignorant of the novel. But the eternal debate, novel or movie, goes on ( as someone who reads a lot and goes to movies less but quite a bit or I used to and used to sell books etc) the debate is endless. But there are many movies based on novels. I have never read 'One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest' but the film was good enough for me whereas in other cases the book 'Catch 22' is better than the movie. The NZ novel by Maurice Gee 'In My Father's Den' is far better than the movie and sometimes it is the other way around. But the movie is always a different thing... |
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Dec-17-16
| | Richard Taylor: Well, it's a great game by Kevin Spraggett.
Or is it "sproggett"? A sprogett is a car of machine part but I seem to have the (US) spelling wrong... |
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Dec-17-16
| | Richard Taylor: He's Canadian so maybe Gordon Morrell has met him. |
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| Dec-17-16 | | zanzibar: It's a pun on three levels - the movie/book, the game, and Kevin himself. |
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| Dec-17-16 | | ColeTrane: ...most often the book surpasses the movie. Even when the movies are really excellent...the only exception I know is Jaws, by Peter Benchley. And oddly this is his worst novel. The Deep was great fun to read, also the giant squid book... But really Jaws the movie is king and they left out the whole middle plot where the police chief wife have affair with the marine biologist.
. boring dinnertalk scenes. More sharks. |
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Dec-18-16
 | | perfidious: Watching Jacqueline Bisset act in <The Deep> was classic stuff, really. |
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Dec-18-16
| | Richard Taylor: <ColeTrane: ...most often the book surpasses the movie. Even when the movies are really excellent...the only exception I know is Jaws, by Peter Benchley. And oddly this is his worst novel. The Deep was great fun to read, also the giant squid book... But really Jaws the movie is king and they left out the whole middle plot where the police chief wife have affair with the marine biologist. . boring dinnertalk scenes. More sharks.> Jaws was quite an exciting movie but it isn't something I would want to watch again. But somewhat in that genre the films of Stephen King's books have been good. Not that I am a big film buff. But we (my son and I) to enjoy year after year 'The Shawshank Redemption', 'The Green Mile' and I more recently watched 'The Shining' which is in the 'great' league. In the 70s I tried to watch what were informative or 'significant' movies that arrived about that time. Some were good. I still haven't caught up with that other level of 'art movies' enough but there are some really good ones. But in general a book is better as a book has more depth. A film is something different. Many times they go together though. Sometimes a movie will inspire me to read books by the author concerned. When I saw 'The Dead' which is a great movie, when I first walked into a theatre at the time (years ago) I asked if it was a horror movie. But I had actually read the story. It is based on the last story in 'The Dubliners' by James Joyce and was Huston's favourite story. Now that story on the page is quite beautiful and subtle. There are thoughts in the mind of the protagonist you cant quite get as well...but the movie is still a great one. I watched it quite a few times. I watched a movie of an Ibsen play. I then read the play. After reading a biography of James Joyce I read nearly every play by Ibsen. Sometimes more than once. Apocalypse Now led me to re-read 'Heart of Darkness'. 'Papillon' I saw but first I read that and the sequel, I was pretty obsessed with it. I always thought it might be a load of cobblers but it didn't matter! I read 'The Silence of the Lambs' after watching the movie and the next movie quite a few times. Harris's book is good for sure. He might have taken that further...it has the makings of a great novel. I think it is up there as it is...in the novel the museum assistants and etymolygists play chess with specimen bugs!! |
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Dec-18-16
| | Richard Taylor: <perfidious: Watching Jacqueline Bisset act in <The Deep> was classic stuff, really.> Thinks. Hmm...Googles Jacqueline Bisset for images and takes appropriate rejuvenating sex tablets! [Returns: it is strange to think how beautiful she once was and now she is 72...and not so...such is life.] |
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| Dec-18-16 | | zanzibar: Here's a picture of a chess set for an insect:
https://boardgamegeek.com/camo/6901... There's also this:
https://www.fieldmuseum.org/sites/d... This seems the best I can come up with for insects on a chess board: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uPLNxmM4G... Although, the following should be included for exoskeleton fans: http://www.desktopimages.org/pictur... |
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