<TheBirdman33: *** filler up with ten gallons of petrol ***>

Is this self-talk, or did a service attendant pump your gasoline for you? A few places still offered "full-service" in the 1990s in the USA, but not many. Cannot recall any such assistance this century. Is there "full-service" at the pump in Europe?

<Everybody uses remote control to change the channel.>

Is this self-talk, or did a service attendant pump your gasoline for you?>

Tough question, most likely not in my area ;)

The phrase I used actually comes from a user by the name <Open Defence>, she was very quick-witted, and she used this line and dozens of variations on it to hide moves from a CG forum game/match from showing up on recent kibitzing/<chessforums recent activity> page.

Quite sure that she is no longer active here, but a strong player, very strong, great person to talk to.

What I meant is that a young toddler, say between 12 and 36 months old, has all the time in the world, playing with simple stuff, for hours, not a care in the world except food and eyecontact with mom and/or dad. No fancy games 5yr-olds need to get their excitement... You know, playing in the sandbox, baking cookies, alone, mom reading a book, but until a few years ago there was a group of kids here, playing outside everyday, between 6 and 13, and they went on marvelously, not in a hurry to go anywhere, just playing, just as long as possible until mom called to get in for dinner.

Now, as they got a few years older, towards and into puberty, they all have left the playground and have been sucked up by the virtual world that dominates every single home by now.

From then onwards life only speeds up, more and more duties, demands from every conceivable direction, and that doesn't slow down for a long time to come after that. I was looking at it from a different angle I suppose.

I looked the game over parts of two days, searching for alternative moves. Needed some time to think about it while multi-tasking (because I was stumped on finding an improvement). Kept trying to get the Black knights to work, but no. Thought about a different arrangement of the Black rooks, but no. Van der Weil made reasonable moves, but he's just worse, and Kasparov kept the choke hold on. It shows the power of the cross pin, and the power of a battery on a half-open file. There was no good way to break the pin or counterattack.

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The dadgum sensors went wonky in my Jeep as of the New Year, 2022. Apparently, this was by company design for upgrades but we didn't know of it beforehand. The surprise hit us while attempting to drive in urban traffic, thinking something was terribly wrong. So, we wanted our vehicle sensors updated by the dealer, as does everybody else -- all at the new year, apparently. The vehicle does operate, but chugs and jerks w/each shift of the gear, so it's not a comfortable feeling trying to putz 10-15 mph to avoid shifts -- this includes pulling out from a stop. The dealer does not provide a loaner until the vehicle is actually in the shop for the repair. (So we have a vehicle that is not trustworthy to drive across town in the cold of winter.) It's not been fun this year trying to juggle rides while we wait for our turn in the shop. We won't buy a Jeep ever again because of the recalls and poor dealer service (prior to this event). Jeep was a company that used to have a fine reputation in the previous century.

Due to COVID-19, new cars are not being mass built (getting parts world-wide is a problem) or not being bought. Thus, used vehicle prices have skyrocketed.

Mrs. FTB does wear an expensive smart watch, but we don't stream to any degree. Still, I enjoy hearing from folks in other countries and how they live, what it's like. We don't get much foreign programming in the USA unless it's BBC news or some sort of vacation resort show.

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- allowing the c6-knight to be captured, yet a beautiful B-pair match that of White, but a Piece Down versus Kasparov, with less space, and the struggle continues,-- but the strangulation is over for the time being. There is no forcing win here, just a very tough defense.

My engine gives a 0.6 advantage for white there. which surprises me a little.

vd Wiel played 27...Na5, which led to immediate destruction,he did not spot the very strong 27...e5, which would have kept him in the game, as it turns out after some engine help.

His historic video's and playlists are very good quality, but he made those at an earlier time when he took simply more time for his video's; he/his channel has become more of a MacDonalds to draw an analogy.

Quantity over quality.

But position right before blunder is

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Your game score ends at move 80, in a queen ending that White should win with difficulty, and which seems almost impossible for him to lose. (ChessBase has the same score.) But the score indicates 0-1! What happened? We know from the comments to the game that it concluded with Giri (Black) forcing checkmate with a surprising trick, in a position where White was still two pawns up. The last 21 moves can be seen in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAe.... User DaltriDiluvi used that video to reconstruct those moves. He made an educated guess (in brackets) as to what happened in the few moves prior to that. Here it is, from his January 1, 2022 comment: [80...Kh8 81.Kh4 Qb4+ 82.g4 Qe7+ 83.Kh5] Qf7+ 84.Kg5 Qg7+ 85.Kf4 Qd4+ 86.Qe4 Qf6+ 87.Kg3 Qd6+ 88.f4 Qd2 89.Kh4 Qd7 90.Qe5+ Kg8 91.Qg5+ Kh8 92.Qf6+ Kg8 93.Kg5 Qd5+ 94.Qe5 Qd8 95.Kg6 Qb6+ 96.Qf6 Qc7 97.f5 Qh7+ 98.Kg5 Qc7 99.Qe6+ Kh7 100.Qh6+ Kh8 101.Qg6+ Kh8 102.Qe8+ Kh7 103.Qe3 Qd6 104.Kh5 Qh2+ and White resigned.