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Oct-31-24
 | | Sally Simpson: Hi Check it Out,
<...stays out of flame wars.> I start them then sneak away...nothing to do with me. Chess knowledge is out of date. I look at the top players games and a lot of the times I cannot grasp what they up are too. Live Games: If you look carefully I only really contribute when I spot a two mover or a cute wrap up when the game has been won. If the live game goes to an ending I'm suddenly very quiet. (that is when I leave the live game and go off to start a flame war.) |
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Oct-31-24
 | | keypusher: Definitely one of the best things about this website. <kingscrusher> made an excellent choice. |
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Oct-31-24
 | | perfidious: <Geoff: Hi Check it Out, <...stays out of flame wars.> I start them then sneak away....>
Troublemaker. |
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Oct-31-24
 | | Check It Out: <Sally Simpson: Chess knowledge is out of date. I look at the top players games and a lot of the times I cannot grasp what they up are too> Who can. We're all guessing without an engine, some of us better than others; and situational: I might spot a tactic a better player missed, and vice versa more often. It's relative. Reminds of when Kasparov said something like, learning chess by watching Carlsen is like trying to leatn engineering by studying an iPhone...or something like that. |
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Oct-31-24
| | perfidious: I remember watching the post-mortem during the 1985 New York Open of a game Walter Browne lost to Pia Cramling; the pieces flew in Browne's hands and it was staggering how much he saw. |
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Oct-31-24
 | | Troller: Just to balance the scales a bit, <SS> has been a nuisance and general pain in the a** ever since he joined. He singlehandedly drove away valuable kibitzers like <Overgod>, <Bugabay> and that guy I can never remember. Now we are left with rockstar wannabe <Check It Out>, washed-up poker dude <perfidious>, know-it-all <keypusher> and some asylum escapee <offramp>. Oh, and never allow <Sally> to be editor. He will flood the database with the latest 1-minute garbage from <Chess.com>. He really loves that stuff. |
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Oct-31-24
| | Sally Simpson: Hi Check it out,
Probably because I am older and set in my ways and hopelessly out of date theory wise. But I'm sure it has to do with a computer influenced style. It seems to take an age before I can get a bead on a middle game and see how it may pan out. I feel like a football commentator who has not got a team sheet. 'Reds have the ball, now the blue team has it, back to the reds.' I get the team sheet deep in the second half! Hi Troller,
That is me down to a tee. However you have given me an idea - Perfidious, as a games editor can I delete games from the D.B? I think that question will do it. I won't get asked again else they will log on one day and find the database has shrunk by about 50%. "Where are all the games from chess.com...every Berlin Wall has vanished....All the puns have been removed...!!" |
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Oct-31-24
| | perfidious: <Troller> makes excellent points, especially regarding that hasbeenusetawas <perfidious> and <Geoff>'s love of bullet games. I like the guy, but he will do nothing but upload bullet games every day. <steve> needs to keep the bug in uploads in place to prevent this. |
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Oct-31-24
| | Check It Out: "Rockstar wannabe"?? Why, I never...oh, wait, maybe...darnit. |
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Nov-01-24
| | keypusher: <troller> I seem to have lost your email address, but just letting you know that my daughter has decided not to do a semester abroad in Denmark. Which I think is a shame, but I'm glad she enjoys her college. Anyway, maybe I'll show up at your farm one day myself. |
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Nov-01-24
| | Sally Simpson: That's OK boys, just use my page for your personal messages...and when am I getting introduced to this daughter, look how popular I am, don't you want me as your son-in-law. And where's my invite to a day out on the farm. I can help by mucking out the cows and milking the pigs. |
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| Nov-01-24 | | stone free or die: (Aside - I see <Troller> lives up to his name.) |
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Nov-01-24
| | perfidious: <Geoff> wants to muck the stables? People get paid to perform those duties, I'll have you know. As to <Troller>, someone has got to keep the dreaded <perfidious> in line, best they can. |
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| Nov-01-24 | | fabelhaft: <I see <Troller> lives up to his name> I’m not sure that description is all that correct though, I wonder if <offramp> really has escaped. |
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| Nov-02-24 | | stone free or die: (<fabelhaft> - oops, I forgot to use a "!" in my post (my version of ;-) ). Of course I viewed <Troller>'s posts as similarly tongue-in-cheek!) |
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Nov-02-24
| | Sally Simpson: This will give you a laugh - it is 100% true.
Today I was looking for something else and came across a few photo's of me when I ran my games/toy shop in Edinburgh in the 1980's. Of course we sold loads of chess stuff and one day a bunch of students came in and among them must have been Matthias Wüllenweber the guy who started Chessbase. He was a German lad and started telling me his idea about storing games on an Atari with a floppy disc. I told him that sounds daft to me and it will never catch on (or words to that effect.) True story. He may actually remember it if asked. He played board one for the University team and I think I was board one for the Wandering Dragons at that time so we may have played. I'll ask around old board one players, we might get a game or two of his for here. |
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Nov-02-24
 | | HeMateMe: I'm glad no heroin addicts tried to steal the merch, Sally. I'm thinking those rogues from <Trainspotting>. You know the types.... |
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| Nov-02-24 | | stone free or die: <ChessBase was originally designed for the Atari ST by Matthias Wüllenweber, the physicist/co-founder of the company. Mathias Feist helped port the program to DOS.> -Google AI
Maybe it should have stayed on the Atari?!? |
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Nov-02-24
 | | Fusilli: Amazing foresight, Sally! Maybe you should have morphed your chess shop into a fortune teller outfit? Well, you were right in some sense, as Atari is now just a fossil. |
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Nov-02-24
| | HeMateMe: The early Asteroids machines got a LOTTA my quarters. |
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Nov-02-24
| | Check It Out: I broke the unofficial world record on Asteroids back in the 80s. Of course no one was there at the 7-11 to witness. I started at 300 pm after school on one quarter and played until 830 pm, at which time I had 20 extra ships or so lined up across the screen. I got nervous about getting whooped by my parents so abandoned the game. The secret is to whittle the screen down to a few rocks and then go enemy spaceship hunting. |
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Nov-02-24
| | perfidious: <CIO....I started at 300 pm after school on one quarter and played until 830 pm, at which time I had 20 extra ships or so lined up across the screen....> In those days, I saw people who could play Asteroids, but never at that level. One game which used to amuse me was Centipede, what with some of the comments the machine would make: <Chicken; fight like a robot!> <Sensor detects coin in pocket> There were others which I do not recall just now. |
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Nov-03-24
| | Troller: <kp> and others: I much prefer young pretty women over grumpy old male chessplayers to vist the farm. Already the latter comprise 50% of the farm's population. That said you are all welcome should your paths ever cross the forgettable plot of clay known as Denmark (possibly excepting Geoff, he would just try and shear the chickens or some sort of that). Good story about the Atari DB. If you can locate a game that would be nice. And <Asteroids>, those were the times! |
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Nov-03-24
| | Fusilli: <Check It Out ... The secret is to whittle the screen down to a few rocks and then go enemy spaceship hunting.> But of course! I only played asteroids for free, on a computer, so had no need to last as long as possible to extend my quarter forever. Hence, I never even thought of this strategy. Necessity is the mother of invention! |
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| Nov-03-24 | | stone free or die: Is this strategy the "lurking" strategy mentioned in this history of <Asteroids>? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiG...
Apparently Atari eventually caught on and released a new set of updated EPROM's for the game (and for all subsequent new versions, like <Asteroid Deluxe>). |
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