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| Mar-05-19 | | JimNorCal: Incroyable. (Pardon my French) |
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Mar-06-19
 | | offramp: That is very well done, Geoff. I had wondered that and immediately reasoned that it was NOT possible. I thought that the pawns would not be able to weave around one another like that. I also did not believe that 18 queens could be on the board and neither king in check: after all, 9 queens control 63 squares (about). |
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Mar-06-19
 | | OhioChessFan: Wow. I <had> thought about that. Like <off>, I had thought it wasn't possible. |
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Mar-06-19
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
Hi Offramp,
I did not compose it, a lad at Red Hot Pawn did (or posted it). I have no name other than a nik to give credit too. It is good *** |
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| Mar-06-19 | | JimNorCal: Now that it's been done, someone will come along and say "oh, I can do it in 37 moves!" |
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Mar-06-19
 | | vonKrolock: Very economic solution too... 40 moves are, in principle, needed for all the promotions! |
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Mar-06-19
| | vonKrolock: The Author (surely a magistral PGs specialist) attained the goal with just twelve captures... 🤔 |
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Mar-06-19
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Hi vonKrolock
He loves Retro Analysis and chess problems in general. I said this is great, but I bet it cannot be done with 20 Rooks. Thought I was safe here because getting the 16 Queens meant you have 4 Rooks to capture. To Queen all the
pawns and get 20 Rooks you lose these four Rooks. However another lad came up with:
1.d4 d5 2.e4 e5 3.f4 a5 4.f5 h5 5.Bf4 exf4 6.c4 b5 7.c5 b4 8.Bc4 dxc4 9.Nc3 bxc3 10.d5 g5 11.e5 g4 12.Nf3 gxf3 13.d6 c2 14.c6 c1R 15.f6 Rb1 16.e6 Bb7 17.cxb7 Na6 18.b8R Bg7 19.fxg7 f5 20.e7 Kf7 21.exd8R c3 22.Rdc8 c2 23.d7 c5 24.d8R c1R 25.a3 Nb4 26.axb4 c4 27.b5 c3 28.b6 c2 29.Kd2 f2 30.b7 f1R 31.b4 f3 32.g4 f2 33.g5 Nh6 34.h3 Ng4 35.hxg4 Rg1 36.g8R f1R 37.g6+ Ke6 38.Rc5 f4 39.Rbc8 f3 40.b8R f2 41.R8c7 Re1 42.b5 f1R 43.b6 a4 44.Ra2 a3 45.Rb2 a2 46.b7 a1R 47.Rbc8 h4 48.b8R h3 49.Rgf8 Rh7 50.Rh2 Rh8 51.Rhf2 h2 52.g7 h1R 53.g8R R8h7 54.g5 R7h6 55.g6 Rh7 56.g7 R7h6 57.Rh8 Rh7 58.g8R cxd1R That is 20 Rooks legally on the board and as a bonus if we go back to the position just before the last under promotion. 
click for larger view58...cxd1=R
click for larger viewIs checkmate.
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Mar-06-19
| | vonKrolock: Hello <Sally Simpson>! Yes, indeed... Here there's additional difficulty, so the lengthier maneuvering. Thanks for sharing, they're very interesting! |
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Apr-17-19
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Saw a picture of a chess mural painted on the outside of a pub 67 miles (that is a lot of Kilometres) from where I live. Using my free bus pass it was three hours there and three hours back all for a picture and a pint. https://www.redhotpawn.com/chess-bl... *** |
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| Apr-17-19 | | JimNorCal: "There is a pub ‘The Pawn Lounge’ in Alexandria near Dumbarton, Scotland" We have something in common! Near me is the Dumbarton Bridge.
It has no chess mural though.
Doesn't serve pints, either.
Hmm, maybe not so much in common ...
Seriously, nice article. |
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Apr-17-19
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Hi Jim,
Why did you not say so earlier.
You could have crossed the Dumbarton bridge and met up for pints and blitz in 'The Pawn.' Looks like I have another 6 hour round trip to make. BTW that wee town, Alexandria, (do Crewe play there?) has a couple of smashing 2nd hand shops. Picked up some chess & Sci-Fi books and that jacket I'm wearing in the picture (£3.00) I threw the one I went there in into a bin. *** |
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Sep-03-19
| | Sally Simpson: ***
A recruit is being talked through his survival gear by his sergeant. ‘A knife, rations, map, chess set, compass, flares...’ “Wait a minute,” asks the recruit, “Why do I need a chess set.” “If you are alone and need help, take out the chess set and play over an ending.
Sooner or later someone will appear to tell you where you are going wrong.” *** |
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| Sep-03-19 | | JimNorCal: I can't think of any other chess jokes that I know.
Thanks! |
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Sep-04-19
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Hi Jim,
Born out of frustration after hearing yet again the 'chess nuts in an open foyer' gag. There is also the one about having dinner with Gary Kasparov, the table cloth was chequered, it took him 15 minutes to pass the salt. and: My dates with women are always failures, my opening moves are as old as MCO I. My wife left me for a Marshall and I won't Averbach. I'll stop there....
Was there not a thread here where you put jokes. *** |
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Sep-04-19
 | | morfishine: A man went to visit a friend and was amazed to find him playing chess with his dog. He watched the game in astonishment for a while. "I can hardly believe my eyes!" he exclaimed. "That's the smartest dog I've ever seen." "Nah, he's not that smart," the friend replied. "I'm up 2 games to 1" |
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Sep-04-19
 | | Retireborn: <morfishine> Obviously the dog played the Collie opening. That one's got whiskers on it too. |
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Sep-04-19
| | Sally Simpson: ***
The Devil challenged God to a Hell v Heaven chess match. God said; 'Pointless, we have Capablanca, Fischer, Alekhine, Lasker, Pillsbury... I cannot think of any good players you may have," "You may have all the good players" replied the Devil, "...but I have all the arbiters!" (change the chess players to footballers and arbiters to referees - that is how I first heard it.) *** |
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Sep-04-19
 | | Diademas: <God said; 'Pointless, we have Capablanca, Fischer, Alekhine, Lasker, Pillsbury... I cannot think of any good players you may have,"> Access to Heaven seems to be a lot easier than I imagined. |
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Sep-04-19
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Apparently...All chess players get in but you must have a FIDE rating, it's the first thing St.Peter asks you. None chess players get wings and a harp. We get a pocket set. a mouth organ and the sheet music to: 'When The Saints Go Marching In.' *** |
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Sep-05-19
| | Diademas: <Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." [Unless he has a rating in excess of 2500.]> |
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Dec-09-19
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Have bash at the Christmas Quiz.
12 fairly easy questions/puzzles General knowledge, Chess jigsaw, Chess players charades...this kind thing. (1) One condition in Santa’s contract was not only to deliver toys to every corner
of the globe (in this case the four corners of the chessboard) but to also take out ‘The Grinch.’ This is known as Santa’s clause. This mate in four moves credited to W. A. Shrinkman does it perfectly. 
click for larger viewWhite to play and mate in four moves. (Santa is the Rook, deliver all the presents and nobble the Grinch which is on h1) https://www.redhotpawn.com/chess-bl... *** |
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Dec-30-19
| | Sally Simpson: ***
What famous game is this: (Not opening..famous game) https://www.redhotpawn.com/imgu/blo... Answer here:
https://www.redhotpawn.com/chess-bl... Plus me getting a Green Lantern type ring that turns me into Chess Super Hero. *** |
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Mar-28-20
| | Sally Simpson: ***
I've been trying to trace the statement saying that Nepo does not like being called Nepo and I was in future going to refer to him as the player formerly known as 'Nepo.' I found it but a few posts later we discover that someone actually asked Nepo about it and Nepo does not mind being called Nepo. https://twitter.com/TarjeiJS/status... Where we also learn:
'Oh Ancient Chimp' is an anagram of Nepomniachtchi ---
What do you call a chess player who plays with the dead. A Nepophiliac.
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Mar-28-20
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Magnus Carlsen may do a question and answer session over at Red Hot Pawn. https://www.redhotpawn.com/chess-bl... I hope everyone and their family and friends are OK during this virus thing. Please all take care. *** |
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