g15713 Member since Sep-10-15 · Last seen Oct-04-23 <Review of Understanding Rook Endgames on Amazon> https://www.amazon.com/Understandin... <The End of the Golden Era of Chess> https://www.theatlantic.com/enterta... chessgames.com chessforum ChessBookForum chessforum Game Collection: g15713's favorite collections of endgames Rook endings: Game Collection: g15713's favorite Rook endgames Part I Game Collection: g15713's favorite Rook endgames Part II Game Collection: g15713's favorite Double Rook endgames Other endings: Game Collection: g15713's favorite Queen endgames Game Collection: g15713's favorite Sundry endings Hello my name is Charles Irvine Won Alabama State Championship 4 times and was briefly a chess master in my salad days Earned my Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Science and Technology from Thomas Edison State College specializing in electronics engineering - March 2003 Worked as a production/electronic engineering technician over 15 one-half years for Motorola and then as a TV technician for a short time (20 months) before retiring Warzone member: https://www.warzone.com/Profile?p=2... 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Watch in fullscreen with HD enabled It was released on their 1972 album Trilogy. Peter Frampton - "Do You Feel Like We Do" 1973 https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... Pink Floyd - "Time" was fourth track on The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) - Wiki https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... "The Great Gig in the Sky" was the fifth track on The Dark Side of the Moon - Wiki The song features music by Richard Wright and non-lexical vocals by Clare Torry. https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... Eddie Kendricks "Keep on Truckin" 1973 https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... Stevie Wonder - AS In album: "Songs in the Key of Life" (1976) https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... AL Stewart "Year of the Cat" 1976 https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxy... AL Stewart "Time Passages" 1978 https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... Issac Hayes - "Don't Let Go" (1979) https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic Although recorded in 1981, Sting wrote the song as early as 1976 - Wiki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEN... Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - A Woman In Love (It's Not Me) - 1981 https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... Stars on 45 - Medley - 1981 https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... Duran Duran - "Rio" - 1982 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTi... Modern English "I Melt With You" - 1983 https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... A-ha "Take On Me" recorded 1984 https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... Talk Talk "It's My Life" 1984 https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... The Cars "Tonight She Comes" (1985) https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... The Cure - Just Like Heaven "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" album (1987) https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... MARRS - Pump up the Volume 1987 https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear... 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Oct-07-21 g15713 chessforum   g15713: Sorry but I won’t be able to do much as my Intel NUC computer died on me.      Oct-05-21 ChessBookForum chessforum    g15713: Hi Peter! Understanding Chess Endings by John Nunn, my favorite chess writer, is a great place to start. It covers 100 key endgame concepts and shows how they are used to win games or save difficult positions; then his Nunn's Chess Endings Volumes I and II - my two cents on great ...      Sep-27-21 stevemcd87 chessforum    g15713: I am very frustrated with how testing is done... Game collections cannot be updated with chess symbols while changes in the title work One can use html entries in either decimal or hex but only temporary One makes a change and then one goes back to make another change and everything ...      Jul-09-21 woldsmandriffield chessforum   g15713: <"Kibitzing diagrams seem to have disappeared following the last chessgames.com maintenance. Has anyone else noticed this? Will they return!?!?!?"> ' stevemcd87 chessforum (kibitz #446) They newly created fen images are black and white for now. If you happen to get one in ...      Jul-07-21 chessgames.com chessforum    g15713: Missing FEN diagrams - thanks to <stevemcd87> for work around solution      Jun-13-21 Lautier vs Piket, 1995   g15713: Part II 49. Qg8+ Kh6 50. Qf8+ Kg6 51. Qc5 Qd3 52. Qc6+ Kf5 53. Qc8+ Kg5 54. Qc1+ Kh5 55. Qc3 Qb5 56. Qb3 Qc6 57. Qd1+ Kg5 58. Qd2+ Kf5 59. Qa5+ Ke4 60. Kb3 Qe6+ 61. Ka4 Qd7+ 62. Qb5 Qc7 63. Qe2+ Kd4 64. Qd2+ Ke4 65. Qc3 Qd7+ 66 Kb3 Qd8 67. Kc2 Qb6 68. Qc4+ Ke5 69. Kc3 F. 1.5 Black      Jun-06-21 Botvinnik vs N Minev, 1954   g15713: E. 1.0 White to move at 41 [DIAGRAM] White played 41. Kf2 but after 41. Rxa7 White is winning according to FinalGen E. 1.1 Black to move at 41 [DIAGRAM] A few sample lines: Line 1: 41...Rc1+ 42. Kf2 Rc2+ 43. Kf3 Rxb2 E. 1.2 [DIAGRAM] Syzygy says White is winning ' ...      May-21-21 Nisipeanu vs N Grandelius, 2017   g15713: Part II F. 1.4 Black to move at 50 [DIAGRAM] Stockfish gives the following analysis after 60-minute evaluation 1) +1.12 (45 ply) 50...Qa1 51.Qd8+ Kf7 52.Qd7+ Kf8 53.Kg2 Qe5 54.g6 Qe4+ 55.Kh2 Qh4+ 56.Kg1 Qg5+ 57.Kf1 Qxg6 58.Qd8+ Kf7 59.Qxa5 <Tablebase draw> Game continued: ...      May-19-21 S Bogner vs E Zanan, 2018   g15713: Queen and five pawns versus a Queen and four pawns F. 1.0 Black to move at 38 [DIAGRAM] 38...Qxb2 39. Qe8+ Kh7 40. Qe4+ Kh8 41. Qxa4 Queen and four pawns versus a Queen and three pawns F. 1.1 Black to move at 41 [DIAGRAM] 41...Qc1+ 42. Kg2 c5 43. Qe8+ Kh7 44. Qe4+ Kh8 45. a4 ...      May-19-21 N Chkhaidze vs Z Medvegy, 2016   g15713: Knight with an extra pawn versus Bishop ending should be a draw here. E. 1.0 White to move at 57 [DIAGRAM] Stockfish gives the following analysis after 25-minute evaluation 1) +0.03 (56 ply) 56.Ne5 Kb7 57.Ng6 Ka6 58.Ke2 Kxa5 59.Nh4 Bf8 60.Nxf5 Kb5 61.Nh4 Kc5 62.Kd2 Kd5 63.Ng6 Bg7 ...

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