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Oct-30-07
 | | OhioChessFan: Speaking of ampers&s:
& morrant J |
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| Oct-30-07 | | Ragh: <& morrant J> So, first name is a <&> and last name is <J>. The middle name should have been one of the following characters instead of <morrant>..
† ‡ ‰ ‹ › ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦ ☺ ☻ |
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Oct-31-07
 | | Domdaniel: <Ragh> How do you do that? Code numbers? I tried to cut'n'paste your playing-card symbols (you just became honorary president of the frogspawn bridge poker club -- we poke bridges) but all I got was textual gibberish. All I wanted to say was:
I [heart] my dog.
I [spade] my cat.
Looks better with suit symbols. |
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| Oct-31-07 | | cheski: Does Mack's <160 quid> translate into <£150>? What kind of exchange rate is that then?
Anyways, well done both of you venturing out into the real chessworld and coming back with such splendid results. |
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| Oct-31-07 | | Ragh: <Dom> Try these secret codes instead of cut'n'paste of the chars. & spades; & clubs; & hearts; & diams; & dagger; & Dagger; & permil; & trade; & reg; Delete the space between the '&' and the word while using them for kibitzing. An extensive list of special chars is available with the esteemed WEB MONKEY. http://www.webmonkey.com/reference/... |
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| Oct-31-07 | | mack: The policeman sai '&diams uty'. |
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| Oct-31-07 | | Ragh: The policeman sai '♦ uty'.
<mack> You forgot to end the code (&diams) with a semi-colon. -Honorary President of Frogspawn Poker club, Space Division. |
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Oct-31-07
| | OhioChessFan: <I [heart] my dog.
I [spade] my cat. >
I <club> my wife. |
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Oct-31-07
| | Domdaniel: <Ohio> You *are* still talking to me, after what I said about Elvis. I'm so pleased. <cheski> Yep, if you divide a Euro by a Peso and add a Quid, then subtract the square root of the remainder in US Dollars and add a tip in Kroner... it's probably Sunday, and you're in Canada. Er, I misread mack's <160 quid> which of course = £160. |
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Oct-31-07
| | Domdaniel: This is distinctly weird. To celebrate my top ten finish in Limerick - I was actually the 11th seed, but that's another story - I bought the new laptop I've been promising myself for months and months. So now I've got this duo core shiny beast and I'm about to install Chessbase and Fritz 10... and then we might see some action. Everything looks different in Vista, though. Much more MacLike. I approve. |
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Oct-31-07
| | Domdaniel: I ♥ my cat.
I ♠ my wife.
I ♣ my dog.
I ♦ even though I didn't live a mond.
<A mond lied.>
Die, almond. |
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| Nov-01-07 | | mack: <Mel an' Dodi>
There have been some 20+ entries into the Compendium since you last popped over. When you've summoned up the mental energy do you fancy taking a look and perhaps adding a few more? We're only sixteen off the first Frogspawn book launch... |
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| Nov-01-07 | | mack: <<mack> You forgot to end the code (♦) with a semi-colon.> Eh? |
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Nov-01-07
| | Domdaniel: The diamonds have stopped working. Obviously a sign that the global economy is about to go phut. "I'm absolutely weak, I can only just stagger home -- darling, the dollar's collapsed!"
- William Burroughs |
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Nov-01-07
| | Domdaniel: Panic's over. The diamonds are back on screen. Maybe I just imagined it all.... el diamond |
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Nov-01-07
| | Domdaniel: <mack> More Punkendium Quotes coming up, when I get my head together, man. There was a story about Brian Eno in the 70s in his Roxy days, having a bad car accident and splitting his skull. He was sitting on the pavement literally holding it in place when a fan wandered up and said "Hey! Eno! Whatcha doin, man?" To which Eno replied: "Just keeping my head together, man." |
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Nov-01-07
| | Domdaniel: O Kannada kabbada kabbala, phut lagniappe! <Mental Energy>, I summon thee from the depths of Hull... Nada. Zilch. Pas des saucissons.
I'll call back later. |
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| Nov-02-07 | | achieve: * leapfroooog....* (yes!, I landed safely)
...continuing here for the Jyrki game- and some frog related stuff... <I'm going to try feeding Jyrki's game to Fritz 10 on my new faster 'puter... will report back, my captain.> -- "As you were, young man... I was considering postponing *it* to Easter vacation, 2017 ..." Firstly: Congrats on your new dual-core! Is it fast? Does Fritz run better now? Horizon emerges more quickly? We need to climb the flagpole? A captain needs to know, obviously... Secondly: It Will take a little effort to get all the work we'd done, back in... um..), together in an orderly fashion... But I'll be ready, sir!
And I noticed you had a few words with something frog-like at the Carlsen page... Thanks for sticking up for me man... Appreciated.
I'll spare you the details that had me closing shop early, earlier, as they are quite obnoxious, to be honest. War was declared, war he got. As much as I hate war, it was good practice, though.
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| Nov-02-07 | | achieve: <Dominus Rex> I got a chance to play the French/Exchange against Chessmaster - and played the unusual < 6. Ng5 > 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Nf3 Be6 5. Bd3 Nf6 6. Ng5 Bg4 7. f3 Bd7 8. O-O Nc6 9. c4!? < offering the pawn for attacking chances..> Nxd4 10. Re1+ Ne6 11. cxd5 Nxd5 12. f4 -- Diagram 
click for larger view12...Bc5+ <..and the pressure of the attack became too much to handle for Black..>
(13. Kh1 Ne7 14. Qc2 b6 15. Nd2 Nxf4 16. Bc4 f5 17. Nb3 Bb4
18. Bxf4 Bxe1 19. Rxe1 Rf8 20. Qe2 Bc6 21. Ne6 Qd7
22. Nxg7+ Kd8 23. Ne6+ Kc8 24. Nxf8 Be4 (etc.) 1-0
Obviously Black made several judgement errors, but I thought my idea was very playable- or maybe even better than that... But I am not an experienced French player (B or W) - so I'd like your opinion on "the matter of 6.Ng5 plus 9.c4..." (dot) |
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Nov-02-07
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> That whole experience -- over in the village pub, the Frog & Magnus -- was very strange. I read a pile of stuff just as the powers that be were seemingly deleting it. But my contribution stayed. Maybe I sounded like a concerned elder frog, or something. The computer speed difference is phenomenal. My old Fritz would slowly work through 8-ply, 9-ply, 10-ply, and took forever to reach 14-ply. The new one seems to start at 14-ply and zoom rapidly up to 18 or 20. Whether this makes it any stronger, I don't know. I tried one of my game positions -- a middlegame without queens, where I'm black, with a strong centre and an extra pawn -- on three different machines/programs. Fritz 4, on a slow computer, liked ...Kd7, which was what I actually played, to connect rooks and centralize the king for the ending. But Fritz 8, on my medium-slow laptop, wouldn't consider this, and preferred ...0-0-0. Which I thought put my king in the wrong place. Then Fritz 10, on this new speedy beast, instantly suggests ...Kd7 again. Apparently it's good to be young and fast or old and slow, but in-between is messy. One of my games as black began 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Bd3 Bd6 5.Qf3 Nc6 6.Ne2 Be6 7.0-0? Qh4! -- and Black's already winning. My opponent here had exactly the same rating as me, for this tournament: 1836. Mainly thanks to this game, I've turned the corner and should be back over 1850. I also came close to beating a 2350 guy - much closer than I realized at the time. But then I could also easily have lost to a young girl rated 1350, who bashed me around for a while then left her queen en prise just when I was getting seriously worried. |
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Nov-02-07
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> In general, the Ng5 & c4 idea looks good. From the Black side, I'd consider it dangerous, and worth taking defensive/prophylactic measures against. I think you have to be a little paranoid to play the French: constantly checking if catastrophe is about to strike, always watching for ways the other guy can kill you. But paranoia is also the art of making connections (trust me, heh, I wrote a thesis about this) ... and can be quite enjoyable to its adepts. As the uber-paranoid, Pynchon, says: the opposite state, antiparanoia, where nothing is connected to anything else, is not one many of us can endure for long. |
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Nov-02-07
| | Domdaniel: <The Frogspawn Library> uses the Frog Classification System, where, eg: 0.00-199.9: the French Defence
200: Long jumps
343: Frog cuisine
344: Frogs *in* cuisine
400-499: Batrachomania
576: Rendezvous With Rana
625: Ribbit
626: Kermit, Miss Piggy, The Marquis de Sade, etc.
<new books> John Watson's <Dangerous Weapons: The French> is not an overview of the whole opening. He ignores mainlines, and concentrates on several less familiar ideas for both sides. I've already tried some. Others -- like 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 h6 -- may follow. He writes that Nimzowitsch described the line 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nc6 (also reachable via 1...Nc6, which I've played a few times) as being like "swearing in church". Meaning that it offends the sensibilities of the orthodox player by blocking the c-pawn. The Church-@#%$ing Variation it is, then... get your hands off me, reverend... it is NOT inappropriate behavior, it's a chess move... hey, put me down, you humorless sky-pilot... Thud. Ribbit. Splash. Ah well, back to the pond. And Lily the Pink... |
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| Nov-02-07 | | achieve: <Dom> <paranoia> In my student days I had a friend with whom I discussed the more difficult subjects in human interaction/behaviour - and I remembered immediately, as you mentioned the art of making connections, that my friend and I came to the exact same conclusion: Paranoia is a state of heightened- or super- or ulta awareness. And often misunderstood... I'd love to read the thesis you wrote on that; Maybe if you EMU it to Jess, she can forward it to me? If it is EMUable? I'll get back to the chess related things a bit later, as at this moment my bathroom is being invaded by two men with a washer and dryer... |
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| Nov-02-07 | | mack: <Paranoia>
'Chess is the form of social intercourse most therapeutic to the intellectual as paranoid', as my new favourite chess quotation goes. Your 7...Qh4 is groovy and inobvious, & therefore I like it. |
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Nov-02-07
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> - <The Ng5/c4 Attack>.
First, I don't think Black's 4...Be6 is very good (even though I played an early ...Be6 myself last weekend). It invites Ng5, and your c4 is quite justified -- maybe Black could have found a tougher defence with 9...h6 instead of grabbing the d-pawn. The Ng5 can't retreat, and the f3-pawn blocks the queen and makes a sac on f7 very dubious. So the best for white may be 9.c4 h6 10.cxd5 hxg5 11.dxc6 Bxc6, which is unclear, with chances for both sides. Playing 10.Re1+ isn't any better, after ...Be7. The trouble is the f3-pawn, which prevents the Ng5 from retreating and blocks the white queen. I suspect your attack would have been less flowing after 9...h6 -- maybe you'd have been tempted by 10.Nxf7?! But it flows pretty well once you play f4 and get everything in harmony. 14.f5 also looks strong, as an alternative to Qc2 -- but by then you're well in control. c4 and Ng5 are both dangerous moves against the French, but perhaps black has to go wrong first if the attack is to succeed so well. |
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