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Mar-22-16
 | | offramp: <keypusher: <beenthere240: Something interesting about bridge is that computers still aren't as good as the best humans. They're getting better but still not world class. It just occurred to me that a 2 handed variant of chess might be possible in which a team alternates moves without being permitted to communicate with their partners. A great combination could come to nothing if the partner didn't understand the idea behind it. The most successful teams would be those who thought alike. It wouldn't have the mano a mano aspect that chess players love, but it might be interesting. Perhaps as a training exercise.> It's been done; I thought it was called tandem chess, but the internet disagrees. Andy Soltis discussed it in a column 30 years ago. He said two experts would probably beat a C-player and Kasparov because the C-player wouldn't know how to follow up Kasparov's moves. <<[THIS IS A VERY FUNNY PART Alan.]>There was also a funny anecdote about someone, I think Kavalek, playing with Ulf Andersson. Kavalek said it was awful -- he'd move a piece forward and then when it was Andersson's turn he would move it back.>
Seems like it would be a good way for the teammates to get into a fight, if one was just consistently failing to figure out what the other one was trying to do. Bridge has wrecked a lot of marriages...> It's both very interesting and funny, from both kibitzers. It's easy to miss, so I hope it now reaches more people. |
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| Apr-01-16 | | Filboid Stooge: Mar-29-16 <Petrosianic: "Giri not want win. Haw! I make joke!"> |
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| Apr-09-16 | | diceman: <morfishine: Perhaps the bio of Anish Giri needs to be updated to reflect he's married to WGM Sopiko Guramishvili. An oddity and curious contrast is that Giri's massive bio fails to mention his marriage, yet Guramishvili's bio is scant and noted for its extreme paucity in that the only item mentioned is her marriage to Giri! lol> Yeah, but who has the better photo? |
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Apr-19-16
| | offramp: I liked this rapid exchange :< <offramp>: Is User: MarkFinan posting more or less often to this site since he left forever? <MarkFinan>: More.> |
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Apr-21-16
| | offramp: 😗<Apr-21-16
Premium Chessgames Member Shams: Blunders in such a position are as natural as farts at Taco Bell>I'm a londoner but I understand the concept. |
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Apr-23-16
 | | OhioChessFan: <MissScarlett: Sort of a pity that Adolf Hitler wasn't a chess player, or <The Focus> could've wished him a happy birthday.> |
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| Apr-26-16 | | Big Pawn: <diceman: <john barleycorn: how can we be expected to collect money for the "med stroll" ?> What about the money itself?
What if one of them Jews, or Christians, handled it?
What about gay/lesbian money?
Does it need to be thrown off a roof first?> |
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Apr-30-16
| | offramp: From a recent Kramnik - Topalov game :
<Apr-29-16 Atking: Even on the board they do not met each other. One is playing on dark squares the other on white ones> |
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Apr-30-16
| | offramp: <Atking>'s comment was from Topalov vs Kramnik, 2016, regarding this position. 
click for larger view |
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May-05-16
| | offramp: From Biographer Bistro (kibitz #14038) <tpstar: <Piket gave up full time chess> He made a Piket Line!> |
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May-05-16
| | offramp: A totally superb post from <zanzibar: Does anybody have Informant's <Paramount DB>?
Opinions?
http://www.chessinformant.org/conte...
It has 113,832 games, which it breaks down into:
70,043 full games and
43,789 fragment games.
So it looks as if <Informant> thinks stubs are OK. But reading a little further into the article: <In contrast to commercial databases that offer vast numbers of freely accessible games with no analysis, Paramount is a triumph of quality over quantity. Here you won’t find games with inaccurate moves, games that are incomplete, games with the wrong final result, games without any moves at all (!), games that make no sense, games that no human being has ever examined, games that publishers failed to verify, etc. Let’s just say it loud and clear: Paramount is a garbage-free database.> Which is a little contradictory. It says that you won't find incomplete games, yet the graphical banner proudly announces <43,789 fragment games>. What's going on?
And it appears that <Informant> doesn't appreciate stubs... <[you won't find...] games without any moves at all (!)> Which means they don't appreciate complete and accurate tournament crosstables generated from a DB. Which is OK, if your stated goal is actual game-play. On the other hand, it's not valid to knock DB's which have different design goals than yours.> Good points put very well. |
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Jun-03-16
| | OhioChessFan: I really loved this cracking joke, on the Efim Bogoljubov page: <offramp: "Biography of Bogoljubov" is quite a good tongue-twister..> Is that not great? |
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Jun-28-16
| | offramp: From Keypusher on the Alekhine page :
<Hi, brankat. The concept of <leave alone>, like the concept of <bother>, has no meaning when applied to a dead man. <Nothing we say is bothering Dr. Alekhine in the slightest.>> |
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Jul-22-16
 | | perfidious: <Colonel Mortimer....Critical thinking by its very nature needs to be applied across the board, rather than be suspended in order to allow cognitive bias to flourish in circumstances that would otherwise not withstand the test of its scrutiny....> |
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Jul-24-16
| | OhioChessFan: Tal vs Kirjatsky, 1959 (kibitz #25) <Once: Well, what can you say? It's Tal. Saying I solved it for finding the first move is like saying that I could run as fast as Usain Bolt because I know how to tie my shoelaces. Not a puzzle. It's a treat.> |
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Jul-24-16
| | OhioChessFan: Bilbao (2016) (kibitz #447) <MissScarlett: Pokemon Go, German chess comics.....the end days approach... > Bilbao (2016) (kibitz #448) <john barleycorn: the end days approach when Kramnik is searching the bathroom for a Pokemon> |
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Jul-30-16
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Kenneth Rogoff (kibitz #224135) Abdel Irada: ∞
<ljfyffe: <Petro> Thou continues to make a fool of thyelf....> Apart from the obvious question about how <Petrosianic>'s elf got into the conversation, |
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Aug-06-16
| | jessicafischerqueen:
lol
chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #25727) Party Animal: <Robed.Bishop: I am not from Russia but I played a Russian once on t.v.>
I am not from Russia but I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night! Nostrovia! |
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Aug-07-16
| | jessicafischerqueen: Kenneth Rogoff (kibitz #225113) Abdel Irada: ∞
<MissScarlett: Truth be told, I'm a transgender individual. I don't think your plan's going to work. I think levels of prejudice would probably increase.> Hating *you* after 10 minutes of conversation is not prejudice. It is evidence of good taste. ∞ |
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| Aug-07-16 | | User not found: <MissScarlett: <tpstar> is worse than Harold Shipman!? Well, there's a black sheep in every family!> |
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| Aug-09-16 | | diceman: <offramp:
It gets fantasticker and fantasticker!!> |
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| Aug-10-16 | | mckmac: Also <offramp> over at Kasparov v Neal McDonald 1986 < The symbol for stalemate should be the grille of a Ford Edsel. > |
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Aug-13-16
| | jessicafischerqueen:
chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #25812) saffuna: <So it would help if more people took a deep breath before fanning flames, making complaints, screaming, whining, mewling, etc. Even when justified it probably just gums up the works.>
Fine. I'll quit fanning the flames. I will stop making complaints and screaming and whining. But I am simply not going to quit mewling. |
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| Aug-18-16 | | Abdel Irada: ∞
<HeMateMe: When all seems incomprehensible, you have to consider tranny hookers.> ∞ |
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| Aug-31-16 | | mckmac: Hot off the press from the chef dujour of taste and toning, there is the thoughtful <posoo> with: <You do NOT get to salt your food twice> |
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