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| Nov-10-18 | | optimal play: <Nov-09-18 HeMateMe: I thought the intern was hot, the girl trying to grab the mike. [I bet she's aggressive in bed.] I've always liked that 1965 Vassar college look, attractive girls in tasteful dresses, full makeup, perhaps a strand of pearls. It's something the Trump mob does well, hire attractive women.> Kenneth S Rogoff (kibitz #355895) |
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Nov-15-18
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<"My favourite player from the past is me, 3 or 4 years ago.">- Magnus Carlsen. That could be quote of the year. |
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| Nov-15-18 | | zanzibar: I think even better was this one just a little bit later, <"That ship has sailed."> -ibid |
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Nov-18-18
 | | Diademas: <Domdaniel: <moronovich> -- < If this game was a track by the Beatles,what would it be called ? > Norwegian Woodpushing.>
Live Broadcast Page<Domdaniel> back with a vengeance! |
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Nov-18-18
 | | Annie K.: That's a live game link that soon won't work... :) This one will:
Carlsen vs Caruana, 2018 (kibitz #257) |
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| Nov-24-18 | | mckmac: Daniel AKA Sneaky (from the Mecking page)
Sneaky:<I disagree. Studying master games it the #1 way to improve.
A small example: The idea that an amateur player like myself could play a "double bishop sacrifice w/ rook-lift" and get away with it, is not so much a sign of the amateur's genius, but the genius of Emanuel Lasker. All aspiring masters must review the famous Lasker vs Johann Bauer, 1889 attack as part of their ABC's. Morphy, who never had that game as a reference, never played a double-bishop sacrifice! Does that mean the amateur is better than Morphy? Of course not. It means the amateur has more ammunition.Psychologists and some chessplayers like to use the term 'chunks' to represent a pattern (or motif, if you will) that is committed to memory. A typical chess chunk might be this: "There I was, winning his b-pawn with my bishop, but after he played ...Rb8 soon I found that I was losing my b-pawn as well." All chess players have been in that situation; it's a very basic chunk. If the chess pieces are like letters of an alphabet, then a chunk is sort of like a 'word', and the whole game is like a short story or poem. A literate person does not necessarily know a bunch of poems, but they definitely know a bunch of words. The difference between GM's and the rest of us is that they have tens of thousands of chunks, while we have a small functional vocabulary of perhaps a few hundred.> |
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Dec-01-18
| | offramp: I asked a question: <How have computers changed World Chess?> User: Sokrates came up with a good answer at Carlsen - Caruana World Championship Match (2018) (kibitz #2878) it was mainly about opening preparation. But this met with a really good riposte from User: Lupara at
Carlsen - Caruana World Championship Match (2018) (kibitz #2897) In part this reads
<...Caruana rejected the computer evaluation and decided to go his own way and won brilliantly.Caruana vs M Vachier-Lagrave, 2014 Here, the computers evaluated Caruana's move 15. g4 as a blunder. Indeed, many people on this site and other sites, such as chessbomb, criticised Caruana's move based on the computer evaluations. But Caruana was right because he rejected the computer evaluations at that time. The move 14. Rc1, which preceeded 15. g4 made the move g4 possible, but this was lost on most persons who viewed the game and relied on computer evaluations. New in Chess voted 14. Rc1 the TN of the year.> A small fountain of optimism in the jeremiads following the match: Chess is not dead! |
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| Dec-08-18 | | zanzibar: <offramp: I have no immediate need for intercourse with <BP>.> thegoodanarchist chessforum (kibitz #1286) A search of all mentions of intercourse by <offramp> is slightly interesting: Search Kibitzing . |
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Dec-31-18
| | offramp: Comments on the games of AlphaZero (Computer) tend to consist of long printouts of computer analysis. Here is an interesting and revealing comment from User: pdxjjb, who has discovered a very real cyberspace oddity. 
click for larger view
AlphaZero now played
40...Qg3.
<pdxjjb: I spent a long time analyzing this game using SF10. After a lot of computer time (10+ CPU hours on a 2013 Mac Pro, mostly focused on a few move sequences), I found a couple of interesting things.1. SF10 never sees 40 ... Qg3 as even a good choice. I ran to 40-some ply with MultPV set to 8 and SF10 never even considered this as one of the top 8 moves. I've spent many hours looking at SF analyses of high-quality games with MultPV set to 5 or more so I can see the alternate lines. I've never seen anything even remotely like this before...> That is the start of the comment. It is worth looking at the game. |
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Dec-31-18
| | offramp: Link missing from previous post.
Stockfish vs AlphaZero, 2018 (kibitz #4)
Sod it. I am really annoyed. |
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Dec-31-18
 | | OhioChessFan: Thanks. I was about to point that out. |
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Jan-06-19
| | offramp: User: Whitehat1963 had a happy thought at L Spassov vs P Popov, 1977 (kibitz #67) <The names sound like they were invented by a playground bully.> I can indeed imagine Nelson Muntz sidling up to the board and saying, "Hey, look! It's Spassov versus Popov," and getting a roar of laughter from all except the bullees. |
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Jan-11-19
 | | perfidious: Courtesy of <keypusher>: <...Skepticism looks more attractive if dressed in the robes of knowledge, rather than the track suit of ignorance.> |
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| Jan-25-19 | | zanzibar: <<Hazz>, I'm looking for a reason not to buy this book on <AlphaZero>: https://www.newinchess.com/game-cha...> Kibitzer's Café (kibitz #247571) |
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Feb-07-19
| | Diademas: From the Tata Steel Masters (2019) page two weeks after Kramnik's much publicized retirement. <HeMateMe: did kramnik announce his retirement?> <rogge: Are you serious?> < MissScarlett: Just wait till he hears about the rise of Hitler and the sinking of the Titanic....all those people....terrible.> |
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Feb-24-19
 | | Check It Out: From the Kibitzer's cafe, a discussion about drummers: <HeMateMe: How do you get the Bonham sound? Use larger sized drum sticks and turn up your amplifier.> Kibitzer's Café (kibitz #249435) <[Bonham] had the drum amp cranked up > Kibitzer's Café (kibitz #249481) |
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Feb-26-19
| | Diademas: <johnlspouge: "India Strikes Pakistani Village In Retaliation For Attack In Kashmir"
< Pakistan confirmed that Indian planes entered its airspace, by tweet.>> <saffuna: Twitter has really been upgraded.> Kenneth S Rogoff |
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| Feb-28-19 | | The Kingfish: Delicious irony!
To <The Kingfish> on the <rogoff> page. <Perfidious: If Clinton was impeached, how did he manage to complete his second term, <moe rawn>?> |
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Mar-04-19
| | Check It Out: A rather terrific run of comments on the Chessgames Forum: <<JimNorCal>: Sargon fixed my connection problem in the early morning hours, thanks!<Susan Freeman>: Great job, <Sargon>. It seems neither one of us requires sleep anymore. <offramp>: Sargon watched my disk defragment from 03:05Hrs to 05:59Hrs, thanks! <Willber G>: Sargon rebuilt my computer, cooked me dinner and serviced my wife so I could watch football. Good effort, but the steak was a bit tough. <jessicafischerqueen>:
Sargon pimped my ride and made a home video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeK... <Mr. President>: Ask not what <Sargon> can do for you; ask what you can do for <Sargon>. <OhioChessFan>: Sargon didn't help me at all, but he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. <Count Wedgemore>: <Sargon> didn't help me with anything either. He could at least have showed up to cook me dinner or something (hey, he travelled all the way to <Willber>'s place, didn't he?). Then again, he has his reasons. After insulting our national hero, he is advised not to travel to Norway. It's really not safe for him here.> > chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #31968) |
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| Mar-04-19 | | JimNorCal: Well, glad they all had fun.
And, I *was* grateful to be able to get access to CG after being locked out for 48 hours. Win/win |
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| Mar-05-19 | | Nisjesram: The Kingfish: < Bureaucrat: <Emperor Kingfish I of the United States of America>
Objective: Become the first Emperor of the United States of America. Form of government: Dictatorship.
Policy: No homosexuals, no Catholics, no Muslims, no women's rights, no immigration, no blacks, no liberalism, no swamp. Method and organsiation of government: Rule by decree. Fusion of executive, legislative and judicial branches of government to ensure a single line of control. Use of extrajudicial executions to get rid of of criminals, pagans, immigrants, and other bad people. Emperor: The Kingfish.
Minister of Propaganda: tpstar. The remaining cabinet posts will be filled by sockpuppets. Court Jester: thegoodanarchist.
How to become Emperor, plan of action:
1. Conduct guerilla warfare on the Rogoff page.
2. Get out of the basement.
3. To be announced.>
Form of government would be monarchy, not dictatorship. Policy objective were sketched here:
<The justice system
Crime and punishment (jailing etc...)
Unifying the country
Eliminating strife and friction.
Restoring morality
Cultivating wholesome American culture
Restoring freedom
Eliminating corruption
Ending government theft
Strong families & strong communities
Ending international adventurism
Protecting the borders for real
Eliminating threats foreign and domestic> I'm going to explain it all but slowly, in a most unhurried manner, preparing for the unveiling of each idea by talking about the current problem, current bias and disarming predictable knee-jerk reactions. These things have to be eased into because they are, admittedly, a bit radical |
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Mar-11-19
| | offramp: chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #32023) A minor vent of spleen from User: AylerKupp: < <chessgames.com> About 2 weeks ago I seconded other users' requests for a separate Leela Chess Zero page so that all posts relating to Leela Chess Zero could be placed on that page instead of the AlphaZero page. Today I decided to check to see if the page had been created and, surprise!, when I entered "Leela Chess Zero" in the Home Page's search box I got transferred to this page:
search "leela chess zero".
Huh? Did some well-meaning staffer make a mistake? I hasten to add that Leela Chess Zero had not been developed in 1824 (the first game on the game list) nor by 1891 (the last game on the game list).
But, since all the games listed were correspondence games, perhaps a skill at engaging in correspondence is one of Leela Chess Zero's unpublicized accomplishments. :-) Still, I think that Leela Chess Zero deserves its own page and not a page shared with the London Chess Club.> |
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Mar-16-19
| | Diademas: <john barleycorn: how come the ten commandments require about 60% less words than the 11 CG posting guidelines?> <rogge: Because carving in stone is hard work> chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #32027) |
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Apr-02-19
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User: Eyal EruditeAnand vs Mamedyarov, 2019 (kibitz #4) <Eyal: Both Petrosian & Anand got to play this Qh8+/Nxf7+ tactics twice, a decade apart:
Petrosian vs Simagin, 1956
Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966
Anand vs Leko, 2009
Anand vs Mamedyarov, 2019.>
(The original is hyperlinked.) |
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Apr-07-19
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LESSON SESSION
Someone made a kvetch about Ken Ronny Schouten vs C B Jacobsen, 2017 being GotD:
<OrangeTulip: Shame on Chessgames.com.
A 1300 ELO game presented as game of the day...> Step forward User: Jamboree! Ken Ronny Schouten vs C B Jacobsen, 2017 (kibitz #5) <This game is actually instructive, in that it illustrates what constitutes weak play. Neither side really made any overt tactical blunders, yet they both played atrociously. What, then, did they do wrong? Wasted time. So many moves by both sides just threw away tempos, or achieved nothing, or shuffled back and forth, or if they did develop, they did so in the most awkward way possible. In a GM game, if one player makes just ONE time-wasting or tempo-losing move, the other player will seize the moment and grab the momentum and start rolling to victory. But in this game, both players squander tempo after tempo throughout the whole game, and yet neither of them ever really capitalizes on the other's inaction, and instead responds with time-wasting moves of their own...> |
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