OhioChessFan Member since Apr-09-05 · Last seen Oct-04-25 ______________ Moves Prediction Contest <Main Focus>: Predicting how many moves in a game for each pairing. Chessgames.com tournament page: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Official site: http:// Live games: http://www.nrk.no/sport/sjakk/ Alternative live games: http://worldchess.com/broadcasts/eu... ***Hall of Fame*** chessmoron chessforum <Format>: [player]-[player] [result] [# of MOVES] ==4 Different Scoring Methods== Standard Moves Ranker (1st place-Over[3pts], 1st place-Under [7pts], Exact [10pts]) Bonus Ranker (3rd place-Over[1pts],2nd place-Over[2pts],3rd place-Under [5pts], 2nd place-Under [6pts] Standard Moves/Bonus Ranker [Add all to together] 1st place Ranker [how many 1st place you have in Standard Moves Ranker] For example: <Note: Participants 3, 4, and 5 are predicated on nobody scoring an exact as Participant 2 did. If someone hits an exact, the closest score under and over will score the points for second place.> Actual Game: [player]-[player] 0-1 45 Participant 1: [player]-[player] 1/2 45 Participant 2: [player]-[player] 0-1 45 Participant 3: [player]-[player] 0-1 44 Participant 4: [player]-[player] 0-1 43 Participant 5: [player]-[player] 0-1 46 Participant 1: No points even though 45 is correct. Results must be correct. If Result is wrong and moves # is correct...you get no points whatsoever Participant 2: 10 pts rewarded for correct Result/moves # Participant 3: 7 pts rewarded for closest under (1st-Under) to 45 moves Participant 4: 6 pts rewarded for the 2nd closest under (2nd-Under) to 45 moves. Participant 5: 3 pts rewarded closest OVER(1st-OVER) to 45 moves. Again, the description of Participant 3, 4, and 5 are based on there being no exact prediction as made by Participant 2. <IF> there is an exact or an under closest, the highest scoring over participant will be 2nd over. The second closest over will be 3rd over. The <ONLY> time there will be a first over is if there is no exact or under winner. Things To Look At: 1. Game Collection: 1975 World Junior chess championship 2. Ongoing edits Vladimir Ostrogsky 3. Bio Adolf Zytogorski 4. Complete the Olympiad 5. Bio Lorenz Maximilian Drabke 7. Baden-Baden (1870) 11. Karl Mayet 12. Smbat Lputian Pi Day rreusser/computing-with-the-bailey-borwein-plouffe-formula">https://observablehq.com/rreusser/... Pun Index Game Collection: Game of the Day & Puzzle of the Day Collections

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Oct-04-25 Topalov vs Kasparov, 1995   OhioChessFan: Funny pun, nice game.      Oct-02-25 Chessgames - Politics    OhioChessFan: <<Horrific. The whole thing. Pope Leo blesses a block of ice and then stands there while these communist freaks do some kind of weird pagan Earth worshipping hippy ritual. The leader of the Catholic Church shouldn’t be anywhere near this nonsense. What the hell are we ...      Oct-01-25 Fusilli chessforum   OhioChessFan: Sorry, I missed this request and in the meantime, I forgot the source. I get a lot of puzzles as YouTube suggested videos and think that was the source.      Oct-01-25 offramp chessforum    OhioChessFan: I'll take a shot at the worst books ever. I admit it'll really be the most overrated books ever. I'll second you on On the Road To the Lighthouse-Virginia Woolf Catch 22-Joseph Heller The Alchemist-Paulo Coelho Gone Girl-Gillian Flynn The Color Purple-Alice Walker ...      Sep-29-25 Chessgames - Music    OhioChessFan: I've never heard of No Wave before today. This short but interesting album is supposed to be a prime example of the genre. Lizzy Mercier Descloux-Press Color https://youtu.be/q8u8RR9Dqms?si=qlS...      Sep-29-25 Louis Stumpers   OhioChessFan: I belatedly realized in the Black version of NxR# that one move was essentially a null move and could be taken at any point. I think your calculation of 2846 is correct. I'm pretty sure it can't be done in five moves by White.      Sep-29-25 O Oudeh Mishmesh vs L Oudeh Mishmesh, 2023   OhioChessFan: Mishmesh of a game.      Sep-29-25 chessgames.com chessforum    OhioChessFan: Today's pun is way over the line for vulgarity.      Sep-28-25 Chessgames - Sports    OhioChessFan: Simply inexcusable for Henley to leave a must-make short.      Sep-27-25 F Jost vs F Jung, 1950    OhioChessFan: Funny pun.

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 846 OF 849 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-01-24    OhioChessFan: <Fusilli> I think the current setup of the GOTD is set in stone. Happy New Year to you. Jan-13-24    Golden Executive: Just in case... * Tata Steel Masters 2024* Round 1 Van Foreest - Firouzja Warmerdam - Nepomniachtchi Ju - Giri Vidit - Ding Donchenko - Wei Gukesh - Abdusattorov Praggnanandhaa - Maghsoodloo Countdown to round 1: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdo... Jan-14-24    Messiah: I miss the recaps. Jan-18-24    lostemperor: Betcha you. Right damn Jan-31-24    OhioChessFan: White to mate in 3: click for larger view Feb-15-24    WannaBe: Extended scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xun... Elvis-ba Feb-15-24    OhioChessFan: That's outstanding. Feb-15-24    OhioChessFan: Puzzle answer: 1. Bf6 gxf6 2. Kf8 f5 3. Nf7++ Feb-15-24    WannaBe: Should be 3. Nf7# the ++ is impossible. Feb-26-24    WannaBe: < OhioChessFan: https://images.app.goo.gl/WGZGUDLie... LOL, I loved the comic strip. (I sing that song that karaoke...) Mar-17-24    Fusilli: Cool puzzle. The kind that you solve by thinking: what can black do right now? Mar-18-24    Fusilli: Also, it may be worth noting that the only way to arrive at that position is if black played Kh8 in response to Nh6+. That'd be ridiculous, unless black did not see Bf6 and is just taunting white. A way to make the puzzle possible in real play would be to add a white and a black pawn stopping each other, for example on a4 and a5, where the last move was, presumably, a5. But then the puzzle would violate a basic rule of puzzles, which is that no piece should be on the board for no good reason. And making the position more likely to happen in a real game is not a good reason. Mar-21-24    Fusilli: White to play. click for larger view This puzzle is as much about why the incorrect move is incorrect as it is about why the correct move is correct. Mar-23-24    OhioChessFan: Nice endgame puzzle. White can also blow it on the second move! The key moves are 1. a7 Rb1+ 2. Ka3, NOT Ka5. Mar-23-24    Fusilli: <OCF> Indeed! I do like the concept that 1.a7 is *not* to create space for the white king to move upwards, but to avoid the drawing trap that results from: 1.b7? Rb1+ 2.Ka3 Kc3 3.Ka2 Rb2+ 4.Ka1 Rb6 click for larger view 5.a7 Ra6+ 6.Kb1 Rb6+ 7.Kc1 Rh6 draw click for larger view So, the 1.b7 error had the unfortunate result of obstructing the a8-h1 diagonal, making impossible to stop the mate threat with anything but king moves. In the alternative position below, by comparison, white wins. click for larger view Mar-23-24    OhioChessFan: It's a nice spin on the standard 2 Pawns on the 6th rank dominate a lone Rook motif. White has to be very careful to win it. And there are some mate threat issues on both the first rank and especially the a file. Mar-24-24    Messiah: White checkm8s in 6: click for larger view (Mann, 1912) Mar-24-24    Messiah: White checkm8s in 2: click for larger view (Shinkman + Shinkman, 1884) Mar-25-24    OhioChessFan: I don't see a mate in 6. 1. Qd8+ Kg3 2. Qc7+ Kf3 and the King is relatively free to roam Mar-25-24    OhioChessFan: Mate in 2 starts with the nice, non-check! shot, Bb6. Mar-25-24    Messiah: <OhioChessFan: I don't see a mate in 6.> Me neither. It was https://www.chess.com/puzzles/probl..., and I have never thought it is cooked. :'( Mar-26-24    Fusilli: <OhioChessFan: Mate in 2 starts with the nice, non-check! shot, Bb6.> Nice. I love the knight on h3. If it moves, it frees up g1 for the queen check or it blocks the f2 escape from Qd2 check. Elegant composition. Mar-26-24    Fusilli: About the mate in 6. I don't get it. The link takes me to this position, with <white> to play (?) click for larger view But are you guys saying that even the original position <Messiah> posted was unsolvable? Mar-26-24    Messiah: <Fusilli> in the position you inserted Black takes with the Queen on h5, and now White should find Qd8+!! - I just did not realize that it is not an exactly-in-6 position, because Black can play Kg3. It is still dead lost for Black, but the shortest perfect-play conclusion is longer than 6 moves. Mar-27-24    Fusilli: <Messiah> Noted. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 849) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 846 OF 849 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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