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| Apr-21-11 | | avidfan: I have enjoyed using that link you gave on Benjamin Franklin's essay on chess some time ago. It also contains a manual of chess - how to play the game
for beginners even how to checkmate with bishop and knight, and lots of useful tips. But it does not use modern algebraic notation - the squares are labelled 1 to 64 from top left(a8) to bottom right(h1) [if I recall correctly, somewhat as in checkers. There are large photograhic pieces of the chessboard scattered through 2 or 3 pages]. I also agree with your idea of pruning down candidate moves when analysing a position as a shorter alternative to Kotov's thorough examination. |
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Apr-22-11
 | | Phony Benoni: <avidfan> Chess notation has changed greatly throughout the years. I doubt algebraic was in common use during Franklin's time. |
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| Apr-23-11 | | Jim Bartle: St. Louis pitcher Miguel Batista was mad at Tony LaRussa for yanking him while he still had a no-hitter going: "It was bad. They put me out of the game and I was throwing a no-no." http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/ba... Of course he'd only thrown six pitches before rain and a tornado warning suspended the game for hours, and LaRussa decided not to risk Batista's arm. |
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Apr-23-11
| | Phony Benoni: LaRussa doesn't miss a trick, does he? Saving his real starter for after the big rain delay. Dusty Baker had a point though; they probably shouldn't have started at all. And it sounds like LaRussa may have been getting a little inside weather information, courtesy of the home field advantage. |
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| Apr-23-11 | | Jim Bartle: Huffington Post writes up that a tornado hit the St. Louis airport and caused a lot of damage, and caused fans to be moved out of Busch stadium. SI reports it as basically a rain delay, with one mention of tornado warnings. I've mentioned this before, but LaRussa has the strangest World Series record. He's managed in five of them, winning two, but has yet to manage in even a sixth game. All sweeps or 4-1s. |
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Apr-23-11
 | | chancho: I heard on MSNBC that this month set a new record for most Tornadoes in April. |
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Apr-23-11
| | Phony Benoni: While sort of paying attention to the Fox telecast of the Tigers game today (9-0 victory over the White Sox, thank you very much!), the Cubs win over the Dodgers at Wrigley was an mentioned as an oddity. Three runs down going into the bottom of the eighth, the Cubs scored five and won the game. The oddity was that the last time the Cubs beat the Dodgers at Wrigley when down by three runs in the eighth inning was back in 1950. Yes, the trivia is getting overtrivialized. But, of course, I had to find the game: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Looks like the Cubs heroes were Hank Sauer and Randy Jackson. Sauer I knew of, but Randy Jackson? Not a completely nondescript player since he made two All-Star teams, but certainly no American Idol. |
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Apr-23-11
| | Phony Benoni: Randy Jackson's final claim to fame: In his last game, he pinch-hit for Billy Williams: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... And not Billy Dee Williams either. |
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| Apr-23-11 | | Jim Bartle: "In his last game, he pinch-hit for Billy Williams:" ...who was pinch-hitting himself.
Dodgers really needed that win, with a week left and in a super-tight race with Milwaukee. LA won the pennant in a playoff. If a player is announced as a pinch-hitter and then somebody hits for him, I guess that means he played in the game. What if a guy had a 20-game hitting streak? I guess he'd be out of luck. |
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Apr-23-11
| | Phony Benoni: If the first pinch-hitter had a twenty-game hitting streak, I doubt you'd see the second! What was really ironic was that Jackson pinch-hit for a pinch-hitter--and then laid down a sacrifice bunt! |
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| Apr-23-11 | | Jim Bartle: Looking at that Dodgers-Cubs game set me to looking at the 1959 Dodgers, who were still playing at the LA Coliseum with it ludicrously short left-field (250 ft. down the line, 320 in the alley) and very tall screen. Wally Moon became an expert at looping flies against or over the screen. There was one game near the end of the season where Joe Adcock hit a ball into some netting above the screen, and after waffling a while the umpires called it a double for some reason. Adcock didn't score and the Braves lost in extra innings. Everything seemed to go the Dodgers' way that year. |
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| Apr-26-11 | | Travis Bickle: Dr. Benoni the "hardest working man in chess research" & library science! I have sent you a soothing song to play everyday at a certain time to relax and rejuvenate so you can continue your work Dr. ; P http://youtu.be/L_jgIezosVA |
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Apr-26-11
| | Phony Benoni: Sorry, Travis, but that new-fangled music just doesn't do it for me. When I need to unwind after a hard day, this calms me down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8__... |
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| Apr-27-11 | | crawfb5: Game Collection: Showalter - Lipschutz 1895 match is more or less complete. This is the match with the Victorian trash talk episode I quoted a few months ago. It also marks the approximate halfway point in the whole project (Game Collection: US Championship matches (meta)), with about a half dozen matches to go. |
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| Apr-28-11 | | KingV93: Great analysis today, thank you, I need to work on getting the grey matter to proceed in that fashion. I'm from Detroit as well, Plymouth actually, but I love saying 'I'm from Detroit'...in other places of the country people get far more polite after hearing it lol! btw...Love the avatar! |
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| Apr-28-11 | | hangingenprise: phony: is travis getting a little nervous now that lion fan can spell defensive line?
the lions will be very nasty on defense and got a steal: ok a great
pick. |
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Apr-28-11
| | Phony Benoni: <hangingenprise> Well, Travis still has his music. |
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| Apr-29-11 | | Jim Bartle: I sat down to watch one of my first game of the year, Detroit vs. Cleveland. First inning, two out, man on second, Cabrera up. The announcers are saying "don't you think they should pitch around him?" And I'm thinking, "How ridiculous! Pitch around a guy in the first inning?" Next pitch, the very next pitch, naturally, loooong home run to left. And Cabrera didn't even seem to put any real effort into the swing, just nice and smooth and the ball lands 400 ft. away. |
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| May-01-11 | | crawfb5: <PB> I was playing through some of the games in your Game Collection: Dead Man Walking. Did you notice that
Smitten vs Prince Dadian, 1896
and
B Kurz vs K Treybal, 1904
differ only by one move (18. d5 or 18. e5)? |
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May-01-11
 | | tpstar: <Dead Man Walking> Great concept for a Game Collection. Next up would be <Dead Man Playing> containing all the database games where the one side is supposedly still alive. :-) |
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| May-01-11 | | crawfb5: <Next up would be <Dead Man Playing> containing all the database games where the one side is supposedly still alive. :-)> Maroczy / Rollans vs Korchnoi, 1985 |
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| May-02-11 | | Travis Bickle: Hey Phony now here's a good football that will hold up and not get worn around the edges and spring a leak. ; P http://youtu.be/wyWXcdtai1g |
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| May-02-11 | | Jim Bartle: I'd forgotten about that ad. In fact I'd forgotten about the XFL. You know when NBC decided it wasn't going to broadcast XFL games another year? They had Jennifer Lopez, at the height of her popularity, hosting Saturday Night Live, and the XFL game went into a long overtime and SNL starting half an hour late. NBC said "who needs this?". |
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| May-02-11 | | Travis Bickle: <Jim Bartle> I had forgotten about the XFL also. ; P |
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May-02-11
| | Phony Benoni: I think most people had forgotten about the XFL while they were still playing. <crawfb5> Interesting about the near duplication in Smitten vs Prince Dadian, 1896 and B Kurz vs K Treybal, 1904. The Prince had a reputation for concocting games, though I don't believe anything has been proven. Plus, he supposedly played it eight years earlier? It would be interesting to know the publication history of the games. |
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