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ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 368 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-05-10    chessgames.com: Yes, we've looked into that matter very much, and we can say with confidence that there is no cause for alarm. Remember when the pie-chart was on the homepage a week or so ago? As some anticipated, she did indeed see it. No, she didn't make a bet. Although we don't regard this as a particularly significant issue, we're going to discontinue those type of ChessBookie wagers anyhow. Dec-05-10    rapidcitychess: Today's <QOTD> (Quote of the Day) has a typo. It should be chess, not chesse. Dec-05-10    Stonehenge: I think that's Old English -no typo. Dec-05-10    Domdaniel: "The Game and Playe of Chesse" was one of the first books to be printed in England, by William Caxton in the 1470s. After the Bible, such 'chess' books were the most popular form of literature in the 15th century. They were not instructional chess books in the modern sense; rather, they used chess as a metaphor for the organization of medieval society, where everyone from King to peasant (pawn) had a role to play. And it's Middle English rather than Old English. Old English is like German with a Beowulf accent. Dec-05-10    Domdaniel: <CG> That's a good decision, I think, to discontinue bets on moves in challenge games. While any potential information leakage is minimal (and ambiguous, and easy to manipulate), the scope for paranoia is massive. Good call. Dec-05-10    rapidcitychess: <Stonehenge><Domdaniel> Yeah, you are right. I should of figured as much. :/ Oh well. Dec-05-10    hms123: <chessgames.com> I have sent an email as well, but here is the info on the two latest Rinus Awards: Activate: DPLeo Years: 1 New Count: 8 Activate: morfishine Years: 1 New Count: 7 Dec-06-10    hms123: <chessgames.com> There's some confusion, please check this morning's email. Dec-07-10    chessgames.com: Does anybody know if the London Chess Classic uses the special 3-points-for-a-win scoring this year? Thanks in advance. Dec-07-10    rogge: Yes. <Rules: Classical time control like Linares. 40/2, 20/1, g/15'+30". Sofia Rules will apply with three points for a win.> http://www.londonchessclassic.com/c... Dec-07-10    WinKing: The move made at the Pogonina chessgames challenge game came across as 'Ne5'. Please correct to 'Nxe5'. Hopefully we won't have trouble trying to vote again. Dec-07-10    technical draw: I would like to put the beta testing for game playing on the enhanced menu bar but I don't see it anywhere. Can you set it up so I can put the page on the enhanced menu bar? Dec-07-10    chessgames.com: <Can you set it up so I can put the page on the enhanced menu bar?> We already have that set up, it's called the "EXTRAS" section, the feature that lets you add any link you want to your enhanced menu. Dec-08-10    al wazir: I don't agree with your analysis of the "Three-Pipe problem." White's last few moves could have consisted of shuffling the KR back and forth between g1 and h1 while black moved Ps. Black could have captured the QR on a2 with his QB, not a N. Dec-08-10    al wazir: And the solution you give for the "mate in 3" has *four* moves. Dec-08-10    Phony Benoni: <al wazir> In my copy of the newsletter, the "Echo" problem is consistently referred to as a mate in four. I think you may be right about the "Three Pipe" problem, though. click for larger view Black could also have spent his last few moves shifting the bishop, losing tempos as necessary to produce the position. But the point is that the bishop didn't have to take a knight on c8. However, if the White rook on h1 is taken off the board, does the intended solution work? Then White's last move had to be a3, and Black's last would have had to be capturing a White knight. Dec-08-10    technical draw: <We already have that set up, it's called the "EXTRAS" section, the feature that lets you add any link you want to your enhanced menu.> Thanks. All I get now is a dot, but it's a nice dot. Dec-08-10    chessgames.com: About the mate in 3/4: Of course it should be a mate in 4, unfortunately about 10% of our newsletters went out with it erroneously saying it was a mate in 3. We are very sorry for that but glad that we caught it before all 100,000 newsletter went out. About the 3-pipe-problem, several people wrote in saying that the moves leading up to the diagrammed position could have involved a rook shuffling between g1 and h1, culminating with ...Nh1, Rxh1, (some move), a3. Although this seems plausible on the face of it when we try to construct an exact position to demonstrate this idea we find ourselves unable. It's difficult to explain the nuances involved here, but if somebody can provide an actual bust-position and the subsequent moves we'd love to see it. After some minutes playing around with it we are fairly sure that the problem is intact and the bust makes no sense. Remember, you have to account for how Black lost his knights, how White lost his knights, and account for the pawn on a3. And perhaps most important of all you must remember to reach the diagrammed position with Black to play. Dec-08-10    chessgames.com: After more investigation of the 3-pipe-problem we've concluded that it is in fact busted. Try this, with White to move: click for larger view I'm sure we can agree that this position is possible; the result of knights on a capturing spree. Play from this point might have gone 1.Rh1 Nxg3 2.Rg1 Bc8 3.a3 Nh1 4.Rxh1 and we reach the diagrammed position with Black to move, and no indication of whether Black can castle kingside. We apologize again, just our luck to have selected an "errata" problem from what is otherwise a very well loved chess puzzle book. Dec-08-10    hms123: <TD> you need to put a label of some sort in front of the link. For example, I use this to the ChessBookForum: ChessBookForum http:// www. chessgames.com/perl/ chessuser?uname=chessbookforum (I have put in some extra spaces in the link itself so that it would print out) Then the label <ChessBookForum> shows in my enhanced menu. Dec-08-10    technical draw: Thanks <hms123> I got it now! Dec-08-10    hms123: <TD> Ummm... that'll be....ummm....no charge. Dec-08-10    al wazir: <chessgames.com>: It's all right -- everyone makes mistakes. I, for example, thought the solution to today's puzzle was 43...Qf1+ 44. Kh2 Qxg2+ 45. Kxg2 d3. So I won't ask for a refund of the hour I wasted on those two problems. But I have to say, I'm looking ahead now to the Holiday Present Hunt with more than the usual trepidation. Dec-08-10    OhioChessFan: I was about to ask how you knew Black's last move had been a Knight capture. I'm still not sure why White couldn't have played a3 his very last move, but that one is murky for me. Anyway, I was going to ask on Kibitzer's Cafe but decided to come here first and point out this error in the solution: Perhaps it was the bishop who captured the knight on c8? Nonsense, the bishop cannot have taken a knight on c8, because such a knight would have had to play Nd6+ which places <<White>> in check. Dec-08-10    Blunderdome: The London Chess Classic (2010) is using 3-1 again this year. You may want to update the standings to reflect that. Here is the link to the official site's crosstable and standings, where you can see that 3-1 scoring is in effect: http://www.londonchessclassic.com/c... Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 1118) search thread:    ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 368 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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