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Feb-04-17
 | | WannaBe: <YouRang> I thought Patton said let the other SOB die for his country. |
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Feb-04-17
 | | tpstar: <zanzibar> Great list. =) <very short>
Study endgames
Control the center
Sac, sac, mate!
Chess keeps mad people sane
The passed Pawn is a criminal
Passed Pawns must be pushed
Turn off your cell phone |
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Feb-04-17
 | | Annie K.: Note to self: not on your scoresheet
<Chess keeps mad people sane> Not really, just relatively harmless. ;p |
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| Feb-05-17 | | ooda: Thanks for the new mobile homepage <chessgames.com>! My clumsy thumb is grateful. |
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| Feb-05-17 | | YouRang: <WannaBe: <YouRang> I thought Patton said let the other SOB die for his country.> Close enough ;-) |
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Feb-05-17
 | | Stonehenge: Never miss a check, it might be too mate. |
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Feb-05-17
 | | Richard Taylor: The "You never won a game by resigning" insight I have used by getting stalemates with a King and rook and getting behind the advanced pawn with a K in front and then spending the next several moves showing my opponent that I could check forever with my rook. But the young (and quite talented NZ player Alphaeus Ang plays to checkmate (he used to and I think still does despite being close now to becoming an FM and he is over 2000. I've checkmated him at least twice in the past). He has a 'condition' I think but it might also be that he has been coached to fight on and the easiest way is simply not to give up until checkmate...!! I've also wondered if he is just so much in love with chess that he likes trying to work out the moves leading to mate or wants to keep on playing...No idea. He wouldn't tell me who his coach is. Here is one of his: "No one ever won a game by resigning." Alphaeus never resigns in any game regardless of the position, material balance etc. P Macdonald vs Alphaeus Wei Ern Ang, 2016 As far as I know he will play every game like this, battling on with a lone King...he played on in a lost position in the Zonal to checkmate, actually he had a won position earlier but his opponent found an ingenious defence chance. |
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Feb-05-17
| | Richard Taylor: Actually, in online blitz games I rarely resign even with say a Q and R down. I mostly play to checkmate and sometimes even win on time! |
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Feb-05-17
| | Richard Taylor: "Always check, it might be mate." was the way I learnt it. It seems more succinct and snappy thus. |
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Feb-05-17
 | | chessgames.com: Here is the total list of chess aphorisms that it picks from randomly: <Nobody ever won by resigning.> <Castle early and often.> <A knight on the rim is dim.> <A player surprised is half beaten.> <Loose pieces drop off.> <Never miss a check, it might be mate.> <When you see a good move, look for a better one.> <The pawns are the soul of the game.> <The hardest game to win is a won game.> <Tactics flow from a superior position.> <Passed pawns must be pushed.> <Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.> <Chessgames premium membership costs only 8 cents a day.> |
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Feb-05-17
| | WannaBe: "Never miss your mate, he just might pick up your dinner check." |
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| Feb-05-17 | | gauer: <Quotes from chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #26791) and others> - Monroe ("Monty") Newborn, author of http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... (computer) observed something of the effect whose quote might be suited for debate nowadays, rather than perhaps a decade or 2 ago: Ostrich (Computer) - has his quotation ever been used for the main page, and maybe a pointer to the <ostrich (computer)> page discussion would be appropriate for a link to the (presumed approximate) quote (was this the exact form of it) in the biography listing?! I wonder what sort of date range nowadays the top GMs / computer profs would pick for a computer's seeing some improvements to any of its strengths among the years. |
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Feb-07-17
 | | OhioChessFan: The mobile homepage is very nice looking. Terrific. |
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Feb-07-17
 | | Phony Benoni: Recently, I was looking at a game which ended with bare kings on the board. After the last capture produced the situation, a single half-move was made before the draw was recorded. This seemed unnecessary. Isn't the game automatically a draw when only the kings are left, and further play unnecessary. The kibitzes had the usual facetious remarks about "gaining the opposition" and such. The only serious explanation was that players or arbiters would "centralize the kings" after the game was over to indicate that play was finished, and this "move" would sometimes made its way into the score. I've seen examples of that happening, so I thought little of it. But I dot to wondering how often it happened. So I compiled Game Collection: Bare Naked Kings, with 96 examples. And guess what? In every case but one, a single half-move was recorded after the final capture. In the sole exception, two half-moves were recorded. This goes far beyond the "centralizing the kings" explanation. That happens rarely, so why would it occur in every game of this subset? I'm left wondering if perhaps there is something in the database software that requires the extra half-move. Unless someone can think of something better.. |
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| Feb-07-17 | | crawfb5: <PB> Further play <is> unnecessary, and the game <will> be a draw, but I don't think players can be compelled to stop should they have some perverse wish to continue. I think even the 50-move rule has to be claimed by one of the players. |
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Feb-07-17
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: <Phony Benoni: I'm left wondering if perhaps there is something in the database software that requires the extra half-move. Unless someone can think of something better..> I think the simplest explanation is that there was something in your search for bare-king games that required the extra half-move. A quick search of my copy of the Chessgames database shows 1652 bare-king games; the other 1556 ended without any extra moves being played. |
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Feb-07-17
| | chessgames.com: <I'm left wondering if perhaps there is something in the database software that requires the extra half-move.> Absolutely not. I'm inclined to believe SQ's explanation. (You know, just because he's virtually always right.) |
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Feb-07-17
| | chessgames.com: <OhioChessFan: The mobile homepage is very nice looking. Terrific.> Glad you like it. For those who are not entirely sold on it, note that it's very easy to flip-flop between the old version and the new version: there is a link at the bottom of the new version that disables it. And when it's disabled, big red letters at the top take you back. |
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Feb-07-17
| | WannaBe: Not seeing the mobile home page on my iPad, I must be missing something here... |
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Feb-07-17
| | Annie K.: <Wannabe> tablets are not considered mobiles :) |
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Feb-07-17
| | chessgames.com: Not really for public consumption, but since you guys are hardcore CG fans, I'll let you in on a secret. There's a URL we are using for testing which forces the mobile homepage on any device from tablets, phablets, desktops, etc.: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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Feb-07-17
| | chessgames.com: (Note that even that link won't work for you if you have <Disable mobile features (even on mobile devices)> set in your preferences.) |
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| Feb-07-17 | | Keyser Soze: <cgs> thanks. Mobile version is cool but I'm so used with the desktop version..I think the " puzzle of the day" showing up front should be at the bottom of the page, and the tab of options("chessforuns kibitzer cafe tournament index players" etc) should be the first thing you see imo. If one can customize those things , I might do it. |
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Feb-07-17
| | Phony Benoni: <SwitchingQuylthulg> Absolutely right, and I now understand the mistake I had been making. It's good to to know the extra half-move actually occurs in only a small percentage of game. |
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Feb-07-17
| | WannaBe: "Chess is the gymnasium of the mind"
No wonder I got D- in P.E. classes |
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