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Jan-08-19 Domdaniel chessforum    Domdaniel: Blank Reg: "They said there was no future - well, this is it."      Jan-06-19 Kibitzer's Café    Domdaniel: Haaarry Neeeeds a Brutish Empire... https://youtu.be/ZioiHctAnac      Jan-06-19 G McCarthy vs M Kennefick, 1977    Domdaniel: Maurice Kennefick died over the new year, 2018-2019. RIP. It was many years since I spoke to him. He gave up chess, I reckon, towards the end of the 80s, though even after that he was sometimes lured out for club games. I still regard this game, even after so many years, as the ...      Jan-06-19 Maurice Kennefick    Domdaniel: Kennefick died over the 2018-19 New Year. Formerly one of the strongest players in Ireland, he was the first winner of the Mulcahy tournament, held in honour of E.N. Mulcahy, a former Irish champion who died in a plane crash. I played Kennefick just once, and had a freakish win, ...      Jan-06-19 Anand vs J Fedorowicz, 1990    Domdaniel: <NBZ> -- Thanks, NBZ. Enjoy your chortle. Apropos nothing in particular, did you know that the word 'chortle' was coined by Lewis Carroll, author of 'Alice in Wonderland'? I once edited a magazine called Alice, so I can claim a connection. 'Chortle' requires the jamming ...      Jan-06-19 chessgames.com chessforum    Domdaniel: <al wazir> - It's not easy to go back through past Holiday Present Hunts and discover useful information. Very few people have played regularly over the years -- even the players who are acknowledged as best, <SwitchingQuylthulg> and <MostlyAverageJoe> have now ...      Jan-05-19 Wesley So    Domdaniel: Wesley is a man of his word. Once again, I am impressed by his willingness to stick to commitments.      Jan-04-19 G Neave vs B Sadiku, 2013    Domdaniel: Moral: if you haven't encountered it before, take it seriously. Remember Miles beating Karpov with 1...a6 at Skara. Many so-called 'irregular' openings are quite playable.      Dec-30-18 Robert Enders vs S H Langer, 1968   Domdaniel: <HMM> - Heh, well, yes. I also remembered that Chuck Berry had a hit with 'My Ding-a-ling' in the 1970s. I'm not sure which is saddest -- that the author of Johnny B. Goode and Memphis Tennessee and Teenage Wedding - among other short masterpieces - should sink to such ...      Dec-30-18 T Gelashvili vs T Khmiadashvili, 2001    Domdaniel: This is the game I mean: Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 376 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jun-30-08    mack: <<If the King were on e5 it would be checkmate, I think.> correct.> Except of course the position is illegal - what were the preceding moves? Jun-30-08    SwitchingQuylthulg: This should also be checkmate in King Horse Chess: click for larger view Of course, this position can't be forced just with K+R, either. Jun-30-08    SwitchingQuylthulg: <mack: Except of course the position is illegal - what were the preceding moves?> 41...Ne7-g8 42.Rg4xg8# for example... (without a capture, a similar mating position could be legally reached if the white king were on g5.) Jun-30-08    achieve: Yep, I'm a raving lunatic - it could not be reached from _ANY_ KR v K starting position... Only following a capture as <SQ> showed. Jun-30-08    SwitchingQuylthulg: It's also possible to construct a K+R mate with the king not on an edge: click for larger view 1.Re2 checkmate. Jun-30-08    achieve: But from what square did the Black King come from on move 'zero'? Really "testing" stuff this KHC... Jun-30-08    achieve: Aha! This was a special brand 'Construction Task'... Good find, <SQ>. Jun-30-08    SwitchingQuylthulg: <achieve> The king horse of course came from e1 or e3, escaping a check.... click for larger view ...as can be seen here, with the mate extended: 1.Rg3+ Ke1 (only move) 2.Re3+ Kg2 (only move again) 3.Re2#. Without the pawn on c2, Black could draw with 2...Kc2. Jun-30-08    achieve: <The king horse of course came from e1 or e3, escaping a check....> Yes, I see it now. It's obviously not my day. Very good second example btw. Jun-30-08    SwitchingQuylthulg: <Centralize your pieces in the opening> click for larger view 1.c3 Kf6 2.Qa4 Kd5 3.Qd4# I like the way the king, seemingly completely in the open, is trapped by White's queen. It occurs to me that queens are probably stronger in King Horse Chess than normal chess... Jun-30-08    mack: Anderssen-Kieseritsky, 1851 ('The Immortal Game'). click for larger view Here white played 18.Bd6?, missing the obvious 18.Nc7+ Kf6 19.g4 mate. Jun-30-08    Domdaniel: Mein Gott, what have I started? <SwitchingQuythulg> -- <It occurs to me that queens are probably stronger in King Horse Chess than normal chess...> Absolutely. For one thing, an unsupported queen can deliver mate. <mack> Think you meant 19.g5#. Nice find, though. It seems to me that in this type of position click for larger view then *any* check will be mate: a Bg2 or Ng3 or Pg2 etc. What kind of material you need to force a king into a corner is a whole nother question ... Jun-30-08    Domdaniel: This might be the quickest win for White: 1.e4 d6 2.Qh5 Nf6 3.Qxf7# click for larger view c7, d6, f6 and g7 are blocked, and ...Kxf7 & ...Kd7 are illegal. But - despite vastly different endings and a new set of opening traps - I suspect that much of a KHC game would be very like a standard (SC) game -- think of all the games that are won or lost without the kings ever having anything to do with it. And I assume that heavy material loss - a queen certainly, a piece probably - would warrant resignation in KHC. Ultimately it depends on the endings, and on what material combinations can force mate. I've got a feeling knights might be more valuable than bishops in KHC because of their king-containment powers - that'd change a few things too. Jun-30-08    Open Defence: I misunderstood the rules, I thought the King moves like the King in standard chess AND like a Knight, BUT the King having a Knight move is nothing new!! I remember reading somewhere that it was believed in Shatranj, the King had ONE move like a Knight but I cannot find the source now Jun-30-08    acirce: Hi, <DD>. This kind of chess variants and construction exercises are addictive once you get started. Here I think I found a 2-move mate: 1.Kf3 e6 2.Qe1 Qf6#. Am I missing anything? click for larger view Jun-30-08    Domdaniel: <Deffi> Verily, in this old world we can rarely, if ever, come up with something new ... but we can have some fun reinventing the old stuff. For what it's worth, I think the King's normal move is somehow more fitting, more appropriate to his majesty - a one-square proximity field to deter sneak assassins. But there's a different logic to the KHC King: and with one bound he was free ... much harder to trap, to corner, to localise. ♘ Der Springer Jun-30-08    Domdaniel: PS. A king with the normal moves plus knight moves would be almost unmatable ... a true Spanish virgin. Jun-30-08    Domdaniel: <acirce> Close, but no cigar. I've actually had the same position on my board, by accident. The problem is the white queen on e1 -- if you put it back where it belongs on d1 then the white king has an escape square - back home. I think. This can be very confusing stuff ... Jun-30-08    Domdaniel: <acirce> A zillion apologies. You *moved* the queen there. Unlike mine, which got there by accident. Hmm. I think you could be right. Ve-rry nice. Jun-30-08    Domdaniel: <acirce> Actually that's quite beautiful. We've had lines where the king is mated at home, usually via an attack on f2/f7, and lines where he moves twice and gets mated in mid-board -- but the variations where the king moved once seemed fruitless to me, as he could always retreat. You simply blocked the retreat. Exquisite. Jun-30-08    acirce: Fastest mate by a king move? Maybe: 1.Kf3 Kf6 2.Kh4 e6 3.f3 Ke8# or, probably aesthetically preferably, Kh5#. click for larger view click for larger view Jun-30-08    acirce: (Or 3..Kd5#, of course, but there's no artistic point to that at all, I thought.) Jun-30-08    acirce: Well, the symmetrical version of this was even better! 1.Kd3 Kd6 2.Kb4 e6 3.d3 Ke8#/Kb5# click for larger view click for larger view Jun-30-08    acirce: How does castling work again... would this be a valid game: 1.Kd3 g6 2.Ke5 Bh6 3.Kxf7 Nf6 4.Kxd8 0-0# click for larger view Jun-30-08    Domdaniel: A middlegame blunder to avoid: click for larger view Black to play 1 ... Bxf3 2.Bxf3?? Nh3#. click for larger view Obviously, the Nh3 needs support - here the Qc8 - or else Kxh3 is playable. Also, 2.exf3 is fine - and any earlier move of the e-pawn would have left an escape on e2. What I'm wondering now is whether it's worth it to chop off knights for bishops in the opening - Winawer French, Nimzo-Indian, Exchange Spanish etc - just to be rid of the beasts and their inherent danger. For if Knights *are* worth more than Bishops, most opening theory goes out the window. Allowing such an exchange would be like, say, playing 1.a4 and 2.Ra3 in normal chess to swap rook for bishop. Mind you, somebody did just that against me once, and very nearly won. Not a patzer: a man with a Theory. His was that minor pieces have all the action early on, and rooks come into play later - so depriving me of a bishop leaves me temporarily a piece down, since the lost rook won't count until later. Or something like that. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 376 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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