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| Jul-02-08 | | ravel5184: Wow, I am not experienced enough at KHC to compose problems, obviously! Seriously I was visualizing the diagram in my head so forgive me. |
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Jul-02-08
 | | Domdaniel: <ravel5184> I think we're all finding out just how tricky this thing can be. Earlier on today, I thought I'd found a 2-move solution to your mate in three - until I actually checked all the lines and saw that I'd forgotten about adjacent kings again. The Black king had an escape square on b8 which I'd missed because of the white king at b7. I got as far as formulating a rule for queen mates - it's actually implicit in your examples. A king in the centre has 8 possible moves. If this is reduced to 6 or less because the king is near the edge, then a queen can mate it from the next square - eg BK on e7, WQ on e6. A similar mate can occur in the opening if the black king is centralized but his own pawns cut off his retreat. Another random thought: two connected passed pawns may not be as strong as in standard chess, because their king can't defend both while pushing them. It should still be a win, though. |
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Jul-02-08
| | Domdaniel: Role model? Arrrgh.
No, no, flee now, save yourselves. I am the worst of all possible role models. I can't even follow my own bad examples. |
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Jul-03-08
 | | Open Defence: I cut off all my hair and now I have the Meg Ryan hair style.. what next a date from Ellen ? yikes! |
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Jul-03-08
| | Domdaniel: <Deffi> Must be something in the 'air - I 'acked most of mine off last week. Going for the Leonard Cohen look, complete with hat. I mean, with 'at. Also I was 'aving my photo taken for a newspaper byline and I was tired of looking like a 50-year-old hippie. Or 'ippie. Vanity, vanity, all is vanity. Was it 'Orace said that? |
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| Jul-03-08 | | achieve: Hey, I like that image!
Just read tour post at my turf, and envisioned you as depicted by Sammy D. Jr. (no kidding) - as he impersonated Fred Astaire just walkin down the street ... worth the price of a ticket alone... A hat is cool when you're 50... Stylish as well as pactical. In fact I think it would go pretty well with me too... Today I almost drowned in the poorin rain, and when I arrived at the store I looked in the mirroring window... I very much resembled a ehhh, Beaver, I guess... A "top hat' wouldn't have done me harm. <Dom> By all means visit Amsterdam some time, and we could stroll smartly up and down the Leidse Plein, Leidsestraat, sharply dressed, with umbrella, hat of course... Maybe gloves (although we both don't drive or kill people)... Just minding our business, looking good And maybe look for some prey in the chess cafes, catch a movie... That's not VANITY!! That's enjoying life!
(How the heck am I doing sofar... let's press ~kibitz~ ...) CAN"T BE BAD!!
It may have been 30 years, but some of the places still breath that typical Amsterdam atmosphere, although in most places it has deteriorated, as is to be expected. But when you know your way around, it's a wonderful city. |
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Jul-03-08
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> It so happens that I got a nice pair of black leather gloves recently. The shop assistant was a bit dubious about selling them to me, though - they were advertised in the window as 'Ladies' Gloves'. Even when I showed her that I had slender hands and they'd fit perfectly, she seemed a bit doubtful -- like it was a minor act of transvestism, or something. Cross-dressing fingers? Once that starts, society is doomed. As Thomas de Quincey put it:
"For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop." So true. |
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| Jul-03-08 | | achieve: You wear Leether Gleeves for Feemales??
Eeeeeee!
As long as you don't start swaying your hips... I wore my mothers 'gloves' well past second grade, but was a bit embarressed at it; my growth spurt came rather late. You know me. 'Kneesocks' was my middle name... <Cross-dressing fingers? Once that starts, society is doomed.> How about cross-UNdressing fingers...? Seems an even more appealing prospect... |
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| Jul-03-08 | | achieve: heh - 2nd grade... Better make that 8th or 9th
(STUpid schoolsystems)
<KHC> Solvation will indeed be a matter of weeks, with this kind of "energized" effort by <Surface the French Open is played on minus 'gee', followed by a number> |
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Jul-03-08
| | Domdaniel: <You wear Leether Gleeves for Feemales??> Guilty, mijnheer.
Should I try to be more macho, you think? Maybe wear them to punch somebody, break them in like that? Don't think I'd be much good at it. |
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Jul-03-08
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> - <Surface the French Open is played on minus 'gee', followed by a number> Let me see ... it's played on the *ground* ... so you must mean a *round number*, right? |
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| Jul-03-08 | | achieve: Thazza lotta queestions, all of a sudden. Must try and squeeze out of trouble... Watching Weemen's semis on 'rass atm, so that's kinda odd... Don't punch anybody, yet, I may have a solution. Being 'Macho' is so not the issue here. "Thanks ma'm, feets like a glove!"
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| Jul-03-08 | | achieve: Plus Roland Arros is played on Terre Battue, or clay in English... So I musta been rambling? Kidding aside I read all his contributions with g-reat interest. There's even an amusing irony there at Deffi's forum if I remember correctly. |
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| Jul-03-08 | | achieve: Nope, my mistake, he's been 'flawless'.
I'll explain in the car - the keys are in the love department. Jess is driving. |
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Jul-03-08
| | Domdaniel: Heh. Ah, the love *compartment*, perhaps? Or is it the kind of love department you get in Amsterdam department stores? |
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| Jul-03-08 | | mack: <You wear Leether Gleeves for Feemales??> Well how else to keep one's fingertits warm? |
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Jul-03-08
| | Domdaniel: ... or the fingerpits in between ... |
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| Jul-03-08 | | achieve: The statue of virility is growing in stature... I have the compartment stores to prove it! Glove, glove, glove
Glove is all you need
It's easy!!
-- The Beatles, with guest appearance (in nurse uniform) by Labia 'labby' Fingertit. |
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| Jul-03-08 | | achieve: kikkeboo |
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Jul-03-08
| | Domdaniel: I prefer the Beatles' version of 'I want to hold your Gland' ... |
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Jul-03-08
 | | Stonehenge: Another prick in the wall. |
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| Jul-03-08 | | achieve: Yes, that reminds me of the Nat King Cole Classic: 'Straighten up and Fly Right Open' Hoot Night
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| Jul-03-08 | | ravel5184: An extract from my profile:
<King Horse Chess Endings:
K+Q vs K
click for larger view1. Qg6+ Kc7 2. Qc6#
K+RR vs K
click for larger view1. Rg3 Kf4 2. Rh2, etc.
click for larger view1. Re5+ Kc7 2. Rc5+ K anywhere 3. Rc8#
K+P vs K
click for larger view1. Ke6 Kd6(f6) 2. Kg7(c7) K anywhere 3. e8=Q
As in normal chess K+P endings, sometimes the position is drawn no matter what: 
click for larger view1. Kc5 Kc7 2. Kd7 Ke8 3. Ke5 Kd6 4. Kg4 Ke8> |
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| Jul-03-08 | | achieve: An extract from my profile:
What the ... |
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Jul-03-08
| | Domdaniel: An *extract* ... ??
So how many volumes does the whole thing run to? And what did that nice Dr Frankenstein say about having created a monster? "Now I know that you're all King Horse
Between tenderness and remorse ..."
But I'm closer to the <remorse> end of the spectrum right now. |
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