Pawn on f4 keeps the d1 Knight off e3, and the g6 Knight can move to th free h5 square here as well as the 'e5' square, winning the game... In this case white's Knight, forced to d1, is not potent enough, the poor steed. (and its owner)

Great example, I recently had a similar issue.

It wasn't for want of trying, though, was it? On his part, I mean. He seemed quite keen on 'knowing' you, if I recall correctly.

Now I see it clearly....

I should continue to give up on life!!!!!

I will not look myself in the chalkboard and say I will give up..

I shall never see myself in the chalkboard and say I willgive up... Never!!!!!

Innaresting. One of my earliest posts on this site was a 'proof' that if everyone who wrote 'LOL' actually laughed out loud, then the Earth would spiral into the sun.

I think the spiral is a logarithmic one but I haven't proved it yet.

Meanwhile *Lollery* is verboten here at Frogspawn. Can't be too careful.

Yes, we are a knowledgeable collection of bots. Resistance is ... multiplied by cross-sectional area over length.

Also a film by Ken McMullen, influenced by Chris Marker and Sigmund Freud.

Except for <Insane Old Batte> who is none of those things.

I love Nimzo, and a wild hunch leads me to believe that Capa (not rybka) would have played ...hxg4.

Chess was once unique in having a notation that captured everything important about a game - like music and maths, yet again. But there are notations for many things now, from dance to various sports.

So, yeah, the diamond needs polishing. "But there are no letters in the mailbox anymore, and there are no diamonds in the mine..."

And very funny, and very, very, well, *perfect* ... oh, I'd better stop. People will say we're in love.

Which could be illustrated thus:

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That's a Hannibal Lecter allusion, of course. Just in case anyone thought otherwise.

As if I care what 'people' think. Whatever *they* might be. You don't spend your time playing chess in sunglasses if you care what people think. Unless, of course, you're ultra-hyper-meta-cool, like me.

<*Frogspawn-bot Collective Central Data Burst*>: "people" is a term used by humans, whales, orchids, and the quasi-sentient teabags of Deneb VII, usually to refer to themselves as opposed to others. It has speciesist connotations, and is popular with right-wing orchids and religious humans.

Citizens of the USA often use the word 'Americans' to mean 'people' or 'human beings', eg, <"If the sun exploded now, Americans would still have just over eight minutes to live">.

Lecter Schlechter. Let 'em talk. I'll give 'em 8½ minutes. Time to watch the title sequence of Fellini's Otto, or Greenaway's 8½ Women. Or listen to Dave Bowie aka Ziggy Stardust whining about having only five years left. In 1972.

Yes the world ended in 1977. I think that first Talking Heads album dunnit, in the conservatory.

I spellunk and dance a jig at the same time. sometimes I glance listlessly to the left or right...

as I spellunk...

this went on for a while.....

Here's an awesome poem... I manufactured it a long time ago..

it's called death..

Oh death!!! oh death!!!!!

I'll catch my breath.....

and see you nevermore.....

If thistle grow wildly.. then zinnia in pot...

Allcoolemer... as in awesomer....but cooler.. than that......

One little note on <OE percentage interpretation>:

Seems like our friend <Boomie> felt the need (and rightly so) to again point out how misleading they can be, which received acclaim by <YouRang>, I believe, and it made me wonder how on earth it is possible that this issue hasn't been conclusively dealt with, in a short but powerful "expliqué" below the board on the Main Page, because the amount of evidence (games) to support the deceptive nature of the percentages, roundabout this stage of our game, is overwhelming. Hasn't it settled yet, firmly, "in the team's consciousness?"

OK - got that out... Only other option may be to keep re-posting it on a 2-hour basis, on the Main Page, and even in the Analysis Forums... What do you think?

Oh, and <kwid> placed one heck of a post on the main page... Optimistic; well reasoned and supported; and motivating.

<Nimzo endgame> I have found an "easy defense" for White, to ...hxg4

Coming up in the next post:

Q.: Can White set up, that is retreat, his pieces in a manner that can not be refuted by Black?

A.: I think so, yes.

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1... hxg4 2. Nh1 (this looks ugly, but is crucial)

2... cxb3 3. axb3 Kd6 4. b4 Ne6+ (4... Nh5 5. Nf2
g3 6. Nh3, draw)

5. Ke3 Kd5 6. Kf2 f4 7. Kg2

... as we arrive at this position (the one I aimed for)

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Now, I've played with this position front, left and sideways, but can not find anything against Black sacking the Knight for the two pawns in case of a P to g3, since the b4 pawn can at any preferred time start walking - reaching EG this position:

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And other tries fail as well. ("Believe me, Ive tried!") But of course there are lines I haven't tried.

And not Joyce, Nabokov, Einstein etc - who usually get suspected by paranoids of telepathic theft. I never thought that I w as Christ or Napoleon. In my case it was obscure writers and artists that hardly anyone I knew had heard of back then .

Back in the 1970-80s, it was socially awkward to be on a similar wavelength to Thomas Pynchon, John Cale, JG Ballard, Scott Walker, Peter Greenaway, William Burroughs, Gottfried Helnwein, William Gibson, David Cronenberg, Scott Walker, Edward Kienholz and Marcel Duchamp.

Then Duchamp came back into fashion, Gottfried told me - in his garden, not in the Fantasialand - that Dadaism was brilliant first time round but the 10th generation copy of copies was pointless. Gibson told me we read the same magazines. Cale was in paranoid geopolitiCS mode, and Greenaway said we seemed to be on the same wavelength. Umberto Eco bought me a drink, Liza Minnelli clasped me ferociously to her bisom.

Sorry. You don't know me: this may seem like bragging of some kind. I actually have a horror of boasting: can't do it to save my miserable life.

What I'm trying to do, clumsily, is make connections. Say "I like these people, their work, films, music, books, I've met some, they're good people."

Often, even on a site like CG, this is a slow process. The Frogspawn Collective Botbath congealed over the past two years. There are crucial differences between individuals. Deffi and Jess are actually female, which can excite folk. (Don't ask who Deffi'n'Jess are .. use your iniative.)

<"'No need to get excited", the thief he kindly spoke. There are many here among us who prefer albumen to yolk. And let us not wear falsies now, it's no way to get a date.">