I think there was a "mix-up" involving "cannabism", but I can not be certain of this.

Bad news!

<Big Crawdaddy> seems to be under the impression that <The "New" Phrogspawn> is some kind of TV show.

Er...

Well you know what "principles" are worth eh?

Only as much as your "annoyance level" permits.

I believe this was the thesis of <Heart of Darkness>, if I'm not mistaken.

Case #2331-

The local magistrates are going to plow under a few square miles of prime agricultural land in our village here.

The local farmers have secured police permission to bang drums and howl in protest- with loudspeakers- big electric ones-- on the main street in town.

I am aghast at the idea that they are going to plough this land under for a "new city".

My view from the back of my school will now be of garish buildings and noisy cars instead of the waving sea of barley that's out there now.

But the protestors have been driving me crazy all week-

So I've discovered- today- that I'd rather see North Korea drop a bomb on them- just to stop their racket-- than I would like to see the farmland saved.

Even though I want the farmland saved for selfish reasons (It's quiet and I like to look at it.)

So today I had my headphones on blasting Philip Glass to "calm down" and drown out the Protestor's racket.

So I heard a huge banging even then- I tore off my headphones, ready to go to the police- even though they wouldn't even talk to me (can't speak English) and it would be maybe the stupidest thing a foreigner could possibly do here-- only to realize that these new huge bangings was a thunderstorm.

Which presaged a deluge that chased the Protestors away lest their electronic equipment be ruined by the rain.

Then I felt very foolish. I still wished the rain had washed them away, though.

Look how far- so very far- my emotions/thoughts on this matter are from the Kantian ideal of a "moral principle"-

The "I ought to" for no other reason than I have judged it to be morally right.

Kant said that people can't know if they have a principle or not until their "I ought" is tested by a conflict with self-interest.

Smart fellow, this old Kraut.

Bloody Germans.

(Some say he was secretly a Scotsman)

Could get exciting here.

DIVE, DIVE

'Spanish Harmen Incident' M Archangelsky vs Jonkman, 2001

"Come feed the rain,
Cause I'm thirsty for your love,
Dancing underneath the skies of lust,

Yeah feed the rain,
Cause without your love my life,
Aint nothing but this_______________"

Fill in the blank...

Something like that.

Now they have it, and construction begins in a few months.

This is a last-ditch effort by a few farmers to stop it.

<Korea> may well have the most corrupt democracy on the planet, but the citizens actually love demonstrating.

It's their number one hobby, and they are good at it.

Recent mass demonstrations concerned "US Beef" and "Anti-Buddhist Government policies"=

Involving hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets of major cities and temporarily paralyzing them.

Your average "Korean in the street" takes more advantage of democratic freedoms than your average "Canadian in the street," that's for sure.

Mainly because your average Canadian is never actually in the street.

He's in front of his TV with a giant bag of potato chips.>

<Tim> did you know that <Dom> has converted his new forum to be a reality TV show?

Here it is.

Reality.

But...

Centaur chess is dead.

It was dead from its very inception- in my view an ill-concieved idea from the start. Mainly because it has nothing to do with competitive chess.

Check out some of the "computer v. computer" games from the recent world championship to see some abortions. You might benefit as much by staring at a computer code printed out.

Ridiculous. They can crush any human, any time. But when they play each other they make "silly moves"- There's been some kind of "resigning the game thingie" built in to this competition as well- some human factor there programmed in, or else the operators are allowed to resign, or ask/accept a draw.

Otherwise some of these games would be 300 plus moves.

It's painful to see. It makes me want to puke.

My chess computer is my slave. He works for me. He checks my games for BLUNDERS.

That's all he does.

Oh yes also he's an excellent sparring partner for endgames or from specific positions.

He's a great slave.

I own him though. I paid money for him and he's never allowed to leave the plantation.

Now- "chess games"- are not for computers. I don't care how many "Oh no= the computer doesn't pick our moves for us" yahoos you bring out of the woodwork.

It's bullcrap. Rybka picks the moves on sliding long ply "analysis"

(And worse- it's not even *real* analysis- because none of these people undersands the "why" or "wherefore" of ANY OF THESE LINES).

Also, it's BULLCRAP that "studying" the positons during these games actually increases the playing strength of anyone- or teaches anyone anything about how to play chess.

That's simply false. Quite the opposite. In these "games" (abortions), there is no demand made of the "players" (people who "agree" with long Rybka lines) to answer the question "why" that is necessary to learn chess.

As you always put it to me- (I'd like to put it to the lady? heh)-

"The tactic not played"- you have to understand YOURSELF why it is not played.

This never, ever happens in the course of one of these Centaur games.

They DISGUST ME.

Using a computer(s) during a REAL CHESS GAME is cheating. Period.

Chess is for humans, silly.

Mrs. Doesn't even Calculate Short Lines in her games-

Thanks!!

I will eventually see the <George Lazenbee> movie vehicle-

And also BATTLE 360 PATTON too, which is being posted as we speak on <SCREW TUBE>.

But this post is an ABORTION:

<kwid: Jul-02-09 ?
<Hugin:> <top books has a base of proved lines often based on top gm's games played and worked some more on often using a combination of top engines on strong hardware and strong players.> You are right. I have not looked at them for some time. But now I must say that I am surprised of their quality.

After looking at the first game in the base which was used to make perfect 15 I came to the conclusion that we will not win with white against the Naydorf. Here is why:

[Event "Zappa Mexico X64 4CPU"]
[Site "SedatChess"]
[Date "2008.10.16"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Zappa Perfect 15"]
[Black "Compmaster 2b"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B80"]
[Annotator "kwid"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "2008.10.16"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e6 7. f3 b5 8. g4 h6 9. a3 Bb7 10. Qd2 d5 11. exd5 (11. e5 Nfd7 12. f4 Nc6 13. O-O-O b4 14. axb4 Bxb4 15. Kb1 Rb8 16. Bf2 O-O 17. Rg1 Nc5 18. Qe3 Nxd4 19. Rxd4 Bxc3 20. Qxc3 Ne4 21. Qe1 a5 22. Bd3 Qc7 (22... Nxf2 23. Qxf2 Qb6 24. c3 Ba6 25. Bxa6 Qxa6 26. g5 h5 27. g6 fxg6 28. Rxg6 a4 29. Rg2 a3 30. b4 Rfc8 31. Qg3 a2+ 32. Rxa2 Qf1+ 33. Kc2 Ra8 34. Ra5 Qe2+ 35. Rd2 Qe4+ 36. Qd3 Qxf4 37. Rxa8 Rxa8 38. Kb3 Qxe5 39. Re2 Qf6 40. Qh3 e5 41. Qd7 Rd8 42. Qc7 Re8 43. b5 d4 44. Qc4+ Kh8 45. cxd4 Qf3+ 46. Kb4 Ra8) 23. Qe3 Rfc8 24. Bxe4 dxe4 25. Rc1 Bc6 26. h4 Qb6 27. Qa3 Bd5 28. g5 h5) 11... Nxd5 12. Nxd5 Bxd5 13. O-O-O Nc6 14. Bg2 Qa5 (14... Na5 15. f4 Nc4 16. Qe2 Bc5 17. Bxd5 Qxd5 18. Bf2 Bd6 19. f5 Qe5 20. fxe6 fxe6 21. Qxe5 Bxe5 22. Rhe1 O-O 23. Bg3 Bxg3 24. hxg3 Rae8 25. Rxe6 Rxe6 26. Nxe6 Rf6 27. Nf4 Ne5 28. g5 hxg5 29. Nd3 Nxd3+ 30. Rxd3 Kf7 31. Rd7+ Ke6 32. Rxg7 Kf5 33. Re7 Kg4 34. Re5 Rf3 35. Kd2 Rxg3 36. Re6 Rg2+ 37. Kd3 Rg3+ 38. Ke4 Rg2 39. Kd3 draw) 15. c3 Rd8 16. f4 Qc7 17. Kb1 (17. f5 Nxd4 18. Bxd4 Be7 19. Bxd5 Bg5 20. Be3 Rxd5 21. Qf2 Qb6 22. Rhe1 Rxd1+ 23. Kxd1 Qd8+ 24. Qd2 Qxd2+ 25. Kxd2 Ke7 26. Kc2 Bxe3 27. Rxe3 h5 28. fxe6 hxg4 29. exf7+ Kxf7 30. Re2 Kf6 31. Kd3 Rd8+ 32. Ke3 Ke5 33. Rg2 Rh8 34. Rxg4 Rxh2 35. b4 Rh3+ 36. Kd2 Kf6 37. Rf4+ Ke7 38. Rg4 Kf7 39. Rf4+ Ke6 40. Rg4 Rh2+ 41. Ke3 Kf7 draw) 17... Nxd4 18. Bxd4 Bb3 19. Qe2 Bd6 20. Bxg7 Rg8 21. Bf6 Bxd1 22. Rxd1 Be7 23. Bd4 Bc5 24. f5 Bxd4 25. cxd4 Qc4 26. Qe4 Qd5 27. Qc2 Qc4 28. Qe4 Qd5 29. Qc2 Qc4 30. Qe4 draw 1/2-1/2>

There you have it. the <Najdorf> is busted.

It's a draw by force.

The author of this post, or any other NINCOMPOOP on that Umansky game page, couldn't win with or against the <Najdorf> against any HUMAN PLAYER who was say, 100 points higher rated.

PERIOD.

That post is actually TOTALLY MEANINGLESS.

It conveys NO INFORMATION THAT HAS ANY MEANING TO A HUMAN BEING.

Consequently, it is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS.

This post here makes EXACTLY AS MUCH SENSE:

<ak;fdjakfjdfjakfja;skfdjfakfjfkdjfa;kfjk>

Period.

CASE CLOSED (and that's the last I'll ever say about it).

I played over Rybka vs Deep Sjeng, 2009 and was amazed and bewildered not to mention bewitched and bothered.

But I wonder...is our objection akin to the Nazis' view of modern art? The eyes belong in the front, not on the side like some go ddamned flounder. Patton's speech has improved my eloquence significantly, the bilious bastard.

Could it be we just don't understand what the hell these monsters are doing? Are we silicon Luddites? If we let the machines play chess, we'll all be out of work!

I know you have a deep seeded dread of machines taking over the world. And not just the world, but more importatly, your world. Your instinct is probably right but is it paranoia or paranormal?

This is one of the reasons that "internet chess" is just ridiculous.

It bears no resemblance to OTB chess with a clock and a long time control against a stronger player for a "fun chess experience."

I understand why our host <Dom> does not play internet chess.

For me, it's the only way I can get an opponent who can give me an interesting game, for the time being.

But my games at my Chess Club- I loved them, win or lose.

And I loved the people I played against, played WITH there.

Wonderful fun.

But yes of course, machine v machine is not chess- it's more like a "numerical/mathematical essay" that none really understands.

Bottom line is there's nothing to worry about, vis a vis paranoia about "chess engines taking over".

Simply because no human can usefully remember enough "computer lines" to ever use them in a game.

So if Computers busted chess completely, this would have little or no effect on actual human play- one against another OTB in the same ratings range.

We should reserve our paranoia for other areas where machines may pose a threat.

Like computers programming computers etc.

I'm not talking about a Puter network "gaining consciousness" and trying to kill us, a la <Terminator> and 98000 other movies.

I mean, what if the US Power Grid goes down due to a computer problem that only another computer knows how to fix?

Might be time to "batten the hatches" then.

What a most excellent post. Very well put, and strongly put, by you.

The inflatable doll image is very grotesque- and all too appropriate, sadly enough.

Also, your post is full of dark humor.

In fact I'm laughing my head off right now.

HAHAHAAH

haircuts...