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| Jan-11-12 | | mworld: chessfans do have delusions of grandeur it would seem =] |
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Jan-11-12
 | | Domdaniel: <Annie> It is no accident that 'transpose' and 'transvest' are close together in dictionaries. Once you're willing to mess with the holy rituals of chessic move order, all kinds of sartorial inversions follow. <mack> "You're doing the trouser press, baby" ... - Got a light, mack?
- No, but I have a dark brown overcoat. |
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Jan-11-12
 | | Annie K.: Now it all makes sense. =)
This looks bad, then. Sometimes I even *gasp* don't castle at all... :s |
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Jan-11-12
 | | OhioChessFan: <- Got a light, mack?
- No, but I have a dark brown overcoat.>
In the porridge rain, very strange. |
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Jan-12-12
| | Domdaniel: <Sometimes I even *gasp* don't castle at all... > I read about an 'ingenious' psychology experiment where subjects - while supposedly waiting to be tested - were engaged in casual conversation. Then they were shown some graphics and symbols, one of them being 0-0. Afterwards they were asked to describe the graphics.
Apparently, those who'd had a 'random' conversation about weightlifting remembered 0-0 as having a long dash in the middle, more like dumbbells. And those who'd chatted about eyeglasses remembered a slight curve to the central bar. I'd love to know if they tested any chessplayers... |
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Jan-12-12
| | Domdaniel: Meanwhile, some idiot section editor in the Guardian has decided to get rid of all the weekly games columns. So it's goodbye to Danny King and Ronan Bennett on chess, Zia Mahmood on bridge, and Victoria Coren on poker. This is completely cretinous. Those writers - all excellent - were the main reason I'd continued to buy the print version of the paper. Along with crosswords, sudoku etc. They have some good writers, but so what? I'm a good writer too. I don't need a newspaper to supply me with opinions. I like them to *pay* me for my opinions, but that's another story. And I've never written for the Guardian, though I've been a regular reader. I'll complain, of course, and would urge other people to do likewise. I have long experience of editors who think 'games' - both the chess/bridge type and the puzzle kind - are trivial and space-wasting. They really don't seem to grasp how many people regard these as the mainstay of the paper. Maybe the sheer idiocy of 'losing' *all* their games columns at once will trigger a reaction among readers. They still have a weekly piece on chess by Leonard Barden in the Saturday sports section -- usually a brief tournament report, a short game, and a puzzle diagram. But they don't give it much space, and some design genius has reduced the diagram to the size of a postage stamp, rendering it unreadable and irrelevant. Like the Guardian will be, if it keeps this up. |
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Jan-12-12
 | | moronovich: <DomDaniel>
Perhaps you should mention it to <Ray Keene> !? |
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Jan-12-12
| | Domdaniel: <moronovich> Not this time. He almost exploded when that same pinko journal dispensed with Nigel Short and hired Bennett, whom Mondo saw as a sort of terroristic ex-con. Also, I've escaped from Murdoch's Evil Empire, but Mr Keene still takes Rupe's money for old rope. Very old rope, some of it.
Nah ... I'll just end my addiction to inky papers and read them online like everyone else. |
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Jan-12-12
| | Annie K.: <mworld: <chessfans do have delusions of grandeur it would seem =]>> Heh. I don't mind those. It's the ones with delusions of adequacy that get on my nerves. :p <Ohio> incidentally, your "Here's peering at you, kid" was excellent. ;) <Dom> I have a good online Sudoku site bookmarked somewhere (though I play mostly on my iPhone app these days) - I'll look it up for ya when I get home. :) |
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| Jan-12-12 | | harrylime: Is Leonard Barden still going ?! I'm not wishing this in bad taste but I've seen pics of him in the 40's and he looked into his 40's then lol .. There's thet famous pic of him hovering over a Fischer v Tal game in the early 60's.. and he's clearly no spring chicken in it.. As for the old 'ignore' debate, which you pretty much put to bed in your earlier post, I've just posted on a forum and saw another poster's legacy on it who I know has me on the dreaded 'ignore' .. but it felt good being able to post without having to take him ( presuming it's a him) into account.. So there's another aspect to 'ignore' on this site ! |
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| Jan-12-12 | | mworld: <Heh. I don't mind those. It's the ones with delusions of adequacy that get on my nerves. :p >
Happy New Year to you too Annie =] Very interesting notion you have there. Whereas some had the notion that chessfans were intellectually superior (recently defunct), I've always suspected that chess attracted the inadequate, but I always thought they *knew* it. |
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| Jan-12-12 | | mworld: But *I* didn't know it so I guess I'll just have to be more understanding =] |
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Jan-13-12
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> My dumb-phone has sudoku somewhere inside, and they're easy to get online ... but I prefer to use a biro. Partly to make coded marks round the edges and tick complete lines/cells. And to draw odd statistical inferences. But thank you anyway.
Thank Caisson, Caissandra's doomier predictions do not seem to have been fulfilled. Thanks largely to a heroic Wabbit, the car crash has turned into a close scrape, with kvetching. Innaresting cultural differences in kvetches. |
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Jan-13-12
| | Annie K.: Wait until the voting for the Analyst category. ;)
You can always find Sudokus online and print them out to solve on paper, if you prefer, although the better sites offer the ability to use "pencil notes" onscreen too. |
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Jan-13-12
| | OhioChessFan: <And to draw odd statistical inferences.> When I have essentially given up on one and want to take a shot in the dark and see if it works with a 50/50 chance, I always take the higher of the 2 numbers. And it works out probably 75% of the time. |
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Jan-13-12
| | OhioChessFan: This is the best site I've seen: http://www.sudoku.org.uk/ The killer extreme is my current obsession |
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Jan-13-12
| | Annie K.: <Ohio> solving a Sudoku by guessing is *gasp* heresy! ;p Do you guys play Kakuro too? Same game wot usetabe known as CrossSums, back when non-Japanese names were still allowed. ;) That, at least, has something to do with numbers - Sudoku isn't actually a mathematical game: any other set of 9 symbols would do just the same. |
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Jan-13-12
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> A *tiny* correction, if I may. Sudoku is highly mathematical - it simply doesn't involve *arithmetic*. As you say, any 9 symbols would do. But the solving techniques are, eh, homologous and isomorphic to other branches of maths. Maths is not numbers and mathematicians don't do 'sums'. I think you know this, but there are tribes in Amazonia and New Jersey that don't. |
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Jan-13-12
| | Annie K.: <Dom> yes, you may. ;) <But the solving techniques are, eh, homologous and isomorphic to other branches of maths.> Or, as Sherlock put it, once you eliminate the impossible... :) |
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Jan-13-12
| | Annie K.: http://www.enjoysudoku.com/webplay/
This is the web browser version of the app I have on my iPhone. Absolutely love this interface, I bought the premium version for unlimited play. :) |
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Jan-13-12
| | Domdaniel: Eggs Zackly. Not sure about 'eliminating the impossible', though. Of course I'm *tempted* sometimes ... but wouldn't it be *murder*? |
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Jan-13-12
| | Annie K.: ...although the app has two more levels of difficulty, named "diabolical" and "nightmare", heh. I usually just solve "nightmares" now I have unlimited games, but anything from "annoying" and down is worth wasting time on. :D |
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Jan-13-12
| | Annie K.: <but wouldn't it be *murder*?> Heh!
...but you didn't say if you do CrossSums too... ;) |
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Jan-13-12
| | OhioChessFan: I love Kakuro and work one every night. |
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| Jan-13-12 | | frogbert: < the car crash has turned into a close scrape, with kvetching. > you were simply too pessimistic. |
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