heh.....

Very funny continuation of <Dommy's> Dylan parody....

BTW, oddly enough, given your recent post, I *was* in fact faced with a long, long endgame today, in which my decision to "trade down" was justified but then In ONE MOVE I threw it all away--

Two hours of hard work gaining a winning edge, then correctly judging it was time to trade into a winning endgame,.. THROWN AWAY IN ONE MOVE-- A move that handed him a <dead drawn> game on a platter...

And then he didn't see the blunder!!

And he let me back in.

It was necessary for him in turn to make two or three blunders after my BIG BLUNDER-- but he did and he let me back in.

Once "back in," I made no mistake.

I've just finished analyzing this with my <Shredder>...

I'm going to post the decisive moment and what happened, as I think it is instructive in terms of <human chess psychology>-- both mine and my opponents...

And it's relation to <objectively strong and weak moves> played in a game between humans...

I'm beginning to understand <engines> better and how to use them to my benefit in terms of both <post-game analysis and preparation>...

Also, discovering how to load my own games into my Engine <GNU> has been a godsend.

I LEARNED HOW TWO WEEKS AGO!!

I'm a computer genius!!

It only took me two years to figure out how to do something that takes all of three mouse clicks....

PS on a more humorous (to me) note, I posted the final position of this game in <Woody's> forum.

He was so mad he threw away his chance to save the game that he played on to the "bitter end", perhaps hoping I'd stalemate him or something.

But no way that was going to happen. That's the instructive point I"m trying to learn from this game= Once I get a "second chance" to win, NO WAY am I going to "let up" again in the same game.

Things may look all rosy from the outside, but ... ... .... .

<Jess>-<The Way Of The Wood> heh - good post, but to deaf ears, I gather.

heh-- yes the <WC fever> is ratcheting up again...

I was just thinking about you...

Finished my post-game analysis of my win with <English> today....

I think I might wait till the <WC> is over to post the "instructive position" and aftermath, since I've done the analysis work now and I can't play again until next weekend anyway.

I will post the stuff I figured out in <post mortem> after the closing ceremonies.

heh- <deaf ears>...

No problems there. It's all "on the record"--

The chatter about <Kramnik> is getting increasingly schizophrenic and irrational as the Match draws to a close....

Well it'S the WORLD CHESS CHAMPINSHIP for cripe sake

What do you expect?

I drank 90000000000 cups of coffee during my game today....

I feel great, and I'm not feeling so crap any more after <post mortem engine analysis>...

Mainly because I'm understanding more from the analysis, and I"m also putting together more and more sequences of <strong moves Shreddy agrees with> as time goes on...

Mrs. Learning from Engine Analysis

Thanks <Time Bomb>!!

I confess that I know zero about table bases, and have never consulted one.

I understand they are free on the internet?

I haven't the faintest actual knowledge of them-- how they work, how to learn from them--

And I confess that I've "resented" the fact they even exist in the first place.

However, I'm becoming less "chess technology phobic" the more I learn how to use it to improve my performance against humans.

Now that I'm reaping some of the benefits, I'm forced to "recalibrate" many of my prejudices.

however, I STILL HATE THE ROBOT

had to get that out there.

Try this to get that ditty out of your head. At least it's a better ditty.

I posted a man or should I say he posted me.

He bitched about Kram. Isn't he good? Our Woody Wood.

He said that the Drawnik was in a hot water bath.

When the score reached 3 to 0 he started to laugh.

He chuckled some more and then he swore he hit the floor.

I confess that I know zero about table bases, and have never consulted one.>

Here's the one I use. It's real easy to set up a position. Once both kings are on the board, the results appear on the right. There a button for moving pieces around. It's fun to see that a draw becomes a win if a pawn is one rank up or a rook is one file over and such.

<Mrs. Learning from Engine Analysis (finally)> You (we) already "knew" - but you had a tough time letting it sink in, emotionally, as I did too - but it's precisely the "stupid" B+N mate the engines can not play to a win, because it is not within their horizon, that started sobering me up bigtime...

By now I think I know quite detailed where I can learn from its precision, but not its vision, because the latter is barely existent. But improvements are made weekly by the shredder and rybka teams, I reckon.

Relentless endgame execution, as Boomie described, is still rudimentary, prior to entering the realm of 6 men TBs.

See you guys later.

Btw - that 19th century game <Dom> posted is highly interesting and instructive -- more on that later.

Woody Wood Pusher
Drawnik's getting beat
Wonder what he's gonna do
If he can't cheat

Friday night you tried to play the Nimzo.
But you drew the game on move 31.
Monday morning Anand's plays the Meran.
DONT Take that PAWN!!!

WHAPPa IT TOOK me 10- minutes to figure out what you meant, <Mysterious Blue Elephant of the Journey>....

heh...

HOW DID YOU KNOW i DIDN'T SAY THAT ON PURPOSE!!

You may be pleased to know that I wasted an entire Sunday investigating <ancient history> in various systems of the <English Opening>.

Here is one of the results of my Quixotic interest in Pommish Chess archaeology:

Game Collection: Staunton plays the English Opening

Do you mean Larkers?

Do you think we should email him?

He always takes a long break every few months or so-- I miss him too but I don't like to "bug him."

Interesting observation. One wonders why the writer, <GM Taleb>, wasn't eaten by a lion while he wrote them down? <The Black Swan> is a great book title.