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| Mar-19-09 | | Eyal: <QUACK!!
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| Mar-19-09 | | Eyal: <That previous post was my <20,000th> post at this website, so A: I wanted it to be the best post I've ever written and
B: I wanted to put it here in your honor>
Back at you, on my <10,000th> post... |
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| Mar-19-09 | | achieve: <Jess> I found that the gentleman I'll be meeting next tuesday, has also given lectures at <Majnu>'s club, De Rode Loper (The Red Bishop)! Really looking forward to meeting him and getting advice from a person of his stature. In Majnu's blog he also mentions a brilliant, and subtle/intelligent Attacking game, from this position: 
click for larger viewWhite to play
-- and almost winning here, positionally.
VERY instructive to assess this position thoroughly, and formulate the "winning plan". One of <Majnu>'s best games IMO. |
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Mar-19-09
 | | chancho: LMAO!
<MageOfMaple:> <Ed Trice: Unlike Labate, I don't post everything online. It's not the best use of my time, and, quite frankly, I just don't care.> <Well, of course the man doesn't have time. This is a man who raised $15 MILLION for a Gothic Chess tournament, probably the largest sum of money for any board game tournament in history! (For comparison, the largest cash prize for an ordinary Chess tournament that I can find is only $500,000.) This is a man who was offered a seven-figure sum for the rights to Gothic Chess by none other than Donald Trump and refused the paltry sum. This is a man who was granted a private audience with the legendary Bobby Fischer. And, as if that wasn't enough, as one of the premier purveyors of Martian Real Estate, he served such exclusive clientele as California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Of course he's too busy to post court papers. It wasn't even worth his time to show up in court even with $21 MILLION dollars on the line.Now, I know what you're probably thinking. The Great Man just made the time to grace us with several sentences. Why couldn't he have simply posted the docket number? Well, forget it! That's not how he rolls! The Great Man tests our faith. When Ed Trice rules the world, only the faithful will be saved. At present count, that's only about three people, but hey, Noah only saved seven.> <So, for God's sake, cut the man some slack. He's busy revolutionizing Chess, colonizing Jupiter, and helping old ladies cross the street.> |
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| Mar-19-09 | | achieve: Re my previous post: Letsplaychess presents: Attacking Chess http://majnublog.wordpress.com/ (second item from top - also as youtube vid) |
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| Mar-20-09 | | Travis Bickle: Queen Jess come visit my forum. ; ) |
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Mar-20-09
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Niels> I watched the <Manju>- brilliant-
I like the way he switched his original plan half-way through, as the position demanded. Flexibility-- One good plan will create possibilites for another good plan- since defending against the first plan will create weaknesses that can be exploited by a second plan. Brilliant. |
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Mar-20-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Chanchero>
heh... that's the most succinct and most true description of <Ed Trice's> activities I've ever read in my life. Thanks for sharing!! |
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| Mar-20-09 | | achieve: <Flexibility-- One good plan will create possibilites for another good plan- since defending against the first plan will create weaknesses that can be exploited by a second plan.> So true... At some point in the video <Majnu> mentions that Black should have played ...Bg8, instead of Kg7 - which would have been a better try at defending the position, acc. to majnu, and after the Bg8 move, he says he couldn't find a forcing line to prove his advantage... I was slightly surprised, as there is of course the move < ... > Black to play : Kg7 vs Bg8
click for larger viewWell, here, after <Bf7-g8> - there is of course the "better late than never" <e2-e4>, which basically is the thematic way of breaking the Black king's pawn structure, and dismantle the crap Black set-up... Analysis POS after <e2-e4> 
click for larger viewBlack simply MUST FALL APART!!
heh
Of course, converting against engine at full Blast is still a nice little challenge and technique-training-opportunity. <Will you be wearing a tie?> ha! Vintage <Jess>. |
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| Mar-20-09 | | hoodrobin: <jess et al.>
Which one is a good site for CC ?
<Queen>Alice vs GAMEKNOT vs Chess.com (?) Thanks!
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| Mar-20-09 | | Eyal: Speaking of rook endgame mysteries:
click for larger viewThis is the position from yesterday's Radjabov vs Wang Yue, 2009 after White's 41.fxg6. Here <41...fxg6??> only draws whereas <41...f6!> (as played by Wang) wins - quite instructive to try and figure out why (several people have already explained it in general terms on the main tournament page). |
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| Mar-20-09 | | Travis Bickle: Jess here's a mellow tune where I can picture laying in some tall grass with a little vino and maybe some herbal medicine ; P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeSh... |
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| Mar-20-09 | | madlydeeply: Jess you're awesome just like hunter s thompson you should think about this fearless ovservations into society.... your fan
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Mar-21-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: I am White in a <English middle game> today-
click for larger viewWhite to play...
18.f4 Kg7
19.f5 g5
20.f6+ Kg8
heh
Ramming the pawn down his throat.
After move 20, Black has a nightmarish position-
A very sweet win today because he was unbelievably rude. The second he realized he was about to be slowly strangled- or mated quickly if he made even a small inaccuracy from this position- He must have hit the <offer draw> button at least 20 times or more, in an attempt to distract me, I suppose. In addition to calling me all kinds of filthy names in <Spanish>. He called me a <puta>. ???
heh
But all it did was make me happy, as it turned out.
I would never embarrass myself like that. I'd try to defend till I was dead, or even resign here before I started offering a draw 200 times in a row, or cursing at a perfect stranger. Of course, it's the Internet so for all I know he was 5 years old or something. I like it when it's war.
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| Mar-21-09 | | Thorski: <jess, war and such> Feisty! I think it would be quite something to know you in private life. |
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Mar-21-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Thanks <Thorski>!
But knowing me in "private life" might only be "something" <in theory>... Me and Howard have been discussing how best to define the word "theory", off and on. I think one could profitably define this term as <the gold donkey>. As in, "I am reasonably conversent with <the gold donkey> of quantum electrodynamics" |
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| Mar-21-09 | | Open Defence: I only fish for compliments |
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Mar-21-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Fresh or salt water? |
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Mar-21-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: here is a <fresh water compliment>, although it's more like a fact. <Open Defence> v <acirce> 1-0
*Whack a Mole* |
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| Mar-21-09 | | Eyal: And now to our daily <Amber Rook Endgame Mystery>:
click for larger viewIn this position from Kamsky vs Kramnik, 2009 (reached after a mistake by Kramnik in the endgame [!!] a couple of moves earlier), the <table-vase> says that 71.Re7? (as played by Kamsky) or Rb7? only draw, whereas 71.Rd7! or Rc7! win. Heh |
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Mar-21-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <N'Swaba>!!
I almost had a melt down playing out the last <rook mystery> you gave me agaisnt my Engine. I spent more than three hours on it.
Stupid Engine kept playing different moves from the same position as well, for some reason. I had it on maximum power.
All I can say for sure so far is that I'm learning my Engine plays a whole lot better than my <yahoo> opponents, even in the Endgames. |
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Mar-21-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: How about you just explain this last one to me?
I have studied and played chess since 8 in the morning today. Cripe that's 12 hours straight now.
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| Mar-21-09 | | Eyal: <Jess> When you have positions with no more than 6 pieces that you want to "play out", I find it more efficient to do so with the table-vase (http://www.k4it.de/index.php?topic=...), because it can give you the correct final result of the position with absolute certainty. Yesterday's "mystery" is not so difficult, really, once you grasp why g2-h2 is a "safe zone" for the defending king, and accordingly that an f-pawn can drive away the king from there and a g-pawn can't. But the one of today is actually very obscure - for the moment I only know that's what the "oracle" says, but can't really explain why. |
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| Mar-21-09 | | Eyal: Speaking of which, the pronouncements of the table-vase oracle sometimes really seem to be beyond the capabilities of human understanding, especially when it shows forced wins in ca. 200 moves and such. See, for example, the humorous analysis of Karjakin vs Shirov, 2007 (starting from move 39) in http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/fil... |
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| Mar-21-09 | | achieve: White to play and mates in three
click for larger viewComposed by <Pal Benko> - his last composition as a teenager. During the Lugano Olympiad, which Bobby Fischer attended as a visitor, <Pal> made a bet with <Bobby> that he couldn't solve it in 30 minutes! As minute after minute passed, <Bobby> started to feel rather "un-easy" ... Why did <Bobby> have so much trouble solving this problem?? Have fun with this one! (Both with the problem itself, as well as with the question of WHY Bobby found it so hard...) |
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