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Re: chess
by Narz » Fri 26 Feb 2010, 00:19:23
I'll try to teach my daughter how to play blindfolded when she's old enough but I think it's likely too late for me, I'm just happy to keep improving in my old age.
“Seek simplicity but distrust it”
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Re: chess
by Carlhole » Fri 26 Feb 2010, 01:28:38
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Narz', 'I')'ll try to teach my daughter how to play blindfolded when she's old enough but I think it's likely too late for me, I'm just happy to keep improving in my old age.
You should torrent yourself a copy of Rybka or at least read about the engine. It's the first one I've seen where the chess play is really interesting. So, I play Delfi at say 1800, reach an a point where some cleverness is needed, and then see how the engine handles it compared to what I did. It will do different things also when repeated.
- Carlhole
Re: chess
by pablonite » Tue 09 Mar 2010, 19:17:54
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7721-0-25-25--.html
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')luff Unsuccessful, Perpetual Check
As of November 10, 2010 swine flu articles were replaced with headlines about drilling holes in the earth indicating the bluff - the threat of a nuclear war failed.
In a futile attempt to avoid going to Hell, TPTB are drilling holes in the earth hoping to find a heretofore undiscovered vulnerability in the earth’s crust:
Interior secretary Salazar announced 38 lease sales for oil and gas on public lands and 75 days later President Obama signed an executive order to loan two billion dollars of our “tax payers dollars” to a Brazilian Oil Exploration Company to drill for oil off the coast of Brazil.
This is a strategy known in Chess as “perpetual check” - a sequence of checks from which the opponent (Gaea) can escape, used by a player (TPTB) with a worse position in order not to lose the game.
The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti – Check!
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')luff Unsuccessful, Perpetual Check
As of November 10, 2010 swine flu articles were replaced with headlines about drilling holes in the earth indicating the bluff - the threat of a nuclear war failed.
In a futile attempt to avoid going to Hell, TPTB are drilling holes in the earth hoping to find a heretofore undiscovered vulnerability in the earth’s crust:
Interior secretary Salazar announced 38 lease sales for oil and gas on public lands and 75 days later President Obama signed an executive order to loan two billion dollars of our “tax payers dollars” to a Brazilian Oil Exploration Company to drill for oil off the coast of Brazil.
This is a strategy known in Chess as “perpetual check” - a sequence of checks from which the opponent (Gaea) can escape, used by a player (TPTB) with a worse position in order not to lose the game.
The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti – Check!
Chess and oil. Good read!
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Re: chess
by Narz » Fri 19 Mar 2010, 00:24:00
Got my tactics rating up over 2000 on chesstempo.com but almost fell below again blowing three very difficult problems in the last move or two. I got all the preliminary moves (spending about 15 minutes a problem) but then spaced & missed the mates three times in a row. 
When I do these puzzles the loud buzzing of my old laptop drives me damn near mad, worse than dripping water it is!
Hitting up three tournies in a row at the end of this month down in South Jersey. Well, first tourney is just a G-10 speed event, the next is a 5-round G-30 (in the Open section which will mostly be >1800's) and a G-60 quad.
When I do these puzzles the loud buzzing of my old laptop drives me damn near mad, worse than dripping water it is!
Hitting up three tournies in a row at the end of this month down in South Jersey. Well, first tourney is just a G-10 speed event, the next is a 5-round G-30 (in the Open section which will mostly be >1800's) and a G-60 quad.
“Seek simplicity but distrust it”
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Re: chess
by Carlhole » Fri 19 Mar 2010, 01:01:28
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Narz', 'G')ot my tactics rating up over 2000 on chesstempo.com but almost fell below again blowing three very difficult problems in the last move or two. I got all the preliminary moves (spending about 15 minutes a problem) but then spaced & missed the mates three times in a row.
When I do these puzzles the loud buzzing of my old laptop drives me damn near mad, worse than dripping water it is!
Hitting up three tournies in a row at the end of this month down in South Jersey. Well, first tourney is just a G-10 speed event, the next is a 5-round G-30 (in the Open section which will mostly be >1800's) and a G-60 quad.
When I do these puzzles the loud buzzing of my old laptop drives me damn near mad, worse than dripping water it is!
Hitting up three tournies in a row at the end of this month down in South Jersey. Well, first tourney is just a G-10 speed event, the next is a 5-round G-30 (in the Open section which will mostly be >1800's) and a G-60 quad.
I've been kicking some ass over at the St. Pete Chess Club. Although I KNOW I'm nothing special. I took out some of the stalwarts of the club yesterday: one of them with a Knight sac leading to mate. Another guy with a rook sac. One of them seemed pretty unsettled after the game, even though the tactic I used wasn't anything enormously complicated; it was something right out of Fred Reinfeld's "1001".
I'll play a tournament after a little while and see how I do.
In other news, I played an eleven year old Bulgarian kid there last Friday night. Enjoyed it. Good chess player, that kid! He got me 2 out of 3. So I'm gunning for the little bastard now.
I'm going to take a lesson from the kid's chess teacher on Saturday. We'll see how that goes. I was thinking I would be good at teaching chess to kids too.
- Carlhole
Re: chess
by Narz » Sun 21 Mar 2010, 20:56:27
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'S')o I'm gunning for the little bastard now.
This is half the fun of the game (creating & battling nemeses).
I did terribly at my last outing to my local chess club. Losing 4 of 4. Granted these were quick games but I hate losing so much, especially to players I feel I should be able to beat.
I only recorded my first game (the rest were G-15). I got in the hole early on & stayed there 'till the end.
[Event "BK Game"]
[Site "BK Northampton"]
[Date "2010.03.20"]
[White "Narz"]
[Black "Paul"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B22"]
1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. d4 e6 5. c4 Nb6 6. d5 d6 7. dxe6? Bxe6 8. Nf3 Nc6 9. exd6 Bxd6 10. Na3 O-O 11. Be2 Re8
12. O-O a6 13. b3 Bg4 14. Bb2 Qc7 15. h3 Bh5 16. Qc2 Bg6 17. Qc3 f6 18. Rfe1
Rad8 19. Rad1 Nb4 20. Qc1 Nxa2 21. Qa1 Nb4 22. Nh4 Nc2 23. Nxc2 Bxc2 24. Rc1
Bxb3 25. Bh5 Rxe1+ 26. Rxe1 Be5 27. Bxe5 fxe5 28. Qxe5 Qxe5 29. Rxe5 Nxc4 30.
Rxc5 b5 31. Bf3 Nd6 32. Kf1 a5 33. Ke1 a4 34. Bc6 Bc4 35. Nf3 Kf8 36. Nd2 Bd3
37. Kd1 Rc8 38. Rd5 Rxc6 39. Rxd3 0-1
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