Chess the Master's game...
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I'm not sure if many of you play chess but its always been big fun in my family...
The object in chess is to checkmate your opponent's King. Checkmate, or just "mate" occurs when a king is attacked and the king cannot escape capture.
We assign a value of 1 point to the basic unit, the pawn.
Now we will distinguish between a good bishop and a bad bishop.
Most of the time, bishops are not quite that bad, but the principle remains important: Do not fix pawns in the same room..on the same color as your bishop.
Now as everybody knows the King is number 1..but I always wondered why he was only allowed to move one space at a time.
How about a little history..
Malta
The first recorded chess game in Malta was in 1880. Leone Benjacar wrote chess articles for the Daily Malta Chronicle in 1880 and created the Malta Chess Club. The Maltese Chess Association was formed in 1923.
Japan
The Japanese confiscated chess books during World War II, thinking they were military codes.
And to all you Macdaddies out there...
MacHack VI
First computer to play in a chess tournament. It played in all 5 rounds of the Massachusetts Amateur Championship in 1967. The chess program was written by Richard Greenblatt of MIT’s Project Mac
I am constantly checking out the Chess blogs and this might be interesting to some of you...
Kamsky defeats Adams:
In the sixth round Gata Kamsky of the USA beat Britain's Mickey Adams to join Alexander Grischuk and Wang Yue in the lead with a score of 4/6. His tie-break score..(using the Neustadtl method - the same as used in tournaments at Chess.com)..is better, so he is in the overall lead.
I was under the impression d3 was a pretty poor response to the schliemann, letting black get away with his iffy move, and allowing him to swap off a central pawn with a better position. On the subject of openings, that Kamsky-adams game looks like a zaitsev to me. I thought the chigorin was where you swing the knight out to a5....but I digress
So you want to play Chess ....lets go...
Fish
In chess parlance, a fish is a term for a poor chess player. Although roughly synonymous with the dismissive colloquialisms patzer or woodpusher, there are distinctions. In general a "fish" is a player easily defeated.
If you are a beginner, then you could use these tips.
1. Don't Quit.
2. Try your best.
3. If a week piece (such as a cook...rook), and you know that it will get you in a checkmate, but you still have a stronger piece (such as your queen) to stop the check mate, then do it!
4. When your opponent moves a piece, try to find out what he is trying to do.
5. Only the masters can think 2 or 3 moves ahead.
First moves...
The English Opening
This Chess opening involves the first move c4, (called The English Opening because a group of English players in around the 1890's often played it, including Howard Staunton), it is played as one of the main opening choices for white
En pissant
En pissant (from French: "in [the pawn's] passing") is a maneuver in chess when a player moves a pawn two squares forward from its starting position, and an opposing pawn could have captured it if it had only moved one square forward.
Then there's defensive moves....
Abbazia Defense..
A King's Gambit Accepted variation (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 d5) (ECO classification - C36). The name comes from a tournament, Abbazia 1912, in which all the games had to be a King's Gambit Accepted.
Zugzwang defence..misspelled on wishes from the inventor..
A German word meaning 'really weak sauce'.
The defence is a last ditch effort to show you still have it.
In fact somebody used the 'Zugzwang defence' on me this morning...
Somebody spammed Neil's HTML thread to grief me for what he thought was an error. All it would have taken is a couple Kowolski's and he would be finished.
I must say that was really Zugzwang. And by the way, I battled Java scripts more manly than you...but I digress...
So...Want to learn how to play chess? Want to learn how to play a bit better? Here are some fairly easy "lessons."
Chess the Master's game...
"40 million American households with guns are generally happier
than those people in households that don't have guns."
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"If we want to take this party back, and I think we can someday, let’s get to work." – Barry Goldwater
I'm a little confused as to what ME to You's comment on theHTML thread had to do with Speciallist at all.
ME has been pretty active since joining up, that I've noticed, and has been adding to conversations throughout the board. I think somebody needs to get over this.
Fred Thompson, 2008
I've read some of your posts and find them interesting and informative. If I missed an invitation, I'm sorry. I look forward to readings anyone's views. I don't think I've read any posts here at RS that didn't add value to the discussion in one way or another.
I am new to this blogging so if there was an invitation I missed it! I don't believe I've seen anyone here I wouldn't enjoy conversing with.
If I make any errors please chalk it up to my being in unknown territory.
I'm currently unemployed so I have a lot of time and reading the discussions here is much better than watching the MSM! My blood pressure doesn't go up either!
omnia dicta fortiora si dicta Latina
your case for whatever reason...don't try...ignore him and continue to add to the conversation...you obviously have engaged in thoughtful "conversations" with a lot of people here...you cannot please all the people all the time :-0
Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion
Believe me..A liberal troll would be furiously trying to out post me...And he would be getting angry..And he would start cussing...You my friend have passed the TEST
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I offer the following query: You have this opponent. He sets up his Sicilian Defense as fast as it's feasible and then sits back and pretty much let's me reenact Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. What steps do you take to get him out of it?
You spoke of the "Good Bishop." Is that piece in position to drop his king-side rook?
"I believe we must adjourn this meeting to some other place." - The last recorded words of Adam Smith.
This would be an example of a Bishop that's doing its king and queen no good.
Unfortunately in this chess match an unskilled player has deployed the queen early and onto a crowded board where she can do little good.
Their Knight has been pushed to the margins
And their rook is in a lot of pain
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQiJdf-ebIs
From one "en pissant" to another...
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa
I prefer
Yes, I have reenacted this. I was in college. What do you expect?
Now also found at The Minority Report
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa
Dont ever chase or feed trolls...Make them come to you....just like Fishing...
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tournament. If you seek enlightenment, watch a Go match. If you seek neither excitement or enlightenment, CNN or MSNBC!
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In Japan the top pro championship matches are played over two days. That's a lot of sitting and thinking, especially on day 1, since later in the game you get more obvious plays than in the opening.
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"If we want to take this party back, and I think we can someday, let’s get to work." – Barry Goldwater
Come on Walker where's your HTML skills..
"40 million American households with guns are generally happier
than those people in households that don't have guns."
For some reason you are overly obsessed with From ME to You.
I don't know why and I don't care.
It is way over the top.
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