by greenpawn34 on Jun 06 2011 01:13 | 12997 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Jun 06 2011 02:25
I have always thought the Byrds version of Mr Tambourine Man
was wimpy and sickly compared to the raw gutsy Dylan original.
And I was thinking these very thoughts when I logged onto
RHP and saw this: Thread 139945
(I’ll leave in the spelling mistake so I’m not the only one
on this blob, sorry blog, who has a spelling error.)
The punters quick and eager to flock around to Tom Tom’s pad
started asking “North West of where?” .
If someone lives North West of Tom Tom then to get to him
they will have to travel South East and someone living directly West
of Tom Tom has to travel directly East.
So Tom Tom failed to give correct and proper directions. Yes?
No!
You see Tom Tom was correct.
Here on RHP the chessboard is our world and if we put
a map of the world onto our chessboard.
You will see it all makes sense. North West is the Black Queenside.
Tom Tom lives on a7 or b7. Now go and meet him.
What is it they say? It aint over till the fat lady sings.
(I wonder is she does a version of Mr Tambourine Man?)
kewo - fval RHP 2006
This is the position when the fat lady walked on stage. White to play,
Yes White is a Rook, two pawns and the exchange down
and has no threats.
[FEN "r4rk1/pp3ppp/8/3Np3/4P3/3Q3P/1q3PPK/8 w - - 0 1"] 1. Qg3 Qd4 2. Nf6+ Kh8 3. Nh5 g6 4. Nf6 Rac8 5. Qg5 {Black should now play 5...Rc6 and Rxf6 game over. } 5... Rc2 6. Qh6 Qd8 {There is nothing to be done.} 7. Qxh7
Ideas in Action (and their Miscalculation) No.145
A popular feature this one.
A player has the right idea but screws it up trying to implement it.
gussie - tinbishop RHP 2007 White to play.
Two pawns down and holes around his King White goes for the win
of a pawn swapping off the Rooks and exposing Black’s King.
Big Ideas. This guy I like. Let’s see what happened.
FEN
6k1/p6p/4p1p1/1p3r1n/7Q/5N1P/P1q3P1/1R5K w - - 0 1
[FEN "6k1/p6p/4p1p1/1p3r1n/7Q/5N1P/P1q3P1/1R5K w - - 0 1"] 1. Rxb5 {Deep. If 1...Rxb5 then 2.Qd8+ and Qd7+ and Qxb5. A slight hole in the analysis. (Check all Checks)} 1... Qd1+ 2. Kh2 Rxb5 {Now Qd8+ has been stopped White is a whole Rook down. OOPS!} 3. Qe7 {Trying for 4.Qe8+ winning the Rook.}3... Qd5 {Black gets sloppy. 3...Rf5 and 0-1 in a few moves. Now White has a perpetual.} 4. Qe8+ Kg7 5. Qe7+ Kh6 {Avoiding the perpetual....and walking into a lost game.} 6. Qf8+ Ng7 7. Qf4+ {The check Black missed, he now has to give up Queen with 7...Qg5....instead...} 7... g5 8. Qf6+ Kh5 9. g4 {....he gets mated. Just another crazy game on RHP. (who says there is no luck in Chess?)}
This next one is good.
Same theme, it has a perpetual at it’s root.
White to play can take the Qe5+ - Qf6+ pep anytime he wants and this
perpetual hangs over Black's head for most of the game but White
refuses to take it despite being ½ a chess set down.
Then we witness a unique moment in Chess.
One player misses a mate in one and the very next move
that player is mated in one.
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Bd6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Nf5 g6 6. Nh6 {It's warming up. Now 6...Nxh6 7.Bxh6 Qh5 hitting the h6 Bishop, f2 and e2 looks like fun.} 6... Nf6 7. Bg5 {And now 7...Bxf2+ 8.Kxf2 Nxe4+ winning the g5 Bishop was a shot.} 7... Qe7 8. Qe2 Qe5 9. Bc1 Bd4 10. c3 Bc5 11. Qc4 Rf8 12. f3 a5 13. Bf4 {A trick that should lose a piece. White has an idea in mind.} 13... Qxf4 14. Qxc5 Qxh6 15. Qe5+ {This is it. He wins back the piece.} 15... Kd8 16. Qxf6+ Ke8 {White now has the e5+ f6+ perpetual. He does not take it.} 17. Be2 Qc1+ 18. Bd1 Qxb2 19. Qe5+ Kd8 20. Qg7 {No harm done. If 21...Re8 then Qf6+ and Qh8+ is still a perpetual.} 20... Ke7 21. Nd2 Qxa1 22. O-O Qxa2 {White's in trouble now, the perpetual has gone. It's game over.} 23. Rf2 Qa1 {It's back on again. Round about here White came up with the idea of covering the annoying flight square d8.} 24. Rf1 Qc1 25. Nc4 b5 26. Ne5 Qxc3 {White can now win the Black Queen with 27.Nxg6+ but it is an expensive Queen so White declines. He has bigger plans for the e5 Knight.} 27. f4 b4 28. Rf3 {Now Black can win the Bishop with a check. 28...Qd4+ 29.Rf2 Qxd1+. He turned down this offer, Black too has ideas.} 28... Qd2 29. Bb3 Ba6 30. Nxf7 {White has at last covered the d8 flight square but it is far too late.} 30... Qe1+ 31. Rf1 Bxf1 {31....Qxf1 mate is a better move. Another reason to check all checks - it may be mate.} 32. Qe5 {That is checkmate.}
Vecchio v gaffard ---Good stuff. I appreciated your comments - instead of criticising the players who probably did not see the opportunitiess you say "black turned down the offer" or "white declines" - refreshing because these guys are obviously not in the upper echelons of the chess world but thay are certainly having a lot of fun................
You do realise you've created a new type of chess notation?
The King's Gambit becomes:
Botswana to Cameroon,
Sweden to Libya,
err...French Southern and Antartic Lands to Sri Lanka
(slight lack of land in some of the squares, so might need a workaround)
Too bad people are too simple minded to think in terms of a whole hemisphere instead of just their own little country. Then they think they are witty when they comment about 'yanks.'
I thought TomTom was from Scottland when I read that post the first time. Should have known that only a yank would say 'Northwest' on an international message board.
You lot are mad.
And don't use my wee comments box for your squabbling.
The King's Gambit becomes:
Botswana to Cameroon,
Sweden to Libya,
err...French Southern and Antartic Lands to Sri Lanka
(slight lack of land in some of the squares, so might need a workaround)