A wee time out

Hi

Have picked up a chess Quest (see)

https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=11152

The Blog thingy will not be as regular (7-10 days)
I could cobble something together but would like to maintain
my high standard 😀

So do not fret, as Arnold Schwarzenegger said: 'Ill be back'

Or was he playing chess and said: 'Ill be Black.'

Or was he impersonating famous composers and said: 'I'll be Bach.'

Geoff

Hi Geoff,

I appreciate the hard work you undertake here.

All the best!

Thanks Geoff! I'll drag you back if you vanish. 🙂

"Wee"?

WoW...

The last time I heard that word was when me Scottish mum say "just a wee drink me lad"

A bottle later we went ice fishing with the car.
Not on purpose of course.
We did not catch any fish.
The car is still at the bottom of the lake.

The key to survival in icey water is to get your boots and coat off so you can swim.

Me mum held on to that bottle even though it was empty 🤔

Good times...

@greenpawn34

I have seen many chess books.
(Maybe over 1000)

I always remember the quote you said...

"Chess is not played on diagrams... Set up the board and pieces..."

It was you explaining tactics studying in "A chess course in 21 lessons" ?

My library has it and when I go there i always point to it and tell my wife...

"Chandler posts on my favorite website'

(She doesn't understand 🙁 )

Hi Cheesemaster

Often use a 'wee' it is one of my (of many) foibles.

Yes:
"Chess is not played on diagrams... Set up the board and pieces..."

I still struggle a 'wee' bit doing diagrams if it Black to play, hate working upside
down (probably why i missed so many threats OTB) ,

Great believer in seeing the patterns in 3D because I know it worked for me.
Once solved I'd play around with the position, sometimes for ages, looking
for defences, counter sacs, neater mates etc...

If only I had spent more learning how to get these positions I was so apt
at solving I could have been really good. (Spielmann said something the
same about Alekhine's combinations.)

Good book that '21 Courses.' wrote it when I was hot, full of confidence and the
chess world was wrong! You should have seen what Danny Kopec left on the
cutting room floor.

'No Geoff, you cannot say that," or "stop telling them that only bad players study
endings, " (if you are in an ending then you have misplayed the middle-game - that kind of stuff. At least I practised what I preached...my endgame sucks!)

They did a reprint and wanted a new section on internet chess. I used RHP games!
I tried to lay it out like it was post in a forum , did not quite work but had to be tried.

@greenpawn34 said

Still love doing it. (keeps me sane)
I'll go for once a month. I may sneak in an Aitken game.
(I am seeing them in my sleep - there are actually some very good unknown games.)

Aitken was one of the Bletchley code breakers, some games
are marked: Match v Hut 8 (not seen a game v A. Turing...yet.)

Instructive moment No. 134

Aitken - S. Date, 28th Oct 19 ...[text shortened]... 35. Rxf8 Kxf8 36. a5 {And the King is not in the square. The a-pawn runs home. 1-0} [/pgn]

Hi GP,

in the final position if we move Black's King to e8 so it can catch the runner then I think the ending's won anyway because the King can't stop the two passed pawns and protect the King side ones.

I read somewhere, possibly on Edward Winter's site, about the first chess engine, which was implemented on a Turing machine. The Turing machine was implemented by hand by Turing himself - it lost.

Edit: I did a quick search on chessgames.com and it has the game (but none featuring Turing as an actual player). The Turing machine has the white pieces.

@greenpawn34
👍 Take care Geoff.

Chris

@greenpawn34

Anyone who has seen Trevor Noah's comedy skit about his time in Scotland will see the word "wee" in the title, and then beat a fearful hasty retreat from this thread!