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Until fairly recent times, white did not always have the first move. In the first great international tournament, London, 1851, players had the same color throughout each match, and alternated who moved first. In annotated games of that era, they are rewritten with reversed colors, in order to make them acceptable to the modern rule of white having the first move.
Cool, huh?
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Robert Oppenheimer, the "father" of the manhattan atomic bomb project, was a life long chess devotee, and despite his genious, he sucked at chess. At the age of 15, he played the great Gyula Breyer, the architect of hyper-modern chess, in a simul around 1918 , and got trounced. 20 years later at Princeton University, he played against Albert Eienstein in a college tournament and got bitch slapped in 20 moves. Einstein was a strong expert level player, but Openheimer was a puny 1200 rated piece of crap, no matter how hard he tried.
Originally posted by DrumboI believe we have an estimate of Einstein's level from his old friend, Emmanuel Lasker.
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Robert Oppenheimer, the "father" of the manhattan atomic bomb project, was a life long chess devotee, and despite his genious, he sucked at chess. At the age of 15, he played the great Gyula Breyer, the architect of hyper-modern chess, in a simul around 1918 , and got trounced. 20 years later at Princeton University, he played against ...[text shortened]... evel player, but Openheimer was a puny 1200 rated piece of crap, no matter how hard he tried.
Lasker said he was a "B" level player but it is held that he was being kind.
Originally posted by Drumbo...and here is the actual game. 🙂
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Robert Oppenheimer, the "father" of the manhattan atomic bomb project, was a life long chess devotee, and despite his genious, he sucked at chess. At the age of 15, he played the great Gyula Breyer, the architect of hyper-modern chess, in a simul around 1918 , and got trounced. 20 years later at Princeton University, he played against ...[text shortened]... evel player, but Openheimer was a puny 1200 rated piece of crap, no matter how hard he tried.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1261614
I am no expert myself, but I believe 4. ..b5 was a weak move.
Oppenheimer didn't half get an a$$ kicking though. 🙂
Originally posted by Papyn ChaseThat was really the decisions of the president at the time. Oppenheimer was also asked to develop the Hydrogen bomb later on, but he refused (this task was given to Edward Teller), having regretted the development of the regular fission bomb.
I think instead of pursuing a lifelong existence of getting back at Einstein in chess, he chose another path. See what chess has done? It got Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuked! Bad chess...baaaad.
In fact, Albert Einstein advised Roosevelt to develop the nuclear bomb as a deterrent against the nazis. They were feared to be in the process of trying to develop it (although I don't believe he ever wanted it to be actually used).
Hydrogen bombs have not been used in warfare but have been detonated in tests (Christmas Islands) and lots of underground tests. They are hundreds of times more powerful than the bombs exploded in Japan.
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Originally posted by Papyn Chasethe germans and japanese were working on nukes too. i'm glad the nukes ended the war before the allies got nuked ... so should everyone else.
I think instead of pursuing a lifelong existence of getting back at Einstein in chess, he chose another path. See what chess has done? It got Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuked! Bad chess...baaaad.
Originally posted by DrumboYeah but i bet Oppenheimer danced all over Einstein in math class...........
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Robert Oppenheimer, the "father" of the manhattan atomic bomb project, was a life long chess devotee, and despite his genious, he sucked at chess. At the age of 15, he played the great Gyula Breyer, the architect of hyper-modern chess, in a simul around 1918 , and got trounced. 20 years later at Princeton University, he played against ...[text shortened]... evel player, but Openheimer was a puny 1200 rated piece of crap, no matter how hard he tried.