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  • HoraceH Offline
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    Horace
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    #9

    I am sure there are millions of chess positions that have non-obvious best moves. I'm not sure we need to make threads about them, but I don't judge. I never judge.

    Education is extremely important.

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    • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

      Hmmm,

      Black castle takes white queen

      Ahhh, then white horse moves to F7, correct?

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      Doctor Phibes
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      #10

      @taiwan_girl said in Great move:

      Hmmm,

      Black castle takes white queen

      Ahhh, then white horse moves to F7, correct?

      Also, King takes Queen, Bxh7 check, K-h8, N-g6 checkmate, which is very nice.

      I was only joking

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      • HoraceH Horace

        I am sure there are millions of chess positions that have non-obvious best moves. I'm not sure we need to make threads about them, but I don't judge. I never judge.

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        Doctor Phibes
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        #11

        @Horace said in Great move:

        I am sure there are millions of chess positions that have non-obvious best moves. I'm not sure we need to make threads about them, but I don't judge. I never judge.

        They're all non-obvious if you're shit at chess.

        I was only joking

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        • HoraceH Horace

          I am sure there are millions of chess positions that have non-obvious best moves. I'm not sure we need to make threads about them, but I don't judge. I never judge.

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          Aqua Letifer
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          #12

          @Horace said in Great move:

          I am sure there are millions of chess positions that have non-obvious best moves. I'm not sure we need to make threads about them, but I don't judge. I never judge.

          As opposed to what? What's better*?

          *that we're capable of.

          Please love yourself.

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          • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

            @Horace said in Great move:

            I am sure there are millions of chess positions that have non-obvious best moves. I'm not sure we need to make threads about them, but I don't judge. I never judge.

            As opposed to what? What's better*?

            *that we're capable of.

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            Horace
            wrote on last edited by
            #13

            @Aqua-Letifer said in Great move:

            @Horace said in Great move:

            I am sure there are millions of chess positions that have non-obvious best moves. I'm not sure we need to make threads about them, but I don't judge. I never judge.

            As opposed to what? What's better*?

            *that we're capable of.

            Gratuitous posts about how fascinating a chess position is, might serve certain purposes other than to have interesting conversation about how fascinating a chess position is. But I don't judge. I like threads that are unambiguously about having interesting conversations, or at least the potential for them.

            Education is extremely important.

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            • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

              @Horace said in Great move:

              I am sure there are millions of chess positions that have non-obvious best moves. I'm not sure we need to make threads about them, but I don't judge. I never judge.

              They're all non-obvious if you're shit at chess.

              taiwan_girlT Offline
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              taiwan_girl
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              @Doctor-Phibes said in Great move:

              They're all non-obvious if you're shit at chess.

              👋

              Thats me!!!

              I have the Magnus Carlson app on my phone and one of the options is to play against him at various ages.

              I think he beats me when he turns 7 years old. LOL

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              • HoraceH Offline
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                Horace
                wrote on last edited by
                #15

                I bought a bobby fisher biography many decades ago and it had a bunch of his games in an appendix. I would play them out on a chess board, to see genius in action. But I wasn't good enough at chess to appreciate any of the genius.

                Education is extremely important.

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                • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                  @Doctor-Phibes said in Great move:

                  They're all non-obvious if you're shit at chess.

                  👋

                  Thats me!!!

                  I have the Magnus Carlson app on my phone and one of the options is to play against him at various ages.

                  I think he beats me when he turns 7 years old. LOL

                  Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                  Doctor Phibes
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                  #16

                  @taiwan_girl said in Great move:

                  @Doctor-Phibes said in Great move:

                  They're all non-obvious if you're shit at chess.

                  👋

                  Thats me!!!

                  I have the Magnus Carlson app on my phone and one of the options is to play against him at various ages.

                  I think he beats me when he turns 7 years old. LOL

                  In my twenties, I used to play for my town's chess club and read books about it and everything, and I regularly got beat by a kid who was about 10 years old. Of course, he didn't look so clever when I punched him in the face.

                  I was only joking

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                  • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                    @Doctor-Phibes said in Great move:

                    They're all non-obvious if you're shit at chess.

                    👋

                    Thats me!!!

                    I have the Magnus Carlson app on my phone and one of the options is to play against him at various ages.

                    I think he beats me when he turns 7 years old. LOL

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                    jon-nyc
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                    #17

                    @taiwan_girl said in Great move:

                    I have the Magnus Carlson app on my phone and one of the options is to play against him at various ages.

                    I think he beats me when he turns 7 years old. LOL

                    I doubt anyone here would make it past 9 or 10. He was a grandmaster at 13.

                    Only non-witches get due process.

                    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                      jon-nyc
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                      #18

                      I think this site is racist. White is always beating black.

                      Only non-witches get due process.

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                      • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                        @taiwan_girl said in Great move:

                        @Doctor-Phibes said in Great move:

                        They're all non-obvious if you're shit at chess.

                        👋

                        Thats me!!!

                        I have the Magnus Carlson app on my phone and one of the options is to play against him at various ages.

                        I think he beats me when he turns 7 years old. LOL

                        In my twenties, I used to play for my town's chess club and read books about it and everything, and I regularly got beat by a kid who was about 10 years old. Of course, he didn't look so clever when I punched him in the face.

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                        taiwan_girl
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                        #19

                        @Doctor-Phibes 😳 😂

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                        • HoraceH Horace

                          I bought a bobby fisher biography many decades ago and it had a bunch of his games in an appendix. I would play them out on a chess board, to see genius in action. But I wasn't good enough at chess to appreciate any of the genius.

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                          Doctor Phibes
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                          #20

                          @Horace said in Great move:

                          I bought a bobby fisher biography many decades ago and it had a bunch of his games in an appendix. I would play them out on a chess board, to see genius in action. But I wasn't good enough at chess to appreciate any of the genius.

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                          I was only joking

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                          • Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                            Doctor Phibes
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                            #21

                            OK, one last position for anybody who's interested, since I thought this was wonderful, and very unusual. White can take the Queen with check, but he gets mated.

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                            I was only joking

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                            • MikM Away
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                              Mik
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                              White's only move is rook to E1.

                              “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                Rook to E1 wouldn't help. After ..RE8 and RE2 and then RxE2 the situation would be worse than before.

                                D3 might be a move, no?

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                                • KlausK Klaus

                                  Rook to E1 wouldn't help. After ..RE8 and RE2 and then RxE2 the situation would be worse than before.

                                  D3 might be a move, no?

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                                  Doctor Phibes
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                                  @Klaus said in Great move:

                                  Rook to E1 wouldn't help. After ..RE8 and RE2 and then RxE2 the situation would be worse than before.

                                  D3 might be a move, no?

                                  D3 just loses the Queen, and in compensation white has a totally lost position

                                  I was only joking

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                                    jon-nyc
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                                    Only non-witches get due process.

                                    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                      Only non-witches get due process.

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                                      • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                                        @Klaus said in Great move:

                                        Rook to E1 wouldn't help. After ..RE8 and RE2 and then RxE2 the situation would be worse than before.

                                        D3 might be a move, no?

                                        D3 just loses the Queen, and in compensation white has a totally lost position

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                                        @Doctor-Phibes said in Great move:

                                        @Klaus said in Great move:

                                        Rook to E1 wouldn't help. After ..RE8 and RE2 and then RxE2 the situation would be worse than before.

                                        D3 might be a move, no?

                                        D3 just loses the Queen, and in compensation white has a totally lost position

                                        White Queen to F3.
                                        Still loses the Queen, but at least taking a black Bishop with it.

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                                          You guys might like this book.

                                          The problem on one page, the solution on the next x 1,000, simple.

                                          Open to any page and figure it out

                                          https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FPBLJL8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_351_o02?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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