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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
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      #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.

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        #14

        @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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          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

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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.

                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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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 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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                        #22

                        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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                          #23

                          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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                            #24

                            @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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                              #25

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                              Only non-witches get due process.

                              • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                jon-nyc
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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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                                  #27

                                  @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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                                    Copper
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                                    #28

                                    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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                                      jon-nyc
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                                      #29

                                      Kasparov 1981. Mate in 3 if QxR. White avoids mate if QxN but still loses queen.

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                                      Only non-witches get due process.

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                                        jon-nyc
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                                        #30

                                        White to move. Mate in ?

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                                        Only non-witches get due process.

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