Great move
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@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.
@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.
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@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.
@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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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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@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
@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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@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
@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.
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@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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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.
@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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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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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?
@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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@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
@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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