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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

          Doctor PhibesD Online
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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
            wrote on last edited by
            #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.

            Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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            • jon-nycJ Online
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              jon-nyc
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              #18

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

              Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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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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                #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 Online
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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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                      White's only move is rook to E1.

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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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                              • 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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                                    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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                                      jon-nyc
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                                      White to move. Mate in ?

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