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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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    @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-nycJ Online
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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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        @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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              #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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                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.

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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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                        @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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                            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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                              White to move. Mate in ?

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                              Only non-witches get due process.

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