Originally posted by riv6672My daughter said to me that there is a woman who watches her watch movies in her room and sleeps on the ceiling above her bed when she sleeps. She also says it does not like me and wants to eat my heart. My kid watches Elmo and ****ing Dinosaur Train. Where in the hell did she get this from?
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Just out of curiosity ...
Exactly how often does your mother-in-law visit?
Short vid of things supposedly dubbed "inappropriate for history books" ...
Originally posted by bluewaterriderI don't think anybody who knows ANYTHING about chess beyond all the rules, special cases, and how the pieces move will prove fully unable to appreciate what Steinitz does here. It has to be seen by the novice to be believed:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q2o-H2gls-A
(Wilheim Steinitz vs Rock, 1863)
Originally posted by riv6672TBH I had no idea what I was looking at there! 😱
Challenge accepted!
Once you learn something, and incorporate it into routine for a while, it's easy to forget what it was like when you did NOT know what you now know, what your perceptions were PRE-learning.
In this case, it's easy to forget I've known the one thing that actually lends appreciation for a particular chess stratagem AFTER learning all the rules, special cases, and how the pieces move.
That one thing is the VALUE of each piece, both in terms of points AND in relation to other pieces.
Here's a video that's short and HALF decent at explaining that.
Off in the sense that most rank a queen at 9, not 10, but mentions some considerations that other guides sometimes forget:
I think a play by play with illustrations and annotations of some of my shortest games will be instructive for beginners that might stumble upon these pages.
Or at least good practice for being instructive.
With a note emphasizing that most of what I show in this thread are EXCEPTIONS to the rules and the way things should go.
Whether you are joking or not I do not know; since part of my goal IS to interest beginners by showing them some of the cooler possibilities of the game, it doesn't matter. To reach the widest possible audience, I need to cover a wide range of skill and knowledge levels, including those that genuinely DON'T know that the soundness of any particular decision and likelihood of winning after a move is played is often weighed by how much each piece is worth, how many you have versus your opponent, etcetera.
But that's for a near-future time. Perhaps once the page count leaves the 50300s and goes to the 50400s, which shouldn't be too long at all.
In the meantime, random, sometimes very long games that piqued my interest, along with everything else I typically post here:
Hopefully even entries like this can be followed without TOO much difficulty, though. For instance, from the charts I just gave, you should be able to follow that I'm offering a piece worth more than all my opponent's pawns combined, by putting my queen in his face. I am daring him to accept an exchange, that, on the surface, SHOULD absolutely lose the game for me.
I was minded to, and probably will, post a game that shows precisely what would have happened had he taken my dare, had his pawn take my queen right at that very moment, and not FIRST moved his own bishop, before going after her.
(It would have been a short game, to say the least.)
But, I digress, I need more focus today, and I want to continue posting ...
I get the feeling politicians play a "game" similar to chess with the public.
In fact, after watching an excellent video on true power and politics, I'm almost certain they do. Except much of the public doesn't know it, doesn't know they're the politicians "opponents", doesn't even know THAT they're playing a game, let alone all the rules of the game that they need to know to win.
It'll be interesting to know how the following will play out in due time, for instance ...
Game above was a Latvian Gambit game by me, with me playing as Black.
A white knight takes first variation, as opposed to the white pawn takes first protocol I've largely come to expect.
Endgame features a setup that is VERY like a smother mate, but worth studying because the dynamics are very different and more complicated than the standard queen cases.
