https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FAsF5lB3CSQ
Michael Knowles. The Conservative Decade.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rqepc1ORsuo
Ben Shapiro. The End of Christmas (and shared moral values) ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FAsF5lB3CSQ
Michael Knowles. The Conservative Decade.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rqepc1ORsuo
Ben Shapiro. The End of Christmas (and shared moral values) ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0rz8UbPod_w
Beth Ann Dennis and some guest on the Craig Ferguson Late Night show.
I don't know the guest's name; mores the pity ...
Screenshots of the endings of two different won games, one by checkmate, one by resignation. The checkmate one had a King's Gambit opening and was won in 10 moves. The resignation was from the game describing the importance of targeting the King in Chess; not just focusing on winning points and material.
Last 2 screenshots of a game I won which, sadly, technical difficulties prevented me from properly recording. Perhaps in the future I can register on that site and recall the game by using the ID numbers that make up our name (isolate by date, etcetera). Potentially instructive; I was getting WAXED here, with my opponent seemingly having a "spare" of every piece worth having at this point in the game, and trying to force trade offs to simply wear me down and overwhelm me with power. But there's really only 1 piece worth considering in Chess ...
1. Shari
2. Heba Ali? (Sure looks like her ...)
3. R.Mika, in her Street Fighter 5 ending, if I'm not mistaken.
4. See above.
5. Final winning position against a higher ranked opponent.
Although this final position shows him essentially on Lockdown thanks to my bishop pin, he was, just a few moves prior, taking me to school.
This is another game I would like to recall if I ever formally register for ChessBase (the name of the blitz chess website I play most of these brown board games on and feature in this thread) ... It would REALLY well illustrate how much a single move, i.e. the discovered check created from my pawn moving from c6 to c5 (opening his king to my BISHOP's attack, note), can change a winning OR losing game to its opposite.
I heard of something called the Falkbeer Countergambit a little before trying to play the game you see represented here. Unfortunately, and this is still true as I text this right now, I only had one line to go on and the possibly false memory of the basic pattern of the center pawns on both sides in this opening.
Probably the only opening I've known much less about was the Ware Defense, which I didn't even know was a thing till I randomly decided to play a game using an end piece pawn to start just as a lark, and the chess website I was on told me there's an actual name for opening a game like that.
I managed to prevent excessive loss of material by using pins, as you see in Scan 3 above, where the Black Queen prevents White's pawn from taking the Black Knight (because that would leave the White King exposed to the Black Queen's attack; this "pins" the white pawn in place like a butterfly mounted on a stand).
I eventually won this game, but my opponent REALLY made me work for it ...
Originally posted by walshy
Are you excited for Christmas blue water rider?
This year? Not particularly so.
(Not dreading it this year, either.
Christmas is generally a pleasant time of year for me, with few exceptions.)
Christmases of yesteryear? Some of them I was excited for, definitely.
Christmases of the future? Potentially ...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XD6qeWSA6rA
Jordan Peterson discusses the Devouring Mother archetype.
