I managed to recreate the game described on the following page:
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=376326&pagenumber=50448
I managed to recreate the game described on the following page:
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=376326&pagenumber=50448
I remember years ago in some class the teacher asked, "How often do major countries like the United States, get into fights with other countries?"
I was a good enough student and knew the teacher well enough to joke around every so often without it being anything of major import.
I responded "Very infrequently, almost never", or some such, thinking I was saying the opposite of what was true, and obviously so. Much to my surprise, the teacher responded "Correct." I was thrown off, I hadn't read the text where it DID actually say conflicts were rare between the U.S. and others.
But ...
That was years ago.
I imagine the textbooks for the class I was in would read quite differently now ...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EfJ9W7oZRO4
Melissa Benoist, admitting to being a victim of domestic abuse.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4gGIu9tj7IA
Rather amazing Piers Morgan interview of Trump, circa 2011.
Among other things, Trump admits:
-- He's a republican.
-- Bill Clinton is a friend of his, and member of his golf club.
(1 min to 1 min 20 mark)
-- He thinks Obama is a nice man, if over his head with problems, and was amazed by and respected the way he ran a grass roots campaign to get elected.
(1 min 20 to 2 min 5 sec mark)
-- He's tempted to run for President, thinks that America needs someone like him to make America respected in military and economic affairs again, and thinks he's got a good chance of being elected, despite knowing, as a man of accomplishment, that he'd have a GREAT number of enemies
(2 min 42 mark to 6:20 or so)
-- Trump stays away from drugs, alcohol, and other chemical vices, largely because of his late older brother, Fred, who died an alcoholic (12:42 -->😉
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqJvqsaI9Fo&t=632s
4:11 -- 6:10
Andrew Klavan paraphrasing Plato to make a remarkable point about how Democracies can morph into Totalitarian States, and how America's founding, largely based on having a religious populace, mitigated this from happening to the present day.
[WhiteElo "1777"]
[BlackElo "1860"]
[PlyCount "54"]
1. e4 {[%emt 0:0:1]} e5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 2. Nf3 {[%emt 0:0:3]} f5 {[%emt 0:0:1]} 3. exf5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Bc5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 4. Nxe5 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Bxf2+ {[%emt 0:0:2]} 5. Kxf2 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Qh4+ {[%emt 0:0:2]} 6. g3 {[%emt 0:0:21]} Qd4+ {[%emt 0:0:3]} 7. Kg2 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Qxe5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 8. Qe2 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Qxe2+ {[%emt 0:0:2]} 9. Bxe2 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 10. d3 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 0-0 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 11. Nc3 {[%emt 0:0:3]} b6 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 12. Bg5 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Bb7+ {[%emt 0:0:2]} 13. Bf3 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Bxf3+ {[%emt 0:0:3]} 14. Kxf3 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:0:9]} 15. Ne4 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Ne5+ {[%emt 0:0:3]} 16. Kg2 {[%emt 0:0:6]} Nd5 {[%emt 0:0:11]} 17. Rhe1 {[%emt 0:0:10]} Rxf5 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 18. Bd2 {[%emt 0:0:12]} Ne7 {[%emt 0:0:16]} 19. Rf1 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Rh5 {[%emt 0:0:14]} 20. Rf4 {[%emt 0:0:11]} g5 {[%emt 0:0:19]} 21. Rf6 {[%emt 0:0:6]} Ng4 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 22. Rff1 {[%emt 0:0:15]} Rxh2+ {[%emt 0:0:3]} 23. Kf3 {[%emt 0:0:2]} h5 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 24. Nxg5 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Rxd2 {[%emt 0:0:20]} 25. Ke4 {[%emt 0:0:16]} Rxc2 {[%emt 0:0:9]} 26. b3 {[%emt 0:0:3]} d5+ {[%emt 0:0:13]} 27. Kd4 {[%emt 0:0:11]} c5# {[%emt 0:0:5]Mate} 0-1
Viva Anna Marie!
Lots of skill shown by a lower-ranked here ...
[WhiteElo "1638"]
[BlackElo "1852"]
[PlyCount "54"]
1. d4 {[%emt 0:0:1]} e5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 2. dxe5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} f6 {[%emt 0:0:1]} 3. exf6 {[%emt 0:0:1]} Nxf6 {[%emt 0:0:1]} 4. Nf3 {[%emt 0:0:1]} Bc5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 5. e3 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Ne4 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 6. a3 {[%emt 0:0:8]} d5 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 7. b4 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Be7 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 8. Bb2 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 0-0 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 9. Bd3 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Nxf2 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 10. Kxf2 {[%emt 0:0:5]} Bh4+ {[%emt 0:0:1]} 11. Kg1 {[%emt 0:0:15]} Rxf3 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 12. Qxf3 {[%emt 0:0:12]} c6 {[%emt 0:0:21]} 13. e4 {[%emt 0:0:47]} Be6 {[%emt 0:0:17]} 14. Nc3 {[%emt 0:0:25]} Qb6+ {[%emt 0:0:4]} 15. Kf1 {[%emt 0:0:8]} Bg4 {[%emt 0:0:16]} 16. Qf4 {[%emt 0:0:39]} Nd7 {[%emt 0:0:18]} 17. Na4 {[%emt 0:1:56]} Qd8 {[%emt 0:1:6]} 18. Qxg4 {[%emt 0:0:18]} Qf8+ {[%emt 0:0:17]} 19. Qf5 {[%emt 0:0:14]} Qe7 {[%emt 0:0:33]} 20. Ke2 {[%emt 0:1:23]} Rf8 {[%emt 0:0:13]} 21. Qg4 {[%emt 0:0:19]} Rf2+ {[%emt 0:0:5]} 22. Kd1 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Bg5 {[%emt 0:0:25]} 23. Bc1 {[%emt 0:0:13]} Bxc1 {[%emt 0:0:40]} 24. Kxc1 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Ne5 {[%emt 0:0:33]} 25. Qg3 {[%emt 0:0:28]} Nxd3+ {[%emt 0:0:8]} 26. cxd3 {[%emt 0:0:13]} Qf6 {[%emt 0:0:14]} 27. Rb1 {[%emt 0:1:18]} Qh6+ {[%emt 0:0:34]. Time} 0-1
So, in this game against Anna Marie, I open with the Englund-Soller Gambit, for a faster pawn clearing and development opening, I do not know ...
She bars my wonted sacrificial play with her king pawn, though ...
... and more or less forces the timing of my castling by threatening my king's knight pawn with her bishop:
I decide to go the Pyrrhic route, not caring what it takes to get that king outta there so long as he's got. My knight ends Marie's chances of castling with its sacrifice:
... and my bishop forces her King to HIS bishop home square ...
(If you're wondering why his knight can't simply capture my checking bishop, it's because moving her knight to capture it would leave Marie's king exposed to my castled rook. The rules of Chess don't allow such things, ever. So that knight of hers, WHILE her King is behind it, is pinned.)
Knights on the opposing side are generally something I don't tolerate;
I want myself as the sole proprietor of chaos. If it costs a rook to help achieve that dream, so be it:
Queen to f2, empowered by my dark-square bishop, will checkmate Marie.
IF, that is, I can get Marie's Queen off that file ...
... but she knows that.
So she won't take the bait of "free" pieces like my light-squared bishop ...
At least, not until such pieces really ARE free for the taking
(one move checkmate retaliation is defused as a threat once Marie's knight forces my queen to move to a different spot).
Despite Marie now having a real material advantage over me, due to all those previous sacrifices, the position I've forced her King into allows me to control the action; she'd have to lose a lot of that advantage to contest me:
The number of pawns is exactly the same, and both of us have our king and queen. Marie, however, has TWO rooks to my one AND a knight garrisoned in a good spot. An advantage nearly equal to being a queen up.
Not bad. Odds enough to make a sensible player resign; indeed, many consider being at a disadvantage of even 3 points cause for alarm. But I routinely win under such circumstances, and now is no exception as Marie falters with the following:
My final move, Q to h6, is decisive. There is only 1 square the king can go to, whereupon my queen, aided by my rook, parks deliberately in front of him and claims the win. The only thing that can even delay this would be the vain sacrifice of Marie's queen. Marie allows neither, nor resigns, allowing the clock to wind down the last few seconds, even as I would.
Admirable fighter.
I'll have to watch out for her in the future.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NTvQCfvQbVw
Donald Trump 2016 Election Night, as called by Megyn Kelly and Fox News
A very good fan writer comments on the last Arya Stark/Tywin Lannister clip:
It's a very good scene that has a lot going on. Tywin has figured out (probably pretty fast) that Arya is a highborn posing as a commoner, but he clearly cannot know who exactly she is, otherwise he'd immediately secure her in custody. He has multiple reasons for correcting her disguise:
Tywin doesn't want anyone else finding out Arya's secret, since only him knowing about it keeps him in a power position - as such it is a genuine advice on how to maintain her cover.
At the same time it is a power play move. Since Arya is trying to hide an important secret from Tywin, she considers herself in an empowered position to him. That could be ok for a while, but he doesn't want her to get too comfortable thinking she's outsmarted him - he's reminding her that he's the one in power.
But it also works as relationship trust building - Tywin is showing that he has also had a secret (= knowing Arya's secret) from her, and by revealing it he shows he's now placing more trust to her. Even further, he shows that even though she'd had a secret from him he has chosen to both ignore her mistrust and keep her secret safe from others.
The move also places Arya in subtle social debt. Tywin has now revealed a secret to her, while at the same time making sure she no longer has a chance to reveal it herself. This makes her be in social debt to him, and now her only social reciprocity option is to reveal some further secret, like who she actually is.
But all that trust building also works as social "entrapment". Tywin is probably also be aiming at making Arya more at ease, so she might accidentally slip her cover and reveal a significant clue to her true identity.
This is all made more powerful by Tywin's way of revealing the secret by not directly stating that there was any secret between them. He doesn't say "Girl, I know you're trying to hide you're a highborn but you can't fool me", but instead he plays it like they've both all the time been conspiring together. This, in the surface level, places them in the same company, sharing a secret, which makes it psychologically more hard for Arya to keep a further secret (her identity) from him - especially since, in fact, they are now really sharing the secret. Of course, both of them do clearly understand what happened, but usually humans cannot completely disconnect the surface level - the trick still works, whether you know it's a just a game. He also does the same in-grouping by quite genuinely placing them both in the same group or "clever people" - which clearly works, too, as is revealed by Arya's warm smile at the end of the scene. And he doesn't even have to resort to lying to do it.
But in midst of all this, it also seems he genuinely likes her company. Tywin clearly appreciates skills in intelligence and cunning, and Arya has displayed both. It also seems he appreciates the way she states her opinions somewhat frankly, it's the sort of feedback which a man in his position doesn't get often.
... and having all of this in a one simple, small scene is why I really love the show! 🙂
Game against a cordial random participant:
[WhiteElo "1719"]
[BlackElo "1775"]
[PlyCount "93"]
1. e4 {[%emt 0:0:2]} c6 {[%emt 0:0:1]} 2. e5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} d5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 3. exd6 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Qxd6 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 4. Nc3 {[%emt 0:0:6]} e6 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 5. Nf3 {[%emt 0:0:9]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 6. d4 {[%emt 0:0:8]} Nd5 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 7. Ne4 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Qd8 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 8. Bg5 {[%emt 0:0:6]} Be7 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 9. Bxe7 {[%emt 0:0:13]} Qxe7 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 10. c4 {[%emt 0:0:8]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 11. Neg5 {[%emt 0:0:24]} 0-0 {[%emt 0:0:18]} 12. c5 {[%emt 0:0:11]} b6 {[%emt 0:0:8]} 13. b4 {[%emt 0:0:10]} bxc5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 14. bxc5 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Ba6 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 15. Bxa6 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Nxa6 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 16. Rb1 {[%emt 0:0:9]} Nc7 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 17. Ne5 {[%emt 0:0:5]} Ncd5 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 18. Nxc6 {[%emt 0:0:8]} Qc7 {[%emt 0:0:8]} 19. Ne5 {[%emt 0:0:12]} Rab8 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 20. Rxb8 {[%emt 0:0:32]} Qxb8 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 21. a3 {[%emt 0:0:34]} Qb2 {[%emt 0:0:40]} 22. 0-0 {[%emt 0:0:24]} Qxa3 {[%emt 0:0:12]} 23. c6 {[%emt 0:0:41]} Rc8 {[%emt 0:0:23]} 24. Ngxf7 {[%emt 0:0:11]} Nf4 {[%emt 0:0:32]} 25. Qb1 {[%emt 0:0:29]} Ne2+ {[%emt 0:0:10]} 26. Kh1 {[%emt 0:0:8]} Ne4 {[%emt 0:0:15]} 27. Qxe4 {[%emt 0:0:14]} Nc3 {[%emt 0:0:13]} 28. Qd3 {[%emt 0:0:9]} Qb2 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 29. Ng5 {[%emt 0:0:12]} g6 {[%emt 0:0:20]} 30. Nxe6 {[%emt 0:0:10]} Nd5 {[%emt 0:0:12]} 31. Qa6 {[%emt 0:0:14]} Re8 {[%emt 0:0:21]} 32. c7 {[%emt 0:0:14]} Nxc7 {[%emt 0:0:17]} 33. Nxc7 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Re7 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 34. Qc4+ {[%emt 0:0:10]} Kf8 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 35. Qc5 {[%emt 0:0:10]} Qe2 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 36. Nd7+ {[%emt 0:0:11]} Kg8 {[%emt 0:0:8]} 37. Qd5+ {[%emt 0:0:12]} Rf7 {[%emt 0:0:14]} 38. Rg1 {[%emt 0:0:14]} a5 {[%emt 0:0:10]} 39. Nf6+ {[%emt 0:0:7]} Kg7 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 40. Nce8+ {[%emt 0:0:11]} Kf8 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 41. Qxa5 {[%emt 0:0:17]} Qxf2 {[%emt 0:0:15]} 42. Qc5+ {[%emt 0:0:4]} Re7 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 43. Ng4 {[%emt 0:0:44]} Qf4 {[%emt 0:0:30]} 44. h3 {[%emt 0:0:19]} h5 {[%emt 0:0:9]} 45. Ne5 {[%emt 0:0:10]} Qf2 {[%emt 0:0:11]} 46. Nxg6+ {[%emt 0:0:3]} Kxe8 {[%emt 0:0:8]} 47. Qxe7# {[%emt 0:0:2]Mate} 1-0
My game playing today has been crap, in general.
Feels like I'm performing at Monday morning levels or worse.
If a time comes when I'm able to look back on this page feeling sharp, and with my optimum sense of well-being, and well-rested, I suspect I'll regard this time as ...
...
Ah, skip it.
This game at least, same as the one logged in my previous post, was a relatively fun challenge. Opening I want to showcase because I do not now recall any instance where I've shown capturing en passant:
... and now I have.
No, you didn't miss any major moves. My pawn advanced 2 spaces on its first turn, as all pawns can.
Then it advanced 1 more space on its next turn.
Then, when my opponent moved a pawn 2 spaces forward for THAT pawn's 1st move, moving it right alongside mine, I captured it in response, as if it had only advanced 1 space, as if it were "actually" diagonally in front of me.
I effectively CAPTURED my opponent's pawn in its PASSING the normal capture square: captured it en passant.
