The 2,000,000th post game

Visual review of the game described in the previous post:

Ware Opening versus Modern Defense, but MD is not really designed for someone like myself ignoring guidelines and just marching their pawn all the way down edge. It's even less equipped to stop someone from taking out the "fianchettoed*" bishop, I think (*this long Italian "f" word is chess-speak for saying the bishop sits on one of the board's longest 2 diagonals) ...

I suspect my opponent either got distracted here, thought he had a Fool's-style mate, or thought he'd be able to keep me occupied from taking his knight long enough to lower the boom.

Definitely the most questionable series of moves in this game.

Opponent probably expected me to interpose something, not retreat.

Whether my opponent realized it or not, this was a setup for a bishop x-ray from him. IF I were so unwise as to take the pawn occupying d4, which I wasn't.

Review gives insight:

1. Opponent allows knight to attack and be taken to save his knight.
2. Opponent gives up at the end because he is guaranteed to lose rook AND Queen, in forced exchange for my queen, not just get caught for awhile in a perpetual check-style set up.
He at that point would have the unenviable task of trying to win against a rook 2 bishops and 2 knights while he himself only had a knight and a rook.

Originally had 6 images here; one failed to upload.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mjaUlpkD8yI

moveing by sound can win the game if your hearing is percise.

So, you play poker... whether you are good or bad, win or lose, I am sure you do not know all of the following fun facts. These facts are pretty interesting to know for any type of player.
Playing cards were invented in China.

A fifth suit was added in 1937 but never caught on because people had to buy all new decks
At least 65,000,000 Americans regularly play poker

Dead mans hand is Aces and Eights

Getting dealt 10,2 is referred to as Doyle Brunson because he won back to back World Series with the hand.

In the 1800s, 2,000 to 2,500 riverboat gamblers played poker on American Waterways. By contemporary accounts, no more than four of these poker players were honest all the time. A straight beat a flush at this time.

Las Vegas Casinos are not legally obligated to pay off their gambling debts

Due to French influence, Spades represent Royalty, Diamonds represent Merchants, Clubs represent the peasants, and hearts represent the clergy.

Edmond Hoyle lived to be 97, but died 150 years before Poker was invented.

Playing cards were introduced in Europe in the 1300s

When Columbus landed in 1492 in North America, his men plucked wide leaves from trees, drew pictures on them and played cards.

Historians generally agree that Bill Hickock was a lousy poker player.

Groucho Marx got his name from carrying his poker money in a "grouch bag"

Former President Richard Nixon won $6,000 playing poker in his first two months in the U.S. Navy during WWll. That is roughly equal to $85,990.33 today. He used that money as well as more poker winnings to finance his run for the U.S. Congress in 1946, which he won.

The earliest known game of texas holdem was played in Robstown, Texas, in the early 1900s. The game was brought to Las Vegas by a group of Texan gamblers and card players, including Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson, Crandell Addington, and Amarillo Slim.