The 2,000,000th post game

Originally posted by riv6672

1 bottles of beer on the wall,
1 bottles of beer.
Take one Down, pass it around,
No more bottles of beer on the wall.

Originally posted by riv6672

99 bottles of beer on the wall,
99 bottles of beer.
Take one Down, pass it around,
98 bottles of beer on the wall.

I expected something cool to happen after the last bottle of the first set was gone. I feel cheated.

I'm not sure if I'd feel the same way if I saw stock replenish like that in real life, though ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f8-S4gYMrkA

Good interview with Josefine Ahlfors, bka "Fanny".

Longish game that yet didn't seem quite so long as the number of moves suggest. Daring plays on both sides; mine not only first but slightly more daring because I'm not content to die wondering on a chessboard, ever.

[WhiteElo "1782"]
[BlackElo "1713"]
[PlyCount "127"]

1. Nc3 {[%emt 0:0:5]} e6 {[%emt 0:0:1]} 2. d4 {[%emt 0:0:8]} d6 {[%emt 0:0:1]} 3. h4 {[%emt 0:0:13]} Be7 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 4. Bg5 {[%emt 0:0:6]} Bxg5 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 5. hxg5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Qxg5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 6. Nf3 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Qd8 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 7. e4 {[%emt 0:0:6]} Nd7 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 8. Bb5 {[%emt 0:0:3]} c6 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 9. Be2 {[%emt 0:0:18]} h6 {[%emt 0:0:1]} 10. Nh4 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Ngf6 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 11. e5 {[%emt 0:0:8]} dxe5 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 12. dxe5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Nd5 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 13. Ne4 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 0-0 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 14. Nd6 {[%emt 0:0:14]} Nxe5 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 15. Nxc8 {[%emt 0:0:9]} Rxc8 {[%emt 0:0:9]} 16. Qd4 {[%emt 0:0:39]} Qf6 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 17. 0-0-0 {[%emt 0:0:15]} b6 {[%emt 0:0:9]} 18. Kb1 {[%emt 0:0:18]} c5 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 19. Qd2 {[%emt 0:0:8]} c4 {[%emt 0:0:15]} 20. g4 {[%emt 0:0:33]} c3 {[%emt 0:0:8]} 21. g5 {[%emt 0:0:13]} cxd2 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 22. gxf6 {[%emt 0:0:5]} Nxf6 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 23. Rxd2 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Rc5 {[%emt 0:0:17]} 24. f4 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 25. f5 {[%emt 0:0:6]} e5 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 26. Rd6 {[%emt 0:0:20]} Nd4 {[%emt 0:0:9]} 27. Bd3 {[%emt 0:0:21]} Rfc8 {[%emt 0:0:10]} 28. Rg1 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Kf8 {[%emt 0:0:9]} 29. Ng6+ {[%emt 0:0:8]} fxg6 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 30. Rxf6+ {[%emt 0:0:22]} gxf6 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 31. fxg6 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Kg7 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 32. b4 {[%emt 0:0:29]} Rc3 {[%emt 0:0:8]} 33. Kb2 {[%emt 0:0:5]} Nxc2 {[%emt 0:0:23]} 34. Bf5 {[%emt 0:0:18]} Rd8 {[%emt 0:0:12]} 35. Bxc2 {[%emt 0:0:11]} Re3 {[%emt 0:0:12]} 36. Bf5 {[%emt 0:0:17]} Re2+ {[%emt 0:0:5]} 37. Kc1 {[%emt 0:0:6]} Rxa2 {[%emt 0:0:5]} 38. Kb1 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Rdd2 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 39. Be6 {[%emt 0:0:10]} Rab2+ {[%emt 0:0:3]} 40. Ka1 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Rxb4 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 41. Bf7 {[%emt 0:0:5]} Rd3 {[%emt 0:0:8]} 42. Ka2 {[%emt 0:0:14]} a5 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 43. Rc1 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Rd2+ {[%emt 0:0:11]} 44. Ka1 {[%emt 0:0:8]} Ra4+ {[%emt 0:0:7]} 45. Kb1 {[%emt 0:0:5]} Rdd4 {[%emt 0:0:13]} 46. Rc8 {[%emt 0:0:8]} Rdb4+ {[%emt 0:0:16]} 47. Kc2 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Rc4+ {[%emt 0:0:54]} 48. Bxc4 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Rxc4+ {[%emt 0:0:6]} 49. Rxc4 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Kxg6 {[%emt 0:0:1]} 50. Rc6 {[%emt 0:0:7]} b5 {[%emt 0:0:11]} 51. Rc5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} a4 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 52. Rxb5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} h5 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 53. Ra5 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Kg5 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 54. Rxa4 {[%emt 0:0:2]} f5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 55. Kd2 {[%emt 0:0:3]} e4 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 56. Ke3 {[%emt 0:0:4]} h4 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 57. Ra8 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Kg4 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 58. Rg8+ {[%emt 0:0:3]} Kh3 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 59. Kf4 {[%emt 0:0:8]} Kh2 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 60. Kxf5 {[%emt 0:0:2]} h3 {[%emt 0:0:1]} 61. Kxe4 {[%emt 0:0:5]} Kh1 {[%emt 0:0:2]} 62. Kf3 {[%emt 0:0:15]} h2 {[%emt 0:0:1]} 63. Ra8 {[%emt 0:0:13]} Kg1 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 64. Ra1# {[%emt 0:0:3]Mate} 1-0

Fanny Josefine has some of the most deceptive expansion quality imaginable.
Very pleasant and down to Earth as a guest, though.

Last scan is from game just logged. Had this last move not been checkmate, it might have ended in disaster for me.

Longish game largely hinged on 3 plays.

One:

Opponent decided to capture my queen, instead of the pawn guarding my king.
Note how close he would have come to checkmating me in the alternate case:

Two:

Failed attempt at capturing Black's knight on f6 was followed by a knight and rook sacrifice that threatened a pawn to Queen promotion.
Although that threat never materialized, it let me soon gain position enough to pressure my opponent into making a mistake that entirely lost his material advantage.

Three:

Mate threat, though not decisive, seems to rattle opponent enough to reverse my fortune. Note that in Scan 2 Rook to g8 would win in one move.

Originally posted by bluewaterrider
I expected something cool to happen after the last bottle of the first set was gone. I feel cheated.

I'm not sure if I'd feel the same way if I saw stock replenish like that in real life, though ...

Hey, Riv.

Got to say, with so many other profound changes happening these past 30 days or so, it's somewhat reassuring to see regular postings from you here.
Implies that reality still has some semblance of consistency.

I suspect for people with military experience, though, the current situation is, if not par-for-the-course, a call back to any deployments had in youth.
Yes? No? Maybe so?

Food rationing, drills, activity to ease stress, boredom, anxiety, tension, etcetera.
Curfew. Travel restrictions. And, presumably, restricted interaction with civilian friends and family. Might be interesting to get perspective from any over-30 who has been a member of the armed services for a time such as now ...

Alphabet Compilations

PERSONALITIES

Ahlfors, Josefine

Meng, Eric
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tajapmdy5v0
Pull-up with wife as weight.

SCIENCE

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zR3Igc3Rhfg
The Solar System, to scale.

WORLD NEWS

Alphabet Compilations

PERSONALITIES

Ahlfors, Josefine

Meng, Eric
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tajapmdy5v0
Pull-up with wife as weight.

POLITICS

https://nypost.com/2019/02/09/impartial-fact-checkers-are-revealing-their-partisanship-against-trump/

SCIENCE

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zR3Igc3Rhfg
The Solar System, to scale.

WORLD NEWS

https://m.economictimes.com/news/defence/canary-in-the-bioweapon-coal-mine-the-lessons-of-covid-19-pandemic/articleshow/74973922.cms

Faced problems the first 2 times.
Maybe 3rd'll be the charm ...

Alphabet Compilations

FILM RELEVANCE

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bYO413hHwgk
The Matrix, revisited.

PERSONALITIES

Ahlfors, Josefine
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8hyRCFlVFpc
Bring Sally Up (pull-up challenge)

Crowe, Russell
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=czfwdbaZazs
Song: Things Have Gotta Change

Gracie, the tiny Golden Lab
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ysKAVyXi0J4
Gracie greets her long lost owner, a soldier who had been deployed to Afghanistan, in 2005.

Kovalcuk, Bogdana
https://www.girlswithmuscle.com/images/?name=Bogdana%20Kovalcuk

Meng, Eric
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tajapmdy5v0
Pull-up with wife as weight.

Palihapitiya, Chamath
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/11/16761016/former-facebook-exec-ripping-apart-society
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PMotykw0SIk&t=21m21s&feature=youtu.be
On money, as an instrument of change.

POLITICS

https://nypost.com/2019/02/09/impartial-fact-checkers-are-revealing-their-partisanship-against-trump/

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/05/social-distancing-trump-family-165190

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/coronavirus-response-united-kingdom-former-supreme-court-justice-warns-of-police-state/

SCIENCE

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zR3Igc3Rhfg
The Solar System, to scale.

https://psychcentral.com/blog/7-good-reasons-to-cry-the-healing-property-of-tears/

TELEVISION

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=47MazYDnmaU
Game of Thrones. Tywin and Jaime talk over Venison.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8clKkSZpqCE
Game of Thrones. Tywin and Jaime discuss a deal for Tyrion.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=78bIQ4Hh8Bo
Game of Thrones. Jaime meets Prince Doran of Dorne.

WORLD MYTH
https://theoutline.com/post/2382/the-sadness-of-saturn?zd=1&zi=fblppwjh

WORLD NEWS

https://m.economictimes.com/news/defence/canary-in-the-bioweapon-coal-mine-the-lessons-of-covid-19-pandemic/articleshow/74973922.cms

Originally posted by bluewaterrider
Hey, Riv.

Got to say, with so many other profound changes happening these past 30 days or so, it's somewhat reassuring to see regular postings from you here.
Implies that reality still has some semblance of consistency.

I suspect for people with military experience, though, the current situation is, if not par-for-the-course, a call back to any deployments had in youth.
Yes? No? Maybe so?

Food rationing, drills, activity to ease stress, boredom, anxiety, tension, etcetera.
Curfew. Travel restrictions. And, presumably, restricted interaction with civilian friends and family. Might be interesting to get perspective from any over-30 who has been a member of the armed services for a time such as now ...

But yeah, the rationing, curfews, precautions...these are all things I’ve dealt w. on various deployments.
My second time in Iraq for example, I arrived weighing 205lbs and left 8 months later at 162lbs owing to how screwed up our supply lines were.
Still, it’s odd seeing it happen here at home...

In Roulette, The Martingale System is probably a lot lamer than you think.

I have a friend who’s an English professor. He’s brilliant—probably one of the only geniuses I’m acquainted with.

And he’s absolutely convinced that the Martingale System works great as a roulette strategy. Of course, he’s wrong, and I’ll explain why shortly.

Here’s how the Martingale System works:

You place an even money bet at the roulette table. Let’s use $10 as a starting point. If you win, you’re up $10.

But if you lose, you place another bet, this time for twice the amount–$20.

If you win, you’ve won back the $10 you lost on the first spin. And you have a $10 profit.

But if you lose, you double your bet again, this time to $40.

If you win, you get back the $30 you lost on the first two bets, and you have a $10 profit.

This progression continues until you’re up by one unit, then you start over.

This seems foolproof at first glance, but here are 2 things most people don’t take into consideration:

You don’t have an unlimited bankroll.
The casino has betting limits.

Here’s why those 2 things matter:

Eventually, you’ll need to place a bet so large that you either won’t have enough money to cover it, or it will be higher than the betting limits at the table.

Doubling your bet over and over again adds up far faster than you think.

Let’s assume you start with $1000. This seems like plenty of money to play with if you’re making $10 bets at the roulette table, right? It’s 100 units, so it covers 100 bets if you’re flat betting.

Here’s how fast the progression eats away at your bankroll, though:

You lose your first bet of $10, so you now have $990.
You lose your 2nd bet of $20, so you now have $970.
You lose your 3rd bet of $40, so you now have $930.
You lose your 4th bet of $80, so you now have $850.
You lose your 5th bet of $160, so you now have $690.
You lose your 6th bet of $320, so you now have $370.
Your 7th bet is supposed to be $640, but you don’t have enough money to cover the bet. This ends your attempt to use the Martingale System.
Yes, it’s unlikely to lose an even-money bet 6 times in a row. But most people underestimate how unlikely it is. It’s going to happen occasionally, and if you’ve spent any time in a casino watching the game, you’ll realize it happens more often than you think.

Here’s the other problem with this system. Even when it works, your net winnings are small. Your eventual big loss is going to eat up all those small wins and then some.

The Martingale can be fun in the short term, but over the long run, it has no effect on the casino’s edge. They’re still going to win all your money if you play long enough.