Topic: Lets play a game of Chess - page 54. (Read 160681 times)

R on d 1 gets taken by rook on a1,

but he's not going to play that,

As to Trolls, you've already driven one person away (which was documented previously) and have made unsavory remarks about myself, so yeh, if you the Troll would like to leave, by all means do so.

Actually after
27.Qf1 Rd1 we cannot play 28.Rxd1 because we have a knight on c1 which is in the way.

Loses the queen for nothing after 27... Rd1.

You do realise that Black makes some moves in the meantime, right?

Can we vote to ban obvious trolls from casting future votes?

No offense but I don't think you're taking the time to look at the position, Bg5 is met by f4. Also we might as well resign now if we gonna play the rest of the game a rook down.

R on d 1 gets taken by rook on a1, but he's not going to play that, his next likely move is his knight on b.

As to Trolls, you've already driven one person away (which was documented previously) and have made unsavory remarks about myself, so yeh, if you the Troll would like to leave, by all means do so.

I'll leave the current puzzle for others to solve. Definitely a good sequence to know, I've used it numerous times in blitz 

Uh - huh... what are your other two moves after that?

27. Queen to f1 please, otherwise he'll move Bg5

1 Vote Qf1 (Timelord2067, )
1 Vote Bxd2 (Foxpup)

28. c4xb5
29. Ne2

Loses the queen for nothing after 27... Rd1.

You do realise that Black makes some moves in the meantime, right?

Can we vote to ban obvious trolls from casting future votes?

27. Queen to f1 please,

An alternate play would be

27. Qg4
28. Be5
29. Qg7 Check Mate...

Uh - huh... what are your other two moves after that?

27. Queen to f1 please, otherwise he'll move Bg5

1 Vote Qf1 (Timelord2067, )
1 Vote Bxd2 (Foxpup)

28. c4xb5
29. Ne2

27. Bxd2, obviously.

Hi
Can I join the game? I'm a beginner in chess but "the more the merrier"
If so, I vote dxc4.

Nice job finding the solution. The reason why this problem can be difficult even for good players is that it requires a move that is common only in the opening or middle game.

The studies referenced below are interesting because just like remembering the ability to castle very late in an endgame, scrambled positions are much harder to memorize than normal chess positions.

http://theinvisiblegorilla.com/blog/2012/02/15/how-experts-recall-chess-positions/

"In de Groot’s most famous demonstration, he showed several players images of chess positions for a few seconds and asked the players to reconstruct the positions from memory.  The experts made relatively few mistakes even though they had seen the position only briefly.  Years later, Chase and Simon replicated de Groot’s finding with another expert (a master-level player) as well as an amateur and a novice.  They also added a critical control: The players viewed both real chess positions and scrambled chess positions (that included pieces in implausible and even impossible locations). The expert excelled with the real positions, but performed no better than the amateur and novice for the scrambled positions (later studies showed that experts can perform slightly better than novices for random positions too if given enough time; Gobet & Simon, 1996).  The expert advantage apparently comes from familiarity with real chess positions, something that allows more efficient encoding or retrieval of the positions."

If it doesn't give away your identity,  what's your interest in Crypto?  Is it *just* BitCoin as the original, or do you have other's you're interested in?  I indirectly came to BitCoin/Crypto via PGP Public Key encryption.

(and if you're after a tie breaker, I'll change my vote to dxc4)

Regards,

No comment. Answering that question combined with some previous clues would narrow down my identity too much right now.

No comment. Answering that question combined with some previous clues would narrow down my identity too much right now.