Topic: Lets play a game of Chess - page 55. (Read 160665 times)

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

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."

OP. Have you played recently a rapid tournament or the Millionaire Chess tournament?

pawn captures pawn is my vote

4 votes Qg4 (XMRpromotions, languagehasmeaning, Foxpup, jjacob)
4 votes dxc4 (gotmilk, swogerino, newb4now, lucylovescrypto)
2 Abstain (actmy name, bool berry)
1 vote Bf1 (dre1982)
1 vote Qf1 (Timelord2067)

You're forgetting that once the e4 pawn is taken and the bishop on g2 comes to the rescue, his Queen on a1 can come straight down , take our bishop and has a direct line to our King.  If our Queen is off wandering the countryside, she can't intervene;  Let him take our pawn first, then we take his and we haven't lost ground;   By us taking first, his next move advances on our position.

go shit yourself, this is a social game.

Qf1 loses the pawn to cxd3.
It'll also lose the e4 pawn in due time.

dxc4

We might need a graph and second round of voting for this move please.

Good thing we moved the pawn to ... oh hang on, no we didn't...

Queen to f1 please

4 votes Qg4 (XMRpromotions, languagehasmeaning, Foxpup, jjacob)
2 votes dxc4 (gotmilk, swogerino)
2 Abstain (actmy name, bool berry)
1 vote Bf1 (dre1982)
1 vote Qf1

This will cause us to have three pieces, Queen, Knight and Rook all covering the pawn on d3.

I will say that although we cannot SAVE our center, we can at least break up their pawn structure for some compensation and hope to get counterplay on the queenside

4 votes Qg4 (XMRpromotions, languagehasmeaning, Foxpup, jjacob)
1 vote Bf1 (dre1982)
2 votes dxc4 (gotmilk, swogerino)  actmyname also seems to prefer it but said he was abstaining from voting this move

I will abstain from voting too. We have no way to save our center from destruction.

I choose dxc4

4 votes Qg4 (XMRpromotions, languagehasmeaning, Foxpup, jjacob)
1 vote Bf1 (dre1982)
1 vote dxc4 (gotmilk)  actmyname also seems to prefer it but said he was abstaining from voting this move

Agree with c4.

I am choosing to abstain from this voting process, but I would like to highlight a certain move. dxc4. After an exchange you can take with the bishop. Should they play Bg5, you have the option of playing f4. Qe2 is what we want to aim for after taking with the bishop. Black is still winning, but you manage to break up his structure.

Qg4 for me as well.
Shift the action to the other side of the board.

4 votes Qg4 (XMRpromotions, languagehasmeaning, Foxpup, jjacob)
1 vote Bf1 (dre1982)

26. Qg4 is our best chance to stay in the game.

3 votes Qg4 (XMRpromotions, languagehasmeaning, Foxpup)
1 vote Bf1 (dre1982)

Bf1 will lose our e4 pawn

Qg4 also loses a pawn after Kh7

Unfortunately I cannot suggest anything better.

26. Qg4 in the game

for the puzzle O-O, Kh6, Rf6#