Author: A. Steen
Date: 08:02:26 12/30/05
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On December 30, 2005 at 10:22:22, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >On December 30, 2005 at 10:07:32, A. Steen wrote: > >>On December 30, 2005 at 09:54:15, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >> >>>The prophetic Chris Whittington. I must say that I am impressed by the >>>coincidences(?)... >>> >>>Thanks again for reminding me of that New Paradigm charter by Chris W. >> >>If you are at all impressed by such ambiguously-phrased prophesies, then you >>must find the sage Nostradamus utterly compelling. :-) >> >>The author of that piece showed little appreciation of the history of warfare, >>IMO. Strategy, even that part of it dealing with "coincidences", was worked out >>by Assyrian generals at Sennacherib long before Erwin was even a glimmer or >>glistening in the loins of his forefathers. >> >>To keep this message on-charter, look at: >>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?475342 >>[d] r7/1pk5/2pN4/4P3/5P2/p7/2N3KP/8 w - - 0 45 >>where 45. h3 is apparently described as "suicide". >> >>While I confess it is a somewhat piquant move, do you agree it is "suicide"? >> >>A move is called "suicide" if there is at least one clearly better move that is >>either reasonably liable to improve the outcome (loss to draw or win, or draw to >>win) or very significantly delay a bad outcome. >> >>I don't see that h3 qualifies on either count. >> >>45. f5 a2 is just as "busted". > > >Hi again :-) > >If you meant "prophecies", I did. Note I was merely emulating W, brilliancies and boo-boo's, as per the archives. > then I am not impressed by them. I would've somehow >think that you'd be able to detect my sophisticated irony. And you would have been right. > Which you didn't. Incorrect. Re-read: "If you are at all impressed by such ambiguously-phrased prophesies, then you must find the sage Nostradamus utterly compelling. :-)" It starts with "If". >As for the game you quoted, I read all your comments, and agree fully with them. That is worrying. You too might be a player as weak as I am. >I also tried to contribute a little to the comments in >http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?475442 where I attempted to >explain why Ikarus had succumbed to the imbalanced play by Rybka. Yes, I read that. Alas, in this infested place one is met by replies which include some lengthy paste of irrelevant engine output, when it is clear that the engine does not comprehend at all what is going on on the board. Symptomatic of the general decline, atmospheric plumbic levels in urban conglomerations and the like. >Thanks for coming back. Some of the emails I received seemed to imply that a patzer (like myself) was a welcome relief in a place where there are so many world-class, top chessic experts jostling to tell us their insights, or maybe just whatever wrong things their engines said (who knows which?). >I think that most people here appreciate your presence. Perhaps. In a mutual-admiration society such as operates among so many here, those among us who view the pole-ascents and vine-swings as being at best an amusing foible do not endear ourselves to a pack of super-GMs that the world has not yet had the whitty to recognize. Even though I was abused, trolled and attacked about 30 times in CCC by about a dozen malefactors, most of whose chessic output this humble patzer was either able to easily confound and refute, or would have had they written anything chessic, I am informed it was apparently I who was "banned", while they were not. Such an amusing but conclusive demonstration of internal weakness! ;-) I have stopped playing Fruit now, and am close enough to the stated target against it not to bother any more. Rybka is quite another thing altogether... a genius. Now I have this pawn double-move thing pretty much nailed down, I will try to improve my humble score against it, but I may be on a long hard hiding to nothing. Rybka _is_ something else entirely, and you might say that those who can't see this demonstrate either envy or patzerdom or .... something else. >Djordje Best, A.S.
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