Chess
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@frank said in World Chess Championship 2018:
Woody Harrelson, the good, old raw food vegan yoga practicing Southern boy, whose estranged father was a hit-man.
I'm betting that's not the first 'joke' Woody's had that just goes CLAAANG!!!!
disclaimer: I do the same thing from time to time
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@frank said in World Chess Championship 2018:
I played in the English School Championship when I was 14. I remember playing a 9 year old (when most people were 17-18 and being completely psyched out that he must a child prodigy (he was). He played chess while holing a teddy bear he was attached to. He beat me, but I played bad chess. The teddy bear freaked me out.
This may be the best post of the year! It really is brilliant.
It rivals one of @mariner4life posts on something which I forget now. But I do remember laughing loudly.
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@frank said in World Chess Championship 2018:
So I googled the teddy bear guy. Turns out he is now indeed a chess wizard.
Adam Hunt. Now has a rating of "International Master" FIDE rating 2401.
He was born in 1980, so was 9 at the time I played him.His gingerness is quite striking.
Good work Frank, this story is the Chess equivalent of being fended/trampled/stepped/smashed by ( insert famous Rugby player name here ) at college
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I made the semi finals of a local chess comp one time - I don't know how, still to this day I really don't know the tactics of chess. I came up against private schoolboys in the early rounds and was beaten by a little Maori kid two years younger than me who went to a school in my era that was crazy good at chess.
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@nepia said in World Chess Championship 2018:
I made the semi finals of a local chess comp one time - I don't know how, still to this day I really don't know the tactics of chess. I came up against private schoolboys in the early rounds and was beaten by a little Maori kid two years younger than me who went to a school in my era that was crazy good at chess.
Was there no spacies at the FnC shop in the Bay ?
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@mn5 said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@nepia said in World Chess Championship 2018:
I made the semi finals of a local chess comp one time - I don't know how, still to this day I really don't know the tactics of chess. I came up against private schoolboys in the early rounds and was beaten by a little Maori kid two years younger than me who went to a school in my era that was crazy good at chess.
Was there no spacies at the FnC shop in the Bay ?
You don't risk going to the FnC in our hood.
Nah, one of the primary schools in the hood just focused on chess as their before and after school activity so they played it all the time and kicked butt.
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@nepia said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@mn5 said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@nepia said in World Chess Championship 2018:
I made the semi finals of a local chess comp one time - I don't know how, still to this day I really don't know the tactics of chess. I came up against private schoolboys in the early rounds and was beaten by a little Maori kid two years younger than me who went to a school in my era that was crazy good at chess.
Was there no spacies at the FnC shop in the Bay ?
You don't risk going to the FnC in our hood.
Nah, one of the primary schools in the hood just focused on chess as their before and after school activity so they played it all the time and kicked butt.
True. You'd go in and your car would be on blocks before they'd even battered your fish
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Coincidentally, I'm just re-reading "Bobby Fischer goes to war".
The book reckons that when Spassky became world champion he was living in a one room apartment with his wife, his mother, his sister and his brother - that was 14 sq metres. Once he was world champion he was eligible for an upgrade to a two bedroom 28 sq metre "palace"!
Solution to the housing crisis right there!
Vote Communist Party!
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@chris-b said in World Chess Championship 2018:
Coincidentally, I'm just re-reading "Bobby Fischer goes to war".
The book reckons that when Spassky became world champion he was living in a one room apartment with his wife, his mother, his sister and his brother - that was 14 sq metres. Once he was world champion he was eligible for an upgrade to a two bedroom 28 sq metre "palace"!
Solution to the housing crisis right there!
Vote Communist Party!
Chris - if you can, see if you can get a copy of the book Bobby Fischer vs the rest of the world.
it came out in 1974 and was written by a journalist Brad Darrach. Darrach was a writer for Life magazine and had some access to Fischer's inner circle during 1972 when Fischer took the title from Spassky.
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That John Bartholomew dude is great. Am enjoying the 30 minute summaries of each game.
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@hooroo said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@frank said in World Chess Championship 2018:
I played in the English School Championship when I was 14. I remember playing a 9 year old (when most people were 17-18 and being completely psyched out that he must a child prodigy (he was). He played chess while holing a teddy bear he was attached to. He beat me, but I played bad chess. The teddy bear freaked me out.
This may be the best post of the year! It really is brilliant.
It rivals one of @mariner4life posts on something which I forget now. But I do remember laughing loudly.
Something to do with a dildo in M4L's mouth, perhaps?
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@billy-tell said in World Chess Championship 2018:
That John Bartholomew dude is great. Am enjoying the 30 minute summaries of each game.
he's good isn't he, really accessible for all levels
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@smudge said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@hooroo said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@frank said in World Chess Championship 2018:
I played in the English School Championship when I was 14. I remember playing a 9 year old (when most people were 17-18 and being completely psyched out that he must a child prodigy (he was). He played chess while holing a teddy bear he was attached to. He beat me, but I played bad chess. The teddy bear freaked me out.
This may be the best post of the year! It really is brilliant.
It rivals one of @mariner4life posts on something which I forget now. But I do remember laughing loudly.
Something to do with a dildo in M4L's mouth, perhaps?
Or indeed @Hooroo s old fella ?
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Very unusual for Black to have such a large (theoretical) advantage in these events - the usual plan is to aim to win as White and draw as Black (although at top level, most games are drawn).
I suspect Carlsen will retain but with relatively short matches (12 games compared to 24 in Fischer and Kasparov's era), his edge is smaller than it would be in longer matches.
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@damo said in World Chess Championship 2018:
10 games; 10 draws. Only one or two of which have been interesting games.
Has chess at the top level become too well analyzed?
Bobby Fischer thought so. In the 1990's he said it was all played out with chess computers doing all the work and players just having to memorise what the computer found, rather than players themselves thinking out improvements or new moves in openings during a game or in preparation.
Fischer's solution to this, after his return match against Spassky in 1992, was for each player to shuffle his backrow pieces in any order they like before the game, so that it would have to truly be thinking by player's over the board rather than coming to games prepared for any opening from previous computer analysis. He called the new setup Fischerandom.