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Posted by ccmcacollister uskidscompute.com 8/09/2006 12:06:28 play online chess	Subject: Blitz Chess WorldWide ... Message: I was just surfing today, and ran across a site of C. Gav*** Gavreitas?! Well his name is at the site. And he had a win vs Danny Kopec, who I played a time or two in blitz and was a real scullcrusher! So thought it impressive here. And decided to start a thread re blitz Chess worldwide, since I'll probably be surfing it some more & who knows What will turn up. Correction: In a previous thread I believe I called GM Walter Browne's organization for blitz the WBCC, but would be WBCA instead. I wonder if he is still running it now? So much to catch up on. -> www.gtryfon.demon.co.uk
Posted by ccmcacollister uskidscompute.com 8/09/2006 12:12:19 play online chess	From the game vs Kopec Message: My first fen try fen=r1bqk2r/pppnppbp/5np1/3p2B1/3P4/4PN2/PPPN1PPP/R2QKB1R My first fen try fen=r1bqk2r/pppnppbp/5np1/3p2B1/3P4/4PN2/PPPN1PPP/R2QKB1R w KQkq - 1 6
Posted by ccmcacollister uskidscompute.com 8/09/2006 12:18:35 play online chess	2nd Message: OK my first try failed because: You Must put actual " " Quotation marks around your fen. The first " is right after the = sign. The last goes after everything ... which is after the SIX in this case ... on that second fen line I tried above.
Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 8/09/2006 13:25:34 play online chess	Craig... Message: I think the position is at move 5 - and I'm a little puzzled: did you deliberately place the board from Black's point of view? (Having put 2 Black kings on the diagram at my first try - discovered on rechecking - I can see how you could do it!) Interesting game. I thought White's attack was pretty good but it just seemed to peter out when T. Gavriel returned the Knight sac. Very fine defence... I liked Kopec's opening - it is what I played when I encountered the King's Indian for the first time as a schoolboy. Basically I played a QGD against it! Did OK, actually ... won some, lost some... Cheers, Ion
Posted by ccmcacollister uskidscompute.com 8/09/2006 14:24:37 play online chess	ionadowman ... Message: No, my placement of WT at the top was not deliberate. Upon further experimentation, it is revealed that which color goes to the top (for the fen string of fen=r1bqk2r/pppnppbp/5np1/3p2B1/3P4/4PN2/PPPN1PPP/R2QKB1R w KQkq - 1 6 ) depends upon where you put the 2nd Quotation Mark. Placed between the last R and the w then WT comes out at the bottom. But if it is placed anywhere After the w , then BL comes out at the bottom. Below diagram is adjusted " to just before the w. {My prior diagram of this I had it after the number 6 at the end of all. But anywhere after the w still puts WT on TOP.} * * * Not having computer programming skills of the internet variety, I just have to work it out as I go. Some people must find it all much simpler. But I am pleased to still find it intriguing! And Fun. * * * w KQkq - 1 6 PS// I am using the PGN to FEN converter that nima_tal gave us a hyperlink to in the GK Forum notice about this new diagram feature. [Thanks MUCH Nima !]
Posted by thunker uskidscompute.com 8/09/2006 15:38:14 play online chess	It's very easy Message: to accidentally flip the board with the FEN. I did the same thing on my first try. Gotta be careful to designate the 'w' and 'b' to make the board display the way you want. And if you're showing an end game or puzzle like I did, it can be quite confusing to determine which way the board is to be played. But I'm NOT COMPLAINING! I love this new feature. Just gotta be careful to pay attention to what you're doing! As the old saying goes... garbage in, garbage out...
Posted by ionadowman uskidscompute.com 8/09/2006 17:10:41 play online chess	I see... Message: ...not quite what I thought. Seems I got it 'right' first time (K+N+N vs K thread - check it out!) completely by accident! (Actually, Craig, I was just curious whether you might have had Black 'nearer the reader' (i.e. at the bottom) because he (T. Gavriel) is the protagonist in the story.) I like the feature as well: eye catching, and great for chess discussions. Great! Cheers, Ion
Posted by pwwaring uskidscompute.com 8/09/2006 17:28:25 play online chess	The flipped board... Message: is, I think, because of the way it is coded. It seems to take a standard FEN and always put the side to move on top, instead of always putting white on the bottom and having some kind of side-to-move indicator. I'm guessing that if you want white on bottom you simply have to make sure the FEN is entered with black to move, unless Mike decides to change the code. Pete
Posted by thunker uskidscompute.com 8/09/2006 19:28:29 play online chess	Pete Message: Yeppers! I think that's the trick alright. Just tweak the ending 'w' or 'b' in the FEN string to how you want the board to appear. Of course there may be times where you want to view it from black's side.... I like the option, but for the default I might vote to have it flipped as I made the same error too and have seen several get confused by that. Or perhaps I'm still missing something myself? At any rate I can review it before I post to see if it's what I want. If not, I can go back and change it! I sure still really LIKE the new feature though! Another GREAT improvement to the sight.
Chess news: Bennett and King on chess: the Scandanavian, part 2 -- Continuing our foray into the much-maligned Scandinavian. After 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Qxd5 3 Nc3 where should the black queen move to? RB Life is busy and time is short, too short for me ever to have bothered to study the Scandinavian, so I have no idea what theory recommends. I can see two viable options. The first is the retreat to safety, 3...Qd8. The only reason I'd be tempted to play this is that I have a dim memory of seeing the black queen get cornered and captured in some Scandinavian game or other. But it seems such a waste of time. The more aggressive option is 3...Qa5, with the hope of putting further pressure on c3 with a later ... Chess: An accident meets a prepared mind -- Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by mistake. He left open a Petri dish before leaving for vacation. When he returned, he observed that the dish was contaminated with mold, which thwarted the growth of the dish’s bacteria. From this, he discovered penicillin. In this week’s chess position black has mistakenly captured white’s knight at f3 with its bishop. This permits white to unleash a discovered attack, like an unforeseen antibody. With this hint in mind please try to find white’s best move. White is minus a knight. It thus makes sense to capture black’s knight at f3, since it has ungraciously captured white’s knight. White would be better if ... A Game With 960 Possible Openings, but an American Champ Is Unfazed -- The United States has again produced a world chess champion, though not in regular chess, but in a variant named for Bobby Fischer. Hikaru Nakamura, the United States chess champion, won the Chess960 world championship at the Mainz Chess Classic in Germany on July 30. Also called Fischer Random Chess (because Fischer was an ardent supporter), Chess960 has 960 starting positions, based on shuffling the pieces along the first and eighth ranks. (The white and black pieces face their counterparts, so if a white rook is on f1, a black rook is on f8.) With so many possible starting positions, a knowledge of regular chess openings is not much use. Players who excel ...