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You missed a spot on h8 😄
Nice folding board by the way 👍
Thank you, old but gold! I will post a picture with pieces on it..
In the meantime, it seems to be h8 because it's twice the distance from d4 to f6. These are, along with the squares b2, f2 and b6, the only 5 squares that the d4-knight cannot reach within 3 moves. 3 moves! 58 out of 63 squares! I was very surprised. It was 34 within two moves and 8 within one. I then put the knight on a4, and it became 4 within one, 20 within two, and 44 squares out of 63 within 3 moves. So, compared with the centered knight, the knight on the rim is bad in the beginning 4 vs. 8, then 20 vs. 34, but 44 vs. 58 is the same growth of 24 on move three..
It seems to me that there are ten different knight positions given on a chess board, so that will take some more beads and lego calculus.
Aaah, didn't get what you were doing 🤔
The focus is on Carlsen vs. Niemann, but just look at the absurd setting.
They play through the objectivity and accuracy of the interfaces, but, hey, they are in the same place, they play OTB! Never have two chess players been more remote to one another.. Instead of playing several slots of different time controls, I should rather like to see them play with several sets of pieces and boards 
Happy day: I was so lucky that a neighbour has turned two new king's finials for me that were missing badly ever since I got these old sets: The stars are in the centre of the photo (the light ones on the white kings). He turned them by eye, with a drill, fastened with screw clamps. Using files, rasps, saws and sandpaper. Not exact but totally genius!
Death and the knight in Ingmar Bergman's 1957 movie 'The Seventh Seal'.
Death has come to take him. -'Wait a moment'-'That's what they all say. But I do not bargain.'-'You like to play chess, right?'- 'How do you know?' -'Ah.. I have seen it in pictures, I have heard it.' -'It is true that I am not a bad chess player, indeed.' - 'I bet you do not play better than me.' -'Why do you want to play chess with me?' -'That's up to me.' -'Alright, for my sake.' And they sit down. -'Until the game is over, I may live. If I checkmate you, I am free.' With no answer, the knight hides two pawns and Death chooses a hand. -'You play black.' -'That's good. I love black.' The film still shows the moment the board is turned. They were facing it from the sides and now are turning it according to the drawing of lots. It is just beautiful, I only realized it running through some stills, how they are both doing it together.
life is a miracle
I suddenly had the idea I could set up the chess table my dad made in the sixties or early seventies in front of our chess shelf. It fits well into the room! Picking up where I had left my studies in 1987, I opened Orban's Latvian gambit game collection. I took a board and pieces out of the shelf and played through a couple of games. 
And later, the first guy who saw the ensemble carried in a second chair and soon we were playing the first game on Dad's old table here
This Soviet set makes me think that nobody, maybe 70 or 80 years ago, had two sets, there and then. Collecting, I'm responsible. How will ungewichtets schwereloser Schachzirkus deal with it? 
The board that came with the pieces is a resin fake leather board with golden squares.. !
The unusual colours led me to set up two black sides in pic one
A first casual game I played with a kid. She took off her king after 10 moves 'because now you can never mate me!' Clever kid.. She ran off to play. Pic three, with the king in place again, after a friend had taken over, playing, appropriately, with disregard for material.
I love Spanish chessmen. (I love the pieces in the picture, too, which I bought in Germany). In my search for Spanish pieces, about a year ago, I came about this board and I thought 'whoa'. It had a few bids, and right away, I made my final bid (like adding 25 to the existing bid). And then, right away, I started hoping somebody would outbid me- rare case of bidder's remorse. In the end it got close, but I won, as you can see. Outrageous shipping costs were added- yes, size and weight. I wrote the guy please give it to a local cafe, I will pay you the price and save the shipping. He said 'No. You bought the board, you take it.' Now I am the happiest player with the torn masterpiece of a board that I am glad he sold me.
I love the half or quarter chess boards around the actual chess board. Our actual game is in the center, but there is a presence of all the games played in parallel, played before, played in the future evoked by the many tiny 4x4s, alternating with the x-es, crosses or pluses, adding memories faded, fading and to fade. M.C.Escher's works may be more subtle in design, but this one, in exchange for that, is not paradoxical. It's like real magic. Or, drop the magic, it's the real prosaic poetic.
The position depicted arose after my opponent had played six pawn moves in a Nordic Gambit, a childhood weapon I played for the first time in 35 years maybe (in a long OTB game). Even using this ultra-sharp opening, I was not aware of the tactics at work here and missed out on the possible win. (If you like, have a look for yourself, there is just one move that wins, and it's exemplary). We continued to play a game that, had it been a football match, would have had a succession of goals of 1-0, 1-2, 3-2, 3-4, 4-4 and we settled for a draw, enough had happened and darkness had fallen.
It was not played on this board, by the way. There are mixed emotions whenever I bring another new old chess set to the meetings of our neighbouring villages circle. Some just love them, some dread what they may regard as inessential novelty-ism. I always concur. The game was really played (into spray rain in the end) on a big lacquered folding board with nice old Bohemia chessmen.
When I return home, I record the game on the computer (using my back bench chess super power to remember a game I just played). When I managed to do that, I enable engine evaluation and lines. Man, did we play a lot of correct moves amid the blunders!
I was lucky and had a partner to play a game on the depicted board, too, today- great stuff.
Wow! That is indeed quite the beautiful treasure. You should upload this to your blog, @ungewichtet!
Hüsker Dü - Turn on the News (from their Album Zen Arcade, 1984)
If there's one thing that I can't explain
Is why the world has to have so much pain
With all the ways of communicating
We can't get in touch with who we're hating
So turn on (turn on) turn on (turn on) turn on the news
I hear it every day on the radio
Somebody shoots a guy he don't even know
Airplanes falling out of the sky
A baby is born and another one dies
Highways fill with refugees
Doctors finding out about disease
With all this uptight pushing and shoving
Keeps us away from who we're loving
Turn on (turn on) turn on (turn on) turn on the news
brothers
and sisters
Dennis Busch photo, ~2013 (electronic musician and collage artist from Germany)
This position is from a recent blitz game here on chess.com. Black is a piece down.. but has just played d5xe4. On seconds, as white, I played Qh3, swinging the game from +4 to -5.. (all the passed pawns, I guess).. But my opponent missed the queen trade, as well, and after h7-h5 I won.
1300 blitz players' daily bread, I guess But somehow I cursor-key back-tracked the moves afterwards, playing 'what does the eval bar want me to play here'. I did not find it at once, but it has a lovely geometry and gave me something new to look for in the future.
White to move. 'Only queen and king moves in the main line' goes my little hint
