1. Kc8 (if I remember correctly).
A Paradox of Chess Logic
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Apr 19, 2020
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How did the robot prove that he was really alive? By having a sense of humor! In the following scene, he laughs at a good joke told by the girl's boyfriend, who happens to be a scientist and is trying to decide if this machine is really alive! Anyhow, glad to have you back!
Here's something for you, my friend,
"Chess is the best game precisely because it’s not a mere game." and
"Chess is silent music, and playing is a bit like composing for me." and
"When I was composing the music for Tarantino’s latest movie, The Hateful Eight, as I went through the script, I recognized the tension that silently grows among the characters, and I thought of that like the feelings one develops over the course of a chess game.—Ennio Morricone, from his book below
Morricone played Spassky in a simul once and drew.
In the book he admits in his youth he considered being either a physician or a chess player and not a musician.
Rating around 1700 I think...
beautiful study!!
introuble2 wrote:
beautiful study!!
Hi there, yes, true, it is!
And here's Study for Greatness, 2011, by Samual Bak...
Bak survived the holocaust, so that's why so much destruction in his works...
In contrast, studies are about construction, composing...
One might consider this an example of holistic logic. In chess games, we attempt to reduce the resolution of a problem to the interactions of some units in some board areas over some time interval in order to simplify our computations. Compositions are different. In this case, when you only look at the wK and the bP the proposed manoeuvre looks ridicilous. It turns out however that you need to include the options of all chess units at every stage to find the right way to solve this riddle. Reductive logic won't help you a lot except that it commands you to reject all uninteresting lines. We know it's a composition, right?
Apr 21, 2020
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#14
"Chess composition exceeds all compositions be it music, mathematics, photography and even the universe itself. Grand cosmos unravel yourself bit by bit to show the true wonders of chess."
- Plotato the philosopher
Plotato, I know him! Sits up in the apple tree of a small village in Armorica wating for his daily dose of magic potion. The village druid pities him and occasionally drops off a pineapple for food diversity. Not that he notices the difference.
Apr 21, 2020
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#16
Arisktotle wrote:
Plotato, I know him! Sits up in the apple tree of a small villaga in Armorica wating for his daily dose of magic potion. The village druid pities him and occasionally drops off a pineapple for food diversity. Not that he notices the difference.
That's strange. I thought I knew him until you described him. Must be the funny Sigmund Freud manipulating my mind again... From my views, Plotato provided me with vitamin B6, vitamin C, potassium and a cornucopia of philosophical remarks. Not that I noticed the difference anyway, being the village druid.
Apr 21, 2020
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#17
Is there anyone out there willing to help me learn to play better?
anyone willing to teach me
1. Kc8(!), b5; 2. Kd7! -- I think this is the solution?! Otherwise I can't see it. But white will gain a tempo on his quest to catch the b-pawn only if he does it this way.
One line could go, 2. -, Bf5+; 3. Kd6, b4; 4. Ke5, b3; 5. Kxf5, b2; 6. c8=Q, b1=Q+; ½-½
SOSOonagain wrote:
1. Kc8(!), b5; 2. Kd7! -- I think this is the solution?! Otherwise I can't see it. But white will gain a tempo on his quest to catch the b-pawn only if he does it this way.
One line could go, 2. -, Bf5+; 3. Kd6, b4; 4. Ke5, b3; 5. Kxf5, b2; 6. c8=Q, b1=Q+; ½-½
Well done! By post #19 it was about time to see a solution to this great endgame!
So much beauty with only five men on the board!
Brothers A. & K. Saritchev (Shakhmatny listok, 1928)
"The beauty of the study comes from a 'paradoxical logic'"—GM Boris Spassky commenting in Gia Nadareishvili's [Georgian] Chess Study through the Eyes of Grandmasters, 1982
It's a draw