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You made me Google with your post and found Faulkner's Gambit: Chess and Literature by Wainwright.
The first chapter starts with this quotation, typical for the cyber von Neumann: there is always a right procedure to compute.
@batgirl Did you do computation, or used your intuition at move 23?
Humans are not machines and some believe in intuition, instinct and inspiration, they FEEL this is the right way to do it as opposed to brute calc. 
kamalakanta wrote:
Batgirl, I believe you mean "Falkbeer"?
Ah, Wainwright tricked me with Faulkner, it's Falkbeer. Thanks Kamala
Mar 17, 2019
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kamalakanta wrote:
Batgirl, I believe you mean "Falkbeer Counter Gambit"?
Will Ernst ever forgive me? :-D
I usually divide people into 2 categories.
Chess players and other entities
I see it is possible to also classify people as me and not me.
I noticed Batgirl that you have enjoyed playing the kings' gambit the last eon or so.
Have you ever tried the tumbleweed variation?
I like the tumbleweed variation since it introduces the possibility of developing a rook quickly to e1.
Mar 17, 2019
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RoaringPawn wrote:
@batgirl Did you do computation, or used your intuition at move 23?
Well it was just a 5 minute game. I saw the mate threat he had to deal with and the mate if he accepted the knight. I never tried to figure out what he could do is he declined it because the Knight was safe -if he took it he lost, if he didn't I still had the knight, a free pawn, and an attack.
Mar 17, 2019
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Dale wrote:
I usually divide people into 2 categories.
Chess players and other entities
I see it is possible to also classify people as me and not me.
I noticed Batgirl that you have enjoyed playing the kings' gambit the last eon or so.
Have you ever tried the tumbleweed variation?
I like the tumbleweed variation since it introduces the possibility of developing a rook quickly to e1.
The three pawns gambit is about as brave as I get.
batgirl wrote:
RoaringPawn wrote:
@batgirl Did you do computation, or used your intuition at move 23?
Well it was just a 5 minute game. I saw the mate threat he had to deal with and the mate if he accepted the knight. I never tried to figure out what he could do is he declined it because the Knight was safe -if he took it he lost, if he didn't I still had the knight, a free pawn, and an attack.
Exactly, it's all about time. The evolution has taught us that, when under threat, there's no time for working out the solution and the right procedure to go with as per von Neumann. The instinct suggests one of the following options, Fight, or Flight, or Freeze.
The end result will tell you whether the chosen option was right.
I saw it
its a nice game after all
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Danke!
Good game!
kamalakanta wrote:
Batgirl, I believe you mean "Falkbeer Counter Gambit"?
Yes, of course. Well played BG and a delightful mate.
Good Game 
cool
I played a 5/0 game against a Falkner Counter Gambit. He lost a piece on move 9 which sort of determined the outcome, but I think my 23rd move, a piece sac, caught him off guard (I think he could have declined the piece, but not without any serious loss, since the move also threatens mate at g7).