It would make an interesting variant....
Stalemate needs to be abolished...
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TheGrobe wrote:
It would make an interesting variant....
In Canada, maybe.
Winter is long. Boredom is common.
Stalemate makes the endgame harder then opening or the middlegame
chessninja77 wrote:
Stalemate makes the endgame harder then opening or the middlegame
Subtleties of pawn structures make the endgame hard. Establishing clear plans in seemingly non-forcing positions makes it hard. Time pressure makes it hard OTB. Stalemate? Never really a factor, personally.
Too easy to win by hanging onto a single pawn advantage = less speculative gambits and sacrifices. It's by no means clear that more winning chances will lead to more entertainment, so we're left with a personal choice, essentially. Monster believes the capture the king idea has more elegance, but I'm rather inclined to believe this to be more vulgar.
Neither of us are right, except in that we are being faithful to ourselves. Only one of us is claiming our opinion as to the rules of a board game makes us a superior person.
Jul 16, 2012
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theoreticalboy wrote:
Too easy to win by hanging onto a single pawn advantage = less speculative gambits and sacrifices. It's by no means clear that more winning chances will lead to more entertainment, so we're left with a personal choice, essentially. Monster believes the capture the king idea has more elegance, but I'm rather inclined to believe this to be more vulgar.
Neither of us are right, except in that we are being faithful to ourselves. Only one of us is claiming our opinion as to the rules of a board game makes us a superior person.
+1
theoreticalboy wrote:
Only one of us is claiming our opinion as to the rules of a board game makes us a superior person.
The irony therein being obvious.
batgirl wrote:
It may (or may not) be of interest to know that John Cochrane (famous chess player of the early/middle 19th century) was on board the ship that transported Bonaparte after Waterloo to St. Helena in 1815.
She is always Clever so far I have seen.. like that.
zborg wrote:
This photo is better than her fish. With citation to @Chrisr2212--
troololooool
Sesame Street.
If ' no Name ' would make these Replies at, and in Context of Dead Frontier, he would have been already banned from the Forums for at at least 3 days.
I have Experienced it. They are Simple over there.
This one:
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=323410096
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As I said before, if you can't convert an ending like this you don't deserve the win.
Promoted to Q instead of Rook & got torpedoed ?
uri65 wrote:
madhacker wrote:
chrisr2212 wrote:
moving the bishop off the board into a butt (bishop to butt0) may prove popular among the Irish clergy, unfortunately the butt is not a square on the board..
Reminds me of FIDE reporting that Gelfand forced a draw in game three by penetrating both his rooks into his opponent's rear.
http://moscow2012.fide.com/en/home/12-news-en/248-3d-round-eng
Oh please... I was waiting for a train while reading your post... I couldn't stop laughing until tears came from my eyes... People around were watching... Oh my God!
Oh the ironies of the universe. This is perhaps a bit gross to post on this forum, but I'm going to do it anyway because it is too funny not to (if you are not me). About an hour after posting that about the 'rook penetration', I had to be taken to hospital with bleeding from the backside. I've only just got home now.
TheGrobe wrote:
This one:
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=323410096
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As I said before, if you can't convert an ending like this you don't deserve the win.
To be fair to monster, he did totally outplay the guy with the exception of one move.
Ahh, but it was the most important move.
Why not just abolish chess alltogether and we can all go play some peaceful Go over a cup of tea instead? or Shougi where draws in practice never happen? =D
electricpawn wrote:
My IQ is well above that of an "idiot." Given the amount of emotion you appear to be pouring into something that will never happen, I have to question your intelligence. Let me phrase that in way you'll be more likely to understand: Duuuuuh, take crayons and, duuuuuh, put them where sun not shine, duuuuuuh.
Otherwise they tend to melt....lol
Well, actually, a lot of middlegame (and as a result opening) theory would be overturned and need to be rebuilt as a result of endgame theory being fundamentally different. I think it would actually be a surprisingly different game as far as theory goes.
Would that be a bad thing? It seems that would give new life to the game. Opening theory seems to be changing rapidly anyway.