Supranormal Acitivity in Chess

As long as I don't bump into you alone in a dark alley or in an elevator sloughter, somehow I would fear for my well being... for example you may suddenly decide that you've discovered the only cure for the otherwise incurable disease you yourself invented, which is to eat my eye balls, at which point I'd have nowhere to run... as long as you stay online and dont leave your home we're all safe...

I thought delusions of grandeur disappeared after a certain (young) age.  I know I gave up my dreams of being the Tigers starting shortstop at about 12 or so...the first time I saw a good curveball.

*stands slowly, all Douglas and oily*

No, I have

1)Wrote a critically acclaimed book on the Evans Gambit where I presented dozens of playable Novelties,

2)Cooked the Berliner Gambit which was played and promoted by World Champion Dr. Hans Berliner for decades and endorsed by World Champion Garry Kasparov in BCO 2,

3)Cooked the Fritz on this thread, studied and played by Correspondence World Champion Yakov Estrin,

4)Promoted a new main line of the 4.Ng5 Two Knights' Defense discussed in another thead on chess.com.

5)Presented several early playable novelties in the Lolli Gambit of the Two Knights' Defense, one of the oldest openings in all of chess,

6)Came up with a playable opening on move 3 in the King's Gambit Accepted, perhaps the first in centuries and endorsed by World Champion Garry Kasparov,

7)Discovered and played a Gambit in the Petroff, perhaps the first in centuries named after me and appearing in both Inside Chess and Chess Life. It contains an endgame only seen once before and then only played by World Champion Capablanca,

8)Perhaps cooked the Latvian Gambit as recognized by ICM John Elburg, one of the leading practitioners in the gambit,

9)Came up with the earliest novelties in the Alekhine Defense possible, studied and approved by GM Lev Alburt, one of the world's leading experts and practitioners of the Alekhine Defense,

10)Discovered and played a novelty in the Modern on move 5 that I used successfully to defeat a postal master in 16 moves. This was published in Chess Life,

11)Came up with the earliest playable innovation in the 4.Ng5 Two Knights' Defense on move 6 perhaps earliest in decades, if not centuries. This was published in Chess Life,

12)Cooked the Wilkes-Barre/Traxler one of the sharpest openings  in all of chess and used my innovation to defeat Fritz 8 in forty moves. This is comparable to a class B player beating a young Anand,

13)Organized, presented and played an entirely new opening system called the Universal Attack which I have used successfully against Postal Experts and A players. I have presented perhaps dozens of novelties in this system prior to move 10,

14)Played, arguably, the best odds game ever.

I have developed new theories of space in chess. There are five kinds of space in chess:

A) Interior space = the region behind your pawn wall inaccessible to enemy forces,

B) Exterior space = the region ahead of your pawn wall inaccessible to enemy troups,

C)Controlled space = space behind your pawns that cannot be accessed,

D)Uncontrolled space = overextended pawns,

E)Future space = the unstoppable ability of certain pawns to advance and carve out more interior space.

I have redefined time in chess. Not only is time the movement of pieces away from their original squares, I have also defined time as the acquisition of controlled space!

Wow, and I thought you were just a delusional blowhard.  You're actually the universe's most wonderful gift to mankind!

Orangehonda's got the right idea.

Judging from the thread title, he's also redefined spelling.

There was once a guy called Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards, who was first (and only) British competitor in ski jump at the 1988 Olympics.

<< Edwards finished last in both the 70m and 90m events. However, his lack of success endeared him to people all across the globe. The worse he did, the more popular he became. He subsequently became a media celebrity and appeared on talk shows around the world, appearing on The Tonight Show during the Games. The press nicknamed him "Mr. Magoo", and one Italian journalist called him a "ski dropper" >>

I remember Eddie!  It wasn't just that he always finished last, he was a blast to watch-- he wobbled like one of those competition kites and flapped his arms for balance.  You never knew quite how he was going to get back down to the ground, you just knew he wasn't going to go very far before it happened.

 After the Olympics one of the major car manufacturers, I can't remember which, had commercials in which they drove one of their cars up a ski ramp.  Eddie offered to drive one of their cars down off a ski ramp.  The "Magoo" nickname was because of his super-thick glasses lenses.

I read they changed the minimum ability requirements after Eddie's episode-- and that was the same year the Jamaican bobsled team made their Olympics debut, usually finishing their runs with their sled on its side as it crossed the finish line.  Shows how boring this current olympics has been, with all the current competent athletes.

--Cystem 

For someone so accomplished he sure is working awfully hard for our validation.

Here is the annotated game I played against Fritz 8 at either 120/30 or 120/25. See if Rybka or Fritz 12 could exhibit better technique winning a won game than I did.

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 Bc5 (The Wilkes-Barre/Traxler) 5.Bxf7ch (d4 & Nxf7 lead to other main lines) Ke7 6.Bd5 (I prefer this to Bb3) 6...Rf8 (No better is 6...Qe8 because of 7.Bxc6 +/=) 7.Bxc6! dxc6 (Not bxc6 because then Black will have to waste a tempo with d6 giving White time to set up a strong position with d3/Be3/Nd2--if 7...Bxf2ch? 8.Kxf2 Nxe4ch 9.Ke1 dxc6 10.Nf3 +-) 8.Nf3 N Kf7 (For those of you who would like to look at 8...Nxe4 or 8...Bg4, check the threads under the Wilkes-Barre/Traxler; it was generally agreed by post members that White is better in both variations) 9.d3 Kg8 10.Be3 (Leaving Black with an impossible choice: If 10...Bd6, Black is just a pawn down with no compensation. If 10...Bxe3 11.fxe3 Ng4 12.Qe2 followed by O-O/h3 & then White will chop on the f-file.)

10...Bd4?! 11.Nxd4 exd4 (Correcting its pawn structure, but at too high a cost) 12.Bg5! (When ahead in material trade pieces not pawns) 12...Qd6 13.Bxf6 Rxf6 14.O-O Be6 15.f3 (To permit 22.Qg1) 15...Raf8 16.Rf2 a6 17.a4 (To restrain Black's Queenside play) Rh6 18.g3 Rg6 (With a clever threat) 19.Nd2 c5 20.b3 Qf4! (What a shot!) 21.Kh1 Qh6 22.Qg1 Rf4 (To restrain f4) 23.Re1 a5? 24.Rg2 Bh3 25.Rf2 Be6 26.Rfe2 Rf8 27.Rf2 (To see if Fritz repeats the position) Rgf6? (A mistake; Black has to play Rf4) 28.f4 Bg4 29.h4! (Crawling into Black's position) 29...Qh5 30.Qg2 b6 (What else can Black do; if 30...g5 31.f5! gxh4 32.gxh4 Qxh4ch 33.Qh2 Qg5 34.Nf3 Bxf3 35.Rxf3 Rh6 36.Rh3 +-) 31.Kg1 (Permanently restraining g5) Qf7 32.Nf1 (Unnecessarily cautious) Qe6 33.Nd2 Qf7 34.Nf3 Qe6 35.f5! (Daring Black to go into the losing endgame after 35...Bxf3 36.Qxf3 Rxf5 37.Qxf5! Rxf5 38.Rxf5 +/-) 35...Qe7 36.Ref1 Bxf3 37.Rxf3 c6 38.g4 Rh6 39.g5 Rxh4 40.Qg3 Rh5 41.f6! & here I resigned for Fritz---it loses a Rook and then gets mated by move 70.

Since Fritz 12 and Rybka play complex middlegames at or above ELO 3000, apparently I did too. Prediction: Give Fritz 12 or Rybka the starting position of 8.Nf3 Kf7, have them play both sides of the position at 120/25, & I predict that neither computer will win a Rook in the heavy piece endgame. In other words, I predict that both computers will exhibit poorer technique winning a won game than I did. (8.Nf3 Kf7 +/-)

 Diagrams?

We're all duly impressed.

I'm just very suprised (and curious) that Moody Dick (Sloughterchess) hasn't made himself his own Wiki page.

Seriously.

I'm dully impressed.

You can say how you beat a computeer so you are at least 3000 in rating and mention all your accomplishments to impress us, but a rating of 1500 does not carry much weight around here. 

Sloughter chess displaying his over 3000 playing strength in complex middlegames and showcasing the fantastic opening of his own creation the universal attack:

http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=1623858

http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=2354405

I'm dutifully repressed. 

Here's a real simple test: Give Fritz 12 or Rybka the starting position after 8.Nf3 Kf7 at 120/25 & I predict that they will butcher it. Instead of relying on the strategies of Philidor (the pawn is the soul of chess) or the boa constrictor style of Karpov which I used, they will "leap" into the center, not knowing that they should play Universal Chess, not Classical chess. As a result, they will sytematically squander the White advantage.

Gentleman: Here is a task that any Newbie can do. Have Fritz 12 or Rybka play both sides of the position after 8.Nf3 Kf7 and they will not be able to checkmate Black in under 80 moves from the starting position. Do you think that Anand, Kramnik, or Kasparov could get a simple technical win for a Class B players as rapidly as I did? Do you think they could outplay Rybka or Fritz 12 easily from the starting position?

Anyone who is a scientist and wants to test for supranormal behavior, here is the procedure: Just give Fritz 12 or Rybka the starting position at 120/25 and post the game on line played out to checkmate. Let's see who plays better chess in a sharp middlegame from the starting position, Fritz 12, Rybka or me?

I can confirm that I've never seen Rybka bloviate quite like you.

To coin a new word, one might go as far as to say that you have exhibited supra-normal activity in blowhardedness.

I think most people reading the forum would agree that you definitely exhibit supranormal behavior, but not in the way you seem to think you do . . .

I'll give you this, you don't give up.  Your belief in yourself as vastly superior to others is genuine and unfailing, and you have a real determination to try to convince others of that "fact".  That's OK with me.  Every minute you spend blathering on this forum is one less minute you can spend doing real damage elsewhere with your scientific mumbo-jumbo.

--Cystem