The element of surprise is back in Chess!!

Now that chess has been completely solved by computers the various lines and continuations are computed and analysed and best play is proscribed in all positions.  What is left?  No wonder Kasporov gave up the game altogether when he lost to that faceless behemoth of Corporate American dystopia - Deep Blue.

Even juniors now train with computers and are better prepared and versed in opening theory than Grand Masters of the previous era.

In Wales we are at the vanguard of a new movement in chess style.  It's called counter-intuitivism and is based on the new school of modern chess thinking emanating from the Rhondda valley.  The founding principle of this philosophy is to play the move least expected by the opponent.  The element of surprise is back in chess.  The theory is take the well prepared player away from recognised positions and out of book at every opportunity.

In Wales a new generation of chess players stand like the early pioneers of the Romantic school (Capablanca et al) at a crossroads ready to take chess in an exciting new direction.

I give as an example a game that I played against the reigning Welsh Champion - Dai Young in last year's Nationals at Aberfan Lido. Tied at 5 a-piece we went into the deciding game with the title hanging in the balance:

He's shrewd that Dai Young.  He was proper flustered and so emotionally exhausted after the game that he walked out of the hall in front of the number 9 bus from Pontypridd.  Killed instantly.  I just love schadenfreude.  He was caught by the element of surprise.  Long-live the new school of Counter-intuitivismism.

Which part was schadenfreude?  Who is the current Welsh champion then?

My joy is watching the bus driver hose off the bumper and bang-out the dent!

(And that make the bus driver the champ on account of he got the mate.)

Only in Wales do they have a rule where if you kill the champion with a bus, you get his title.

Also only in Wales do they name the grill of busses "the element of surprise".

In this case, Beast had it named the "Grill o' me dreams."

i love this board so much

It seems Dai Young has lived up to his name.

I must admit I did not see this coming when I clicked on the thread.

Yes he was only 28.

Only the good Dai Young would have walked in front of that bus like that..  Only the good Dai Young...

They say that 1 in every 4 people on the planet is chinese.

Dai Young had three brothers, Dewi, Daffydd and Ho-Chi-Min.

OK, seven knights on the board and three white pawns. So he started the game with 10 pawns instead of the normal number?

Well he also did start with two knights on the board, but I could've sworn he blundered them away!  You are a cheater aren't you!

I started under the Welsh convention with 2 knights at the outset.  I'd promoted 5 pawns to get me up to 7.  The erroneous move gave me 8 knights with two pawns still on the board.  It all adds up. 

The full game was published in the Macynllyth Argus July 14th 2008 if you want to look it up.  It's under the headline "Delays on the Pontypridd bus route"

you should not make fun of your opponent otherwise this happens

mschosting says the truth because  this story has also happen to me in Sarajevo.

Also to help me I will put a link.  Beast if you dont mind for this:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/please-buy-me-chess-membership

I on the other hand am a stress-carrier.  I don't show any of the symptoms of stress but carry it and and give stress to all around me.  If it wasn't for schadenfreude Germans would never laugh.

Yesterday I woke up opened my curtains and saw that my neighbours black BMW, which he had parked under my Cherry tree, was white from the copious guano deposited on it by the local birds overnight. 

That made my day.  I was randomly chuckling to myself throughout my working day as I constantly remembered that sight - much to the annoyance of the mourners.

is this a joke

 ...nor me!