Missed Tactic

This note is about useful things that can be done with Scid and a note if you scroll to bottom of this page a compliment for a chess club and hardees corporate msg.

Since being ran over by an SUV, there is a lag time in memory, but less in thinking ability, also called cognitive ability. Laslo Polgar's 5334 "Tactics" book is a good "drill" book for speed training, if you want to use book over PC methods; as are both of Reinfeld's books called 1001 winning chess sacrifices and combinations (themes/organization) and 1001 brilliant ways to checkmate (pattern recognition).

I am as most who have read my pages,blogs, or emailed or played me either in person or online; am doing and teaching GM Training, trying to break 2750 FIDE elo which is about 2800 uscf. It took all of about .10 sec. or 1/10th of a sec to see the 3 moves to get the Q on the same square as the black Q.  I instantly saw if the king and another piece are on the same line(rank,file,diagonal) a skewer/x-ray is possible. My mind saw only the W Q trade spots/squares with B and replace the B Q with a white queen. All this happened in a blink, due to "pattern recognition" susan Polgar talks about on her youtube vid. There is a term called chess blindness. I had a split second and instantly saw the final position, then subconciously worked backward to bring about the position. I learned it years ago in a book on puzzles called mysteries of sherlock holmes. It is called retrograde analysis. I also saw it as a common mating pattern, where it is mate in 15 at most using K, or mate in 9 using passed pawn/2nd Q. But I am slow since the accident and it did take me 0.50 of a sec. to solve and count mate w/K or w/passed pawn !

I felt it was way far slower than the reflex speed I had before the SUV ran me over. Oh well, we have to deal with what life gives us.

I might suggest people check december 2010 article about GM (15 yrs. old) Ray Robson and note he as well as GM's David Bronstein, Anand, Kasparov,

Polgar sisters, Karpov, Fischer, Kramnik, Shirov, Botvinnik, Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, and myself; all use a stopwatch or timer or chess clock to train with and it becomes second nature to deal with "time management". You rarely find yourself in time trouble. On a PC, it will record the time per move in fritz, Rybka, Junior, Shredder, or just about any chessbase engine, in the window aka GUI. This is a wonderful and wiser way to run "logs" aka training logs, as well as reports. You can drop it into excel and make cool looking charts and see where you spent more time as well as if... there is a connection/correlation between engine eval/assesments. In the new Deep Fritz 12 we use, it does this for you in the bottom right window. It will show an "overlay" which you can zoom in on and see at a glance, or scroll.

This shows both the eval per move, and the time it took to move.This makes it easier to break the game into parts and see opening, middlegame, ending, as well as transitions to middlegame and endgame. It is great for tactics, combos, positional play and much more. I encourage you all to check out the Ray Robson article in 12-2010 chess life. He said he uses this little secret for every 5-10 moves most games, and EVERY move on serious training games.

In after thought, I will say that the new Scid 4 has a training feature where it can go through a game and note tactics, then save it for review. It will then jump to that move and let you guess the right choice. We use Scid also at our club, but only for specific things. We don't have a problem with Scid, only if people claim it can outperform or equal "paid software"category of database software like chessbase, chess assistant, Rybka Aquarium, chess openings wizard professional.

The main edge of each ( the reasons you pay considerably more overall ), is chessbase has a 107,000 sub key opening classification system on ECO vs 13,000 for Scid... hence far more specific detailed breakdown of opening subvariation lines and footnotes, as well as being able to expand for details(splitting hairs) or collapse folders for a summary of main lines or if you wanted to use Scid opening classification such as 00-99 A-E and then the A-Z per ECO. Example is when it says B22a, B22b, B22c, etc, etc. Here is where chessbase has the edge. It can classify both ways. This means you collapse the folder and see stats the same as Scid would find. Now you can dig deeper, drill down farther by expanding the chessbase folder. It is done for you. Both chessbase and Scid as well as chess assistant and chess openings wizard pro let you add folders or "sub-keys", thus adding more lines.

Chess assistant has unique analysis tools as well as CQL for unique search masks and filters. Aquarium has unique analysis tools to scan millions of games as well as the ability to "lock" multiple engines onto a single move for openings research or to decide the critical game changing moments in post mortem analysis...such as when several engines spot where the key move was that changed the outcome.

Chess openings wizard pro (150.00) has "speed learning" and "photo-reading" to replace flash cards for chess, to enable you to learn 240 positions per min. if you follow the drills and instructions and various levels in the program. In theory, this means you could drill/learn the 5334 polgar puzzles in about 23 mins or less; as well as doing "subconscious/subliminal" training for chess. You are actually doing a high tech method called "neural networking/imprinting", according to the video at bookup.com by mike Leahy as well as the youtube video he did for learn chess openings as fast as speed reading under user name thedatabaseguy.

He has been a chess database programmer specifically, for over 27 years, so has experience building, improving chess databases, don't you think? His C.O.W. pro for short, also does some advanced back solving and "batch-processing" as he calls it. He said it does back solving aka min-max far differently than chess position trainer. It is in one of his videos on bookup.com with a contact email and number to call if you have a question about what makes people pay 150.00 for C.O.W. (acronym) pro. He said he wrote more code to improve the "backsolving" feature and give it some more unique abilities. It is the only program on the market or in the chess industry that does a unique type of "backsolving", as some of you may already know there are various and multiple levels of "back solving". For what it is worth, it is endorsed and used by super GM (2700+ FIDE elo)

Peter Svidler who has maintained a 2700+ elo for over a decade ! Check with Martin or Daniel about the benefits of Scid and some tutorials or help files as well.  Go to   scid.soundforge.com    for screenshots. Scid lets you add "groups" and "lines" to your "repertoire". You can then download or save games, and "search by/with repertoire". I will be doing some youtube videos on this soon, so stay tuned for more blogs and videos on scid, as well as other databases. You can expand certain folders in a group and close/collapse the others.

This allows you to dump games from twic updates. You can then "search by repertoire". You can have multiple repertoires or just a basic 1 as black, 1 as white.The great thing about adding folders (more variations/subvariations, lines, etc.) is you can save time. Scid will show you a number count and whatever you had or have "expanded" as folders, will be like autopilot for updates.

This means if you only play certain lines lately but still play all lines in that group... you can focus on those. Another time saver is seeing at a glance which folders have new games...aka spotting "trends" in your openings.This is key to gaining the element of surprise, as it tells you what has not updated/changed in awhile or for years. You can use Scid to sort games by years or even a specific time period aka "era" of chess such as the 20's the hyper moderns group, the 60's aka the Fischer "era". You can use Scid for player studies and sort, then copy/paste games to new folder/database. You can find which past or present stars either IM or GM play your openings and let them lead the way. They can be in your repertoire too. Then when you get new twic games...search by repertoire.

Go over the games and see how the IM or GM handles the TN, as well as how it fits with opening-middlegame transition, middlegame, middlegame-endgame transition, ending, and just as part of the opening itself. It may be the TN is just to fix a problem old or new with a particular line, or to improve a line. It is how we describe it among other GM's "it is like auto parts, some to make repairs, others to increase performance or for cosmetic reasons like a paint job, or just as part of a new model/promo".

This can also be used for chess clubs. You can sort what openings, middlegames, endings certain members play and connect/correlate various time controls, rounds, colors, etc. are their preference/choice.Scid player report does not do this so please do not embarrass yourself trying to sound cool/hip/knowledgable/etc. by saying it does. The player report does a summary (raw/basics ONLY) and tells you ECO like/dislike and W/D/Loss columns. By using more folders, you can search by repertoire as well as classify each folder and search endgame or middlegame "patterns/themes". Player report does NOT tell you every line that the player plays and what round they like to use it in, as well as individual breakdown of middlegame, ending patterns.

Chessbase will do that of course, as well as showing frequent player... AND BEST PLAYER! It will also go into great detail about strategy, tactics, positional play, themes, endgames, TN (theoretical novelty=new moves) history for or per line and also "hotness meter" showing which lines are replacing old lines as well as being able to show a TN "history" for a line or player. This means it can work up a "timeline" to show you how often and when and where an opening line had/has most or least amount of "TN" done; as well as a TN search by player. That allows you to see which players are more creative and come up with new ideas. In other words, why listen to someone who never adds anything new. Why look to their games for new ideas??????? THAT is what we call in GM Training ...

"going down a dead end road".

Use chessbase to search TN, then copy all those into new database. Next you sort by highest ECO count.In chessbase we have a player tab, that lets you sort by player overall. You first have to find all TN and seperate those games, or it will just show total games. You can see player stats in Scid, but not a detailed breakdown and ECO count or chart. Chessbase will tell you all TN as well as timeline of number of TN per tournament, per week, per month, per year, per career, per opening, per opening line, etc, etc.

What I am saying is in chessbase you can sort TN by multiple criteria, even by rating graph/history or see what lines they typically find TN and compare it to other players or to engine eval or to past TN same player did. Once you get the games with TN into seperate database, R click and choose player. Now it will give stats in 3 columns, each one you can scroll seperately. the first column is by player and tells you score against that player, 2nd column is for tournaments, 3rd column is for ECO as B or as W. You can see all this with a simple quick sort/filter/search mask.

Now is the easy part. You filter all games by color. Now when you see stats, you see wins and losses. You instantly know which ECO gave them problems, as well as history of related positions, thus telling you where in opening-middlegame-ending said player has most problems. Now you compare that section/tab in chessbase and hit ctrl-A and select all with that shortcut. Now you hit stats and it tells you W/D/L record of how well they score. Chessbase will sort different games and find only the ones that contain what is in the search mask.

You can also have it sort by wins/draws/losses, then run same stats per color. This will tell you how well they do per ECO. This is after the basic player report. This is when you want detail work and do not want to search all aspects of each game and in different combos. You want to find out how good the TN is and who does best at creativity. You can batch process it all and have it sort onlu up to TN in the game, have it sort 5-6 million games same time, then come back with a report and tell you who does what best. It is an advanced auto-annotate feature in paid software. It can be set to start and stop at any number in game... or by theme. You are thus telling it to find all games where some pattern occurs, then stop before middlegame or endgame. How handy is that? Timesaver?

See how much quicker it is in chess assistant using CQL. With CQL, you can make theme tactics puzzles. You can tell it to find all knight forks and go back 2,3,5,10 moves prior, then tell it to save all those moves as game fragments (append to main base). Now when you hit autoplay it will load all games and start where you tell it. The main original game is still untouched. It just made copies to new database you label Knight forks.

Now comes a neat chessbase trick... You have it "reclassify" new database. Now you can search the base using tabs like endings, strategy, etc. You can see what strategies were played, positional play, endings, etc, etc. You can blend/merge games to still other databases/folders. Wow! Now you could merge all the endings sections into 1 base, then drill "endgame tactics" like the skewer in this game. You could sort by ECO then dump those into Scid and see which lines have the most endgame tactics or specific tactics. Wow!

You can drill them now and....(drum roll please....)search/sort by repetoire. In chessbase it will now sort all new games into seperate indexes like knight forks only found in endgame. You can see where tactics are happening as well as when and who is doing tactics best.

It is harder for Scid users as all twic games are UN...A N N O T A T E D, so I feel sad for those of you who are honestly trying to make progress in skill, ability, skill-sets, playing strength, rating increases, etc. Unfortunately for you, the chessbase Mega Database with tons (65k=65,000) annotated games is only in chessbase format. Buying a serial and then using the activation code chessbase will send you in the 2 step process to get chessbase to work, may be best for now.

The cheapest way is chessbase light- buy a "key/serial" and convert it to chessbase light premium which is currently chessbase 9 full version. DO NOT expect to go the "cheapo" route and ty to scam/hustle/ or "get over" on chessbase thinking you pay less than 100.00 and somehow trick the system into activating the new version 11 170.00 and save tons of money. What you are getting is version 9 and not newest features. To get all the extras and endgame tablebases, correspondence database, mega database w/65k (65,000) annotated games, plus chessbase magazine which has 4-5 hrs videos on each dvd, will cost 399.00 msrp or you get what you pay for.

We don't come cheap, and that is why nobody can offer as much. We also added chess assistant professional w/12 dvd nalimov gold dvd set (70.00 extra) subtotal for CA11 (chess assistant) 220.00, then 150.00 Deep Rybka 4 Aquarium, then 150.00 chess openings wizard pro, then 70.00 for "freezer" from shredderchess.com- to make tablebases "on-the-fly" as well as some unique and specilized endgame work such as telling you every square on the board and max or min number moves "with best play both sides" to convert win of material or get mate. It allows you to x-out (exclude) specific squares or themes, patterns, moves per file-rank-diagonal, sections of board, groups of filles/ranks/diagonals, etc, etc, etc. It does GM level work on ALL endings as well as stronger (lol way way stronger, as in 300 elo engine increase) for endgame analysis. It also makes ECO type tables for endgames or openings, as well as stats and charts of endings.It is something you use if you want to be an "endgame specialist", play chess online "X-amount days per move" and want to do post game analysis to see more details in how you could have played better or how to play better should that type position occur again.

Add to that also that we added hard copies of chess life (actual mag) from 1-1985 to now 2011, plus all childrens chess life issues, or that we have all informants ever published (109 total) subtotal on just informants 725.00 for the privilege of 100,000 more annotated games as well as a collection of the best annotated games from the strongest tournaments- the best of best games from all the major tournaments of each time period. There may have been 1,000 B92 sicilian najdorf games played per issue that each 4 -6 month issue covered, yet only 10-15 games made it because a panel of GM all voted which games are best, then scores are totaled and they rank each game. It also is because only the best played games are chosen.

We can now cross-index informant issues and games with twic or chessbase magazine (annotated) games and pull only the best...or run comparisons of different annotators of informants vs NIC yearbook or NIC magazine, vs same exact games found in  chessbase mega database ! Sometimes we see the same annotator in different publications or databases. We can have chessbase save all that annotators notes and run comparisons to other annotators; to see what style and preferences each has.

Chessbase can save 1 position... a single move, if you really want to be picky and super technical... then index that as part of a theme or pattern, based on chessbase ability to reference or "cross-index" it against all known games in all databases searched ! Wow! In other words... it can check to see if, in any way shape or form, that move can possibly have any value what so ever ! It can then tell you which patterns it fits... and if it goes at the start, middle, or end of a group of moves in a combo or part of a "range" of moves such as a theme used in positional play. It can tell you all the other ideas that it can be successfully used with. It can tell you if you are wasting your time. Doing a position search may not work well... to find ideas in Scid. Scid does not index like chessbase and does not even have same detailed breakdowns as chessbase. It will only tell you in Scid...if... you find similar game such as pawn on same file but pieces anywhere, same exact match all pawns/pieces both sides colors, thngs like that. Scid does not have ability to do complex searches even using multiple searches also known as "incremental search". You cannot tell scid to do exact move patterns such as this piece here must move to square A and sit for 3 moves, while specific other pieces attack from exactly these squares, while it then moves to only this exact other square and the following choices are the only permitted counter moves, despite other options available, etc, etc.

A typical example is greek gift bishop sac on h7 and see if any other pieces could have taken the bishop, then see why the "gift" aka "sac" on h7 was declined, then see if there were specific tactics or types of positional play available, then cross-index all that with the main reference database to see just the main tactics and positional themes or patterns, then check stats to see w/d/l record per color. This tells you when the sac happens, usually certain tactics or positional play follows and the most common endings with those. It also tells you in chessbase if a move occurs in a range of moves like 10-20 of a 30 move game. You could get all 30 move games, then search move patterns. Using the time to/from square or time on square feature in scid comes close but still no "perfect" match. Using it to get a basic idea is good. We do that and call it "pre-sort".

You still need chessbase to search what move combos happen, in what order. It can be set to say the bishop sat under attack for 3 moves, then was reattacked 7 moves later, as well as search "hanging pieces" where they could have just taken it for free, or if a GM has a habit of hanging pieces, but makes up for it with other skills, and still wins.

Add to that 110.00 per "deep" version of an engine times 6 "deep version" engines for analysis,plus many other "paid software" engines that are currently only for sale as single processor like tiger or zappa or others (out of the 726 listed online tested in engine matches) and it adds up quick, real quick. Buy all that, plus hundreds of chess videos from uscf catalog, and thousands of books like we did ?????? Win a lottery first,lol. 

Now you see why few if any local or regional players try to "upstage" us or offer more for teaching or coaching, but we welcome any competition. They can offer stuff and buy enough to equal what we spent and continue to spend. This way each club offers something different. where we live, one club is mostly players who want to play for fun and do tournaments just for fun. The other club is the serious players and does GM Training. The "funsters" club has a few books and free chess software like Scid.

The "GM" club has all the same stuff the "funster" club has, and much much more...in fact  the "GM" club that uses and trains with a PC more is called PC Chess club because it uses far more chess cd, dvd, and chess software; and has more to display in public, enough to open a chess store/library:

books, chess videos, chess software, along with more expensive sets, boards, clocks; in addition to giant outdoor sets and overhead projectors.

One club has the goal of chit chat and play bughouse chess and play for fun, socialize, make up your own moves, plans,etc. The "GM" club is focused on working at what needs to be done to become a "GM", and has you take more notes, do more drills and training with a stopwatch and clock; as well as running the business side of chess coaching/teaching; thus they have more of classes, lectures, training, and workshops, as they use the chessbase magazine with GM lectures, watch several GM go over games in videos and have every informant ever made, as well as the largest collection of annotated games with text comments,  an IM or GM explaining strategy and tactics. The "funsters" will give their personal opinions. You can see what a 1200-1500 player thinks at that club, in case you face a 1200-1500.

The GM club also has over 500 chess engines sorted by rating and style for you. They can run analysis and then tell you the rating level used to find moves. This has the optional benefit of showing you how combos or positional play changes by rating. In other words, the "GM" club can run analysis and tell you the first choice/line is like a class B/C player, 2nd line would typically be spotted/found by U2k expert class, line 3 would be kids U1,000 and so on; even saying line 4 is IM, line 5 is a weak GM 2500, line 6 is super GM 2700, line 7 is a PC 3,000+ elo, so not likely to be seen by opponent or even a super GM !

Now you see what edge a club can have, as well as some work-arounds in scid. You can decide what each thing added to a club can do for making better players. Are you someone who is more suited to playing patzers in the park with pidgeons perched over your head, or someone who can become a GM and has the best chess resources to offer new members?

 Does your club have all the informants to learn different annotation styles, as well as how best to annotate games, by watching how many IM and GM annotate? Using tons of annotated games lets you see how to annotate. You can follow along and annotate a game, then cross-index your notes with informants, chessbase, videos, books, magazines, etc. as you have more sources available. Try it as an exercise, go in chess life and pull a game, try to annotate it, then compare what you saw and found or calculated, etc. See what you still need to learn or improve upon.

We teach annotation (not just the meaning of the symbols in informants or NIC), also as part of a "skill-set" and as part of "GM Training".  You learn how and where, as well as when or why to annotate a game; along with how much analysis to include, based on seeing the annotated games of chessbase and informants games, along with games by various GM or IM in magazines or books or videos. There are different annotators for different goals. Some like to flood the game with a zillion different bits of analysis from engines. This is easy to do in Scid 4.2 as it will auto-annotate games and insert time used,eval by points or percent of a pawn, also inserting name and version of engine(s). Some like to hit the select all (ctrl+A) shortcut and merge games...aka give you game references of other games where they found moves tried. Some actually work vs slackers who want a free ride and shortcut to the victory table. The ones who give you symbols for descriptions of strategies and plans and show some words are best. In the informants or NIC, we have some symbols to do this with.

It is not fair to cmpare both clubs in certain areas or to achieve certain goals, so as a professional courtesy, I do not do that now. It is not fair to expect the "Fun" club to achieve as high a rating in the future, or to provide as much resources. In closing, I echo/paraphrase a quote from searching for Bobby Fischer...

"When they win everybody cheers (it's a surprise).... when I win.... it's expected, nobody cheers".

Everyone expects us to win or me to win...as I got the videos to have a GM or IM sit down and go over ideas with me, same for chess books, as well as 200,000 annotated games, multiple database programs each a specialty feature or function that the other database programs do not have; so when combined with all the latest newest and best videos, books, chess cd/dvd money can buy along with paid game subscriptions getting 7-8,000 games per week... yeah, the "funsters" look like the underdogs.

When players may have a teacher online giving some opening repertoire (if any update ever at all), we are using over 500 engines and the best, most expensive and strongest/fastest engines money can buy, along with NIC magazine, NIC Yearbook, informants, Chessbase magazine to review tons upon tons of new "TN" as well as the ideas/opinions/notes of the player who did the move...and multiple annotators sometimes...as well as other GM who tried the move and added their ideas/opinions/comments/etc.

We then cross-index all that with other games in chessbase to sort patterns that may be in middlegame or endgame. Some say we come so well prepped/prepared... we would be accused of "fixing/throwing" games if we lose or draw. Maybe or maybe not, in the words of a MLB (McGuire roid accusation) "we're not here to talk about the past, let's move forward, we all got reasons for what we do." I may have given away games and "let" players win, but will not publicly admit to it.

Take a guess... if it is true... someone does over 100 rating tests, and consistently scores 2570-2590, has thousands of chess books, hundreds of chess videos at IM/GM, such as by Shirov, Kasparov, Anand, puts 50-70 hrs a week in chess, can calculate 40-60 ply (20-30 moves with multiple "nested/branching" variations inside variations), has all the software metioned in this blog, started rating tests at a 2100-2200 elo after reading 100 chess books and many annotated games studied, has beaten actual masters OTB, multiple games each color and same line, repeat wins... then find your answer.

Perhaps if he "fixed" games...was it only because local players refused to play him when he showed his true abilities, so in order to get practice against humans and socialize, he played give away... just not to make it so obvious they would catch it? Ask who are we to judge others....without knowing all the details, much like an eval of a chess position without knowing total pawns and pieces as well as placement of those not listed; wondering would the game have a different eval if we knew this player were protected against mate and really were at a 4 queen, 4 pawn advantage?

 Perhaps a little common sense can answer the question if YOU had 50-70 hrs per week, can calculate 60 ply=30 moves, all the above listed resources plus hundreds of chess videos, thousands of chess books, actual GM phone lessons (I did), scored 2150-2200 base talent level, and 15 yrs later scored consistent 2570-2590 elo over 100 tests (greater than 2570); average net gain of 40 elo points per year (approx.) how well would you play chess?  Most GM like Magnus Carlsen started 2200 or above. It is a realistic goal...if you have the talent and all the resources for chess study/training.

Multiple GM currently help me with training, all being over 2700 elo, as well as various authors who are IM and some NM. Three GM who I get the most help from are over 2800 elo. There is a coach to a player from a chess club who may be named Goran, but can not and will not beat the 2800 elo GM in question, as two of the 2800+ are GK from russia and VA from india as well as MC from Norway. Can you guess a world champion by initials? A clue is to look on the FIDE site at ratings. I do not know who can help you increase your playing strength/rating.

My goal is  to take the advice of several GM and get "test" rating consistent 2700 or 2650 min. then attempt to break world record for fastest rating increase OTB and least number games to achieve GM title along with least number tournaments needed. The current record according to Uscf is 10 tournaments if you count provisionals. I feel as do several GM it can be done in 6 tournaments if they have enough rounds/games.I was told you need a +8, to get one GM norm; and 3 norms for title.

I started years ago with help from some of the biggest names in chess. I never got a rating OTB yet...because it can mess up the chance to break this record. Lots of people make GM, but few make it in fewest amount of games and fewer stil with no NM or IM norms 1st. Fewer still make it to 2750.

Maybe some of you now understand why the long wait. I think of the emineim song  of 8 mile "lose yourself" or the rock 4 songs "eye of the tiger" or "no easy way out" to describe what I face as both movies could be used to show similarities to my attempt at breaking chess records.I hope to be 2750-2790 and beat the records for most blindfold games in a simul (45 I think) and most wins as melody amber tourney winner (combo of blindfold and rapid games, 2 divisions)as well as distinction of highest elo wins blindfolded. To become author and do chess books and videos, become known as go-to guy for title "trainer to trainers", get FIDE certification as senior level FIDE trainer, beat my old record of blitz 90 moves in 20 sec! My heart is in teaching, so I may pass on the above and stick with teaching/trainer/coach, I don't know yet.

I was told area chess club is showing an PR image for 2011 and would be a good club to play chess at for casual players who just play for fun, thus this comment would not be removed. If You find this on youtube and chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles/missed-tactic, then they have kept a neutral image and should be visited for a club where you can play for fun. They also host uscf tournaments.

 I am sure they want good publicity. I heard from the administrators at Hardees, corporate plans are to resolve differences by allowing both groups to continue, or banning all chess from all area hardees indefinitely.

Players could always meet at a home like BG did, though parking and being in other peoples home may be a concern for some visitors, as they may feel if they win, people may not invite them back. Some just prefer a public meeting center. They could rent a building for the low low price of 600 per month and have a car wash or bake sale, or aluminum cans, paper route. Oops, forgot elec. for lights, but could use candles and lighters, unless flammable objects nearby, or smoke inhalation, or leave a window open and strap lit candles to birds, for lighting and a gust of wind to get some more air; or use mice instead of birds, strap lit candles to mouse tails, then have a cat nearby to guard the mice.lol If the mice run grab the lit candle or follow the trail they leave....lol

If you do not find this on martin stahl page or blog and only on youtube, it is because chess.com does not control youtube or own youtube, and it says something about area chess club and martin. Perhaps we should have more freedom of speech in the world, less censureship, more parody.

so much spam, im pretty sure, one person couldnt have wrote that

x-ray or skewer tactic