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Catalan solids

Catalan solids

Gm_andrewfeng
| Feb 13, 2012
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In mathematics, a Catalan solid, or Archimedean dual, is a dual polyhedron to an Archimedean solid. The Catalan solids are named for the Belgian mathematician, Eugène Catalan, who first described them in 1865. The Catalan solids are all convex. T...

Archimedian solids

Archimedian solids

Gm_andrewfeng
| Feb 13, 2012
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In geometry an Archimedean solid is a highly symmetric, semi-regular convex polyhedron composed of two or more types of regular polygons meeting in identical vertices. They are distinct from the Platonic solids, which are composed of only one type...

List of chess openings

List of chess openings

Gm_andrewfeng
| Feb 13, 2012
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This is a list of chess openings, organised by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) code. In 1966, Chess Informant categorised the chess openings into five broad areas ("A" through "E"), with each of those broken down into one hundred subcate...

Chess Openings - Best to Worst.

Chess Openings - Best to Worst.

Gm_andrewfeng
| Feb 13, 2012
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With the full realization that there is no meaningful difference in goodness among the best opening moves, that players well-versed in unorthodoxy are apt to play great wtih "lesser" moves, and that all openings are playable in amateur competition...

Lilonel's Version of the Immortal Game

Lilonel's Version of the Immortal Game

Gm_andrewfeng
| Jan 30, 2012
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Annotated game White: Adolf Anderssen (moved first but was playing the black pieces,[2] so is shown here as playing White to match modern conventions regarding White and Black)Black: Lionel Kieseritzky 1. e4 e5 2. f4 This is the King's Gambi...

Immortal losing game

Immortal losing game

Gm_andrewfeng
| Jan 29, 2012
| 3,003
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The "Immortal Losing Game" is a chess game between the Soviet grandmaster David Bronstein and the Polish International Master Bogdan Śliwa played in 1957 in Gotha. The name is an allusion to the more famous Immortal Game between Adolf Anderssen an...

List of chess games

List of chess games

Gm_andrewfeng
| Jan 29, 2012
| 3,893
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This is a list of notable chess games sorted chronologically.  1600s 1619: Greco–NN, Rome 1619. In one of the earliest recorded chess games, Gioachino Greco mates on the eighth move with a queen sacrifice. 1700s 1788: Bowdler–Conway, London. Thom...

Reti,1921

Reti,1921

Gm_andrewfeng
| Jan 29, 2012
| 883
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  White to move and Draw.At first sight, this seems an impossible task: if White tries to chase after Black's pawn he can never catch it (1. Kh7 h4 2.Kh6 h3 etc. is clearly hopeless), while it is clear that Black will simply take White's pawn if...

My Game in The 4 Pawns'

My Game in The 4 Pawns'

Gm_andrewfeng
| Jan 29, 2012
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The 4 Pawns Gambit is a gambit that sacs 4 pawns in return for a Huge Lead lin Development.   If Black Plays Bg3 it can lead to forced mate.Here is one of my own Games.  

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