Chess match(es)

One couldn't get any drier than this stuff so I'll put a couple of pics up of a two weeks ago on the boat.
Passing by what I think is a nice looking boat, the Sunset Bay, parked next to one of my all-time favorites, the American Beauty. What's with people always having to leave their sodiums on?


This isn't a picture of a jigging machine - It's a black bear!


See? (it's all water-logged and a very rare Hershey bar colored, riht in the middle of the stream. I don't have much of a camara)



One of my boys with dead fish. Yes, he's struggling - he's a city kid.


Three soul chickens woke us up eating our foodstuffs. They walked on me to get at the tortillas.


Why, I think, some people are so angry all the time - their back yard doesn't look like this.

Educate me - I don't know what a pgn reader is nor how to apply it.

[troy2000]

Originally Posted by mark775

Educate me - I don't know what a pgn reader is nor how to apply it.

Hoo boy, this is gonna be sorta like the blind leading the blind; I'm no expert. Although I can almost see out of one eye...

PGN is portable game notation; it's a condensed, standardized notation for recording games in computerese. I posted the games in it, farther up the thread. If you have a PGN viewer or reader or whatever, you can copy and paste the PGN for a specific game into it, and it'll show a board with the pieces and a list of the moves in some sort of menu. Then you can go through the game by scrolling, clicking on specific moves, or simply hitting forward or back buttons, depending on the viewer.

Most computer chess programs have a PGN viewer feature in them nowadays too, I think. Maybe I should just go download a free chess program, and see what kind of viewer comes with it.

If you click on one of our games and bring it up, down below is a pile of options. One of them says 'View the PGN for this game.' It's a link that brings up the PGN, and you can copy and paste it.

WT? YOU'RE SLEEPING?! (I moved)

[hoytedow]

Originally Posted by mark775

Okay, here's the set-up. Hah - I even found one of the rare lost photos of the desert dog here!:
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Game number 1 - I'm black:
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Troy, would you mind backing up a bit for this shot. You are so...In my face.
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That's better, thanks. Now I can concentrate. Here's game number 2 where I'm white:
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Where'd you get the picture of Pelosi?

[troy2000]

Originally Posted by mark775

WT? YOU'RE SLEEPING?! (I moved)

Occasionally, I actually work at work. Hard to believe, I know.

I answered those moves when I got around to them, then put my laptop away to get started on my end-of-shift routine (cleanup and paperwork). And the company 'net blocks gaming sites.

If you've moved again, I'll catch it when I get off after 7:00...

[daiquiri]

Hey guys, I love this idea.
Maybe you could resize the future photos to, say, 800x600 - or otherwise Jeff might curse you for eating up his precious server resources... Just a suggestion from me.

Cheers!

[troy2000]

Originally Posted by daiquiri

Hey guys, I love this idea.
Maybe you could resize the future photos to, say, 800x600 - or otherwise Jeff might curse you for eating up his precious server resources... Just a suggestion from me.

Cheers!

I usually link my pic's from photobucket, instead of uploading them. If I understand how it works, the only thing that puts on Jeff's server is a link to the image url. Or am I confused?

[troy2000]

Ow.... I just went looking for an original edition of Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess from 1966 -- the cheesy, plastic-coated hardback. So far, I've found exactly one.

Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. xiv, 334 p. illus. 24 cm. ... Very good. No dust jacket as issued. xiv, 334 p. illus. 24 cm. "A Basic Systems program. " SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. FIRST EDITION. BINDING A BIT DARKENED. PLASTIC COVERING OVER FRONT COVER SLIGHTLY PEELING AT BOTTOM LEFT NEAR BINDING. BINDING TIGHT. PAGES EXCELLENT CONDITION FOR AGE.

The price? US $2,000.00. Right. Time to go looking for the old full-sized paperback edition instead. As soon as I finish kicking myself around the room, for letting someone borrow my original edition copy back in 1981....

By the way, the book doesn't go into any deep analysis or theory; some of Bobby Fischer's other books have a lot more meat in them for experienced players. This one is a 'programmed learning' workbook he lent his name to. It takes you through mating positions a step at a time, getting progressively more challenging one baby step at a time. It focuses the reader's attention on a concept so obvious that it's often lost track of: every move in a properly played game has only one purpose: checkmate.

How do I do that, Daiquiri?
Troy, I moved. I thought this was going to be easier. Nice play thus far.

[daiquiri]

Mark,
I think you'd have to resize the photos before uploading here. But anyways - if Jeff doesn't tell you something, don't bother. Now focus your attention at the game, Troy looks pretty motivated...

Thanks. He's now got ME on the run - was that a feint retreat?


Am I now about to receive the counter?


Hoyt - That's a ling cod, ophiodon pelongatus, not related to the panda ling, or ling ling (thought I'd throw that one out for you!). Lighten up on the woman anyway - she got jobs for 63 republicans two weeks ago! (It's a joke. It's a joke - I'll remove it if anyone is offended and we can keep the thread non-political.)

[troy2000]

Originally Posted by mark775

How do I do that, Daiquiri?
Troy, I moved. I thought this was going to be easier. Nice play thus far.

Thank you... I think. Or should I feel insulted instead, that you didn't think I knew how to play?

You're doing well yourself, especially for someone who claims to normally depend on a short clock.

I don't see that well and had to read twice to see you wrote clock.
Oh - I see you like a tight board! In Scrabble that is an indicator of fear of a superior player. In Chess, on the contrary, it expresses endgame confidence or patience.


Or did you just see the small snare I had set?

[troy2000]

Originally Posted by mark775

I don't see that well and had to read twice to see you wrote clock.

Not gonna go there....

If you're going to move, it might be a good idea to do it soon; I'm seeing two or three laptops instead of one.

For some reason I couldn't stay asleep yesterday, so I went to work last night on about three or four hours of fitful, interrupted napping. Not taking a chance on that happening again today, so this morning I've crawled into a bottle of Evan Williams bourbon; I figure that should guarantee me at least six hours of snooze time today.

But all those nimrods who blather on in their online reviews about 'classic bourbon nose, slightly smoky, with a hint of spice and vanilla;' etc.? Screw 'em. I shoulda spent a few more bucks and gotten some Maker's Mark, or even Jim Beam.

add: My older son just called. My wife is in the hospital, apparently with severe gallstones, and they're talking about operating to remove her gall bladder. As a loving husband my place is by her side, right?

Except that I've been asked to work another overtime shift tomorrow night. On top of the ridiculous hours I've worked already, it'll shove me into double-time territory if I cover my normal shifts too. Taking a day off to run home to hold her hand would break the chain of days worked without a day off, and cost me at least a thousand dollars in take-home pay.

And not only is Christmas coming up, we're also scheduled to fly cross-country next month to attend my younger son's graduation from Army boot camp. Not to mention the scumbag lawyer we're paying to fight my sister-in-law's scumbag lawyers, because she won't accept the fact that the reason she only inherited $100.00 from her mother is because, as my mother-in-law succinctly put it, "Darcy has already screwed me out of her inheritance, and then some."

The wife would rise out of her bed to choke me, if I told her how much being there to comfort her would cost in dollars... and she's the one who pays the bills.