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#26 2005-12-29 20:01:59

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Re: Chess

Forks are fun moves. Example: manipulate your opponents pieces in the right spot, then move your knight so it attacks both queen and castle at the same time. Your opponent may have noticed you could attack either piece but didn't figure on both at once.


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#27 2005-12-29 20:23:46

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Re: Chess

Another question: why the scientists haven't revealed a strategy for the chess?


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#28 2005-12-29 20:25:01

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I tried with mirror strategy but it didn't work.


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#29 2005-12-29 20:31:27

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Re: Chess

Logic:
You are playing two chess games at the same time (first you move in the first, then your from the first moves then you move in the second then the second opponent moves and you get back to the first and so on)
Give a strategy (it's logical) when you are black in the first game and white in the second to be sure you'll get at least one point at the end.


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#30 2005-12-29 22:57:39

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Re: Chess

There is enough complexity in chess to stop it being fully analyzed. (Though that is getting less so with increasing computing power.)

Odd strategies can work, for example there was a champion chess player who would lose most of his pieces ... all the way to victory!


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#31 2005-12-29 23:52:51

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Re: Chess

krassi_holmz wrote:

Logic:
You are playing two chess games at the same time (first you move in the first, then your from the first moves then you move in the second then the second opponent moves and you get back to the first and so on)
Give a strategy (it's logical) when you are black in the first game and white in the second to be sure you'll get at least one point at the end.

I saw Derren Brown do that a while ago, except it was against 9 grandmasters. He played 8 of them against each other using the above strategy 4 times and somehow managed to beat the last one by himself.


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#32 2005-12-30 04:31:22

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Re: Chess

This is great!


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#33 2005-12-30 08:00:34

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Re: Chess

ganesh wrote:

You are correct, siva.eas.
I posted that in a hurry. A minor mistake. The first move should be
1. e4, e6

It still would not work, white cold block the check by moving its bishop to f7.

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#34 2006-01-09 20:57:45

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krassi_holmz wrote:

You have great site!

Thanks a million, krassi_holmz! 6 years ago, I didn't know internet existed smile
To : siva.eas
I am sorry. I am getting old and making more mistakes than ever.
The moves are
1. f4, e6.
g4, Qh4 +mate


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#35 2006-01-09 21:10:14

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MathsIsFun wrote:

Wanna practice (1)? Go to: Knights Move (I got 67after a *few* attempts)

Wow! I got 65! Very interesting game, MathsIsFun, thanks for the game.:cool:


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#36 2006-01-09 23:54:37

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65? Doh!


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#37 2006-01-10 00:18:56

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I have done better than that before. I started with the position of the knight as it is at the start of a game and did it in 63 moves!


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#38 2006-01-10 09:04:54

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63? That is a perfect score! We should all just pack up and go home, then.


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#39 2006-01-10 12:59:15

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Re: Chess

Mathematicians are supposed to be chess wizards. I'd say its a myth.

I always loose chess games by making one little mistake and blowing the game. Same as I do when I mess up a math problem. Only takes one tiny mistake to get a problem wrong.


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#40 2006-01-10 21:31:17

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Yes, I do agree. I make too many mistakes. Silly ones. I have never ever scored a 100% in a Mathematics test big_smile


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#41 2006-01-11 06:46:14

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Re: Chess

Yeah, like forgetting to add + C to the answer of an integration problem. x_x


A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.

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