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Not music related but are any of you keeping up with the Chess Championship this year?

Magnus Carlsen and his Filipino/American Challenger are all tied up after eight games. Every game has been a draw. Only four more matches to go... and, if still tied, they go into a faster form of play. Both are incredibly good players and I wish both of them luck... or the skill it takes to play at this level.

Chess should be a required course for Junior High Level Students. (IMHO... because of the discipline, courtesy, rule adherence, patience and life-long appreciation for strategic decision making it will impart on most fertile young minds.

I'll do my best to remember to keep those of you who are interested in updates as the Championship progresses.

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Chess comes down to how fast you can calculate probabilities. It's similar to poker in that way. Less luck involved in chess thats the main difference

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Hi FD:

Your comment is interesting and important... but I believe Chess played at tournament speed (slow by the standards of most chess clubs) and at Master's Level relies more on the power of memory and pattern recognition. After the first move by each player, the number of moves available is mind boggling. Knowing proven responses to each move is invaluable to either player. White is charged with maintaining tempo from the start because White gets the first move. Black's primary objective is to counter each move made by White correctly... and thus, play for a draw unless White blunders. The element of time is often forgotten by casual players who do not play with clocks. Time pressure can force mental error if the prescribed number of moves have not been made in the time allotted by the rules of the match.

As you implied, the element of luck is almost eliminated unless you consider drawing the Black pieces as bad luck. (Giving up the opportunity of making the first move.)

The study of Chess Openings is numbing research... which I appear to lack the will or grey matter to master. It is a challenging and fantastic game. I've never found a game to equal chess because of it's complexities. I have heard that duplicate bridge and the Oriental game now called "GO" are nearly as challenging... and can only offer a differing opinion as far as duplicate Bridge is concerned. I've never played "GO."

For me, Song-Writing is much more rewarding but I'd love to have the brilliancy of Bobby Fischer. Nobody ever accused me of being a "prodigy."

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I enjoy chess where you can take an hour to make a move. Hmm... what will be my opening move. Let me think about it. Be right back, gotta make a trip to the restroom. I'm back, hmm... Be right back, gotta get a glass of wine. Now that's a start of a great chess game.

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Rules must be established before play begins. Were you on the clock... or is this a game at a favorite bar or bistro? LOL! ....and yes, I'll have a Capuchino if you don't mind.

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Rules must be established before play begins. Were you on the clock... or is this a game at a favorite bar or bistro? LOL! ....and yes, I'll have a Capuchino if you don't mind.


Yes, we were on the clock. The game had to be completed within a week.

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I played some Chess a hundred years ago. I had a guy so tied up it took him 45 minutes to make his next move. However I think he won the game. I did enjoy it at the time.


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Originally Posted by Dave Rice
Hi FD:

Your comment is interesting and important... but I believe Chess played at tournament speed (slow by the standards of most chess clubs) and at Master's Level relies more on the power of memory and pattern recognition. After the first move by each player, the number of moves available is mind boggling. Knowing proven responses to each move is invaluable to either player. White is charged with maintaining tempo from the start because White gets the first move. Black's primary objective is to counter each move made by White correctly... and thus, play for a draw unless White blunders. The element of time is often forgotten by casual players who do not play with clocks. Time pressure can force mental error if the prescribed number of moves have not been made in the time allotted by the rules of the match.

As you implied, the element of luck is almost eliminated unless you consider drawing the Black pieces as bad luck. (Giving up the opportunity of making the first move.)

The study of Chess Openings is numbing research... which I appear to lack the will or grey matter to master. It is a challenging and fantastic game. I've never found a game to equal chess because of it's complexities. I have heard that duplicate bridge and the Oriental game now called "GO" are nearly as challenging... and can only offer a differing opinion as far as duplicate Bridge is concerned. I've never played "GO."

For me, Song-Writing is much more rewarding but I'd love to have the brilliancy of Bobby Fischer. Nobody ever accused me of being a "prodigy."

Thanks for your input. ----Dave


It's like having a rubics cube in your mind. People who solve rubics cube fast are not necessarily brain surgeons, but rather have unlocked all possible combinations.

Chess is the same way, one thing though is that when both are really good they negate alot of the power you have.

Bobby Fischer also plays blackjack.



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Although in rubics cube, there's only one brain working on the solution. With chess there are two brains constantly sending each opponent in different directions. Even more challenging is 3D chess. Endless possibilities. But not for my brain.

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More Less than Exciting News:

All tied up after nine games. Not a single win from either guy, Caruana or Carlsen. I'm wondering if it's going to end up being a major risky or little known opening by one or the other on the last of the regulation games? Personally, I'm hoping they don't get into the "speed" games for tie breakers. Speed chess may be fun but I never thought of it as World Championship Caliber Chess.

As far as I know, John... there are no World Champion 3-D Sanctioned Chess Champions by the FIDE. (The World Chess Headquarters in France.) I would not last long at a 3-D game, LOL!

FD: There is a great book about Bobby Fischer, his life, his eccentricity and his Chess History called, "End Game."

Happy Turkey Day, Guys... three regulation games to go. I'll keep you posted since none of the American Networks are carrying this World Class Event.

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I've been following it, and all those draws are historic. By the way Caruana isn't Filipino/American, he's a Brooklyn boy with Italian parents. Amazing players.

I used to read a lot about chess, even though I suck at it. Lots of grandmasters throughout history with wild stories—Paul Morphy, Jose Capablanca, Lasker, Steinetz. It can actually be exciting to read about them. More interesting to me than golf, anyway!

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Thanks for the clarification, Mark:

The name did not sound Filipino... but I had never heard of him until this event. He has certainly given Magnus a serious challenge.

Much as I love chess and golf... both can be quite boring for spectators... but I really miss not being able to play golf. Each has a certain magic to my way of thinking. One is mostly played indoors (not necessarily in NYC during decent weather) and the other in mostly park-like atmosphere with tees, greens and fairways laid out in a challenging fashion. I enjoyed the idiotic bets as team versus team would try to out-do each other on Saturday Mornings at the local links.

Chess, as challenging as it is... is normally not a team event, except for school and college events where groups play groups.

Both prevent boredom and when Song-Writing gets thrown into the mix... pure joy!

Cheers, ----Dave

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The tenth match is or will be underway in London today. There is a six or seven hour time lag between London and West Mayberry... and we get our news by Mule Train. Today, being Turkey Day (Thanksgiving) here in the disjointed States... I'm going "off the grid" and won't be able to let you know how this match ends until I return from Rancho Sendaro.

Happy Thanksgiving, JPF... and all the ships at sea!

More cheers, ----Dave

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I played competitive chess and only had 2 losses during my 15-16 year bracket play and only a single loss during my 17-18 year bracket play over the 4 years and over 200 rated tournament matches. We had to play unnaturally fast due to time limitations and a play clock though it wasn't all out speed chess at all, but you can go on to Chess.com and watch actual GRAND MASTERS playing speed chess day and night there. (It's cool you can watch the highest ranked players on the site playing at any given time and it's been Grand Masters in the rankings each time I have checked this week. I hadn't lost a game of chess (though I stopped playing ranked games when I graduated college) since 1982 but finally lost to my nephew last year who I taught 20 years earlier to play chess. I haven't played since as I am so proud of him I feel like my work is done on that front. He's the one who turned me on to the chess.com app. My game is no longer where it was even when I was a teen as I simply haven't played enough ranked games for nearly 30 years to keep my chops up. Sort of like not playing live on an instrument in front of a good audience for decades, you just don't have it anymore. But Chess CAN be played fast and with deep thinking so practiced that it is second nature and you just play without thought. My last official loss, before my nephew, was in the 1982 State Chess Finals against the then 3rd ranked player in the world at the 17-18 age group. I only had a single strategy in that game and that was to force a draw or run him out of time if he didn't accept. He beat me with about 35 seconds left on his clock and I had over a minute left. I felt that was my greatest strategic game because I was so heavily outmatched by him it would be like having a jam off with Yo Yo Ma. You're not beating him, you just hope to contain him a little. heh. Later, I simply didn't have the time or attention once my focus was on college girls, playing college sports and making music and that was that.

I think I made the right choice and don't remotely regret it! That Kid I played was never defeated until he was on the world stage years later. I have no idea what happened to him after that but I bet I had a lot more fun!

Peace out


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Hi Brian: Interesting fact about you I never realized. That is quite a record for that period of your life... and at that age. Great strategy against that highly rated player. A draw against a more powerful player is as good as a win as far as I'm concerned. Even that strategy is difficult at that level.

As promised, the World Chess Championship in London now stands at eleven games, all draws. One more to go before the clocks become more of a factor.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving... or some time off if our Holiday is not celebrated in your country. It's always good to eventually return home.

Cheers, ----Dave

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More chess news:

The mule train arrived today from Fort Worth bearing the news of the twelfth match. It also, was a draw. Can you imagine twelve drawn games by Grand-Master Level Chess Players? I don't think it has ever happened before in the World Championship Match.

Now they begin the ordeal of limited time per game. May the best player win!

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That's all conjecture, there's no proof any of that helps you at chess.

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I suspect it might cause severe brain damage as it obviously has impacted our suburban newcomer & snake oil salesperson!

Hey Brian, can you press the ejection seat button?

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Wednesday in London at 3:00 PM GMT (London Time) will see the thirteenth game between these two "Giants of the Chess World." This game will be played at a faster pace.

Thanks, Brian... for removing our visiting salesperson's post.

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According to Chess.com... Magnus Carlsen has emerged from the three playoff games with three wins to retain his "Crown" as World Chess Champ. Congratulations to both players for some exceptional matches.

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Saw it on the news. I had to laugh when onlookers were saying how exciting the games were. No one was sweating or out of breath, no doubt the brains were working hard but that was the extent of the exercise. I've never played chess, no doubt it is demanding on the brain but not the body, no body contact, no bruises, cuts or broken bones, not an exciting spectator sport if you'd ask me. I'm joking of course, to each his own. LOL

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Hi Ev:

You are 100% correct. Watching a chess match is pretty dull unless one is really "into" chess. It is a challenging game and to make it up through the ranks into the World Championship Finals is what I would consider a lifetime achievement. The mental exercise is exactly what chess is all about. Knowing all the counter moves to the hundreds of possible opening moves really take a ton of mental or pnemonic capability.

At one time, I had three primary interests: Chess, Golf and Song-Writing. Now I'm down to only two... and I really do miss playing golf.

Hope all is well with you and yours. ----Dave

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The only sport I really enjoyed playing was hockey, played a bit of baseball, softball and soccer, but songwriting was my passion, started in my early teens and I can't seem to stop even though I'm in my seventies. I never liked playing cards of any kind, checker was the only board game that I liked, never tried chess, maybe I would have liked it.

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Checkers, when played at championship levels is a marvelous board game. My brother was a Basketball Coach in Joshua, Texas and often had the opportunity to play the Texas State Checkers Champ who lived there. Needless to say, after all those learning experiences, when we would play, I could make one move and he would let me know I had lost the game. He was always right. At least, I could usually beat him at chess!

I wouldn't know where to even start learning the essential elements of Hockey. Perhaps in this "neck of the woods" we could play "Sand Hockey?" LOL!

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I have found I no longer have the focus to plan 10 moves forward and thus have wound down playing chess. When my nephew beat me (he always whips out the chess board every time I see him. He's an actor in NYC but anywhere I have seen him doing a show around the country he always has a board ready to go when I get there) I was winning big and got distracted with other thoughts and frankly stopped paying attention. I am not discounting his win, but rather my ability to focus on the game at hand. I used to have intense focus on a task at hand which has helped me in the work I have done. But as with other skills, it has faded and transitioned to a very scattered 10 things a second wave that washes over me in anything I do. I have so many ideas and thoughts flying at any moment that effective chess playing is just not in the cards anymore. So I used the loss as a way to pas the baton to him and I haven't played since and that was more than a year ago. Even while typing this I am thinking of so many other things I keep stopping to pursue them before realizing I haven't finished. I wonder if it is just me or do any of you find your mind flittering to 10 things at once all the time?


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Your point is valid, Brian. When I managed a Division of a Fortune 500 Company, I often played chess during my lunch hour against one of our bright young Engineers. (When my schedule would let me.) Having your mind bogged down with other, more important items makes playing serious chess a real challenge. He would beat me nearly every time.

I even tried my hand at tournament chess during that period of my life and was bitterly disappointed at my lack of success. Juggling too many balls at one time works only for a gifted few.

Now that I'm retired, it's obvious I can see the patterns unfold and evolve as we play in a relaxed atmosphere. Wish I could find that young Engineer and see if I really have improved.

Regarding the World Championship... I was disappointed at the method they used to break the string of ties. To me, speed chess, intriguing as it is, does not measure up to Master's Level Tournament Play. (But the FIDE didn't ask my opinion... LOL!)

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Have not followed the championship. But my dad started teaching me. I occasionally check mated with opponents although the opponent had far more pieces left. I heard that is not a win but a quarterflash.
Do I have the correct term?

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In chess, real chess... a check-mate is a check-mate. It does not matter how many pieces are left on the board... only if the King is "in-check"... and cannot find a way to get out of check. He or She who has check-mated the opponent, has won the game.

I've never heard the term or expression, quarterflash. To be certain, I looked in Kenneth Harkness' Official Chess Handbook and that term does not even appear in the index. Local chess clubs sometimes develop games and styles of play that do not actually conform to the rules of chess. Perhaps this is one of those developments? Thanks for asking. If you discover more about this term, please let me know. ----Dave

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Age and Parkinsons are taking turns adding nuts to my cookie dough brain.

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It is really sad we spend all our lives "learning stuff"... and by the time we know how to use it... our physical and mental faculties always seem to "throw a wrench" into our plans. The golden years tarnish so quickly. Watching clips of President Bush's later years when Parkinson's really began to take it's toll was painful to watch, knowing how bright and productive he had been.

Then there is the real dilemma of Alzheimer's. The toll it takes on the family and caregivers is probably the saddest thing to endure. Keeping that "Gray Matter" engaged, no matter what the activity, is a good thing, Perry. Writing good Children's Books is a special talent and the rewards are usually not so much monetary as much as sheer pleasure, knowing you are impacting young minds... and the future of humanity.

All the best, ----Dave

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The stuff dumped into our environment by many means is causing Alzheimer's among those susceptible to getting it. It is like Type 1 diabetes. I am convinced it is a virus that younger people often are susceptible to and thus contract it when they come into contact with it. In my small rural community, we had 2 things in outrageous numbers back in the early 80's. Twins and Type 1 diabetes. Within a single square mile of where I lived in a fairly low populated farming community, we had 3 kids contract it the SAME DAY! We were all neighbors obviously and were in the hospital at the same time. In our wider area, at school we had another collection of kids already Type 1 diabetic or soon to be after us. Additionally my cousin ALSO got it and she grew up about a half mile away.

Heavy metals such as aluminum, barium and others are included in the cloud seeding they are doing supposedly to combat "global warming" by seeding the skys with sprays which cause the skies to be covered with streaks of white "clouds" which dissipate into a white haze. Testing proves this stuff is filled with aluminum and other nasty stuff. So even if it DID help the weather in some way (highly debatable) the metals left in our soil and all over everything we touch outside are devastating to our mental health. Check out what aluminum alone does to people. Imagine it in dust forms going in our lungs, coming into contact with our skin etc. But alas, so few people are mentally engaged in any of this it is impossible to get anyone riled up to stand up against it or even demand answers. Instead people yell "conspiracy theory!!!!!!" and stop listening.

Meanwhile, I don't go outside much anymore. I enter the car in the garage, I try to drive to where I am going and park close and go back inside. etc. Not sure what else I can do. My son and my granddaughter love being outside and what am I going to say? It's frustrating. I wish people would stop worry so much about the later twitter outrage and more about the MANY outrages happening all around us in every direction.


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Every flu shot contains aluminum or mercury as a preservative, yet they insist you get flu shots because they are less dangerous than the flu.

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I hope this topic of conversation (Alzheimer's) is a thing of the past within the next five years. We have so much to learn about what causes it, what may prevent it... and most hopefully, a way to reverse it. Reversing it is probably a pipe dream... but it does not cost much to hope.

While "we" are making wild predictions... I have a gut feeling that one day, we will be able to walk into a medical facility, get connected to a contraption that defies description, and have our Brains refreshed, re-wired and generally repaired. Then walk out into a world which appears to be slowly sinking into insanity. ...and still, I hope!

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Originally Posted by Dave Rice
I hope this topic of conversation (Alzheimer's) is a thing of the past within the next five years. We have so much to learn about what causes it, what may prevent it... and most hopefully, a way to reverse it. Reversing it is probably a pipe dream... but it does not cost much to hope.

While "we" are making wild predictions... I have a gut feeling that one day, we will be able to walk into a medical facility, get connected to a contraption that defies description, and have our Brains refreshed, re-wired and generally repaired. Then walk out into a world which appears to be slowly sinking into insanity. ...and still, I hope!


Oh, that will be "in the ad copy" but what will they leave behind? Stuff they make money from in many horrifying ways. The amount of money is durable medical goods and the complete raping of people on sustenance drugs like insulin (which has, in the newest configuration's lifetime gone from 14 dollars a bottle to over 300 dollars without a single formula change over a mere 2 decades of non innovation (and thus no claim to research costs which they were already making up for at the $14 dollar price which was up from the $4 dollar price of what we had before which is now not allowed to be sold in the USA of course) is criminal and I mean that literally. It is a collusion of Government, Pharma (no need to say BIG Pharma anymore, it's ALL big) and other unnamed interest pulling their strings (let's call them "investors" in both the legal and illegal sense). If people were AWAKE to all this I imagine the world might go up in flames overnight. (And that would be yet another type of hell). There's no money in curing Type 1 diabetes when that is but a FRACTION of the money involved, especially as the ravages of the disease adds up. Insidious doesn't begin to describe it. For each Alzheimer victim there's hospitals, caretakers and warehousers all lined up with their hands out while our very humanhood is stolen in the most emotionally destructive way turning us literally into the living dead.

I've learned so much about this stuff over the past few years I have been off the road and more engaged in what people are doing to us (and make no mistake, this is human on human intentional violence all for power and a buck not some faceless company, they all have faces and those faces are smiling the more and more suffering they inflict on us).

But wait.. what did latest pop tart say on twitter? Really.. omg... be right back....

Brian


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These drug companies that are withholding cures so they can get rich off the suffering people, will have a lot to answer for when they meet God. They are no better than slavers from the past. They keep people in slavery to their drugs. That is why they hate natural treatments, not enough profit margins for them, only a few hundred percent markup compared to thousands in drugs. A ten cent pill will sell for ten dollars, good profit there but the person buying it may have to go hungry to pay for it.

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Had a round of shots that were a requirement for my job. Don't get a flu too often
Yet the shot made me sicker than a dog.
I an not anti flu vaccination. There are people that swear by them.
It is the attitude that the goverment can make decisions for us.
And most often with who works to pay their salary.


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