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At the start of the game each players removes between 1-8 pawns from the board and sets them in their research laboratory. Each pawn in the research laboratory accelerates the rate of research. Note: players do not have to announce the number of pawns being moved to the research laboratory. Only remove pawns once the fog of war divider is placed on the board at the start of the game.
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Before the game, bid to determine who will go first in the tech / promotion ban phase. The same piece cannot have both its tech and promotion banned.
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Oct 25, 2022 15:29
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can't believe someone with "Elo" and "NM" in his name wouldn't want to get into chess. the gamer pride part of it reminds me of David Sirlin's Chess 2: The Sequel to Chess
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Oct 25, 2022 15:33
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vyelkin posted:imagining a tech tree for chess: you start with only pawns and they can only move one square, after five moves you can choose to unlock either knights or bishops, or you can go down the pawn tree and unlock the double first move. To unlock en passant you have to have both the double pawn move and knights unlocked. Either knights or bishops lets you unlock rooks, and once you've unlocked rooks you can unlock your queen or research the ability to castle Elon wouldn't want pawns to get promoted or stronger. He would sacrifice pawns to make
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Oct 25, 2022 15:36
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ilmucche posted:Elon wouldn't want pawns to get promoted or stronger. He would sacrifice pawns to make that's true, okay, endgame tech lets you sacrifice a pawn to increase your king's movement range by 1 for each pawn sacrificed. if you keep at least 7 pawns alive until the endgame you can sac them all to give your king queen-level movement
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Oct 25, 2022 16:02
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ilmucche posted:Elon wouldn't want pawns to get promoted or stronger. He would sacrifice pawns to make This is how chess used to be played. People thought the role of pawns was to die for the aristocracy, and it was immoral to protect them. It's probably not a coincidence that Philidor wrote "pawns are the soul of chess" in the intellectual lead up to the French Revolution.
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Oct 25, 2022 16:13
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vyelkin posted:imagining a tech tree for chess: you start with only pawns and they can only move one square, after five moves you can choose to unlock either knights or bishops, fundamental opening principles work the same way
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Oct 25, 2022 16:52
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Want to take control of the early game? Quickly tech into g7 to unlock Fianchetto Bishop and advance your Modern Defense trait
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Oct 25, 2022 17:35
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Control Volume posted:Want to take control of the early game? Quickly tech into g7 to unlock Fianchetto Bishop and advance your Modern Defense trait Achievement Unlocked: Long Diagonal
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Oct 25, 2022 17:43
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 Who is better?
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Oct 25, 2022 18:07
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Salt Fish posted:
Unless I'm missing something it's white by a long shot, though the size of the lead depends on who is next to move. If it's white to move, you win the game immediately with 1. Qxc2 Rxc2 2. d7. If it's black to move, I don't see how you prevent white from playing Rxb6 and eventually getting the pawn promoted with that rook
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Oct 25, 2022 18:44
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mfcrocker posted:Unless I'm missing something it's white by a long shot, though the size of the lead depends on who is next to move.
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Oct 25, 2022 18:56
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Salt Fish posted:
I want to say small advantage to black. I start by looking if black has an immediate forced win with something like 1...Rxh4. I can't find one. So we head to step two. White's got an advanced passed pawn, but black's king is in good position to defend it. Ganguly talks about this in the Semi-Tarrasch course a lot, where the advanced passed d-pawn is not such a concern because (1) black's king can easily come to e7/d8 and (2) black has a queenside majority for counterplay. If we're going for this plan, we want to minimize pieces on the board. Black wins the pawn endgame, for example, because of the outside pawns. So we start with trading queens and eliminating white's remaining a-pawn. This gives us: 1...Qxd2+ 2.Rxd2 Rxa4. Now I think black's 'best case scenario' from here is something like picking up white's d and h pawns in exchange for the last a-pawn. That gives black a 4v3 advantage with all the pawns on one side of the board. That provides some winning chances for black, but is a draw with average defending.
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Oct 25, 2022 19:17
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 Off to a normal start
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That passed pawn on d6 is making me queasy as black even if you try to trade down going to be really tough to stop.
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butros posted:That passed pawn on d6 is making me queasy as black even if you try to trade down going to be really tough to stop. Try to imagine what white has to do to actually promote the pawn. The obvious defence is black sitting a rook down on d8, so how does white get through that?
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Oct 25, 2022 19:31
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Sorry, it was black to move whoops! black is better Analysis board: https://lichess.org/analysis/standard/2r3k1/5p2/1p1P2p1/pR3p1p/P3r2P/4P3/2qQ1PP1/3RK3_b_-_-_2_29 I found that one to be very hard which is why I posted it. I really like these puzzles though. (from https://chessevaluationtraining.com/)
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Oct 25, 2022 19:41
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Bharatrocity posted:
What variant is this
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Hand Knit posted:Try to imagine what white has to do to actually promote the pawn. The obvious defence is black sitting a rook down on d8, so how does white get through that? There is already a rook on D8?
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Captain Foo posted:What variant is this
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Bharatrocity posted:
It won't happen, but that starting arrangement cries out to end quickly in an epaulette mate.
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Powered Descent posted:It won't happen, but that starting arrangement cries out to end quickly in an epaulette mate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTQSj9aavXA
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Oct 25, 2022 21:05
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If we're doing "who's better" and you're willing to take a look at a position in an OTB lunch-break game where both players are probably triple-digit strength, here's an interesting(?) position (white to move): Note that both players very bad, so don't expect anything subtle. I was black and assumed that I was toast, since white's up +3 in material. I'm not actually sure why Stockfish rates it as about -4, so that's why it's interesting to me. I'm guessing it's because so many of white's pieces are undefended and the black queen is poised for Qxb2, causing a bunch of subsequent problems.
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Bharatrocity posted:
So this is black offering white the option of 2. Qxh8 Nf6 3. Qxf8 Kxf8? And declining would require a pawn to become pinned on c3 or d4 while white got their queen out of the bishop's view? Edit: hmm no i missed something, white can go 3. Qg7 Rg8 4. Qh6... I am perplexed kalensc fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Oct 26, 2022 |
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kalensc posted:So this is black offering white the option of 2. Qxh8 Nf6 3. Qxf8 Kxf8? And declining would require a pawn to become pinned on c3 or d4 while white got their queen out of the bishop's view? 3.Qg7 Rg8 4.Qh6 d5. The queen is trapped and will drop to Rg6.
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Oct 26, 2022 04:22
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Hand Knit posted:3.Qg7 Rg8 4.Qh6 d5. The queen is trapped and will drop to Rg6. do you really think hikaru saw all that in advance or did he just not trust that magnus would make that kind of mistake
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fart simpson posted:do you really think hikaru saw all that in advance or did he just not trust that magnus would make that kind of mistake They get the position twenty minutes or so in advance so I’d guess he’d have spotted the idea while looking for obvious opening ideas.
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well i wouldnt have thought of all that
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ilmucche posted:Isn't blind chess a thing where you don't get to see your opponent's pieces and end up trying to get info by making captures/moves you aren't sure will be legal? There's a couple of variations on this theme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegspiel_(chess) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_chess
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Hand Knit posted:3.Qg7 Rg8 4.Qh6 d5. The queen is trapped and will drop to Rg6. Ah dangit almost had it, guess I assumed the queen could escape down towards h3 but forgot the knight did more than protect h7, derp
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Captain von Trapp posted:If we're doing "who's better" and you're willing to take a look at a position in an OTB lunch-break game where both players are probably triple-digit strength, here's an interesting(?) position (white to move): New but taking a crack at it. I floundered on my own and then worked on it with a friend. White advantage, here is the logic: Ne7 + Kh8, e4 + Re8 Bg5 + [???] If Qxb2 then Rc1 which is protected by bishop on g5 Perry Mason Jar fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Oct 26, 2022 |
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Re: the current thread title, I assume an actual highly competent/prestigious law firm would never allow that absurd language? Regardless of legal merit, it’s just so horrendously poorly written, like a literal child arguing with a teacher. I have no idea how it actually works, but I refuse to believe that actually good and reputable law firms don’t have people whose job it is to improve the actual prose of whatever the client brings in
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Lawyers can be really stupid, op.
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Charles Ingalls posted:Re: the current thread title, I assume an actual highly competent/prestigious law firm would never allow that absurd language? Regardless of legal merit, it’s just so horrendously poorly written, like a literal child arguing with a teacher. I have no idea how it actually works, but I refuse to believe that actually good and reputable law firms don’t have people whose job it is to improve the actual prose of whatever the client brings in
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An 87-year-old judge writing about Something Awful's moderation policies is one of the funnier moments in the site's history.
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Charles Ingalls posted:Re: the current thread title, I assume an actual highly competent/prestigious law firm would never allow that absurd language? Regardless of legal merit, it’s just so horrendously poorly written, like a literal child arguing with a teacher. I have no idea how it actually works, but I refuse to believe that actually good and reputable law firms don’t have people whose job it is to improve the actual prose of whatever the client brings in i think to some degree a lawyer who knows they have no case is probably just going to write it up in the voice their client wants to see. so they're pretty clearly just transposing whatever insane screed Hans or his parents handed them
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I bought a few chess sets to donate to my son's school so he can start a chess club. I got the "Best Chess Set Ever" from amazon @ $40 each (Canadian bucks). These are nicer even then the marketing material claims - very impressed. There's an "XL" one for $50 with quadruple weighted pieces, I think I'm going to get that for myself.
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Is there any practical meaning in the term "mating net"? I see it used surprisingly often but I've never been able to figure out a general definition, other than "make these moves and it's mate".
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I always just assumed that meant like, you're focused on taking control of all the squares around the king in a long term way without having a specific forced mate, and once you get the net all built any check will win.
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Redmark posted:Is there any practical meaning in the term "mating net"? I see it used surprisingly often but I've never been able to figure out a general definition, other than "make these moves and it's mate". Keeping the king in an area where your pieces control the squares. Think of it in the way that, to checkmate the opponent's king, you have to not just attack the square the king is on but the adjacent squares as well.
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