Timed out as white and achieved a draw, 1/2 - 1/2
My guess it was because opponent had only a king - no means of
bringing mate.
Blueshirt wrote:
Tahitian pearl wrote:
Timed out as white and achieved a draw, 1/2 - 1/2
My guess it was because opponent had only a king - no means of
bringing mate.
Yeah, the "insufficient material" thing has caught me out a few
times too...
I was playing a complicated B+2P vs R endgame against stockfish on Lichess. On move 150 it resigned. Not a bug, but a feature to prevent games from going on too long.
William Hyde
D wrote:
On Sat, 8 Mar 2025, William Hyde wrote:
Blueshirt wrote:
Tahitian pearl wrote:
Timed out as white and achieved a draw, 1/2Â Â -Â Â 1/2
My guess it was because opponent had only a king - no means of
bringing mate.
Yeah, the "insufficient material" thing has caught me out a few
times too...
I was playing a complicated B+2P vs R endgame against stockfish on
Lichess. On move 150 it resigned. Not a bug, but a feature to prevent
games from going on too long.
William Hyde
Congratulations on the win! =) I wonder if that could be a thing? Playing
into a locked down position and then just move my king 150 times and have
it resign? ;)
Jokes aside, can you offer lichess a draw? And if so, when will he accept?
As far as I know you cannot offer a draw. Rather than resign, I've become expert in making it repeat the position three times in a drawn game. But if its evaluation is even +.1, it will avoid this. Then you can try to play out to 50 moves without a capture or pawn push or, more economically, resign.
Though as stockfish six or lower will lose many drawn or even won endings, care is required.
William Hyde
Do you have any new chess book recommendations? These web sites:
https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess/chess.html
https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/index.html
http://www.chessarch.com/
are all very interesting!
I cannot recall how much I've already recommended. Both Tim Krabbe and Edward Winter's sites are excellent, of course. Some writers put their personal history in game collections, examples being Keres, Larsen and
Taimanov (all great collections anyway) while others stick to the games (Botvinnik, Fischer).
If you want to know more about Emanuel Lasker I can recommend Soltis' "Why Lasker Mattters", but it is principally a collection of 100 well annotated games.
I've always wanted to read Richard Forster's "Amos Burn", but last time I saw a copy for sale it was about three hundred dollars. Maybe it's time I looked again.
Hans Ree's collected columns make good reading also, while Donner's "The King" is interestingly idiosyncratic.
Of course I've left out Reti's classic "Masters of the chessboard", one game each by pretty much every significant player before 1930, with Reti's comments on the player's style.
I frequently bugged Larry Parr to get his friend Larry Evans to write a book about his early years in chess, a period of US chess which is not well covered. Alas, I was not successful. I wonder if anyone who remembers that era is still alive?
William Hyde
On Sun, 9 Mar 2025, William Hyde wrote:
Do you have any new chess book recommendations? These web sites:
https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess/chess.html
https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/index.html
http://www.chessarch.com/
are all very interesting!
I cannot recall how much I've already recommended. Both Tim Krabbe
and Edward Winter's sites are excellent, of course. Some writers put
their personal history in game collections, examples being Keres,
Larsen and
Speaking of Keres, the world is a small place. After christmas I met an old friend from my university days. His father came to sweden as a child from estonia, as a refugee from ww2. He was into chess, and he did play Keres
in some exhibition in Stockholm when he was young. Keres played multiple boards, and he I think stalemated. History just 2 connections away!
Taimanov (all great collections anyway) while others stick to the
games (Botvinnik, Fischer).
If you want to know more about Emanuel Lasker I can recommend Soltis'
"Why Lasker Mattters", but it is principally a collection of 100 well
annotated games.
I've always wanted to read Richard Forster's "Amos Burn", but last
time I saw a copy for sale it was about three hundred dollars. Maybe
it's time I looked again.
Hans Ree's collected columns make good reading also, while Donner's
"The King" is interestingly idiosyncratic.
Of course I've left out Reti's classic "Masters of the chessboard",
one game each by pretty much every significant player before 1930,
with Reti's comments on the player's style.
I frequently bugged Larry Parr to get his friend Larry Evans to write
a book about his early years in chess, a period of US chess which is
not well covered. Alas, I was not successful. I wonder if anyone who
remembers that era is still alive?
Thank you for the recommendations. I think Bobby Fisher and other
stories, or
another Sosonko book might be next on the list.
William Hyde
William Hyde
My chess teacher, my uncle got me Chess inu Nutshell. I was fascinated by the cover, but...
Then I bought Lasker's Manual on Chess. I played with a friend and he died of pneumonia a ways through. I had to go recover the Manual from among his estate via I think it was his sister.
On Sun, 9 Mar 2025, =?UTF-8?Q?Xx/v wrote:
William Hyde
My chess teacher, my uncle got me Chess inu Nutshell. I was
fascinated by the cover, but...
Then I bought Lasker's Manual on Chess. I played with a friend and he
died of pneumonia a ways through. I had to go recover the Manual from
among his estate via I think it was his sister.
This is very sad. Did you like Laskers book? Did it make you into a
strong chess
player?
On Sun, 9 Mar 2025, =?UTF-8?Q?Xx/v wrote:
William Hyde
My chess teacher, my uncle got me Chess inu Nutshell. I was
fascinated by the cover, but...
Then I bought Lasker's Manual on Chess. I played with a friend and he
died of pneumonia a ways through. I had to go recover the Manual from
among his estate via I think it was his sister.
This is very sad. Did you like Laskers book? Did it make you into a
strong chess
player?
Do you have any new chess book recommendations? These web sites:
https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess/chess.html
https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/index.html
http://www.chessarch.com/
are all very interesting!
I cannot recall how much I've already recommended. Both Tim Krabbe and >Edward Winter's sites are excellent, of course. Some writers put their >personal history in game collections, examples being Keres, Larsen and >Taimanov (all great collections anyway) while others stick to the games >(Botvinnik, Fischer).
Speaking of Keres, the world is a small place. After christmas I met an old >> friend from my university days. His father came to sweden as a child from
estonia, as a refugee from ww2. He was into chess, and he did play Keres
in some exhibition in Stockholm when he was young. Keres played multiple
boards, and he I think stalemated. History just 2 connections away!
D wrote:
On Sun, 9 Mar 2025, =?UTF-8?Q?Xx/v wrote:
William Hyde
My chess teacher, my uncle got me Chess inu Nutshell. I was fascinated by >>> the cover, but...
Then I bought Lasker's Manual on Chess. I played with a friend and he
died of pneumonia a ways through. I had to go recover the Manual from
among his estate via I think it was his sister.
This is very sad. Did you like Laskers book? Did it make you into a strong >> chess
player?
Lasker's book is above all things, straightforward. Making me into a strong chess player came with reading 60 Memorable Games, Magnus Carlsen. At that point, my pawn game was still very weak however.
D wrote:
On Sun, 9 Mar 2025, =?UTF-8?Q?Xx/v wrote:
William Hyde
My chess teacher, my uncle got me Chess inu Nutshell. I was fascinated by >>> the cover, but...
Then I bought Lasker's Manual on Chess. I played with a friend and he
died of pneumonia a ways through. I had to go recover the Manual from
among his estate via I think it was his sister.
This is very sad. Did you like Laskers book? Did it make you into a strong >> chess
player?
It wasn't from a chess book that I made my greatest discovery, but learning pawns versus bishops and pawns versus knights from books such as Simple Chess, Power of Pawns in a directed fashion because I knew I had a deficit was very productive.
On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 17:12:49 -0500, Xx/v]andrak|?xX
<xmfuller@t.query.com> wrote:
Speaking of Keres, the world is a small place. After christmas I met an old >>> friend from my university days. His father came to sweden as a child from >>> estonia, as a refugee from ww2. He was into chess, and he did play Keres >>> in some exhibition in Stockholm when he was young. Keres played multiple >>> boards, and he I think stalemated. History just 2 connections away!
Great story - I met Keres at the 1975 Vancouver International which
Keres won - and died on the way home from Vancouver whereon local
organizers dubbed the event the Paul Keres Memorial which continues to
this day (I've even directed a couple of them and assisted at several
more). Been there done that got the autograph.
As for connections, I lived in Winnipeg for several years and knew Abe Yanofsky who in his day knew everybody so my "2 connection" field is
pretty large between Keres and Abe.
I personally played a role in getting him removed from the FIDE
International Arbiter list but in fairness it was two years after his
passing and while FIDE had quickly removed him from their "Active GM"
list had forgotten that like O'Kelly he was both GM and IA....
I mentioned to the Canadian FIDE rep that 'much as I loved Abe don't
you think it's time?' and he passed the word to FIDE.
Of course then there was the time FIDE listed me as female and Lynn
Stringer (of Victoria, BC) as male. (In her day she was the leading TD
west of Toronto)
https://www.arbormemorial.ca/en/sands-victoria/obituaries/evelyn-lynn-minerva-stringer/93502.html
Moral of the story is that FIDE is very quick with changing their
records when errors are brought to their attention.
Nothing like being misgendered by FIDE!
The Horny Goat wrote:
On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 14:19:49 -0400, William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
wrote:
Do you have any new chess book recommendations? These web sites:
https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess/chess.html
https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/index.html
http://www.chessarch.com/
are all very interesting!
I cannot recall how much I've already recommended. Both Tim Krabbe and
Edward Winter's sites are excellent, of course. Some writers put their
personal history in game collections, examples being Keres, Larsen and
Taimanov (all great collections anyway) while others stick to the games
(Botvinnik, Fischer).
I'm fond of anything by Mikhail Shereshevsky - but beware there is a
book called "The Shereshevsky Method" which is a condensed version of
two of his books which while good I didn't enjoy nearly as much as I
already owned one of them. (If you don't then highly recommended!)
Still extremely high quality but less fun if you've already got (and
read) one of them. Mostly covers games from the 1980-2000 period and
is good on preparation for events.
Shereshevsky is excellent and I recommend his books highly. The endgame was always the strongest part of my game, but if I'd read his books while I was still an active player I'd have improved vastly.
I particularly enjoyed the games in which he played the Benko gambit, only to trade queens and with the pawn-down endgame. Given the frequency with which I drop pawns nowadays, it's a useful technique to have.
But D is looking for books with some chess history, and aside from a few anecdotes, Shereshevsky is strictly technical.
William Hyde
On Mon, 10 Mar 2025, =?UTF-8?Q?Xx/v wrote:
D wrote:
On Sun, 9 Mar 2025, =?UTF-8?Q?Xx/v wrote:
William Hyde
My chess teacher, my uncle got me Chess inu Nutshell. I was
fascinated by the cover, but...
Then I bought Lasker's Manual on Chess. I played with a friend and
he died of pneumonia a ways through. I had to go recover the Manual
from among his estate via I think it was his sister.
This is very sad. Did you like Laskers book? Did it make you into a
strong chess
player?
It wasn't from a chess book that I made my greatest discovery, but
learning pawns versus bishops and pawns versus knights from books such
as Simple Chess, Power of Pawns in a directed fashion because I knew I
had a deficit was very productive.
I think from a meta-level, it is very good to know what you need to work
at. Knowing that, is half the battle!
Do you play with friends and family or only online? How did you realize
what your weaknesses were?
On Mon, 10 Mar 2025, =?UTF-8?Q?Xx/v wrote:I beat my uncle and my grandfather before he passed away.
D wrote:
On Sun, 9 Mar 2025, =?UTF-8?Q?Xx/v wrote:
William Hyde
My chess teacher, my uncle got me Chess inu Nutshell. I was
fascinated by the cover, but...
Then I bought Lasker's Manual on Chess. I played with a friend and
he died of pneumonia a ways through. I had to go recover the Manual
from among his estate via I think it was his sister.
This is very sad. Did you like Laskers book? Did it make you into a
strong chess
player?
Lasker's book is above all things, straightforward. Making me into a
strong chess player came with reading 60 Memorable Games, Magnus
Carlsen. At that point, my pawn game was still very weak however.
Are you as good as the legendary William Hyde would you say?
Shereshevsky is excellent and I recommend his books highly. The endgame
was always the strongest part of my game, but if I'd read his books
while I was still an active player I'd have improved vastly.
I particularly enjoyed the games in which he played the Benko gambit,
only to trade queens and with the pawn-down endgame. Given the frequency
with which I drop pawns nowadays, it's a useful technique to have.
But D is looking for books with some chess history, and aside from a few >anecdotes, Shereshevsky is strictly technical.
Lasker's book is above all things, straightforward. Making me into a
strong chess player came with reading 60 Memorable Games, Magnus
Carlsen. At that point, my pawn game was still very weak however.
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