Chess Match: Shady Bill vs. Skybird

[Shady Bill]

I just logged back in. I saw your gauntlet being thrown in the sand...give me 1 hour to decide on response next move.



so delightful, thank you Skybird

[Shady Bill]

ill go d4 and keep things simple my virtual friend...

[Shady Bill]

Niemann is my coach in this Skybird match. He is sitting in the audience and blinking the next move in morse code with his eyeballs.

[Sean C]

I will also be following this thread.

And this ↓ is a great idea, too.

Originally Posted by mapuc

SubSim [...] chess tournament

[Skybird]

Now the swing is on!


your move 2. d2-d4 my move 2. .../Ng8-f6

[mapuc]

Skybird should use the board in his first post, so we who follow their game can see progress.
So far you can see their first moves.

Markus

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Skybird should use the board in his first post, so we who follow their game can see progress.
So far you can see their first moves.

Markus

Thy wish is my command. But i had that on mind anyway, you impatient padawan.



after 2. d4/Nf6

The tournament idea, we had that done in 2008. You guys are free to start your own matches. I can provide diagrams, where desired, and keep a little track.



Back then I played also, several matches, and I still feel bad for that poor guy whose match back then I - just forgot, in the middle of the match. Somehow, it fell off my radar that we were playing, I finished the other matches, but him, I just forgot him and so it ended in Nirvana. I still feel bad for that, it must have been disappointing for him. Later, much later I found out by some chance and then sent him a PM and apologized for my behaviour, but got no reply. I do not complain. I forgot who it was. I hope he did not throw himself in front of a car in despair. Hey man, if by chance you read this, serious: my fault it was, it was no bad intention. Please accept my apology, even if this late. I just messed up my match records, and yours landed in the bin by error.



Had never happened before, and never again since then.

[mapuc]

Chess is one if not the most known strategy game.

So much do I know-I also know there's a battle between to chess players. What I do not know is-When one of them plays defensive or offensive.

Markus

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by mapuc

What I do not know is-When one of them plays defensive or offensive.

Just follow the tears.

I - or others - can explain some things later on, but you certainly understand that neither will I give away ideas that in the future of the match maybe will become relevant and so giving them away early would be to my disadvantage, nor will I say anything that compromises Bill or works to his disadvantage. But to have a little chatter and talk about events earlier in the game that are no longer relevant is the idea behind having this all as a public exibition match on a board where people can watch, else players could just play either via PM or on an online site or - in my case - prefer to just launch a chess app, give it a handicap and then play the AI. Because honestly said, and speaking for myself only, if I want to play a live match at the board/table in one rush, i do not car whether I play a human or an app. To m e its the same result: I play an opponent in one rush, in one session. Mostly, I do not do that. The fun of this match for me lies in the setting of a forum match.

At home I sometimes run longtime matches against the chess app on my PC dektop, I open it once a day, get the AI's moves (after frustratingly short time...) and then think on my move, and maybe go in and out of that app severla times over the day, until I enter a move. That way I play a match with the AI over several days, as if it were CC. The qualit yof my plays is on a much hiughe rlkevel this way, becasue I run much lower risk to fall for stupid easy mistakes and overlooking things, and sometimes good ideas ripe wioth time, not in just ten mionutes of analysis. I know how it feels to sit 3 or 4 hours at the board and table in a tournament, I did that at school age and immediately after school, in s club, but I never liked it, and never liked tournament settings at all. Today, I just do not have the patience for such things. Hours and hours, no. I run in intervals now.



I have Fritz 11, so its very old now. I had other engiones, too, but I do not care anymore.


Same way I do sometimes with my Android mobiles. Here, i mostly use Shredder for Android. Genius also is isntalled. For sentimental reasons and remembering the good ol' times.

But there are so many good choices, and evertyhing that was coded in the past ten years or so is a killer if not run with handicaps or auto-adjusting difficulty levels (very good method, btw.). Chess in parts has become a "solved" game, like Checkers.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Just follow the tears.

[Shady Bill]

3. f3


When I play much stronger rated players than myself, I tend to do two things;
1) Try to get away from main lines quickly, knowing their opening theory is most likely much better than mine 2) I try to bog them down in horse manure. kneedeep, dirty, smelly manure.

I envision the chessboard to be a dark, wet, damp field. A terrible place of death. Trench warfare like that of WWI. I want to create confusion and frustration.

I prefer closed games, leaving little room for movement.

I value my cavalry over my clergy.


Will Skybird win? and at what cost? War is ugly, but necessary.



Your move

[mapuc]

It's not called offensive play or opening it's called aggressive play/openings.

Here's a video about 7 known aggressive openings



When it comes to defensive play there's a lot of video and all is about black. Those I have been looking at.

Markus

[Shady Bill]

I set up two of my boards for the match. I use my club board which is my roll-up board and I have the largest, heaviest plastic pieces. I love these because they hold up to dropping and falling. Except the ears of the knights. All my ears are missing, from having been dropped. I envision my earless horses strike fear into the hearts of my enemy

I also set out my early 20th century Javanese chess board.

They hand carve boards and chess pieces in Java, Indonesia.This is purely
for tourist trade. This started in the late 19th century I believe. The board is nicely carved, it is a much better example than those I have seen online. Early on, these chess sets were carved by artisans in the villages of this region.

My uncle would travel to Indonesia in the 1960-1970s for business, and he gave it to me years later. I guess in his estimation it is a 1910-1920 made set.


I will figure out how to post some pics of it.

[Shady Bill]

Is there anyone who would play a game of Alice chess?

I have had a terrible time finding people to play this with. People who are good at chess, often find it disorienting and frustrating. But it is SO fun!!

It requires you to have two chess boards set up.


The main rule is;

At the beginning of the game, pieces start in their normal positions on board A, while board B starts empty. At each turn, a player can choose whether to move on board A or B. Pieces move the same as they do in standard chess, but, at the completion of its move, a piece goes "through the looking-glass", transferring to the corresponding square on the opposite board. This simple change has dramatic impact on game play.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_chess


Be neat to have a thread for Alice chess variant. Maybe after this match I can convince Skybird to get out his 2nd board haha

[Skybird]

your move 3. f2-f3 my move 3. .../ g7-g6


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