Chess Match: Shady Bill vs. Skybird

[Skybird]

Rules as announced in the other chess thread and if Bill does no object (LINK): No active chess engines. Theory books allowed, if desired, its quite common in correspondence chess, since always, theoretical studying always has been part of CC. Personally I will not use databases on PC or chessbase servers, but will not object to Bill using such help: the line between books and databases is a bit difficult to draw. I will use the Chessbase Fritz GUI without active engine and without open statistics windows to log the match and create position diagrams. In all other regards the software will be "off", passive.

Audience comments, friendly jokes are fine as long as they do not provide aid, tips for the players, suggested future moves.

We already had such matches in General Topics back in 2008.



Your move: 1. e2-e4 My move: 1. .../ d7-d6



edited: for adding pics.

[Von Due]

Oh nice! I'm such a terrible player but I do enjoy a game of pure, good old chess. Will folow as much as time will allow.

[Jimbuna]

Ditto

[blackswan40]

The smart moneys on Skybird he's a black belt fourth dan at whack a squirrel
and he aint too bad at chess also

[Von Due]

Oooh this could be a challenger to chess dot com's duck chess. Squirrel chess!

[Skybird]

Well - Bill!? You wanted a match being set up, and here it is. Shall we play or have you changed your mind?

[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.