18 Apr 10
Originally posted by wormwoodMaterial is easy to give points to. (Pawn=1p, Rook=5p etc...)
how does one obtain a point of strategic advantage?
It's harder to put points to strategical advantages. Like if I can destroy his kings pawn-protection, what will that be worth? A pawn? Or two?
Material isn't everything, there are other advantages too.
18 Apr 10
Originally posted by Mad RookJust sit there and frown. Then tell your opponent "I refuse" and take the move back. Congratulations you have now successfully refuted a sound sack.
Never mind that... I'm still trying to figure out how he'd refuse to let his opponent sac something that's sound.
19 Apr 10
Originally posted by FabianFnasSpoken like a true master. I am humbled.
Material is easy to give points to. (Pawn=1p, Rook=5p etc...)
It's harder to put points to strategical advantages. Like if I can destroy his kings pawn-protection, what will that be worth? A pawn? Or two?
Material isn't everything, there are other advantages too.
19 Apr 10
I think it's good to move some pawns forward a square or two early on.
I like moving the knights. It's so cool how they make those little L shapes.
I keep trying to move my bishops to the other colors but I can't ever seem to manage to do it.
I think the Queen has hidden powers. I'm going to figure out what they are some day.
Those castles are so square! OMG.
What's with the King? Why is he so lazy? I like putting him to work.
19 Apr 10
Originally posted by coquette🙂
I think it's good to move some pawns forward a square or two early on.
I like moving the knights. It's so cool how they make those little L shapes.
I keep trying to move my bishops to the other colors but I can't ever seem to manage to do it.
I think the Queen has hidden powers. I'm going to figure out what they are some day.
Those castles are so square! OMG.
What's with the King? Why is he so lazy? I like putting him to work.
19 Apr 10
Originally posted by peacedogThen he is right in saying so.
So says the Mouth of Sauron:-)
People tend to forget about strategic advantages, which is much harder to quantify their value. Silman lave taught me about inequalities, that you can change one advantage (material) to another (controlling open lines or such). Spielemann in his book about sacrifices points this out too.
19 Apr 10
Originally posted by peacedogWe have a lot to learn from the Mouth of Sauron. 🙂
The relationship between time, space and material are well documented so that even a weak player such as myself can understand it. It's applying this knowledge that is the hard part.
It was the wording that I was commenting on.
26 May 10
Originally posted by coquetteAbout the King: there was a cartoon in The New Yorker that showed the King saying to his Queen:
I think it's good to move some pawns forward a square or two early on.
I like moving the knights. It's so cool how they make those little L shapes.
I keep trying to move my bishops to the other colors but I can't ever seem to manage to do it.
I think the Queen has hidden powers. I'm going to figure out what they are some day.
Those castles are so square! OMG.
What's with the King? Why is he so lazy? I like putting him to work.
"Dammit, Gwendolyn, you knew when you married me that I only move one square at a time."
27 May 10
Originally posted by coquetteOne night a friend and I stayed a little too long at Dollar Pitcher night at our local hangout, and I ended up with two bishops of the same color, without promoting a pawn. Beer is never an alibi, but...
I think it's good to move some pawns forward a square or two early on.
I like moving the knights. It's so cool how they make those little L shapes.
I keep trying to move my bishops to the other colors but I can't ever seem to manage to do it.
I think the Queen has hidden powers. I'm going to figure out what they are some day.
Those castles are so square! OMG.
What's with the King? Why is he so lazy? I like putting him to work.
And as far as the Queen's special powers, I am a gentleman, and I will never tell.
Paul😉
27 May 10
Originally posted by Paul LeggettMaybe one of those undiscovered rules of chess that Richard Feynman talked about here:
One night a friend and I stayed a little too long at Dollar Pitcher night at our local hangout, and I ended up with two bishops of the same color, without promoting a pawn.
Er, then again, maybe not. 😵