Originally posted by KorchThis is an entertaining and interesting game. Thanks for this, with the equally entertaining commentary. I can only think that White got taken out of his comfort zone so quickly that he forgot the basics.
Rampant chess
http://korch.blogspot.com/2008/12/rampant-chess.html
Minor point in your commentary: "24....Bh3! 25.Ne3
Capturing the bishop is no good: 25.gxh3 Qg8+ 26.Kf2 Qg2+ 27.Ke3 Rd3+ 28.Kxf4 Qxh2+ and White will soon be mated."
I think you mean: 25. ... Qg5+
Keep them coming!
Originally posted by buffalobillCorrected. I really did mean 25...Qg6+
This is an entertaining and interesting game. Thanks for this, with the equally entertaining commentary. I can only think that White got taken out of his comfort zone so quickly that he forgot the basics.
Minor point in your commentary: "24....Bh3! 25.Ne3
Capturing the bishop is no good: 25.gxh3 Qg8+ 26.Kf2 Qg2+ 27.Ke3 Rd3+ 28.Kxf4 Qxh2+ and White will soon be mated."
I think you mean: 25. ... Qg5+
Keep them coming!
Originally posted by KorchAll too often, players are nervous and/or scared to swap off Queens. That was the logical consequence of the opening and your opponent shied away. All the alternatives were losing, as you point out. As for me, I'm often more comfortable with Queens off the board - especially when there's fewer pieces.
If you have said A you must also say B
http://korch.blogspot.com/2009/01/if-you-have-said-you-must-also-say-b.html
I like your blog and I read it at.. *cough* work *cough*.
However I must whine a bit at the quality of the diagrams. They look like down-scaled JPG's. The compression of those images made the edges of the pieces a bit blurry. I would prefer images of higher quality, perhaps PNG format?
And as ever, the problem with each and every chess commentary, the explanations for the moves are too few for average players. Why not spend at least a paragraph on each move, and more at those which matter? It's not bad as it is, but if you want more readers I think longer and more explanations is the way to go. The first game was great, but then something happened.. too much work?
Anyawy, great and interesting blog. Keep it up!
Originally posted by GolubYes - my diagrams are down-scaled jpg`s made by my chess program (option "save position" ). I don`t know how else I can make diagrams here.
I like your blog and I read it at.. *cough* work *cough*.
However I must whine a bit at the quality of the diagrams. They look like down-scaled JPG's. The compression of those images made the edges of the pieces a bit blurry. I would prefer images of higher quality, perhaps PNG format?
And as ever, the problem with each and every chess commentary, the ex ut then something happened.. too much work?
Anyawy, great and interesting blog. Keep it up!
In my next posts I`may try to make more instructive explanations. However it may make me spend a lot more time - for example annotation of Lasker - Nimzowitch game took for me about 5-6 hours....
Only the final diagram seems to be a problem (unless it's because Korch has fixed the others quite recently?!).
I had terrible problems producing high-quality diagrams for my book, until I found an excellent little program called SNAG IT, which allowed me to screen-capture at a very high resolution. No idea if it would work so well for websites though!?
Good blog by the way : )
Originally posted by streetfighterThanks 🙂
Only the final diagram seems to be a problem (unless it's because Korch has fixed the others quite recently?!).
I had terrible problems producing high-quality diagrams for my book, until I found an excellent little program called SNAG IT, which allowed me to screen-capture at a very high resolution. No idea if it would work so well for websites though!?
Good blog by the way : )
I`ll try to re-load last diagram when I`ll get home.
Originally posted by Korchthe resized thumbnails are slightly different sizes, the blurry one (po5.jpg) being
Thanks 🙂
I`ll try to re-load last diagram when I`ll get home.
width: 332px; height: 332px;
pos2.jpg for example is:
width: 320px; height: 320px;
although the original big pictures have easily good enough resolution, the resize algorithm looks linear, which will produce nasty artifacts at certain resizing ratios. if you change the resized dimensions to match the clear pictures (assuming the original big pictures are exactly the same size), the aliasing should disappear.
at least that's my guess. the original big pictures are just fine. it definitely has nothing to do with the jpeg compression.
The diagrams I have on the Corner are actually a HMTL table.
I use EDPD2 to create the diagrams. It's very simple to use.
It is a free download. You save the position as a table
and paste it into your document.
Quick, easy and fool proof.
You use the same small gifs over and over again so it is a great space
saver. I can display 50,000 diagrams if I wanted too and that will use
the same amount of memory as 1 diagram.
Go onto the site - right click and view source to see how it's done.