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Shredder Chess Fail

So here was the “Hard” difficulty level of today’s shredderchess.com puzzle:

shredder chess fail

Great, so Black has exactly one legal move.

The “hard” part must have been the follow-up (White plays Bf6+) where you have the choice between two legal moves, one of them leading to being immediately checkmated.

October 7th, 2009 2 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Chess, Patently Ineffective

Defending the Sodium Attack

So there’s this guy on chess.com, ChessTrainor, who’s “defending” the Sodium Attack (1. Na3) and perhaps even trying to name the opening named after himself (?). His support consists mostly of G/10 games against weaker competition.

Anyway, ChessTrainor responded to one of his detractors with the following:

your young and have no sense,Fischer is nothing compared to the Lord Jesus Christ.And yet in a passage of scriptures The Lord said,Greater things will he do,this is refering to someone else.And the reason for that is Jesus only live 33 years old so short a life so if some will live after him whose age is triple than him he is greater 3 x 33is 99years old in terms of life span many has surpass Jesus earthly life,So those are greater than him.Fischer only have 4 but mastered it so thats great and yet a have more than four openings if there such a word more greater or greater greater,i suppose.only in terms of numbers.I hope you understand simp,e english.CT

This is completely awesome. It’s a shame this is too long to put in the quotation rotation. In honor of ChessTrainor, I’ll go around the chess blogosphere, create an artificial argument if necessary, and randomly compare Bobby Fischer to Jesus Christ.

Source: Na3>> A00 Tapel-TomasOpening Launch!

October 7th, 2009 3 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Chess, Patently Ineffective, Weaksauce Losers

Oooooo….ugh…..

What a disaster.

So Monday night, I came back from a business trip only to find that I lost my keys. Maybe I’ll tell the whole story later, but in short, I saw Sworn Enemy much more than usual (who was very helpful!), got more than I bargained for walking to a bus stop, and realized how nice it is living within walking distance of Houston’s light rail system. And now I’m sick.

Make sure to have spare keys! It was a lifesaver for me.

I see that letting the eggs take care of the blog was a disaster.

Mr. E (C+): He wasn’t supposed to say that the Monday Fighter! wasn’t funny, but learning that his wife enjoys getting spanked was an unexpected bonus.

Egg Fu Yung (D-): He did no work. But he did have a comment countering the Mascot’s inanity.

Mascot (F-): He denigrated Jerry Hanken’s memory, insulted Dino Mom, and threatened to beat me up. Here’s the rule about making fun of dead people one day after they die: the joke has to be funny.

October 7th, 2009 4 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Blog News, Grilled Cheese