So here was the “Hard” difficulty level of today’s shredderchess.com puzzle:
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.
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.
Brag: Last night, obtained my highest FICS rating (standard time controls) at 1857. This is in the top 10%.
Unbrag: Some games have been seriously “lucky”. And if I’m in the top 10%, the overall level of play on the server must not be very strong.
Games often go like this:
1. I screw up the opening.
2. My opponent can’t take advantage.
3. I outplay my opponent in the middlegame and/or endgame and win. (”Outplay” usually means “I play bad, he plays worse”)
Two “gems” from last night that exemplify this perfectly:
(show chess board)
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It’s 6 minutes into the first game of the season, and they are already down 14-0.
“So, basically, [Obama's] turning Sept. 11 in to National Radical Negro Day. Hail Nero! Hail Caligula! Heil Hitler!”
Yep, this is the Internet.
Source: Comments section, Obama’s Plan to Desecrate 9/11
“Hedgehogs – why can’t they just share the hedge?”
That was the one-liner that won the funniest joke in something called the Edinburgh Fringe. Maybe it was absolutely hilarious in context. But, man.
The following procedure should give you a decent chance to win this award:
1. Go to the Edinburgh Fringe with a random book.
2. Open the book to a random page and read a random sentence.
I don’t wanna hear no more jibba-jabba from white eggs who say they’re good at basketball.
(Editor’s note: Not nearly as good as the prior installation of loleggs.)
This administration had almost sealed a deal with North Korea to get rid of its nukes. But then Kim Jong-Il saw on the news that Michelle Obama was disrespecting the office of the First Lady by wearing shorts, so he stopped negotiations. Now North Korea is still going to be a nuclear threat. Good going, Michelle.
Al Gore is in the running for having the most boring blog in the world: http://blog.algore.com/.
I deleted the database that had the quotes for the quotation rotation. I didn’t have a backup because I thought that DB wasn’t in use.
Cached pages from search engines will let me restore what I can, but if you had any favorites, let me know. (New quotes are good, too.)
