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Round 3 Review and a little computer-fu

Really late on this one. My weak-shelled attempt at playing Polly this week will be covered later.

Take a gander at move 36, with Black to move. If you notice a strong White move that we both missed during the game, give yourself a pat on the back.

Quick Chess Publisher tip: If you want to use quotation marks (”) in the comments, you have to use " instead. It has to do with how browsers parse HTML (and in order for me to write that, I had to use &amp to get the ampersand. A list of HTML character codes can be found here, but I don’t know if it’s exhaustive.)

March 9th, 2008 6 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Chess, Computer-fu, Tournament of Lepers

  1. Tacticus Maximus posted the following on 9 March 2008 at 7:30 am.

    Take a gander at move 36, with Black to move.
    Ok, from Black’s perspective:
    ƃuıƃuɐɥ sı ʞooɹ ǝɥʇ

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  2. Blunderprone posted the following on 9 March 2008 at 11:58 am.

    I was jumping up and down from my chair going ” Take the rook! Take the f*cking rook! For the love of God, Please take the rook!”

    Then I was at peace with myself.

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  3. Donnie posted the following on 9 March 2008 at 12:52 pm.

    @Tacticus: We appreciate your consideration in letting other readers try to figure it for themselves. And your cleverness in finding characters that read upside down.

    @Blunderprone: Wow, someone else figured it out, too. We have some strong players here.

    I’m glad you were able to find inner peace.

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  4. Tacticus Maximus posted the following on 9 March 2008 at 2:10 pm.

    @donnie: ˙ǝɯǝɥʇ nɟ-ɹǝʇndɯoɔ lɯʇɥ ǝɥʇ ɥʇıʍ llǝʍ uı ʇıɟ ʇı ʇɥƃnoɥʇ ı

    See http://www.revfad.com/flip.html

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  5. Rocky posted the following on 10 March 2008 at 2:28 pm.

    At this point in the game, I wanted the game to be over. I was suprised too that you didn’t take the rook.

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  6. Donnie posted the following on 10 March 2008 at 8:16 pm.

    @Tacticus: Very cool link, thanks.

    @Rocky: And you didn’t move the Rook to safety? If it’s gotten to that point where you don’t care about saving material, there’s no shame in resigning.

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