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Jun-29-08
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| dakgootje: <Do drop in often...> I'll try but I appear to have a habit to be rather inconsistent on how often I am around this site... Can't pinpoint why either really =/ thanks for the warm welcome either way ^^ |
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Jun-29-08
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| zanshin: Hey <Trig> Welcome to Premieland! (if only for three months ;-)) Like a lot of people taking the survey, the first thing I did was look up Tenaga Nasional. The stated objective is to see what human players judge to be 'beautiful' checkmates. Here I would substitute 'clever', 'amusing', etc. I took survey D. Some mates were boring long range Queen/Rook mates. Some were subtle Knight mates ... so subtle I did not realize it was mate. Guess which ones won for me ;-) |
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Jun-29-08
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| Trigonometrist: <zanshin>
Welcome!!..
Thanks for the visiting a somewhat obscure forum!...:) I too found some of the mates pretty subtle while others were pretty blunt... |
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Jun-29-08
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| Domdaniel: <Trig> Even giants started small ... |
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Jun-30-08
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| dakgootje: Well, yeah, there were some below 700-ELO mates which lacked any beauty at all, but that was not unexpected. When making a survey you can't be sure everyone filling it in takes it seriously or even considers the problem to a very basic extend or even reads it. Therefore with questionairs, surveys and the like there are some control methods and one of the most-used ones are questions/problems/situations/etc which are very simple and straightforward and which will be answered by everyone about equal(for instance "Snow is purple: True/False"). If a person fills in the form at random without reading the question or whatever is asked for there will be a heavily increased amount of strange answers to those straightforward questions making it subject for investigation on how serious the person was about the survey. Somewhere during the start it was as well noted that cg.com would take the premium membership from anyone away again if they suspected the person wasn't sincere in the survey -- this was probably one of the control measures. |
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Jun-30-08
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| Trigonometrist: <dakgootje>
Gulp!!
I better not talk anymore about the survey...:)
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Jun-30-08
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| Trigonometrist: <dom>
Welcome!!!...
A silent entrance unlike the boisterous appearance...:) |
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Jul-01-08
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| ravel5184: <Trigonometrist> I am a premium member now! If you would like to visit The House of Chess you are very welcome to (it is open 24/7). ravel5184 chessforum I am looking forward to another correspondence game (my current opponent is a little below my playing strength - it is move 8 and he is down a piece). |
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Jul-02-08
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| jessicafischerqueen: Way to go <Trig>!!
Woot |
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Jul-02-08
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| Trigonometrist: <ravel5184>
I deeply thank you for having invited me to your forum... I will most certainly visit it often...
Btw I hope you enjoy your game, it feels good to be a piece up...:) <jessicafischerqueen> Yes..Welcome..Welcome..
The great <jess> has arrived.. I hope you visit often <jess> and don't leave your whacky humour back at your house....:) |
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Jul-04-08
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| ravel5184: <DukeAlba> and <Trigonometrist> you can start your game now. |
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Jul-04-08
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| DukeAlba: Hey Trigonometrist, apparently <ravel5184> has thrust us headforth against each other... Before we start. Let me say HI! And I also gotta find out who plays white... Looks like your chessforum's moving along quite nicely.... =) |
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Jul-04-08
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| ravel5184: <DukeAlba> You are White. |
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Jul-04-08
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| ravel5184: <<Trigonometrist> <Ohio>
But I don't get the point of the survey..
The beauty of chess lies in it's beholder...:)> That's "The beauty of chess lies in <its> beholder with no apostrophe. |
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Jul-05-08
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| Trigonometrist: <DukeAlba>
Welcome!!..
It's always great to see new members...:)
But I don't understand <And I also gotta find out who plays white...> |
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Jul-07-08
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| DukeAlba: I haven't played King's Gambit in a while... Lets see how it turns out in our game :) |
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Jul-10-08
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| brankat: "Chess is a disease...
It's cure will never be found..."
-Trigonometrist
That's because once afflicted, nobody wants to be cured :-) |
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Jul-23-08
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| DukeAlba: Thanks for playing <Trigonometrist> |
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Jul-23-08
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| ravel5184: Hello! This is the House of Chess Administrator! Our game <DukeAlba> vs. <Trigonometrist> has finished! Following is the score of the game. 1. e4 e5 2. f4 Bc5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. fxe5 Nxe5 5. d4 Nxf3+ 6. Qxf3 Bxd4 7. Bc4 Nf6 8. Be3 Bxb2 0-1 Thank you all for watching, and thank you <DukeAlba> and <Trigonometrist> for participating! Coming up: <mmmsplay10> vs. <DukeAlba>: <mmmsplay10> is White. |
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Jul-24-08
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| ravel5184: <Trigonometrist> Would you like to start your game against <TheBB> with you as White? |
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Jul-27-08
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| Trigonometrist: <ravel5184>
Sure..
My moves will be there at your forum.. |
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Jul-27-08
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| ravel5184: OK <Trigonometrist> and <TheBB> you can start. <Trigonometrist> is White and to move. |
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Aug-02-08
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| ravel5184: I've finally done it! I've composed a selfmate problem!!
click for larger viewWhite to play and selfmate in 13.
1. Ne7+ Kh7 2. Bf8 Kh8 3. Bh6 Kh7 4. Bg7 a4 5. Bf8 Kh8 6. Bh6 Kh7 7. Bg7 a5 8. Bf8 Kh8 9. Bh6 Kh7 10. Bg7 a6 11. Bf8 Kh8 12. Bh6 Kh7 13. Bg7 Nxd6# (or any other move). Notice if the f1-Knight weren't there Black could play 13 ... f1=B or 13 ... f1=N! |
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| Aug-14-08 |
| HouseOfChess Admin: <<IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT>> From now on, the time controls will be 2 days/move MAX. <TheBB>, <Xenon Oxide>, <DukeAlba>, <ahmadov>, <Red October>, <errational> and <ToTheDeath> all have 2 days starting now. |
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| Aug-16-08 |
| HouseOfChess Admin: Dear HouseOfChess members:
My HouseOfChess idea is doomed to failure, and I know it. I am a very strange person and get very depressed about one thing or another. Thank you very much for participating, and I am very sorry for the inconvenience. I would appreciate it if you would be so kind as to delete all <ravel5184>'s and my posts that are HouseOfChess-related. Thank you in advance. |
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