Bobby Fisher was homeless in downtown Los Angeles also, had a Hungarian chess master girlfriend while in Budapest.He passed in Reikavik and believe one of his parents was Hungarian.I will look into the game and try get back.
Ive been through Reykyavik airport a few times. You can look out over the rocky earth surface and get some view of Iceland. I also know an Icelandic girl, and their runes. But I need to still go to it and bathe in geysers.
Played a very bad defence, looked like I was going to get stupidly mated but sneaked away out at great cost and then still managed to win.
I don’t have a descent board now, but soon I will get one, and will go through the games. I saw Fisher play in Santa Monica .ca.1969? (around there) playing exhibition, at his prime, full house, it was worth standing there a couple of hours.
There is am Ottoman potentate and this guy does something great for him and the potentate walkss toward him and tells him he could ask for anything reasonable from him.
The guy very modestly tells the potentate that all he asks for is 1 grain of rice on the first square on a chessboard and double that on the next and then double that yet again.
The potentate thinks the guy has lost it and he gladly goes for it. thinking he got off cheap
The potentate calls his vezeer and orders him to execute the order.
The vezeer comes back after a while looking ashen pale and tells the potemtate that the order is impossible to carry out because all the harvest of all the potemtate’s fields are inadequate to provide the said rice.
My father told me this story as he taught me the rules of the game.
It is frustrating, my development. I have two accounts, one is at above 1700 and the other around 1300.
I have often enough quickly defeated 1700 players and often honorlessly fallen against lowly incompetents - amongst whom I must thus still count myself.
Its been only half a year that Ive been playing with some regularity though.
But it tells you something about the danger of dwelling among lesser minds.
It seems chess is a different kind of animal lower down he ranks. There is a lot of hacking and blind luck.
indeed. you’re right, we’ve got options. bait move white knight to f7 would be premature at this point. if she sees the bait, she’ll not take the knight and instead move rook to h8. now we’ve got a knight in danger, as well as the h file being controlled by that rook. we’d now not be able to put white queen to h5… which is what we want. f6 seems to be the square where the exchanges will occur, so we should move white queen to f3 and see what she does. she’ll likely bring black knight to c6 to block that diagonal to her rook. we’d then bring white knight to d5. fortunately her own pawns are preventing her queen from quickly mobilizing to the right side of the board, but she’s a’comin… so we’ve got to act fast if we’re going to do this.
ol’ alla took the bait, karp. Figured she would… she’s still a novice. That’s mate in two moves. I told her to give me three weeks and I’d turn her into an alla Fischer.