Chess terms

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Geoff Chandler
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Re: Chess terms

Post by Geoff Chandler » Mon Jun 24, 2013 4:43 pm

Hi Stewart,

Don't you talk to your pieces? I talk to mine all the time.
I chat away to my opponents bits as well.

"there is a bit of a hole in your understanding of the game!"

Hmmmmm..........Nope.
I understand the game perfectly well, Pawns up, Bits out, ignore attacks on pawns, sac a piece and mate.

Won a lot more than what I've lost. I'm happy.

Sac-Happy.....Players of my ilk.
Spec-Sac.....Tossing a piece/pawn for unclear complications.
The Two Move Trick....The basic tool of every Chess Player.
The Double Trap....A move that has two traps, the player spots one but falls for the other.

The Double Trap in action.

Some Net Bod - Me, 3 minutes game on Gameknot early this morning.

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Malcolm Peacock
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Re: Chess terms

Post by Malcolm Peacock » Thu Jun 27, 2013 2:51 pm

Blunderfice Blunder which turns out to be good sacrifce
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IM Jack Rudd
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Re: Chess terms

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Fri Jan 01, 2016 6:48 pm

One Ola Winfridsson introduced to me today: Schweizerhissen - the scenario in Swiss tournaments where you yo-yo between getting far stronger and far weaker opponents, and never get to play anyone of similar rating to you.
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Tim Harding
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Re: Chess terms

Post by Tim Harding » Fri Jan 01, 2016 7:13 pm

IM Jack Rudd wrote:One Ola Winfridsson introduced to me today: Schweizerhissen - the scenario in Swiss tournaments where you yo-yo between getting far stronger and far weaker opponents, and never get to play anyone of similar rating to you.
Very good. There's a cure for that ailment. It's called drawing games.
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Joshua Gibbs

Re: Chess terms

Post by Joshua Gibbs » Fri Jan 01, 2016 8:40 pm

does any one know why castling is recorded as 0-0 and 0-0-0??
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Mick Norris
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Re: Chess terms

Post by Mick Norris » Fri Jan 01, 2016 9:18 pm

1811 Johann Allgaier used 0-0r and 0-0l for right and left castling
1837 Aaron Alexander used 0-0-0
Any postings on here represent my personal views
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Matt Mackenzie
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Re: Chess terms

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Fri Jan 01, 2016 10:05 pm

Though that doesn't really answer *why* ;)
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Stewart Reuben
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Re: Chess terms

Post by Stewart Reuben » Sat Jan 02, 2016 2:26 am

And why do we call it 'castling' when 'rooking' would be more logical?'
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James Coleman
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Re: Chess terms

Post by James Coleman » Sat Jan 02, 2016 4:05 am

I've no idea why it's not called rooking but as far as I was aware the '0's represent the number of empty spaces between the king and rook, two and three for kingside and queenside respectively.
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Joshua Gibbs

Re: Chess terms

Post by Joshua Gibbs » Sat Jan 02, 2016 8:21 am

interestingly enough While the FIDE Handbook, appendix C.13[6] uses the digit zero (0-0 and 0-0-0), PGN requires the uppercase letter O (O-O and O-O-O). (from Wikipedia)
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Steven DuCharme
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Re: Chess terms

Post by Steven DuCharme » Sat Jan 02, 2016 11:58 am

I think just recording the King's move should suffice
I float like a pawn island and sting like an ignored knight :mrgreen:
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