
A Doomed Rook...
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A Doomed Rook...
I am black. White = Kf1 Rd2 f4 Black = Kg8 Ng4 Bd5 Bc3 g6 h7 The white rook is doomed 

I float like a pawn island and sting like an ignored knight 

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Re: A Doomed Rook...
Have you thought of perhaps starting a blog about your chess thoughts?Steven DuCharme wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 5:57 pmI am black. White = Kf1 Rd2 f4 Black = Kg8 Ng4 Bd5 Bc3 g6 h7 The white rook is doomed![]()
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Re: A Doomed Rook...
The art of irony is clearly not dead here.
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Re: A Doomed Rook...
Well I felt the pathos of Steven's post. It hadn't occurred to me that the response was ironic, but if so, then I'm with the American.
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Re: A Doomed Rook...
What irony?
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Re: A Doomed Rook...
Another doomed rook (not my own) from Teesside, 1973. I'll spare readers the sometimes woeful play that led to it.
Black to play.
Black to play.
Last edited by John Clarke on Sun Mar 25, 2018 11:02 am, edited 1 time in total.
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
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Re: A Doomed Rook...
Not so painful when you're a whole rook up!John Clarke wrote: ↑Sun Mar 25, 2018 6:50 amAnother doomed rook (not my own) from Teesside, 1973. I'll spare readers the sometimes woeful play that led to it.
Black to play.
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Re: A Doomed Rook...
Edited, to restore the missing a8 rook!! (Cheers, Nick.)
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)