tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post5769952687923360474..comments2023-12-28T02:11:22.501+00:00Comments on The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog: The Broken RulesTom Chivershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09850710685193416732noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-36838238702544900402010-08-01T13:05:23.217+01:002010-08-01T13:05:23.217+01:00I'm still waiting for Swiss Toni to explain wh...<i>I'm still waiting for Swiss Toni to explain why playing chess is very much like making love to a beautiful woman.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.com/2009/07/swiss-toni-writes-for-new-in-chess.html" rel="nofollow">Here you go</a>ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-80822428290360217512009-07-23T22:47:17.476+01:002009-07-23T22:47:17.476+01:00The Krabbe puzzle is here, I just found.The <a href="http://www.chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles/joke-chess-problem?lc=1" rel="nofollow">Krabbe puzzle is here</a>, I just found.Tom Chivershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09850710685193416732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-33229636865653099652009-07-10T09:18:11.324+01:002009-07-10T09:18:11.324+01:00You know, Adam, that would have done very well as ...You know, Adam, that would have done very well as a guest post....ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-27630889276094340302009-07-09T09:04:10.151+01:002009-07-09T09:04:10.151+01:00Then you look for holes in your opponent's pos...Then you look for holes in your opponent's position . . .Tom Chivershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09850710685193416732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-36789796913231131332009-07-09T06:36:08.225+01:002009-07-09T06:36:08.225+01:00First, you pick your piece up...First, you pick your piece up...Tom Chivershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09850710685193416732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-5522506584551702212009-07-08T22:58:14.058+01:002009-07-08T22:58:14.058+01:00I'm still waiting for Swiss Toni to explain wh...I'm still waiting for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F0UsqnuBss" rel="nofollow">Swiss Toni</a> to explain why playing chess is very much like making love to a beautiful woman.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-84211712001560851452009-07-08T22:30:05.745+01:002009-07-08T22:30:05.745+01:00Anyone else a bit bored of people quoting chess ju...Anyone else a bit bored of people quoting chess just to sound clever?<br /><br />August's edition of Decanter magazine (about wine!!), page 104, full page interview with Dr Miles Thomas, apparently a very famous psychologist, begins:<br /><br />"Psychologist Dr Miles Thomas thinks wine has 'multiple realisability'. Which means there are lots of ways it can pan out. A bit like chess."<br /><br />Further references to chess in the interview to explain this comment: zero.<br /><br />Why chess? Surely lots of things have "lots of ways they can pan out"? How the hell is chess like fine wine??? <br /><br />Adam B.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-20863491869830033942009-07-07T21:11:23.420+01:002009-07-07T21:11:23.420+01:00The rules for promotion also changed in the 20th c...The rules for promotion also changed in the 20th century <a href="http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.com/2007/04/mate-in-one.html" rel="nofollow">apparently</a>Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-53585487967289434522009-07-06T17:05:19.387+01:002009-07-06T17:05:19.387+01:00I've seen that clip many times before and neve...I've seen that clip many times before and never grow tired of hearing Feynman talking about science. He was a great man.Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517158230340317999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-60136690112435132592009-07-06T12:04:13.683+01:002009-07-06T12:04:13.683+01:00It used to be inadvertantly legal to castle with a...It used to be inadvertantly legal to castle with a pawn promoted to a rook on the e-file, due to a loophole in the way the laws were written. Obviously the opponent king will have had to have gotten out of the way. I don't believe it ever happened in a game, but in 1972 Tim Krabbé composed a problem where O-O-O-O-O-O was featured. Then the rule was corrected.<br /><br />I'm not sure of the exact history of the en passant and checkmate rules, but believe they were only agreed upon surprisingly recently, some time in the 19th century. These would have been better examples for the point I was making, but less interesting ones all the same.Tom Chivershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09850710685193416732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-66803845754482118652009-07-06T11:36:52.912+01:002009-07-06T11:36:52.912+01:00How is it possible to castle with a rook on the e-...How is it possible to castle with a rook on the e-file, because surely the king would be on that square.<br />I'm interested in this old castling rule. Please could you explain what was possible before the rule change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com