tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post3250334562445902780..comments2023-12-28T02:11:22.501+00:00Comments on The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog: Blue or Red Pill? XXITom Chivershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09850710685193416732noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-90051447930701726522013-11-05T11:01:33.722+00:002013-11-05T11:01:33.722+00:00"these things are easier when someone has wri...<i>"these things are easier when someone has written a book about them"</i><br /><br />Indeed. I'm sure Boggie would have played the right way had he had the benefit of reading 80 years' worth of endgame manuals nearlhy everyone of which shows where he went wrong.<br /><br />Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-11125324345733654912013-11-04T20:41:41.320+00:002013-11-04T20:41:41.320+00:00Our Joy: there may be 100 people that won't li...Our Joy: there may be 100 people that won't like it (whatever the it happens to be) we know there'll also be one person who does.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-69324042484517145302013-11-04T20:34:20.007+00:002013-11-04T20:34:20.007+00:00"Shouldering" is what it's normally ..."Shouldering" is what it's normally called, or what Dvoretsky calls it, anyway.<br /><br />I can honestly say that these days a reasonably schooled aged IM would make the right move in blitz without thinking about it, but that just goes to prove that these things are easier when someone has written a book about them. It's hard to realise now how ground-breaking Basic Chess Endings was in its day - or perhaps it wasn't; maybe it had some now-forgotten predecessor I've now, er, forgotten.<br /><br />John Coxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-17661766406659202402013-11-04T17:50:16.792+00:002013-11-04T17:50:16.792+00:00The term you are looking for is probably "bod...The term you are looking for is probably "bodycheck". At least that stirrs in the back of my mind, when I look at the position.<br /><br />So, this is "the other kind of post people don't like". I was wondering. Seems like I'm not "people".<br /><br />PhilleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-19597870939150224562013-11-04T14:44:10.193+00:002013-11-04T14:44:10.193+00:00Playing through the whole game gives the impressio...Playing through the whole game gives the impression that Bogo knew that position was a draw, but not how to do it. Obviously the table bases make it easy to establish the correct move, but what do you need to know to make the correct move with 30 seconds to decide?<br /><br />There was some technical term for the sort of play that Black has to use to draw. I think it was a metaphor that like Sumo wrestling, the kings have to bounce off each other. The point being that if you advance towards the opposing king it is unable to approach.<br /><br />RdCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com