How Deep?

People ask how many moves ahead can I look. I say one. Mostly it's true. I'm looking at positional elements unless I see some tactical element to trigger a deeper dive. In this position I was losing badly until my opponent made the mistake Kg2. Right away I saw Nh4 and Ne8 as double checks. White would only have one reply. The King must move. Can you solve the mate in 5? I did but didn't realize both Knight moves work.

Here is the whole game. The position occurs at move 42.

Game Movie 3D Board

 A Fritz 19 3D Game replay movie.

Chessboard Displays

 A recent game against the Chess.com computer Komodo on level 10. Four different displays. Which is your favorite? Have another you recommend? These websites generate the HTML to display on a webpage. It's just cut and paste to put them on your site.

Chess.com

LiChess

Chessbase

GameKnot - A game played on their site.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS HAPPY HOLLIDAYS

 

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GameKnot Review

Gameknot is a Chess Playing Website. At first it seems kind of antiquated.

What it lacks in modern polish it seems to make up for in it's people. A game with 3 day time controls finished in a week. The players are there to play! Plus the website is very much in service of the game. Lots of study aids. Openings, puzzles, a searchable 1.6 million game database. They provide code and links for other web / blog developers. The ads are annoying but hey everyone has bills to pay.

Here is the result of the puzzle of the day code they provided.

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Queens Gambit 2

 Queens Gambit 2

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MANIAC

An article from Los Alamos labs about the use of chess in computer development.

MANIAC and Los Alamos Chess

What a computer taught 1950s scientists about the game of strategy.

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