Chess

I’ve spent a bigly part of this past week playing, after a 26 year long hiatus, now I’m hooked. Here’s a thread for posting chess stuff.
 
Google’s AI AlphaZero played against itself for 4 hours with no knowledge other than the basic rules of the game and became the best chess player of all time.

@UrbanMysticDee  
Are memes ok?

@acres  
I don’t know. Let’s test the water and see where it goes.

I used to play a little bit also.  

Chess good.

The murder book I’m working on has chess themes, even though it’s only mentioned in one chapter when the characters play my favorite match that I played, maybe. I might alter it to make it shorter. All the chapter titles will have chess titles.

B1 to pawn5

@Havoc  
White’s queenside knight starts on B1 and there’s no way it can reach row 5 in a single move.

@acres  
who’s the geezer in the back?

@UrbanMysticDee  
I said B1 TO Pawn5. TO

Won 2 games in a row with the queen and one other piece defending it.
 
They both could have been queen defended by a pawn, which is cool since lots of people think pawns are useless, but looking over the second game I saw I could have won in 22 moves instead of 31. It was so obvious.

Got a draw instead of a win because I played Bxf4 when it should have been Rh8#

The level 600 bot on Chess.com seems to be harder to beat than the level 700.
 
The “average” adult player is supposed to be 1200. I don’t know, the average adult doesn’t know what a blinker is or how to file a 1040 form, so 1200 seems like a stretch. Still, I don’t want to play against a live human until I’m certain I’m at 1200. Right now I’m guesstimating I’m at 680 or something. Not bad for having started 3 weeks ago.

World War Two chess set. One side is clearly the Americans, but the other side wears German uniforms and flies the Swiss flag so I’m not sure who they’re supposed to be.

@UrbanMysticDee  
We all know. But depicting them as the bad guys is a big no no nowadays.

 
This is what I thought up last night

A tie is worse than losing.

“How many queens you want?”  

 
You know, some kings have a different wife for every day of the year.

@Acres  
Not without seeing the full video. That’s an illegal move.

For some reason Chess.com is now using 60% of my CPU and is trying to distract me with red arrows and won’t let me view analysis of my matches because it takes longer than the age of the universe for analysis to load.
 
Putting red arrows there makes me think “How can I immediately deal with the red arrow?” instead of “What is the best move to make?”

5D chess is now a thing.  
Here’s an Irishman playing it.  
Full stream

When your opponent likes to advance the queen early in the game and you have to spend half the game chasing it around the board