tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731383362544628080.post3688031071950023490..comments2024-01-29T11:56:08.613-08:00Comments on Soapstone's Studio: MacArthurSoapstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615415471957675272noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731383362544628080.post-78666849079666152372008-05-09T19:09:00.000-07:002008-05-09T19:09:00.000-07:00frenez - 32.Qf8 is now linked to drunknknite's blo...frenez - 32.Qf8 is now linked to drunknknite's blog. I think this is the direct link to the game. http://kevingafni.googlepages.com/champ56.htm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731383362544628080.post-32998631487444672982008-05-08T21:11:00.000-07:002008-05-08T21:11:00.000-07:00ok, now i have to see this qf8 move and how anyone...ok, now i have to see this qf8 move and how anyone could miss it! where is it?frenezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09252413506194439087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731383362544628080.post-34732310452466080772008-05-08T15:13:00.000-07:002008-05-08T15:13:00.000-07:00Kevin - Honestly, I thought that the contempt you ...Kevin - Honestly, I thought that the contempt you heard in Alsasua's voice was mainly for your opponent. "How could you miss Qf8?" After all, it was his move to miss.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731383362544628080.post-28377317192493951402008-05-08T15:06:00.000-07:002008-05-08T15:06:00.000-07:00Ernie - The comments on my blog were not directed ...Ernie - The comments on my blog were not directed at you and I didn't mean to say that there were a bunch of haters. Alsasua honestly had contempt in his voice when he recommended Qf8 and I was just noting the fact that there is no reason for this. It just seems like people want to see me lose. So I fired back. I knew you and Grant were just kind of in awe at what had happened and I didn't mean any disrespect or anything negative about it.drunknknitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12677566022482837548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731383362544628080.post-61457369797258268162008-05-08T14:58:00.000-07:002008-05-08T14:58:00.000-07:00frenez - I'm glad you tied it in because that was ...frenez - I'm glad you tied it in because that was partially what I was hoping. I'm not sure what the sound and fury was at drunknknite's blog. He made it sound like a bunch of haters at the club who are out to get him came over and 1) said he didn't deserve to win and 2) said that the whole game hinged on one move (I don't know where this came from). IMHO, we were just being chessplayers interested in evaluating a position we saw and taking it where we thought it should go. I freely admit drunknite admirably refuted my "winning" line. After seeing more of the early phase of the game, I made the judgment that he was lucky to win. When he posts the moves, I will be surprised if there aren't at least three killer lines that his opponent missed. At the expert level, I think sitting on a losing position for several moves while your opponent makes second-best moves requires both luck and skill. I tried to take the personal attack part out of it by saying that I really respected his ability. Drunknknite countered my "lucky" statement by saying his opponent was also lucky to get the winning position in the first place. I don't dispute that varying degrees of luck and somewhat unpredictable rates of error exist in chess. But dodging a forced mate in 7 versus allowing a weak b6 square seem a little different. Despite luck, credit is still due to the person who takes advantage of his opponent's errors as drunknknite duly did. Perhaps he thought we were giving his opponent too much credit for being a player who SHOULD capitalize on his opportunities. No real argument here. Except at the World Open, Fritz doesn't play our games for us, we have to do it ourselves with our fallible minds and bodies.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the reading suggestion. I have never wanted to look back at WWII until I watched Ken Burns' "The War". Social Studies were my worst subject in school.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731383362544628080.post-48408320596214936142008-05-08T11:18:00.000-07:002008-05-08T11:18:00.000-07:00your post seems to bolster the (perhaps the too p...your post seems to bolster the (perhaps the too passionate) debate over on drunknight.<BR/><BR/>it's frustrating to lose a won game, no doubt.<BR/><BR/>check out the book 'ghost soldiers' (i think). it was made into a movie recently, the great raid ... the book is much better. it recounts the rescue of pows in the phillipines.frenezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09252413506194439087noreply@blogger.com