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Re: I once beat a World Champion Grand Master at chess

W∴ Balboos, GHB21-Nov-19 6:29

W∴ Balboos, GHB

21-Nov-19 6:29

Hopefully it doesn't castle you any bad dreams and keep up at knight.

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Re: I once beat a World Champion Grand Master at chess

OriginalGriff21-Nov-19 6:38

OriginalGriff

21-Nov-19 6:38

... as the actress said to the Bishop.

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Re: I once beat a World Champion Grand Master at chess

Mike Hankey21-Nov-19 6:53

Mike Hankey

21-Nov-19 6:53

I bought a chess game not long ago but I think I got rooked?

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Re: I once beat a World Champion Grand Master at chess

DRHuff21-Nov-19 8:27

DRHuff

21-Nov-19 8:27

Pawn it to get your money back.

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Re: I once beat a World Champion Grand Master at chess

Mike Hankey21-Nov-19 8:32

Mike Hankey

21-Nov-19 8:32

I'll take it back to-Knight

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Re: I once beat a World Champion Grand Master at chess

raddevus21-Nov-19 8:30

raddevus

21-Nov-19 8:30

That's a really great story. Thanks for sharing. I really enjoy stories like that.

Forogar wrote:
he immediately said, "I see what you are doing there, well done!", and resigned the game.

Forogar wrote:
I have spent much time since then trying to work out what I was "doing there" and never have managed to work it out.

Re: I once beat a World Champion Grand Master at chess

Sander Rossel21-Nov-19 9:08

Sander Rossel

21-Nov-19 9:08

A long time ago when I was still young (like 15 years ago) I had a girlfriend who played chess.
I've never even once been able to beat her at chess.
Her brother played chess too, at a pretty high level, higher than his sister (my girlfriend).
I think he was one of the Dutch youth champions, I know his girlfriend was for sure.
Anyway, I played against him once and I think he underestimated me so hard that I actually won Laugh | :laugh:

He really hated that he lost to me, an absolute beginner Laugh | :laugh:

When I was a kid (maybe like 10 years old) I learned my grandma how to play chess.
I told her the rules and we played a small game.
So after that I said, let's play for real now.
There was no way in hell my grandma could beat me so I already looked forward to winning Big Grin | :-D

Except my grandpa came in and helped my grandma on a move before going on with his day "you should move this there".
And then an uncle came in and did the same "that goes there".
And unfortunately for me I have a big family, so the second uncle really ruined it for me and I lost to my grandma who I'd just explained the rules Laugh | :laugh:

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Re: I once beat a World Champion Grand Master at chess

Super Lloyd21-Nov-19 13:09

Super Lloyd

21-Nov-19 13:09

Wow, such a nice move of you, very smart! Blush | :O

BTW, little known fact, this grand master guy might still be 6 years younger than you, even now! Blush | :O

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Re: I once beat a World Champion Grand Master at chess

Manfred Rudolf Bihy21-Nov-19 20:27

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

21-Nov-19 20:27

Forogar wrote:
He was about six years younger than me at the time.

So I reckon one of you two aged more rapidly/slower than the other. High velocity space travel much?

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Re: I once beat a World Champion Grand Master at chess

englebart22-Nov-19 2:01

englebart

22-Nov-19 2:01

I gave up on chess for the most part when I was 14.
I realized that I would have to start studying for the game play if I wanted to be better.
This immediately killed the fun for me.

At that level, once you proved to someone that the rule "en passant" actually was a real rule (could be spelled wrong), you had carte blanche to invent new rules. Our favorite was "Skylark" which allowed a rook to move like a bishop once per game.

Re: I once beat a World Champion Grand Master at chess

GKP199224-Nov-19 17:45

GKP1992

24-Nov-19 17:45

Forogar wrote:
was playing him and made a random move (I wasn't very good at chess at the time and haven't got much better since), he immediately said, "I see what you are doing there, well done!", and resigned the game.

He lost to himself. Laugh | :laugh:

I started chess when I was in college, and usually lost pretty hilariously, blundering every other move. Laugh | :laugh:

There was this guy who made fun of it so much that I spend the next few weeks studying the game.
A month later I beat him, and we became best of pals. Big Grin | :-D

It's a shame chess does not get enough exposure these days, especially to kids.

Re: I once beat a World Champion Grand Master at chess

Forogar 25-Nov-19 4:06

Forogar

25-Nov-19 4:06

How can chess complete with Doom, etc?

I did get an Elo rating of about 1820 which just squeezed me into the "Class A" category - I think that's why I lost all my games in that last tournament, although I did beat a couple of my opponents in casual games between scheduled ones. Anyway, I lost heart at that point and never played again. Frown | :(

I did offer to teach my son but he preferred "Dark Age of Camelot" at which he became the equivalent of a Grand Master - so there's that. Sigh | :sigh:

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Re: I once beat a World Champion Grand Master at chess

Ben Code25-Aug-22 20:29

Ben Code

25-Aug-22 20:29

Ripping yarn - thanks for sharing.

Thought of the Day

OriginalGriff21-Nov-19 4:44

OriginalGriff

21-Nov-19 4:44

Does gaining absolution just mean dissolving flying insects?

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Re: Thought of the Day

DRHuff21-Nov-19 5:18

DRHuff

21-Nov-19 5:18

Gnaturally!

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Re: Thought of the Day

littleGreenDude21-Nov-19 5:58

littleGreenDude

21-Nov-19 5:58

I thought absolution was when you did a 90 minute workout?

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Re: Thought of the Day

Daniel Pfeffer21-Nov-19 6:15

Daniel Pfeffer

21-Nov-19 6:15

Wouldn't that be a drosophila in a bucket?

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Re: Thought of the Day

Kschuler21-Nov-19 8:43

Kschuler

21-Nov-19 8:43

Why moth you post such confusing puns?

Re: Thought of the Day

Gary R. Wheeler21-Nov-19 11:00

Gary R. Wheeler

21-Nov-19 11:00

Ego te dissolvo

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I Locked my PC?

glennPattonWork321-Nov-19 3:05

glennPattonWork3

21-Nov-19 3:05

Hi All,
Not a programming question but a Windows WTF, Locked my PC before lunch which was running a Remote Desktop to a test rig, went to the PC I'm running the remote desktop into to upgrade the Hardware widget's firmware. Closed the remote desktop session updated it, had lunch, went back to my PC and it's unlocked?..
WTF | :WTF:

Anybody else seen that with remote desktop?, not really a big user of it.

Re: I Locked my PC?

Cp-Coder21-Nov-19 3:09

Cp-Coder

21-Nov-19 3:09

Maybe your PC just wants to roam freely, so don't fence it in! Big Grin | :-D

Re: I Locked my PC?

musefan21-Nov-19 3:28

musefan

21-Nov-19 3:28

First thought would be: how sure are you that you locked your PC, and not just locked the PC you were remoted into?

Re: I Locked my PC?

glennPattonWork321-Nov-19 3:41

glennPattonWork3

21-Nov-19 3:41

That was my first thought...

Re: I Locked my PC?

mgama22-Nov-19 15:31

mgama

22-Nov-19 15:31

Somewhere there must be a story of someone doing "format D:" thinking the cmd window was in the remote desktop, but was actually local.

Re: I Locked my PC?

glennPattonWork322-Nov-19 22:49

glennPattonWork3

22-Nov-19 22:49

I had thought of that Sigh | :sigh:

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