Collection Of Black Chess Pieces (Minus Rook)

Collection Of Black Chess Pieces (Minus Rook):

Image: from TinyPic.com
Tags: Black - Chess Pieces - Rook
Posted by ALCHEssMIST - Alchemipedia - Cetacographer - Nirvana - Tags alliance.

GM Maurice Ashley The Bruce Buffer (UFC Fame) Of The Chess World

The following video is from the recent (May 2010) launch party & fundraiser for Anatoly Karpov's bid to become President of FIDE. The function was held at the Trump SoHo Hotel in New York, with Karpov, Kasparov and Carlsen in attendance.

The winners of an auction to raise funds for Karpov's FIDE president campaign played blitz games against Garry Kasparov & Magnus Carlsen (they each played 2 blitz games simultaneously).

The Master of Ceremonies for these blitz games was GM Maurice Ashley who performed his role with great style. Maurice is the closest the chess world has to the legendary Bruce Buffer, fight MC for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).



Tags: Anatoly Karpov - Blitz Chess - Bruce Buffer - FIDE - FIDE President - Garry Kasparov - Magnus Carlsen - Maurice Ashley - New York - Trump SoHo Hotel - UFC - Ultimate Fighting Championship
Posted by ALCHEssMIST - Alchemipedia - Cetacographer - Nirvana - Tags alliance.

Life and Chess - Benjamin Franklin Quotation

"Life is a kind of chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events."
~ Benjamin Franklin



"This portrait statue of Benjamin Franklin overlooks the former site of Boston Latin School which Franklin, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock once attended. Franklin's place of birth was just one block away on Milk Street, across from the Old South Meeting House."

Image background information (in quotation marks) by Tony the Misfit (cc)
Tags: Benjamin Franklin - Chess - Chess Quote - Competition - Events - Life - Struggle
Posted by ALCHEssMIST - Alchemipedia - Cetacographer - Nirvana - Tags alliance.

Chess Search On Intute.ac.uk - A British Bias

Intute is a relatively new free online service that helps internet users to find good quality web resources for studies and research. Their subject specialists review and evaluate thousands of resources to find the key websites in your subject interest(s). The site can also help develop your Internet research skills through Virtual Training Suite tutorials. Intute is created by a consortium of seven universities and is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

The Intute consortium is:

• University of Birmingham
• University of Bristol
• Heriot-Watt University
• The University of Manchester
• Manchester Metropolitan University
• University of Nottingham
• University of Oxford

A search for the term CHESS gives the following results:
(A distinct British bias)

British Chess Magazine
http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/

English Chess Federation
http://www.englishchess.org.uk/

British Federation for Correspondence Chess
http://www.bfcc-online.org.uk/

Scottish Correspondence Chess Association (SCCA)
http://www.scottishcca.co.uk/

Chess Scotland
http://www.chessscotland.com/

Welsh Chess Union
http://www.welshchessunion.co.uk/

Braille Chess Association
http://www.braillechess.org.uk/

Braille Chess Association of Ireland
http://www.iol.ie/~vics/bcai/

International Correspondence Chess Federation
http://www.iccf.com/

European Chess Union (ECU)
http://www.europechess.org/

Chess : the mechanical Turk
http://emagazine.credit-suisse.com/app/article/index.cfm?fuseaction=OpenArticle&

British Chess Problem Society
http://www.theproblemist.org/

British Chess Variants Society (BCVS)
http://www.bcvs.ukf.net/

Chess problems
http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS_PROBLEMS/

Chess Rules
http://www.conservativebookstore.com/chess/index.htm

British chess game archive
http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/

Man vs. Machine : a New Era in Computer Chess
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003081

World Chess Federation (FIDE)
http://www.fide.com

Chess Systems Ltd
http://www.chess-sys.com/

ICCF Amici
http://amici.iccf.com/

ICCF Europa
http://www.iccf-europa.com/

Game theory : G13GAM
http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/anw/G13GT1/compch.html

Climate, hydrochemistry and economics of surface-water systems
http://www.nwl.ac.uk/ih/www/research/images/chessreport.pdf

Landsbokasafn Islands - haskolabokasafn
http://www.bok.hi.is/

Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source
http://www.chess.cornell.edu/

X-ray Vision Brochure
http://www.chess.cornell.edu/pubs/xrybrchr/index.htm

AI Topics: games & puzzles
http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AITopics/Games

Justine Cassell
http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/justine/

British Go Association
http://www.britgo.org/

Jews in Sports Online
http://www.jewsinsports.org/

Pastimes and paradigms : games we play
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/games/

Koninklijke Bibliotheek : Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland
http://www.kb.nl/

Arte rupestre gallego
http://www.geocities.com/galirupestre/

Roman board games
http://www.aerobiologicalengineering.com/wxk116/Roman/BoardGames/

MathPuzzle
http://www.MathPuzzle.com/

Centre for Health Equity Studies
http://www.chess.su.se/

Sensei's library
http://senseis.xmp.net/

Tags: British - Chess - Heriot-Watt University - Intute - JISC - Manchester Metropolitan University - The University of Manchester - University of Birmingham - University of Bristol - University of Nottingham - University of Oxford
Posted by ALCHEssMIST - Alchemipedia - Cetacographer - Nirvana - Tags alliance.

Action Chess Photography From XKCD.com

This idea had never occurred to me prior to seeing this page - People playing chess on rollercoasters from XKCD.com. The inspiration comes the cartoon (thumbnail above) found here.

Tags: Action Photography - Cartoon - Chess - Chess Photography - Chess Pieces - Picture - Ride - Rollercoaster - XKCD.com
Posted by ALCHEssMIST - Alchemipedia - Cetacographer - Nirvana - Tags alliance.

K9 Plays Chess - Classic Doctor Who - But Non Legal Game

K9 Plays Chess:

The Doctor (Tom Baker) and K9 playing a game of chess in the BBC 'The Sunmakers' episode of Doctor Who.



What about the game?

Here is the starting positon with white to move.



Astonishingly The Doctor now plays an illegal move.

1. Qd4 (illegal) Qb3



2. axb4 Bd3+

K9 now announces - "Machine mind computes mate in 6 moves."

Well there is no mate in 6 moves.
This game however is still most likely a win for black.
Though K9 must still work hard to convert the win.



A disappointing chess game to have on this cult TV show.

Tags: BBC - Chess - Chess Game - Cult TV - Doctor Who - Dog - Illegal Move - K9 - Machine Mind - Robot - The Doctor - Tom Baker
Posted by ALCHEssMIST - Alchemipedia - Cetacographer - Nirvana - Tags alliance.

ALCHEssMIST Chess Blog

A new blog by ALCHEssMIST about Chess.