Blog is an anagram of glob (but then again so is oblg)
Reassembler shows up mostly on chess blog blogrolls. But it’s fun to see what category they put it under (this being at best an occasional chess blog, me being at best an occasional chessplayer).
Blog: Lists Reassembler under:
Robert Pearson Chess blogs
Boylston Chess Club Kibitzers
Blunderprone Friends of Blunder who are not necessarily knights
Chess Improvement Edgy or Alternative or Ecclectic Quality Chess Blogs that I Never Fail to Read
Liquid Egg Product Not-Enemies
Black's winning (?)
Winston Huang and I arrived at this position and agreed to a draw. The question is: Is Black winning?
There are several interesting tricks lurking after 33…g5.
34.Rc1? Rh6+ and mate!
Therefore 34.Kg3 is forced, and then 34…g4 35.Kxg4? Re1+ and queens.
White’s rooks are tied to the first rank, more or less. Black looks to play …Rg6, …h5, …h4+, and …g3.
Anybody want to play the white side?
(A little retrograde analysis for fun. Queens were on d4 and e6. The several time-scramble moves leading to the diagram, and this will help explain the draw, were 29.Ncb5 Rfh5 30.Nc7 Rxh2 31.Qg7+!! Kxg7 32.Nxe6+ Rxe6)
This might be the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard.
Or maybe it’s this.
They’re both on the short list.
Once upon a time nobody could run a mile in four minutes. It became a well-known “barrier”, some speculating (after years of failed attempts) that it marked some natural limitation for humans. Physiologically impossible to run a four-minute mile, you see.
Of course Roger Bannister eventually broke through that alleged barrier. Today records fall at every track meet, life expectancies continue to soar, knowledge and performance relentlessly advance.
For example: Why it seems like only yesterday that the Black-Eyed Peas had made the ridiculous song ne plus ultra, My Humps.
Then along came Pink’s So What, a tune with lyrical and musical sophistication reminiscent of the sound a big truck makes backing up.
Surely So What would hold its position for a few decades? Or years at least? Mais non! Already it looks like Mozart compared to Nickelback’s Something in Your Mouth.
So congratulations to Nickelback, for making the Most Vapid Piece of Music on the Radio, Ever.
Unfortunately, like the four-minute mile, I’m sure your achievement will be quickly surpassed.
See this Obama thing is good for me.
He was knocked during the campaign for being tweedy and professorial.
I come from tweedy and professorial. I’m all about that.
Everybody in my family has a PhD except me, the corporate sellout, but while I may lack some of their professorial cred I’m as tweedy as anybody.
Every bit as focused as you’d expect:
Sigh. Try Michael Goeller’s The Kenilworthian.
Recessions suck.
Let’s try to make this more useful and less whiny, shall we?
Polly’s covering this year’s USATE at her excellent blog Castling Queenside. Lots of photos. [UPDATE: Polly reports USATE 09 won by Palin Gambit at 6-0, a balanced team lead by Boston local Paul MacIntyre. Palin Gambit beat a Larry/Ray Kaufman unit 2.5-1.5 in the last round.]
NM Jim West has a game up, although you’ll have to scroll down a couple hundred times to find it.
The Chess Coroner has also posted a game from the event.
Michael Goeller’s The Kenilworthian may not be writing during the tournament but will undoubtedly have an interesting post-mortem. [Update: he posted a round 3 game with a few other observations about the tournament. For his money the favorites are a team of GM Nick DeFirmian and GM John Fedoriwicz, plus two of their students.]
Will update this post as I find other blogs covering the event.
If you’re fundamentally a stable person, it won’t hurt you. If you’re wobbly to begin with, it provides a wonderful opportunity to become a complete nutjob.
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