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The King's Gambit on the Unknown
** Game numbers refer number of games I analyzed that were played by Paul Morphy, "The Pride and Sorrow of Chess".
Game 2
Location: New Orleans, 1849
White: Morphy (age 12)
Black: N.N.
King's Gambit Varia... | Read More
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Spring Semester and My Summer class finally ended. Leaving me time to work on mosquito. Milestone 1 and Milestone are completed. The program can now produce a valid move list. Should be able to complete its alpha-beta search and evaluation functio... | Read More
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In a series of blog entries I'm going to analyze Paul Morphy's games where 1.e4 e5 was played to explored how this master of the open game handle these types of positions.
I going to start off first by examining games played against weaker opposi... | Read More
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I'm fascinated about how modern computers play chess, and I was wondering if there is anything we can take away from their style of play. The (Computer) GMs in this arena of play are: Deep Blue, Hydra, Rybka, Fritz, Junior, and Shredder.
In ord... | Read More
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It looks like white should easily be able to pick up the pawn on d5 but black has enough counter play to hold the position.
1.0-0-0 0-0 2.Bf3 (if Rxd5 black gains compensation for the pawn by Re8! but this might be whites best line since black ... | Read More
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This is one of my best games not because I played brittilantly. I recognized I was positionaly inferior and I needed to introduce some sort of conspiracy into the position to make the win very difficult for my opponent. It work out very well whe... | Read More
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Every beginner that has pickup a chess book has seen a table listing the value of each piece. A quick recap of this table: Queen-9 Rook-5 Bishop-3.5 Knight-3 Pawn-1. Okay, some might have spot that I use the non-traditional aproach of not assignin... | Read More
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Game 1: White: Polgar, Solfia Black: Joshua Waitzkin | Read More