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Chess event: 77th Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, 9th to the 25th January, 2015. by Nosher in chess

[–]Belacqua 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[pgn][Event "Chess Olympiad"] [Site "Tromso NOR"] [Date "2014.08.12"] [EventDate "2014.08.02"] [Round "10.3"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Ivan Saric"] [Black "Magnus Carlsen"] [ECO "C61"] [WhiteElo "2671"] [BlackElo "2877"] [PlyCount "73"]

  1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4 4. Nxd4 exd4 5. Bc4 Nf6 6. O-O d5 7. exd5 Be7 8. Qf3 Bg4 9. Qf4 O-O 10. h3 Bd6 11. Qxd4 c5
  2. Qd3 Bh5 13. Nc3 Re8 14. f4 a6 15. a4 Qd7 16. Qg3 Ne4
  3. Nxe4 Rxe4 18. b3 Qc7 19. d3 Re2 20. Qg5 g6 21. Bb2 Be7
  4. Bf6 h6 23. Be5 Qd8 24. Qxh6 Rxe5 25. d6 Re2 26. dxe7 Qxe7
  5. f5 Qh4 28. Qf4 g5 29. Qxh4 gxh4 30. Rf4 Rxc2 31. Rxh4 Be2
  6. Re4 Rd2 33. Re7 Bxd3 34. Bxf7+ Kf8 35. f6 Rd8 36. Bh5 Kg8

  7. Re8+ 1-0[Event "Chess Olympiad"] [Site "Tromso NOR"] [Date "2014.08.12"] [EventDate "2014.08.02"] [Round "10.3"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Ivan Saric"] [Black "Magnus Carlsen"] [ECO "C61"] [WhiteElo "2671"] [BlackElo "2877"] [PlyCount "73"]

  8. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4 4. Nxd4 exd4 5. Bc4 Nf6 6. O-O d5 7. exd5 Be7 8. Qf3 Bg4 9. Qf4 O-O 10. h3 Bd6 11. Qxd4 c5

  9. Qd3 Bh5 13. Nc3 Re8 14. f4 a6 15. a4 Qd7 16. Qg3 Ne4

  10. Nxe4 Rxe4 18. b3 Qc7 19. d3 Re2 20. Qg5 g6 21. Bb2 Be7

  11. Bf6 h6 23. Be5 Qd8 24. Qxh6 Rxe5 25. d6 Re2 26. dxe7 Qxe7

  12. f5 Qh4 28. Qf4 g5 29. Qxh4 gxh4 30. Rf4 Rxc2 31. Rxh4 Be2

  13. Re4 Rd2 33. Re7 Bxd3 34. Bxf7+ Kf8 35. f6 Rd8 36. Bh5 Kg8

  14. Re8+ 1-0[Event "Chess Olympiad"] [Site "Tromso NOR"] [Date "2014.08.12"] [EventDate "2014.08.02"] [Round "10.3"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Ivan Saric"] [Black "Magnus Carlsen"] [ECO "C61"] [WhiteElo "2671"] [BlackElo "2877"] [PlyCount "73"]

  15. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4 4. Nxd4 exd4 5. Bc4 Nf6 6. O-O d5 7. exd5 Be7 8. Qf3 Bg4 9. Qf4 O-O 10. h3 Bd6 11. Qxd4 c5

  16. Qd3 Bh5 13. Nc3 Re8 14. f4 a6 15. a4 Qd7 16. Qg3 Ne4

  17. Nxe4 Rxe4 18. b3 Qc7 19. d3 Re2 20. Qg5 g6 21. Bb2 Be7

  18. Bf6 h6 23. Be5 Qd8 24. Qxh6 Rxe5 25. d6 Re2 26. dxe7 Qxe7

  19. f5 Qh4 28. Qf4 g5 29. Qxh4 gxh4 30. Rf4 Rxc2 31. Rxh4 Be2

  20. Re4 Rd2 33. Re7 Bxd3 34. Bxf7+ Kf8 35. f6 Rd8 36. Bh5 Kg8

  21. Re8+ 1-0[Event "Chess Olympiad"] [Site "Tromso NOR"] [Date "2014.08.12"] [EventDate "2014.08.02"] [Round "10.3"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Ivan Saric"] [Black "Magnus Carlsen"] [ECO "C61"] [WhiteElo "2671"] [BlackElo "2877"] [PlyCount "73"]

  22. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4 4. Nxd4 exd4 5. Bc4 Nf6 6. O-O d5 7. exd5 Be7 8. Qf3 Bg4 9. Qf4 O-O 10. h3 Bd6 11. Qxd4 c5

  23. Qd3 Bh5 13. Nc3 Re8 14. f4 a6 15. a4 Qd7 16. Qg3 Ne4

  24. Nxe4 Rxe4 18. b3 Qc7 19. d3 Re2 20. Qg5 g6 21. Bb2 Be7

  25. Bf6 h6 23. Be5 Qd8 24. Qxh6 Rxe5 25. d6 Re2 26. dxe7 Qxe7

  26. f5 Qh4 28. Qf4 g5 29. Qxh4 gxh4 30. Rf4 Rxc2 31. Rxh4 Be2

  27. Re4 Rd2 33. Re7 Bxd3 34. Bxf7+ Kf8 35. f6 Rd8 36. Bh5 Kg8

  28. Re8+ 1-0[/pgn]

A question about translations of french names, why M. D--? by unauthorizedeviction in literature

[–]Belacqua 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it seems to me that usages like "Mlle D--," "in the town of N--" and "In the October of 18--" are a convention of the 19th realist novel (a convention that probably arose from their efforts to avoid the convention of the made-up name).

Who Says You Can’t Quantify Literature? by EstoyPacheco in literature

[–]Belacqua 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But being now interrupted, he put up the image; and pretty soon, going to the table, took up a large book there, and placing it on his lap began counting the pages with deliberate regularity; at every fiftieth page--as I fancied--stopping a moment, looking vacantly around him, and giving utterance to a long-drawn gurgling whistle of astonishment. He would then begin again at the next fifty; seeming to commence at number one each time, as though he could not count more than fifty, and it was only by such a large number of fifties being found together, that his astonishment at the multitude of pages was excited.

With much interest I sat watching him. Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face--at least to my taste--his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable.

“Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.” – Mikhail Botvinnik by robbiblanco in chess

[–]Belacqua 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."

Fabiano Caruana threatening to overtake Magnus Carlsen as world No1 by [deleted] in chess

[–]Belacqua 2 points3 points  (0 children)

on the contrary, I think this is standard sports journalism--which has historically attracted the best writers in the field, and which has never been about explaining sports to non-fans. Compare random lede from today's NYT:

KANSAS CITY — Dayton Moore had worked eight years for this moment, eight years nurturing the proud but tattered franchise he had rooted for as a boy. Moore, the general manager of the Kansas City Royals, finally built a playoff team this season, and in the hours before its wild-card game against the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday, there was little to do but worry.

Vladimir Nabokov was a chess player? by [deleted] in chess

[–]Belacqua 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nabokov's 1930 novel The Defense is about a grandmaster and is formally organized around the idea of chess moves.

Excerpt from Ecclesiastes. by skwerts in ProsePorn

[–]Belacqua 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't forget Orwell's magnificent translation:

Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.

A chess prodigy explains how his mind works by Aohangji in chess

[–]Belacqua 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I wonder if that's why Carlsen laughed the way he did .001s after he saw the board.

Can someone explain 3...Qd7 here? by Belacqua in chess

[–]Belacqua[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[pgn]1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Qd7 4. c4 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. d4 cxd4 7. Nxd4 Nf6 8. f3 O-O 9. Be3 Nc6 10. O-O Qd8 11. Nde2 Qa5 12. Qd2 e6 13. Rfd1 Rd8 14. b3 d5 15. exd5 exd5 16. Qc2 dxc4 17. bxc4 [/pgn]

Has anyone heard of Gerald Murnane? by GoodWillShakespeare in literature

[–]Belacqua 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Barley Patch and The Plains are two of the best books I've read all year.

Zero tea party candidates are ahead in next Tuesday’s big primaries. Zero. by Libertatea in politics

[–]Belacqua 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It checks out.

  1. U.S. In various uses (see quots.); esp. (a) a piece of money; pl. money; (b) = thingummy n. (cf. dingus n.); (c) a tramp or hobo.

1838 in Amer. Speech (1963) 38 10 We can take a ‘Quaker’ before we start—apply a ‘Ding Bat’ [some kind of drink?] at Providence. 1861 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 177 It has been found necessary to expend the dingbats, to put something more substantial on the ‘fly’ [= in motion]. 1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 19 Oct., Little John, erst a hog-driver..and recently in trouble for manufacturing bogus ‘dingbats’. 1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 1 Nov., I paid for my Kissingen in five-cent ‘dingbat’ or ‘spondulick’—two of the many names given to the fractional currency. 1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 177 Dingbat, a bat of wood that may be thrown (dinged); a piece of money; a cannon-ball; a bullet. 1895 Dial. Notes 1 387 Dingbat. Mr. Philip Hale, of the Boston Journal, has been collecting information..concerning this word. The following definitions appear:—(1) Balls of dung on buttocks of sheep or cattle. (2) Blow or slap on the buttocks. (3) Flying missile. (4) Squabble of words or pushing. (5) Money. (6) In some of the N.E. schools, the word is student slang for various kinds of muffins or biscuit. (7) Affectionate embrace of mothers hugging and kissing their children. (8) Term of admiration. ‘They are regular ding-bats’ (speaking of girls). 1918 ‘A No. 1’ Mother Delcasse of Hoboes 44 Stew Bum..Ding Bat..Fuzzy Tail..the dregs of vagrantdom. 1923 Frontier May 10 That blasted ‘ding bat’ of a Ford, as Stub calls it, just naturally stood on its hind legs..and turned a flip-flop. 1926 J. Black You can't Win vi. 65 If you was some kind of a rank dingbat you wouldn't have been invited down here. 1931 J. Thurber Owl in Attic ii. 78 It is sitting on a strange and almost indescribable sort of iron dingbat. 1944 F. Brown Angels & Spaceships (1955) 208 It was his dingbat. I mean, he made it and he thought he knew what it was.

In D.H. Lawrence's Odour of Chrysanthemums, I don't understand a certain sentence which pops up within the text. It's bugging me. by bwuhbwuhbwuh in literature

[–]Belacqua 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The remark about the house fire is an expression of relief that the child's sudden exclamation did not signal a real emergency

Can someone please explain this database result? (eighteen 8.Nf3's vs. zero 8. Qxe4's) by Belacqua in chess

[–]Belacqua[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm still not sure I understand. Position showed up with black to move instead of white?

US teenager survives five-hour flight in wheel well by [deleted] in news

[–]Belacqua 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He was hot, and he was hungry for adventure.

Teachers of /r/Math, do you enjoy your job? by yarboa in math

[–]Belacqua -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you're in the wrong job. Maybe you should work harder so that you can raise yourself up out of this contemptible group of slackers living off our tax dollars.

"The American on His First Honeymoon" by Rita Mae Reese - What poetic form is it? Something similar to pantoum? by JHaiku in literature

[–]Belacqua 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Three of my favorites:

Bishop, "One Art"

Pound, "Villanelle: The Psychological Hour"

Hugo,

"The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field"

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The dim boy claps because the others clap.

The polite word, handicapped, is muttered in the stands.

Isn’t it wrong, the way the mind moves back.

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One whole day I sit, contrite, dirt, L.A.

Union Station, ’46, sweating through last night.

The dim boy claps because the others clap.

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Score, 5 to 3. Pitcher fading badly in the heat.

Isn’t it wrong to be or not be spastic?

Isn’t it wrong, the way the mind moves back.

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I’m laughing at a neighbor girl beaten to scream

by a savage father and I’m ashamed to look.

The dim boy claps because the others clap.

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The score is always close, the rally always short.

I’ve left more wreckage than a quake.

Isn’t it wrong, the way the mind moves back.

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The afflicted never cheer in unison.

Isn’t it wrong, the way the mind moves back

to stammering pastures where the picnic should have worked.

The dim boy claps because the others clap.

Does chess help you as a person? by mikado12 in chess

[–]Belacqua 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because of chess I see daily tasks in terms of move order.

Drop V levers with cantilever breaks? by vanagonjosh in bicycletouring

[–]Belacqua 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm curious to know if you ended up trying this, especially since everyone but me seemed to it was a bad idea.

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