A brief explanation (with pictures!) how I find and select RHP games for the blog.
I used the Philidor’s Legacy examples (wins and losses) from Red Hot Pawn games.
Then an RHP player as Black finds an amusing way to lose their Queen in 7 moves.
Also a study by A. Wotawa in 1935 White to play mates in 5 moves.
[FEN "8/7r/R5p1/6p1/5pPk/5P1p/5P1K/8 w - - 0 1"] 1. Ra8 {If the Black Rook comes off the h-file then Rh1 is mate.} 1... Rh6 2. Ra7 Rh8 3. Rb7 Rh6 {The Black Rook cannot be forced off the h-file.} 4. Ra7 Rh8 {The Black Rook cannot be forced of the h-file.} 5. Ra6 Rh7 {We are back at the diagrammed position. Any other ideas (solution on the blog.).}
Chessbase is a program for Databases, you have to enter a Data Base full of games
into it and it does all kind of wonderful things. I get a load of games from Russ
(the site owner) every now and then - at the moment this is close to 5 million games.
They come in PGN format, massive files of often 300,000 games in this format.
(a game I just took off the 'View Games' link)
I then run a program to change the game ID ([GameId "14194432"]) with the site info
Because ChessBAse does not show the Game ID and I like to keep it because it
is easier to write down (or remember ) an 8 digit number than it is to recall the
names of both players because some of them are spelt crazy others are
gobbledygook.
Regarding how long it takes. Not too long. I have about 6 or 7 'fillers' the
hard is bit is thinking up the main bit - what is it about. The main theme.
Once I have an idea or in this case, have been fed an idea. I have it done in a day. Good fun. I already have an idea for the next one, have fillers (short games/jokes)
Once the blog gets close to 10,000 hits I post the next one. (provided I have an idea,
Sometimes I'm stuck but something usually pops up and I can get started.
Using ChessBase with Red Hot Pawn
15 Feb '21 12:472 edits
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