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The Budapest Defence and Bishops

Subscribergreenpawn34
Only Chess 15 Mar '24 13:06
  1. Subscribergreenpawn34
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    Opposite coloured Bishops and Lone Bishop Mates.

    A brilliant piece of chess by Harry Nelson Pillsbury

    Cartoons, a puzzle and an OTB game by me from 1977.

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  2. Standard memberBigDogg
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    @greenpawn34 said

    Opposite coloured Bishops and Lone Bishop Mates.

    A brilliant piece of chess by Harry Nelson Pillsbury

    Cartoons, a puzzle and an OTB game by me from 1977.

    World Chess News - a new feature where I keep you up
    to date with what has been happening chess wise globally.

    Blog Post 598
    The photo with real life "opposite colored Bishops" was great.

    I see you [quite sensibly] did not do a blog on Blathy's 300+ move selfmate.
  3. Subscribergreenpawn34
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    Hi BigDogg,

    I'm not too sure the PGN thing could handle 300 moves. I've never tried.
    I may crash the internet and bring the whole planet to a grinding halt.
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    @greenpawn34 said
    Hi BigDogg,

    I'm not too sure the PGN thing could handle 300 moves. I've never tried.
    I may crash the internet and bring the whole planet to a grinding halt.
    Crash the internet?! How can I resist that kind of chance at infamy.

    Invert BoardPGNHeaders


    Edit: well, that's disappointing. Didn't even break Russ' half-arsed PGN viewer. 😒
  5. Subscribergreenpawn34
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    BigDogg what have you done.

    BBC is reporting bank accounts all over the world are showing nothing but chess
    moves and all the electric clocks are striking 13
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    @bigdogg said
    Crash the internet?! How can I resist that kind of chance at infamy.
    If a person crashes the internet and no one finds out (because there's no internet to spread the news), does the act still qualify for "infamy"? 🙂
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    @greenpawn34 said
    BigDogg what have you done.

    BBC is reporting bank accounts all over the world are showing nothing but chess
    moves and all the electric clocks are striking 13
    Splendid. Time to go pad my bank account with some 0-0-0's! 🤩
  8. Subscribergreenpawn34
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    Hi David,

    That is like the tree falling in the forest, if no one is there to here it does it make a noise?

    Hi Big Dogg,
    Today at 11:30 all the tills and lottery machines in ASDA, Tesco and Sainburys went down. It was cash sales only and then the ATM machines started to run out money!

    Apparently some major server crashed But I thought of of that 300+ game.
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    @greenpawn34 said
    Hi David,

    That is like the tree falling in the forest, if no one is there to here it does it make a noise?

    Hi Big Dogg,
    Today at 11:30 all the tills and lottery machines in ASDA, Tesco and Sainburys went down. It was cash sales only and then the ATM machines started to run out money!

    Apparently some major server crashed But I thought of of that 300+ game.
    He should never have tried it...
  10. Subscribergreenpawn34
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    @bigdogg said
    Splendid. Time to go pad my bank account with some 0-0-0's! 🤩
    A while back one of my blog Ideas team sent me a link about a house robbery
    that was proved to be an inside job because the villain knew the combination
    of the wall safe; it was '0-0-0'
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    @greenpawn34 said
    A while back one of my blog Ideas team sent me a link about a house robbery
    that was proved to be an inside job because the villain knew the combination
    of the wall safe; it was '0-0-0'
    Sounds like the default combination of the safe!

    3 digits is short enough to use a 'brute force' attack by hand; in other words, just try all 1000 combinations until one works.

    Edit: it occurs to me that each position can be a number greater than 9 on some safes. In that case, it will be a few more than 1000 tries. 🙂
  12. Subscribergreenpawn34
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    HI BigDogg,

    It sounds like the code you would have on your luggage. It was in a house safe
    and a gun was stolen and used. Because it was so tragic I could not use it though
    it's still rolling around my mind with a cartoon (Carlsen has been robbed, he is
    standing by empty an safe, two police officers talking 'He says the combination was '0-0-0' )
    The problem is I cannot draw!
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