Chess coaching

[gee]

Hello

If you are a person that would like to learn chess or you already play the game but you feel that you don't make any progress I am willing to help you.
I offer you inexpensive chess lessons easy to understand and learn, based on analysing our games. This means that you don't need to memorize boring variations or anything like that. This wouldn't help you much until you are titled player. The secret is to have general understanding of the game and to adopt thought process of strong player. You need to know that if you give the same chess position to weak player and strong player their thoughts will be completely different. I can help you to get to this level of chess understanding, that would improve your play significantly.

I play and study chess for nearly 10 years. I've played above 40 thousands blitz games (online) and I'm about 1800 ELO player (I have not official ranking).

The lessons may be conducted online or correspondence, but I prefer the latter.

 

[Atomic Domains]

Are you on Chess.com? Let me test out your skills right quick in a 5/0

 

[gee]

I play on playok.com. This website allows playing for free. Would you register there?

 

[Atomic Domains]

Yea, let's do it man...

 

[gee]

Okay, send me your nickname, please

 

[Atomic Domains]

Very good player.. If you need Chess Lessons PM him.. Beat me in 3 close games

 

[-EM-]

^^ looser lol

Just kidding

 

[RCO]

what's your fide rating?

 

[Atomic Domains]

Me or him? Not official rated, but 1900 rating on Chess.com. which does not mean much, I know... But, been playing since I was 5 and I play online and in real life... This guy is the real deal....

 

[gee]

Thank you IceDude for positive comments. Actually it was 6 game match, 3 with White, 3 with Black. You played very well.

 

[Atomic Domains]

Thank you IceDude for positive comments. Actually it was 6 game match, 3 with White, 3 with Black. You played very well.

No, I resigned 3 before first move, 1 was for a mouse error, then I switched to white, I resigned again to give you back white. So just 3

 

[gee]

Oh, right. I was thinking about something else when writing the message

 

[gee]

Using the right to bump the topic, I decided to tell you an interesting thing about onespecific chess game...

The game I am talking about was played in the movie of Stanley Kubrick '2001: A space odyssey', between supercomputer HAL-9000 and astronaut Dr. Frank Poole. If you have seen the movie and you are interesting chess, you must remember the scene. Funny thing is that not many viewers know that in this scene one can find that there is something wrong with HAL-9000...
But this may be noticed only after close investigation.

First I have to mention that Stanley Kubrick was passionate about chess and strong player and that is why he put the chess scene in his film.
The game is not fictional, but a real game played in 1910 between A. Roesch and W. Schlage (you can find and watch this game on one of online chess bases available).

In the film we watch the game after Black’s 13th move. For describing moves there was used very old chess notation, so called Descriptive Notation.
Frank: Umm...anyway, Queen takes pawn. OK?
HAL: Bishop takes Knight's pawn.
Frank: Hmm, that's a good move. Er...Rook to King One.
HAL: I'm sorry, Frank. I think you missed it. Queen to Bishop Three. Bishop takes Queen. Knight takes Bishop. Mate.
Frank: Ah...Yeah, looks like you're right. I resign.
HAL: Thank you for a very enjoyable game.
Frank: Yeah. Thank you.

And here is an interesting moment, because computer was not accurate both with describing queen move (should be "Queen to bishop six") and counting moves needed to finish the game (it was a checkmate in four moves, not two(!); Poole could delay mate by playing three more moves.

The question is: was it Kubrick's mistake while writing the screenplay or he did it intentionally?

I thing that such a strong chess player and great director would not allow such a mistake. He probably wanted to show that HAL is not completely honest with crew members, or he makes mistakes. (very sophisticated way to do so). This was probably the first sign that there is something wrong happening to the computer...

What do you think?

 

[gee]

Thanks for sharing that free site for playing chess.I think you both are nice players and enjoyed the game between two of you.

Yes, that's great site. We played with IceDude couple more games another day...