Check out Alice Chess, our featured variant for June, 2024.

Enter Your Reply

The Comment You're Replying To
George Duke wrote on Mon, Jan 13, 2014 07:57 PM UTC:
So much for the element of surprise: Is d4 or e4 the better, asks
Chessbase, the Simpleminded Chess site,
http://en.chessbase.com/post/1-e4-best-by-test-part-2?  Suppose, within
different elo ranges, one stands atop 1% or 2%.  Then theoretically they
can ban the other opening move from given tournament, as stupid, and
eventually everyone must play even the first ten moves alike.  Well, almost they do already in generalized sense that each sensible first 8 or 10 has been long recognizable as to have own disambiguated name.  

Hence the liturgical ring of some "Nimzo-Indian Defence, Normal Variation,
Bernstein Defence, Exchange Line" though "simply" '1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3
Nc3 Bb4 4 e3 0-0 5 Nf3 d5 6 Bd3 c5 7 0-0 Nc6 8 a3 Bxc3 9 Bxc3...' It and
hundreds others speak volumes in memorizable confining repetition of fundamentalists. 

The November 2014 championship is fully in the works: http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/7672-bidding-procedure-fide-world-championship-match-2014-.html.  It will pit Carlsen and someone other than Nakamura.  Though Nakamura is now #3 elo, on technicality he happens to lack the pre-qualifiers this year.   

"Magnus" and "Gargantua,"  though different cognates are of course synonyms within and across languages, meaning very big.   Too, the images -- http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2012/07/magnus-carlsen-am-i-tired-what-stupid.html,

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pantagruel%27s_childhood.jpg --  arguably bear not altogether remote resemblance, one of OrthoChess Carlsen, other from Rabelais five-book masterpiece.  Now his 'Gargantua and Pantagruel'(circa 1540) is totally concerning Chess of the 1530s, when modern ranging Queen was recent invention, expressed in this work's Chapter XXV, http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/r/rabelais/francois/r11g/book5.25.html, and later illustrated by Gustave Dore.

Edit Form
Conduct Guidelines
This is a Chess variants website, not a general forum.
Please limit your comments to Chess variants or the operation of this site.
Keep this website a safe space for Chess variant hobbyists of all stripes.
Because we want people to feel comfortable here no matter what their political or religious beliefs might be, we ask you to avoid discussing politics, religion, or other controversial subjects here. No matter how passionately you feel about any of these subjects, just take it someplace else.
Avoid Inflammatory Comments
If you are feeling anger, keep it to yourself until you calm down. Avoid insulting, blaming, or attacking someone you are angry with. Focus criticisms on ideas rather than people, and understand that criticisms of your ideas are not personal attacks and do not justify an inflammatory response.
Quick Markdown Guide

By default, new comments may be entered as Markdown, simple markup syntax designed to be readable and not look like markup. Comments stored as Markdown will be converted to HTML by Parsedown before displaying them. This follows the Github Flavored Markdown Spec with support for Markdown Extra. For a good overview of Markdown in general, check out the Markdown Guide. Here is a quick comparison of some commonly used Markdown with the rendered result:

Top level header: <H1>

Block quote

Second paragraph in block quote

First Paragraph of response. Italics, bold, and bold italics.

Second Paragraph after blank line. Here is some HTML code mixed in with the Markdown, and here is the same <U>HTML code</U> enclosed by backticks.

Secondary Header: <H2>

  • Unordered list item
  • Second unordered list item
  • New unordered list
    • Nested list item

Third Level header <H3>

  1. An ordered list item.
  2. A second ordered list item with the same number.
  3. A third ordered list item.
Here is some preformatted text.
  This line begins with some indentation.
    This begins with even more indentation.
And this line has no indentation.

Alt text for a graphic image

A definition list
A list of terms, each with one or more definitions following it.
An HTML construct using the tags <DL>, <DT> and <DD>.
A term
Its definition after a colon.
A second definition.
A third definition.
Another term following a blank line
The definition of that term.