GAME SHOULD HAVE GONE LIKE THIS AT THE END.

This is the game linked to the last article.  Its shows how I should have played Kb1 on move 54.

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END GAME DRAW WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A WIN

In the position below, Fritz is white and has just played 54.Ke2, it is now black to play. 

In the game I played Kc3, it then played Ke3, the sequence was then repeated and Fritz claimed a draw by repetition.

I was not disappointed as I genuinely thought it was a drawn position.

It is not a draw, it is a win for black but I failed to see the winning method.

Tried to post  game below which shows how the endgame should have been played but just cannot get it to post at the minute.

I just could not see that it was needful for black to move away to b1 or b2???

I wonder how many club players would have managed to find the win from the position above?

Ecc 12:12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

LOOKS LIKE FIDE NEED HELP FROM GM PASTOR BEGBIE AND RED HAND LUKE

Its looks like FIDE need the help of GM Pastor Begbie and Red Hand Luke in order to sort out the "Chess-cheating" or alleged "Chess-cheating" problem, once and for all!

Ec 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

THIS SEEMS LIKE AN APPROPRIATE TUNE AT THE MINUTE

Had a quick look at that Chess.com post about alleged "chess-cheating," it seems to be generating lot`s of comments!

Thought this was a appropriate tune, suitable for the occasion.

I did read an article somewhere quite recently where someone said, "Cheating will not kill Chess but the paranoia it generates will kill Chess."


1 Thessalonians 5:22  Abstain from all appearance of evil.

LOOKS LIKE THIS STORY WILL RUN AND RUN FOR A WHILE

Just read an article on Chess.com about "Chess cheating."

It looks like a story which will run and run for quite a while.

Personally speaking, I suspect "Chess cheating" is widespread on probably all the online sites.

It would be a very rare thing for me to play online nowadays, as I can hardly win a game.

The strange thing is, I can regularly get a rating which qualifies for a "Candidate Master" title from Fritz 14 when I play 25 minute time control games, in Fritz rated play mode.

Plus, on a number of occasions I have actually scored a rating which qualifies for a "Fide Master" title from Fritz 14.

Fritz has now reset itself but it keeps the title award from the last set of games.  Sometimes it lets me play a couple of hundred games before it automatically resets, at other times it may reset after about 30 games.

I keep the playing strength at a setting of 2398.

Danny Mallaghan and myself were just talking about online chess a few weeks ago, He was saying he finds it hard to win games as well.

In 1990 I started to study at the Free Presbyterian Bible college in Banbridge.

On the very first day, the principal of the Bible college announced that they had found evidence of cheating during exams, which had taken place at the end of the last College year.

They had to start whole inquiry in order to sort the matter out!

When you get cheating going on in a Bible College, you can be sure it is going on in a widespread fashion in the rest of society. 

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

CONGRATULATIONS TO MULDOON`S

Received the news that Muldoon`s had won the first division again, when I ran into Danny Mallaghan last week.

I see the news  is now posted on the UCU site.

This is the picture from last year, this year the order is reversed.

1 Cor 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

THE CYANIDE GAMBIT

Photographs can be very interesting don`t you think?

Discovered this photo a few days ago. It was taken in 1982 and it features a man called Michelle Sindona.

The picture was taken in prison, and it look very like Sindona is sending a message to his former colleagues, that he is willing to play "the Cyanide Gambit," in order to escape from his predicament.

"The Cyanide Gambit," is unlike other gambits were you are willing to sacrifice a pawn or a piece. 

To play "the Cyanide Gambit" you have to be willing to sacrifice all the pawns, and all the pieces in order to win! 

Naturally this would lead to quite a spectacle, and would need superhuman powers of calculation for it to work successfully.

In 1986, Sindona`s game went this way. He made the astounding threat to his former colleagues, that if he was not immediately released from prison, he would publicly reveal the secret financial links between the Mafia and the Vatican.

The gambit did not go the way Sindona expected, a few days after making the threat, he was given a cup of coffee containing cyanide, and it was game, set, and match in the favour of the Vatican and the Mafia.

No one has ever tried to play "the Cyanide Gambit" ever since!

Maybe Gary Kasparov will attempt to play it someday against Vladimir Putin?

If only Michelle Sindona had been able to sharpen his calculating skills a bit more, he may have won?

You can read about Sindona in this book, titled "The Entity," plus many other Internet sources.

Making idle threats, is a very dangerous pastime!

Acts 4:29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,

30 By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.