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Saturday Afternoon Chess/Open Thread 08-27-2016 [OregonMuse]

Arab chess.jpg

Couple Of Medieval Arab Guys Playing Chess

(Not sure where this pic came from, a medieval chess manual perhaps? The precise position was obviously very important to the artist, as the pieces are displayed just so. Too bad I don't understand the symbolism, so the board position is unreadable to me.)

Good afternoon morons and moronettes, and welcome to the Saturday Afternoon Chess/Open Thread, the only AoSHQ thread with content specifically for all of us chess nerds who pay homage in the temple of Caïssa, goddess of the chessboard. And, for those of you who aren't nerdly enough for chess, you can use this thread to talk about checkers, or politics, or whatever you wish, only please try to keep it civil. Nobody wants to get into a mud fight on a Saturday afternoon.


Problem 1 - White To Play

What's the best move for White?

Hint: White wins material


20160827 - Problem 1.jpg
FEN: [2r3k1/5pp1/4p2p/8/1p2Q3/6P1/PPq2P1P/3R2K1 w - - 0 1]

Problem 2a - White To Play

Hint: White mates in 3


20160827 - Problem 2.jpg
FEN: [5rk1/pb3p1p/1b2pPp1/6qr/PQ6/6P1/1B1R1P1P/3R1BK1 w - - 0 1]

And when you're through with 2a, you're ready for Problem 2b. Turn the board around and assume it's Black's move. What's Black's best move?

Hint: Black mates in 2


The Hall of Fame

We all know the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio (which I've been to) and the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York (which I haven't). There's even a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame located in mumble-mumble-I forget. But there's also the World Chess Hall of Fame located in St. Louis

The mission of the World Chess Hall of Fame is to educate visitors, fans, players, and scholars by collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting the game of chess and its continuing cultural and artistic significance.

They have some interesting stuff in their collection:

One highlight of the collection is the Paul Morphy silver set, presented to the legendary player after his 1857 victory in the First American Chess Congress. Others are the George Sturgis Trophy, which is inscribed with the names of the 1945-1963 winners of the U.S. Chess Open Championship.

I wonder how they got their hands on Morphy's silver presentation set?

There's actually not a lot of material on the web site. The idea is that they want you to visit in person. This is a product of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL). There's a crap ton of CCSCSL instructional videos on YouTube for beginning and intermediate players that you should take advantage of. After all, who would not want to listen to a free lecture from a chess master or grandmaster?

H/T to moron 'RS' for this.


Problem 3 - White To Play

Hint: White mates in 2


20160827 - Problem 3.jpg
FEN: [2kr1b1r/pp3ppp/2p1b2q/4B3/4Q3/2PB2R1/PPP2PPP/3R2K1 w - - 0 1]


Vintage Chess

From the comments over the past several weeks, I see that some of you are getting into the chess variants, particularly Courier Chess, which has its own unique board (12x8 instead of the standard 8x8 ) and pieces. That's great. I myself do not like most variants, as the *real* version is hard enough for me to get better at. Plus, if you add in an extra piece that moves in some wacky new way, or futz with the board size, that just changes the game too much for me to enjoy. There are a couple of variations I do like, but I'll talk about them in some future post. But right now, let's get into a bit of chess history and look at chess the way the Arabs played it.

Sometimes on chess forums, Persians (Iranians) and dot-Indians get into fights about which country chess came from, and while those are fun to watch, I'm going to skip ahead a few centuries and talk about the rules of shatranj, as chess was known by Arabs. And by the way, Muslims have had a love-hate relationship with chess. A number of sultans and caliphs enjoyed playing chess, but other Muslim authorities banned it. So there's no consensus on chess in the Muslim world, near as I can tell.

Anyway, the goal of shatranj is the same as modern chess: checkmate. One difference is that if one player is reduced to having no other piece except his king, this is a "baremate" and he loses. And stalemate is a loss for the side unable to make a legal move, not a draw.

The KING moves as it does in modern chess. There is no castling.

The COUNSELOR (later the QUEEN when the game was introduced to medieval Europe) moves only one square diagonally.

The CHARIOT (later ROOK) moves as the rook does in modern chess.

The HORSE (KNIGHT) moves just like the modern knight, even with the piece-leaping ability.

THE ELEPHANT (later BISHOP) moves two squares diagonally, and can jump over other pieces like the horse.

The FOOT SOLDIER (PAWN) moves and captures as the modern pawn except that there's no 2-square option on the first move nor en passant capturing.

Because the only "long-range" shatranj piece is the rook, the games were typically much slower. Players could spend 15-20 moves developing their own pieces, getting them into a desired position before contact was ever made with the opponent's army. So, according to the old-school Soviet chess classic Questions of Modern Chess Theory

...play would begin not from the original starting position but from one where the initial development was already completed.

These pre-set positions were collectively called tabiy'at (sing. tabi'ya). Here from the abovementioned book are a couple of them:


20160827 - tabiyat.jpg

So the Arabs didn't have any opening theory. Well, no, I guess it would be more accurate to say, these tabi'yat were their opening theory. I don't know how many they originally used, but 31 of them are still extant. They all apparently had names, but I don't know them. However, all of this became irrelevant sometime around 1450-1475, which I'll get into next time.


Problem 4 - Black To Play

It's Black's move. What's his best option?

Hint: Black Mates in 4


20160827 - Problem 4.jpg
FEN: [3Q4/1k2K3/1P6/8/8/8/b7/6q1 b - - 0 1]

This one may look a bit confusing, so remember 1. It's Black to move and 1. Even though it may not look like it, the White side of the board is on the BOTTOM. The lowest leftmost square is a1. That White pawn is on b5 and the only way it can move is up.


Endgame of the Week

How can White win this endgame? All you need to do is how how White can get to a winning position.

Hint: Skewer the rook


20160827 - Endgame.jpg
FEN: [k5r1/1R6/1KP5/8/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1]


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Solutions Update:

Problem 1

Answer: Black's queen is defended by the rook on c8, but White can deflect it with

1.Rd8+!

And now Black has no choice:

1...Rxd8
2. Qxc2

White has won the exchange, and should go on to win the game.


Problem 2a

White can exploit Black's back-rank weakness to force a quick checkmate:

1.Qxf8+ Kxf8
2.Rd8+ Bxd8
3.Rxd8#


Problem 2b

Black has a mate in 2, starting with

1...Qxg3+!

And now White has two options, but both result in checkmate:

2.hxg3 Rh1#

or

2.Bg2 Qxg2#

Some games are like this. That is, the position is very double-edged and it boils down to the winning player being one move ahead of his opponent.


Problem 3

1.Qxc6+! bxc6 (only possible reply)
2.Ba6#

This crossfire-type attack of the two bishops is an example of what has been come to be known as Boden's Mate, named after Samuel Boden who played an early example of it (Schulder-Boden, London, 1853). It typically occurs if Black castles over on the queenside which, if Black isn't careful, can create positional weaknesses. I recommend the wiki entry I linked to, it's very thorough and complete.


Problem 4

Answer: Black's queen, backed up by the bishop, chases the White king down to the back rank.

1...Qg5+!

White has two responses, either Ke8 or Kd7:

2.Ke8 Qg6+
3.Ke7 Qe6+
4.Kf8 Qf7#

-or-

2.Kd7 Qd5+
3.Ke7 Qe6+ (If 3.Ke8 then 3...Qf7#)
4.Kf8 Qf7#


Endgame of the Week

1.Ra7+

Not 1.c7? Rg6+ 2.Ka5 Kxb7 3.c8=Q+ Kxc8 and it is Black who wins.

1...Kb8
2.c7+ Kc8
3.Ra8+ Kd7
4.Rxg8 and wins


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Note: that cryptic line of letters and numbers you see underneath each board diagram is a representation of the position in what is known as "Forsyth-Edwards Notation", or F.E.N. It's actually readable by humans. Most computer applications nowadays can read FEN, so those of you who may want to study the position, you can copy the line of FEN and paste into your chess app and it should automatically recreate the position on its display board.

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So that about wraps it up for this week. Chess thread tips, suggestions, bribes, rumors, threats, and insults may be sent to my yahoo address: OregonMuse little-a-in-a-circle yahoo dott com.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 04:44 PM




Comments

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1
Non-chess player #1 checking in!

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 27, 2016 04:46 PM (ae4pN)

2 Good for you, Magoo!

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 04:48 PM (Scu/0)

3 I believe that the world revolves around me.

Posted by: Colin Kaepernickus at August 27, 2016 04:49 PM (uz/Pv)

4 We Muslims invented refrigerator magnets. That's how the medieval arabs were able to play chess on vertical boards.

Posted by: Achmed Mohammed at August 27, 2016 04:51 PM (uz/Pv)

5 Rock HOF is in Cleveland, Mr. Muse.

Posted by: Pepe at August 27, 2016 04:53 PM (jDqdz)

6 The well after 9/11 when the MFM, liberals and leftists (but I repeat myself) were making excuses for barbarous Islam about what a great civilization they supposedly had, my favourite sneering insult aimed at them was from Kathy Shaidle (although I don't know if she coined it) that was, "The Moslems invented chess, you know!" to be used sarcastically after reporting the latest Moslem atrocity e.g. "20 children killed in bombing at school... but the Moslems invented chess, you know!"

The illumination reminded me of that.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 27, 2016 04:55 PM (LdMbv)

7 That's easy, take a refrigerator apart and put the pieces in a pencil box.

Posted by: 1921 C DRUM at August 27, 2016 04:56 PM (zwsnd)

8 I haven't gotten Problem 1 yet, but I figured out both sides for Problem 2. That position is a doozy. Gotta love it when both sides are threatening immediate mate.

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2016 04:57 PM (sdi6R)

9 How do you breathe through that little thing?

Posted by: the elephant talking to the naked king at August 27, 2016 04:58 PM (LdMbv)

10 "The Moslems invented chess, you know!" to be used sarcastically after reporting the latest Moslem atrocity e.g. "20 children killed in bombing at school... but the Moslems invented chess, you know!"

Posted by: andycanuck at August 27, 2016 04:55 PM (LdMbv)


Heh. I wonder who said the Moslems invented chess? CAIR? Too bad for them, India and Persia had it first.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 04:59 PM (Scu/0)

11 my favourite sneering insult aimed at them was from Kathy Shaidle (although I don't know if she coined it) that was, "The Moslems invented chess, you know!"


Yeah, maybe, but it was Westerners who made it practical by inventing a horizontal chessboard.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 27, 2016 05:01 PM (4HySM)

12 And thank you for the R-R HOF info, pepe.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 05:01 PM (Scu/0)

13 "Damn, Mahmoud, the pieces keep sliding off."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 27, 2016 05:02 PM (4HySM)

14 Am watching book TV with Nicholas Irving, but I'll see the problems too.

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2016 05:02 PM (0G2eQ)

15 14 Am watching book TV with Nicholas Irving, but I'll see the problems too.

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2016 05:02 PM (0G2eQ)


Dang it, Skip, turn off that boob tube and get to work. Those problems aren't going to solve themselves, you know.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 05:04 PM (Scu/0)

16 Problem 4 black can force a draw:
Q-g5+
K-e8
B-f7+
K-d7
B-e6+

etc.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 05:06 PM (g6yUI)

17 The best move for White?
Leak black win, or they'll be protests.

Posted by: Hamilton at August 27, 2016 05:08 PM (TlNDs)

18 Tabiy'at is a long poem about my cat!

Posted by: zombie omar khayyam at August 27, 2016 05:09 PM (LdMbv)

19 Problem 4 black can force a draw:

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 05:06 PM (g6yUI)


No doubt. But Black can do better.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 05:11 PM (Scu/0)

20 IIANM chess was invented by the Indians. Some say the Chinese but the muzzies try to take credit for it just like they do for math. The only thing the muzzies have invented is barbarism.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 27, 2016 05:11 PM (mpXpK)

21 Problem 1 looks like one of my games.

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2016 05:16 PM (0G2eQ)

22 The lib-left was happy to ascribe chess to the Moslems just as they were the zero then. Okay, although it still doesn't take away from the insult.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 27, 2016 05:17 PM (LdMbv)

23 From what I've read, the original form of chess, chaturanga, was invented in India, and then it spread both east and west, and evolved into numerous variations.

Chaturanga was a board game version of war. The king, rook, and knight moved exactly as they do today, but the queen and bishop were very restricted. The pawn could move only one square, even on its first move.

I imagine it as the starting position representing the opposing armies in camp, and then it took about 20 moves or so to get them into battle formation. Very different from modern chess.

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2016 05:18 PM (sdi6R)

24 siddebar -

"Never Trump Isn't 'Preening' - It's Mourning", preened David French, preeningly.



jeez, some of these folks need to change their pantie liners and move the hell on.



Posted by: Mortimer at August 27, 2016 05:19 PM (zu88C)

25
Aliens invented chess.

I saw it on History channel.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 27, 2016 05:19 PM (ae4pN)

26 Damn white is always going first!

Posted by: Colin Kaepernick at August 27, 2016 05:25 PM (IqV8l)

27 Problem 4:
1. ... Qxb6
2. Qxb6 Kxb6
Draw.

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2016 05:31 PM (sdi6R)

28 How can White win this endgame? All you need to do is how how White can get to a winning position.




Gee whitey better not win that might offend Colin Suckadick

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 27, 2016 05:35 PM (auHtY)

29 I might have the first endgame solution
R-a7#, K-b8;
P-c7#, K-c8;
R-a8#, K-d7;
RxR

Then promotes pawn

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2016 05:35 PM (0G2eQ)

30 Oh duh, ok
Q-g5+
K-e8
Q-g8+
K-e7, not d7 or q-e6#
Q-f7+
K-d6
Q-d5+
K-e7
Q-e6+
K-f8+
Q-f7#

They do a lovely dance back and forth, then she kills him.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 05:37 PM (g6yUI)

31 They do a lovely dance back and forth, then she kills him.
Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 05:37 PM (g6yUI)

Just like the female preying mantis.

Posted by: Fox2! at August 27, 2016 05:38 PM (brIR5)

32 27 Problem 4:
1. ... Qxb6
2. Qxb6 Kxb6
Draw.
Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2016 05:31 PM (sdi6R)


No.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 05:39 PM (Scu/0)

33 What I'm good at: noticing the "interesting" features of a position. What I'm mediocre at: putting them all together and exploiting them for a win.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 05:39 PM (g6yUI)

34 They do a lovely dance back and forth, then she kills him.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 05:37 PM (g6yUI)


You have the right idea, but you can do it in (if I'm counting your moves correctly) one less move.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 05:41 PM (Scu/0)

35 Gah
Q-g5+
K-e8
Q-g8+
K-e7, not d7 or q-e6#
Q-e6+
K-f8
Q-f7#

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 05:45 PM (g6yUI)

36

Whacha mean White goes first?!

Posted by: QB Colin Kaepernick - Over on the Bench

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 27, 2016 05:46 PM (kdS6q)

37 Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 05:45 PM (g6yUI)

Excellent. Good work. Now solve the other 5 problems.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 05:47 PM (Scu/0)

38 Irony alert re. Colin Kaepernick:

Kaepernick was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Heidi Russo, a 19-year-old woman who was single and destitute at the time. His birth father, an African American, was out of the picture before he was born.[1][2][3] Russo placed her son for adoption with Rick and Teresa Kaepernick, a white couple who had two children--son Kyle and daughter Devon--and were looking for a boy after having lost two other sons to heart defects.[1][4] Kaepernick became the youngest of their three children. He lived in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, until age four, and attended grade school in Turlock, California.[5][6]

Posted by: andycanuck at August 27, 2016 05:52 PM (LdMbv)

39 And stalemate is a loss for the side unable to make a legal move, not a draw.

You're backed into a corner with guys pointing swords at you and nowhere to go. Yeah, that's a loss.

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2016 05:53 PM (sdi6R)

40 The muslims don't invent things. They steal things. They destroy things. They make everything under the sun worse. They improve nothing. There is only one exception to this rule. If a muslim is in a civilized country (one not dominated by muslims), and they are trained by civilized people, they just may do what they are trained to do in some manner. But the muslim in them will always come out. Eventually.

Posted by: Eromero at August 27, 2016 05:54 PM (zLDYs)

41 #3

Qxc6
Pxc6
B-a6# uncovering white's rook to block off the last square black can flee to.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 05:59 PM (g6yUI)

42 "Couple Of Medieval Arab Guys Playing Chess"


That anything like "Dogs Playing Poker?"

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 27, 2016 06:00 PM (9ym/8)

43 Problem 4:
1...Qg5+
2.Kf8 Qxd8+

I can get the mate after that, but how to do it in just 2 more moves escapes me.

Posted by: Rabbit Lover at August 27, 2016 06:00 PM (R+30W)

44 /sock

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 27, 2016 06:00 PM (R+30W)

45
Colin Kaepernick....His birth father was out of the picture before he was born.
Posted by: andycanuck




In many ways, his is the story of a young Barack Obama.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 27, 2016 06:01 PM (kdS6q)

46 You're backed into a corner with guys pointing swords at you and nowhere to go. Yeah, that's a loss.

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2016 05:53 PM (sdi6R)


You'd think so, but not in modern chess.

I have wondered why stalemates evolved into draws.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 06:02 PM (Scu/0)

47 Endgame
1.Ra7+ Kb8
2.c7+ Kc8
3.Ra8+ Kd7
4.Rxg8 Ke6
5.c8=Q+ ...

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 27, 2016 06:03 PM (R+30W)

48 Colin Kaepernick, another moral preener.

Lefty virtue signaling is even more obnoxious when it comes from a multimillionaire celebrity splattered with more ink that a Greyhound bus station shitter.


Posted by: Mortimer at August 27, 2016 06:03 PM (zu88C)

49 Kaepernick was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Heidi Russo, a 19-year-old woman who was single and destitute at the time. His birth father, an African American, was out of the picture before he was born.[1][2][3] Russo placed her son for adoption with Rick and Teresa Kaepernick, a white couple who had two children--son Kyle and daughter Devon--and were looking for a boy after having lost two other sons to heart defects.[1][4] Kaepernick became the youngest of their three children. He lived in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, until age four, and attended grade school in Turlock, California.[5][6]

Posted by: andycanuck at August 27, 2016 05:52 PM (LdMbv)




A half black guy raised by white people who's got a chip on his shoulder about the country. Where have we heard that before?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 27, 2016 06:05 PM (auHtY)

50 g'afternoon, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 27, 2016 06:07 PM (KCxzN)

51
And a reminder that tonight there will be an impressive conjunction of Venus and Jupiter at dusk. You'll be able to cover both planets with your thumb held at arm's length and it will, as Neil deGrasse Tyson would put it, "look like a big shiny spaceball thingie!"

With binoculars or a telescope, you should even be able to see both planets and Jupiter's Galilean moons in a single field of view.

www.space.com/33878-rare-venus-jupiter-conjunction-tonight.html

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 27, 2016 06:08 PM (kdS6q)

52 43 Problem 4:
1...Qg5+
2.Kf8 Qxd8+
I can get the mate after that, but how to do it in just 2 more moves escapes me.

Posted by: Rabbit Lover at August 27, 2016 06:00 PM (R+30W)


Why 2.Kf8? What happens if White moves 2.Ke8 or 2.Kd7?

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 06:08 PM (Scu/0)

53
In many ways, his is the story of a young Barack Obama.
>>>>>>>>>>>>

A young , Halfrican attains a measure of success due to the freedoms afforded by this great nation , then takes a giant public dump on his benefactor.

It's like the mirror image of the "white guilt" phenomenon.

Posted by: Mortimer at August 27, 2016 06:09 PM (zu88C)

54 If it's one queen against one rook, is that enough advantage to win?

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 06:10 PM (g6yUI)

55
Wanna bet if Colin Suckadick said - All lives matter the NFL would be looking to suspend him

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 27, 2016 06:10 PM (auHtY)

56 4 years in indoctrination camp (most of you know it as college) will do that to you.

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2016 06:11 PM (0G2eQ)

57 For problem 4, I think you want to get the white king next to the white queen on the last rank and put your queen at f7 for mate.

1. ... Qe3+
If 2. Kd7, Qd6++
If 2. Kd6, Qd4+
3. Ke7, Qe5+ and we're back to the mainline below.

2. Kf8, Qf4+
If 3. Ke8, Qf7++
If 3. Kf7, dunno...

Fairly certain I can win, but it's more than 4 moves.

Posted by: MrX at August 27, 2016 06:13 PM (i5s+r)

58 Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 27, 2016 06:03 PM (R+30W)

Good work. And your use of algebraic notation is impeccable, so you get extra style points for that.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 06:14 PM (Scu/0)

59 54 If it's one queen against one rook, is that enough advantage to win?

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 06:10 PM (g6yUI)


Yeah, if you manage to get that, you can call it a win. Although Q v. R endgames are notoriously difficult.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 06:15 PM (Scu/0)

60 Fairly certain I can win, but it's more than 4 moves.

Posted by: MrX at August 27, 2016 06:13 PM (i5s+r)


Your first move, 1...Qe3+, is incorrect.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 06:17 PM (Scu/0)

61 Gram'pere insisted on teaching us chess. We kids took turns as to which of us would "ask" to play, as Mom said we would. Sometimes, with his pipe going out, or his nodding off, we'd trade our seat with other grandkids. He never seemed to mind.

I found out many years later, he loved playing kids for the unexpected moves they'd make. He played a game against a kid, simultaneously, with many others. They all lost to the kid.

Bobby Fischer.

Posted by: Idon't dislike chess... at August 27, 2016 06:18 PM (g6yUI)

62 What's the best move for White?

Tip the table over and head to the nearest peeler bar.

Posted by: Universal Chess Solutions, Vol. IX at August 27, 2016 06:18 PM (y9692)

63 This guy sure ain't no Tebow. Is he?

Posted by: Eromero at August 27, 2016 06:18 PM (zLDYs)

64 A correction on line 2. Qe6++, not Qd6++. And last line, Kg7, not f7.

1. ... Qe3+
If 2. Kd7, Qe6++
If 2. Kd6, Qd4+
3. Ke7, Qe5+ and we're back to the mainline below.

2. Kf8, Qf4+
If 3. Ke8, Qf7++
If 3. Kg7, dunno...

Posted by: MrX at August 27, 2016 06:20 PM (i5s+r)

65 No he isn't Tebow, So leftists will love him!

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2016 06:21 PM (0G2eQ)

66 Your first move, 1...Qe3+, is incorrect.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 06:17 PM (Scu/0)
----

Why's that? I don't like Qg5+. It's completely open ended. But I'm missing something, so dunno.

Posted by: MrX at August 27, 2016 06:22 PM (i5s+r)

67 #2a

1. Qxf8+, Kxf8
2. Rd8+, Bxd8
3. Rd8#

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 06:22 PM (g6yUI)

68 Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 06:22 PM (g6yUI)

Nice.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 06:25 PM (Scu/0)

69 #1

1. Rd8+, Rxd8, because the queen blocks the escape route
2. Qxc2

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 06:26 PM (g6yUI)

70 1. ... Qg6+ forces
2. Kd6

but that seems open ended too.

Posted by: MrX at August 27, 2016 06:27 PM (i5s+r)

71 66 Your first move, 1...Qe3+, is incorrect.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 06:17 PM (Scu/0)
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Why's that?


Because it doesn't work.

Yes, I'm being a butt. So I'll say this: you may be able to find some way to force mate with 1...Qe3+, but probably not as fast as the actual solution.

I don't like Qg5+. It's completely open ended.
Posted by: MrX at August 27, 2016 06:22 PM (i5s+r)


It's actually not that open-ended. White only has two viable responses, and both are insufficient to avoid mate.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 06:30 PM (Scu/0)

72 oh I got #4 finally.

Posted by: MrX at August 27, 2016 06:35 PM (i5s+r)

73 Why 2.Kf8? What happens if White moves 2.Ke8 or 2.Kd7?

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 06:08 PM (Scu/0)

++++

Nevermind. I screwed up when I flipped the board to play black.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 27, 2016 06:35 PM (R+30W)

74 Anybody get #3 yet?

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 06:36 PM (Scu/0)

75 You just have to slowly approach the white king while squeezing him in. Qd5/Qg6 are the followups if I'm correct.

Posted by: MrX at August 27, 2016 06:38 PM (i5s+r)

76 Problem 1
1.Rd8+ Rxd8
2.Qxc2 ...

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 27, 2016 06:38 PM (R+30W)

77 Problem 3
1.Qxc6+ bxc6
2.Ba6#

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 27, 2016 06:39 PM (R+30W)

78 Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 27, 2016 06:38 PM (R+30W)

Good.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 06:40 PM (Scu/0)

79 74 Anybody get #3 yet?
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 06:36 PM (Scu/0)

Queen sack & bishop move?

Posted by: MrX at August 27, 2016 06:40 PM (i5s+r)

80 Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 27, 2016 06:39 PM (R+30W)

Nice work.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 06:40 PM (Scu/0)

81 Must have money on the match...they brought their swords.

Posted by: BignJames at August 27, 2016 06:41 PM (9RGU3)

82 Posted by: MrX at August 27, 2016 06:40 PM (i5s+r)

Yes.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 06:41 PM (Scu/0)

83 81 Must have money on the match...they brought their swords.

Posted by: BignJames at August 27, 2016 06:41 PM (9RGU3)


It wouldn't surprise me if they were playing for body parts, i.e. the loser has to cut off a finger or a hand, etc.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 06:43 PM (Scu/0)

84 >>>The COUNSELOR (later the QUEEN when the game was introduced to medieval Europe) moves only one square diagonally.


IOW, European men aren't afraid of strong women, unlike Muslims.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 06:47 PM (g6yUI)

85 ...by the dawn's early light...

Posted by: Colon Kraperdick at August 27, 2016 06:47 PM (Tyii7)

86 With the board tilted on its side like that, huccome the pieces don't fall off?

So the Arabs invented the mathematical concept of zero but not artistic perspective.

Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at August 27, 2016 06:48 PM (LQLeS)

87 They both have swords because they don't trust their opponent not to cheat.

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2016 06:49 PM (0G2eQ)

88 Since their playing on a vertical board is it metal with magnetic peices?

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2016 06:50 PM (0G2eQ)

89 >>>So the Arabs invented the mathematical concept of zero but not artistic perspective.
Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller


Indians (dot, not feather) invented zero, or so I've heard. Muslims invented hummus.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 06:52 PM (g6yUI)

90 On problem three, my first move would be ba6 (I'm not entirely comfortable yet with this verbiage). That looks to me like a mate in one more move.

Posted by: Subterranean JT at August 27, 2016 06:53 PM (qG0hz)

91 #4 These are the four lines that I can see.

1. ... Qg5+
2. Kd7/d6 Qd5+
3. Ke7 Qe6+
4. Kf8 Qf7++

1. ... Qg5+
2. Kd7 Qd5+
3. Ke8 Qf7++

1. ... Qg5+
2. Ke8 Qg6+ all leads to mate in 2

1. ... Qg5+
2. Kf8 Qg8+
3. Ke7 Qe6+
4. Kf8 Qf7++

Posted by: MrX at August 27, 2016 06:53 PM (i5s+r)

92 Stepping in briefly to let y'all know I appreciate both this thread (even though I suck at chess) and the pet thread before it. These days I don't get to go out and do much on weekends, what with having to ride herd on pater familias and all, so I look forward to these things and enjoy them greatly.

Even if any randomly selected Moron pet could beat me at chess.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at August 27, 2016 06:53 PM (vyqqu)

93 Problem 2b
1...Qxg3+
2.Bg2 Qxg2#

or
2. hxg3 Rh1#

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 27, 2016 06:54 PM (R+30W)

94 The Romans didn't have zero in their math and yet they were fantastic engineers. Go figure. (No pun.)

Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at August 27, 2016 06:55 PM (LQLeS)

95 >>>They both have swords because they don't trust their opponent not to cheat.
Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2016 06:49 PM (0G2eQ)


If you're not paying close enough attention to notice if your opponent cheats at chess, you deserve to lose.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 06:56 PM (g6yUI)

96 Anytime someone says "no pun intended", means they recognized the pun, and therefore intended it!

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 27, 2016 06:57 PM (R+30W)

97 If the Moslems had invented chess there would be more goat-jumping involved. NTTAWWT, of course.

Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2016 06:57 PM (JODDm)

98 I don't know. Does zero exist?

Posted by: Subterranean JT at August 27, 2016 06:57 PM (qG0hz)

99
C'mon you guys. The solution to all of these is to invoke the King's Privilege, 3 moves to one. Then:

Knight jumps Queen
Bishop jumps Queen
Pawns jump Queen

Gangbang!

Posted by: Mel Brooks at August 27, 2016 07:01 PM (LuZz8)

100
I don't know. Does zero exist?

Posted by: Subterranean JT at August 27, 2016 06:57 PM (qG0hz)

Same as nothing.

Posted by: BignJames at August 27, 2016 07:03 PM (9RGU3)

101 >The COUNSELOR (later the QUEEN when the game was introduced to medieval Europe)

Pretty bad when the Euros go, "Nope! Too gay..."

Posted by: t-bird at August 27, 2016 07:03 PM (JODDm)

102 "I don't get to go out and do much on weekends, what with having to ride herd on pater familias and all, so I look forward to these things and enjoy them greatly."


Very much in a similar situation, BC, and I too appreciate these threads. A little light-hearted relief from stress and the "I Kill You!" threads.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 27, 2016 07:04 PM (9ym/8)

103 Solutions now posted.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 07:04 PM (Scu/0)

104 Has this been discussed? 49s QB refuses to stand for National Anthem, since America hates black people or some shit.
http://tinyurl.com/zlr5n58

Posted by: josephistan at August 27, 2016 07:08 PM (7qAYi)

105 >>>Anytime someone says "no pun intended", means they recognized the pun, and therefore intended it!


Precisely. They should get an acquaintance to vouch for them. "I've known Mr. Smythe for years, and he'd never engage in that sort of behavior. It must be unintentional."

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 07:09 PM (g6yUI)

106 104 Has this been discussed? 49s QB refuses to stand for National Anthem, since America hates black people or some shit.
http://tinyurl.com/zlr5n58

Posted by: josephistan at August 27, 2016 07:08 PM (7qAYi)


Yes, this has been a topic of conversation in this thread, and in a couple previous ones.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 07:14 PM (Scu/0)

107 ZeroHedge has a good article at the top about Joe Manchin's daughter and Mylan turned the Epipen into a monopolistic gold mine.

She needed the assistance of the FDA.

She was the brains behind it. A good Democrat knowing how to play the game. You know the stories of drug pushers giving away free stuff to get a potential customer hooked, then charging them through the ass once they're addicted?

That's how Mylan did this. They had a been marketing campaign to popularize the product. And the assistance of the FDA and Congress thanks to their lobbying efforts. They succeeded. They got prescriptions of the product to skyrocket. During that phase they gave away a lot of free Epipens.

And then, bam, they, with a monopoly on it, raised the price through the roof.

You've got to understand it is the assistance of Big Government that allows this shit to be done.


Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 27, 2016 07:16 PM (DW+jj)

108 Crap! I just had to go to Espn to see what this crappernick thing was. Nothing like a pampered multimillionaire whining about being oppressed. Even worse, the organization stands behind him. Maybe SF ought to let minorities in free.

Hell, donate all proceeds to schools in black neighborhoods.

According to what I read, he doesn't do much charity work; but I guess whitey is supposed to do that.

Posted by: Subterranean JT at August 27, 2016 07:18 PM (qG0hz)

109 Arab on the right has only 4 toes. Some people amputate the pinky toe to fit in more fashionable shoes, but most are women.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 07:20 PM (g6yUI)

110 This guy capernickel can just go screw himself. Ungrateful bastage.

Posted by: Eromero at August 27, 2016 07:21 PM (zLDYs)

111 >>>According to what I read, he doesn't do much charity work; but I guess whitey is supposed to do that.


Imagine all the good Soros could do, if he used his bilions to directly fund innercity charter schools, give small business loans and seminars, etc. instead of hiring BLM thugs and otherwise playing chess with American politics.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 07:23 PM (g6yUI)

112 Those extinct Indians in the Yucatan and south, from an article linked at AoS, also had zero in their math.

Posted by: gNewt....panhandlers never seem to not have their hands out ~ at August 27, 2016 07:24 PM (1me8P)

113 108 Crap! I just had to go to Espn to see what this crappernick thing was. Nothing like a pampered multimillionaire whining about being oppressed. Even worse, the organization stands behind him.

Posted by: Subterranean JT at August 27, 2016 07:18 PM (qG0hz)


I wonder if the 49ers would have supported Kaepernick if he had said "You know, #BLM is bullshit. Why aren't they out protesting black-on-black crime?"

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 07:24 PM (Scu/0)

114 >>> Even worse, the organization stands behind him. Maybe SF ought to let minorities in free.



They are supporting him precisely because they *don't* want to have to do anything substantive to help minorities. So just virtue signal.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 07:26 PM (g6yUI)

115 And then, bam, they, with a monopoly on it, raised the price through the roof.

You've got to understand it is the assistance of Big Government that allows this shit to be done.


Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 27, 2016 07:16 PM (DW+jj)


Like father like daughter.

Posted by: gNewt....panhandlers never seem to not have their hands out ~ at August 27, 2016 07:27 PM (1me8P)

116 Evening, everyone. Will there be a football thread?

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod at August 27, 2016 07:27 PM (+eR2D)

117 Stadiums used to kick out fans who didn't stand for the anthem. I wonder if that has changed.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 27, 2016 07:28 PM (R+30W)

118 SloJo says he expects GitMo to close before Obama departs.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 27, 2016 07:33 PM (IqV8l)

119
Will there be a football thread?

I refuse to stand up for it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 27, 2016 07:34 PM (IqV8l)

120 >>>And then, bam, they, with a monopoly on it, raised the price through the roof.


They invented neither epinephrine nor injections. How could these people possibly have a monopoly on this?

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 07:35 PM (g6yUI)

121 >>>110 This guy capernickel can just go screw himself. Ungrateful bastage.

he's whipped.
check out the tree for info on the chick.

Posted by: concrete girl at August 27, 2016 07:35 PM (ug038)

122 And how much of Mylan's success is due to outlawing primatene mist?

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 07:36 PM (g6yUI)

123 >>>SloJo says he expects GitMo to close before Obama departs.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr.

They are enemy combatants in an ongoing war.

The only way it should close is if we execute the remaining prisoners, or militant Islam offers a credible truce.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 07:39 PM (g6yUI)

124 120 >>>And then, bam, they, with a monopoly on it, raised the price through the roof.


They invented neither epinephrine nor injections. How could these people possibly have a monopoly on this?

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 07:35 PM (g6yUI)

++++

Assistance from the FDA and Congress. This is the zerohedge piece mentioned upthread:
http://tinyurl.com/znwkexx

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 27, 2016 07:39 PM (R+30W)

125 Democrat, a brand you can depend on.

Posted by: gNewt....panhandlers never seem to not have their hands out ~ at August 27, 2016 07:41 PM (1me8P)

126 120: The automatic injector is patented. Mylan bought the rights to it.

The concept of patents and copyrights is a good one, deriving from property rights. But it is now abused beyond all reason.

Hell, if they had their way Shakespeare would still be under copyright, and everyone would be paying whatever crony managed to get control of it every time some high school English class read one of the plays.

This Epipen thing was used all that much before Mylan bought it in 2007. It was just for the few people prone to severe anaphylatic (sp?) reactions.

Mylan convinced far more people they needed it, and doctors to prescribe it. This is where the FDA's Byzantine system was used.

I'm sure those supermodel looking drug reps, long legs in mini skirts and f-me heels did yeoman's work convincing doctors their patients needed Epipens.

Hell, I'm sure some of 'em did butt stuff for their top prescribing docs.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 27, 2016 07:42 PM (DW+jj)

127 OM, thank you for your weekly chess thread, I'm improving every week at problem solving. It's the metal version of slow and steady progress, akin to squats for Ace.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2016 07:44 PM (u82oZ)

128 TV said they have excellent European injectors butt...FDA.

Posted by: gNewt....panhandlers never seem to not have their hands out ~ at August 27, 2016 07:47 PM (1me8P)

129 The loser in Arabian chess has to have sex with his wife.
Or so I've heard.

Posted by: Pepe at August 27, 2016 07:48 PM (M3Kbo)

130 According to that ZH article, the "technology" for the Epipen was originally invented for the US Military -- antidote injectors for chemical warfare.

Merck had the rights to what is now the Epipen, and charged $7 a piece for 'em. Mylan bought this out from Merck back in '07. Manchin's daughter and her buddies saw a gold mine, and made it happen.

Through the assistance of the FDA and Congress.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 27, 2016 07:50 PM (DW+jj)

131 127 OM, thank you for your weekly chess thread, I'm improving every week at problem solving. It's the metal version of slow and steady progress, akin to squats for Ace.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 27, 2016 07:44 PM (u82oZ

Ace pulled his back while putting on his new LuluLemon yoga pants before class.

The squats are a cover story.

Posted by: Pepe at August 27, 2016 07:50 PM (M3Kbo)

132 You might also wonder why our wonderful journalists don't expose all this corruption. They are up to their eyeballs in this crony scamming as well. You know all those drug ads? Well, that it is Pharma lavishing the media with some of the largesse.

I can't remember the individual details, but I've read several things over the years about Big Media killing stories that might harm some of their biggest advertisers.

That's how this game is played.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 27, 2016 07:55 PM (DW+jj)

133 Mawkey wants to regulate the Airlines more because their computers went down. Airline should have said they were hacked by a foreign nation and the gov should have protected them from invasion.

Posted by: gNewt....panhandlers never seem to not have their hands out ~ at August 27, 2016 07:55 PM (1me8P)

134 When do we get a backgammon thread?

Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at August 27, 2016 07:56 PM (LQLeS)

135 So I take it Heather Bresch's chances of becoming STEM woman of the year are rather slim at the moment.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 07:58 PM (g6yUI)

136 I'm an excellent checkers player.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 27, 2016 07:58 PM (LQLeS)

137
I'm an excellent checkers player.
Posted by: Joe Biden


King Me!!

Posted by: Barack Obama at August 27, 2016 08:00 PM (IqV8l)

138 Okay............


CBS is re-launching "McGyver." Did not know that.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 27, 2016 08:00 PM (9ym/8)

139 134 When do we get a backgammon thread?
Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at August 27, 2016 07:56 PM (LQLeS)

Maybe the chess thread should be an all-over board game thread? I'd go for that.

Posted by: josephistan at August 27, 2016 08:02 PM (7qAYi)

140 132 You might also wonder why our wonderful journalists don't expose all this corruption. They are up to their eyeballs in this crony scamming as well. You know all those drug ads? Well, that it is Pharma lavishing the media with some of the largesse.

I can't remember the individual details, but I've read several things over the years about Big Media killing stories that might harm some of their biggest advertisers.

That's how this game is played.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 27, 2016 07:55 PM (DW+

Totalitarians they are. Totalitarianism is the USA.

People should stop going to work and paying taxes. Go on strike and starve the evil beast. If the government/corporations allow the peaceful strike to occur then we have freedom. If they force people to work, we have Totalitarianism.

Simple test really.

Posted by: Pepe at August 27, 2016 08:03 PM (M3Kbo)

141 Magee MacGyver, transgender crime fighter

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2016 08:04 PM (0G2eQ)

142 >>>I can't remember the individual details, but I've read several things over the years about Big Media killing stories that might harm some of their biggest advertisers.


If only there were some way to make people rely on local outlets for local, national and international news, and kill big media.


One way to stop bribes is if people were unbribeable. The other way is if there were too many people for it to be feasible to bribe them all.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 08:04 PM (g6yUI)

143 138 Okay............


CBS is re-launching "McGyver." Did not know that.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 27, 2016 08:00 PM (9ym/

Staring Melissa MCCarthy I assume.

Posted by: Pepe at August 27, 2016 08:05 PM (M3Kbo)

144 I use to play backgammon in the USAF but right now couldn't begin to tell you how its place.

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2016 08:05 PM (0G2eQ)

145 The ar-15 has been described as a Barbie for men.
Yet another example of why that is.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zn93n9m

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 27, 2016 08:06 PM (hVdx9)

146 >>>If they force people to work, we have Totalitarianism.

You'd have Venezuela. I believe they've already been forced to do that.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 08:07 PM (g6yUI)

147 And Mylan is a big Hillary donor. Of course. She says she gonna do something about those Epipens.

The game they learned to play years ago was. Make the peasants think you're doing something to help them. You're gonna pass a law to stick it to Big Whatever. Your law actually helps Big Whatever, probably written by its lobbyists, but you make the rubes think you're sticking it to Big Whatever.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 27, 2016 08:09 PM (DW+jj)

148 Had a choice to play chess or watch the movie Nice Guys last night. Not a bad movie. Lot of boobies. Russell Crowe got fat.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 27, 2016 08:09 PM (fagTl)

149 I'll bet I could beat Paul Morphy at checkers.

Posted by: Edgar Allen Poe at August 27, 2016 08:09 PM (g6yUI)

150 I'm not so much bothered that Mylan convinced doctors/lawmakers/ the public that their product was a good thing and that people should buy more of it. Nor am I bothered that they have jacked up the price. The real problem is that they were able to get the FDA's help in driving their competition out of the marketplace.

Competition is almost always the solution to a shortage or pricing problem, and if their is a lack of competition, it is a safe bet that there is a governmental action preventing competition from occurring.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 27, 2016 08:12 PM (R+30W)

151 The game they learned to play years ago was. Make the peasants think you're doing something to help them. You're gonna pass a law to stick it to Big Whatever. Your law actually helps Big Whatever, probably written by its lobbyists, but you make the rubes think you're sticking it to Big Whatever.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 27, 2016 08:09 PM (DW+jj)

*****

I smell a huge Govt. subsidy for Epipens coming up.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 27, 2016 08:13 PM (We4TP)

152 Note how Mylan was instrumental in getting laws passed that required school districts to stock Epipens.

This is getting customers by forcing them by law to buy your product.

You're not building a better mousetrap or even inventing a mousetrap. You're forcing people to buy your shitty old mousetraps.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 27, 2016 08:15 PM (DW+jj)

153 >>> it is a safe bet that there is a governmental action preventing competition from occurring.

The article said the FDA denied approval to competitors. Maybe a class action lawsuit could be brought against them.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 08:15 PM (g6yUI)

154 Best bet, lead with your Queen.

Posted by: Colin Powell at August 27, 2016 08:17 PM (VdICR)

155
I smell a huge Govt. subsidy for Epipens coming up.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 27, 2016 08:13 PM


Why not? The government has infinite money.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 27, 2016 08:17 PM (IqV8l)

156 Colin the Queen through you under the bus

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2016 08:18 PM (0G2eQ)

157 >>>I smell a huge Govt. subsidy for Epipens coming up.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty


The final icing on the shitcake. Make citizens who don't need it pay for it via taxation.

If they don't want to, they are heartless bastards who want children to die.

Someday they will push things to the point of pitchforks, rope, lamposts.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 08:19 PM (g6yUI)

158 >>Competition
is almost always the solution to a shortage or pricing
>>problem, and if
their is a lack of competition, it is a safe bet that there
>> is a
governmental action preventing competition from occurring.

Competition is a sin, peasant.


Posted by: John D. Rockefeller at August 27, 2016 08:22 PM (DW+jj)

159 Heh. David Fincher was the only director who did not comment before the Alien Quadilogy. Lord Alien3 was terrible. He openly hates that movie.

Well guess I'll have to force myself to watch Wild Things the unrated and uncut version before the bunk.... I mean bed.

Posted by: Pepe at August 27, 2016 08:23 PM (TA9CI)

160 Eagles beating Colts 17-3, not that it means much

Posted by: Skip at August 27, 2016 08:24 PM (0G2eQ)

161 Posted by: John D. Rockefeller at August 27, 2016 08:22 PM (DW+jj)

I think you said crushing competition is the goal.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 27, 2016 08:24 PM (fagTl)

162
Someday they will push things to the point of pitchforks, rope, lamposts.

Not with a bang but with a whimper.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 27, 2016 08:24 PM (IqV8l)

163 This wasn't a patent issue. Device was not patented according to the ZH article. Keep patents a matter of federal law, but remove the FDA and let each state decide what to legalize.

The FDA is a single point of failure now.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 08:26 PM (g6yUI)

164 What's up nerds?

Posted by: GGE Hades of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at August 27, 2016 08:28 PM (vbvxt)

165 Test

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 08:37 PM (g6yUI)

166 and let each state decide


What? . WHAT! Let the states decide! Gentlemen we can't let this happen, we'll lose our phoney baloney jobs, we fought a war to keep this phoney baloney business going we're sure as hell not going to lose it now.

Posted by: gNewt....panhandlers never seem to not have their hands out ~ at August 27, 2016 08:37 PM (1me8P)

167

"The only sad part was he didn't get to shoot the other two."

Another great Tommy Sotomayor video....if you're bored.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-YxsbI3Dyg


Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 27, 2016 08:40 PM (ae4pN)

168
What? . WHAT! Let the states decide! Gentlemen we can't let this happen

States rights is just another word for Ku Klux Klan, right?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 27, 2016 08:41 PM (IqV8l)

169
-- Be Aware
-- Carry If You Got One. Always.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 27, 2016 08:41 PM (ae4pN)

170 The FDA is a single point of failure now.
Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 08:26 PM (

Like the DEA is a failure to protect and enrich certain Cartels,banks, and other government industrial complexes.

Posted by: Pepe at August 27, 2016 08:41 PM (TA9CI)

171
Another great Tommy Sotomayor video...

Can that guy complete a sentence without saying MFer?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 27, 2016 08:42 PM (IqV8l)

172
Can that guy complete a sentence without saying MFer?

Um, yes, but those sentences end with the n word.

He's actually quite eloquent. Tommy explains why, from time to time, why he uses vulgarity. It's so he can reach a specific audience that won't listen to otherwise. He makes these videos for young black people to open their eyes and bring about change so they can have a better life.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 27, 2016 08:45 PM (ae4pN)

173 I'm an excellent checkers player. Posted by: Joe Biden

Hop-board is an excellent judge of character.

Posted by: King Joyse at August 27, 2016 08:46 PM (6FqZa)

174 Old news?

KAEPERNICK, San Fran. Sits during anthem.

because he won't stand for a country that oppresses black people.

Posted by: Goomba at August 27, 2016 08:47 PM (5ThVX)

175 Use the Force, Spock.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 27, 2016 08:49 PM (GdFQh)

176 Reconfigure the main deflector array to emit an inverse tachyon pulse, Luke.

Posted by: Ben Kenobi at August 27, 2016 08:50 PM (y9692)

177 Sitting at Pier Six at the Inner Harbor for the Wounded Warrior concert.

Ravyns have held up well, and their music is as fresh as when the did Raised on the Radio for Rock and Roll High School.

Next up, Crack the Sky.



Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 27, 2016 08:52 PM (bxM18)

178 I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 27, 2016 08:53 PM (GdFQh)

179 >>>Best bet, lead with your Queen.

Posted by: Colin Powell at August 27, 2016 08:17 PM (VdICR)<<<

We are the champions, my friends.
And we'll keep on fighting, 'til the end...

Posted by: Queen at August 27, 2016 08:54 PM (H9MG5)

180 The sobbing violins of autumn/
Wound my heart with their monotonous langor.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 27, 2016 08:55 PM (whAs7)

181 Shut down all the trash compactors on the holodeck!

Posted by: Cmdr. Reeker at August 27, 2016 08:56 PM (BO/km)

182 Chess nerds!

*flips board over*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 27, 2016 08:58 PM (jR7Wy)

183 His white mother gave him up for adoption. Maybe he has mommy issues?

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 08:58 PM (g6yUI)

184 Maybe the chess thread should be an all-over board game thread? I'd go for that.

Posted by: josephistan at August 27, 2016 08:02 PM (7qAYi)


It already is. Here is the weekly intro I put up every week:

And, for those of you who aren't nerdly enough for chess, you can use this thread to talk about checkers, or politics, or whatever you wish, only please try to keep it civil.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 08:59 PM (Scu/0)

185 Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 27, 2016 09:00 PM (whAs7)

186 Gaming thread, woot.

Master Of Orion is out for PC. Looks like a reskin of the other classic Master Of Orion games.

Also a couple of adventure / puzzle games: Obduction and Turing Test.

I see a lot of Starbound pimpage in comments. "Minecraft but in SPAAACE, but not a pointless slog, like that other Minecraft in Space game".

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 27, 2016 09:00 PM (6FqZa)

187 She keeps Moet et Chandon
In her pretty cabinet
'Let them eat cake' she says
Just like Marie Antoinette

A built-in remedy
For Kruschev and Kennedy

At anytime an invitation
You can't decline

Caviar and cigarettes
Well versed in etiquette
Extraordinarily nice...

Posted by: Mortimer at August 27, 2016 09:00 PM (zu88C)

188 only please try to keep it civil.
Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 08:59 PM (Scu/0)
---
*sheepishly places pieces back on board, adjusts glasses on crying chess nerd*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 27, 2016 09:01 PM (jR7Wy)

189 Sarah Jane, pass me a Sonic Screwdriver. And make it a double.

*hic*

Posted by: Dr. Who at August 27, 2016 09:01 PM (g6yUI)

190 Looks like they just shampooed their hair and while waiting for an open dryer, they're killing time playing sideways chess.

Posted by: The Elucidator at August 27, 2016 09:01 PM (LQLeS)

191 clowns

/Arnold voice

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 27, 2016 09:04 PM (GdFQh)

192 Three games I wish I'd learned to play:

Chess
Bridge
Mah Jong

They just seem, I don't know, sophisticated.

Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at August 27, 2016 09:05 PM (LQLeS)

193 So both the arabs in the picture are wearing swords. Could make the endgame very interesting.

Posted by: HH at August 27, 2016 09:05 PM (DrCtv)

194 Eggs. Terminate.

Posted by: Davros Switzerland at August 27, 2016 09:05 PM (IqV8l)

195 only please try to keep it civil.

Posted by: OregonMuse
>>>>>>>>>

As you wish, suh.

Posted by: The Confederacy at August 27, 2016 09:06 PM (zu88C)

196 >>Sarah Jane, pass me a Sonic Screwdriver. And make it a double

Do they still make those at the Spinnaker in Panama City?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 27, 2016 09:06 PM (GdFQh)

197 These days I don't get to go out and do much on weekends, what with having to ride herd on pater familias and all, so I look forward to these things and enjoy them greatly.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at August 27, 2016 06:53 PM (vyqqu)

I know,and wishing you, and Ricardo also, the strength to do this.

Both of y'all are doing the Lord's work.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at August 27, 2016 09:07 PM (ozZau)

198 In problem 1, how is Rd8+ better than Qxc2?

Wouldn't it lead to:
1. ... Rxc2
2. Rd8#

Posted by: Logos at August 27, 2016 09:07 PM (tpJ1g)

199 She's a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatin
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind

Anytime

Recommended at the price
Insatiable in appetite
Wanna try?

Posted by: The Confederacy at August 27, 2016 09:08 PM (zu88C)

200 >>>Eggs. Terminate.
Posted by: Davros Switzerland


*hic* And a Banana Dalekqiri, for my wrinkly friend in the wheelchair.

*hic*

Posted by: Dr. Who at August 27, 2016 09:08 PM (g6yUI)

201 GNewt @ 166 States decide?
Why hell no, states can't decide. Especially states in the old Confederacy, because we are still under 'reconstruction' rules. We vote as the yankees say, and we feed school kids as the yankees say, and we let illegal foreigners born on our soil have citizens rights. Just as the yankees say. Sucks, don't it?

Posted by: Eromero at August 27, 2016 09:08 PM (zLDYs)

202 Chess? Won't have me to kick around any more.

Posted by: Checkers at August 27, 2016 09:08 PM (gwG9s)

203 /failed secession sock off

Posted by: Mortimer at August 27, 2016 09:09 PM (zu88C)

204 Geez - no one has knocked over the chess board yet?

Posted by: Weasel at August 27, 2016 09:09 PM (Sfs6o)

205 Cappernipples is now a Muslim and his wife is a one of the main peeps behind the BLM.

Posted by: Pepe at August 27, 2016 09:09 PM (/Fy5y)

206 Wouldn't it lead to:
1. ... Rxc2
2. Rd8#
Posted by: Logos at A




No, because k-h7

Queen no longer covers escape hatch.

Posted by: Dr. Who at August 27, 2016 09:10 PM (g6yUI)

207 Cappernipples is now a Muslim and his wife is a one of the main peeps behind the BLM.

>>>>>>>

And they have the freedom to be giant gaping assholes because a bunch of actual human beings, some of them white, fought to provide them the privilege.

You're welcome, Mr. and Mrs. Capercheesedick.

Posted by: Mortimer at August 27, 2016 09:12 PM (zu88C)

208 This is when Thor flips the table.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 27, 2016 09:12 PM (GdFQh)

209 198 In problem 1, how is Rd8+ better than Qxc2?
Wouldn't it lead to:
1. ... Rxc2
2. Rd8#
Posted by: Logos at August 27, 2016 09:07 PM (tpJ1g)


No, because with the Queens traded off, Black's escape square at h7 is no longer guarded. So 2.Rd8 is no longer checkmate.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 09:14 PM (Scu/0)

210
Blacklivesmatter is pretty much an offshoot of Palestinian terrorism.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 27, 2016 09:14 PM (ae4pN)

211 201 GNewt @ 166 States decide?
Why hell no, states can't decide. Especially states in the old Confederacy, because we are still under 'reconstruction' rules. We vote as the yankees say, and we feed school kids as the yankees say, and we let illegal foreigners born on our soil have citizens rights. Just as the yankees say. Sucks, don't it?
Posted by: Eromero at August 27, 2016 09:08 PM (zLDYs

I like that Eromero, even if I live in a state that didn' secede. But at least we got to keep our...uh...basketball team!

Posted by: Subterranean JT at August 27, 2016 09:14 PM (qG0hz)

212 My boys like to play Catan. I'm not particularly fond of it because I usually lose. They gang up on me. I will kick their butts in chess but they won't play that anymore. Can't gang on me there.

Posted by: freeked at August 27, 2016 09:14 PM (BO/km)

213 "We're on an express elevator to hell, going down!"

Posted by: C-3P0 in the escape pod headed to Tatooine at August 27, 2016 09:16 PM (zu88C)

214 It's a trap! And Merkel and Obama are walking right into it, even after I told the to their face it was a trap. F'n stupid, if you ask me.

Posted by: Admiral Allahu Akbar at August 27, 2016 09:18 PM (g6yUI)

215 they're killing time playing sideways chess.

Looks more like vertical chess. Vertical chess was invented soon after ancient aliens introduced the miracle of Velcro to a grateful humanity.

Posted by: Giorgio Hairkalos at August 27, 2016 09:19 PM (y9692)

216 Blacklivesmatter is pretty much an offshoot of Palestinian terrorism.
Posted by: Mister Magoo's



Posted by: Admira at August 27, 2016 09:20 PM (g6yUI)

217 Blacklivesmatter is pretty much an offshoot of Palestinian terrorism.
Posted by: Mister Magoo's


Soros funds Palestinian terror?

Actually, that wouldn't surprise me.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 09:22 PM (g6yUI)

218 See you at tha pahty, Luke!

Posted by: Vader to a falling figure in Cloud City at August 27, 2016 09:22 PM (y9692)

219 SJW's are complaining about how Trump misspelled Dwyane Wade's first name.

um...

Duane okay
Dwayne um..maybe

Dwyane ( Dwi ane)

I think Wade misspells it.

Posted by: seamrog at August 27, 2016 09:24 PM (vPsUD)

220 Bridge
Mah Jong

They just seem, I don't know, sophisticated.
Posted by: Semi-engaged scroller at August 27, 2016 09:05 PM (LQLeS)

Those two are not very hard to learn. And luck counts enough that beginners can win.

Posted by: @votermom at August 27, 2016 09:29 PM (Om16U)

221 See you at tha pahty, Luke!
Posted by: Vader


Once I destroy the Daleks, I'm jumpin into your universe and annihilate yo ass. *hic* Then I'm headed to Arkham Asylum to vaporize the Joker once and for all. Doing the job Batman won't do.

Posted by: Dr. Who at August 27, 2016 09:30 PM (g6yUI)

222
Anyone familiar with an Illuminati hand signal?

An emoticon?

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 27, 2016 09:30 PM (ae4pN)

223 >>>SJW's are complaining about how Trump misspelled Dwyane Wade's first name.

Is that that squinting funny looking body builder actor? Can't stand him.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 09:32 PM (g6yUI)

224 Anyone familiar with an Illuminati hand signal?

An emoticon?
Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 27, 2016 09:30 PM (ae4pN)
---
Form your hands into a pyramid and place it over one of your eyes. Then laugh evilly.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 27, 2016 09:34 PM (jR7Wy)

225 >>>Anyone familiar with an Illuminati hand signal?

I have enough trouble figuring out the Eastern Orthodox eikon hand signals.

Posted by: Yuimetal at August 27, 2016 09:34 PM (g6yUI)

226

Isn't it obvious? These White motherfucker SJW's are getting all bent outta shape because we're not respecting their property?

Yeah, these SJW's are acting like they OWN the Black people. Like they're their pimps and the Black people are their stable of bitches.

SJW's are the worst racists out there and slavers out there.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 27, 2016 09:35 PM (ae4pN)

227
Anyone familiar with an Illuminati hand signal?

Hand down for a left turn, Clyde.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 27, 2016 09:35 PM (IqV8l)

228 Anyone familiar with an Illuminati hand signal?

An emoticon?
Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 27, 2016 09:30 PM
---
Form your hands into a pyramid and place it over one of your eyes. Then laugh evilly.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage


Funny, I never knew this until today, I saw Kirsten Joy Weiss joking she was being called Illuminati because of a video she did showing people how to determine their dominant eye using the two-hands triangle method.

She's a decent shooter, and very easy to look at. Sweet-seeming girl, too. Worth a follow in FB or YT, for shooter Morons.

Posted by: Oedipus at August 27, 2016 09:38 PM (CXLVd)

229 Who is Dwyane Wade and why should I care?

Posted by: GGE Hades of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at August 27, 2016 09:38 PM (vbvxt)

230
Turns out there's lots of Illuminati "hand signals."
Who knew!

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 27, 2016 09:39 PM (ae4pN)

231 Good morning, horde!

Oh wait. What time is it? Where am I?

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2016 09:39 PM (sdi6R)

232 Oh wait. What time is it? Where am I?

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2016 09:39 PM (sdi6R)


As long as you aren't in a cheap hotel room in a bathtub full of ice I'm pretty sure you still have both kidneys, so you have that going for you.

Posted by: GGE Hades of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at August 27, 2016 09:41 PM (vbvxt)

233 224
Form your hands into a pyramid and place it over one of your eyes. Then laugh evilly.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 27, 2016 09:34 PM (jR7Wy)


I like that.

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2016 09:42 PM (sdi6R)

234 Well I had a nice nap at least.

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2016 09:43 PM (sdi6R)

235 Who is Dwyane Wade and why should I care?

It's a form of weasel.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 27, 2016 09:44 PM (6FqZa)

236 Those two are not very hard to learn. And luck counts enough that beginners can win.

Posted by: @votermom at August 27, 2016 09:29 PM (Om16U)


I like to think of bridge as the chess of card games. But learning how to bid properly is difficult and takes lots of practice.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 09:44 PM (Scu/0)

237 What's with all these rockers and rappers being Illuminati? They're not exactly the brain trust.

Is Li'l Wayne manipulating currency or setting up puppet governments?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 27, 2016 09:44 PM (jR7Wy)

238 Oh wait. What time is it? Where am I?

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2016 09:39 PM (sdi6R)


Yeah, it's morning. The chess thread has been going all night.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 09:45 PM (Scu/0)

239
What's with all these rockers and rappers being Illuminati? They're not exactly the brain trust.

That's what I'm wondering. Apparently it's become a thing for Black hoodrats to make believe they're part of the Illuminati.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 27, 2016 09:46 PM (ae4pN)

240 by the way he looks with his facial features and all, krappydick was born a muslim.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 27, 2016 09:46 PM (KP5rU)

241 SJW's are complaining about how Trump misspelled Dwyane Wade's first name.


#SpelingMaters

Posted by: Jen Psocki at August 27, 2016 09:46 PM (Tyii7)

242 240 by the way he looks with his facial features and all, krappydick was born a muslim.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 27, 2016 09:46 PM (KP5rU)
---
Isn't he a jello salad-eating Lutheran with Biblical tats all over him?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 27, 2016 09:47 PM (jR7Wy)

243 Well, I have to hit the rack. Up at 0400 to gather some yankee dollars to pay the yankee reconstruction tax.

Posted by: Eromero at August 27, 2016 09:47 PM (zLDYs)

244 Dwyane Wade is my favorite drugstore.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 27, 2016 09:48 PM (OkKDg)

245 I'm still reading through that Little Ice Age PDF. Holy shit.

Forget the Burning Times. We're in for the Freezing Times. Or maybe both simultaneously.

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2016 09:49 PM (sdi6R)

246 242: yeah, go with that.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 27, 2016 09:49 PM (KP5rU)

247

Isn't he a jello salad-eating Lutheran with Biblical tats all over him?

That was last year. Now he's a jihadi. Next year he'll be a Buddhist. It's all bullshit. Bunch of phony motherfuckers who need to shit on others to make it through the day.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 27, 2016 09:49 PM (ae4pN)

248 #212 Do you have wood, freeked? I need wood!

Posted by: dr sheldon cooper at August 27, 2016 09:49 PM (LdMbv)

249 what Little Ice Age PDF?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 27, 2016 09:50 PM (6FqZa)

250 246 242: yeah, go with that.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 27, 2016 09:49 PM (KP5rU)
---
I meant to add, but he looks Ethiopian.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 27, 2016 09:50 PM (jR7Wy)

251
I would LOVE an ice age.

If I could blot out the Sun...

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 27, 2016 09:50 PM (ae4pN)

252 Sometimes on chess forums, Persians (Iranians) and dot-Indians get into fights about which country chess came from, and while those are fun to watch, I'm going to skip ahead a few centuries and talk about the rules of shatranj, as chess was known by Arabs.

There is no real actual valid argument.

It came from India. Period.

The online "fights" go like this:

Indian dude: Chess came from India.
Iranian dude: No it didn't! It came from Persia!
Indian dude: It didn't reach Persia until 300 years after it was invented in India.
Iranian dude: Fuck you! Persia!
Indian dude: We have evidence of Chaturanga in India way back in the 6th century AD, asshole. You can't match that.
Iranian dude: Allah Ackbar!
Indian dude: You're just being baselessly chauvinistic. Get over yourself and just admit that ALL of the evidence is against you.
Iranian dude: OK, let's just agree to disagree, then. You have your version of the "truth," and I will know that my truth is correct.
Indian dude: Sigh.
Iranian dude: Shut up, chess thief!

Posted by: zombie at August 27, 2016 09:51 PM (jBuUi)

253 Heh....illuminati.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 27, 2016 09:51 PM (whAs7)

254 250: look at that beak, egyptian or saudi.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 27, 2016 09:51 PM (KP5rU)

255 Here it is, BTH. Be sure to read the appendix:

https://nextgrandminimum.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/little_ice_age_theory.pdf

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 27, 2016 09:51 PM (jR7Wy)

256 249 what Little Ice Age PDF?
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 27, 2016 09:50 PM (6FqZa)


Here you go. All Hail Eris linked it the other night.

https://tinyurl.com/jbygdye

Read Appendix A.

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2016 09:52 PM (sdi6R)

257 >>>Who is Dwyane Wade and why should I care?



It's a form of weasel.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 27, 2016 09:44 PM (6FqZa)<<<




You can say that again.

Posted by: Pat Riley, still butthurt over Wade going to Chicago at August 27, 2016 09:53 PM (H9MG5)

258 And Mr Wade does spell his first name "Dwyane".

Posted by: andycanuck at August 27, 2016 09:53 PM (LdMbv)

259 85 ...by the dawn's early light...
Posted by: Colon Kraperdick at August 27, 2016 06:47 PM (Tyii7)

LOL. And thanks, just about choked on my dinner I was laughing so hard.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 27, 2016 09:54 PM (CFc5L)

260 Yea I've got wood but you can't have it Sheldon.

Posted by: freeked at August 27, 2016 09:54 PM (BO/km)

Posted by: dr sheldon cooper at August 27, 2016 09:57 PM (LdMbv)

262
%
^
That's the Magoomunati secret symbol



Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 27, 2016 09:58 PM (ae4pN)

263 I will say this, in re the sudden interest in the illuminati, and the desire to express or affect affiliation with that organization -

Makes it a lot easier for us masons amd our templar brothers to go about our business.

*tents fingers and smiles*

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 27, 2016 09:59 PM (whAs7)

264 From Mr Trump's Twitter about the Chicago Bulls' player's cousin being killed by a stray shot while out walking her child in a stroller...
-----
Dwyane Wade's cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago. Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!
-----
My condolences to Dwyane Wade and his family, on the loss of Nykea Aldridge. They are in my thoughts and prayers.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 27, 2016 10:00 PM (LdMbv)

265 From the PDF:

The imperial Mughal army [of India] invaded Afghanistan but the winter of 1646-47 brought such intense cold that the Mughal garrisons 'burned themselves in the fires they lit for warmth, and no one left their houses for fear of being frozen.'

Well there was the Mughals' mistake.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 27, 2016 10:01 PM (6FqZa)

266 https://nextgrandminimum.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/little_ice_age_theory.pdf

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 27, 2016 09:51 PM (jR7Wy)


Thanks. Guy needs an editor. In the very first paragraph, he talks of solar Grand Maxima and Grand Minima in plural, correctly, and then goes on to talk about "a" Grand Maxima, singular, and a "Grand Minimum", singular. The singular of "maxima" is "maximum".


I will try to read the whole thing, but silly goofs like that do not help at all when you try to put knowledge to the Gerbil Worming True Believers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2016 10:01 PM (oqkO3)

267 You know now Charlie Sheen is beating himself up over being a jerk-off to his ex wife Denise Richards.

I'm still watching Wild Things. Paused to poop, read AoS, and comment.

Posted by: Pepe at August 27, 2016 10:02 PM (tHmVm)

268 240 by the way he looks with his facial features and all, krappydick was born a muslim.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 27, 2016 09:46 PM (KP5rU)

++++

Convert.
http://tinyurl.com/zxsaud8
The Conservative Treehouse

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 27, 2016 10:02 PM (R+30W)

269 I thought Sheen liked the dick?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 27, 2016 10:03 PM (6FqZa)

270 Booze & cooze makes me ooze! That's the trooz!

Posted by: Hillary 2016! at August 27, 2016 10:04 PM (gwG9s)

271 268: convert from what? atheist or butt muncher?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 27, 2016 10:04 PM (KP5rU)

272 And how is my fwiend in Wome, Maxima Buttocks?

Posted by: zombie pontius pilate at August 27, 2016 10:04 PM (LdMbv)

273 You silly humans. You are contemptible.

Posted by: Deep Blue at August 27, 2016 10:04 PM (OkKDg)

274 Muse, is there naughty chess like naughty decks of playing cards? I have a sons I need to teach intergender relationships, the birds and the bees, get them Red Pill minded, and they need to learn to play chess.

Posted by: Pepe at August 27, 2016 10:05 PM (tHmVm)

275 Nooood.

Posted by: somebody stop me before I post again at August 27, 2016 10:06 PM (H9MG5)

276 269 I thought Sheen liked the dick?
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 27, 2016 10:03 PM (

He got addicted to sex and crossed that line into trannies.

He was married and had kids with Dennis Richards.

Posted by: Pepe at August 27, 2016 10:06 PM (tHmVm)

277 268
Convert.
http://tinyurl.com/zxsaud8
The Conservative Treehouse

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 27, 2016 10:02 PM (R+30W)


Even worse. May he know the barbed cock of Satan.

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2016 10:06 PM (sdi6R)

278 Set lightsabers on stun.

Posted by: Captain Jean Luc Skywalker at August 27, 2016 10:07 PM (zu88C)

279 I watched the film "Legend", about those lovable scamps the Kray Brothers, and while Tom Hardy gave a great performance(s), as a whole it was kind of meh.

His portrayal of loose cannon Ronnie with his basilisk stare through his hornrims was funny and scary. You just never knew when he was going to blow a gasket. I could never be a gun moll (or Mel, in Ronnie's case).

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 27, 2016 10:09 PM (jR7Wy)

280 Convert.
http://tinyurl.com/zxsaud8
The Conservative Treehouse

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 27, 2016 10:02 PM (R+30W)


They are the worst. No excuse for it. The ones born into it; they didn't know any better, or never had the chance to.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 27, 2016 10:09 PM (oqkO3)

281 Well guess I'll have to force myself to watch Wild Things the unrated and uncut version before the bunk.... I mean bed.
Posted by: Pepe at August 27, 2016 08:23 PM (TA9CI)

Is that the one where Denise Richards gets nekked?

Posted by: Fox2! at August 27, 2016 10:09 PM (brIR5)

282 ONT !!!!

Posted by: Mortimer at August 27, 2016 10:09 PM (zu88C)

283 281 Well guess I'll have to force myself to watch Wild Things the unrated and uncut version before the bunk.... I mean bed.
Posted by: Pepe at August 27, 2016 08:23 PM (TA9CI)

Is that the one where Denise Richards gets nekked?
Posted by: Fox2! at August 27, 2016 10:09 PM (brIR5

And lots more.

Posted by: Pepe at August 27, 2016 10:12 PM (tHmVm)

284 274 Muse, is there naughty chess like naughty decks of playing cards? I have a sons I need to teach intergender relationships, the birds and the bees, get them Red Pill minded, and they need to learn to play chess.

Posted by: Pepe at August 27, 2016 10:05 PM (tHmVm)


Somebody posted a link here a month or two ago to an image of a set that was as you describe. I suppose if you bing around for "nude chess set" or "naked chess set", you might find something. Probably NSFW as hell, though.

Posted by: OregonMuse at August 27, 2016 10:20 PM (Scu/0)

285 Been perusing the gif section at Bing. It's amazing there are any straight, as in good, girls remaining in this nation.

Posted by: gNewt....panhandlers never seem to not have their hands out ~ at August 27, 2016 10:52 PM (jAZI6)

286 Thanks muse. another excellent post

Posted by: Avi at August 28, 2016 10:12 AM (ir/G5)

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Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
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