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I think I found this picture of a most interesting table somewhere in this site.
How'd you like to devise strategy for this chess variant?
We'd assume that the rooks could still go from one edge to the other, no matter how far away, but a bishop would have to zig and zag, taking many moves to do so. And the knights might as well stay home to defend.
Assuming that there the board is about 8 x 400 squares, you'd be recording things like 51. Nf133 (i.e., knight to king bishop 133 or maybe 676. e400=Q (i.e., pawn to king 400 promoting to queen).
Maybe the rules should permit the pawns to move up to 198 squares on their first move. That ought to get things rolling!
1. e200, e202; 2. d200, d201. The Hyper-French Defense, of course.
This is literally what happens if you try to analyze the two-move checkmate on chess.com:
Cute!!
I recently saw a still picture from the 1944 Universal film House of Frankenstein, depicting a game of chess, and noted that the film provides a clear view of the all the squares (from some angle or other), and the pieces seemed discernible. That doesn't happen very often. So, I did some freeze frames on my copy of H of F.
We get to see Sig Ruman as Burgomaster Hussman playing against Lionel Atwill as Police Inspector Arnz The game has no impact upon the plot, it’s just there to introduce the characters.
I used a Chess Diagram Generator to map the board from free-frames.
Here’s the position as we join the game . . .
Black: Inspector* Arnz
White: Burgomaster* Hussman
Reigelberg, Vasaria; Sometime 1944.
Black to play.
Analysis: White is up by a rook versus knight, so Black should have resigned. But this is a “friendly” game, so he plays on. As black is in check, white’s last move must have been the knight to b6, with check and a royal fork. After the king moves, white can capture black’s queen, and it’s all over but the shoutin’.
I’d guess that the knight had moved from the a4 square, else white could have played instead rook takes queen with check and an easy win. Still, white saw a way to force the issue more quickly.
Now, black has only two legal moves. One is king to b8, which would be followed by rook takes queen with check, and an easy exchange of rooks to simplify the matter.
So, black plays instead king to c7, and white responds with queen to d6, mate.
“Put it in the book, Inspector!” says Hussman.
Arnz replies “As a man, I admire you. As burgomaster, I respect you. But as a chess player, Herr Hussman, I hate you.”
After 1 … Kc7; 2 Qd6 mate.
I’d doubt that this was a published game between two good players, as black would have quit earlier. Screenwriters Curt Siodmak or Edward T. Lowe may have created the position.
I hope I got that right.
*Old publications of games would always use a man’s title. Even the loser would be identified as “Sir Lymon Dorkster” or “Dr. Fink” or whatever.
Here are the relevant frame grabs for the previous post.
Hello guys, tomorrow, i will try to make chess comic, hope for succes....
"The Amazing Kreskin, Master of Mind Games, Dies at 89"
He once played two grandmasters simultaneous and blindfolded.
No: He didn't win.
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