Randy's Blog Posts
My crappy piece of hardware finally got to be too much of a hassle (I was rebooting almost daily) so I've decided to move all the Othello articles from my blog to here. I'm hoping to have them moved by the end of the weekend.
(Originally Posted 9/25/2004)
Edit: 9/26/2004 - I made a little more clear what colors I was and what I was expecting
So I'm sick today.... some sort of upper resperitory infection - sneezing, some light coughing, runny nose, and wh...
(Originally Posted 9-23-2004)
I was reading an interesting article (trying to sell some chess training CD) about a method for training yourself to play better chess. I thought...
(Originally posted 8-22-2004)
Finals Game 6 - Kaneda-Fang
My only win on the second day came in the absolute last round. In his defense, I think Shigeru was somewhat distracted (he was trying to get some files copied onto a memory ...
(Originally Posted 9-11-2004)
From a conversation I had with Ben last night (I’m thetriplefool and Ben is foompy_katt - in case you didn’t know) - pieces of the conversation edited for spelling/typos and reordered to make more sense.
thetriplefo...
(Originally Posted 9-8-2004)
Just a quick puzzle/lesson from a game I played during my lunch hour this afternoon (I actually timed out in the presented position because it was a 1 minute game - but I saw the winning line).
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(Originally posted 8-22-2004)
David Parsons is the head of the USOA and sponsors a great US National Championship tournament every year. We're all truly truly greatful for the wonderful room and the great shows we've been treated to. David hasn't bee...
(Originally posted 8-19-2004)
Edmund played Cow against me and we ended up in this position:
The obvious moves are C2 and B3 - I chose C2, but immediately decided that it had t...
(Originally posted 8-21-2004)
Sometimes, you've just got it.
Shigeru is probably a better all around player than me, but I seem to eek out a lot of wins against him. In this game, I played dominantly, in fact - 24/28 zebra likes almost every single...
(Originally posted 8-17-2004)
An (invented) game I've submitted to OQ based on a real life game I played years ago:
e6 f4 c3 c4 d3 d6 f5 c2 b3 c5 b4 e3 c1 b5 a5 b6 c6 a4 a6 d2 a3 f6 d1 e2 f3 e1 f1 b2 f2 e7 a1 b1 g5 d7 f7 a2 c8 g2 h1 g1 f8 g7 h8 c7 ...
(Originally Posted 8-9-2004)
A puzzle stolen from an old OQ that rocked my world.
Black to play and win (36-28)
Hint: Threaten to swindle white out of G8
(Originally posted 8-8-2004)
I played a bunch of games with wejnc at kurnik - Won 3, Lost 4, Drew 1. It's nice to play someone so close to my level that it works out to basically even.
Game 1 (Loss):
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(Originally posted 8-7-2004)
I lost 3 games in the tournament - this is the most embarassing one (to skumviking who ended up tied for first with me):
I should warn you that these are 3 minute g...
(Originally posted 8-6-2004)
Some blitz games:
I missed a really cool move here:
B2! wins as black has no choice but to reflip the x-square after D1 C1.
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(Originally posted 8-4-2004)
Patzer has just played G7, poisoning my moves in the southeast... Despite that, my best move is still F8!!
F8!! H8 G8!! B8 and white has an "oh...
(Originally posted 8-4-2004)
I got home early from work today (everything went well during my customer visit) and managed to sneak in a couple of blitz games at kurnik. Here's some interesting positions:
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(Originally posted 8-3-2004)
There are two moves that win - but for all practical purposes, you need to see that G1 wins. (The other winning line starts with A8 A7 G1 and is j...
(Originally posted 8-2-2004)
I've been poking around with some inferior openings where I end up in a bad position and then trying to play my way back to win against patzer recently. Unfortunately - it seems like as soon as I manage to get close - I ma...
(Orignally posted 7-24-2004)
I finished in 3rd - losing 3 games. I lost one I should have won (timeout) and won one I should have lost (opponent misclicked and hit the c-square instead of the corner).
From my game vs. argh:
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(Originally posted 7-24-2004)
Transcript
For some...
(Originally posted 7-24-2004)
Here's an example of the types of things that I do wrong.
The Full Game
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(Originally posted 9-3-2004 - yes I know this is out of order - I missed it on the first pass)
In the grand style of the first article I ever read ...
I'm hoping everything is transferred now - have fun reading all the articles. Let me know if there are any missing pictures to any of the articles by posting the article name here.
Note: Comments to the original articles were not transferred to this s...
OK - so I just finished viewing my 3 losses from the kurnik tourney I just played in and I was won in all 3 games and blew a win in all of them... let's take a look at how.
Whi...
Along the same lines as the past couple of posts - it really annoys me when people go into "hero worship" syndrome. I used to see it a lot (way back when)... and I've been seeing it a lot more recently (as more people have read the excerpt of my book, th...
You know that Zebra's been released - but you don't want to get your hands dirty trying to figure out how to compile the source code? Look no further! Included are:
Binaries + original source tarball ( here)
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Full List (130 kb)
Methodology:
1. Start everyone with 1500 ratings (Ben Seeley's tournament rating is very close to his USOA rating using 1500 as the starting point).
2. Take all games in thor sta...
1. Ben Seeley (6-1 first day, 4-2 second day)
2. Shigeru Kaneda (6-1 first day, 4-2 second day)
3. Edmund Yiu (5-2 first day, 2-4 second day)
4. Eddie Williams (5-2 first day, 2-4 second day)
There were (at least) 6 people tied at 4 - including ...
Just in case anyone is looking, Brian Rose's long awaited book is online hosted by us here.
1. Hideshi Tamenori 13 (1.5-1.5 (2 more disks), 2-0)
2. Kwongwook Lee 9.5 (2-1, 0-2)
3. Takuji Kashiwabara 9.5 (1.5-1.5 (2 fewer disks), 1-0)
4. Tamaki Miyaoka 9.5 (1-2, 0-1)
5. Ben Seeley 9
6. Matthias Berg 9
7. Hisako Hoshi 8.5
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OK - I know I saw a post from Jacky here earlier today - but now it's gone - anyone want to fess up to deleting it ?
So while scanning the news this morning, I ran across this article today and got to thinking about whether or not it would improve my (or other people's) learning experience to take ...
Since this wasn't posted here (Ed posted it to the mailing list)
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The Walleye Open will be held in the Lafayette Club on April 22nd and
April 23rd of this year. It is located at 2800 Northview Rd, Wayzata,
MN 55391. The location is sur...
It's a bit off topic, but I was looking for some schedule related information about this year's WOC and I typed in this site:
http://www.woc2006.com/
Check it out :)
At least they're black and white?!?!
Given Jacky's success with posting his quotes last year, I thought I'd join in the fun. Here's a list of quotes from the WOC that I happened to hear (or say). I'm sure Jacky will have an interesting post upcoming too. If you have some of your own, feel...
So, like many of you, I was participating in the Othello project the day after the WOC. I was happily playing my game and looked over at the board next to me and saw this (supposedly legal - I'm not convinced) position. Enjoy!
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I decided to try something a little different - a podcast. Enjoy!
I haven't seen anyone else announce this yet, but a little birdie told me that Anjar has announced that WOC 2007 will be in Greece... (And since it's the #1 question I've heard floating around, I thought I'd let all the readers here know what I've heard)...
First Day: (7 rounds - bye counts as a win)
1. Randy - 6 (lost to David)
2. Eddie - 6 (lost to Randy)
3. Frank - 5
4. David - 4
(I'm pretty sure about the rest, but not 100% sure)
5. Tom - 3
6. Sharon - 2
7. Bill - 2
Second Day:
1. ...
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