{"id":28783,"date":"2017-01-15T19:12:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T00:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=28783"},"modified":"2017-01-16T10:55:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T15:55:47","slug":"warning-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/warning-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Black to move.) What would Garry Kasparov do?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I stumbled across another dangerous waste of time: Chessgames.com<\/a>. Think very carefully before you click.<\/p>\n

Like most chess websites, it uses algebraic notation, which I can’t follow as easily as “P-K4.” However, it also has a “viewer” which allows you to step through each game on a virtual board.<\/p>\n

A couple of well-known games in the archive there: Adolf Anderssen vs Jean Dufresne (1852)<\/a>; Anatoly Karpov vs Garry Kasparov (1985)<\/a>. There are more fireworks in either than during the Fourth of July.<\/p>\n

Update: an interesting short story, possible connected with the chess position above<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>: “Master Jacobsen<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Update II: Lord Dunsany was a pretty good chess player<\/a>. Here’s a curiosity, a chess game between Capablanca and Lord Dunsany<\/a>. Dunsany wrote a chess story of some note, “The Three Sailors’ Gambit<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

There is a fair amount of chess-inspired fiction. My favorite, aside from Through the Looking Glass<\/a><\/b><\/i>, is Victor Contoski’s “Von Goom’s Gambit.” First published in Chess Review<\/em> in 1966, it occasionally turned up in fantasy anthologies years ago, though finding it now would be a challenge. If it’s online, I missed it. It’s worth looking for if you have access to a large fantasy and science fiction library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I stumbled across another dangerous waste of time: Chessgames.com. Think very carefully before you click. Like most chess websites, it uses algebraic notation, which I can’t follow as easily as “P-K4.” However, it also has a “viewer” which allows you to step through each game on a virtual board. A couple of well-known games in … Continue reading “Warning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-7uf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28783"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28806,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28783\/revisions\/28806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}