I’ve recently been playing a lot of chess games on the Chess Free App for my Android Motorola Xoom . The engine uses the Treebeard programme, which is said to imitate a more human approach to playing chess. Treebeard was developed by Jeff Rollason, CEO and founder of the independent UK [Read more…]
I lost the game of chess that I played against Dr M on 18th January, and the two games previous to that had ended in draws, so it was imperative that I at least avoid defeat on Monday 30th January. Well, I managed to win, twice, but only by the [Read more…]
This is the state of play after several hours of idle chat that took us on a ramble through several centuries of European literature, with a nod to the Confucian Analects and a bottle of Montepulciano D’Abruzzo from the Casale Vecchio, which is to say, being translated, an antique fort, [Read more…]
In chess, Ablenkung is the art of luring your opponent into removing a piece from an advantageous position so as to give yourself access to a file, row or area of the board of vital concern to the outcome of your game. What is the best way of doing that? [Read more…]
On Tuesday evening I met up with Ardle and took him along to Dr M’s for a much-anticipated game of chess between two players who have recently taken up the game again, as I have, after a long period of neglect. In my estimation, Dr M and Ardle are pretty [Read more…]
Title: Chess Match Location: Hiroshima Description: Dr M (Japan) v Ardle (England) Two evenly matched players meet in a friendly chess match supervised by DPH… The odds slightly favour Ardle, but Dr M will be keen to apply his experience of playing Shogi (Japanese chess) to foil Ardle’s tentative attacks… [Read more…]
On the first Saturday in April I took my chess set up to Koi-Ue Kominkan to introduce my English class to the game. I had already talked to the class on a previous occasion about the big impression that Gerald Abrahams’ book, “Chess” (part of the Teach Yourself Books series), [Read more…]
Last Thursday I introduced my English class at the Ajina-dai community centre to the game of chess. Here in Japan the two most popular classical two-player board games are igo and shogi. Shogi is a variant of chess, played on a 9 x 9 board, with 20 pieces per player. [Read more…]
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