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Edward Winter
Personal blog · chesshistory.com/wintergameshistory
Edward Winter's personal blog at chesshistory.com covers games and history. Since 2013, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Edward Winter's chess history site, cited for historical anecdotes and source checks, such as Lasker's cigar, the Einstein-Oppenheimer game's authenticity, and the New Chronology theory.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Edward Winter's current Chess Notes: games, positions, puzzles, research, historical documentation on masters and amateurs.
What Hacker News says?
As the chess players know, ‘a bad plan is better than none at all’. https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/planning.html
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on “Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac”Submitted Capablanca: How I Learned to Play Chess (1916) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI played chess instead of go, but I think they are similar enough ... When you play, you consider a few possible movements, and a few possible responses of the other player, and in each case a few possible response of you, and ... I think amateur players like me consider only 3 or 4 levels (unless it's some easy but interesting situation like a multiple capture chain) but professional players consider much deeper tr…
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on “AlphaGo Beats Lee Sedol in Final Game”Submitted The Value of the Chess Pieces by Edward Winter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThings such as Emanuel Lasker's cigar: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/nimzowitsch.html and other such stuff.
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on “Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion”Huh? Variants of lightning/blitz/fast chess have been around since the late 19th Century. They are very much games of chess. I’m not sure what the quibble is? Is untimed chess, which is uncommon for competitive play, the only real form of chess? Or is timed chess, which almost all competitive matches are, an acceptable form of chess, so long as the duration allotted to each player is __________? https://www.chesshis…
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on “Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize”Go back further than Stockfish — I said "people said as much before chess", as in Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov. Here's a quote of a translation of a quote, from the loser, about 8 years before he lost: """In 1989 Garry Kasparov offered some comments on chess computers in an interview with Thierry Paunin on pages 4-5 of issue 55 of Jeux & Stratégie (our translation from the French): ‘Question: ... Two top grandmas…
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on “AGI is Mathematically Impossible 2: When Entropy Returns”welcome to Russian equivalent New Chronology https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/newchronology.html https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-bizarre-conspiracy-th... https://chronologia.org/en/nch4_1_russia/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_chronology_(Fomenko)
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on “One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed”There was a kasparovchess.com before: Mig Greengard's wikipedia says he "was vice president of content for Kasparov Chess Online and editor-in-chief of kasparovchess.com from 1999 until the site's demise in 2002." Greengard has been Kasparov's PA/confidante for a long time. Before 2011 he also had the best chess blog, the Daily Dirt .[0] I wanted to share a fascinating insight into Kasparov that Mig wrote to Edward…
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on “Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform”Sure, maybe one day. People were speculating on the coming 'draw death' of chess 100 years ago,[1] but it hasn't really been a problem so far. What was a problem, was players agreeing to an early draw without playing the game out (Imagine, say, tennis players 'agreeing to a draw' after 10 minutes) A lot of tournaments nowadays have rules prohibiting draw offers before move 30, or draw offers at all.[0] The best play…
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on “Chess World Championship: Stockfish live-analyzing game 7”- nl · 2014-08-07
Wow.. I'd never read that before. There's some pretty crazy stuff in that. I'd note that it seems likely that people may have an open mind about some of the theories espoused without believing the whole thing. For example, the statement In 1887, Edwin Johnson expressed the opinion that early Christian history was largely invented or corrupted in the 2nd and 3rd centuries has some basis in historic facts: The Nicene…
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on “Garry Kasparov, the Man Who Would Be King” > The game was first published in Freude am Schach (The Pleasure of Chess) by Gerhard Henschel in 1959. That book used the conditional tense, to convey uncertainty about the game’s authenticity (‘la partie suivante qui aurait été gagnée par Einstein contre le grand physicien Robert Oppenheimer’) source: https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter04.html item: 3533
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on “Albert Einstein vs. Robert Oppenheimer (1933)”“The winner of a game of chess is he who makes the last mistake but one.” - Probably Lasker but people often attribute this quote to Tartekower[1] Ding won the WCC due to a terrible blunder by Nepomniachi. Good as he was Fischer blundered his bishop like a patzer during his WCC match against Spassky and came back to win the match. Chess games between humans are generally decided by somebody making a mistake. Is that…
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on “Analyzing the World Chess Championship 2024: Empirical synthesized approach”The Wikipedia article goes on to say that other authors describe the second type as a "squeeze" -- I think Kemp uses that term -- and only the mutual or reciprocal kind as a true "zugzwang". I can't remember if it was GM Edmar Mednis or IM Rafael Klovsky who told me many years ago that it's only the mutual scenario that qualifies as a "true" zugzwang, but I'm pretty sure it was one or both of them. Either way, the s…
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on “Zugzwang”Apparently, an HN automated function edits submissions containing urls to specific portions of Wikipedia pages, effectively preventing it. I intended to link to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsan_Ilyumzhinov#UFO_exper... Kirsan Illyumzhinov # UFO Experience Other links: https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/ilyumzhinov.html https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OnedpGJx3Yk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_City
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on “Kirsan Ilyumzhinov UFO Experience”The linked article about Alekhine's visit to Japan in 1933 is definitely worth reading if you want to read the point of view of a shogi player* learning Western chess: https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter80.html#6994._Alek... PS: I just called Yoshio Kimura "a shogi player" because I don't know anything about shogi, but apparently he was a big deal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_Kimura_(shogi)
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on ““Why isn't chess popular in Japan?””
