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Vikings 4-0 with win over PA | Volleyball
POULSBO — With a 3-1 victory over the Port Angeles Roughriders Sept. 24, the North Kitsap Vikings successfully defended their home court and undefeated record.
North Kitsap's Sarah Holt led with nine kills, six digs and three aces.
A key factor in the Viking's success so far is that they are serving at more than 96 percent as a team, North's head coach Tim French said.
The Vikings have lost one set during League play. The team was able to fight through a few mistakes, especially on receiving serves and bounce back, in its last four matches, according to French.
"Port Angeles really pushed us," French wrote to the Herald. "They are a very good defensive team and battled for every point. "It was good to get a win while not playing as close to our potential as I would like."
The Vikings travel to Kingston to play the Kingston Buccaneers, Sept. 26 at 6:15 p.m.
North Kitsap against Port Angeles, Sept. 24
Final: NK 3, PA 1
25-17, 23-25, 25-17, 25-16
Lead players: S.Holt 9 kills, 6 digs, 3 aces; M.Clotfelter 11 assists; A.Johnson 10 assists; B.Duchemin 5 kills, 6 blocks; M.Crowley 6 kills.
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TREMONTON, Utah (AP) -- Police aren't filing charges against a father who briefly played a pornographic video instead of "The Smurfs" at his child's birthday party.
Tremonton Police Chief Dave Nance tells the Standard-Examiner of Ogden the man had rented a copy of "The Smurfs" from a Redbox kiosk and loaded the disc into his laptop. But when he turned the projector on for the children, pornographic images flashed on the screen.
Authorities got involved when the father complained somebody had tampered with the DVD. Police found nothing wrong, saying the porn was probably on the laptop.
Nance says officials aren't pursuing charges because the incident was apparently an accident.
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Following a bye week for each team, the Hoosiers will host the Nittany Lions at home this Saturday to open conference play for both squads.
Penn State is coming off a one-sided 34-0 win over Kent State that saw the Nittany Lions rush for 287 yards in wet and rainy weather. They used the bye week to get guys like Kyle Carter and Mike Hull healthy for Big Ten play but will be without safety Ryan Keiser, who injured his hand against the Golden Flashes.
Indiana's most recent contest was a 45-28 home loss to Missouri in prime time. The Hoosiers amassed 475 total yards in the game but threw three interceptions and gave up 623 yards to Mizzou.
The Hoosiers (2-2) hope that the 17th time will be the charm as they failed to find victory over Penn State (3-1) in each of their first 16 contests. In last year's matchup, the Nittany Lions defeated Indiana by a score of 45-22 at Beaver Stadium.
Time: 12:00 p.m. ET
Place: Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, Ind.
TV: Big Ten Network
Radio: Penn State Network Affiliates
Spread: Penn State is a four-point favorite, per VegasInsider.com.


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United Airlines To Drop Flights To And From Cleveland
February 11, 2014
The Jamestown Airport will soon have to find another carrier to provide flights to and from Cleveland. Just six days after Sen....
George knows the facts. Yeah George!
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Hats off to our leaders who understand that Jamestown needs air service. (cont'd below)
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There's no need for panic. This will all work out, and air service will continue from the Jamestown airport. (cont'd below)
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And no, Chicken Little, the sky is not falling. (cont'd below)
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Now that Cleveland will no longer be a United hub, Jamestown needs flights to another hub. This is just like when Pittsburgh was no longer a USAirways hub: Jamestown needed flights to another hub. (cont'd below)
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Don't believe the usual naysayers, especially those who don't want air service from Jamestown: United's decision is no reflection on the Jamestown airport. It just means Jamestown will need flights to another hub.
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The elimination of the Cleveland hub is a big blow to Jamestown Airport's survival. The airport isn't big enough for larger planes and there aren't enough passengers to justify further expansion.
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I hope eventually we give up on the airport, and like another post indicated, we instead have free parking with car rentals and bus service with shuttles to the nearby airports like Buffalo. Unfortunately, a lot of money has been invested at the airport, maybe it could continue to be used for other uses besides passenger flight.
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Samaliar "every time"??? It happened once because your attack was vile and abusive. Your opinions about the subject matter are one thing but personal attacks on people or other bloggers don't help the problem and hurt people and their families. Why do that?
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What will be nice is that without an airport Jamestown will become a good candidate for stashing people in the witness protection program.
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I warned you all about this guy..its all about him.and his ego.oops..hope carlaw don't report me for abuse..thats right everytime I speak my opinion carlaw threatens to report me for abuse..the truth of the matter is ,its a part time job for a reason.the airport is what it is ..its a small town,with the need of a fight now and again,,lets dump this and move on..please!!!!!!
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Guess it is time for a shuttle bus to Buffalo with free parking at the airport.
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The parks/airport manager should keep his mouth shut. I would think he would be concerned about service and not say he is not worried. He should not have the job. The present service may be good for ninty days but you cannot make your flights for the summer since you do not know where the flight from Jamestown will be going too. Guess it is best to just make a flight from Buffalo or Cleveland and forget about flying out of Jamestown. I do agree with the writer who said the Post Journal could have done a article in detail but they were too lazy to seek the facts. The paper will someday go the way of the airport.
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Maybe we should paint a big I Love Lucy mural on the runway and make the airport a tourist attraction. The airport is missing one key element to make it a viable resource: A populous, vibrant and economically important geographic location. Really folks, you can market and cajole all the carriers you want. It's not going to amount to anything in this depressed area that has a major airport within an hour and a half drive. I think most folks would rather fly out of a full-service airport on large jets rather than step onto one of those tiny commuter planes.
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Detroit is the only airport within range of the Beechcraft 1900s or Saab 340s that will be flying out of JHW. You won't be flying into a slot controlled Northeast Corridor. Cleveland is shuttered. Pittsburgh was a decade ago. Cincinnati will be within 5 years. Washington Reagan (stupid idea anyway) was divested.
So the next time you sit back and think you've figured out the solution, and not just "hehe let's fly to Albany! Then we can take those mythical nonexistent connecting flights from there!", please let me know.
Oh, and please let the airport manager/Jones and Gifford Park Groundskeeper know about it.
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Tom, you haven't a clue what you are talking about.
Someone dedicated to developing passenger and recreational travel at an airport can more than pay for their own salary when working full time to increase options for local travelers. Duplication? Why not just have the Mayor run the airport too?
Do you even know how the airline hub and spoke model works? As I said, flights to Washington Reagan is not an option - US Airways divested 104 of their slots to Southwest and JetBlue during the merger with American Airlines. Do you think Southwest is going to fly 143 seat 737-700s from JHW with <10 passengers per day? Of course not.
Fly to Cleveland, Buffalo, or Albany? For what purpose? As I mentioned, which you didn't refute one way or another, there ARE no flights with timetables at those airports designed for connecting passengers. They are feeder flights to the airlines' hubs. You won't fly to Cleveland at 4am. (cont)
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The article notes that flights and airlines have been dropped in the past, yet the airport continues (and has improved this year!)
It's easy for someone to take potshots at the guy who manages Chautauqua County's parks and airports (and why wouldn't the county have the same person oversee them? Would "dan" want one for parks and one for airports, so he could complain about duplication?
As for another airport as a destination, having the OPINION that Detroit is better doesn't MAKE it better. Larger airports like Cleveland, Buffalo, Washington, etc. provide longer-range flights to distant destinations that cannot be reached by commuter-type planes. Yes, you'll probably have to wait, since scheduling is not designed to revolve around one traveler.
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Same thing with Buffalo or Albany. Are you going to cater to business travelers (ha!) with a 4am flight to a non-hub? Or think leisure travelers want to take a 6:30am flight to Buffalo, wait in the Buffalo airport for 5 hours to then hop on a Southwest flight to Florida at 11:45am? Free parking doesn't matter for business travelers, and connecting schedules will never work for the scattered-throughout-the-day leisure flights.
The only option here is Delta in Detroit. US Airways was forced to divest many slots in Washington Reagan, so Jamestown isn't going back there (what a waste, anyway, for a national slot-controlled airport to be a hub for airports that serve <10 people per day). And the NYC airports, also being slot controlled, are even less likely.
Jamestown, if you get commercial air travel again (you shouldn't), it had better be to Detroit. Period.
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It's too bad the PJ didn't do any research on the subject whatsoever, and even worse that the "parks and airports" manager (whaaa?) has no clue.
Yes, United dropped its hub in Cleveland. Jamestown lost their flight, but so did Erie. This issue is independent from the impending EAS shutdown (or postponement) that has been percolating for a while.
Since Cleveland's hub is being shut down, it's pointless to find an "alternate carrier" to fly there. Are their throngs of Jamestowners dying to fly round-trip to Cleveland? No, it was for connecting traffic. Now, those connection flights are gone. Cleveland will be set up just like Buffalo - early morning feeder flights to hubs (6-8am), for late morning feeder flights to other regional airports (9-11am). So, what does the "parks manager" have in mind for this? A 4am flight to Cleveland, only to connect through and go to Chicago? (cont)
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The writing is on the wall.
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Now in his fourth year at the helm of the program, Pasternack's squad will look to bounce back from last Saturday's 63-59 loss at Birmingham Southern.
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Makes 12 generous servings
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1 (12-ounce) can evaporated milk
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup sugar
1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
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1 cup chopped nuts (any kind)
3 sticks (¾ pound) butter or margarine
Whipped cream or Cool Whip, for serving
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Last week, one of my students showed me a position and asked what I would do. I thought it was fairly instructive (it turned out to be!), so I will ask you the same question. In the following position, assume you are playing a long time control game (say 40 moves in 2 hours) and have plenty of time on the clock. What would you do and why? To get the most out of this instruction, don't read further until you have completed this task.
One key to beginning analysis is to notice that White has a discovered attack on c5 if he can move his knight from d4 with tempo. This should lead to the following three captures as possible candidates: 1.Nxe6, 1.Nxc6, and 1.Rxc5 (to try to lure the queen onto the diagonal of the e3 bishop). In giving this problem to a few students of various levels the weaker students might miss 1.Rxc5 but all the stronger ones considered it right away, often to the detriment of not even considering 1.Nxe6 or 1.Nxc6, but that's getting ahead of ourselves.
In de Groot's book Thought and Choice in Chess he calls the next stage of the thought process progressive deepening. What you should do to start is take 20-45 seconds and look briefly at each of the three strong candidates to try to get a feel for which one you think is most likely best. To take longer on any one candidate at this point (which several students did) is to just waste time; if there's another clearly better move, you don't want to spend ten minutes on a lesser one (Purdy: "Look wide before you look deep"). You are trying to find the best move you can in a reasonable time, not necessarily determine exactly how good is the move you wish to play.
Once you have determined which move is the most promising, it is time to examine it in more detail, putting the other moves away as possible improvement for later. Most students chose the move 1.Rxc5. It so happened that I chose 1.Nxc6 as the first move to examine more deeply, but the first choice does not always matter as much so long as your logic is good and you eventually get to the finish line correctly; I had to get to 1.Rxc5 and 1.Nxe6 soon enough. The key point is that you should now get a better feel how good your first candidate is, so you can then compare it to the others.
In the case of 1.Rxc5, all the stronger students pretty quickly realized that 1…Qxc5 was hopeless due to the discovery 2.Nxe6 when the queen is attacked by two pieces and the rook on f8 is also forked. Therefore, when the smoke clears, White is bound to be ahead by at least a piece.
That means 1…Nxd4 is Black's only other try to save material (he can just ignore 1.Rxc5 but then he is down a piece, so not many players as Black would do that!). One stronger student did the problem too quickly and did not even get this far, assuming that if 1…Qxc5 lost then 1.Rxc5 won, and did not go further. That could have been a monstrous mistake if 1…Nxd4 turned out to be a good defense.
This is where my initial student had a problem. He looked at 1...Nxd4 and saw that 2.Rxc8, 2.Bxd4, 2.Nxd4, and 2.Qxd4 were all candidates and started to despair! He said he felt like he was not that fast at calculating and that it might take him all day. He was surprised when I responded that was not necessarily so - you don't usually have to figure out exactly how good all the lines are, as we shall see!
After 1.Rxc5 Nxd4 most students assumed White should play 2.Rxc8, but I did not approach it that way. I considered that White's four tries were 2.Rxc8+, 2.Nxd4, 2.Bxd4, and 2.Qxd4. But then I noticed that 2.Qxd4 simply held the rook on c5 twice and there were no more complications – White is ahead a piece.
This is where the most instructive part occurs => At this point, after finding 2.Qxd4, I pretty much don't need to look at 2.Rxc8 also – it's not relevant unless either 1.Nxc6 or 1.Nxe6 also wins a piece, when I might wish to know if 1.Rxc5 wins more than a piece (which it can't, since Black can always just stop after 1.Rxc5 and make some innocuous move remaining down the bishop).
Several students protested, "How can this be? Don't you wish to find the strongest move?" My answer was logical. Yes, I want to find the strongest move on the move I am considering (the first move), but I don't always need to find the strongest move on my second move of the sequence to prove that I have found the strongest first move! So if 1.Rxc5 Nxd4 2.Qxd4 leaves me ahead a piece then, unless 1.Nxc6 or 1.Nxe6 also wins a piece, this proves that 1.Rxc5 is best, and I don't need to know how much better my choice can be if Black tries 1…Nxd4 and I play 2.Rxc8. That's just a waste of time at this point.
In other words, if I am analyzing three candidate moves A, A', and A", and I see the move sequence A,B,C, where if B is the dangerous key reply for my opponent, I only need to find a C such that it proves A is the best move. I don't need to find the best C at this point if the C I find is sufficient to yield a better position than the other lines A',B',C' and A",B",C", assuming their C is best. In this case that means if 1.Nxe6 and 1.Nxc6 don't win a piece and if 1.Rxc5 Nxd4 2.Qxd4 does, then I don't need to find a move better than 2.Qxd4 to prove that 1.Rxc5 is best, even if there is a move better than 2.Qxd4. Looking for one is irrelevant and a waste of time! This is what my initial student (and several others) did not understand. They thought they had to figure out how everything in order to determine the best move. (Note: this logic also works the other way around: If you analyze 1.Rxc5 Nxd4 2.Rxc8 and find it wins a piece or more first, then you don't necessarily have to analyze 2.Qxd4 too at this point).
Well, we do have to consider the other two candidates for White's first move, so let's next analyze 1.Nxe6. This capture would work great if Black was forced to recapture 1…fxe6?, allowing 2.Bxc5 or even 2.Rxc5. Howver, pretty much everyone found that Black could instead reply 1…Bxe3 hitting White's queen, which is sufficient to maintain the balance.
However, the same idea does not work for Black after 1.Nxc6, when 1…Bxe3? is bad because of the zwischenzug 2.Ne7+, which some students missed. Therefore, Black needs to recapture on c6 in a way that guards c5, so 1…Rxc6 is forced. But then White's only attempt to win material would be the pseudo-sacrifice 2.Rxc5 Rxc5 to try to take advantage of the pin on c5. But even if White somehow wins the pinned rook he would only net a piece, which is as much as he can win with 1.Rxc5 anyway. And the prospect that 1.Nxc6 Rxc6 2.Rxc5 works looks superficially doubtful.
A sure win of a piece is better than a possible win of a piece, so I would reject 1.Nxc6 as well. Therefore, I have found that 1.Rxc5 is thus the best move. However, in a slow game if you see a win of a piece (or any move that seemingly wins), that is a red flag that the move is super-critical, so I would check my analysis several times before playing such a seemingly winning line. Playing it quickly is not a sign of intelligence that you figured it out so quickly, but rather a sign that you are not so wise as to be careful.
Finally, let's assume White does play 1.Rxc5 and the opponent replies 1…Nxd4. What would you do now?
I'll tell you what I would do. First I would re-analyze my "C", in this case 2.Qxd4, to make sure it really is as good as I thought it was. If it continues to check out as just as effective as I thought, then I would likely put it in my pocket as the best move ("King of the Hill") and look for a better one. The leading alternative is 2.Rxc8, and, unlike on the previous move, now I would be very interested to see if I could do even better than 2.Qxd4. It's tempting to just play 2.Qxd4 since this wins easily, and I would do so in any short time limit game or if short on time. However, with so much time on my clock, I would look to see if I could win even more than a piece, say a rook or even two pieces with 2.Rxc8, making the win all that more secure. Of course, if 2.Qxd4 (or any "C") put me ahead a queen or led to a trivial checkmate, I would not bother to look for a better move.
In practice, many of my students, after analyzing ABC, when they actually do move A and the opponent replies B, they play C right away, even if it does a lot less than win a piece (it did win a piece in the above position). Immediately playing your previously calculated move is a terrible mistake in long time control games for the two reasons: 1) You can visualize C better once A and B have been played, so you should always check your analysis even if you did it thoroughly last move - you might find an error now that you can "see" better, and 2) Just because your analysis was correct does not always mean that C is best (as we showed earlier). Therefore, even if your analysis was correct then, unless you are winning trivially or short of time, it makes sense to follow Lasker's Rule: If you see a good move, look for a better one.
Consistently practicing this analytical philosophy in cases like this could make the difference between being 1800 and 1900, which is probably a lot more than you would get if you took a pill memorizing an opening book!
This article essentially describes Alpha-Beta pruning - see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_beta_pruning>. The essential idea is that you can discard a possible move as soon as you can see that there is a crushing response to that move. In this case, a "crushing" response is one that makes that move at best worse than another move.
In this example, the possible move (1... Nxd4) is "crushed" by (2. Qxd4) because it must be at best worse than (1... Qxd4). Therefore we can discard (1... Nxd4) in our analysis, and don't need to consider moves like (2. Rxc8).
This is such a great, practical lesson that can be applied in every game. I can't wait for the tournament this weekend and to make a concerted effort to put this into practice! Heisman= Best thing to happen to Chess.com since Pruess and Rensch!
What about h3? Seriously coach, very nice article, that is advice anyone up to a fairly high level could benefit from. I would be interested in what exercises you use, if any, to hone this skill. The tactics trainer comes to mind, but could you shed some other possible ideas. Again, thanks for the insight.
I saw 1.Rxc5 straight away. I was also aware before calculating that it was the ' only ' possible tactical solution available. Both 1.Nxc6 and 1.Nxe6 simply break the tension and activate the black pieces. I was blind to 1.Nxe6 and I'm happy about it. Learning tactics and how to calculate is not just about what to look at, but also what ' not '. Having calculated 1.Rxc5 and had it turned out bad, then 1.Nxc6 would be logical as a strategic solution aiming to trade minor pieces because of blacks IQP and I would check it's soundness - remember black's pieces are becoming more alive as 1.Nxc6 opens the lines.
@ Draconis:
Well put, Draconis - until the 'royal game' should be 'solved' [or 'cracked'] one day, then can we place judgement upon ourselves as to who's in fact 'perfect'. Until 'then', let us [still] continue to enjoy the game for what it is [or stands for], and may the bones continue to roll inside its secret 'code' ...
And that's the way 'I' see it! ...
Coach Heisman is too polite to say it apparently, so I will. Both of greg556's points are misguided and wrong (though clearly made in all sincerity and with the desire to learn more).
1. If your opponent plays in such a way as to "exploit" the fact that you will play variations that result in you winning a piece with no compensation for the opponent, any good chess player would be happy to be "exploited" in this way game after game. Chess is 99% tactics, and 1% strategy. Dan would obviously not recommend choosing a move that wins material but loses the game - which is why he looks at the response of the opponent and then finds a decent follow up move.
2. In fact, the analysis technique Coach Heisman is teaching is much like what a computer program would do if it was limited in time and space (memory) and computing power. But in real life chess games, all humans are similarly limited. Heisman excels at presenting practical advice that is useful for winning games in the real world - not in solving the game of chess generally. If you are searching for the "ultimate truth" it's probably better to apply your talents to philosophy or science. Chess is a contest between two imperfect brains. It is a game. It is not a fine art, and finding the best move possible won't advance the human condition in any significant way.
With all due respect: play, listen to Coach Heisman's advice, and enjoy your increased frequency of victory.
Greg556: thanks again - "Gain of piece > unknown complication" - That's not what I wrote - I wrote that in the complication the most (!) you could gain was a piece. So a line that wins a piece is at least as good (and likely better) than a line which at most wins a piece - and in this case probably doesn't - but since you are going to play 1.Rxc5 in either case there's no sense wasting time debating between the second move.
Thank you for responding. I understand that, and I understand the point: if you find one move that is good, then the only question you have to ask yourself is, are other moves _better_, if not, you needn't proceed further on that branch.
But I think my original post still applies--what you mean by "better" seems limited. Without considering your strategic plan, for instance, how do you know that the complications of some of the other lines won't be better in the long run? "Gain of piece > unknown complication" is the equation I am questioning. (I am certainly not insisting on anything! Just pushing back a little hopefully to learn more about your thinking on this point.)
(What you described is a search algorithm, even if you don't use those terms. In a general sense that's what all chess analysis is. In an even more general sense, that is one way of describing the game of chess in its entirety. Finding (searching for) the best move among choices. How do you do it? That's your algorithm.)
Greg556 - Thanks. I don't think I was suggesting an algorithm. Not sure where you read that. I simply pointed out a subtle but important mistake many of my students made when analyzing this position (that wasted time) and how others could learn from that mistake
While this search algorithm will work well for a medium player (and I am no where near even that), it seems dramatically limited in two ways:
1. It is purely tactical and reactionary. In your whole analysis you never mentioned what the goal of your plan is. To be happy with the gain of a piece without knowing what I plan on doing with it, well, that is the way I have played since fourth grade, and I think it clearly limited. More than that, if your opponent knows your only interest is securing a material advantage, it would be easy to exploit this narrow focus.
2. Your search algorithm is very myopic. This is the entire difference between computers and humans. They can easily look three or four (or, obviously, far more) moves ahead. If you are just looking for the "best" move within the very limited world of the next move, again you are finding locally good moves but you can easily get stuck on a globally losing branch.
Again, while this article is instructive generally in how to approach analysis, and it will lift a bad player (me) up to the heights of mediocrity, I don't think it will serve to reach the best play possible. (Interestingly, that metaphorically is exactly my point--it will get you local advantage, but global limitation.)
i would have played Nxe6 possibly. the knight puts pressure on both the rook and bishop and threatens a gain in material
It appears that some readers missed one of the main ideas of the article: There is nothing wrong with looking at 1.Rxc5 Nxd4 2.Rxc8 first (instead of 2.Qxd4). That does not waste (much) time, although 2.Qxd4 is simpler. The point was that if you find that either 1.Rxc5 Nxd4 2.Rxc8 OR 1.Rxc5 Nxd4 2.Qxd4 works, there is little to be gained from looking at White's other second move(s) too. You are only trying to find the best first move so you can play it; that process does not always require finding your best second move at that time (in this example finding the best first move for White does not require you to determine the best White second move, just an adequate one). However, once you play 1.Rxc5, then, if your opponent responds 1...Nxd4, it usually is worth analyzing to see if another move is better.
I recently had a private lesson with an IM who reviewed some of my OTB tournament games. He gave me similar advice regarding tactical analysis when the black and white pieces come into contact - maybe I should have read your aricle first and saved $80 . Cant wait to try this out - I think it will save brain energy in the long time control games.
IM Fins0905: Thanks! In the article I wrote: " (Note: this logic also works the other way around: If you analyze 1.Rxc5 Nxd4 2.Rxc8 and find it wins a piece or more first, then you don't necessarily have to analyze 2.Qxd4 too at this point)" which is what you did, and is equally correct, as you know.
The point was that if someone is analyzing the first move and finds a second move that works (2.Rxc8 or 2.Qxd4 - I did not mean to imply it had to be 2.Qxd4, which is "simpler" but maybe does not pop up as quickly), then they don't need another second move that works, too. They can wait until the second move to decide if there is anything better.
"In giving this problem to a few students of various levels the weaker students might miss 1.Rxc5 but all the stronger ones considered it right away, often to the detriment of not even considering 1.Nxe6 or 1.Nxc6, but that's getting ahead of ourselves."
I have been trying to place myself in this, ummm, strength hierarchy. You see, I've been playing chess for just about 6 months now. When you said "strong players", how strong? I mean, I immediately saw the position and thought, hey, 1.Rxc5 Nxd4!
Very interesting. I analyzed 1.Rxc5 Nxd4 2.Rxc8 almost automatically, and I was quickly satisfied that White was winning. Thus, I cut off my analysis right there. 2.Qxd4 didn't occur to me at all until I continued reading.
Objectively, both moves are easily winning, but 2.Qxd4 is the more difficult to spot because 2.Rxc8 is the logical continuation of 1.Rxc5. We've mentally resolved to pitch the rook, and there's no slowing down! A "disruption" like 2.Qxd4 doesn't come so easily (to me, at least).
This is probably for good reason. Experience tells us that a full-stop in-between move like 2.Qxd4 is less likely to be effective in desperado-type situations, so we've conditioned ourselves to prioritize continuation moves like 2.Rxc8 over candidates like 2.Qxd4.
Chess improvement is evolution :)
Great example. Thanks for that!
Excellent article Dan... Thank you very much :)
Great article Dan, thank you very much!!
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The Suns repeatedly went inside and Amar'e Stoudemire finished with 36 points on 11-of-17 shooting. Playing with only eight available players, the Hornets could not avoid falling behind by a 22-point deficit in the second half.
Rookie Marcus Thornton came off the bench and led the Hornets with 28 points. David West had 24. The Suns made 57.5 percent of their shots from the field.
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That's because random swirls of black dye on white fabric look just like an oil spill; which is to say, Michelle's tank-top was an arrogant, elitist, dismissive, subliminal message to stricken Gulf-Coasters to Go Fuck Themselves. Not even the metal plate in Glenn Beck's head could shield him from the overpowering psychic blasts of Marie Antoinette-like Out-of-Touchness that emanated from the First Lady's Evil-Drenched Death-Tunic.
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