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The Dally Collegian" a <&wm mKmm. ■If*r*tti % ffiSM QU|Wa ffllub Binge it out tn Bob Attgrita'' n called many things: art; science; "warfare In tbe most mysterious Jungles of tbe human character," > "a supremely tltllatlng battle between two Intellects," and, by many, a complete waste of time. Did you know that CSUF sent a chess team to the Intercollegiate regfonals? There, in a quiet room on the fourth floor of UCLA's student union, far removed from tbe other competitions, the (our-man CSUF chess team of Steven Fox, Mike Fitzgerald, Dan Davis and Alfred Davoodi went forehead to forehead with representatives from colleges' up and down the state. So, in the same spirit as you would battlln' Bulldogs football game. get out your chessboard and root for the CSUF chess team. Perhaps you have seen the Sherlock Holmes movie where Holmes catches a criminal because of a slip he made over the chessboard? .. "You said you knew nothing about the fame of chess," snaps Basil Rathbone, 1 .tl when tbe knight was knocked to the floor, you picked It up and replaced it on king's bishop three, Its proper square." Have you ever wondered what that bus- [bout king's bishop three was? Or queen knight five? Or rook six? Well, you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure It out. It's the descriptive notation and even a schlub like Nigel Bruce can learn it In three minutes. This is it: Hie chessboard is divided Into 64 squares (see the diagram below). The rows*of squares running from left to right are called ranks. I A| ■ A I 1 1 1 1 i 1 I I I 1 I i A H A H A n n H^jHUHADn] The vertical rows of squares running- Irom you to your opponent are called files. (You wondered where the expression rank and file" came from, right?) The riles bear the name of the pieces that occupy them when tbey are In their original position. To wit: on the diagram below, find the White king. (He's fifth from the right on the back rack.) Well, that king Is slt- tine on the King file. Easy, right? as all tbe pieces to the left of the Oaeen are said to be on the queenslde, so all the pieces to the right of the king are said to be on the klngside. The board Is divided Into two sides 1i*e this to avoid confusion. (You prohibit thought It was to create confusion). After all, one just can't say, "bishop to tnshop four" and expect to be understood, can one? Because as any cursory inspection of the board. will reveal, there are two bishops on each side. So whenever a notation may be ambiguous chessplayers resolve that am- biguity by specifying "bishop to queen bishop four", or "bishop to king bishop Now we are being understood. Exept tor that part about the numbers. Well, 'hat's the easiest part. Look at the liagram again. The ranks are numbered • -3 from whichever side of the board rou're sitting on. If you are white your king is sitting on king one. That little pawn tn front of the king is sitting on king two. Tbe square in front of the pawn, the third square, is king three. And so on up to tbe black pawn on king seven and the Black king on king eight. Black looks at the board from exactly the same frame of reference. His king sits at his king one, white's king eight. So there are two frames of reference. Black's rook five Is White's rook four because both sides are counting from their bottom rank up. One last example just to make sure that you've got ltf* Black's king bishop five Is none other than White's king • bishop three, where the knight In the Sherlock Holmes movie sat untlll it was knocked off by the villain. If you understand that you understand as much about the descriptive notation as Bobby Fischer himself. A notated game of chess--where P stands for pawn, R for rook, N for knigbt(so it's not confused with the K for king), B for bishop and ) for queen might look tike this: WHITE "BLACK P-KB4 "Pawn to king bishop four" P-K3 "Pawn to king three" P,KN4?.> ■•Pawn to king knight four" Q-R5 mate. "Queen to rook five, mate" Didn't know you could lose a game of chess that fast, did you'.' In that game, white fell Into the Fool's Mate. Incidentally, those two question marks after White's second move are the chesslc symbol for 'very bad move", or, as It is more commonly called, a "blunder". Other chess symbols Include "*?" for a poor move, "!" for a good move, "!!" for a very goodmove(tbeproverbial thunderbolt)"!?" for an enterprising or innovative move and "?!" for a dubious move. ®»7i? Shmfcer Anyone who has ever played a game of chess is doubtless familiar with this phenomenon, and has asked himself, "how could I be so stupid?" There can be ho doubt that chess taxes the brain. The Russians consider blindfold chess so detrimental to the faculties of their best chessplayers that they have made It illegal. Before this law was passed, tbe Russian master Rubenstein cracked under the strain of tournament chess and went .completely Insane. He thought that his opponents were sending files to distract him. While fortunately none of the CSUF , chess team suffered from any delusions certain signs of fatigue did show up in tbelr games., such as this blunder, with apologies to Davis: DAVIS. in iabT Ll_B IMP ■ ' I I I L■ ■*■ ■ P.■-■-■- ^na hah B B i"S Now certainly be didn't think he could just take that white queen! Perhaps he thought his opponent bad made a blunder! At any rate, after a careful study of the position, Davis played tbe atrocious WHITE BLACK and his opponent Ramos responded with NxBcheck K-K2 Shi? gwinMe The swindle is a blunder Inside out. Whereas with a blunder a chessplayer suddenly digs his own grave after what may have been up untlll then a perfect game, with a swindle a chessplayer . cheats the hangman after a long series of offenses. The swindle Is one of the most gratifying or enraging aspects of chess, depending upon which side of the swindle Many a lost game of chess, right up to the world championship level , has been turned into a victory by last- minute (raps and pitfallssetby desperate men. Some of these traps have the cunning of the insane. And if the soon-to - be victorious opponent lets down his guard he may well snatch defeat from the jaws ot victory--and that's a swindle. DAVOODI In English* It could be explained as "tbe obligation to move", and it "If if8 your torn to move yon must bring the hammer down on yourself'. At the turn of tbe century tbe great chessplayer Nlnuovitch put his opponent Salwe In Zugiwang when all of tbe pieces were still on tbe board. It was a remarkable position; no matter wMch of his pieces poor Salwe mooved he brought some fiendish assault upon himself. His pieces were fine if they stayed wbere tbey were. But he bad to move something I One member of tbe 1 CSUFcbess team was able to clamp this bold on none other than the swindler Galloway, when the latter was just off Ms pencil- necked victory over our man DavoodL l.l.lili ■ llVn1 ■■Sl°QQl I.Q.I Ia ■ III illIH A|A|Ji%B ■ I ■ ■ 1 |A| I ■■.■.■„B« B 1 IS BLACK. K-KS K-B4 P-B4 P-KR4 P-N5 BPxP? QPxP would have kept the white queen out. Q-NS N-Bl? Expecting Q-R4, RxR with an end to tbe attack. But Galloway uncorks a typical swindle: . We see the Masked Marauder, croaking to an Interviewer al ringside: ••when I get that pencil-neck In the ring I'm going to make him eat those words. I'm going to use my special Mexican Death Grip, to which there Is no defense. And after I've killed him I'm going to Jump- out of the ring and do a Flying ' Figure Four onto his pencil-neck brother." Which is just by way of pointing out that in Big-Time Wrestling all man- ' ner of holds are employed. But In No choice. Any m for Black. ive loses K-K4* Now the White king decisively. advances P*-R4 K-Q5 KxP(4) KxP K-Q4 ^P-N5 K-Q2 K-K2 K-K3 K-B4c; Now ifs dear sailing for tbe bishop pawn. P-B4 P-B5 P-B6 P-B7 KxP K-N5 KxP KxP "He Just keeps rolling along." P-B8(Q) Q-R3 K-K4 P-R4 P-R5 K-R4 P-N4 If you're Interested In a little warfare on the most mysterious Jangles of tbe human character, or a supremely titillating battle between two intellects or Just a waste of time,, come to tbe CSUF Cbess Club, info -291-28S5r.
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Title | 1978_03 The Daily Collegian March 1978 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1978 |
Description | Daily (except weekends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif. |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35mm. |
Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
Language | eng |
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Title | March 1, 1978 Pg. 2-3 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1978 |
Description | Daily (except weekends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif. |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35mm. |
Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
Language | eng |
Full-Text-Search | The Dally Collegian" a <&wm mKmm. ■If*r*tti % ffiSM QU|Wa ffllub Binge it out tn Bob Attgrita'' n called many things: art; science; "warfare In tbe most mysterious Jungles of tbe human character," > "a supremely tltllatlng battle between two Intellects," and, by many, a complete waste of time. Did you know that CSUF sent a chess team to the Intercollegiate regfonals? There, in a quiet room on the fourth floor of UCLA's student union, far removed from tbe other competitions, the (our-man CSUF chess team of Steven Fox, Mike Fitzgerald, Dan Davis and Alfred Davoodi went forehead to forehead with representatives from colleges' up and down the state. So, in the same spirit as you would battlln' Bulldogs football game. get out your chessboard and root for the CSUF chess team. Perhaps you have seen the Sherlock Holmes movie where Holmes catches a criminal because of a slip he made over the chessboard? .. "You said you knew nothing about the fame of chess," snaps Basil Rathbone, 1 .tl when tbe knight was knocked to the floor, you picked It up and replaced it on king's bishop three, Its proper square." Have you ever wondered what that bus- [bout king's bishop three was? Or queen knight five? Or rook six? Well, you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure It out. It's the descriptive notation and even a schlub like Nigel Bruce can learn it In three minutes. This is it: Hie chessboard is divided Into 64 squares (see the diagram below). The rows*of squares running from left to right are called ranks. I A| ■ A I 1 1 1 1 i 1 I I I 1 I i A H A H A n n H^jHUHADn] The vertical rows of squares running- Irom you to your opponent are called files. (You wondered where the expression rank and file" came from, right?) The riles bear the name of the pieces that occupy them when tbey are In their original position. To wit: on the diagram below, find the White king. (He's fifth from the right on the back rack.) Well, that king Is slt- tine on the King file. Easy, right? as all tbe pieces to the left of the Oaeen are said to be on the queenslde, so all the pieces to the right of the king are said to be on the klngside. The board Is divided Into two sides 1i*e this to avoid confusion. (You prohibit thought It was to create confusion). After all, one just can't say, "bishop to tnshop four" and expect to be understood, can one? Because as any cursory inspection of the board. will reveal, there are two bishops on each side. So whenever a notation may be ambiguous chessplayers resolve that am- biguity by specifying "bishop to queen bishop four", or "bishop to king bishop Now we are being understood. Exept tor that part about the numbers. Well, 'hat's the easiest part. Look at the liagram again. The ranks are numbered • -3 from whichever side of the board rou're sitting on. If you are white your king is sitting on king one. That little pawn tn front of the king is sitting on king two. Tbe square in front of the pawn, the third square, is king three. And so on up to tbe black pawn on king seven and the Black king on king eight. Black looks at the board from exactly the same frame of reference. His king sits at his king one, white's king eight. So there are two frames of reference. Black's rook five Is White's rook four because both sides are counting from their bottom rank up. One last example just to make sure that you've got ltf* Black's king bishop five Is none other than White's king • bishop three, where the knight In the Sherlock Holmes movie sat untlll it was knocked off by the villain. If you understand that you understand as much about the descriptive notation as Bobby Fischer himself. A notated game of chess--where P stands for pawn, R for rook, N for knigbt(so it's not confused with the K for king), B for bishop and ) for queen might look tike this: WHITE "BLACK P-KB4 "Pawn to king bishop four" P-K3 "Pawn to king three" P,KN4?.> ■•Pawn to king knight four" Q-R5 mate. "Queen to rook five, mate" Didn't know you could lose a game of chess that fast, did you'.' In that game, white fell Into the Fool's Mate. Incidentally, those two question marks after White's second move are the chesslc symbol for 'very bad move", or, as It is more commonly called, a "blunder". Other chess symbols Include "*?" for a poor move, "!" for a good move, "!!" for a very goodmove(tbeproverbial thunderbolt)"!?" for an enterprising or innovative move and "?!" for a dubious move. ®»7i? Shmfcer Anyone who has ever played a game of chess is doubtless familiar with this phenomenon, and has asked himself, "how could I be so stupid?" There can be ho doubt that chess taxes the brain. The Russians consider blindfold chess so detrimental to the faculties of their best chessplayers that they have made It illegal. Before this law was passed, tbe Russian master Rubenstein cracked under the strain of tournament chess and went .completely Insane. He thought that his opponents were sending files to distract him. While fortunately none of the CSUF , chess team suffered from any delusions certain signs of fatigue did show up in tbelr games., such as this blunder, with apologies to Davis: DAVIS. in iabT Ll_B IMP ■ ' I I I L■ ■*■ ■ P.■-■-■- ^na hah B B i"S Now certainly be didn't think he could just take that white queen! Perhaps he thought his opponent bad made a blunder! At any rate, after a careful study of the position, Davis played tbe atrocious WHITE BLACK and his opponent Ramos responded with NxBcheck K-K2 Shi? gwinMe The swindle is a blunder Inside out. Whereas with a blunder a chessplayer suddenly digs his own grave after what may have been up untlll then a perfect game, with a swindle a chessplayer . cheats the hangman after a long series of offenses. The swindle Is one of the most gratifying or enraging aspects of chess, depending upon which side of the swindle Many a lost game of chess, right up to the world championship level , has been turned into a victory by last- minute (raps and pitfallssetby desperate men. Some of these traps have the cunning of the insane. And if the soon-to - be victorious opponent lets down his guard he may well snatch defeat from the jaws ot victory--and that's a swindle. DAVOODI In English* It could be explained as "tbe obligation to move", and it "If if8 your torn to move yon must bring the hammer down on yourself'. At the turn of tbe century tbe great chessplayer Nlnuovitch put his opponent Salwe In Zugiwang when all of tbe pieces were still on tbe board. It was a remarkable position; no matter wMch of his pieces poor Salwe mooved he brought some fiendish assault upon himself. His pieces were fine if they stayed wbere tbey were. But he bad to move something I One member of tbe 1 CSUFcbess team was able to clamp this bold on none other than the swindler Galloway, when the latter was just off Ms pencil- necked victory over our man DavoodL l.l.lili ■ llVn1 ■■Sl°QQl I.Q.I Ia ■ III illIH A|A|Ji%B ■ I ■ ■ 1 |A| I ■■.■.■„B« B 1 IS BLACK. K-KS K-B4 P-B4 P-KR4 P-N5 BPxP? QPxP would have kept the white queen out. Q-NS N-Bl? Expecting Q-R4, RxR with an end to tbe attack. But Galloway uncorks a typical swindle: . We see the Masked Marauder, croaking to an Interviewer al ringside: ••when I get that pencil-neck In the ring I'm going to make him eat those words. I'm going to use my special Mexican Death Grip, to which there Is no defense. And after I've killed him I'm going to Jump- out of the ring and do a Flying ' Figure Four onto his pencil-neck brother." Which is just by way of pointing out that in Big-Time Wrestling all man- ' ner of holds are employed. But In No choice. Any m for Black. ive loses K-K4* Now the White king decisively. advances P*-R4 K-Q5 KxP(4) KxP K-Q4 ^P-N5 K-Q2 K-K2 K-K3 K-B4c; Now ifs dear sailing for tbe bishop pawn. P-B4 P-B5 P-B6 P-B7 KxP K-N5 KxP KxP "He Just keeps rolling along." P-B8(Q) Q-R3 K-K4 P-R4 P-R5 K-R4 P-N4 If you're Interested In a little warfare on the most mysterious Jangles of tbe human character, or a supremely titillating battle between two intellects or Just a waste of time,, come to tbe CSUF Cbess Club, info -291-28S5r. |