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| (1) Posted by Marcos Roland [Tuesday, Nov 7, 2023 15:07] |
Anirudh Daga & Marcos Roland series about solving chess
As some of you may know, the solving wizard Anirudh Daga and I recorded a series of 4 videos talking about solving, inspired by the book "Solve with the World Champion-Secrets of Chess Solving", by Piotr Murdzia. This was the first video of the series, dedicated to the book itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzme8A4Jjhw&t=227s
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| (2) Posted by Marcos Roland [Wednesday, Nov 8, 2023 10:14] |
The second video of the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYmg3Ct9Wzo
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| (3) Posted by Wilfried Neef [Wednesday, Nov 8, 2023 19:49] |
Author's name of the problem shown in the video is terribly misshapen, so: back to the factory
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| (4) Posted by Juraj Lörinc [Wednesday, Nov 8, 2023 21:19] |
I.e. should be Volker Zipf.
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| (5) Posted by Marjan Kovačević [Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 00:27] |
This is an unfortunate mistyping, but that's not a reason to ignore the other sides of this gorgeous advertisement of chess art and friendship separated by almost 60 years. Two devotees giving their best.
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| (6) Posted by Juraj Lörinc [Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 10:28] |
I am not ignoring the positive elements. I am sure many of us appreciate the efforts of anyone trying to produce anything valuable for community.
But giving author's name over the diagram is bread and butter of reproducing any chess composition. I was trying to be constructive, just mentioning the correct name that was omitted from the preceding post. No criticism. Disseminating widely the video with name blatantly wrong is a misservice to the author, so earlier it is corrected, better.
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| (7) Posted by seetharaman kalyan [Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 10:54] |
I am sure it can be easily corrected
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| (8) Posted by James Malcom [Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 12:26] |
A reupload with an editing fix splayed over for the entire video's duration is one viable solution.
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| (9) Posted by Torsten Linß [Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 14:09] |
Economy of force? What's the purpose of bPe3 or bPf3? Also wPh3 can be omitted. It's there only for the set play.
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| (10) Posted by Marcos Roland [Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 14:28] |
This is another video of the series. Certainly the name of the author of the problem is not misspelled!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYj_OWUUVNc&t=613s
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| (11) Posted by Anirudh [Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 15:15] |
Thank you very much for timely highlighting the typo! I have blurred the typo part in the video, and added the composer's name in the subtitles (when turned on) and the video description itself - https://youtu.be/kYmg3Ct9Wzo
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| (12) Posted by Marcos Roland [Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 15:15] |
The misspelling of Volker Zipf's name was my fault, it was a bad mistake, of course. Anirudh is already working to fix it. These mistakes can happen to anyone, specially to someone who has benn editing thousands of chess diagrams and respective author's names in foreign languages in the past months. I remember that in the Kindle edition, I mispelled miserably Anirudh Daga's name itself. And it is "instructive" to read his extremely gentle, polite reaction to may bad mistake: "I just now got it [the book] as a gift from my parents on my birthday 😊! I am thrilled to see myself in the book though the spelling of my name is a bit wrong (“Anirudh Daga”), but it’s fine no worries!"
Of course, I corrected my mistake in the paperback version of the book, of which our smilling young gentleman based in Singapore has now a copy in his hands, sent by me!
Kind regards to everyone.
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| (13) Posted by Marjan Kovačević [Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 16:32] |
@ Juraj, I’m not criticizing YOU at all, it was a perfect help to give the correct name!
I’m just lamenting over the sad tendency in our society to react to mistakes ONLY, and to IGNORE the good things,
as if they are taken for granted. You can easily notice the same in most comments to chess compositions.
The first thing is to point at drawbacks, understanding the idea and appreciating it is far behind.
This is even a worse case. For two days nobody tells a word about some unique and so rare qualities here.
Marcos has translated a great book from Polish to English(!) and to Portuguese(!), to promote chess composition in Brazil and around the world.
This is surely a highlight among the achievements of all of us in 2023.
Anirudh was the one to understand the value of Marcos’ work (and of the work of all the translators, as brilliantly explained in Part 1).
He lifted up the promotion of it to an INTERACTIVE media format of the time, the one we dinosaurs haven’t reached, and would be happy to have.
The boy has created an interactive promotion of chess composition and took the main part in it, free of any vanity at all.
If the ONLY feedback they both get is the talk about an obvious mistake, this is our failure, not theirs.
It explains why our society is getting smaller, poorer, outdated, hermetically closed for new generations.
For a change, we may notice and support some more important features in the work of others.
Personally, I'm delighted with the cooperation of these two guys from different eras and faraway continents.
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| (14) Posted by Marcos Roland [Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 17:12] |
My thanks to Marjan, always generous!
Now answering to Torsten Linss: you're right about white Ph4, it's used only in the set play. Also the BP on e3 and f3 are not both necessary. Only one of them is enough to preserve soundness. Anyway, the problem won a first prize, it's worthy remembering.
However, the unnecessary presence of these pawns does not in any way affect the need of the white rook on b3 for solving the problem, which is the reason for my comment and my choice of this problem to illustrate how the observance of the principle of economy of forces in the construction of a chess problem can provide valuable clues for solving it! The white rook on b3, although initially pinned, must actively participate in the solution. It should move, this is the hint that the principle of economy of forces gives us beforehand, and it is a powerful hint, so much so that thanks to it I was able to solve the problem in a few minutes!
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| (15) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Friday, Nov 10, 2023 10:16] |
Personally, when I get misspelled, I rather milk it for lulz than annoyment.
Often enough (conflation of the similar females names "Frauke" and "Heike")
folks don't even get the gender correct. Happened, oh yes, in the SCHWALBE,
the editor speculating whether I was the first female author. Too lazy to
look up the details or if that is even historically correct. In any case,
I sent the editor a pic of me - as that was a time when I sported a beard
that would have made Rasputin weep. The editor prompty made it worse by
printing a correction with the immortal words (translated keeping the confusion)
"Hauke sent me a pic, now there is no longer reason to doubt his maleness!"
My laughter probably could be heard 1000 kms away. (The lulz probably
didn't age well...)
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| (16) Posted by Steffen Slumstrup Nielsen [Friday, Nov 10, 2023 11:05] |
Was this before or after your time in NY rap?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redman_(rapper)
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| (17) Posted by Joose Norri [Friday, Nov 10, 2023 16:06] |
Without the ph4 1.Qg5+ and 3.Rd5+ would take an unprovided flight.
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