On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:34:26 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc
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Saw this on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4_a32fUBG4
Agdamator, the operator of a popular YouTube channel on Chess, set up
a livestream with the Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura...
which got cut off by an automated system at Google which was being made nervous by things said about the relative positions of White and Black.
John Savard
When you say "things" do you mean of a racial nature?
Because when you get into politically correct chess talk I've had all
kinds of people say about how patriarchal chess was. Until I point out
who is the most powerful piece in the game.
I've even done a between rounds speed chess bet (which is a suckers'
bet) that says "OK you can have 2 kings - I'll take no kings but 2
queens. When I mate one of your kings I'll take it off and mate the
other king - and if I can't mate BOTH kings I lose!" We normally do
tihis challenge at 5 or 10 minute speed rules - I call it a sucker's
bet because at 10 minutes aside it's blindingly easy but much harder
at 5 minutes since unless you exchange a lot of pieces early on you
can easily flag while just about to mate the second king.
Then I always say in triumph afterwards "so who's the more powerful?
King or queen? Uh - I think we just proved it..."
Yes it's a hustle but the most I've ever bet on it was the price of a
cup of coffee.
The trouble players get into while waiting for the next round!
Some time I'll have to tell you about the trouble I got into for
making too much noise in the skittles room while playing Risk and got
chewed out for it by none other than Max Euwe. (Completely true story
- Canadian Open 1971 which was held concurrently with the 1971
Vancouver FIDE Congress - Euwe was then FIDE president - this was
about 3 months after Fischer-Taimanov also in Vancouver elsewhere on
the same campus! I was 14 and we were behaving as obnoiously as young
juniors do to this day!)
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