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Anyone here a chess player?
I'm writing a scene where a semi-expert is playing with/teaching a novice. What are some things the semi-expert might do to even things out a little? Like, could he let the novice make some extra moves at the beginning of the game or something?
Like, could he let the novice make some extra moves at the beginning of the game or something?
No. Never. What era? Because different strategies happen in different eras - depending on who came up with them.
So if this is one of your 19th century scenarios, the standard chess openings would be different than the ones that happened in the mid 20th century.
Early 19th century, my usual era. I'm not looking for a detailed description of a game. The novice is a 9-year-old girl, semi-expert a 24-year-old man. The girl has just lost another game, and she's arguing all the reasons the man should be letting her win, saying it's not fair and so on. He says, basically, "Look, if I just let you win, this wouldn't be the educational experience I'm shooting for. And I *am* helping. I did X, Y, and Z that I wouldn't have done if I were playing someone on my level."
He would probably show her either standard openings or standard Endgames.
If the latter, he would kick a bunch of pieces off the board and show her how to mate the King with just a Knight and Pawn or something like that.
He could give up a couple of pieces, or put shorter time limits on his moves.
Assuming it's for your historical novel, I think giving up a piece or two would be the more likely handicap to offer.
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I had this weird dream last night wherein I was at some sort of High School reunion, but we were doing things like working together at the grocery store in my home town and riding buses. One young man that I went to high school with had fallen in love with ita, and was chasing her all over town. Then I was riding by on a bus, talking to a girl I used to ride the bus with about taking calculus in college, and rode by ita, Zac Efron and this kid from high school, and Zac Efron was very, very drunk. In fact, he passed out and could not be awoken, so kid from high school was slapping him on the face. Then I took over, slapped him on the face several times, he woke up, and I made him throw up and drink water. All while ita and the kid from high school are standing there watching me.
Dear Matthew McConaghey or however you spell it: announcing on your website that you and your girlfriend are expecting a baby is nice. Phrasing it as "we are stoked and wowed" makes me slightly less confident that you will be a competent parent, dude.
I dreamed about taking my cat to a coffee shop, and about Jacob Carter being my father. There was a very irritating part of my dream where I had to listen to him having kinky sex with a really annoying much younger woman. It was an alarmingly detailed dream. Really, why does my brain need to include that much detail about how hard it was for me to make hot chocolate, or about figuring out the used water/used soap buckets? Or Jacob Carter's imagined kinky sex practices? Or trying to figure out if I could keep a check from being cashed?
I wouldn't have thought I was asleep for long enough to dream all that!