Okay, ima O-O, also.
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Okay, ima O-O, also.
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P - KB4
Let's just see about who owns the center of the board.
W.
Nevermind. I didn't...:stoned:
I think this is what you wanted. I then do P to KB4 to "block."
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Guess I meant to say Qb4:o:rasta:Quote:
Originally Posted by DreadedHermie
So, you wish to take the pawn. eh?
I'll snatch your pawn with my bishop.
W.
BTWQuote:
Originally Posted by DreadedHermie
If this had been a legal move for me, your pawn block would fall to an en-passant capture.:D
Good to see ya.
Weeze.
Please check the board. I got confused about which pawn you were moving. Is this right? (Sorry :i feel stupid:) [attachment=o217927]
Except for my king and rook being rather odd.
They should match yours.
So, the question remains, whutcha gonna do?:)
GL
W.
P to QR3.
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Hey, I found an old picture when we were at NASA together, working on super-high-power leds for the space program.
Looks like me on the left, reading the checkoff list to ya......
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And yes, that is an actual NASA photo.
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Sorry, though I had already posted this one.:stoned:
P - Q5
Just to lean on your knight.
A'ight?
The plot curdles.
Wee
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Bishop takes pawn!!
That will pin your knight and bishop, waste a move, and flush your queen.
A lazy guy's attack.:D
'Zard
Hey, I picked up a couple bricks of Botanicare CocoGro. Ready to start asking questions. Got some (sort of) expendible chillun's in the veg room. Ever wash off the roots and do a mid-veg conversion to coco? (8" rooted clone in a 1 gal plastic nursery pot--any chance to live?) Otherwise, time to ^ to a 3 gal soil pot, shoes gettin' tight!
Actually, got a 3gal plant I could attempt this with, too. If it's possible to do it, is converting from rootbound in soil to the same pot, but with coco considered an upsize? Seems like it would be.... :confused:
Where should I start a "going coco" thread? Call it what? If we put yer name on it many will check it out. Me no care. You wanna edjumacate John Q. as we go, that's okay, too.
ICMag.Quote:
Originally Posted by DreadedHermie
That PM feature is very handy and I really don't miss the tension when I hit the submit button.
They already have an excellent coco thread we could play in.
Ainokea 'bout JQP, they'll catch-up eventually.
If ya gots da tiny flies and itty larvea, be aware that they will live in coco too but will have nothing to eat except for root hairs!
They are very hard to eliminate. The adults will try to lay eggs in the new coco as you mix it.
The li'l buggahs will even live in hydro!
Long way back I planted some seeds and ran out of pots.
Put one in a 1g. milk jug.
Used Supersoil/perlite. from Homie de pot.
The soil was infested with Fungus Gnats! :mad:
The seedling growth slowed to a crawl as the roots got munched.
Juggie was the only normal sized healthy kid in the batch.
Why? Because I filled the jug to the top and had the seedling grow up through the 1/2" dia. mouth of the jug.
Aha!
Much less surface area for hatching, breathing, and egg laying.
After wasting a lot of effort on frontal attacks that they parried with a ferocious breeding rate, I found an easy, almost elegant fix.
Tulip growers put an inch of white sand on the soil surface.
Tried it, it worked, but it was a royal pita come transplant time
So, I now cut a circle or square of reflectix to fit the container.
Then, cut a slot to the center, then cut 8 radial lines about 1.5"
long from the center point. Kind of an asterisk.
That hugs the stem gently and expands as she grows. I place these on top of the pots to block the breeding cycle, with the advantage of 97% light reflection to the bottom leaves.
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No pest strips knocked out the adult gnats and the spidermites and now the room is clean.
Oh, yeah, Your move, brah.
Aloha,
Off-topic zard
I meant I've got some spare plants that were prolly gonna get culled that I can experiment with. I like the reflectix trick, though. Been doin' that with paper plates, per an earlier discussion between you and Stinky, I think. :thumbsup:
Direct transplant sounds good. The direct approach.
The hydro store guy seemed to think Fox Farm nutes would be fine; he didn't try to sell me something different, which is unusual for him. I've got Fox Farm nutes for soil, though--not hydro. Don't know if that even registered with him. Couldn't remember what you'd recommended for nutes, so I just got the coco bricks. Expanded one brick already with plain non-nuted, non-ph'ed tap water. (Just slightly alkaline, proper nutes put it right. Quit testing it awhile back, PIA. Now need your advice on convenient pH and dissolved solids meters. (Hanna? Milwaukee?))
Anyway, got at least one 8" plant that I would rather sacrifice in a fiendish experiment than straight-up execute. :buzz_saw: Thinkin' of offering a "FF Grow-Big for soil" kinda all-you-can-eat-buffet, with that as the only item. Jes' to see. Take it or leave it, you spoiled plant! :eat:
Jeez. Now IC's down.
And I'll move my KR pawn out to KR3.
Hmm. Lemme go see if our boards agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by DreadedHermie
BRB,
Me.
Yup, same board.
Um, you prolly don't want to do dat.
Iff'n ya does, I'll steal your knight and lean on your Rook.
Care to re-consider?
Weeze.
i've heard nothing but bad things about hanna, but a lot of people (stinky included i believe) recommend milwaukee.Quote:
Originally Posted by DreadedHermie
i don't own a meter yet so i can't comment from experience.
-shake
I think I've got a pawn threatening your bishop if he wants my knight. Rook no worried. Did I mess up the board again?Quote:
Um, you prolly don't want to do dat.
Iff'n ya does, I'll steal your knight and lean on your Rook.
Care to re-consider?
Lemme see.
Nope, you have it right
It stands then.
Lemme add a li'l pressure;
QR - Q1
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I'm not controlling much center board real estate. I have, like, Baltic and Mediterranean Ave's kine property. :(
I do have my pawn "ends" going out for a "hail Mary" long pass. :smokin:
B X Kn
Think I'm about to sack the quarterback.
QR - QR2.
Film at 11....
P -QR4
Details to follow....
Our queens are now squared off on Main Street at high noon.
I bought a little plastic chess set so I don't hafta do this on a diagram every time. Should go quick now. (Queens shouldn't take noon UV for long. :D)
Is there a standard way to periodically confirm that boards match, or do good players just never mess that up?
good players know the board in their head dreaded. and think about 7-10 moves ahead.
definitely be careful with that uv!
sorry for butting in.
-shake
Good players usually purchase a wee plastic chess set and keep a written transcript of the moves for when the dog starts poopin' wee plastic pawns.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by DreadedHermie
Hey there Shake!
Butt away bud.:thumbsup:
Like it says in post 1, comments and kibbitzing is most welcome.
Hermie is humoring me here while we wait for the rewards of our efforts.
You sound like a player, and Hermie claims chess noobidge.
Feel free to join forces and gang up on me.
Or throw down the mitten and have at me yerself.
I need to lose some games.
That's how I learn best
There's about to be,
a massacree. Up in here.
(Actually DH has been toast from the opening):p
I'm supposed to be commenting and explaining the fine points of the game, but have been spacing out on that.:stoned:
Guess we'll do a post mortem analysis.
From here, I expect; R X Q - R X R-check K - R2
Then I use the temporal, positional and material advantage to wipe out his queen side pawns and promote a pawn of my own.
But, excrement occurs and brain farts happen.:jointsmile:
V shell C
Aloha,
Weeze
Well, doesn't seem like I have much choice but to follow that program. Weez, you did wanna make the R X R-check move, yes?Quote:
From here, I expect; R X Q - R X R-check K - R2
Then, ya, K - R2 (gotta)
Your move.
Shake--h-e-l-l-l-p!
lol, what's the board look like dread? or is that the game?
-shake
And, of course R X B.Quote:
Originally Posted by DreadedHermie
Don't look good DH.
You must promote a pawn to have more future than a snowflake on a griddle:D.
Aloha nui loa
Weeze the merciless
Shake, I been dead man walkin' for awhile.
Weez was s'pose kinda help me along, but opted instead just to kick my ass. :asskick:
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Think the board looks like this. Better double check--dog's acting "guilty."
Whoops, Weez moved again, killed my bishop.
R.I.P., Padre. Your secrets are safe with Hermie the Discreet.
Board's not right....
Mrs. Hermie has been putting weez' pieces back on the board. And the dog is pushing them around. I will get to the bottom of this. Talk about no respect....
Traitors!
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Up to W's last move.
I'd have to take his rook with mine, next.....
Gotta run, work and all.....
WORK!? :eek: Dude! there's no call for that kine language.Quote:
Originally Posted by DreadedHermie
Tryin' ta give a lazy guy da willies?
Aloha,
Weeze
I guess the scent of Albacore got transferred to my chessmen. :food10:
Little shortbus doggy gotta nose 'em around if I leave the board on the coffee table like a normal family might. Moved the chessboard to my already cluttered desk, should be safe there, if I can find it.
So,
Let's do that, if you're game. I'm so severely screwed at this point a sane person would concede, I think. :tin foil hat: If you spot me that rook, at least I can attempt to keep fighting. My understanding is that you're interested in the "end game," at which we have clearly arrived. Shame to come all this way for an auntie-climax. :DQuote:
Or, heck let it stand I don't really need 2 rooks here.
BTW, interesting work you're doin' schoolin' the noob-it-all's on the "physics and chemistry are an annoyance and I shall deny them" site. Talk about "poo on pearls."
But I have something to console you. I'll double the distance from the top of the post. Should make it only 25% as intense.....:lol5:
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:DYes, please.Quote:
Originally Posted by DreadedHermie
I'll have two,
Hold the poo.
Yah, Once I realized it was a grey matter density problem, I bailed.
Ya just can't fix that
Might's well try an' explain ethics,
to a cat.
Now we have a similar "defendant" ranting about Chloramine in tap water.
I'm testing it, in case there's any foundation in fact.
It's comforting to know that kids will always be, well, kids.
I not only "knew" everything when I was Nineteen, I was the first person to discover it all.:rolleyes:
Ok. Back to da killing floor.
Now this get more interesting.:cool:
Knight to Queens 4
W.
Weezard, perhaps subconsciously you are hesitant to explain your strategies to me, figuring they might be self-evident to most dolts wandering your average shopping mall. Your fabled patience and beneficence prevent you from hurting my feelings, right?
At this point it is fight-or-flight for me. A fairly pure expression of "zard," actually: that little cluster of neurons capping the spinal cord. Sun Tsu no gonna be impressed with my battle plans. So I will explain my "thinking" and you can critique as you punish. At least this makes me the active party in exposing my foolishness.
So: P to QB-4 moves that piece out of jeopardy, threatens your knight, and is prolly my best bet at getting a pawn to the back row, whatever ya call that. Gotta deal with your downrange pawn eventually, but I'll deal with that if I survive for long enough.
So it is: P to QB-4
Kn -Qb5
Just to keep him alive.
The knight has become important here.
He attacks indirectly and is hard to pin down.
Gave up a 2 move time advantage so, I'll need Horsie to survive.
It's much more even now and I'll be kept busy with your pawns.
You have the advantage of not being a machine.
Machines are easy in the end game.
I think you know what you need to do now.
And yes, I did think my motives were obvious.
No wanna patronize.:D
Weeze
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Knight to Queens 4
You could get to Queen's Knight 5...my pawn's on your Qb5 already (my Qb4, right?) , unless the dog's figgered out how to get up onto this desk and is snuffling at my army again.Quote:
Kn -Qb5