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The famous 8 bishop game

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:56 pm
by petemarkou
Clip here to view the famous 8 bishop game
http://www.slowchess.com/viewgame.cgi?p ... 2304&r=403

8 bishop game

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:04 pm
by cnita
lol,is wonderful :P :P :P

what an opponenet - i wonder if the game has ever seen it

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:13 pm
by kcollins
not surprised - but amazed - your game is wonderfully amusing - thought i had seen most endings but no.... - :idea: surprised the game was not stopped by the referee in the sky - where are you when you need them.....

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:51 pm
by petemarkou
My next endgame involves ten knights!

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:53 pm
by hamot
Hilarious.

Could give a person KnightMares, though. All those pesky bishops. Scary.

Tim

idontknow

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:41 pm
by garrison
Isn't it funny how often Idontknow turned up in the forums? I never thought to have fun with him (or her) the way petemarkou did, I usually just played and tried to drop pointers or hints, although he didn't like chatting or taking advice. I'm pretty sure I got out of him once that he was in Thailand, and I'm kind of thinking he was a kid- but I could have been wrong all along.

Anyway, not to take anything at all away from this game, this is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a chess game.

Brilliant!!! Saved it in my favorites for safekeeping.

idontknow

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:42 pm
by garrison
Isn't it funny how often Idontknow turned up in the forums? I never thought to have fun with him (or her) the way petemarkou did, I usually just played and tried to drop pointers or hints, although he didn't like chatting or taking advice. I'm pretty sure I got out of him once that he was in Thailand, and I'm kind of thinking he was a kid- but I could have been wrong all along.

Anyway, not to take anything at all away from this game, this is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a chess game.

Brilliant!!! Saved it in my favorites for safekeeping.

Re: The famous 8 bishop game

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:18 pm
by ferdyrojo
petemarkou wrote:Clip here to view the famous 8 bishop game
http://www.slowchess.com/viewgame.cgi?p ... 2304&r=403
That is a 'monstruous' game, but a real chess game, though. I wonder how can a pair of the same-color bishops appear on the board. Via promotion of pawns this is possible, of course, but {we have to agree that is an ugly position}. It is a refined cruelty exerted against a ... ... ... player. Guess the missing words! :P

Ferdyrojo

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:49 pm
by petemarkou
It was kind of torture in the sense that I delayed the loss from someone who wanted to loose fast! But my intention was to create something funny..