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On November 14 2013 00:01 dartoo wrote:Show nested quote +On November 13 2013 23:54 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote:On November 13 2013 23:44 nFo wrote:On November 13 2013 23:19 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote:
Why is the tower called a 'rook'?
edit: Hmm wikipedia says it the persian name for chariot. Still doesn't make much sense lol. Chess is believed to have come from India and the game had pieces based on indian armies, which had chariots. From there it went to persia, then to arabia and finally to europe. So it makes sense, no? Not really, because somewhere in the middle the chariot piece turned into a tower piece, which is not an obvious transition to me at all... also english is one of the very few languages which calls it a rook instead of tower/castle if you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_setThe chariot makes sense to me if you look at the movement, as I can imagine ancient chariots being not easy to turn. Therefore allowing only straight movement. But this is probably too offtopic so I'll shut up  Some people here called it an elephant, and the fortification on top of the elephant was the rook part. Some states in India called it a chariot. When the game moved out, it became just the castle part on top. /OT :p
Nah, since in Persia it was still a warchariot and called rukh (chariot). The confusion more likely happened in italia where rocca means tower!
The elephant was the modern chess' bishop, right?
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On November 14 2013 00:05 Stancel wrote:
Anand forcing that trade
what a fucking player.
That was pretty damn clever.
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On November 13 2013 23:59 coverpunch wrote:
Do the casters always play things out from the perspective of white or are they being biased by assuming Anand's perspective as fellow Indians?
They more just theorycraft/play off lines with the help of Chess engines. Has little to do with caster bias from what I can tell though the Indian male GM is admittedly a Vishy fanboy.
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I don't understand the white king move at all
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Carlsen covers the 6 file so that he can go b5 with no check
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2 minutes are NOTHING after 5.5 hours!
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On November 14 2013 00:10 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Why Re6?
Rxg5, b5
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On November 14 2013 00:10 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Why Re6?
57.Rxg5?? b5! threat ...b4+ and Ra2#
covers the 6th rank from checks
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I'm assuming he is trying to run him out of time? Or what?
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Chessnetwork is trying to get me to subscribe to his twitch by not seeing the b5 answer to Rxg5. It's damn close to effective ~~
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On November 14 2013 00:11 DwD wrote:
I'm assuming he is trying to run him out of time? Or what?
Vishy is 3 moves away from being safe with time, it "should" be fine.
On November 14 2013 00:13 Nebuchad wrote:
Chessnetwork is trying to get me to subscribe to his twitch by not seeing the b5 answer to Rxg5. It's damn close to effective ~~
He talked about it.
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On November 14 2013 00:11 Nebuchad wrote:Rxg5, b5
On November 14 2013 00:11 marvellosity wrote:57.Rxg5?? b5! threat ...b4+ and Ra2# covers the 6th rank from checks
Thanks 
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Tania is so much smarter (and sexier) than the guy she's casting with
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Holy crap that was fast all of a sudden
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Wow, that was so intense!
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EPT
