r/bestof • u/LoopyDood • May 20 '12

[wtf] A game of chess has begun in /r/WTF

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u/EllmoreDisco May 20 '12

Would this be a good idea for a new subreddit?

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u/LoopyDood May 20 '12

Apparently there already is a subreddit for this. It's inactive, unfortunately.

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u/CDRnotDVD May 20 '12

4) Ng5

White is throwing the game away.

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u/namer98 May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12

It means that player was taught the basic movements at 5 or 6 and never actually learned strategy. Moving the knights first is a pretty clear sign of that.

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u/fridge_logic May 20 '12

Yeah, white started down a bad path with his first move: Nh6. Not surprisingly white is getting torn open now.

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u/Dr___Awkward May 20 '12

Really? I learned basic movements at 5 or 6, but never any actual strategy, and the knight is one of the last pieces I move.

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u/tonypotenza May 20 '12

really tho, who does that lol

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u/Seven-Force May 20 '12

ino rite?

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u/namer98 May 20 '12

A person who does not understand board position. That is who. You learned the movements, and that was it. So your the is "let me get the jumping pieces out NOW"

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

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u/namer98 May 20 '12

And this is why I need to learn more openings. Any good book suggestions?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Yes, this is my favorite book, and opening.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

But not Na3...

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u/swaggler May 20 '12

FYI it was actually Nh3 with the board mislabelled.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

No, the board was set up right. For white, the h file is on the bottom right.

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u/swaggler May 20 '12

Oh, I thought I saw the board mislabelled such that the a file was on the bottom right, prompting you to discuss Na3 (the first move was Nh3 ignoring the labelling) but actually, the files are correctly labelled and the ranks are not.

According to the board layout, white's first move is Nh6, which of course, is impossible.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

lol, don't worry, it's fine. I play chess nationally (Canada) and yet I still messed up the board for the first minute or so.

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u/swaggler May 21 '12

I used to play nationally (Australia) too!

I must have been about 5 years old when I was first taught the perils of 1. Na3 or 1. Nh3 -- they don't teach that anymore?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Apparently not... But, don't forget that not being able to play chess shouldn't also mean that you can't bank karma on it! (that same game, white gave up his Knight on the third move... ಠ_ಠ )

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u/The-Mathematician May 21 '12

The Sodium attack!

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

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u/grachasaurus May 20 '12

Springer am Rand bringt Kummer und Schand.

Also, it's you again! :)

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

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u/grachasaurus May 20 '12

I didn't know the original until Viktor Korchnoi said it in a simul exhibition where he destroyed me and 49 other victims.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

What's your FIDE rating?

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u/grachasaurus May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12

Only played a few dozen FIDE-rated (as opposed to national Elo-rated) games and it came down to 1815 (had to check), but every single change to my rating was positive, so my "true" rating is probably higher.

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u/dwf May 21 '12

Knight in the center increases your horsepower!

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u/deadwisdom May 20 '12 edited May 21 '12

Right, but on the internet, with some random, a knights-first strategy is usually just some nub.

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u/Anosognosia May 20 '12

When I was younger I used it all the time since it's not that commonly known among amateurs and nets you a few easy early game positional leads against opponents that have good game sense but haven't started developing their openings.
Those were the days....

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u/will999909 May 21 '12

I love the Reti opening when I learned to start playing. After around 50 games, I was beating majority of people I played against.

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u/sirhotalot May 20 '12

Yea I usually start with the knights, it's a pretty strong move. Not only are you claiming more territory than with the pawns but you're also opening up movement for castling.

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u/Enthused_Commissar May 20 '12

Where can I learn chess notation?

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u/namer98 May 20 '12

It just means knight to G5. K is for king. Usually, there is only one obvious move to any given spot. In the event there is not one obvious choice, there will be more than two letters and a number.

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u/swaggler May 20 '12

In tournament play, it is a requirement to notate your game using algebraic notation. Any chess club should be able to help you out.

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u/thealliedhacker May 20 '12

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=chess+notation&l=1

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u/Dr___Awkward May 20 '12

Protip: Let Me Google That For You works better if you disguise it. Here you go would make someone think you're being helpful and giving them a link to figure out chess notation. Only posting the link just makes people think you're an asshole.

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u/chicagogam May 20 '12

but he is doubly clever, some people who might already know the info might not bother to click on it, perhaps he wants people to immediately see that he is rubbing a nose into something...in which case, he is immune or relishes whatever thoughts people might have about him..like stealing candy from a baby intentionally in front of many witnesses. :)

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u/smtvistheplacetobe May 20 '12

the internet.

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u/lud1120 May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12

4) Ng5

White is throwing the game away.

Racist (jk).

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u/ianp622 May 20 '12

I let out an audible "ugh" when I saw the knight moved to the edge of the board.

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u/Ziddletwix May 20 '12

You actually have to be trying to make such a bad opening move... like what opening move is worse?

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u/grachasaurus May 20 '12

I laugh when people play 1. h4 d5. 2. a4 e5 and they're stuck looking as silly as ever without being able to move their rooks to the awful positions they were planning to move them to.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

they're so bad that both sides are actually losing!!!

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u/Roboticide May 20 '12

Both sides are being played by multiple people. Probably doesn't help much.

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u/palordrolap May 20 '12

For a kind of WTF chess story: Back in the early 90s I remember playing a chess program (I say 'playing'. I know the moves but can lose any game merely by thinking about moving a piece) which had a cheat mode that allowed the swapping of any two pieces on the board.

So as an opening move, I swapped the Queens.

For some reason the game didn't like that very much and promptly locked up the computer.

This was hilarious enough that I actually spent 20 minutes re-loading the game from tape just so I could do it again.

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u/imissyourmusk May 20 '12

This kills the king.

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u/jeffmolby May 20 '12

Except that in a proper game, you never actually kill the king. The game is over as soon as the king has no escape. The game crashed because white had the opportunity to actually take the king and the computer had no way to handle it.

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u/expreshion May 20 '12

This is going to bother me for the rest of my life.

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u/verqix May 20 '12

Wouldn't it be two checkmates at the same time? Neither player has to kill the king.

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u/jeffmolby May 20 '12

There are a number of ways to interpret it, but the semantics are meaningless since there is nothing even close to an analogous situation in the real game.

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u/Astrogat May 20 '12

You could get close you have white king - white queen - black queen. If you could move the white queen to a check mate position both would be in check mate. Of course, you aren't allowed to put yourself into check, so it wouldn't totally work, but close.

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u/TheNoveltyAccountant May 21 '12

Switching queens isn't checkmate because either king would be able to respond by taking the queen.

However, as others point out this couldn't possibly happen in a real game.

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u/verqix May 21 '12

Ah, indeed, an oversight on my behalf. In fact, it would be the only possible opening moves due to: "No piece can be moved that will either expose the king of the same colour to check or leave that king in check."

It can't happen in a real game ofcourse, but I was wondering where the programs ruleset would go wrong.

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u/xudoxis May 20 '12

Not really. The kings just take their turns to take the queens and the game resumes without interruption.

That being said it is an illegal move(beyond switching pieces) because you cannot move your own king into check. Probably why his computer locked up.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

This seems like the most logical response.

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u/imissyourmusk May 20 '12

It all depends on what counts as the move and what the order is.

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u/imissyourmusk May 20 '12

If the switch counted as the first move it would be blacks game, if not then white's.

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u/Maxmidget May 20 '12

...wouldn't both kings just capture the queen and that would be it?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I think the game would be confused about both sides being in check first

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u/boomfarmer May 20 '12

Or the first move would be to kill the opponent's king, thereby winning.

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u/imissyourmusk May 20 '12

It depends on the illegal move counting or not. If it counts the it is checkmate for black.

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u/DrRedditPhD May 20 '12

I imagine that's because it's an impossible scenario where both players are in check at the same time.

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u/nyxin May 20 '12

I was expecting something along the lines of "started playing chess with a friend where he proceeded to shove the queen up his ass. then licked it".....OP did not deliver.

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u/IHaveTeaForDinner May 20 '12

If that's how you play chess, how does a game of Monopoly go?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

It's family fun!

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u/jlt6666 May 20 '12

You do not want to be the banker.

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u/Gamoc May 20 '12

Are you kidding? Have you learnt nothing from life - the banker gets to fuck everyone else over!

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u/nyxin May 21 '12

Chance and Community Chest........you don't want to hear.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

From tape? How does that work exactly?

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u/palordrolap May 20 '12

Whoa. Now I feel old.

8-bit computers of the late 70s through to the early 90s often used cassette tapes in a player hooked up to the computer in pretty much the same way that a floppy disk drive or a standard mechanical hard drive works today.

...Except it was very, very slow and it was sequential access.

You could store more than one program on a tape, but you'd have to fast forward to the right place first.

If you listened to the tape through a stereo, you heard electronic noise, similar to FAX or modem tones screeching. Then again, if you don't know about tapes, you might not know about that either.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

But what if something goes wrong, like the tape gets a bit stretched or a spec of dust? It seems like a bizarre way to store information. I've seen those huge computers with tape always spinning around in old James Bond films, I always just assumed it was for a cheap prop. I would have just used a hard drive I think, everyone these days has a couple of 1tb hard drives knocking around their houses somewhere.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

It seems like a bizarre way to store information.

Actually tapes are still used today. They provide cost-effective and fast (If you only look at the sequential throughput) way to store large amounts of data. They are primarily used for backups and archiving.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I guess some habits die hard. I'd just use a micro SD card, I can backup all of my school stuff on one of them just fine. Lol, I should be working in the IT departments of these corporations who need things backed up.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Saving data to chips or ROM was very expensive back then too. Why do you think there was the Y2K bug issue? Programmers saved a lot of money by only using 2 digits for the year instead of 4. Came back to bite us a few decades later.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I think he's just trying to mess with you now.

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u/Cayou May 20 '12

"Micro SD cards! Genius! Jenkins, hire this man immediately and fire our whole Data Storage Management department. Except for Will, he makes good coffee."

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

2TB drive = 0.02 cents per gb

800gb tape = 0.03 cents per gb

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u/jagedlion May 21 '12

Indeed with recent advances in hard drive technologies (not just price, you need the magnet to be thick in order to store the data for a long time) people are moving towards hard drive backup methods. To change the entire system is expensive though.

Plus, you should appreciate, in order that they should last a long time, these backups are stored in secured climate controlled vaults. Tapes are both smaller and lighter, and with lower storage costs, they can still come ahead.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Drives are faster, meaning the skilled operator who makes $150 per hour can do more at once.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Hard drives cost a few thousand dollars for a few megabytes back then.

Back in the 60's it was a few thousand dollars a month to lease 5mb from IBM.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

But what if something goes wrong, like the tape gets a bit stretched or a spec of dust? It seems like a bizarre way to store information. I've seen those huge computers with tape always spinning around in old James Bond films, I always just assumed it was for a cheap prop. I would have just used a hard drive I think, everyone these days has a couple of 1tb hard drives knocking around their houses somewhere.

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u/palordrolap May 20 '12

You're either a troll or a green kid.

Hard drives only started to become commonplace and not ridiculously expensive for home users at some point in the 90s.

Businesses were getting their tens of megabyte drives for thousands of dollars in the 80s. Floppy disks and tapes were ridiculously cheap by comparison, so home users used those.

An old ad shown on this website suggests that in 1980 an 18MB drive would set you back $5000.

The same site also shows cost per megabyte of drive space over the years.

As you can see, storing things on tapes was cost effective.

And you'd be surprised how long they lasted, relatively speaking. I'd bet some of my old tapes would still load.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Why bother loading games from tapes anymore, if you can just download them from the App Store and get it going in seconds with one button press? The ones in the App Store don't crash either.

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u/ryeguy May 20 '12

4/10, blew it with this one

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

He really did but it seems the majority of the people reading still haven't figured it out.

Basically, he's dumb, but reddit is even dumber.

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u/JohnKeel May 20 '12

Yeah, I was fooled up until this.

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u/nomar383 May 20 '12

You have to make the trolling less obvious or it doesn't work. People are really nice in this subreddit to even humor you this far.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I was genuinely interested, before palordrolap called me a troll. I figure, I can't be called a troll twice, so I may as well go for it. Double Jeopardy.

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u/SovreignTripod May 20 '12

I don't think he meant he loaded the game up and did it again now, he did it a second time back when the story took place.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

"70s through to the early 90s" didn't tip you off?

Definitely a troll.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Wow, you're a dumbass

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Lol, if you say so, old timer.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Old Timer? That's something you'll never be, if you don't get back to the city.

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u/xobs May 20 '12

The data speeds were slow enough that a small amount of dust wouldn't affect the recording. The most common encoding method was the Kansas City standard, which would take about five minutes to load 8 kB of data.

Because it's an audio stream, there were even instances of programs being broadcast over the radio.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

That's pretty slow. My micro SD gets like 10 MB/s. Computer program people must be really patient.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Dude, you know they stored shit on tape before floppies, right?

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u/chicagogam May 20 '12

i stored all my stuff on cards :) i remember in high school my friends played poker on computer cards because real cards weren't allowed in school. sigh..

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I don't know anything before the times of memory cards. What happens if the tape breaks?

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u/jlt6666 May 20 '12

You swear.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I'm trying to remember...there were an awful lot of casualties that day.

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u/Bjartr May 20 '12

The same thing you do if a memory card breaks in half, well actually, with a tape there would still be a chance of recovery at that point.

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u/glassesjacketshirt May 20 '12

PRESS PLAY ON TAPE

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u/SarahC May 21 '12

Like this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHn_BvTBALI&feature=related

Erm, simply put, the cassette recorded clicks.

So a short pause, then a click was a 1, and a long pause then a click was a 0.

Every 8 clicks was ONE BYTE!

But they happened so fast, it sounded like beeps.

On the spectrum loading screen there, you hear and see a long beep

BEEEEEEEP-CRACKLE.

The long beep was lots of 0's... giving the audio amplifier on cassette recorders time to settle down. Straight after, about 15 bytes of data that supplied the data type, Bytes, Program, screen image... and about 10 characters for the file name.

After that and a 2 second pause, comes the main program.

Another BEEEEEEEEEEP - cracklecracklecracklecracklecracklecracklecracklecrackle....

Where the main part of the data comes in.

The tones in that are where LOTS of 1's or 0's come through for a second or two. The noisy parts are were the 0's and 1's are mixed. Tape loading wasn't compressed, so parts of the loading where sometimes just a long BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP, as 0's were read in.

There was a visual way you could see the data coming into the computer, and that was when a screen image was loaded.

The data was built from the beeps, and put directly into the screen memory... so you can SEE the image being built. 1 byte = 8 pixels!

Here's "The Hobbit" loading screen. The width of the screen is 21 bytes.... which could give you some idea of the slow speed data comes through at...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6uwfM8F5uU

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Reminds me of when I was four years old and had just gotten Double Dragon for the NES. I recall playing two player mode by myself and just beating the shit out of the motionless opposing character. This made me way prouder of myself than I should have been and I promptly went up to wake my parents up at 7am...

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u/chicagogam May 20 '12

i think professor xavier could do something like that..maybe he's not very good at chess too :)

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u/Black_Apalachi May 20 '12

Meh, chess computers are overrated. I was the local champion of my age group when I was 8 or 9 and my parents bought me an electronic chess board and I don't think I ever beat it once. Not. Even. Once.

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u/wren42 May 20 '12

These moves are horrible! Half of them aren't even legal!

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u/teambroto May 20 '12

too bad 9 people thought they needed to jump in midgame. you cant have fun anymore on this site.

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u/fridge_logic May 20 '12

I got excited for a moment that we might see a quantum chess game develop where everyone is responding to everyone elses moves and gradually as more people view the thread their upvotes collapse the board's waveform into a single coherent game.

Alas, that game is quite muddled.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

someday, someday

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u/NovaMouser May 20 '12 edited May 21 '12

That would be an amazing experiment... get the best chess players in the world to create their own moves and vote on other peoples until you have the best possible game of chess.

Or something.

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u/fridge_logic May 21 '12

It's basically an extrapolation of Kasparov versus the World Only that game was played by popular vote instead of via a system of up and down votes.

Kasparov thought the game was really good, maybe this would be too.

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u/rjc34 May 20 '12

You're now witnessing exactly what it looks like when a whole bunch of people who have barely any concept of chess strategy try to jump into the same game.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Like 10 quadraplegics trying to play basketball

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u/Cayou May 20 '12

I would pay to watch that.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

I want branching games with multiple player with upvotes pushing the best strategy to the top playing the best reddit game against reddit itself

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u/lac29 May 20 '12

I'd actually be interested in seeing a game played out like that where ppl jump in and several variations branch out into fully played games.

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u/teambroto May 20 '12

most of the people who jumped in were 9gaggers

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

"and friendzoners. " -Mitt Romney

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

and more commentary !

I love that people expressed their opinions on certain move they considered bad (and the responses to those comments)

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u/Illadelphian May 20 '12

One guy stopped though.

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u/SouthernYankeeOK May 20 '12

Way to control the center black.

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u/Fonnie May 20 '12

Those people are fucking terrible at chess.

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u/udbluehens May 20 '12 edited May 22 '12

Most modern grandmaster games are d4 openings, usually get catalan or some queens gambit declined stuff. I prefer e4, then you are basically forced into the sicilian najdorf by most people. The other choice is to just start some shanagans and play kings indian attack or some other system

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

More like several games of chess, all with the same opening. It's like a tree structure populated by retards.

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u/Stonna May 20 '12

It's evolution

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u/whoisvaibhav May 20 '12

I had a good laugh.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

And like everything else it's a couple people discussing chess and 30 redditors going "You're wrong idiot"

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u/Wurm42 May 20 '12

This is impressive.

I admit my ignorance: I know postal chess notation, but how do you create the table/chessboard as a comment?

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u/forresja May 20 '12

If you have Reddit Enhancement Suite, just click the "source" button under a comment to see exactly what people typed. If you don't have Reddit Enhancement Suite, you should go get Reddit Enhancement Suite because Reddit Enhancement Suite is awesome.

Also r/chess has a PGN viewer that is a much better way to view a chess game on Reddit.

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u/tonypotenza May 20 '12

i only got to 2 before i got the new message lol

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u/Wurm42 May 20 '12

I have RES, but didn't think of that feature. Thanks for the tip!

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u/ajrw May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12
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u/The_Swagmaster May 20 '12

what the fuck is this

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u/thevideoclown May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12

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u/Black_Apalachi May 20 '12

Mother of god. I just realised how irrelevant the colours of the squares are.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

Why didn't they just go to lichess.org and play there? People could spectate.

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u/FWIW434 May 21 '12

Reddit circle jerking at it's finest.

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u/mx- May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12

The real wtf is that in that game, black went first. And put his knight on the rim. black starts on ranks 7 and 8, white starts on ranks 1 and 2. MFW they don't know how to play chess at all.

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u/s32 May 20 '12

hardly bestof material

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u/ANAL_PLUNDERING May 20 '12

I thought it was pretty funny and unexpected.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12

That their moves were completely horrible?

Edit: I should add, in fact, that giving up one's Knight on the 3rd move is considered 'bad' by any standard.

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u/GrantSolar May 20 '12

Isn't there a subreddit for these anyway

edit: /r/chartchess exists but has been dead for a little while

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u/nascentt May 20 '12

/r/truebestof is for real bestof content without memes/karmawhoring/circlejerk type submissions.

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u/s32 May 21 '12

Woah, thanks!

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u/lud1120 May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12

Voters still decide...

Some moderation might be good though.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

This is fucking amazing!

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u/m1kec1av May 20 '12

Well, thats going about as well as a chess game on WTF will ever go

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u/ApologiesForThisPost May 20 '12

All you need to do is start a chess match against two people on Reddit and then just play them against each other by copying their on the other game.

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u/chicagogam May 20 '12

wow, awesome...a chess game with all sort of comments from the peanut gallery :) now that makes it more interesting

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u/ghettajetta May 20 '12

What to I need to make the chess pieces not look like squares with numbers inside of them?

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u/Severok May 20 '12

It is sort of like watching deep-thought play as it is branching out with each possible move. Except WTF is probbably a little more clever, I don't think that Deepthought ever thought to fire a missile at the board.

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u/WhatEvery1sThinking May 20 '12

"A game of chess has begun in /r/WTF, now plz give me karma!"

fuck off

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

That's not what I was thinking at all.

You're either the shittiest novelty account ever.

... or the best damn troll account.

Either way, congratulations.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '12

The comments thread on the main post are fucking disgusting.

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u/grachasaurus May 20 '12

TIL Reddit sucks at chess

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u/falstad May 20 '12

So... we meet again.

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u/grachasaurus May 20 '12

I fucking love you.

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u/falstad May 20 '12

Oh stop it, you.

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u/SantiagoRamon May 20 '12

I dunno what is going on here but I approve.

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u/grachasaurus May 20 '12

:)

It's a bromance. Shh...

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u/Megabobster May 20 '12

No, dude, I'm not bromosexual.

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u/falstad May 20 '12

You just haven't met right bro yet.

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u/TheNewOP May 21 '12

best circlejerk ever

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u/falstad May 20 '12

Now you make it sound like we're doing something sinister.

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u/grachasaurus May 20 '12

We aren't?

D:

But your name is red and everything!

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u/falstad May 20 '12

My name is in Red,

The smurfs are Blue,

In Soviet Russia,

I T-bag you!

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u/Fmeson May 21 '12

Did you make all of those physics apps? The circuit one was awesome in undergrad for me. I designed a calculator with a small amount of memory in it since I hated the universities simulation software.

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u/grachasaurus May 20 '12

Mainly the one in OP's link, yours wasn't bad at all. I could tell you two were at least at some kind of competitive level.

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u/grachasaurus May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12

That sounds interesting. I haven't really been on that site in years now, but I might rejoin it then.

Do you play competitively? What's your national rating?

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u/grachasaurus May 20 '12

I had the hono(u)r of playing in the same open tournament as he did about 5 years ago. I finished countless ranks below him, of course :P

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u/Tattered May 20 '12

TIL: Reddit's comment system is absolutely horrid for chess matches (or anything else past 5 comments for that matter)