Earlier this afternoon playing Black in a server-based correspondence chess game, I checkmated the White King with the Queen-Rook combination seen in the graphic above.
Winning this club server-based correspondence Fischer Random Chess (often called 960 Chess these days) game yesterday made me smile.
The position of pieces on the board at game's end is posted above and shows my White Queen checkmating the Black King as my tenth move of the game.
Our move record up to this point is: 1. c4 g6 2. f3 Qg7 3. Rc3 Ne6 4. Bf2 c5 5. Bg3+ Bc7 6. Bxc7+ Nxc7 7. a4 a5 8.Qxc5 b6 9. Qf2 f5 10. Qxb6# 1-0
Our assigned starting order of pieces here was FEN “rkrbbnqn/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RKRBBNQN w CAca”
which gave us the following board to start with:
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
GO HOOSIERS!
Listening now to B97 – The Home for IU Women's Basketball ahead of tonight's NCAA women's basketball game between the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks and my Indiana Hoosiers. Yes, of course I'll stay here for the radio call of the game.
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
GO HOOSIERS!
Listening now to The Flagship Station for IU Sports ahead of tonight's Big Ten Conference men's basketball game between the (8-1) Penn State Nittany Lions and the (7-2) Indiana Hoosiers with opening tip scheduled for 19:30 Central Time.
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
GO HOOSIERS!
Through this afternoon and evening I'll be running The Flagship Station for IU Sports back in my room to bring in the best radio coverage for two IU games. Up first will be the men's basketball team hosting the Louisville Cardinals, that game scheduled to start at 13:15 Local Time. Of course, in order to catch the full pregame show, I'll start listening much earlier, and I'll keep the radio running after the game for the post game coverage, too.
Up next will be the IU Hoosiers football team playing against the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Big Ten Conference Championship Game scheduled to start at 19:00 Local Time. As for the earlier basketball game, I'll listen before the game starts and after it ends to catch the full pregame and post game coverage.
Listening now to an NCAA women's basketball game, Arkansas Razorbacks at SMU Mustangs broadcast live over Tunein. I'm counting on this game to help me relax and unwind from a rather stressful afternoon trying in vain to access my social security account online.
And the adventure continues.
posted by Roscoe
GO HOOSIERS!
Tonight I have an NCAA women's basketball game to follow. The Western Michigan Broncos will come down to Bloomington's Assembly Hall to play the Indiana Hoosiers. Opening tip is scheduled for 17:00 local time. I've already tuned into The Home for IU Women's Basketball where I intend to follow the radio call of the game.
My NCAA men's basketball game of the night will be the Eastern Michigan Eagles vs. the Butler Bulldogs. They'll be playing at Butler's Hinkle Fieldhouse, a classic basketball fieldhoue where I always enjoyed watching games during my Indiana days. My radio is tuned into the Butler Sports Network and the opening tip is only minutes away. I'm ready. :)
The last few hours have been quite the adventure. Realizing that the laptop I've been using as my primary work horse is becoming frequently unstable and may not have too much useful life left (hardware failure I don't want to deal with right now) I've resurrected the very oldest laptop from my graveyard of dead computers and am trying to bring it back into service. So far so good, but it'll take me awhile to get used to using this old version of Debian again.
