Here’s the current Sussex County Chess Champion, Luke Rutherford, playing 16 opponents simultaneously in 2009. Today Luke Rutherford will be playing an simultaneous match at Brighton & Hove Chess Club.
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I’ve spent the morning coding a new page for my website. It’s an interactive chess game viewer page. There’s loads of functionality. For example, it lets you call up a web page on the fly, with an animated chess game in it. To demonstrate, here’s a game between myself and Harry Stephens played in 2008. Everyone can use it, there’s no need to login. You can also embed games created with it, like this (this is the same game as above):
As you can see, this isn’t a particularly interesting game. My game has come a long way since this match was played. Looking through it again made me wince. Plainly, I only won it because of a terrible blunder by my opponent (his last move). Persistence can be rewarded when playing at this low level.
Full instructions are on the bottom of the page. The basic instructions are fairly simple to follow. The advanced instructions are are also easy to follow, if you read them carefully. Here I am again, banging on about how easy it is to learn stuff online by careful reading.
With this new functionality on my website, I’ll be posting all the match games which I’ve got proper notation for. I’ve been searching around for a way to do this for some time and now I’ve found it!
I’m indebted to Lutz Tautenhahn for his code (see his homepage or his PGN Viewer help page), which I’ve been tweaking to fit with my website.
A fairly unremarkable match this, characterised by rubbish play on both sides. I’m only including it here for the sake of completeness – every chess match for which I have coherent notation is going online in my video channel, Chess In The Cave. A curious feature of chess is that otherwise intelligent people cannot write down their moves properly, even though the process only demands the noting of a letter and a coordinate. My chess improved when I focused on the notation. That meant that afterwards I could analyse the game properly because I had a proper note of it.
Some folk have been asking why this is such a wide ranging blog? I am a very interesting fellow, with wide ranging interests!
This chess match was played between myself and John Smuts. The time controls were (for each of us) 36 moves in 90 minutes and then 30 minutes extra to complete the game. It is an interesting example of the doctrine of two weaknesses.