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RE: The Queen's Gambit - King Bob - 12-14-2020 Personally I think Harry Potter is more Wizard of Earthsea mixed with Dickens. She certainly took a lead from Dickens in creating character names. Since CF brings up puzzles, I love the crossword puzzle (NY Times) and they also have a good game called Spelling Bee. Sudoku is entertaining too. I have an old chess game on my Gameboy, but I really only play the mini-games and puzzles; I've only played games against the computer a couple of times, and was trounced. Incidentally it has the "Searching for Bobby Fisher" guy in it. He pops up to give instructions and encouragement. RE: The Queen's Gambit - Drunk Monk - 12-14-2020 (12-14-2020, 11:52 AM)cranefly Wrote: There's an active leader board that shows the current highest score, and it gets reset each hour. There have been times when I've been at the top, but only briefly, as I happened to finish my session just after the top of the hour. Quote:TELEVISION Cheaters, huh? cf you are so busted. (12-14-2020, 02:07 PM)King Bob Wrote: Incidentally it has the "Searching for Bobby Fisher" guy in it. He pops up to give instructions and encouragement. You mean Josh Waitzken (sp?) I know him. We met through the now defunct Hip Hop Chess Federation, which was founded by my friend Adisa, who recently moved from Fremont to the UK. It was through the HHCF where I sat on a panel with RZA once, which was dumb because it is impossible to get a word in with a rapper of his caliber. Josh was also a Tai Chi Push Hands champ. Now he's doing BJJ (or as I like to say BiJayJay - rhymes with vajayjay). We met a few times and I ran a story or two on Josh. Nice guy. Brilliant. Very handsome too. A female reporter I tasked to cover him poached a shirtless pic of him for her screen saver. I'm not jealous at all. RE: The Queen's Gambit - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 12-14-2020 Finished it. Shows with a protag with addiction issues are not fun for me, so it took me a while to get through this. It was stylish as hell and DM is right about Harmon’s peepers. Total anime eyes. Chess never did it for me; I’ve tried a couple times, but I’m a basic “search & destroy” player and that = sucking at it. I don’t like to play board games, either. I’m very competitive and it takes an effort to enjoy losing. RE: The Queen's Gambit - thatguy - 12-15-2020 ![]() ...and mate. —tg RE: The Queen's Gambit - King Bob - 12-15-2020 DM- Yes, it is Josh Waitzkin. The game is called Chessmaster: The Art of Learning. It's an very old Nintendo DS game so he's a bit jerky onscreen, but since the main focus is just the chessboard that doesn't matter much. He's on the other screen than the main game. He also wrote a book called The Art of Learning, which is apparently about strategies for learning, and partly also about his chess experiences and subsequent switch to martial arts. I know I've seen the book, and I think I may have even read it, but if I did I remember nothing. RE: The Queen's Gambit - Drunk Monk - 12-15-2020 Yep. Thinking about Josh is a major flashback for me...back to 2007. Read this: http://www.kungfumagazine.com/index.php?p=magazine&article=741. RE: The Queen's Gambit - cranefly - 12-15-2020 I recall copyediting a couple pieces involving Josh and being very impressed, thinking he must have something very special going on in his brain, a correlation of chess and the martial arts -- which I guess was the whole point of DM's thesis. RE: The Queen's Gambit - Drunk Monk - 12-15-2020 spoiler alert |