Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 6
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Another of my Fischer Random games. I played as white against a 1500 rated bot.
The middle game got very clogged up and tense as I was in trouble from black's queen. But I was able to fend him off until I opened up the position by flanking black from the right-hand side of the board at move 23. Then things got beautiful at move 36-39 where I found a way to pin black's queen to the king. The bot made a few obvious mistakes which made the game easier for me than it should have been. But black was being very tricky with his queen in the early game. I thought I would lose until I decided to flank around the other side of the board.
The early game in Fischer Random can get very tricky as there are many unusual ways to blunder pieces or cripple your position. In this game black found some sneaky queen play that put me on the back foot.
I've been playing a lot of chess lately.
I don't play classical chess. I prefer Fischer Random since the games are much more unique and creative.
My rating at Fisher Random is around 1600. I would like to reach 2000. Best human in the world at Fischer Random is 2800, Hikaru Nakamura.
Here's an interesting game I played recently against a 1600-rated bot. I had the white pieces.
Move 28 is where it got really tricky. I had to take like 20 minutes to crunch that one move because one inaccuracy would have cost me the game. Even though black was down a lot of material, black's position was so rock-solid around the king that it was hard to see how to break it open. Black's king was impossible to reach and all his pieces were guarding each other and his double bishops were threatening all my passing pawns. It was an unusual game as I was pushing 4-6 passed pawns! My strategy was to flood the zone with pawns. Don't underestimate the power of pawns.
I'm really into weird creature design. This video showcases all the weird creatures in the Star Wars universe.
This tiny little scene from Return Of The Jedi outside Jabba's Palace with Worrt is one of my favorite scenes in all of Star Wars. It's so understated yet more evocative and inspiring than mountains of bombastic CGI crap. When I saw this scene as a kid is was like discovering a new world:
(The video works, but on YouTube only)
Just from that one 10 second scene I could know that I love creature design. One scene is all it can take to discover your life purpose.
You can turn creature design into a life purpose. You could make a whole YT channel devoted to how you design weird alien creatures and use that as your portfolio and parlay that into a career as a creature design expert for film, games, etc. What a fun career that would be! What is stopping you from becoming the world's leading creature design expert?
Be bold with your life purpose and think outside standard career choices.
One simple duck is the best thing that's happened to chess since Fischer Random.
The genius of the duck revolutionizes chess.
It's amazing how these machines were designed and built before the computer age.