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This is the final position in a famous chess game between the great Paul Morphy and two very good amateur players. The game was supposedly played in a Paris opera house in 1858, and is now referred to as the "Opera Game" and/or "Morphy's Immortal". The amateur players who put their heads together were Duke Karl of Brunswick and Count Isouard, but they proved to be no match for Morphy.
The entire game, in algebraic notation, is as follows:
White: Paul Morphy
Black: Duke Karl and Count Isouard
Philidor Defense
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 d6
3. d4 Bg4
4. dxe5 Bxf3
5. Qxf3 dxe5
6. Bc4 Nf6
7. Qb3 Qe7
8. Nc3 c6
9. Bg5 b5
10. Nxb5 cxb5
11. Bxb5+ Nbd7
12. 0-0-0 Rd8
13. Rxd7 Rxd7
14. Rd1 Qe6
15. Bxd7 Nxd7
16. Qb8+ Nxb8
17. Rd8++ MATE
Despite having a significant disadvantage in material strength, Morphy won.
The series of sacrifices by Morphy enabled him to control the game positionally, leading to a checkmate of the Duke and Count in just 17 moves.
Original Caption: Fountain Square in Downtown Cincinnati Is a Public Square That Works for the City and Its People in a Myriad of Ways: Chess Game. in Background, Carew Tower (Left), Mabley and Carew Building (Right) 06/1973
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-10738
Photographer: Hubbard, Tom, 1931-
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Cincinnati (Hamilton county, Ohio, United States) inhabited place
Environmental Protection Agency
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"The pawn is the soul of chess.
... Pawns . . .
They are the very life of the game."
- ANDRÉ DANICAN PHILIDOR
This is one of several photos that I took with my iPhone 5s in Dec 2013, and I'm embarrassed to admit that I did almost no editing at all before deciding to upload it to the restricted set of "friends and family" photos on Flickr, ear the end of an exhausting multi-week project to upload some 40,000 photos that I had archived on my computer but never uploaded anywhere else ...
All I did with this batch of photos was to make a preliminary pass to eliminate about half of the images that were blurred, out of focus, or blocked by someone who decided to walk in front of my camera just as I was pushing the shutter button. So this particular photo (and all of its brethren uploaded to the iPhone Photos" set) were merely 1-star "candidate" photos that should have gotten several more passes of critical reviews before any decision was made to upload them. Interestingly, I had tentatively decided that the photo was worth a four-star rating -- but I had not done any cropping, horizontal/vertical adjustments or other color adjustments. It was way underexposed (apparently because the iPhone made its exposure setting by looking at the bright light on the street, rather than on the two men sitting at their makeshift chess table), and it was shot with the traditional "vertical" iPhone orientation, rather than the "horizontal" orientation that the scene really required. So I've now made the appropriate tweaks and edits, and have uploaded a better version of the photo.
Meanwhile, one of my loyal Flickr friends did me the honor, sometime in the last several days, of marking the photo as a "favorite." Under the circumstances, I've decided to make it a "public" photo. Who knows ... maybe it will grow on me if I keep looking at it. But for now, I think I still have to put it in the "loser" set on Flickr, among other losers for the year 2013...
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Whether you’re an amateur or professional photographer, it’s hard to walk around with a modern smartphone in your pocket, and not be tempted to use the built-in camera from time-to-time. Veteran photographers typically sneer at such behavior, and most will tell you that they can instantly recognize an iPhone photo, which they mentally reject as being unworthy of any serious attention.
After using many earlier models of smartphones over the past several years, I was inclined to agree; after all, I always (well, almost always) had a “real” camera in my pocket (or backpack or camera-bag), and it was always capable of taking a much better photographic image than the mediocre, grainy images shot with a camera-phone.
But still … there were a few occasions when I desperately wanted to capture some photo-worthy event taking place right in front of me, and inevitably it turned out to be the times when I did not have the “real” camera with me. Or I did have it, but it was buried somewhere in a bag, and I knew that the “event” would have disappeared by the time I found the “real" camera and turned it on. By contrast, the smart-phone was always in my pocket (along with my keys and my wallet, it’s one of the three things I consciously grab every time I walk out the door). And I often found that I could turn it on, point it at the photographic scene, and take the picture much faster than I could do the same thing with a “traditional” camera.
Meanwhile, smartphone cameras have gotten substantially better in the past few years, from a mechanical/hardware perspective; and the software “intelligence” controlling the camera has become amazingly sophisticated. It’s still not on the same level as a “professional” DSLR camera, but for a large majority of the “average” photographic situations we’re likely to encounter in the unplanned moments of our lives, it’s more and more likely to be “good enough.” The old adage of “the best camera is the one you have with you” is more and more relevant these days. For me, 90% of the success in taking a good photo is simply being in the right place at the right time, being aware that the “photo opportunity” is there, and having a camera — any camera — to take advantage of that opportunity. Only 10% of the time does it matter which camera I’m using, or what technical features I’ve managed to use.
And now, with the recent advent of the iPhone5s, there is one more improvement — which, as far as I can tell, simply does not exist in any of the “professional” cameras. You can take an unlimited number of “burst-mode” shots with the new iPhone, simply by keeping your finger on the shutter button; instead of being limited to just six (as a few of the DSLR cameras currently offer), you can take 10, 20, or even a hundred shots. And then — almost magically — the iPhone will show you which one or two of the large burst of photos was optimally sharp and clear. With a couple of clicks, you can then delete everything else, and retain only the very best one or two from the entire burst.
With that in mind, I’ve begun using my iPhone5s for more and more “everyday” photo situations out on the street. Since I’m typically photographing ordinary, mundane events, even the one or two “optimal” shots that the camera-phone retains might not be worth showing anyone else … so there is still a lot of pruning and editing to be done, and I’m lucky if 10% of those “optimal” shots are good enough to justify uploading to Flickr and sharing with the rest of the world. Still, it’s an enormous benefit to know that my editing work can begin with photos that are more-or-less “technically” adequate, and that I don’t have to waste even a second reviewing dozens of technically-mediocre shots that are fuzzy, or blurred.
Oh, yeah, one other minor benefit of the iPhone5s (and presumably most other current brands of smartphone): it automatically geotags every photo and video, without any special effort on the photographer’s part. Only one of my other big, fat cameras (the Sony Alpha SLT A65) has that feature, and I’ve noticed that almost none of the “new” mirrorless cameras have got a built-in GPS thingy that will perform the geotagging...
I’ve had my iPhone5s for a couple of months now, but I’ve only been using the “burst-mode” photography feature aggressively for the past couple of weeks. As a result, the initial batch of photos that I’m uploading are all taken in the greater-NYC area. But as time goes on, and as my normal travel routine takes me to other parts of the world, I hope to add more and more “everyday” scenes in cities that I might not have the opportunity to photograph in a “serious” way.
Stay tuned….
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"Chess Game under the Willows" by Boris Savluc, is released under an Attribution-NoDerivs CC license. You can use it in any way as far as you will credit the author - Boris Savluc, and link it to www.savluc.com/boris.
Read more about the Redbox Dollhouse on my blog www.jane-cherie.blogspot.com/2013/11/redbox-dollhouse.html
Serbian opposition leader Boško Obradović challenges the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić on a chess game in front of the Presidency building in Belgrade.
Fill glasses with whatever you like to drink and go forth and play. These were Appletini and Pomegranate mixers w/ vodka.
UPDATE: Hah!! I'm highly amused; Discover Magazine's blog just used this pic in an entry taking about the difference between Beer Pong and Beer Bong. I'm glad I could add my little part to end this ages-old argument. *laughs*
What happens when you forget you set the camera to Manual last time and was still set to 2sec exposure and you turned the flash on!
Processed with Affinity photo v2
"Your Move Old Chap" Ramsey Town Millennium Sculpture 52 in 2017 Week #36 Games (Chess)
Sculpture info here! :-
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Pawn - Interesting way to start a chess game with the King and Queen in the corners. Found in the Villas at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa
Saw these four convention attendees playing a game of chess and I asked to take their photo as it was such an odd sight.
Men playing a type of chess game in Labor Park, Dalian, China. #chess #game #dalian #china #laborpark #myvikingjourney #cotuong
Xiangqi, also called Chinese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in China, and is in the same family as Western chess, chaturanga, shogi, Indian chess and janggi. Also a popular pastime in Vietnam, where it is known as cờ tướng.