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SOLVED: "Play Chess With Turk"
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MageSteff
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 		INFO: Steinitz Biolgraphy
Here is some bioraphical info on Steinitz. Don't know that it will help get us anywhere, but one never knows:

http://www.logicalchess.com/info/trivia/s.html

All Emphasis is mine.

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Steinitz, Wilhelm (1836-1900)
Steinitz took 6th place in the London 1851 tournament. After the tournament, he challenged the 5th place finisher to a match. Steinitz won. It would be another 31 years and 25 matches before anyone could defeat him. He won prize money in every tournament he ever played in except his last tournament, London 1899. The first recognized world champion who won the first official world championship match against Zuckertort in 1886. Steinitz started badly, being 1-4 down, but finally won with a 12.5 - 7.5 score. His daughter sold programs and photographs to spectators during the New York phase of the world championship match to earn a few extra dollars for the family. They couldn't afford a winter coat for her as she stood shivering in the vestibule in the cold January weather. He held the world chess championship for 27 years. After he lost his title, he showed signs of mental illness. He challenged God to a match and occasionally beat Him at chess with pawn odds. He believed he could move chess pieces through mental telepathy. He imagined he could draw energy from the earth and emit electrical currents. He was once held against his will in an insane asylum in Moscow in 1897. He had the delusion that he was phoning somebody in New York. He was sent to the asylum protesting violently. However, he enjoyed the food and played chess with other inmates. He stayed a week. He died in the East River mental asylum on New York's Ward Island, penniless, in 1900. When he died he left a wife and two small children destitute. He once spit on Blackburne and Blackburne hit him.


http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/movingup/labelvi.htm
East River Mental Asylum on Ward Island changed names several times:
Quote:
Manhattan State Hospital and then the Manhattan Psychiatric Center


SPEC: Could this be where Reggie is? After kicking it around a bit in #acheron, I resigned to the guys belief that Reggie would be kept close to NRU.
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Ehsan
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 		Re: Excuse me if this is a duplicate
Kimbean wrote:
But everywhere here I see everyone stopping at d4. We were just in Yahoo chess and he said 8 moves:

e4
e5
Nf3
Nf6
d4
d5
Nc3
Nc6


Ah.. Double King Pawn game with Petroff Defence, Steinitz Variation mixed up with a Scotch Four Knights.. never seen that one before! Notice that all the moves are mirrored.. if Turk wants to play again, try answering him with mirrored moves..

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MageSteff
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 		Re: Excuse me if this is a duplicate
Ehsan wrote:

Ah.. Double King Pawn game with Petroff Defence, Steinitz Variation mixed up with a Scotch Four Knights.. never seen that one before! Notice that all the moves are mirrored.. if Turk wants to play again, try answering him with mirrored moves..


Actually in #acheron we have decided the new strategy should be "Let the Wookie Win!"

(mis quoted movie quote StarWars)

Chewy: (making upset noise)
C3PO: Why is he getting so upset?
Han: He hates to lose, you should let him win.
C3PO: But R2 is winning! No one worries about upsetting a droid.
Han: Droids don't pull peoples arms off when they lose.
C3PO: R2 new stratagy: Let the Wookie win.
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MageSteff
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 		Per puzzle section solved:
Well the speculation that Reggie was replaying the Kasparov/Deep Blue game #2 was right on the money.

MK played out all 73 moves, and got the prize. See solve in puzzle thread.

Good team work everyone.
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 		And we didn't even have to let the wookie win... Wink
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That sounds like something HITLER would say!

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