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Tuesday — February 14, 2012The Chess-Board
by Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
My little love, do you remember,
Ere we were grown so sadly wise,
Those evenings in the bleak December,
Curtained warm from the snowy weather,
When you and I played chess together.
Checkmated by each other’s eyes?
Ah! still I see your soft white hand
Hovering warm o’er Queen or Knight;
Brave Pawns in valient battle stand;
The double Castles guard the wings;
The Bishop, bent on distant things,
Moves, sliding, through the fight.
Our fingers touch; our glances meet,
And falter; falls your golden hair
Against my cheek; your bosom sweet
Is heaving. Down the field, your Queen
Rides slow, her soldiery all between,
And checks me unaware.
Ah me! the little battle’s done:
Dispersed is all its chivalry.
Full many a move, since then, have we
‘Mid Life’s perplexing chequers made,
And many a game with Fortune played;—
What is it we have won?
This, this at least,—if this alone:
That never, never, never more,
As in those old still nights of yore
(Ere we were grown so sadly wise),
Can you and I shut out the skies,
Shut out the world and wintry weather,
And, eyes exchanging warmth with eyes,
Play chess, as then we played together!
Credits: alinalami.com
In chess, bigamy is acceptable, but monarchy is absolute.
— Garry Kasparov, How Life Imitates Chess, on promoting a pawn into another queen
This on the other hand is the Fritz Chess Benchmark result for my office Windows XP SP3 laptop running on Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 @2.20 GHz 2GB RAM.
The result shows it’s 5.96 times faster than a Pentium 3 1.0GHZ machine, and computing at 2,860 Kilo Nodes per second.
What about your machine? Let’s see that by downloading and running this Fritz Chess Benchmark application.
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List of Chess Openings Named After People →
Okay, that’s interesting….
(Source: listsonwikipedia)
This post was reblogged from List of lists on Wikipedia.
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Fritz Chess Benchmark results for my computer at home running Windows XP SP3 on an Intel Centrino Duo 1.6GHz (1GB RAM).
So basically it uses two CPU’s and it’s 4.16 times faster than a Pentium 3 1.0GHz machine, and it is able to compute at 1,997 Kilo nodes per second.
What about your machine? Let’s see that by downloading and running this Fritz Chess Benchmark application.
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Fritz
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