darth_ender

N-8e

How on earth can your bishop capture at g5?  Did I make a mistake somewhere?  I have your bishop still on its starting square at f8.

Well, me resigning means you win, but I see that you want to win by checkmate.  I actually will not finish reading your post because I don't really want to cheat, as you mentioned.  But I will keep playing so you can win by mate.  But believe it or not, the one move you mentioned that I read to before stopping was my planned move were I to keep going.

G-3c

Ng5+

Boy, I think we know which news outlets Ryan McAvoy relies on.

Qb8+

I honestly think I'd rather resign than continue playing this game.  It's a pretty lost cause, and finding any strategy at all is just frustrating, as I see no road to even recoup any losses.

Ra-c1

Warbler said:

bkev said:

As someone who's closest friends identify as on the spectrum, and having a debatable place myself,  I do take some offense to Ender's self-righteous claim that Warb belongs there.  Or, rather, the way he presented it with no tact whatsoever.  Web diagnoses on these sorts of things are pathetic at best - as I would think a nurse would know.  Ender, you're using it as a way to discredit him in argumentative situations on the forum.  Seriously, listing the signs here?  As if to remind everyone else he's below you?

That's the sort of thing that, if you were genuinely curious, should have been addressed in private via PM or something.  

I understand you were trying to be polite, but all you've managed to do is cherry coat a condescending appraisal of Warbler.  I've a right to point out that this comes off as rude.

 bkev, I don't think Ender meant any offense and I didnt take any offense.  I think Ender knows that a 'web diagnoses' can only be considered an estimate, and that without knowing more about me, could very be incorrect.  I think he also knows that although he does have some knowledge about these things, he is technically not qualified to make an official diagnoses.  Ender has always come across as a nice person to me.   I don't think he said what he said to hurt my feelings or discredit me or remind me that I am below him.   

 Thank you, Warbler.  I am glad you took this in exactly the light I intended.  I think you are a great guy.  I'm sorry bkev took it so wrong.  He does have every right to tell me if I was rude, but I hope he understands that if it was rude, it was rude in a completely different way.  Again, I'm so glad you didn't see me as being rude.  I really was hoping not to hurt you, and if you took no offense, then I care far less what anyone else thinks.  :)

bkev said:

As someone who's closest friends identify as on the spectrum, and having a debatable place myself,  I do take some offense to Ender's self-righteous claim that Warb belongs there.  Or, rather, the way he presented it with no tact whatsoever.  Web diagnoses on these sorts of things are pathetic at best - as I would think a nurse would know.  Ender, you're using it as a way to discredit him in argumentative situations on the forum.  Seriously, listing the signs here?  As if to remind everyone else he's below you?

That's the sort of thing that, if you were genuinely curious, should have been addressed in private via PM or something.  

I understand you were trying to be polite, but all you've managed to do is cherry coat a condescending appraisal of Warbler.  I've a right to point out that this comes off as rude.

 I worried very much about this post and the offense it would cause, most especially to Warbler.  However, judging by how you took offense, you didn't understand my post very well.  Web diagnoses are very unreliable things, but I pointed that out myself and tried to emphasize that with TheBoost.  I cannot verify my "suspicions" (as I believe I identified them).  What's more, I never used it in a way to discredit Warbler.  If you read the comment, you will see that I was directing it towards Bingowings, not to discredit him, but to encourage him to be more sympathetic toward Warbler.  I did so with great hesitancy, but I really wanted people to be more sympathetic.  Maybe I didn't do it tactfully, but you have to understand that I wanted people to be kinder to Warbler.  It was a comment meant in his defense.  Please reread it and understand.

Nc3

S-4d

You probably won't  I still can't do much even after all that. S-6b

Bd2

Glad to see you back.

Bxe6

So the whole point for my earlier own pawn capture is pointless now.  Oh well.

P-d6

P-5d

Bxc4

Let's see if I can spice it up a bit.  Qxb2

Happy to oblige, I guess ;)

S-3c

Qc2

K-3a.  Still trying to find a useful strategy.  I think defense is essential for me at this point.  But you are wise to do the same, I'd say.

Having suicidal thoughts? ;)

Qe4

I suspect your chess skills are better than you realized.  I think you just made a blunder.  Just like I did in shogi and in my last chess game with Warbler.  This variant is interesting, but it appears the opportunity for taking your own pieces seldom comes up.  We haven't even been able to do so once this game.

K-4a

Man, I'm destroying you in the other game, but here I'm really impotent at this point.  We'll see if I can still pull this off.