Phil Colville

squash!, Nordic noir, chess, maths, veggie, walk, don't talk, diy, retired :)

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@pickover Ignore the line segment in the middle of the diagram. What is left is a Pentagon with sum of interior angles=540, hence x=125.5 and y=52.5.

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@itssobhytime Good spot Amanda. I wonder how squash players outside the top ten would have responded? I mean the guy wrenching physical demands of the sport with, relatively, very small material rewards. Makes you think🤔

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@chess24com Nxf6 R somewhere,
Nh5 Rg8,
f6 bristles with threats

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@robertfranciss2 @BraddrofliT Weren't the founding fathers unwelcome illegal immigrants? Some of those Trump wants departed have given their entire lives to your country, paid their taxes and helped improve the US economy through hard work. Where do you draw the line?

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@ImShahinyan Safe moves like castles look good. I think the poster wants a demonstration that Bf6 fails....
Nf4 Bxf4, Rxe4+ K moves, Qxf6 .. The point. X-ray attack on e4 from Re8.

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@yoitsshaan @TheMaineWonk Alas the are no winners in war.. Everyone loses including helpless aged, women, children and land. So the word 'victory' irks me. Veterans/remembrance day is to the point and forever poignant. As for your great leader, he lacks sensitivity as much as he lacks intelligence.

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@JohnathonWillow @HansMokeNiemann Go and read history .. What you describe is what many great people become when ill in later life.

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@HugoSerin1991 @HansMokeNiemann You are sadly ignorant. BF single handedly took down Soviet chess domination. Carlsen is a great player, maybe the greatest, but the phrase 'on the shoulders of giants' has never been more apt and I'm sure Carlsen would agree.

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@EmilSutovsky I believe that Mozart wore denims in his teens😳😳

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@bennettchess I meant Bh3

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@bennettchess Bh6, gxh6 Rf4 threatening to bring in the Q ??

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@GMIgorSmirnov Yeah I got that in about 90 seconds after realising that K must move off the f file. .... which gives the first move away (Kg4) then everything drops into place due to pins, double attacks etc.

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@GMIgorSmirnov None of those specifically.. I lose almost all my blitz games by a single blunder.. Which can occur in any phase of the game

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@Suzierizzo1 Biggest mistake..
Which T?
Trump, Tariffs, The American electorate ...?

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@GMIgorSmirnov Lovely!
Observations... Black king has only one defender (rook) which is not very active. White has FOUR pieces in a potential strike: Q, R, B, N. A nasty discovered check is a distraction for white. Black's back rank is weak (undeveloped)
Finding Nf6+ is stunning!!

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@WhoSoEverElias @GMIgorSmirnov Not quite.. Qe4+ spoils the mate in 2.
Clue.. You must keep the white king on a dark square.

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@JdubAndrew @GMIgorSmirnov Almost... It has to be h8. If Kg8 then Qd5+ spoils the mate in 2

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@OptimusPri97731 @GMIgorSmirnov No you were right with Kh8.
If Qc6 then Qc8 is mate

[Phil Colville @Lesbegue]

@Damaan4u33 Or...??

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@machodumbo @ImShahinyan Rg5 Kf7 rook harassment.
You need to go all the way.. Rg2 no escape this time