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Dress Pr0n For The 'Ettes:

We often think of empire fashion as white or muted colors, but there were plenty of bright hues! This c1810 evening dress was highly fashionable. In 1809 the bobbinet machine was invented, making it possible to create large pieces of fine net like this pink overlay. Via @V_and_A pic.twitter.com/DBFaUuyDwJ

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Seasons Greetings

Greetings From Albania

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Solutions Update

Beginner Problem - White To Play

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Pretty straightforward:

1.Bxf6+ Qxf6
2.Qxf6+ Ke8
3.Bg6#

Intermediate Problem - Black To Play

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This one was way easier than I thought it was originally, so it's probably closer to beginner than intermediate:

1...Qxb2+
2.Kxb2 Nc4+
3.Kb1

or 3. Kc2 Na3#

3... Na3# 0-1

Advanced Problem - Black To Play

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1...Bg2+

Bet you all aaw this one.

2.Kg1 Be4+!

This is the non-obvious move. Why move the bishop here and not, say f3? Well, because of the move that's coming next.

3.Kf1 Bf5
4.Qe2

This is the only way e1 can be made a flight square for the hing. Because there's no way to stop the check at h3. Not that this will help.

4...Bh3+
5.Ke1 Rg1#

Morphy missed this, a forced mate in 5, but won the game anyway:

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bc5 5. O-O O-O 6. Ne5 Re8 7. Nc6 dc6 8. Bc4 b5 9. Be2 Ne4 10. Ne4 Re4 11. Bf3 Re6 12. c3 Qd3 13. b4 Bb6 14. a4 ba4 15. Qa4 Bd7 16. Ra2 Rae8 17. Qa6 Qxf3 18. gxf3 Rg6+ 19. Kh1 Bh3 20. Rd1 Bg2+ 21. Kg1 Bxf3+ 22. Kf1 Bg2+ 23. Kg1 Bh3+ 24. Kh1 Bxf2 25. Qf1 Bxf1 26. Rxf1 Re2 27. Ra1 Rh6 28. d4 Be3 White resigns

There's a good discussion in this YouTube video.

Hope to see you all next week!

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Note: that cryptic line of letters and numbers you see underneath each board diagram is a representation of the position in what is known as "Forsyth-Edwards Notation", or F.E.N. It's actually readable by humans. Most computer applications nowadays can read FEN, so those of you who may want to study the position, you can copy the line of FEN and paste into your chess app and it should automatically recreate the position on its display board. Or, Windows users can just "triple click" on it and the entire line will be highlighted so you can copy and paste it into your chess app.

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So that about wraps it up for this week. Chess thread tips, suggestions, bribes, rumors, threats, and insults may be sent to my yahoo address: OregonMuse little-a-in-a-circle yahoo dott com.

posted by OregonMuse at 05:35 PM

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