Artwork: Chess Master
└ posted on Saturday, 4 February 2012, by Novil
As part of our feature “commissioned artwork of our characters drawn by other talented artists”, the Indonesian artist Dewitri Virika (Yuki Makimachi) drew the picture you can see above. It is titled “Chess Master”. I’m sure the chess players among our readers appreciate it the most.
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I’m open for suggestions for subjects that you’d like to see drawn in color. A new picture will be posted every second Saturday.
David just give up your little girl is smarter than you so yeah just lose -_-
@ DHJones:
Give up? He lost before he started and whoever drew/wrote this isn’t half bad themselves XD
I can’t even figure out half of the way the board is marked up. It’s encoded in some way that I can’t make sense of. Anyone care to help me out with a breakdown of what all that means?
Would love to see some Go / Wei-Qi / Baduk artwork!
I thought those were pools of blood at first, lol.
Interessante Stellung! Wer ist am Zug?
Interesting situation! Whose turn is it?
Actually, I don’t think there’s much white could do even if it were his turn.
@ Lunaroki:
If you look at David’s bubble (white) the lines in Red are all the possible moves he can make for a successful check. And Yuns’s bubble (black) effectively counters every move that David could possibly make. What I like about this picture is that Yuna can see more possible moves that David can make then he does! The red blotch is the path that Yuna can take to give David a checkmate.
Now if you want me to go more in depth and actually start naming squares ie. Queen’s Rook 1 to Queen 5… your on your own.
/chessnerd
Opps, my bad. I meant Queen’s Bishop 2 to Queen’s 5.
Well, his predicament isn’t as bad as some I’ve seen. If White moves his (8,3) rook to (7,3) he threatens a pawn. Black’s only king-threatening piece is her (4,4) knight, which is rooted in order to protect Black’s queen. Black’s (7,6) pawn is likewise fixed. No matter what move Black makes after that, either her king or her queen will be threatened on the next move, and there are very few ways to prevent the taking of at least one. However, in almost every scenario, White’s (8,3) rook will be sacrificed.
Personally, I think that a rook and a couple of pawns is still a good trade for taking out your opponent’s queen.
Unfortunately, he doesn’t see (8,3) to (7,3).
is this how you’re supposed to play chess, cause if it is, i don’t know how to play anymore XD
That girl is insane. She’s actually viewing the board upside down in her head! She’s playing black, but in her head, the black pieces are on top and the white ones are on the bottom…!
This is aside from the fact that she’s diagramming everything three moves out in her head, of course.
See, I never did figure out how to link board games with real life so I never bothered learning how the strategies for one medium could be relevant to the other. Besides, I think looking for patterns and roles to place people in (rather than thinking things through) is the first step to giving up personal responsibility for one’s actions and is on par with astrology. This isn’t to say that cultural conditioning doesn’t exist, and that people don’t run on action scripts. However, I strongly disagree with the idea that you can know another person based on what you think you might know about them.
Teguki wrote:
Actually, threatening the king is what un-roots the knight. See, after Rg3 (‘moving the rook to 7,3 ‘), as you suggest, (or almost any other move) black can do Ne2 (check). White has to react to that, with his king even, as he can’t take out the knight on that position, before he’d be able to take the queen, and in turn the queen takes white’s bishop (protecting the knight in turn).
Thus, white is in serious trouble.
If it’s white’s turn, he will have to do something about that knight’s attack first. Maybe moving the king into the corner or Re3 (move the rook to 5,3)? Still, black has so many ways left to attack…
Teguki wrote:
I don’t really see how g6 (7,6) is specially threat, as that structure is quite well protected by the rook on c7 (3,7) and the pawn itself is protected by the other one on h7 (8,7). If anything’s taken, the pawn retaliates and the rook moves in between the king and the threat, if anything follows up. I don’t quite get how you’d have tried to disassemble black’s position here.
personally if I was white I would go R(e,3) (defensive move),R(c,1) (balanced) or K(c,3) (aggresive move) this depends whether she is a defensive player or an aggresive player.
blacks moves are K(b,3) (double rock push) , R(e, 7 or 8) (rock push double knight mate) or my favorite Q(e,7) (threaten checkmate knight lure)
Strategy is learning your opponent’s tactics.
@ Gunndalf:
Whoops, I missed that.
Okay, if he moves his knight from (4,1) to (3,3), then both of the King-threatening knight’s moves can be countered. If she makes the move, he can take it either way. If she doesn’t, then my plan can continue as normal.
See, if White’s rook makes it to (7,6) then both the Black King and Queen are in direct line of sight (assuming neither have moved). Any move she makes to protect the King will ultimately get the Queen captured and possibly a few others too, but he almost certainly sacrifices the rook.
Unfortunately, he see’s none of these moves, and she would probably have gotten her Queen out of danger by then. However, the Black Queen would still unable to attack for at least 2-3 moves.
Then again, she’s probably better than many of the people I’ve played before, and would figure out a way to get past that offensive…
Teguki wrote:
…like taking the rook on 7,6 down, with the pawn on 8,7 ? 😀
Even if white moved his Knight to 3,3 I’d still have black move her knight to 5,2- it would come out as an exchange of pieces, getting the knight out of its pinned position.
WTF wrote:
I coincide with Re3, disagree with Rc1 (because of Ne2+) and what I think about Kc3 (you mean Nc3 I assume, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_notation ) I just answered.
On blacks side Nb3 and Re7 are cool, but not as cool as Ne2+, then I am unsure what move the sunglassed emoticon would be, and lastly Qe7 is brilliant for the threat and at least gets the knight out of being pinned. I’d probably have overlooked that, though, and lost against you. Want to play? 🙂
As for strategy, I disagree- it’s foiling your opponents tactics. 😉
Go white you can win!
@ Gunndalf:
Yep, and now there’s a massive hole in her defensive line. All he needs to do then is get the Black Queen to move out of the way.
Some people like to play it slow and safe, but I find that suicidal attacks from strong pieces can often work out well. The more the enemy has to defend their king, the fewer moves they can put into forming an offensive. She is obviously a very adept strategist, and I’d want to focus more on stopping her from attacking in the first place than trying to prepare for an attack.
Teguki – If I were black and you were white, and you’d offer me to take your rook and my pawn off the board (which is, in essence, the result of your proposed course of action), I’d just say thank you and commence winning ever so much faster.
Such ‘tactics’ would be an insult even to Romantic chess.
If you want to play this out, I offer a challenge; I have the same username on chess com.
What I love most about this picture… are the comments of people discussing the game and how they would play it XD
Is that Light Yagami she’s winnign against?
Ain’t that Light Yagami?