shoot this, piano player!!

February 8, 2005 9:42 PM

Last night, I watched François Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player. While looking for information on the movie today, I came across this website which features famous uses of the Giuoco Piano opening in chess. Yes, it is the only chess move I know, aside from losing....
posted by WC_Helmets (6 comments total)

Ha! I use that opening all the time when I play only to be exposed for the true amateur that I am. I have a good opening, no middle game or endgame to speak of.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 10:00 PM on February 8, 2005

Speaking of easy-to-search online chess databases, here's a fun NY Times article from last month about the effect databases are having on the creativity of the game:

It certainly has made things more difficult for the more innovative players. Before people started using databases, a player who came up with a new move in an opening might be able to use it several times before enough people found out about it to start preparing for it. Now innovations are known almost as soon as they are played. 'The profit maybe is very small,' Mr. Kasparov said. 'You can only use it one game.'
posted by mediareport at 10:09 PM on February 8, 2005

Yes, it is the only chess move I know, aside from losing....

I love it. Me too... in Western chess anyways. I'm just a little bit better in Chinese chess.
posted by halonine at 11:34 PM on February 8, 2005

chessgames.com is a great site. The front page has a nice tactics problem, with a link to the game it is from, every day.
posted by crunchburger at 5:38 AM on February 9, 2005

Now innovations are known almost as soon as they are played.

For all international grandmasters, this is very true. The rest of us, not so much.
posted by bingo at 3:13 PM on February 9, 2005

Now innovations are known almost as soon as they are played.

That's why more people are getting into random chess or blitz - less or no opportunity to use large variations.
posted by Leege at 8:27 PM on February 9, 2005