Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} How to Cheat at Chess Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Chess But Were Afraid to Ask by Wil William Hartston. William Roland Hartston (born August 12, 1947 in London ) is an English chess player and author. contents. William Hartston studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge . In 1973 he was awarded the title of International Master by FIDE . He won the British Championship in 1973 (after a playoff with Michael Basman ) and in 1975. His Elo rating is 2430 (as of August 2014), but he is listed as inactive because he has not played a rated game since 1987. Hartston achieved his highest rating of 2485 in January 1979. Hartston has also worked as a chess journalist for the BBC , among others , was a columnist for the Daily Express and wrote numerous chess books as well as popular science works. He was temporarily married to the chess grandmaster Jana Bellin . Tournament successes. Hastings 1972/73: 3rd place Sarajevo 1976: 1st place. National team. He played for the English team at the 1966 , 1970 , 1972 , 1974 , 1976 and 1978 Chess Olympiads . With the team he reached third place in Haifa in 1976 , in 1970 he was the most successful player on the third board in victories . He also took part in the European Team Championships in 1973, 1977, 1980 and 1983 and achieved third place as the best result in 1980 in Skara . societies. Hartston played for the University of Cambridge team . With this he took part in the European Club Cup in 1987/88, but failed in the first round at Bayern Munich , with Hartston losing to Stefan Kindermann with 0.5: 1.5. Hort stories: Wrong place wrong time. Your key to fresh ideas, precise analyses and targeted training! Everyone uses ChessBase, from the World Champion to the amateur next door. It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it. Start your personal success story with ChessBase and enjoy the game even more. 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Build and maintain your repertoire. Memorize it easily move by move by playing against the variation trainer. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > The ultimate chess experience every day, PlayChess.com welcomes 20,000 chess players from all around the world – from beginner to grandmaster. ONLINE SHOP. Opening Encyclopaedia 2021. The comprehensive theoretical reference work for beginners and pros alike. "It is not money I am after!" (Continued from part 1. ) He did not want money, but what did he want. Dear God, take this cup away from me, were my first thoughts. In such situations you just promise everything. The escalator went up, higher and higher, in seconds, yet the people around us noticed nothing. I had cold sweat on my brow but my thoughts were still wandering to my chess colleagues. I tried to imagine them in this precarious situation and almost had to laugh. My threatening fellow passenger had long blond hair, just like Tony Miles, though he probably did not play chess. I also noticed two cheap golden earrings but most marked was the smell of cheap perfume. The escalator was already approaching its destination — something had to happen. My grey cells were working like in an exciting game of chess. I gathered all my courage, overcame my disgust and decided to take a great risk. "Oh yes, I'm like you. I live nearby in the Westhotel. We can stay together the whole night in my room!" Spot on! "All right, please call me Tom but do not cheat me!" It was a serious warning. But why did he pick me of all people? Did I have such an attraction to the male sex? We left the subway and crossed a dark park towards the hotel. Tom became impatient and began to grope me with his free hand — where , I'll spare my readers. The short way to the hotel seemed endless. I forced myself to think logically. Where would I have the best chance of freeing myself from Tom without physical harm? First of all, the sharp blade must go. After all, my life was at stake! The reception in the hotel lobby — I knew that offered the best opportunity. I had to attract the attention of the staff. When we arrived, I loudly asked for a wrong room number. The receptionist gave me the room key that I had demanded with English serenity and politeness — one that belonged to another guest. Had he noticed? Apparently not. With a "Good evening, Sir" he bid me farewell. No help in sight! Now was definitely time for action! I was still quite athletic in those days and could manage eight metres at shot put. A rapid turn, and — boom! — with the room key in my hand I aimed at his chin. Bull's eye, the blow had found its goal, Tom lay unconscious on the floor! The employees behind the reception were finally awake. But, oh dear, three men jumped on me and overpowered me. The police didn't take long to arrive. Tom was still lying on the floor, probably in the realm of his unfulfilled erotic dreams. Luckily, he was still holding the sharp knife in his hand — the evidence of my innocence. I was the first to be questioned, and I think the English policemen saw a Czech passport for the first time in their lives. Anyway, they stared at the document in disbelief. With the letter of invitation of the English chess organizers I was able to explain why I stayed in the hotel. And then the liberation! Tom was well-known to the police for his unusual attacks. Afterwards, the bobbies were very helpful and advised me to change hotels. But my peace was gone and the whole night I lay awake. I couldn't get "call me Tom, but please don't cheat me" out of my mind. How could I continue the match with Tony? When I sat down at the chess board the next day, I was still shaking all over. Tony must have sensed that something unusual had happened. "That is London for you, Vlastimil" was his brief, laconic commentary. He was fair. "We can choose to make our match interesting as a show." An offer for which I was very grateful. I love being a spectator at Christopher Street Day, but I hate sexual assaults. Tony left us and the chess scene way too soon. A pity! He was the first English Grandmaster and, for me, also the strongest English grandmaster in his day. Thanks to him chess was more appreciated in England and the interest in the game exploded. He became a role model for a young chess generation that admired him and was inspired by him. What can be said about Miles' difficult relationships with Raymond Keene and Nigel Short? It's still a mystery to me. Each of the three actors has and certainly had his own version of the differences. For an outsider it is therefore very difficult to form an opinion. But one thing is clear: Tony conceded his number one position in England only very reluctantly to Short. And his idea that Raymond Keene wanted to kill him is certainly not the product of a healthy soul. Was it the beginning of his paranoia? His general condition deteriorated noticeably. As a result, he no longer had much success in chess and his Elo rating declined. At the Biel Open in 1993, he made a very sad impression. One day, I saw him sitting all alone at the table in the big dining room. In front of him was a tray with untouched food. In short intervals he changed places at the table. On one side he spoke with a deep bass voice, on the other side he answered himself with a high soprano voice. I wonder what was going through his head. The scenes of his marriage? He certainly needed psychiatric help. During his peak Tony won many strong international open tournaments. Oddly enough, things did not go so well in the Interzonals. Geurt Gjissen, the well-known international arbiter, reminded me that in Tilburg 1985, Miles had shared first place with Hübner and Korchnoi. ISBN 13: 9781857440997. How to Cheat at Chess: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Chess, but Were Afraid to Ask. Hartston, William Roland. 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By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Series / Columbo. Columbo is a long-running Mystery of the Week series starring Oscar Nominee Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a blue-collar beat-down Los Angeles homicide detective whose clownish antics, unkempt looks and cheap cigars hide an exceptionally sharp mind. The series is composed of 69 TV-movies, beginning with every third episode of the '70s The NBC Mystery Movie and running through a '90s revival. According to Word of God — a.k.a. prolific TV production partnership Levinson and Link — the film Les Diaboliques (1955) and its shabby inspector, Alfred Fichet, was the major initial inspiration for the character. Also Porfiry Petrovich, the similarly klutzy Russian inspector from Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment , and G. K. Chesterton's humble Father Brown . Lieutenant Columbo first failed to appear in the short story "May I Come In": the story ends with the detective knocking at the door. "May I Come In" was then adapted as an episode of the TV anthology series The Chevy Mystery Show entitled "Enough Rope" (with Bert Freed playing Columbo) which in turn became the play Prescription Murder , with the detective character evolving into a more significant supporting character each time. Eventually the play would be adapted into the Columbo pilot. Columbo is the first and most famous Reverse Whodunnit (better known as the "open mystery"): For as much as the first quarter of each episode, the audience sees the motive set up and then actually watches as each guest villain tries to execute the perfect murder via an intricate — and often high-tech — endgame. Columbo himself then appears in the second act, as the first police presence on the scene. And (with very rare exceptions) the audience is left wondering not "whodunnit" but "howzhegonnagetim" (or, as the show's creators dubbed it, "howcatchum"). Viewers who missed the first fifteen minutes could pick out the murderer pretty quickly anyway; it was usually either Robert Culp, Jack Cassidy or Patrick McGoohan (a close friend of Falk's, who also directed 5 episodes). Barring that, it was the wealthy and/or brilliant character being the most smug about it. Notable one-offs included Richard Kiley, Robert Conrad, Robert Vaughn, Donald Pleasence, Ruth Gordon, Janet Leigh and Leonard Nimoy. Oh, and the first Mystery Movie episode ("Murder by the Book") was penned by then-fledgling screenwriter Steven Bochco and directed by some random wunderkind named Steven Spielberg. Albeit deliberately structured more like the formal "drawing-room mystery" (think Agatha Christie) than anything like a realistic police procedural, the show was generally an exception to Conviction by Contradiction: While an Encyclopedia Brown -style clue may first trigger Columbo's suspicions, the real chase is his attempts to get enough evidence for an arrest, often by exasperating/panicking the perp themselves into saying or doing something incriminating. Columbo was the master of Perp Sweating (i.e. shredding the Constitution, albeit totally under the Rule of Cool at all times). Though he generally settles on his horse from the outset, he never lets on, instead worming his way into their confidence via fawning adulation, begging their assistance as he "solves" the case. Usually he forces them to weave a huge web of lies until he can finally Pull the Thread — justified because he's always right. (Interestingly, while the Lieutenant is clearly over-the-top, he's arguably using a more true-to-life interview technique than the angry, confrontational interviews common in straight police dramas; flattery and interest in the other person's concerns are a more effective way of obtaining information— which is also why they have been ruled unconstitutional in Supreme Court case-law due to their also being unreliable.) A Throw It In! accident during the filming of Prescription: Murder led to the show's most signature mannerism: after each interview with the suspect, Columbo begins to leave, the perp begins to relax — and then the Lieutenant returns to ask a significant and leading question, prefaced by a sheepish "Just one more thing, sir. " Columbo's other trademarks are his weatherbeaten raincoat, a cheap cigar, his broken-down car, his refusal to carry a gun (because of course perps always surrender quietly when the jig is up), and constant references to The Ghost, his never-seen wife, Mrs. Columbo. Later, in an interesting subversion of Executive Meddling, the network tried to force a permanent sidekick on him. He got one: A shiftless, droopy Basset Hound that is most often seen being instructed to stay in the car. Another mild running gag was Columbo's first name, never revealed (everyone calls him "Lieutenant" instead). An early episode has him showing an ID badge with the name "Frank", a fact only visible with video technology not available when the episode first aired. Word of God confirmed that this was never intended to be the character's canon name. (In the 1970's, famously, a trivia book author invented the first name "Philip" as a copyright trap. When the answer appeared in the game Trivial Pursuit , he sued for plagiarism. He lost the case, as the defense argued that they had merely been doing research.) Given all this, Columbo can be easily read as an expression of class struggle within the justice system. The perps are almost always powerful, privileged, and well-educated, while Columbo is, to put it mildly, not. Then again, the series creators have said that they weren't trying to send any message, just felt that Columbo would be more interesting as a fish out of water. Columbo's prop-laden buffoonishness is usually considered an act, but if so, it is an act he never admits to. Villains routinely accuse Columbo of putting up a false front, which he promptly disavows even more humbly. In Prescription: Murder , a murderous psychologist provides a (seemingly) perfect analysis of the Lieutenant: He believes he can't get by on his looks or charm, so he has turned his disadvantages into advantages. In "The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case", Columbo remarks that he knows he isn't the smartest guy around and attributes his success to merely working harder, thinking longer, and looking closer than anyone else would. Columbo has solved every case put before him onscreen (he sometimes claims that he only solves about a third total, but this could well be part of the humility act) and hasn't gotten his man only once — in which case the perp was dying anyway. In true classic mystery fashion, each episode wraps up with the Lieutenant confronting his prey with his train of deduction, culminating in the vital clue; the perp may not confess, but they know, and the viewer knows, they have been beaten. To show the subsequent arrest and trial might be interesting in a lot of cases, but would be entirely superfluous in all of them. Columbo's last appearance was in the 2003 TV movie Columbo Loves the Nightlife note The character's final filmed appearance was a short in- character promo for Alias in which he visits their facilities at the behest of Michael Eisner, although Columbo Loves the Nightlife was the final proper episode. . A "finale" TV movie was planned and written, but ABC refused to insure it due to Falk's age and subsequent declining mental health, and Falk died in 2011 with the last script still in limbo. In England, Dirk Benedict had done the case of Prescription: Murder in a small run of theater, as the title detective. Columbo was also the primary inspiration for the British Locked Room Mystery series Jonathan Creek . The entire series has been out on DVD for many years, and a large Blu-Ray box set in a deluxe wooden cigar box type package was released — in Japan. The series is also available on the streaming service Peacock. "Just one more trope, sir. ": Absence of Evidence: In "The Most Crucial Game", Paul Hanlon gets caught when Columbo found that the phone call the killer claimed to have made at 2:29 pm in his stadium box (and recorded by a bug on the line) lacked the sound of the half-hour chime of the anniversary clock in the box . Absolute Cleavage: The photographer in "Identity Crisis" has a top that is split to her stomach. Naturally, they have her bend over a few times. Accidental Murder: The killer in "Death Lends a Hand" punched his victim in the face in a rage, not intending to kill her, but the punch caused her to fall over and die from head trauma. Vanessa Farrow is physically accosted by ex-husband Tony Galper when he finds out that she's having a relationship with his loanee Justin Prince. Vanessa pushes him away in defense but he falls onto a glass coffee table hard and dies from the broken glass. Robert Costanzo (best known as Harvey Bullock from Batman: The Animated Series ) has a cameo in "Columbo Goes to the Guillotine", playing a bar owner who happens to be a retired police sergeant. Costanzo was a police officer before he became an actor. Despite being best known for her role as the victim in Psycho , Janet Leigh was in a large number of musicals and dance films. Her character in "Forgotten Lady" had nearly the same acting history(seemingly excluding a horror movie role) From "Murder with Too Many Notes", Billy Connolly plays film conductor Finlay Crawford, both names taken from one of his comedy routines about names he finds annoying. Actually rather rare for the celebrity killers, but Johnny Cash, Janet Leigh and William Shatner all did this with their characters. Peter Falk was also quite prone to doing this himself; despite being typecast in the role he was never unable to get other work, but he loved playing the character so much that he would do appearances in- character frequently, the most famous being Dean Martin's roast ofFrank Sinatra and the promo for the TV series Alias . Paul Gerard from "Murder Under Glass" is quite a charming person to be around. Too bad he was extorting from restaurants and killed Vittorio Rossi to keep this quiet, and was more than willing to kill Columbo. Joe Devlin from "The Conspirators" is a poet who is quite social and pleasant in nature. Too bad he's also an IRA terrorist using all this as a cover to raise money to buy weapons. Columbo even goes out drinking with him two separate times. Rudy Strasse, from "No Time to Die" is close. Unfortunately, he's already quite unhinged and beyond that point, but does show signs. Eric Prince from "Ashes to Ashes" in spite of murdering to cover up his grave robbing in his funeral home. When Columbo figures out he cremated the victim in lieu of a retired war veteran, Eric asks politely if he should ride in the police cruiser, or with Columbo. They both casually walk to Columbo's car; Eric is at ease with his fate. Cigarette machines and cigarettes costing 60 cents a pack in "Identity Crisis". Fake fireplaces with a heater, fan and cheap orange plastic ribbons, as mentioned in "Dead Weight" — yeah, those actually existed. They've long been replaced by far more sophisticated heating units that better mimic the appearance of a fireplace. "Fade in to Murder" involves an actor who steals various goods from the studio prop department to commit his crime — jacket, stocking mask, and a gun with bullets. Rather odd that a studio — which films TV shows, mostly — would have real guns and live ammunition on hand, instead of prop guns designed to chamber blanks which wouldn't likely even take actual ammunition, let alone fire it. "Columbo Goes to College" has Columbo demonstrating the murder using a pistol loaded with live ammo in the college parking garage. Is he nuts? Considering Columbo's methods and the fact that many of his cases lack much in the way of physical evidence, several of those Columbo has arrested would likely have been found not guilty if they had a good lawyer. A fan joke states that this is the precise reason why Columbo hasn't received a promotion in decades. That said, many suspects have a habit of confessing when they are arrested and several others would have their reputations ruined even if they are, in the legal sense of the term, innocent. There's also the fact he is the rank of Lieutenant yet is out doing the same grunt work that a basic detective might be doing, without even a partner for backup. One has to wonder why he isn't commanding the Homicide squad instead? Perhaps he is successfully avoiding The Peter Principle, because he actually likes working cases better than administration. (Seriously, could you imagine a guy like Columbo trying to command a squad of detectives?) Because of the back and forth battle of wits that usually constitutes an episode, Columbo usually nails his culprit by outwitting them and setting them up — usually to the tune of having the evidence, but needing them to confirm it somehow. However, because of this, he often ends up using trickery or even outright coersion to get his final piece of evidence — which would make that evidence fall apart fairly quickly in court — including blatantly legal-adjacent tactics like intentionally using falsified evidence or arresting the culprit on false pretenses, on the gamble that in reacting to the shoddy arrest they will do something that allows him to make a real one. In "Mind over Mayhem", he outright frames the culprit's son for murder with partially fabricated evidence on the hope that in doing so he will get the culprit to confess to the real crime. Works well as Fridge Logic as to why Columbo often tries to bring the murderer to admit to his or her own guilt. Several times, it appears that the murderer will be convicted only because he or she has given up on trying to deny it after the final confrontation with Columbo. On many occasions throughout the series, Columbo is called in to investigate a missing person case, before it's even been established that a murder has occurred. "Murder Under Glass" features blowfish poison used as the murder weapon, which kills the victim in about a minute. In reality, it'd have taken the man hours, possibly even a full day to die, and that's IF he died considering that proper medical treatment would probably have saved his life. He wouldn't have collapsed and died that fast. Subverted in "Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health". The fatal dose of nicotine sulfate, administered by Wade Anders to Budd Clarke by inserting a few drops into one of his Victory King cigarettes, probably would kill a man as fast as was shown in the episode. Obviously, Wade may have added a little more poison than necessary in order to guarantee that it would work. On the flip side, while lawyers greatly prefer physical evidence, there is no legal requirement for it in order to bring a conviction. A skilled prosecutor could convince a jury that circumstantial evidence like those examples cited prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty. How to Cheat at Chess: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Chess But Were Afraid to Ask by William Hartston. Hooray! You've discovered a title that's missing from our library. Can you help donate a copy? If you own this book, you can mail it to our address below. You can also purchase this book from a vendor and ship it to our address: Better World Books Amazon More Bookshop.org. When you buy books using these links the Internet Archive may earn a small commission. Benefits of donating. 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