I came across this amusing quote on the internet from Axel Smith’s book “Pump Up Your Rating”: “In Lund we have an expression for a player who never improves: a mummy. It is not said in a negative sense; the mummy enjoys chess. The romanticizing of the expression has even gone so…
Theory
Norbury goes Ape, explorations of the Reverse Polish
Allergy advice: may contain cheap tactics. In this article Ken Norbury looks at the Reverse Polish/Orang Utan. Forking Good Game This game is somewhat flawed and has more to do with psychology than `best move chess` From the beginning Black is intent upon drawing his opponent into a fist fight where crude and nasty tactics…
How to Play Chess like a Baboon…. And Win! (Part 2)
Once again Norbury plays over a dozen consecutive pawn moves, before bothering to touch a piece. His sloppy style of play delivers the results in a decidedly imperfect game, that is instructive nonetheless.
How to Play Chess like a Baboon…. And Win! (Part 1)
Here is a fine of example of Ken Norbury’s method of winning games by playing bad moves. More chess mayhem from Ken soon.
Norbury's Nine Pawn Game
This is what Ecclesall player Ken Norbury has been up to lately. Building on the lunacy first explored in “the Shuffleduck,” Ken sets out to prove that for the first dozen or so moves at least, the moving of pieces can be entirely avoided. Instead Ken seeks to push pawns only, in the manner of…