Friday Chess Blogging: Second Edition

I really enjoy reading your blog, it always has great insight. But I am very frustrated with the media’s lack of questions to the presidential candidates about global warming. Now that it is down to just a few candidates I would think that this would be an issue.

Live Earth just picked up this topic and put out an article ( http://www.liveearth.org/news.php ) live earth is also asking why the presidential candidates are not being solicited for their stance on the issue of the climate change. I just saw a poll on www.EarthLab.com that says people care a lot about what their next leader thinks of global warming. Does anyone know of another poll or other results about this subject?

Here is the page where I saw the EarthLab poll: http://www.earthlab.com/life.aspx. This is a pretty legit website; they are endorsed by Al Gore and the alliance for climate protection and they have a carbon footprint calculator. Does anyone have a strong opinion about this like I do? No matter what your political affiliation is or who you vote for this is an important issue for our environment, our economy and for homeland security.

In the past you've used another playback system that had good features that this one seems to lack, esp. automatic playback at various speeds and showing the game score. What happened? Expense or something? Without that it's harder to kibitz your always interesting efforts, even when you should've ended up in the toilet, as in this game.

A lot of interesting fireworks gathered around your K4, that would've been hard enough to figure out in a slow over-the-board game. But it seems to me that when you put that second Kt on your K4, Black should have kept on exchanging with ...RXN. After you play RxR, Black is the Exchange down but only temporarily, because then he can play Q-QB3 and he's got everything covered while you don't, and suddenly you're looking at losing the whole store because of the king-sized pressure he's exerting on the light-colored long diagonal, meaning your Queen and the mating square KN2 in front of your K, with you having no light-squared B to help out, and your other B still sitting impotent on the back row and on the wrong-colored squares anyhow.

Sorry. I see an error in my last comment. Told you this was a hard game to deal with, and I've haven't been clear-headed lately. But the theme is the same. Black's pin along the long diagonal, along with the other one on the K-file, has to be lethal.