hello all,i am uploading after a long time. in this episode, Penny beats leonard in chess on her first attempt, and sheldon allows penny to sit on her spot! the episode was hilarious this is just a trailer and i don't own any rights!
I work at an after-school program, and some of the kids who are newer players call the pieces "horses", "towers", "this guy" (bishop), and "little guy" (pawn).
And later on Penny is able to match Sheldon at Tri Dimensional chess, which none of the others can do not even Howard who can match Sheldon in Three Person chess where Leonard has to constantly read the rules to work out what is going on.
No, the position as it was already entirely won for Penny to an extent at which any serious player would just resign, even ignoring the checkmate. I think that leonard just is awful at chess and his pretenses otherwise are somewhat pathetic
Penny fits into the group perfectly. No matter what they say , I firmly believe that the only difference is that Penny found her passion much later in her life, unlike the others. And It's alcohol.
When my friends played chess today I called the pieces those funny names, added baby for the pawns and mommy and daddy for the queen and king. Hilarious
The rook obviously. Look at the board, the queen and bishop are on the diagonal of A7. The rook at B1 prevents the king from moving either to B8 or B7. Similarly, the bishop prevents movement to A7. The knight simply finished the deal by checking A8 Edit : I switched conventions by accident in my first post and defined the black side as row 1.
This happened once with me when I was 8 years old and playing chess with my father. It wasn't my first game, of course, but it took me a few weeks to finally beat my father, and when he realised he has lost, he just knocked down all the pieces in frustration
For me it's a little sad, i started playing chess with my great aunt, i don't think of myself as a genius, exept for one thing, games of all type i always got expert at whatever game i played be this strategy or videogame like DS1 or Nioh or GoW , or the pantheon of Hollow Knight with all limitation at the same time, i did a lot of crazy challenge. When i was 6 i didn't knew i was this good, long story short after some time i practically wasn't losing any game of chess, until i found it boring, now that i'm older given opportunity i would have lowered my ability to continue playing with my great aunt, but i was little so i stopped. After some time my dad challenged me, and i got destroyed after so much winning, so i restarted playing chess 3/4 game every day in the afternoon, after some time i started winning some game, than more and more and more and more, and i got to that point again, my dad challenged me to win 10 game consecutively, and i won, the sadness whe he said to me "I guess i'm not your opponent anymore" destroyed all the fun i had with the game, i continued playing online some time even now but it just losed the magic, obviusly playing online i encountered a lot of good player but from that day it's rare to me to laugh while playing. And just like i said this story Is sad for mr
I did that with an ex-boyfriend of mine. He was trying to teach me chess we ended up playing a match he specifically told me he wouldn't go easy on me and I ended up winning not knowing the proper names (I sort of tuned them out when he was explaining and just listened to their moves). He then proceeded to pack all the pieces away (like Leonard did) when I called checkmate first claimed I didn't understand the game went on to then that he'd gone easy on me until he finally admitted I'd won. It was a bit of a blow to his ego.
She's said and done reallly stupid stuff before, even if it's in another way she wouldn't be as smart as them, her beating him in chess is a one off joke that doesn't mean anything
I wonder how high Penny's IQ is... I think she can actually be pretty smart, but because of her life kinda got screwed, she have taken another role. It is like
Mister Anthropy I know that! Ant thats why I might belive Penny have an higher IQ, than what you would belive... She just don't have the knowledge yet!
More proof of how Sheldon's view of the universe doesn't fall into reality. LOL Also, Penny is smarter than they think she is. She is able to think in multiple dimensions, something that Leonard is the most apt to do, but because she lives consistently in the real world, she does it better.
I’m no psychologist/psychiatrist, but I believe Sheldon could fit the bill for a perfectionist, even if it’s a tad extreme. This does make sense; as a theoretical physicist, he expects that every possible event in the universe can be broken down into an equation to determine the exact outcome. And in theory, that’s true, and it seems as though Sheldon is trying to do that. The problem is that, contrary to what he says, he doesn’t seem to grasp the nature of certain aspects of the world, which causes him to miscalculate his predictions. But rather than accepting he miscalculated, he clings on to his findings, wanting to be right when he simply isn’t. Take Penny for example. A simple, blonde country girl from Nebraska, raised on a farm, that doesn’t exactly sound like Einstein, especially to Sheldon, who thinks himself as Einstein 2.0. Except, in this example, Penny proves that in some cases, she actually is smarter than the gang. But how? How is that possible with the data Sheldon has? His premise is off and that’s what’s screwing him up. Rather than experimenting and testing his hypothesis (rather unbecoming of a Nobel), he just assumes the hypothesis is true. The exact same thing can apply to virtually anything in his life. Had he taken the time to actually be a scientist, he would’ve realized the flaws in his worldview, which is hilarious, seeing as he consistently like to point out other false worldviews. If only he could do that while talking to a mirror…
Penny is a visual and hands-on learner. I wish they didn't always make fun of that or have the other characters have a super complex when they were the ones teaching her and then get surprised when she actually learns stuff.
Penny beating Leonard at chess in her first game is so far beyond fuckin' ridiculous that it becomes the silliest moment in a series that had a myriad of 'em.
Lenny could have saved face if he stated he allowed Penny to win since its her first time and he wanted her to get a hang of how the pieces moved without just blowing her away. But, he cracks easily.
This reminds me of the time I played online chess with my boyfriend. I didn't even know how to move the pieces, all I did was click on a piece and then move it to an available spot. I didn't even know I'd won until he told me.
calijuliedaisy He either let you win, or he's a terrible, terrible chess player. No offense, it's just anyone who loses against a person who doesn't know the moves of pieces can't play. It's just chess, not flipping cards over. Skill is dominant.
+Jokubas T: You don't need to be "terrible terrible" to underestimate someone because it's their first time playing, and ending up in such a disadvantageous position that coming back from it turns out to be beyond you. The fact the OP was a complete novice caused the experienced player to handicap himself, and he underestimated how much his change in play style had hurt him. It happens all the time when someone's teaching a new player; they enter the match with the mindset "I'll sacrifice pieces or whatever, there's no possible way I can lose, heh heh". This isn't a situation that's exactly representative of most chess games. Saying someone is "a terrible, terrible chess player" because they've never played against a novice before and made an error in judgment as a result? That simply doesn't follow.
KnifeInTheCrayonBox he fainted being irritated. He totally let you win. Either that or he didn't understand the game either. No way anyone who understands it loses to someone who 'doesn't even know how to move the pieces'
Even players rated 1200 can see checkmate in one. And Leonard missed it. Therefore, Leonard is under 1200 strength. Quite weak. Penny is a total beginner, but beginners can win when facing experienced but very weak players. So this scene is actually is fairly realistic.
Similar situation happened to me back in highschool. Started going chess club after we realised we could skip the lunch queue if we did. Got put into a chess tournament with some stuck up German kid and had no idea what the moves of the pieces even were till part way though the game. My mate told me about 10 minutes in I was ducked because I was in a 'insert chess trap name'. But, your boi managed to pull some shit out his arse without trying too much and won the game. You should have seen the kids face XD
Definite mate! Legal position and board set up properly. Penny is way up in material but mate with white rook on b file, B covering a7 and Nc7# with black king on a8.
This isn't unreasonable for chess. When I taught a young woman chess I subconsciously engineered the game to a stalemate. One wrong move in that scenario can turn in to a checkmate. There's no reason to play with maximum aggression in a teaching game.
I subconsciously lost many times against a childhood friend but one time things got serious when he teased me for such a loser I won a long hard game but things were never the same between us
