Well, what to do when goaded by such a post? Your friendly chelonian RM-Sanctus here to expound on this variant of Chinese Chess.
So, allow me to demarcate the borders of this discussion. Firstly, the variant is the no-capture, bing-swap as in the previous post. In the second, invulnerability traps will apply at any instant (in the astronomically unlikely event a ma jumps into a wall of friendly pieces blocking the last check your opponent has and removing your last checking piece, it is a draw.)
Well. The value of pieces, I gather, is a subjective notion that cruxes on one's playstyle. For the most part, I agree with ph42's assessment of the values. However, let's dive a level deeper into this weighing.
When captures are out of the question, the concept of piece valuation takes on a different meaning. No longer is it a judgement of material on the board, or the likelihood of an endgame. Instead, it is a dynamic evaluation of the relative strengths of available pieces. Some pieces are inherently better at defending (xiang, shi, to some extent pao) while others are good at attacking (ju, very very much ma). Considering in light of this the units available:
Side bing: generally slows down your own attack, and does little for defence. Tempi can be traded by pushing one and forcing your opponent to mirror that to blockade. In stuck positions, can be the source of a slow flank attack. Not a great piece.
3rd/7th file bing: Closer to the king, the sides of the central river stalemates, and very dangerous if allowed to cross the river. Typically both sides push theirs in a race to the kings, or blockades with xiangs for a slower game.
Gokigen central bing: A default. Surprisingly fast if pushed crazily forward, yet easily stonewalled by standard defences (usually castles around the palace.)
GHB (Across river bing): Very scary. Harder to stop than before, and once it gets near a king, blood will follow soon. They can kick the general around with impunity, and are very likely to squash the king against his own pieces. Great Holy Bing.
Shi: The backbone of defence. Occasionally the appendices, performing little function but to throttle the general as he is contact checked to death. Still, these are essential in guarding 2 of 3 directions the king can be attacked from.
Xiang: Best used to stop 3rd/7th file bings, or to block irritating bottom-line attacks. They may only have 7 possible locations, but 5 are pretty important locations.
Ma: Main source of headaches. These things are horrible to move, making enforcement of the invulnerability rule brain-sapping to test for. The main bane of "invulnerable" fortresses, and a brilliant piece to probe for weaknesses with. If trapped on the wrong side of a barricade, though, they're quite useless (in defence particularly.)
Pao: A bing would sometimes be better. They move like jus, start in aggressive locations, and don't actually get to do much of the killing. Generally, they should stick to what they're good at: Posturing, locking up the opponent's flanks, the river, the palace, [everywhere], abusing their fast movement. Some pins, too.
Ju: The slow-to-develop, main killing piece. They speed through open lanes past blockades, but zigzag highways are their bane. Good for threateningly holding up river positions and half-open lanes.
Jiang/Shuai: ...
Do you seriously expect fei jiang (flying general) to be of ANY use here?
So those are the pieces. A typical game would flow something like this.
Opening phase: Key strategies are decided. Block the 3rd/7th bings? Try to stuff a pao into your opponent's palace fast? Swap pieces across the river or set up a nigh-impermeable roadblock? Important to consider are speed of bings, the open lanes that should be controlled by paos and jus a.s.a.p., and the opportunity to lock up pieces before they move, trapping them in a corner and thus creating a "material imbalance" of numbers.
Middlegame: If it's still pretty even after the opening, there are 2 possibilities. Firstly, both sides have pieces across the river, or perhaps 1 or 2 bing pairs have been swapped. A blitzing game ensues, where both sides race to deliver fatal charges and counterattacks faster than the other. Or, it's a delicate situation with the river choked with not a delta but a mess, in which case a slower game of attrition, temporary "shifting" blockades and side bing attacks follows.
Endgame: If one side has distinct material advantage near the opponent's palace, capitulation soon follows.
Positional evaluation is easy, but can be more subtle. The main rule of thumb is: the closer the centre of gravity of the board is to your king, the worse off you are.
I wonder who wants a game of this, on playOK or something?
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Boring holidays...
The holidays are officially making me feel bored, and as such I shall talk about stuff today. Ever since Tux has started posting despicable vocabulary to instill sheer terror into the hearts of all those not protected by a lexicon, ethereal or corporeal, I have thought that this blog was getting diluted. And hence I guess... RJT Chess!
Yes, it's that no capture chess again.
Today I shall be talking about RJT chess in general, as nobody (really) has bothered to play this modern variant of chess, where no blood is spilled (apart from splitting headaches).
So firstly, the value of pieces.
Bah! Zerothly, I shall be talking about the variant where pawn swaps are allowed (Carnage of the bings!) and as far as I can remember, no other weird new rules.
Back to firstly. I must roughly give an idea of what the value of pieces could possibly mean in a chess that has totally nothing to do with trading pieces and praying that somehow it was a good trade for you. Also, the value of pieces does not accurately reflect how likely they are to wreck havoc in your opponent's base and win you the game. For such a turtlish (check RM-Sanctus' dictionary and possibly mind for details) variant of chess, if you want to win, you must get many many pieces, or actually, all your pieces as close to your opponent's king as possible. And he can still block... But with enough luck and perseverance, you will eventually force the game to an end (in somebody's favour, and after an innocent couple hundred moves).
I know this sounds like an essay written by a stressed student trying to write a story but failing to think of ideas, giving rise to lengthy preambles, but hey, the context is suspiciously similar.
Fret not! I have content *hurries to make up nonsense on the spot*.
So what do I exactly mean by value? Value is the amount of headache a piece can cause your opponent.
Yet again, I deviate to put across a more complete picture.
...
... ...
... ... ...
Imagine.
Imagine...
You are playing RJT Chess with your friend, and it is in the middle of the afternoon, and you are sitting on a stuffy table without a fan. Or air-conditioning.
You take out a flimsy chessboard, and start playing.
Time seeps by, and flies like an arrow, at the rate of 0.0167 minutes/s.
Without your knowledge, it is already dinnertime. And the match still isn't over.
Moral of story? RJT Chess is really a game of attrition at high levels, and whoever gets a migraine first loses.
As a result, here's a rank of the value of pieces, from the pieces that stone and rot in a corner of the board for the entire game, to the ones that jump around and cause chaos.
1) Advisor (shi) -- Pretty useless, doesn't even block the king probably most of the time.
2) Elephant/Minister (xiang) -- Can block 2 bings from crossing the river. And will probably rot there until the end of time as well.
3) Cannon (pao) -- These insanely tricky things in the actual Chinese Chess tend to fester quickly in RJT Chess, as violence is no longer permitted.
4) Chariot (ju/che) -- These things are rather easily blocked, and hardly cause a headache.
5) Bing (!!) -- Once these creatures get near, the game draws to a conclusion. The king cannot run too much, or risk invulnerability (and hence breaking a rule), yet once checked by a bing, the game is almost over.
6) Horse (ma) -- Always the source of checks, on average 14.159 moves checks to be exact. These things are your Lodanap.
7) King (jiang) -- need I say more?
Yes, it's that no capture chess again.
Today I shall be talking about RJT chess in general, as nobody (really) has bothered to play this modern variant of chess, where no blood is spilled (apart from splitting headaches).
So firstly, the value of pieces.
Bah! Zerothly, I shall be talking about the variant where pawn swaps are allowed (Carnage of the bings!) and as far as I can remember, no other weird new rules.
Back to firstly. I must roughly give an idea of what the value of pieces could possibly mean in a chess that has totally nothing to do with trading pieces and praying that somehow it was a good trade for you. Also, the value of pieces does not accurately reflect how likely they are to wreck havoc in your opponent's base and win you the game. For such a turtlish (check RM-Sanctus' dictionary and possibly mind for details) variant of chess, if you want to win, you must get many many pieces, or actually, all your pieces as close to your opponent's king as possible. And he can still block... But with enough luck and perseverance, you will eventually force the game to an end (in somebody's favour, and after an innocent couple hundred moves).
I know this sounds like an essay written by a stressed student trying to write a story but failing to think of ideas, giving rise to lengthy preambles, but hey, the context is suspiciously similar.
Fret not! I have content *hurries to make up nonsense on the spot*.
So what do I exactly mean by value? Value is the amount of headache a piece can cause your opponent.
Yet again, I deviate to put across a more complete picture.
...
... ...
... ... ...
Imagine.
Imagine...
You are playing RJT Chess with your friend, and it is in the middle of the afternoon, and you are sitting on a stuffy table without a fan. Or air-conditioning.
You take out a flimsy chessboard, and start playing.
Time seeps by, and flies like an arrow, at the rate of 0.0167 minutes/s.
Without your knowledge, it is already dinnertime. And the match still isn't over.
Moral of story? RJT Chess is really a game of attrition at high levels, and whoever gets a migraine first loses.
As a result, here's a rank of the value of pieces, from the pieces that stone and rot in a corner of the board for the entire game, to the ones that jump around and cause chaos.
1) Advisor (shi) -- Pretty useless, doesn't even block the king probably most of the time.
2) Elephant/Minister (xiang) -- Can block 2 bings from crossing the river. And will probably rot there until the end of time as well.
3) Cannon (pao) -- These insanely tricky things in the actual Chinese Chess tend to fester quickly in RJT Chess, as violence is no longer permitted.
4) Chariot (ju/che) -- These things are rather easily blocked, and hardly cause a headache.
5) Bing (!!) -- Once these creatures get near, the game draws to a conclusion. The king cannot run too much, or risk invulnerability (and hence breaking a rule), yet once checked by a bing, the game is almost over.
6) Horse (ma) -- Always the source of checks, on average 14.159 moves checks to be exact. These things are your Lodanap.
7) King (jiang) -- need I say more?
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Post Vocab-Mugging Session 2
Your corpulence is a result of 100 chocolate bars a day.
You cannot be so insular; get yourself exposed to different opinions and perspectives.
Killing witnesses is an expedient way of getting rid of evidence.
Depreciation is an econs term (Yay I learnt something econs! =D).
The countryside has verdant fields and grasslands.
I shall manipulate these pliable minds and use them to conquer the world.
Liu Xiang just had a facile victory; he had no strong competitors anyway.
These medications only had a palliative effect as it only solves the minutiae problems.
Stop being more querulous; this nascent security system is still susceptible to viral attacks (from BARR).
Even though he is a neophyte in physics, he is already crammed full of jargons (like fine structure constant!!! =D).
He is pursuing a monastic life in order to repent for his act of larceny.
The general is giving a harangue to the soldiers so that their cerebral cords get stimulated and battle-ready.
Quantum mechanics is inscrutable.
The ageing buildings and collapsing structures are redolent of the place's long history.
Even though he is a convivial person, that does not mean that he is not culpable for the wrongdoing he has done.
His apparently solicitous remarks are too histrionic, showing that he is trying to be sarcastic.
He is such a sycophant, always trying to toady to the CEOs of monolithic corporations.
I shall get a good harvest in these arable fields.
A compendious study of the various parameters led him to posit that P = NP.
Children have the tendency to become maudlin when they lose their Pikachu soft-toy.
I have a predilection for Pokemon.
You cannot be so insular; get yourself exposed to different opinions and perspectives.
Killing witnesses is an expedient way of getting rid of evidence.
Depreciation is an econs term (Yay I learnt something econs! =D).
The countryside has verdant fields and grasslands.
I shall manipulate these pliable minds and use them to conquer the world.
Liu Xiang just had a facile victory; he had no strong competitors anyway.
These medications only had a palliative effect as it only solves the minutiae problems.
Stop being more querulous; this nascent security system is still susceptible to viral attacks (from BARR).
Even though he is a neophyte in physics, he is already crammed full of jargons (like fine structure constant!!! =D).
He is pursuing a monastic life in order to repent for his act of larceny.
The general is giving a harangue to the soldiers so that their cerebral cords get stimulated and battle-ready.
Quantum mechanics is inscrutable.
The ageing buildings and collapsing structures are redolent of the place's long history.
Even though he is a convivial person, that does not mean that he is not culpable for the wrongdoing he has done.
His apparently solicitous remarks are too histrionic, showing that he is trying to be sarcastic.
He is such a sycophant, always trying to toady to the CEOs of monolithic corporations.
I shall get a good harvest in these arable fields.
A compendious study of the various parameters led him to posit that P = NP.
Children have the tendency to become maudlin when they lose their Pikachu soft-toy.
I have a predilection for Pokemon.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Post Vocab-Mugging Session 1 (edited)
I am not a failure; I am a fiasco!
Your ineffectual arguments do not buttress your position. (no e in argument)
Stop being so vacuous. Think more.
Stop jumping about! Why are you so boisterous?
This has gone from bad to worse. I must ameliorate the situation.
OMG, you are so rich. You lead such an opulent lifestyle.
The perennial headaches are giving me ... well ... headaches.
We must keep this classified project clandestine.
Don't be so boorish. Mr Cheong does not like rude people.
Everyone saw that you cheated, and yet you brazenly deny it.
If you are a globetrotter, you visit the world in 80 days.
Your vitriolic remarks against the disabled just shows how callow you are.
CCX is the zenith (actually its epitomy, but nvm) of humility. (No, actually it's epitome)
Chops has an eclectic taste of music. He does not just listen to rock or pop; he listens to everything (including growls and roars).
Your ineffectual arguments do not buttress your position. (no e in argument)
Stop being so vacuous. Think more.
Stop jumping about! Why are you so boisterous?
This has gone from bad to worse. I must ameliorate the situation.
OMG, you are so rich. You lead such an opulent lifestyle.
The perennial headaches are giving me ... well ... headaches.
We must keep this classified project clandestine.
Don't be so boorish. Mr Cheong does not like rude people.
Everyone saw that you cheated, and yet you brazenly deny it.
If you are a globetrotter, you visit the world in 80 days.
Your vitriolic remarks against the disabled just shows how callow you are.
CCX is the zenith (actually its epitomy, but nvm) of humility. (No, actually it's epitome)
Chops has an eclectic taste of music. He does not just listen to rock or pop; he listens to everything (including growls and roars).
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Scripts
I present 3 scripts: 2 of them written for actual presentations, by me and the newest coauthor of this blog, and one by the not-so-new coauthor (RMS), for fun. Challenge yourself, and see how fast you can identify the 2 scripts which were painstakingly worked on (actually only 1, but 2 were actually used!).
The 3 scripts are shown below. Enjoy.
Script 1: Remedies at a distance
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Telemedicine can form a key component of our everyday lives. Imagine going to the doctor's, queuing up to take a number, and waiting for hours on end, every second of agony in illness, multiplying the chance to contract another bug from your fellow sufferers.
We offer you another way out.
With the benefits of telemedicine, anybody - but in particular those who apply to receive its benefits - can enjoy the luxuries of treatment at home. Diagnosis is easily done by a mere description of symptoms, no reason to require a face-to-face interview with a practitioner; a simple videoconference (facilities not provided) will suffice. This stands to offer a whole host of benefits to the users, namely:
- Convenience
- Time-saving due to lack of travel and waiting times
- Psychological comfort of a readily-accessible treatment
- Lower chance of being infected by a TV screen than a flu-ridden sleepwalker
Long-distance monitoring also gifts the ability to divine physiological data of the user anytime, at any convenient location; it also offers conveniently a means to tag one's location such that medication can be delivered, or aid be sent to, should the need arise.
There may be a few non-believing heret- sorry, skeptics, who might view telemedicine from a rather more pessimistic, non-agreeable fashion, choosing to illuminate and expound its drawbacks while cheerfully discarding its guaranteed salvations. Allow me to elucidate sequentially and systematically refute each incorrect accusation:
1. There may be insufficient people to staff the system.
- Telemedicine's focus is on the use of IT to bring the patient-doctor interaction into a new medium, through new windows and adds depth and colour to the otherwise transactional meeting. A lack of doctors is the least of the concerns of the system; nonetheless, a friendly non-Turing compliant "AI" virtual receptionist will be made available to stall patients' otherwise incessant and - pardon me - downright puerile demands for instant consultations.
2. Medication in the physical form is absent.
- Telemedicine, despite the name, does not encourage drug abuse nor pill-taking in any way. It is simply a medium through which patients can talk to their doctors, and for doctors to check on their patients remotely. Any requirements for antibiotics or their ilk may be sent via e-mail or, more slowly, snail-mail. In urgent cases, patients are advised to have a ground-floor window open. Under no circumstances do we wish to precipitate illegal substance usage.
3. The elderly/non-tech-savvy individuals may not be able to utilise the system.
- Much like its cousins CCTV cameras and endoscopes, telemedicine provides a modicum of independence, allowing medical professionals full coverage and operational control of the relevant systems. Little to no technical ability is required on the part of the end-user, save the ability to use, debug and troubleshoot teleconferencing equipment and to conduct self-maintenance of the observation systems.
Having thus addressed surely the most pertinent concerns, we would now like to turn your attention to the future expandability of our project. We have taken Changi Prison as our first case study, and hope to expand the scope of our project to a similar extent, noting the first-rate observation coverage and response times of personnel manning the 'eye in the sky' systems there. Given more resources, a national telemedicine framework could be adopted, perhaps even living up to the pervasion envisaged groundbreakingly in George Orwell's 1984. With such a comprehensive system in place, nobody ever need be afraid of falling ill, for aid is always on the lookout, and help always around the corner. Thank you.
Script 2: Norway -- A Case Study
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I will now proceed to talk about our case study: Norway.
A question springs to mind: what makes Norway an ideal case study?
The reasons are many. The first is that Norway has a long history of telemedicine, giving sufficient time for its impact to be detailed.
Also, Norway has not only successfully implemented telemedicine, but also has had positive outcomes as a result of telemedicine. This makes it a good model for telemedicine in Singapore.
Having seen why we chose Norway as a case study, I shall now briefly talk about telemedicine in Norway.
Norway has an extremely low population density. This leads to problems such as unwillingness to work in rural areas and the economic unviability of setting up clinics in rural areas. Coupled with a rapidly ageing population, which brings along with it a host of problems, as previously mentioned, this makes it hard to offer quality healthcare to all Norwegians.
However, with robust communication technologies already in place, telemedicine was a logical choice to solve these problems.
Norway has implemented the Norwegian Health Net, which spans over more than 700 doctors and 25 hospitals. All GPs and private specialists use EHR, containing information of 80% of patients. Also, applications supplementing EHR such as the Picture Archiving and Communications System, an application to transfer medical pictures, come packaged with the EHR. We can thus say that EHR is highly developed in Norway.
Telemonitoring in Norway is also highly developed, and widely adopted. The pictures shown here depict a telemonitoring suite for the elderly, and even has specialised telemonitoring functions built into appliances like the television.
Teleconsultation is also widely applied in Norway, and spans fields such as telepsychology and teleradiology, and includes both doctor-to-doctor and patient-to-doctor communications.
So how did Norway achieve all this?
After researching, we found that the key steps to implementing telemedicine in Norway includes developing a centralised communications network, which connects the nation's doctors, implementing reimbursement policies for telemedicine for patients, as well as developing educational opportunities for telemedicine. This includes offering telemedicine courses at the National University of Tromso. Also, the Norwegian government has developed a set of standards for EHR and information exchange, volven.
Having seen how Norway implemented telemedicine, I will proceed to describe the benefits and drawbacks of EHR and telehomecare.
The EHR reduces human errors by digitalising the recording process. It also increases the efficiency of treatment, since doctors no longer need to manually search through piles of paper records. Furthermore, the information is more complete and reliable, as it is corroborated across each clinic the patient has been to, and lastly, the EHR leads to cost savings derived in part from less paperwork.
Yet, EHR has its fair share of drawbacks, namely prohibitive startup costs and a steep learning curve of the technology, which leads to diminished efficiency in the short run as doctors struggle to use the program.
This diagram summarises the advantages and impacts of EHR.
Telehomecare has many benefits. It reduces clinical and hospital visits, as patients can now be treated at home instead of at the hospital. This is especially true for routine checkups and minor illnesses, and is a great blessing for sufferers of chronic diseases. The constant monitoring through remote devices also results in more responsive healthcare, leading to improved outcomes for patients. For elderly patients with chronic illnesses, telehomecare can improve their functional independence. Also, the reduction of visits to medical facilities can bring about time savings as well has the reduction of travelling costs.
Telehomecare also has its drawbacks, including high startup costs, issues associated with the open nature of the Internet through which information is sent, as well as the lack of a clear common standard for telehomecare devices, meaning some technologies may be mutually incompatible.
The following slide summarises the advantages and drawbacks of telehomecare.
Script 3: Telemedicine is coming to town
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To evaluate whether telemedicine is applicable locally, we need to answer the following questions about the plausibility of local implementation, and the applicability of Norway’s lessons.
Telemedicine is highly plausible in Singapore.
Firstly, there is strong funding and support from the government because the government is also actively seeking to improve the healthcare system and is seriously considering telemedicine as a solution.
Secondly, many telemedicine prerequisites are already implemented, such as a nationwide high-speed transmission network required by EHR, are already implemented.
Thirdly, Singapore implemented pilot telemedicine project in the past, and thus already has some prior knowledge in this area.
The above reasons show that successful local telemedicine implementation is highly plausible.
Telemedicine is highly relevant to Singapore. But exactly what kind of changes do we expect for both the doctors and patients. We want to share some of the more exciting implications here.
One immediate change doctors experience is the digitalization of patient records. This has immense implications. Gone are the days where finding patient records is a chore. Electronic records allows doctors to easily access, retrieve and update patient information without going through the tedious paperwork that is needed when keeping physical records. This saves a lot of time and frees up medical personnel to devote more time to the care of the patients.
Furthermore, the EHR connects all doctors under a single system, allowing doctor to share and discuss past records of the patient. In this case, the patient will not be treated by a single doctor anymore. He will be treated by the combined and collaborated efforts of all the doctors connected under the EHR. This allows better treatment to be administered to the patient.
The implications for patients are even more promising. With telehomecare, they will be able to receive treatment at the comfort of their home, under the care of their loved ones. Studies have shown that care in such home environments immensely benefit the patient’s condition. Regular trips to medical centres, especially for those with chronic illnesses, are waived, providing great convenience for the patients.
The development of new telemonitoring devices, from wristwatches that tracks your glucose level to shirts that tracks your heart rate, also allows easy and constant monitoring of the patient’s condition. This effectively allows doctors to keep track of the patient’s condition. They can also easily relate to patients changes in the treatment given, without troubling the patient to visit them in their medical centres.
Undeniably, telemedicine shows much promise and can bring a smile to the faces of both patients and doctors.
Now that we established the promise and viability of telemedicine in Singapore, we need to start implementing. Firstly, we drew some lessons that we learnt from Norway.
From the difficulties that Norway faced, we came up with some areas of improvement that needs to be worked upon. We need to set up common standards in telemedicine implementation to allow for the inter-operability of telemedicine in different medical centres. We also need to provide support to ensure long-term sustainability of telemedicine, and subsidies to attract more users. Measures to ensure the privacy and security of medical information should also be in place. As such measures are geared towards building the foundation of telemedicine, we derived from these our guiding principle of structural development.
Next, we noticed that telemedicine users need to be fairly proficient in telemedicine in order to get the most out of it. Therefore, we aim to provide educational opportunities for telemedicine. This is under our guiding principle Education.
The 3 scripts are shown below. Enjoy.
Script 1: Remedies at a distance
--------------------------------
Telemedicine can form a key component of our everyday lives. Imagine going to the doctor's, queuing up to take a number, and waiting for hours on end, every second of agony in illness, multiplying the chance to contract another bug from your fellow sufferers.
We offer you another way out.
With the benefits of telemedicine, anybody - but in particular those who apply to receive its benefits - can enjoy the luxuries of treatment at home. Diagnosis is easily done by a mere description of symptoms, no reason to require a face-to-face interview with a practitioner; a simple videoconference (facilities not provided) will suffice. This stands to offer a whole host of benefits to the users, namely:
- Convenience
- Time-saving due to lack of travel and waiting times
- Psychological comfort of a readily-accessible treatment
- Lower chance of being infected by a TV screen than a flu-ridden sleepwalker
Long-distance monitoring also gifts the ability to divine physiological data of the user anytime, at any convenient location; it also offers conveniently a means to tag one's location such that medication can be delivered, or aid be sent to, should the need arise.
There may be a few non-believing heret- sorry, skeptics, who might view telemedicine from a rather more pessimistic, non-agreeable fashion, choosing to illuminate and expound its drawbacks while cheerfully discarding its guaranteed salvations. Allow me to elucidate sequentially and systematically refute each incorrect accusation:
1. There may be insufficient people to staff the system.
- Telemedicine's focus is on the use of IT to bring the patient-doctor interaction into a new medium, through new windows and adds depth and colour to the otherwise transactional meeting. A lack of doctors is the least of the concerns of the system; nonetheless, a friendly non-Turing compliant "AI" virtual receptionist will be made available to stall patients' otherwise incessant and - pardon me - downright puerile demands for instant consultations.
2. Medication in the physical form is absent.
- Telemedicine, despite the name, does not encourage drug abuse nor pill-taking in any way. It is simply a medium through which patients can talk to their doctors, and for doctors to check on their patients remotely. Any requirements for antibiotics or their ilk may be sent via e-mail or, more slowly, snail-mail. In urgent cases, patients are advised to have a ground-floor window open. Under no circumstances do we wish to precipitate illegal substance usage.
3. The elderly/non-tech-savvy individuals may not be able to utilise the system.
- Much like its cousins CCTV cameras and endoscopes, telemedicine provides a modicum of independence, allowing medical professionals full coverage and operational control of the relevant systems. Little to no technical ability is required on the part of the end-user, save the ability to use, debug and troubleshoot teleconferencing equipment and to conduct self-maintenance of the observation systems.
Having thus addressed surely the most pertinent concerns, we would now like to turn your attention to the future expandability of our project. We have taken Changi Prison as our first case study, and hope to expand the scope of our project to a similar extent, noting the first-rate observation coverage and response times of personnel manning the 'eye in the sky' systems there. Given more resources, a national telemedicine framework could be adopted, perhaps even living up to the pervasion envisaged groundbreakingly in George Orwell's 1984. With such a comprehensive system in place, nobody ever need be afraid of falling ill, for aid is always on the lookout, and help always around the corner. Thank you.
Script 2: Norway -- A Case Study
--------------------------------
I will now proceed to talk about our case study: Norway.
A question springs to mind: what makes Norway an ideal case study?
The reasons are many. The first is that Norway has a long history of telemedicine, giving sufficient time for its impact to be detailed.
Also, Norway has not only successfully implemented telemedicine, but also has had positive outcomes as a result of telemedicine. This makes it a good model for telemedicine in Singapore.
Having seen why we chose Norway as a case study, I shall now briefly talk about telemedicine in Norway.
Norway has an extremely low population density. This leads to problems such as unwillingness to work in rural areas and the economic unviability of setting up clinics in rural areas. Coupled with a rapidly ageing population, which brings along with it a host of problems, as previously mentioned, this makes it hard to offer quality healthcare to all Norwegians.
However, with robust communication technologies already in place, telemedicine was a logical choice to solve these problems.
Norway has implemented the Norwegian Health Net, which spans over more than 700 doctors and 25 hospitals. All GPs and private specialists use EHR, containing information of 80% of patients. Also, applications supplementing EHR such as the Picture Archiving and Communications System, an application to transfer medical pictures, come packaged with the EHR. We can thus say that EHR is highly developed in Norway.
Telemonitoring in Norway is also highly developed, and widely adopted. The pictures shown here depict a telemonitoring suite for the elderly, and even has specialised telemonitoring functions built into appliances like the television.
Teleconsultation is also widely applied in Norway, and spans fields such as telepsychology and teleradiology, and includes both doctor-to-doctor and patient-to-doctor communications.
So how did Norway achieve all this?
After researching, we found that the key steps to implementing telemedicine in Norway includes developing a centralised communications network, which connects the nation's doctors, implementing reimbursement policies for telemedicine for patients, as well as developing educational opportunities for telemedicine. This includes offering telemedicine courses at the National University of Tromso. Also, the Norwegian government has developed a set of standards for EHR and information exchange, volven.
Having seen how Norway implemented telemedicine, I will proceed to describe the benefits and drawbacks of EHR and telehomecare.
The EHR reduces human errors by digitalising the recording process. It also increases the efficiency of treatment, since doctors no longer need to manually search through piles of paper records. Furthermore, the information is more complete and reliable, as it is corroborated across each clinic the patient has been to, and lastly, the EHR leads to cost savings derived in part from less paperwork.
Yet, EHR has its fair share of drawbacks, namely prohibitive startup costs and a steep learning curve of the technology, which leads to diminished efficiency in the short run as doctors struggle to use the program.
This diagram summarises the advantages and impacts of EHR.
Telehomecare has many benefits. It reduces clinical and hospital visits, as patients can now be treated at home instead of at the hospital. This is especially true for routine checkups and minor illnesses, and is a great blessing for sufferers of chronic diseases. The constant monitoring through remote devices also results in more responsive healthcare, leading to improved outcomes for patients. For elderly patients with chronic illnesses, telehomecare can improve their functional independence. Also, the reduction of visits to medical facilities can bring about time savings as well has the reduction of travelling costs.
Telehomecare also has its drawbacks, including high startup costs, issues associated with the open nature of the Internet through which information is sent, as well as the lack of a clear common standard for telehomecare devices, meaning some technologies may be mutually incompatible.
The following slide summarises the advantages and drawbacks of telehomecare.
Script 3: Telemedicine is coming to town
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To evaluate whether telemedicine is applicable locally, we need to answer the following questions about the plausibility of local implementation, and the applicability of Norway’s lessons.
Telemedicine is highly plausible in Singapore.
Firstly, there is strong funding and support from the government because the government is also actively seeking to improve the healthcare system and is seriously considering telemedicine as a solution.
Secondly, many telemedicine prerequisites are already implemented, such as a nationwide high-speed transmission network required by EHR, are already implemented.
Thirdly, Singapore implemented pilot telemedicine project in the past, and thus already has some prior knowledge in this area.
The above reasons show that successful local telemedicine implementation is highly plausible.
Telemedicine is highly relevant to Singapore. But exactly what kind of changes do we expect for both the doctors and patients. We want to share some of the more exciting implications here.
One immediate change doctors experience is the digitalization of patient records. This has immense implications. Gone are the days where finding patient records is a chore. Electronic records allows doctors to easily access, retrieve and update patient information without going through the tedious paperwork that is needed when keeping physical records. This saves a lot of time and frees up medical personnel to devote more time to the care of the patients.
Furthermore, the EHR connects all doctors under a single system, allowing doctor to share and discuss past records of the patient. In this case, the patient will not be treated by a single doctor anymore. He will be treated by the combined and collaborated efforts of all the doctors connected under the EHR. This allows better treatment to be administered to the patient.
The implications for patients are even more promising. With telehomecare, they will be able to receive treatment at the comfort of their home, under the care of their loved ones. Studies have shown that care in such home environments immensely benefit the patient’s condition. Regular trips to medical centres, especially for those with chronic illnesses, are waived, providing great convenience for the patients.
The development of new telemonitoring devices, from wristwatches that tracks your glucose level to shirts that tracks your heart rate, also allows easy and constant monitoring of the patient’s condition. This effectively allows doctors to keep track of the patient’s condition. They can also easily relate to patients changes in the treatment given, without troubling the patient to visit them in their medical centres.
Undeniably, telemedicine shows much promise and can bring a smile to the faces of both patients and doctors.
Now that we established the promise and viability of telemedicine in Singapore, we need to start implementing. Firstly, we drew some lessons that we learnt from Norway.
From the difficulties that Norway faced, we came up with some areas of improvement that needs to be worked upon. We need to set up common standards in telemedicine implementation to allow for the inter-operability of telemedicine in different medical centres. We also need to provide support to ensure long-term sustainability of telemedicine, and subsidies to attract more users. Measures to ensure the privacy and security of medical information should also be in place. As such measures are geared towards building the foundation of telemedicine, we derived from these our guiding principle of structural development.
Next, we noticed that telemedicine users need to be fairly proficient in telemedicine in order to get the most out of it. Therefore, we aim to provide educational opportunities for telemedicine. This is under our guiding principle Education.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
The land of the sticks
In the land of the sticks, there was once a great committee of 52 stickmen. The committee was made out of wise sticks from all over the land and sea, and it governed the laws of the land of the sticks.
The committee was divided into 4 subcommittees, S, H, C, and S', each comprising of 13 members, officially known as A,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,J,Q,K.
At the head of the committee, was a tall and long stick, called Chopstick. He was the pinnacle of the committee (due to h8), and he stood tall, towering above the committee on the podium one day, and with a booming voice he nearly roared, "Today, we have a chemical bonding exercise. The purpose of this exercise is to improve the chemistry of members of the committee, as well as to make sure the members of the committee are strongly bonded."
"In this exercise, you will first do 20 pushups (O,N,E,1,T,W,O,2,...) and 5 chinups, and then get into your assigned groups."
The truth is, Chopstick had not assigned the groups.
To make matters worse, each person in Stickland hates exactly 3 people in the committee, and it would be counterproductive to put 2 sticks who hate each other in the same group.
Chopstick wants to minimise the number of groups, as the efficiency of his program to analyse the data of each group runs in O(n!) time.
Given that Chopstick is a very unlucky stick (Worst case scenario), state the minimum number of groups possible.
The committee was divided into 4 subcommittees, S, H, C, and S', each comprising of 13 members, officially known as A,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,J,Q,K.
At the head of the committee, was a tall and long stick, called Chopstick. He was the pinnacle of the committee (due to h8), and he stood tall, towering above the committee on the podium one day, and with a booming voice he nearly roared, "Today, we have a chemical bonding exercise. The purpose of this exercise is to improve the chemistry of members of the committee, as well as to make sure the members of the committee are strongly bonded."
"In this exercise, you will first do 20 pushups (O,N,E,1,T,W,O,2,...) and 5 chinups, and then get into your assigned groups."
The truth is, Chopstick had not assigned the groups.
To make matters worse, each person in Stickland hates exactly 3 people in the committee, and it would be counterproductive to put 2 sticks who hate each other in the same group.
Chopstick wants to minimise the number of groups, as the efficiency of his program to analyse the data of each group runs in O(n!) time.
Given that Chopstick is a very unlucky stick (Worst case scenario), state the minimum number of groups possible.
Monday, November 1, 2010
True Meaning of King's Gambit Declined
This is what it truly means to advance deep into the enemy territory and come out alive.
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.11.01"]
[White "Windarcher"]
[Black "TheProNewb"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1856"]
[BlackElo "2292"]
[TimeControl "1|0"]
[Termination "TheProNewb won by checkmate"]
1.b3 e6 2.Bb2 Ke7 3.g3 Kd6 4.Bg2 Kc5 5.d3 Kb4 6.e3 a5 7.Ne2 a4 8.a3+ Kb5 9.b4 c5 10.c3 d6
11.Nd2 d5 12.Qc2 Kc6 13.O-O b5 14.c4 Kb6 15.cxd5 exd5 16.e4 d4 17.e5 Ra7 18.bxc5+ Bxc5 19.Rab1 Rc7 20.Qd1 Be6
21.Nf3 Nc6 22.Nfxd4 Nxd4 23.Nxd4 Bxd4 24.Bxd4+ Qxd4 25.Re1 Bb3 26.Qd2 Ne7 27.Re4 Qc5 28.e6 f5 29.Rf4 g5 30.Rf3 Bd5
31.Re3 Bxg2 32.Kxg2 f4 33.Re2 Nf5 34.gxf4 Qd5+ 35.f3 Nd4 36.Re5 Qxf3+ 37.Kg1 Rc2 38.Qb4 Qg2# 0-1
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.11.01"]
[White "Windarcher"]
[Black "TheProNewb"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1856"]
[BlackElo "2292"]
[TimeControl "1|0"]
[Termination "TheProNewb won on time"]
1.h3 d6 2.g3 Kd7 3.Bg2 Ke6 4.b3 Ke5 5.Bb2+ Kf5 6.d3 h5 7.e3 h4 8.g4+ Kg5 9.Qf3 e5 10.Qd1 Nc6
11.Ne2 d5 12.Nd2 f5 13.Ng1 Kh6 14.gxf5 g5 15.fxg6 Kxg6 16.Qe2 Nf6 17.O-O-O Bf5 18.f4 e4 19.dxe4 dxe4 20.Bxf6 Qxf6
21.Kb1 Ba3 22.c3 Qxc3 23.Nc4 Be7 24.Qc2 Qxc2+ 25.Kxc2 Rad8 26.Ne2 Bf6 27.Nd4 Nxd4+ 28.exd4 Rxd4 29.Rde1 c5 30.Ne5+ Bxe5
31.fxe5 Rhd8 32.Rhg1 Kf7 33.Bf3 Ke6 34.Be2 Kxe5 35.Bg4 Rd2+ 36.Kb1 Bxg4 37.Rxg4 R8d4 38.Rg5+ Kd6 39.Rg4 Kc6 40.Rxh4 Kb5
0-1
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.11.01"]
[White "TheProNewb"]
[Black "Windarcher"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2292"]
[BlackElo "1856"]
[TimeControl "1|0"]
[Termination "TheProNewb won by resignation"]
1.d3 b6 2.Kd2 Bb7 3.Ke3 g6 4.Kd4 Bg7+ 5.Kc4 e6 6.Kb3 d6 7.c4 Nd7 8.Nc3 Ne7 9.e4 a5 10.Be3 Ba6
11.Ka4 Qb8 12.f4 c6 13.Nf3 b5+ 14.cxb5 Bxb5+ 15.Ka3 Bxc3 16.bxc3 Nc5 17.Rb1 Na6 18.c4 Qc7 19.cxb5 cxb5 20.Qc1 b4+
21.Kb2 Qb6 22.Bxb6 1-0
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.11.01"]
[White "Windarcher"]
[Black "TheProNewb"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1856"]
[BlackElo "2292"]
[TimeControl "1|0"]
[Termination "TheProNewb won by resignation"]
1.g3 e6 2.Bg2 Ke7 3.b3 Kd6 4.Bb2 Kc5 5.d3 Kb4 6.e3 a5 7.Qd2+ Kb5 8.Ne2 a4 9.Qc3 a3 10.Qc4+ Kb6
11.Qb4+ Bxb4+ 0-1
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.11.01"]
[White "TheProNewb"]
[Black "Windarcher"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2292"]
[BlackElo "1856"]
[TimeControl "1|0"]
[Termination "TheProNewb won by resignation"]
1.d4 b6 2.Kd2 Bb7 3.Kd3 g6 4.e4 Bg7 5.Nc3 d5 6.e5 f6 7.f4 fxe5 8.Nf3 exf4 9.Bxf4 e6 10.Qd2 Nc6
11.Bg5 Qd7 12.Qf4 Nge7 13.Re1 O-O-O 14.h4 Rdf8 15.Qg4 h6 16.Bf4 Nb4+ 17.Kd2 Nxa2 18.Nxa2 Qa4 19.Nc3 Bxd4 20.Nxa4
1-0
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.11.01"]
[White "Windarcher"]
[Black "TheProNewb"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1856"]
[BlackElo "2292"]
[TimeControl "1|0"]
[Termination "TheProNewb won by resignation"]
1.g3 f6 2.Bg2 Kf7 3.b3 Kg6 4.Bb2 Kh5 5.h4 Kg4 6.e3+ Kf5 7.Bh3+ Kg6 8.h5+ Kf7 9.h6 g6 10.d3 Nxh6
11.Nd2 Ng8 12.g4 Bg7 13.Qb1 d5 14.g5 f5 15.f4 e5 16.fxe5 Be6 17.d4 c5 18.Ne2 Nc6 19.Nf3 b5 20.Qd1 c4
21.Qd2 Qd7 22.Qc3 b4 23.Qd2 c3 24.Qc1 a5 25.Qd1 Nge7 26.Rb1 cxb2 27.Rxb2 Rhb8 0-1
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.11.01"]
[White "TheProNewb"]
[Black "Windarcher"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2292"]
[BlackElo "1856"]
[TimeControl "1|0"]
[Termination "TheProNewb won on time"]
1.e4 g6 2.Ke2 Bg7 3.Kf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.d3 d6 6.Kg2 Nd7 7.f4 e6 8.Nf3 Qe7 9.Be2 h6 10.h4 g5
11.h5 gxf4 12.gxf4 e5 13.f5 Ndf6 14.Nc3 Nd7 15.Be3 Ngf6 16.Qd2 d5 17.Rag1 dxe4 18.dxe4 Nxe4 19.Nxe4 Bxe4 20.Kf1 O-O-O
21.Rxg7 Bxf5 22.Ke1 e4 23.Nd4 Be6 24.Kd1 Bxa2 25.Kc1 Nc5 26.Bg4+ Kb8 27.Rf1 Bd5 28.Qb4 Kb7 29.Qb5 a6 30.Rfxf7 Qxf7
31.Rxf7 axb5 32.Re7 b4 33.Nb5 Rc8 34.Nd6+ Kb8 35.Nxc8 Rxc8 36.Bxc8 Kxc8 37.Bxc5 Kb7 38.Rh7 bxc5 39.Rxh6 Be6 40.Rf6 Bg4
41.h6 1-0
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.11.01"]
[White "Windarcher"]
[Black "TheProNewb"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1856"]
[BlackElo "2292"]
[TimeControl "1|0"]
[Termination "TheProNewb won by resignation"]
1.b3 e6 2.Bb2 Ke7 3.d3 Kd6 4.e3 c5 5.Nd2 Kc7 6.g3 Nc6 7.Bg2 d5 8.a3 Nf6 9.Ne2 Bd6 10.c4 b6
11.cxd5 exd5 12.Bxf6 Qxf6 13.Bxd5 Bb7 14.Bg2 Rad8 15.Nc4 Kb8 16.b4 cxb4 17.axb4 Bxb4+ 18.Kf1 Rxd3 19.Qa4 Bc3 20.Nxc3 Qxc3
21.Na3 Qxa1+ 22.Ke2 Qc3 23.Bxc6 Rd2+ 24.Kf3 Bxc6+ 0-1
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.11.01"]
[White "Windarcher"]
[Black "TheProNewb"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1856"]
[BlackElo "2292"]
[TimeControl "1|0"]
[Termination "TheProNewb won by checkmate"]
1.b3 e6 2.Bb2 Ke7 3.g3 Kd6 4.Bg2 Kc5 5.d3 Kb4 6.e3 a5 7.Ne2 a4 8.a3+ Kb5 9.b4 c5 10.c3 d6
11.Nd2 d5 12.Qc2 Kc6 13.O-O b5 14.c4 Kb6 15.cxd5 exd5 16.e4 d4 17.e5 Ra7 18.bxc5+ Bxc5 19.Rab1 Rc7 20.Qd1 Be6
21.Nf3 Nc6 22.Nfxd4 Nxd4 23.Nxd4 Bxd4 24.Bxd4+ Qxd4 25.Re1 Bb3 26.Qd2 Ne7 27.Re4 Qc5 28.e6 f5 29.Rf4 g5 30.Rf3 Bd5
31.Re3 Bxg2 32.Kxg2 f4 33.Re2 Nf5 34.gxf4 Qd5+ 35.f3 Nd4 36.Re5 Qxf3+ 37.Kg1 Rc2 38.Qb4 Qg2# 0-1
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.11.01"]
[White "Windarcher"]
[Black "TheProNewb"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1856"]
[BlackElo "2292"]
[TimeControl "1|0"]
[Termination "TheProNewb won on time"]
1.h3 d6 2.g3 Kd7 3.Bg2 Ke6 4.b3 Ke5 5.Bb2+ Kf5 6.d3 h5 7.e3 h4 8.g4+ Kg5 9.Qf3 e5 10.Qd1 Nc6
11.Ne2 d5 12.Nd2 f5 13.Ng1 Kh6 14.gxf5 g5 15.fxg6 Kxg6 16.Qe2 Nf6 17.O-O-O Bf5 18.f4 e4 19.dxe4 dxe4 20.Bxf6 Qxf6
21.Kb1 Ba3 22.c3 Qxc3 23.Nc4 Be7 24.Qc2 Qxc2+ 25.Kxc2 Rad8 26.Ne2 Bf6 27.Nd4 Nxd4+ 28.exd4 Rxd4 29.Rde1 c5 30.Ne5+ Bxe5
31.fxe5 Rhd8 32.Rhg1 Kf7 33.Bf3 Ke6 34.Be2 Kxe5 35.Bg4 Rd2+ 36.Kb1 Bxg4 37.Rxg4 R8d4 38.Rg5+ Kd6 39.Rg4 Kc6 40.Rxh4 Kb5
0-1
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.11.01"]
[White "TheProNewb"]
[Black "Windarcher"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2292"]
[BlackElo "1856"]
[TimeControl "1|0"]
[Termination "TheProNewb won by resignation"]
1.d3 b6 2.Kd2 Bb7 3.Ke3 g6 4.Kd4 Bg7+ 5.Kc4 e6 6.Kb3 d6 7.c4 Nd7 8.Nc3 Ne7 9.e4 a5 10.Be3 Ba6
11.Ka4 Qb8 12.f4 c6 13.Nf3 b5+ 14.cxb5 Bxb5+ 15.Ka3 Bxc3 16.bxc3 Nc5 17.Rb1 Na6 18.c4 Qc7 19.cxb5 cxb5 20.Qc1 b4+
21.Kb2 Qb6 22.Bxb6 1-0
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.11.01"]
[White "Windarcher"]
[Black "TheProNewb"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1856"]
[BlackElo "2292"]
[TimeControl "1|0"]
[Termination "TheProNewb won by resignation"]
1.g3 e6 2.Bg2 Ke7 3.b3 Kd6 4.Bb2 Kc5 5.d3 Kb4 6.e3 a5 7.Qd2+ Kb5 8.Ne2 a4 9.Qc3 a3 10.Qc4+ Kb6
11.Qb4+ Bxb4+ 0-1
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.11.01"]
[White "TheProNewb"]
[Black "Windarcher"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2292"]
[BlackElo "1856"]
[TimeControl "1|0"]
[Termination "TheProNewb won by resignation"]
1.d4 b6 2.Kd2 Bb7 3.Kd3 g6 4.e4 Bg7 5.Nc3 d5 6.e5 f6 7.f4 fxe5 8.Nf3 exf4 9.Bxf4 e6 10.Qd2 Nc6
11.Bg5 Qd7 12.Qf4 Nge7 13.Re1 O-O-O 14.h4 Rdf8 15.Qg4 h6 16.Bf4 Nb4+ 17.Kd2 Nxa2 18.Nxa2 Qa4 19.Nc3 Bxd4 20.Nxa4
1-0
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.11.01"]
[White "Windarcher"]
[Black "TheProNewb"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1856"]
[BlackElo "2292"]
[TimeControl "1|0"]
[Termination "TheProNewb won by resignation"]
1.g3 f6 2.Bg2 Kf7 3.b3 Kg6 4.Bb2 Kh5 5.h4 Kg4 6.e3+ Kf5 7.Bh3+ Kg6 8.h5+ Kf7 9.h6 g6 10.d3 Nxh6
11.Nd2 Ng8 12.g4 Bg7 13.Qb1 d5 14.g5 f5 15.f4 e5 16.fxe5 Be6 17.d4 c5 18.Ne2 Nc6 19.Nf3 b5 20.Qd1 c4
21.Qd2 Qd7 22.Qc3 b4 23.Qd2 c3 24.Qc1 a5 25.Qd1 Nge7 26.Rb1 cxb2 27.Rxb2 Rhb8 0-1
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.11.01"]
[White "TheProNewb"]
[Black "Windarcher"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2292"]
[BlackElo "1856"]
[TimeControl "1|0"]
[Termination "TheProNewb won on time"]
1.e4 g6 2.Ke2 Bg7 3.Kf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.d3 d6 6.Kg2 Nd7 7.f4 e6 8.Nf3 Qe7 9.Be2 h6 10.h4 g5
11.h5 gxf4 12.gxf4 e5 13.f5 Ndf6 14.Nc3 Nd7 15.Be3 Ngf6 16.Qd2 d5 17.Rag1 dxe4 18.dxe4 Nxe4 19.Nxe4 Bxe4 20.Kf1 O-O-O
21.Rxg7 Bxf5 22.Ke1 e4 23.Nd4 Be6 24.Kd1 Bxa2 25.Kc1 Nc5 26.Bg4+ Kb8 27.Rf1 Bd5 28.Qb4 Kb7 29.Qb5 a6 30.Rfxf7 Qxf7
31.Rxf7 axb5 32.Re7 b4 33.Nb5 Rc8 34.Nd6+ Kb8 35.Nxc8 Rxc8 36.Bxc8 Kxc8 37.Bxc5 Kb7 38.Rh7 bxc5 39.Rxh6 Be6 40.Rf6 Bg4
41.h6 1-0
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.11.01"]
[White "Windarcher"]
[Black "TheProNewb"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1856"]
[BlackElo "2292"]
[TimeControl "1|0"]
[Termination "TheProNewb won by resignation"]
1.b3 e6 2.Bb2 Ke7 3.d3 Kd6 4.e3 c5 5.Nd2 Kc7 6.g3 Nc6 7.Bg2 d5 8.a3 Nf6 9.Ne2 Bd6 10.c4 b6
11.cxd5 exd5 12.Bxf6 Qxf6 13.Bxd5 Bb7 14.Bg2 Rad8 15.Nc4 Kb8 16.b4 cxb4 17.axb4 Bxb4+ 18.Kf1 Rxd3 19.Qa4 Bc3 20.Nxc3 Qxc3
21.Na3 Qxa1+ 22.Ke2 Qc3 23.Bxc6 Rd2+ 24.Kf3 Bxc6+ 0-1
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