h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry ID: A757442 (Edited)

by and large

venue is going

will be sweating

acceptable, but

the players.

stage, you

soundproof

to doing in

straightforward: one

the white pieces

draw with black

anything better

One of

tournament, there

Obviously, do not

stand right at somebody's

chessboard

would notice

somewhere else ?

vitally important

distance and, if

glasses, come

points, providing

players who,

crowd, much

large display screens (usually electronic) ?

matches, this

match, the best

the weakest on the lowest ?

home, those

time, you

high-speed play.

variations

know opening

winning

there can be

So, with this

or are playing

moves), they

Definite no-no.

first ten

So, leave

afterwards, so



return to an earlier position to consider other paths the game might have taken. ? (or something )

game when a player

it may lead to victory

sees.

<'What ifs' however cannot> However, what ifs' cannot

end, and often

So, chess players

analyse the game

Cairo, there

played at rapid

watch but, if

yourself, watch

it's a great

these boards,

you can watch

and if some

wants

them, imagine



Chess tournaments are generally called congresses.

they have ?

three or four

made, the game

Good gracious! I bet you wished you'd not started on that Entry?

Apart from all the typos and grammatical errors, what did you think of the Entry as a whole?

I'll do these

I don't think it's such a bad Entry (although it could probably do with a bit more rephrasing here and there).

But... it's linked from A943184 'A History of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', as one of just four "examples of existing topics", and I'm certain we can find better. After all, we have an additional ten year's worth of Entries to choose from. (The remaining three examples are equally antique.)

Thanks for dealing with this, Gnomon.

Maybe the 'A History of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' should be slightly amended at that point with a footnote, saying that these were examples from the time the Entry was written?

Done all those except:

"connotations", which I thought was OK.

I repunctuated this:

'What ifs' however cannot be answered

to:

'What ifs', however, cannot be answered

(I prefer "however" to be in second place in a sentence.)

I also removed a link to an unedited entry, and changed the Cairo link to link to the newer entry on Cairo rather than the older act about Cairo taxis.

G

Thank you for dealing with that so promptly, Gnomon.

"most players will know a large range of opening moves, sometimes up to the twentieth move and all the connotations."

In order to select the best move in any position, the player considers a variety of possible courses... http://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-analysis/20-move-forcing-variation. Choose another word if you wish, but 'connotations' don't enter into it http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/connotation?view=uk.

Obviously I have a mistaken idea of the meaning of connotations. I thought it meant the same as "consequences".

I've changed this to "consequences".

Yes, the consequences of each variation.