Bill gomberg

Amen .

Wabbit Loc: Arizona Desert

Hey Doc ..... daffy wants to hold the bucks .....

PNagy Loc: Missouri City, Texas

Enough with the cartoon nonsense. I will play you for $300, loser pays the winner. Depending on where you live it will barely cover my travel expenses. Now onto logistics. Ball in your court, and don't try to wiggle out of this one; you have already informed me that I would not stand a chance.

budrakey

CHILDREN!

Wabbit Loc: Arizona Desert

Hey Doc ..... Daffy's waiting for the money .....

Wabbit Loc: Arizona Desert

Hey Doc ..... ya jealous .....

PNagy Loc: Missouri City, Texas

Wabbit: The money would be taken care of when I arrived. Since I offered to do the traveling I am the one tang the risk. Just be sure you have your money ready.

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

Just a comment going back to catching a shot of the ball meeting the end of the bat... Assuming that the swing of the bat takes one second and you start shooting as the swing begins at a shutter speed of 1/1000 second at a rate of 10 frames per second. In that second, you will have captured 10/1000 or 1% of the action. How long does the bat stay in contact with the ball and what are your chances of capturing that contact? It's a rhetorical question. I don't know the answer. But think about it.

Credit where credit's due. Thanks Frank R. for the lesson years ago.

PNagy Loc: Missouri City, Texas

I cannot answer your question. In order to do it based on the pictures taken with a fast sports camera, the device would have to provide an even greater frame rate than the new Canon IDX. The ordinary everyday answer to your question, is that the ball stays on the head of the bat for an incredibly short time.

When I was shooting baseball games a few years ago it was with a camera capable only of 6 frames per second. Not every picture has to have the ball on the head of the bat. It is easier, and possibly just as dramatic to capture the image a moment after the ball has already bounced off the bat.

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

Good point. I just wanted to mention it because, even under ideal conditions, the example shows that, no matter what we do or how fast we are, we miss at least 99% of what's going on around us.

What's the status of the chess game between you and wabbit? I don't play well, but would love to see a list of the moves between two masters.

PNagy Loc: Missouri City, Texas

Wabbit is not seriously negotiating for the game. He wants to involve Daffy Duck to hold the money while we play, but so far he has not agreed to a time and place, even though I offered to be the one to travel.

Speaking of chess, I regret not having been immersed in it as a kid. Whatever the genetic potential one may have for the game, as in most other pursuits, starting earlier assures reaching a higher percentage of that potential. Whenever not involved in photography and writing for pay I work at improving my chess.

Michael de la Maza wrote a great book, RAPID CHESS IMPROVEMENT. It offers a novel way of developing tactical ability, which raised him from a class C player to an expert in two years. In one major tournament he won $10,000 for achieving the highest score of all players under 2,000 (expert level). He is under 2,000 no more.

De la Maza was already an adult and a lover of chess, who nevertheless, lost most of his tournament games. He was deep into adulthood when he started his training via his technique. His degree of improvement is an almost unprecedented amount for an adult player. He thinks anyone with a reasonable intellect could duplicate his achievement.

I had already stumbled onto de la Maza system by myself when I bought his book. My own strategy for improvement, however, missed a key step without which I could not have improved as much as I wanted. I hope to at least duplicate de la Maza's feat when I enter the US Open in 2013.

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

Remind me to never challenge you to a match. I HATE being checkmated in 15 or fewer moves!

Harvey Loc: Pioneer, CA

One time as a teen I worked for a man who was quite intelligent, ambitious and a skilled chess player. He always had a chess board set up in the boat store as when he was in there escaping from his other businesses and his wife he would practice and some times find an opponent. A local never do well came in with a shabby side kick, kicking the tires on the used boat trailers when his side kick saw the chess board. A conversation started and in a couple minutes the boss was playing chess for a $5 bet - well not for long as it only took the scrubby fellow a couple minutes to win. After 3 more games and $15 the boss ask this fellow just where he learned to play so well "Oh I had about 30 yrs where all they would let me do was play chess or checkers 'till my time was up"
Yep the boss was sucked in real slick like.

Wabbit Loc: Arizona Desert

I cannot answer your question. [/quote]

Hey Doc ..... what a shock Doc ..... some things never change .....

Wabbit Loc: Arizona Desert

Hey Doc ..... pay up, here's raspberries .....