Chess Ngrams

Karpov vs. Kasparov

I was testing out Google's Ngrams tool (which allows you to search the relative occurrence of words across one million books in English) and got some expected results.

Chess, checkers, and backgammon

Hypermodern

Amusing Search Terms IV

As I've discussed before (1, 2, 3), the majority of my blog visitors arrive via a Google search using keywords, some of which can be quite amusing. Here are some recent ones that caught my attention, together with my commentary:

• paranoia attack
  (Someone's plotting to use that variation against me.)
• anti anti-anti-sicilian
  (They will eventually up the ante on that.)
• robot fetish
  (Maybe if you dress it in leather....)
• david levy sex robot
  (I'm sure he'd be flattered by the nickname.)
• david levy fetish
  (Who suffers from that? Mrs. Levy perhaps?)
• sam sloan fetish
  (Probably Truong.)
• sexy chess photos
  (No doubt he was disappointed.)
• kenilworth sex
  (I hope that one doesn't show up at the club.)
• 1 e4 c4 2 Nf3 Nc3
  (He's only interested in White's perspective.)
• it takes many years to play good chess
  (Tell me about it, brother.)
• frankenstein, dracula and werewolf
  (My blog is near the top for that search.)
• chess petrov or petroff
  ("Let's call the whole thing off.")
• how to write a article
  (I don't think he's qualified.)
• pure pedantry
  (No surprise these terms lead you to my blog.)

Still More Amusing Search Terms

Searches using Google (including Google's blog search) and other search engines continue to be the most popular way for visitors to find my site. So I am always interested in the search terms they are using. As I have pointed out before (see Amusing Search Terms and More Amusing Search Terms), some of these searches leave me puzzled.... Here are some of the latest strange search strings:

does chess keeps mind sharp
butt-vinnik
steve stoyko basketball
odd chess pieces
how to meet the albin
x-rated albin counter gambit
albin counter-gambit, bitch!
world dwarf throwing championship
awesome chess books
new jersey coroner
is michael goeller married?