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Trump and Bobby Fischer Discuss 3D Chess Strategy on Beating the Deep State (fake image)
Free Republic ^ | 8/25/2018 | PoconoPundit

Posted on 08/25/2018 5:19:18 PM PDT by poconopundit

Recently I was reminded of the Fischer vs. Spassky chess match my brothers and I watched on TV in 1972.  Actually there was no live broadcast, but commentators gave a running analysis as each move was made.  It turned out to be quite fun -- a pre-runner of Periscope -- four decades before social media took off.

Does anybody out there remember this?!

I explored photos of Fischer and Trump's 1970s publicity shots and wondered if I could create an imaginery meeting between the two.  This is the result.

I read up about Fischer for this vanity and discovered he was a pretty weird guy who kind of went off the deep end as a recluse and radical Leftist.  So imagine this fake meeting occurred before Fischer lost his marbles.



TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: chess; deepstate; deepstategate; trump1970s
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1 posted on 08/25/2018 5:19:18 PM PDT by poconopundit
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To: Liz; HarleyLady27; Jane Long; GOPJ; Grampa Dave; tinyowl; DollyCali; DoughtyOne; rlmorel

Hope you enjoy this thoroughly whacky meme.


2 posted on 08/25/2018 5:22:06 PM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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For those interested in seeing how the meme was constructed, download the Excel sheet (6 Megabytes)

http://freeper.org/fr/Chess/Trump_Fischer.xlsx


3 posted on 08/25/2018 5:29:27 PM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: poconopundit

That is some good photoshop.


4 posted on 08/25/2018 5:37:29 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: poconopundit

You posted this in the bloggers forum but I don’t see a link to yours??


5 posted on 08/25/2018 6:00:42 PM PDT by upchuck (Election campaigns are a pain in the ass. Unless I win. Then it's a nice ego boost. ~ CongressmanX)
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To: poconopundit

Wow, thanks for sharing your secrets on making your meme. I’m fascinated by learning to make memes and was pleased to see that you used Gimp. How interesting that you used Excel to bring it together, I would not have thought of it. Great job!


6 posted on 08/25/2018 6:28:34 PM PDT by georgiegirl (Count me Deplorable)
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To: poconopundit; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

excellent meme ping!!


7 posted on 08/25/2018 7:28:18 PM PDT by bitt (We know not what course others may take, but as for me, Give me Liberty, or Give me Death!)
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To: poconopundit

The Manhattan Chess Club was Fischer’s home club. WNET Channel 13 in New York broadcast the match, with move by move coverage and analysis from grandmasters at the club.

I had two chess sets at the time, so I hauled them out. Ii kept one set to wherever the match between Fischer and Spassky was and used the other for analysis, to see if I could figure out strategies. I got one of Fischer’s game-winning moves two moves before he made it. (The high point for me as far as chess is concerned.)

That was actually entertaining TV, and when Spassky resigned, they had quite a moment there at the Manhattan Chess Club.


8 posted on 08/25/2018 8:21:16 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: poconopundit

"Fork . . . the angry queen?" Even Bill Clinton wouldn't go there, at least not since 9 months before Chelsea was born (and perhaps not even then).

9 posted on 08/26/2018 12:27:09 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: upchuck

Hi upchuck,

I’m never sure what category these go in.

However you can access all my vanities on FR at my profile:

http://www.freerepublic.com/~poconopundit/


10 posted on 08/26/2018 5:59:53 AM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: georgiegirl; Slyfox
Thanks.  Actually I created a 30 minute YouTube last year that sums up a lot of the techniques I use.

Making Deplorable Political Art by Mashing Up Google Images

Yes, Excel is very useful, particularly in the final mock up stage.

I never got the hang of using Layers in GIMP. I guess I'm too lazy to learn it, but in Excel it's pretty easy as you can quickly move one image in front of another, etc.

Another area is created Drop Shadows. For example you can copy an transparent image into Excel, put a shadow on it and copy it back into GIMP. Very effective.

Text boxes are so much easier to make in Excel. I like to try several background and Excel works well for that too.

11 posted on 08/26/2018 6:12:04 AM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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One other thing about Excel, georgiegirl.

Excel is a place where you can store all the intermediate images and components you use in your meme project. You don’t need to maintain separate files.


12 posted on 08/26/2018 6:26:58 AM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: TBP; Lazamataz
I had two chess sets at the time, so I hauled them out.

Wow, and you anticipated Fischer's game-winning moves. Outstanding.   So you were an excellent player.

I read much of Fischer's Wikipedia page and learned so much.  What struck me most was a radio interview he did in 2006 when he was living in Iceland.  He gave a very perceptive view on Chess in the computer age:

Chess as an UN-creative game also echoes the theme of Lazamataz's post a couple days ago:

Trump: UnPerson Guilty of UnCrime?

13 posted on 08/26/2018 6:39:37 AM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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You’ve got me inspired to check out the youtube and also to “play around” in Excel. Can’t thank you enough for sharing your knowledge. I will get back to you once I have veiwed your entire youtube “how to”.


14 posted on 08/26/2018 4:18:38 PM PDT by georgiegirl (Count me Deplorable)
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Make sure to post your memes on FR and copy me. Happy to give you tips and maybe point to YouTubes. Feel free to contact me privately if you have a question.

Can't emphasize enough it's best to let the great images you find steadily refine your idea of what your composition will be.

At first you will have a general idea of what you're looking for, but you need to flexibly adapt your original concept to move toward the most "perfect" meme given the source materials -- and time -- you have to work with.

In the Trump and Fischer meme, finding the extraordinary 3D chessboard allowed me to show Trump and Fischer standing side by side. It served to hide the fact that I only had an upper torso of Fischer and a right side of Trump. Without the vertical 3d chessboard I would have had to reconstruct the whole left side suit of Trump since it was hidden by another person in the original shot.

You're the first person to express great interest in the technique and video. That makes the effort I put into the video worthwhile.

Since the video, I've begun to play with various meme types:

So I thank you, georgiegirl, for your interest and inspiration to continue on my path. Stay in touch.

Until I get my own picture collection up and running, Google Images has stored quite a few of my memes.

15 posted on 08/27/2018 5:04:19 AM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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Now that I had time to watch your video, I realized you're the guy that posted it some weeks ago and I had watched it then. I tried to find it again, but could not remember where I saw it. Thanks for posting it again, the one I thought I would never find again.

Rosenstein was all over the news at the time, and your video helped me produce this meme: Please feel free to critique, I love this stuff! (I could do over and make FISA font much bigger?)

16 posted on 08/28/2018 12:11:25 PM PDT by georgiegirl (Count me Deplorable)
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Hi Georgiegirl, commenting on your Rosenstein idea.

First of all, what are you using for a graphics program? Photoshop? GIMP?

GIMP is free and that’s what I use. The paste job of the
Rosenstein head is not clean, but that’s easily fixed in GIMP.

Have you looked at YouTube videos that teach you various image manipulation techniques? There are some fabulous instructional videos out now.

I get the connection between Rod Rosenstein and the FISA application, but I’m not sure what message you are trying to convey. Just a pic of Rosenstein with a document in his hand is not whacky enough to be noticed.

Search for a unusual background scene. Maybe Rosenstein can be portrayed as a medieval monk, for example.

https://www.google.com/search?q=medieval+scribe+fantasy&tbm=isch&gws_rd=ssl

Try this search and look for something you like. Try another search. I often insert the keyword “fantasy” to find a cool pic.

Let your imagination take over and spend a lot of time finding the perfect pic to insert your Rosenstein head on.

This approach respects the valuable time you spend perfecting the final graphic. And when it’s finished and it looks professional, you’ve got something you be proud of.

Somebody on FR will tell you they laughed at it, maybe, and then you’re (unfortunately) hooked and have to create more :-)


17 posted on 08/28/2018 6:14:28 PM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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Yes, I did use GIMP and like you said, the layers were kinda confusing. So I switched to Pixl, an online free program which I think is a little more user friendly (for a newbie anyway). Might have been Pixl I used to make the Rosenstein meme. Since your suggestion, I will start putting my "layers" in Excel. I played with that a little on Excel yesterday, took me awhile to figure out how to save the final product "as a picture". (Hope I still remember that part).

I have another meme I made with Trump and Hillary, but it also needs a "zinger". Think I'll mail it to you for your suggestions. Thanks for all the great info, I will look up the "how to" videos you mention.
18 posted on 08/29/2018 3:50:23 PM PDT by georgiegirl (Count me Deplorable)
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To: poconopundit
I couldn't email you a photo (I guess) so here's the meme I mentioned in the previous post. I did this one on GIMP. Thanks for your time and help!

19 posted on 08/29/2018 4:00:17 PM PDT by georgiegirl (Count me Deplorable)
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There you go, georgiegirl! Hillary's neck merges perfectly with the bib she's wearing. When you post these pictures, you can control the width as follows:

<img width=400 src="http://mywebsite.com/pic.jpg">

Is Hillary going to a barber shop? Maybe you Trump is prepping Hillary for going to Jail. You can have her wearing an orange jump suit. Have fun.

20 posted on 08/29/2018 4:31:07 PM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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