| Jul-29-09 | | myschkin: . . .
Beautiful! |
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| Apr-09-12 | | tripuji: Rd1 is bad move |
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Apr-09-12
 | | sevenseaman: Ask for trouble, you get it. |
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Apr-09-12
 | | al wazir: <tripuji: Rd1 is bad move> Right. 17. Bxh4 17. Qxh4+ 18. Qf2 solves white's problems. |
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Apr-09-12
 | | King Sacrificer: <al wazir: <tripuji: Rd1 is bad move> Right. 17. Bxh4 17. Qxh4+ 18. Qf2 solves white's problems.> 17.Bxh4 meets Qxe5+ and loses the rook next move. |
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| Apr-09-12 | | Jamboree: What if white did not walk into mate with the blunder 18. Qe2, and after 17. ... Qe3+ instead played 18. Be2...? Turns out it's mate anyway, but infinitely more complicated! Here's the crazy mating line I just played out: 18.Be2 Qxf2+ 19.Kd2 Bg5+ 20.Kc3 Qb6 21.Rb1 Qa5+ 22.Kd4 c5+ 23.Kxd5 Qd8+ 24.Ke4 Qd4+ 25.Kf3 Qe3+ 26.Kg4 Qf4+ 27.Kh5 g6#. There are other defenses for white on move 21, but this is by far the most amusing and amazing. |
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| Apr-09-12 | | backrank: <Jamboree> Isn't (in your line) 25. ... Qf4 mate? |
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| Apr-09-12 | | newzild: Maybe White should have tried 17. Qe2.
Can anyone see a knockout blow? The sac 17...Rb2 18. Qxb2 Qe3+ 19. Qe2 Bxf2+ 20. Ke1 is unconvincing. Maybe the quiet 17...Rfe8 is best. White has only two candidates I can see: a) 18. d4, when Black has the safe 18...f6 or speculative 18...Bxc4, or b) 18. Kd1, when his king surely cannot survive long. |
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Apr-09-12
| | King Sacrificer: < newzild: Maybe White should have tried 17. Qe2.
Can anyone see a knockout blow? The sac 17...Rb2 18. Qxb2 Qe3+ 19. Qe2 Bxf2+ 20. Ke1 is unconvincing. Maybe the quiet 17...Rfe8 is best. White has only two candidates I can see: a) 18. d4, when Black has the safe 18...f6 or speculative 18...Bxc4, or b) 18. Kd1, when his king surely cannot survive long.> What i see is 17...Bxf2+ 18. Kxf2 Qh4+ 19. Kg1 Qd4+ 20. Qf2 Qxa1 |
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| Apr-09-12 | | Penguincw: I also like this pun. |
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Apr-09-12
 | | kevin86: Nice finish. It is a variation of the fool's mate. |
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Apr-09-12
 | | WannaBe: I did not know Felix Unger played this game. |
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Apr-09-12
 | | scormus: Cool pun! |
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Apr-09-12
 | | whiteshark: Everyone thinks I'm a hypochondriac. It makes me sick. |
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Apr-09-12
 | | maxi: He was too hungrig for Pawns. |
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| Apr-09-12 | | TheTamale: Ha ha, everyone is pinned!
Still, it was glaringly obvious that Black would like to swoop in with Qe3+. Not too sure what White was thinking. |
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| Apr-09-12 | | drpoundsign: WHAT?! no Odd couple puns?? |
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| Apr-10-12 | | nummerzwei: <"I don't write about adolescence, I write about war."> Suzanne Collins |
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| May-31-12 | | Whitehat1963: More than an Odd Couple of moves. |
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