| Nov-01-11 | | Karpova: C.N. 7158
<On, respectively, pages 277 and 159 ['The Steinitz Papers' (Jefferson, 2002)] Landsberger quoted a letter dated 4 November 1896 from F.J. Lee to Frideswilde Rowland which was given in the Spring 1911 issue of Four Leaved Shamrock with the following addition by Mrs Rowland: ‘During the seclusion at Upper Montclair, Steinitz was playing a correspondence game with his cousin, Miss Eliza Foot, President of the Women’s Chess Association, New York. She sent me a copy of her game with Steinitz wherein he resigned, but Dr Pollock told me afterwards that Steinitz played the game without looking at the board.’> Link: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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Nov-01-11
 | | FSR: 15...Rd8 was played in Suetin vs Keres, 1950 (1/2-1/2, 35). |
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Nov-01-11
| | FSR: Steinitz got off on the wrong Foot with 20...Qb6? |
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| Sep-17-12 | | The Last Straw: Sometimes a passed pawn decisdes the whole game, and sometimes an attempted attack can go wrong. Like in this game. |
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| Sep-17-12 | | The Last Straw: What happens if 53...♘b6 54.♗xe4 fxe4? |
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| Sep-17-12 | | The Last Straw: First three kibitzes in a row on this game on the day it is GOTD! :-) |
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| Sep-17-12 | | Abdel Irada: The pun is misleading, meseemeth. "The game" refers to the quarry in a hunt, so I expected Ms Foot to have been the victim, not the victor. |
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| Sep-17-12 | | Abdel Irada: <The Last Straw: First three kibitzes in a row on this game on the day it is GOTD! :-)> So, what's better: primacy or recency? :-D |
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| Sep-17-12 | | kevin86: It looked like black was attacking with several pieces to white's lone pawn.White had the last word however. It white checks into a hotel,do they bill the Foot or does he foot the bill? Note:Ex-baseball player Barry Foote actually played with spikes ON. |
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| Sep-17-12 | | ughaibu: A blindfold correspondence game? Brilliant! |
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| Sep-17-12 | | eightbyeight: <kevin86> White was a she. |
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| Sep-17-12 | | Expendable Asset: <She sent me a copy of her game with Steinitz wherein he resigned, but Dr Pollock told me afterwards that Steinitz played the game without looking at the board.’> Steinitz was more than capable of playing high level chess blind-folded in 1893. |
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| Sep-20-12 | | Lovuschka: Of course Steinitz should have set the trap 52...Ba8 53.Ba4+ Kc8 54.Rc2 e2!?
click for larger viewand now 55.Kf2 (or even 55.h3) wins, but after a mistake Black could deliver mate. Although, as it is here, in a correspondence game White would see it... |
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| Sep-20-12 | | Jim Bartle: "The Game is a Foot!"
Too bad he never played John L Watson. |
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| Sep-20-12 | | tonsillolith: Looks like Steinitz got up on the wrong side of the Foot that morning! |
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Feb-23-16
 | | OhioChessFan: "Footin' the Bill" |
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Jul-29-20
 | | MissScarlett: <Leg Ends of Chess> |
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| Jun-17-24 | | idesofmodernity: Someone put a Foot in it. |
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