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| Feb-08-17 | | Big Pawn: The last move of the game is kind of curious too. 19... Qxe5+ still does the trick, but much more powerful is 19...Rxe5+. There is a mating net around the king which forces 20. Ne2 (if not 20. Qxe5) Rxe2+
21. Kd1 Rh2+ (discovery)
22. Ke1 Rxh1+
23. Qg1 Rxg1 Mate.
These old games are fun to look at and quite instructive, but many of them show that the level of play was very low. |
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| May-13-19 | | Count Wedgemore: "Four Thousand Holes in Blackburne's Position" |
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| Jun-13-22 | | areknames: Poor quality game. As <Big Pawn> pointed out, 12...e5 is a move too late and after the fairly obvious 13.Nf3 White is doing ok. Clever pun but only experts in Beatles minutiae will get it without resorting to google. Anyone know what happened to <Count Wedgemore> ? He was an appreciated contributor here. |
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Jun-13-22
 | | perfidious: After the move order 1.d4 f5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bg5 e6 4.e4 fxe4 5.Nxe4 Be7, the Cuban grandmaster Vera missed a chance for advantage with 6.Nxf6+ Bxf6 7.h4 in a blitz game against me at Montreal 1996, but eventually won anyway after some vicissitudes. |
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Jun-13-22
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: "Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire"--from "A Day in the Life." Brilliant pun, to be sure, but dang, if <areknames> hadn't mentioned the Liverpudlians, never would have solved it. |
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| Jun-13-22 | | nalinw: Lovely pun - why did it languish so long ..... |
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| Jun-13-22 | | Brenin: "A Day in the Life" was based on newspaper headlines, ranging from the death of the boxer Freddie Mills to the poor state of the roads in Blackburn. |
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| Jun-13-22 | | goodevans: Whilst never quite up there with the likes of Steinitz and Emanuel Lasker, Blackburne was held in sufficient esteem in his native Britain to be immortalised by this portrait in the British Vanity Fair magazine: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/... I was given a framed original of this as a present some thirty-odd years ago and it's hanging just over my right shoulder as I type this. |
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| Jun-13-22 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: I started by seeing the Qh8+ line, but without the follow-on mating attack. Then I saw the Rxc8+ line, and declared victory. And it's indeed the simplest winning line. Seeing the mating attack in the Qa8+ line seems to depend on looking ahead to Ba4. And by the way, Black can't easily maintain the b5 rook blockade, because White's capture there could be a diversion of a Black queen needed to defend d8 and/or e8. |
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| Jun-13-22 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: Blackburne's last chance for a playable game was 15 f3. It lets him eventually castle long, and also unbinds his underdeveloped kingside. However, he goes from a pawn up to a pawn down in the process of digging out of his hole(s). |
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| Jun-13-22 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: Well, that assumes Steinitz can chop White's e-pawn, but this seems very likely. |
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Jun-13-22
 | | OhioChessFan: Very nice pun. |
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| Jun-13-22 | | drleper: The pun is a winner! |
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| Jun-13-22 | | spingo: 
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I am surprised that Blackburne did tried to offer a pawn.
12. Qd3. Steinitz would have a whirl with
12...Qxg2!
click for larger viewI suppose White would castle, 14. 0-0-0.
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Jun-13-22
 | | 0ZeR0: I'm not one to comment on puns much because often I don't understand them. But once I realized where this one is from I found it quite enjoyable. Ditto the game, despite the mistakes. These old pre-20th century games seem to have a certain charm to them which is sometimes missing in modern chess. |
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| Jun-13-22 | | Granny O Doul: The pun could be improved by dropping "'s position". |
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Jun-13-22
 | | playground player: Poor Blackburne! But I love the pun. |
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Jun-13-22
 | | PawnSac: < goodevans: > Nice portrait! Wonderful gift. |
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| Jun-14-22 | | technical draw: <Good Evening: "Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire"--from "A Day in the Life."> Which reminds me of this beautiful song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSG... |
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Jun-14-22
 | | MissScarlett: <Anyone know what happened to <Count Wedgemore> ? He was an appreciated contributor here.> It would be good to have a place where Auld Lang Syne posters could let it known that they're dormant, not extinct. |
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| Jun-14-22 | | spingo: < technical draw: <Good Evening: "Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire"--from "A Day in the Life.">
Which reminds me of this beautiful song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSG... OH YEAH?!? |
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Jun-15-22
 | | Honza Cervenka: Instead of 12.g3 white could have played 12.Qd3 with idea 12...Qxg2 13.Qxh7+ Kf7 14.0-0-0 Qxh1 15.Nh3 +- (black Queen is trapped, as 15...Qxh2 or 15...Qf3 is followed by 16.Ng5+, and 15...Qg2 is insufficient for 16.Rg1). After better 12...g6 13.Qg3 white has a fine game. |
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May-28-23
 | | alligator: According to ChessBase Steinitz played 19�, Rxe5+ and Blackburne resigned. This makes sense since the main point of 18�, Qg5 was to take away the only remaining escape square d2, placing White�s King in a mating net.
My guess is that one can justify Blackburne�s Bxh7+ as a way to create the c2 square as a route for his King to escape mate. Also, it may be that this sacrifice follows defensive advice (formulated later by Lasker) to give back material. |
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May-28-23
| | MissScarlett: Persuasive but there's a stumbling block - the original source, the <Era> of January 18th 1863 gave <19...Q takes K P and wins.> |
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Oct-22-24
| | Honza Cervenka: 19...Qxe5+ leads to a forced mate after 20.Qxe5 Rxe5+ 21.Kd2 Rf2+ 22.Kd3 c5! 23.c4 Bf5+ 24.Kc3 Re3#, and 20.Kd2 Qxd4+ 21.cxd4 Rf2+ 22.Kd3 (22.Kc3 Re3+ 23.Kb4 Rxb2+ 24.Kc5 Be6 25.Rc1 Ra3 and 26...Ra5#) 22...Bf5+ 23.Kc3 Re3+ 24.Kb4 Rxb2+ 25.Kc5 Rc3+ 26.Kxd5 Rb5# is not better. |
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