| Aug-08-16 | | Straclonoor: Very interesting game! So interesting that it comes to me a reason to register on chessgames.com and post comments here-:)
Fahrni had little advantage through the game, but only final mistake by Burn - 64....g4?? lose game. Right way is rook sacrifice - 64....Rxa7 with draw.
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Analysis by Stockfish 020816 64 POPCNT: = (0.00): 64...Rxa7 65.Kxa7 g4 66.Ka6 g3 67.Ka5 g2 68.Rb1 Kc5 69.Ka4 e4 70.Rg1 Kc4 71.Rxg2 e3 72.Rb2 Kd3 73.Kb3 e2 74.Rb1 Kd2 75.Rb2+ Kd3
Next I want analyse game Fahrni-Burn from Ostende 1906, were Burn done his best and won. |
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May-09-17
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64...?
<Burn, playing Black, is to move, and is trying to find a way to save the draw. White is threatening the immediately winning 65. Ra5 but black has a simple draw with 64...Rxa7 followed by
65. Kxa7 g4
66. Rb4 Kd5
67. Rxg4 e4 etc.
But Burn plays
64...g4.
This is of course followed by 65. Ra5 (65...Rb1+ 66. Ka6 1-0).
Maybe a time trouble mistake? No, he had lots of time with a time control just passed.
Maybe temporary chess blindness? No, Burn <annotated the game in the tournament book, and concludes that white is winning in the position in the diagram. <Burn wrote was 63...g5 was a blunder after which Black was lost.>> The old masters were great for their day, I just think people shouldn't compare their actual playing level with that of today's top players.> |
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| May-09-17 | | Howard: Remind me to look up this game in that doorstop-sized book about Amos Burn (I'm not home right now.). It'll be interesting what the author has to say about this game. |
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May-09-17
 | | tamar: That is a glaring example, certainly <offramp> Ugh. But chess strength is weird. I have heard IM Lawrence Trent make similar misevaluations of endgames, prompting Magnus Carlsen to joke that the position had two evaluations, one objectively a draw, and the other play on if against Lawrence. |
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May-11-17
| | offramp: <Howard: Remind me to look up this game in that doorstop-sized book about Amos Burn (I'm not home right now.). It'll be interesting what the author has to say about this game> HOWARD! Look up this game if you get home. FFS! |
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| Jun-29-17 | | Howard: Regarding that book by Burn, I'm not sure where it is right now. But, I'll concede I need to follow through on what I'd posted here. By the way, I'd never heard of FFS...but I know NOW what it means. |
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Sep-21-20
| | offramp: <Howard: Regarding that book by Burn, I'm not sure where it is right now....> Are you using it as a doorstop? |
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Sep-21-20
 | | fredthebear: Richard Forster's chess biography of Amos Burn gets 5 Stars by reviewers on Amazon.
ISBN-13: 978-0786477265
ISBN-10: 0786477261
https://www.amazon.com/Amos-Burn-Ch... At a smidge under 5 pounds and 1,000 pages, it sounds like a wasteful spending bill that American politicians would pass into law and then read later to see what they passed. Goodies all around. Who still has their free Obama cell phone?
https://www.bing.com/images/search?... Generally, I don't make stuff up (but sometimes my sarcasm gets in the way). Real life in the USA is much crazier than my compartmentalized brain can fathom. So, let's ask the Brits... Is Forster's book worthwhile? Is it extra large print? How many pictures? How many pages does/should one read before s/he's entitled to review it? Just which door should it oblige? |
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Sep-21-20
| | offramp: Not from a <Brit>, but the book was reviewed in some detail by the Florida-based master User: LIFE Master AJ. You can read his review at Amos Burn (kibitz #60). The posts following that review also contain comments about the book, including a few from me, and I <am> a Brit. World-weary kibitzers will be happy to read that I ate my words, at Amos Burn (kibitz #74). |
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Sep-22-20
| | offramp: User: Howard has also made some enlightening comments about the book: <May-19-14 Howard: ...I never understood though why a relatively unknown player like Burn warranted such a huge, doorstop-sized book.> <May-09-17 Howard: Remind me to look up this game in that doorstop-sized book about Amos Burn.> <Aug-10-18 Howard: Amos didn't wear socks? I wonder if that doorstop-sized book on him (which I have) mentions that.> |
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