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Alexander Alekhine vs Abraham Frieman
Blindfold simul, 26b (1924) (blindfold), New York, NY USA, Apr-27
Danish Gambit: Declined. Sorensen Defense (C21)  ·  1-0

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Jan-27-04  sleepkid: ...yeah! And then meet me in front of the Louvre for a fistfight! . . . or a vicious game of tiddlywinks, and then I'll go draw moustaches on your favourite painting. . .

...yeah!

Jan-28-04  Catfriend: <sleepkid> I know you know it, but your sense of humour is delicious!!!!!!!!
Jan-28-04  sleepkid: tastes like tacos...
Jan-28-04  Catfriend: LOL Yam-Yam... The tiddlywinks-champ strikes again! Ten portions of humour for 4999.99 $! You say it's too much? Well, otherwise you'd have cheap humour...
Jan-28-04  clendenon: they look like tacos too.
Aug-18-04  Marius: How does 13.Nd4 prevent 13. ..Bh6?
Aug-18-04  sneaky pete: <Marius> AA's original note reads <Erschwert die feindliche Entwicklung, insbesondere durch Entwertung der Diagonale c8-h3>. This last part has been translated in English descriptive as the diagonal QB1-KR6 and now back into algebraic notation erroneously as the diagonal h6-c1. <The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak>.
Aug-18-04  Marius: to sneaky pete : thank you , it clearer
Oct-25-04  dac1990: It's incredible that Alekhine was able to do this blindfolded and play on 27 other boards simultaneously.
Oct-25-04  Calli: <dac1990> See Benzol's note on the first page about Alekhine "doctoring" the game. He gave one version in "On the Road" and another in "My Best Games", neither being correct.
Nov-08-04  mparry: perhaps an easy-looking problem after u c the solution and think OH-DUH!!! which is y so many claim 2 hav seen it quickly. but with all of the possibilities, it really is tuf 2 find the correct 1
Dec-19-04  who: <Chessgames.com> in the notes to move 13 it says something about the black bishop on the C diagonal. There is no longer a black dark squared bishop.
Dec-19-04  who: 8...Ne4 seems good.
May-06-05  soberknight: After the checkmate, Black was no longer a "Free man".
May-23-07  Benzol: Glad to see that the name has been corrected here. Now all that needs to be corrected is the gamescore.
Aug-05-07
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  Phony Benoni: Note to 13.Nd4: <"Preventing an effective development of the Black Bishop on the diagonal h6-c1.">

Was it necessary to spend a move doing this? I don't see how Black's bishop can control that diagonal in any case.

Aug-05-07  Calli: <Phony Benoni> see Sneaky Pete's note of August 2004. It should read c8-h3 diagonal.
Sep-02-09  WhiteRook48: insult to injury
Dec-20-09  ToTheDeath: I first saw this mate in Fred Reinfeld's 1001 Tricky Checkmates.
Dec-14-14  TheFocus: From a blindfold simul world record attempt at the Hotel Almanac in New York, New York on April 27, 1924.

Alekhine's score was +16=5-5.

Mar-13-15  Benzol: Edward Winter on this game http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...
Jul-17-19
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  mifralu: <Benzol: Glad to see that the name has been corrected here. Now all that needs to be corrected is the gamescore.>

22...gxf6 23.Qh6 Qf8 24.Re8 1-0

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

Sep-30-22  Mathematicar: If 22... Qf6 White has nice mate in 4: 23. Re8+ Nf8 24. Nh6+ Qxh6 25. RxNf8! Kxf8 26. Qd8#.
Aug-15-23  antares4444: 13.Nd4 "Preventing an effective development of the Black Bishop on the diagonal h6-c1."

I think it's "[...] developpement of the Black Bishop (of light squares) on the diagonal h7-b1", which make much more sens.

Mar-08-24
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  kingscrusher: 19...Rxe1+ really helped White here - this goes with a common Youtube saying "To take is a mistake" - or a more reserved "To take if often a mistake". Here it seems 19...Rxe1+ is a good example of that. Sometimes being too forcing improves the opponent's position. Early symptoms also evidenced in the game - 9...Bxc3 - the opponent loves their forcing moves it seems.
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