Michael Rohde vs Susan Polgar (1992) Rohde's Scholar

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Michael Rohde vs Susan Polgar
"Rohde's Scholar" (game of the day Aug-04-2012)
Reshevsky Memorial (1992), New York, NY USA, rd 5, Jul-??
English Opening: King's English Variation. Three Knights System General (A27) · 1-0

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May-29-09		JohnBoy: An extremely fun game and should be GotD. "Rhode to success".

Aug-02-12		perfidious: In Rohde vs Browne, 1992, played just before this game, Black tried 9....g4, but I can't help the feeling that if he's forced into such a concession, this whole line with 5....h6 and 6....g5 is too loosening. <JohnBoy> may well be right, and the only reason I'm not sure I agree is that this game could easily be a Sunday puzzle. As <lentil> noted long ago, this classic attacking game could have been played in the nineteenth century.

Aug-04-12		RookFile: No doubt black's play was suspect, but it took very creative and insightful play by Rhode to bring this out.

Aug-04-12		PaulLovric: Hello again Susan. Long time no kibitz....From your profile, "...refused to defend her title in 1999 against Xie Jun, because she believed the conditions were unfair." Did you face a lot of negativity from the chess world and or the media, as Bobby Fischer did when he did a similar thing in 1974? Was 1999 not a good year for you?

Aug-04-12		FSR: Funny. Just last night I was thinking about Rohde puns. (OK, I´m weird.) Sadly, he hasn´t played Daniel John King. I was hoping for ¨King of the Rohde.¨

Aug-04-12		FSR: What a great game! Somehow I´d never seen it. Definitely something you´d expect to see in Napier´s book <Paul Morphy and the Golden Age of Chess>, not in a late-20th century game between GMs. Incidentally, Rohde´s king also knows how to dance - with greater success than Polgar´s here. DeFirmian vs Rohde, 1989 Somewhere floating around my house I have a copy of a game of Eugene Martinovsky´s (possibly from the 1979 U.S. Open) where his king ventured out to the fourth rank in the opening. As I recall, it began 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.dxc5 e6 4.a3 Bxc5 5.b4 Bxf2+!? (Martinovsky later recommended 5...Ne4!) 6.Kxf2 Ne4+ 7.Ke3 Qf6 8.Kxe4 d5+ 9.Ke3 Qxa1. The game only lasted another 20 moves, ending of course with an attack on the king - by White!

Aug-04-12		perfidious: <FSR> That wild snippet of Martinovsky's reminds me of this classic (Chigorin vs H Caro, 1898). This game was published at the time in Chess Life, I think. It may also have made Informator, but I'm not sure-almost all my books are packed away.

Aug-04-12		JohnBoy: Nice calls, <perf> & <FSR>. I'll try to put 5...Ne4 in my bag of tricks. Being a west-coast player in my OTB days, I never met Rhode. Todd Lunna told me that he is great at spotting two & three move combos. Have either of you guys played him? Now we need "Rhode schooled"...

Aug-04-12		perfidious: <JohnBoy> Actually, I've played both players in this game; my second encounter with Rohde was a few weeks after this game, and I played Susan Polgar in the US game/15 only a few days before this tournament. Many years ago, also played Todd Lunna at the Amateur Team East event in Somerset, NJ-think it was in 1987.

Aug-04-12		Llawdogg: Wow! Romantic chess lives!

Aug-04-12		FSR: <JohnBoy> I never played Rohde, but he´s obviously a great tactician, even by GM standards.

Aug-04-12		kevin86: What was wrong with Ms Polgar? She led with her king like a boxer leading with the jaw.

Aug-04-12		talisman: this is one wild ass chess game.

Aug-04-12		xthred: What a flurry towards the end.

Aug-04-12		Mudphudder: If I hadn't seen the names of the players, I might have guessed that this was a game between two 1200 rated players.

Aug-04-12		Cemoblanca: That was a brutal game! ;0)

Aug-09-12		Honza Cervenka: 17...Ne5 was a howler. Why not simply 17...Ke7? Also Rohde missed much better 13.Bd3.

Aug-12-12		Cemoblanca: <Honza Cervenka: 17...Ne5 was a howler. Why not simply 17...Ke7? Also Rohde missed much better 13.Bd3.> Well, at the first glance 17...Ke7!? (I should give ?!!?, because it's a risky & at the same time an interesting move) looks a bit dangerous, but after 18.Qf7+ Kd8 black hasn't much to worry about, for example: 19.Qxg7 Re8! 20.Qf6+ Ne7 21.Nf2 d6 22.Bd2 g4! 23.0-0-0 Qc6! 24.c5!? g3! 25.Nd3 g2! & we've a razor-sharp position! That's all for now! I hope I'll come back to this later & try to put more color in it! Now I'm tired! ;0) Cheers!

Aug-12-12		Jim Bartle: You can try to invent puns using Michael Rohde all day, but you'll never come close to "Michael Rohde Boat Ashore," Rohde vs Seirawan, 1988

Aug-12-12		Cemoblanca: <Jim Bartle> Ahahahaha!!! You're right Jim! This 1 is beyond my human imagination! :D

Aug-12-12		chancho: 30.Rf5+ looks simpler, no?

Aug-12-12		chancho: Ok... 30.Bd2+ is better. 30...Kb6 31.Rb1+ Bb3 32.Rxb3#

Aug-05-23		EvanTheTerrible: For some reason, it seems that this Kf7-Kg6 was theory at one point in time, having been played 5 times at the GM level. Why, I don't know why, as it looks suicidal.

Aug-05-23		perfidious: Last time I played the Black side of 3....f5 was in the 1990s, and I do not recall going in for the idea ....Kf7-g6.

Aug-05-23		Granny O Doul: This game was voted something like 6th-best of the particular Informant it appeared in. That was always a tough list to crack for anyone not accustomed to playing at Linares or Tilburg each year. As for "Michael Rohde the boat ashore", the man himself wrote (in 1995) "even 25 years ago, when this one was new, it elicited groans from anyone who heard it".

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