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Emil Diemer vs Fleck
"Carpe Diemer" (game of the day Jan-17-2024)
Lindau (1949), Lindau GER, Feb-??
Blackmar-Diemer Gambit: Ryder Gambit (D00)  ·  1-0

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Aug-11-06  Chess Lou Zer: I like the way white finishes this guy off. It would probably make for a good puzzle.
Jan-05-09  WhiteRook48: puzzle: White to play.
20. ? See game for solution
Might make for a Monday puzzle
Jun-05-12  Charousek.jnr: Excellent gambit for tactical players.
Jan-13-13  Gambit All: 18...Ne7, blocking his Q from h4, was the killer.
Jan-17-24  goodevans: White played badly but Black played worse. I wonder how much absinthe was consumed before and during this game.
Jan-17-24  BxChess: I come from aristocracy. On my father's side the family motto is `Carpe canem' and on my mother's it is `Cave diem'.
Jan-17-24
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: Well, 19...e5?? was horrible, but thanks to Black's "defense" (5...Nc6?, et cetera), Fleck had problems. Maybe 19...Ng6 improves, but 20.Rxg6!?,Kxg6; 21.Rg4+ might prove troublesome.
Jan-17-24  sfm: Rather stupid pun. Excellent!
Jan-17-24  sfm: The power of a totally unsound sac. There was nothing in it - except the chance of one big slip.

In Diemer's bio:
"The doctors considered that chess was too much of a strain for his nerves..."

When I started to take chess seriously around '77 I signed up for a tournament. Got a strong and very disturbing stomach infection a few hours before I played the first game. I felt so totally sick that I considered quitting, but I didn't.

After the game it disappeared completely. I was happy to have gotten over it. In the following 5 years I discovered that the serious 'infection' would reappear every single time, starting a few hours before a tournament game, and disappear immediately after.

Jan-17-24
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  Teyss: What the Fleck, strange game. Only 74 games in the DB with 5.Qxf3 (Nxf3 seems more natural), of which 35 played by Emil Diemer who's a big fan of that opening: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... .

Then 6 games with 7.Nge2, all white wins (yeah, why didn't you take the d4 Pawn?). Only game with 8...Be7.

<Maybe 19...Ng6 improves, but 20.Rxg6!?,Kxg6; 21.Rg4+ might prove troublesome.> Actually not: 21...Kh7 (not Kf6? or Kf7? with mate to follow, but then one could expect anything in this game) and I don't see much to compensate for the Rook (-7.8 at 28 ply).

Apparently after 19...Ng6 White has nothing better than 20.Rf2 (-5.4 at 30 ply), so 19...e5 was indeed a blunder. That last glass of absinthe was one too many for Black.

Jan-17-24
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  FSR: Black must have rued his naive blunder 19...e5??
Jan-17-24  whiteshark: Game #75 in Diemer's book.
Played in February 1949.
He called <5...Nc6> the Tautvaisas-Defence, facing it a few months earlier in E Diemer vs P Tautvaisas, 1948 .
Jan-18-24
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  MissScarlett: The Federal Republic of Germany - FRG - was officially established on May 23rd 1949, the GDR following in October. Should Germany in the limbo period between May 1945 and May 1949 still carry the country code GER?
Jan-18-24
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  perfidious: There seems no good alternative.
Jan-18-24  VerySeriousExpert: What do you think, could E.Diemer have the plan 5...Qxd4! 6.Bf4! or not? I think, he could.
Jan-18-24  whiteshark: <VSE: <6.Be3>> (develop with tempo) is the continuation:


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Jan-18-24  VerySeriousExpert: @whiteshark
Thank you for these historical data! Nevertheless, after 6.Be3 Qh4+!? 7.g3 Qg4! 8.Qf2 Qf5 E.Diemer couldn't get a real attack.
Jan-18-24  VerySeriousExpert: And thank you, I understood that his main plan was 6.Be3.

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