| Aug-11-06 | | Chess Lou Zer: I like the way white finishes this guy off. It would probably make for a good puzzle. |
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| Jan-05-09 | | WhiteRook48: puzzle: White to play.
20. ? See game for solution
Might make for a Monday puzzle |
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| Jun-05-12 | | Charousek.jnr: Excellent gambit for tactical players. |
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| Jan-13-13 | | Gambit All: 18...Ne7, blocking his Q from h4, was the killer. |
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| Jan-17-24 | | goodevans: White played badly but Black played worse. I wonder how much absinthe was consumed before and during this game. |
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| 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'. |
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Jan-17-24
 | | 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. |
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| Jan-17-24 | | sfm: Rather stupid pun. Excellent! |
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| 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. |
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Jan-17-24
 | | 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. |
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Jan-17-24
 | | FSR: Black must have rued his naive blunder 19...e5?? |
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| 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 . |
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Jan-18-24
 | | 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? |
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Jan-18-24
 | | perfidious: There seems no good alternative. |
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| Jan-18-24 | | VerySeriousExpert: What do you think, could E.Diemer have the plan 5...Qxd4! 6.Bf4! or not? I think, he could. |
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| Jan-18-24 | | whiteshark: <VSE: <6.Be3>> (develop with tempo) is the continuation:
click for larger view
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... |
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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. |
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| Jan-18-24 | | VerySeriousExpert: And thank you, I understood that his main plan was 6.Be3. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 11.Bxh6