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| Dec-16-04 | | Gowe: According Crafty, white has an advantage. That's something unexpected for me. I thought that black has an extra pawn, so black has a little advantage. But crafty is showing 0.16. That probes that this game is terrible. Chessgames, there are 306000 games in the database. I think that should be a lot of better games than this. I still can't understand why is the game of the day. I think <bpdoc's theory> is pretty good. |
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| Dec-16-04 | | percyblakeney: Isn't the black knight on c3 doomed? After 17. a4 Nf6 18. Bg6 white threatens Ra3 and black can do nothing about it?! |
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| Dec-16-04 | | kbob4435: Wait, it is not that clear that black is way ahead with his extra pawn EVEN if his knight is trapped and eventually gets captured. Ex: 17. a4 Nf6 18.Bg6 any 19. Ra3 N(c)xd5 20. cxd5 Nxd5 So black's knight is lost, but he has 3 pawns for compensation and 3 connected central pawns. This could have been a very interesting game.
But I don't think that it should have been GOTD because the players did not play it out. |
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Dec-16-04
 | | cu8sfan: tpstar submits
a g-o-t-d
no one is happy because
the game ends too soon |
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Dec-16-04
 | | tpstar: GOTD/pun
Complaints outweigh compliments
Over 5 to 1 |
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Dec-16-04
| | cu8sfan: Could it be that I
had written one too many
lines in my haiku? |
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| Dec-16-04 | | patzer2: As an alternative to White's 3. c4, I prefer 3. Nc3 as in G Wallwork vs P A Thornton, 1989. Note: For those a bit disappointed in today's "game of the day," I think you will find that game, and White's winning combination there, much more interesting. |
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| Dec-16-04 | | patzer2: Another game that might have transposed into the 3. Nc3 line was White's decisive victory in A J Mestel vs M Basman, 1992. |
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| Dec-16-04 | | Saruman: patzer2 in my opinion 3.h4! is probably the best move. |
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| Dec-16-04 | | grobmaverick: Kasparov & Karpov played The Borg.
Late in the summer of 1985 the KGB backed Russian chess federation arranged a secret get together between reigning world chess champion Anatoly Karpov & Gary Kasparov. The purpose was to heal any festering animosities
between the players prior to their forthcoming rematch.On their final afternoon together, deep in their Siberian hideaway,Gary challenged Anatoly to a quick game.Being world champion Anatoly accepted and duly offered Gary the white pieces.
The boy from Baku pushed 1,e4.Anatoly pondered for 30 minutes and then played 1,g5! Gary leant across the board, his eyebrows nearly lifting from his forehead. He looked his opponent straight in the eye,then muttered barely audibly something about 'time opening'.The sweat poured from Anatoly. Could his opening surprise have been analysed by the young challenger already? He gazed at Kasparov in wonder and said 'You have played this before,this 'Time Opening'? At this point Gary fell from his chair and rolled about the floor in hysterical laughter much to the chagrin of watching KGB & Russian Chess Federation officials.Looking up from the floor he replied to the astonished world champion 'My dear Anatoly, I did not say 'Time Opening' I said 'It's a ******* waste of time you playing this opening.
The rest is history. |
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| Dec-16-04 | | kevin86: This is the game of the day!? I liked the pun,but the game is like high sulfur coal in my stocking-yecch! |
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| Dec-16-04 | | Nickisimo: Gotta love the grob...Really though, this is a fairly horrendous GOTD. I can find a 10 min game played between a couple of 1400s that's more interesting. Of course, class C'ers like me make so many blunders that every game is interesting. During my games I often ask myself things like, "Should I hang my knight now or later?" and "Wait all of my pieces are off the board and it's now my pawns versus his...down I go" |
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| Dec-16-04 | | patzer2: <saruman> Your 3. h4 may be playable, but Basman has a winning record against it against strong competition as in Speelman vs M Basman, 1980 and P Giulian vs M Basman, 1986. |
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| Dec-16-04 | | karlzen: To avoid Nxd5 stuff perhaps 17.a4 Nf6 18.Bf7 and on Nce4 simply exchange play f3 and Kd2 and black has nothing. White will put pressure on the e-pawn and use his a-pawn to wreck black's queenside and black can just sit and wait. |
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| Dec-16-04 | | dac1990: Another Christmas Pun. What's next? A game by Lawrence Day with a pun like "On the twelfth day of Christmas" in which the game was played on December 12th or something... |
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| Dec-16-04 | | clendenon: Another Christmas pun: "And there were in the same country Schepers abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night." Luke 2:8 |
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| Dec-16-04 | | kbob4435: To Karizen: No, your Bf7 does not work. Black's threat to take d5 and get compensation with 3 pawns must be respected, but if respected too much, and 17. Bf7 N(c)e4 18. NxN NxN 19. f3? Nf6 with a clear pawn!
No, this game is ripe with possibilities. I would have liked to have seen it played out. Someone quit way too early. |
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| Dec-16-04 | | tomh72000: The Oleg Romanishin page is what dreams are made of when it comes to puns. <clendenon> Bible references in chessgames.com community? Whatever next? (nice pun too by the way) |
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| Dec-16-04 | | patzer2: <Karlzen> Welcome back to Chessgames.com. I've missed your expert commentary and analysis. Hope you'll have time to make more frequent contributions. |
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| Dec-17-04 | | karlzen: <patzer2> Thanks! I will try to post here more often now, just been too busy lately. <kbob4435>, I do not quite agree with you there. If white allows black to sac on d5, the game seems to be in black's favour. However, if white continues with Bf7 and Be6+ then black will be a pawn up, true, but definitely not for nothing! Black has a hard time finding a good plan His queenside is weak, his e-pawn is weak, his knight is much worse than white's perfect bishop. If I had to pick a side, I'd perhaps even pick white. I'm not saying that white is winning easily or anything like that, but the position is quite awkward for black and his pawn does not mean much. :) A fair result would be a draw. Note that even if black can exchange white's e6-bishop that is tieing him down, the dual weaknesses of b7 and e7 gives white an easy draw (Kc7-d7-c7 or something like that). An example line could be: ..20.f3 Nf6 21.Kd2 b6 22.Be6+ (h4!?) 22...Kc7 23.Rhe1 Rhf8 24.Ra3 Nd7 25.Bxd7 Kxd7 26.a5=. |
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| Dec-17-04 | | kevin86: <cu8sfan> a haiku has seventeen sylabulls-and is usually written in three lines:
A pizza pie man
brings home his pizza pie dough
so his children can eat |
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| Dec-17-04 | | clendenon: What's a sylabull? |
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| Dec-17-04 | | acirce: Haikus traditionally contain a word indicating the season. There are other less strict "rules". It seems somewhat misleading to talk about 17 "syllables" as it's not really the same as the units used in Japanese. |
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Dec-17-04
| | tpstar: Mr. Garrison from South Park delivered the definitive definition = "A haiku is just like a normal American poem, except that it doesn't rhyme, and it's totally stupid." Haikus are goofy
Only a fool would write one
Dumb stupid haikus |
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| Sep-02-09 | | jmboutiere: 1.... g5 +0.47 Rybka 3
2.d4 + 0.62; 3. c4 +0.36; 4.d5 +0.23
6.Qb5 - 0.09 ; 6.h4 + 0.14
10.bxc3 - 0.54; 10. Nxc3 + 0.00
13. ... Bd3 - 0.15; 13. ...Nf6 - 0.70
14. a3 - 0.69; 14.h4 - 0.15
14. ...Bxe2 - 0.03
17. a4 +0.29 |
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