| Apr-07-05 | | sergeidave: Bloody hunt! |
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| May-01-06 | | bbbkuna: its rare to see a game this long and have an actual checkmate! Most end in a draw or resigns. |
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| Jun-08-12 | | screwdriver: I remember when Edmar Mednis gave a simultaneous exhibition back in the 1980s. He was dominant. Also, I remember his television show where he gave chess pointers. I always remember him pointing to his board. |
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Oct-07-20
 | | Phony Benoni: OK. Let me se if I've got this straight.
1. <Shock> "Oh, no, where did that move come from?" 2. <Denial> "This can't be happening." 3. <Anger> "I am an idiot!" 4. <Bargaining> "I offer a draw." 5. <Depression> "Why do I keep playing this stupid game!" 6. <Reconstruction> "He's not so smart. If I had just played Nc5 he would have been dead." 7. <Acceptance> Oh, well, it's only a game. I'll get him next time." Less well known is the eighth stage:
8. <Amnesia> "Oh, no, where did that move come from?" |
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Oct-07-20
 | | moronovich: 9.<Dawn´s Syndrome> : Let us play one more game!> |
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Oct-07-20
 | | MissScarlett: I would have gone with <Grefe Cancelling>, though perhaps with another game. |
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| Oct-07-20 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: Considering all the repeated moves, I presume Grefe was straining a bit with clock management. |
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| Oct-07-20 | | Ironmanth: A GREAT game! RIP, John Grefe. Somehow, though, the title just doesn't sit well with me. Thanks, chessgames! |
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Oct-07-20
 | | eternaloptimist: 28...♗xc2?? got Mednis into trouble early in this game. It took Grefe a a lot of moves to get the win but he exercised patience & got the job done. I’m willing to bet 1 of the main reasons that he played ...♗xc2 is b/c most of Grefe’s pieces were on the Kside when he played it. He probably thought that they wouldn’t have time to get over to the Qside to prevent Mednis from queening a pawn over there. 1 of the best things about Mednis is that he wrote some great books. 1 of the best is “Practical Rook Endings” which isn’t a really long book but it gets to point & explains things very well. <Phony>😃 lol well done sir |
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| Oct-07-20 | | RandomVisitor: The grief of losing to Grefe... |
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Oct-07-20
 | | PawnSac: <MissScarlett: I would have gone with <Grefe Cancelling>, though perhaps with another game.> or perhaps.. <overcome by Grefe> |
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| Oct-07-20 | | RandomVisitor: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Alan Grefe (born September 6, 1947 in Hoboken, New Jersey, died December 22, 2013) was an American International Master of chess. His best result was a tie for first with Lubomir Kavalek in the 1973 U.S. Championship. FIDE awarded him the title of International Master in 1975. Grefe and Stuart Rachels are the only players since 1948 to have won or shared the U.S. Championship without already having, or having later achieved, the title of International Grandmaster. Grefe, at the time he shared the championship, lived in Berkeley, California, and was a follower of the Guru Maharaj Ji. For that reason and also because of his hippyish appearance, Grefe was affectionately known as "Gandalf" amongst chess friends. Before his success in the U.S. Championship, Grefe had been fairly successful in Swiss system tournaments in the United States. He tied for eighth in the 1969 and 1971 U.S. Open, tied for first in the 1971 National Open, finished sixth at Lone Pine 1971, tied for fourth through sixth at Lone Pine 1973, and finished sixth in the 1973 U.S. Open. Grefe died of liver cancer on December 22, 2013 in San Francisco, California. |
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Oct-07-20
| | eternaloptimist: I meant “gets to the point“. <PawnSac> I think your pun suggestion <Overcome by Grefe> would’ve worked well for this game! |
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Oct-09-20
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
Hi Phony Benoni: (a good and humorous list)
<Shock> "Oh, no, where did that move come from?" That shock-move ended in mate and finished the game. Sometimes the shock-move can turn what looked a win into a draw...and then a loss. I had the great pleasure of recently looking for a game/position in 'Chess Combination as a Fine Art.' This is like listening to an old favourite record of yours that you have not heard for a long time. A wonderful chess book. It has Keres and Golz on the cover but the work is all Kurt Richters. I could not find what I was looking for but re-discovered this. (it is very easy to wake up instructive classics in this book. Imagine not hearing SGt Pepper for 20 years and you will get the idea.) Krahnstover v Seyferth, Bitterfeld 1957. (White to play) 
click for larger viewBlack got a shock when White to played 1.Qf6!
click for larger view if 1...Qxf6 or 1...Rxf6 then it is stalemate. Note the BQ is pinned, 1...Rh6+ meets 2.Qxh6+ and 1...Kh7 2.Qxg7+ stalemates no matter how Black re-takes. Black, still in a state fo shock and determined to not to allow a draw played 1...Kg8. And after 2. Qxg6 
click for larger viewBlack resigned.
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Kibitzing
sac: 46.Rxb6+
