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John Curdo vs Harlow Daly
Boston Metro league (1948), Boston, MA USA, Nov-13
French Defense: Classical. Steinitz Variation (C11)  ·  1-0

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1-0

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Mar-08-07
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  chancho: Curdo was around 15 years old when he won this game from Harlow Daly.

Nov-30-08
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  chancho: There's supposed to be a mate in a few moves after 27...Kb5. What is it?
Nov-30-08  DarthStapler: The best I can see is 28. Nd4+ Ka5 (Kc5 Qd5#, Ka4 transposes), 29. Qd5+ Ka4 30. Qc4+ Ka5 31. Nb3+ Qxb3 32. cxb3 and black is done for
Apr-29-11
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  FSR: A battle of New England legends (although of course Curdo wasn't there yet).
Dec-10-12  happyjuggler0: At this pdf link (page 5) http://www.chesscafe.com/text/skitt... Curdo has notes to this game (and others). He gives 1)d4 as "?!" and says he did it because his opponent used that set up to play the Dutch!

There is a game here at chessgames with that Dutch move order with Daly playing Alekhine (!) and winning an eye opening ending! I guess Curdo was smart to sidestep that opening in favor of the French, noting also that Curdo is a Dutch player himself. Alekhine vs H Daly, 1929

May-30-13
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  perfidious: This is the only game I have seen where Curdo opened 1.d4, though I remember him playing 1.c4 against Harry Lyman in the early 1970s.

Our games nearly always featured 1.e4 from John, with 1.f4 twice that I remember: partly because I usually played it and partly on principle, I responded with the From and we wound up with King's Gambits of one type or another.

May-23-14  Conrad93: 8. dxc4 is really premature.

Black basically got lucky here.

Nov-30-18  RookFile: Curdo has great skill at king hunts.
Aug-05-23
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  keypusher: <perfidious: This is the only game I have seen where Curdo opened 1.d4, though I remember him playing 1.c4 against Harry Lyman in the early 1970s.>

In <40 Years at the Top> Curdo gives 1.d4 a "?!" and explains that he played it only because he knew Harlow would play 1....e6 in response.

Aug-05-23
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  louispaulsen88888888: If…Kb5.

1) mate-in-5 (15 ply) 28.Nd4+ Ka5 29.Nb3+ Kb5 30.Qd5+ Qc5 31.Qxc5+ Ka4 32.Qb4#

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