Jul-09-13
 | | sleepyirv: Picturesque final position.
Not so many pretty moves before it. |
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| Jul-09-13 | | Tim Delaney: In one of his books, Fred Reinfeld described this mate as "a rainbow of Bishops and Knights" |
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| Jul-09-13 | | Phony Benoni: Actually, I think that was Irving Chernev in "1000 Best Short Games of Chess", but at any rate it was this game: Dodge vs J R Houghteling, 1904 As for the pun, I think it's the simple name variety, based on a song by Dire Straits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan...
Which, I suppose, is where Black found himself. |
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| Jul-09-13 | | Kangaroo: If Black resigned after move 10, it would have been more professional and much less entertaining at the final! |
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| Jul-09-13 | | Infohunter: <Tim Delaney: In one of his books, Fred Reinfeld described this mate as "a rainbow of Bishops and Knights"> Do you happen to remember the game in which the mate similar to this one occurs? Is it perhaps Dodge vs J R Houghteling, 1904? |
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Jul-09-13
 | | maxi: What I find nice about the mating configuration of this game, with those two Knights and two Bishops, is that they form a 2x2 box (in this case d7,d8,e7,e8), and the King is in mate in any of those squares. |
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Jul-09-13
 | | offramp: Smiley face! :-)
The Houghteling game is a frowny face. |
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| Jul-09-13 | | morfishine: Referencing Dodge vs J R Houghteling, 1904 this player named "Dodge" has quite a lineage. Book-ended around this game,
he had the honor of playing Louis Paulsen in 1857 & Carlson in 1969 |
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Jul-09-13
 | | Domdaniel: The championship of Bashkortostan? Quite. |
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| Jul-09-13 | | mistreaver: Brilliant game and brilliant pun :) |
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| Jul-09-13 | | cunctatorg: The pun, taken from the Dire Straits' famous song is great but ... the game is of too low quality, too low...; in fact all the story today was about the pun and the chess was ... neglected!... |
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| Jul-09-13 | | newzild: Man, that was brutal! And pretty, too. |
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| Jul-09-13 | | newzild: I think the mating pattern in Dodge vs J R Houghteling, 1904 is actually superior to this one, in that all of the opponent's minor pieces also contribute to the "rainbow". In this game, only three of the opponent's minors contribute. |
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| Jul-09-13 | | Tim Delaney: <Phony Benoni> I believe you're right about the source. I just about wore out "1000 Best Short Games of Chess" -- a very entertaining book. |
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Jul-09-13
| | offramp: I have also read that book. I read it for about a week and could hardly believe that any game ever went over 20 moves! For all his faults Bill Wall has some good very short games. |
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| Jul-09-13 | | celtrusco: Increíble.El segundo jugador parece una máquina...por varios motivos, el principal: su renuencia a abandonar. Amazing.The second player looks like a machine ... for various reasons, the main one: his reluctance to leave. |
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Jul-09-13
 | | FSR: Chernev in <1000 Best Short Games of Chess> attributes the "a rainbow of Bishops and Knights" line to Bigelow. |
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| Jul-09-13 | | kevin86: The bishops and knights really dance in this one-ending in a picturesque mate. |
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| Jul-09-13 | | kevin86: check out <V Malinin-V Savinov,1988>similar theme+ a queen sac. |
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Jul-09-13
 | | fm avari viraf: Black seems to be very cooperative that made White pieces dance till the # |
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| Jul-10-13 | | Abdel Irada: I should probably withhold criticism of Black's play, given that Kamaletdinov is 12 years old. ∞ |
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| Jul-10-13 | | Abdel Irada: <fm avari viraf: Black seems to be very cooperative that made White pieces dance till the #> We could also express this as a Netspeak poem:
<Black seemed determined to cooper-8,Which made the white pieces dance until the #> ∞ |
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Jul-11-13
| | FSR: <Domdaniel: The championship of Bashkortostan? Quite.> No, this was merely the semifinal of the championship of Bashkortostan. |
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Jul-11-13
| | FSR: <Abdel Irada: I should probably withhold criticism of Black's play, given that Kamaletdinov is 12 years old.> And 10 at the time of this game. |
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Jun-02-14
 | | perfidious: Amusing finish. |
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Kibitzing
