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Gordon Morrison vs Geoff Chandler
Edinburgh Club Minor (1978)
Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Modern Variation (A01)  ·  0-1

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Mar-24-14
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  OhioChessFan: Somehow the idea of castling into it has always been a Kingside castle in my mind.
Mar-24-14
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  Sally Simpson: HA! They took it!. I suppose if it's (ahem...) good enough to get published in NIC, Jonathan Rowson slipped it into one of his columns, then it is OK to go on here.

After all the opening excitment where I tried to hang as many as pieces as possible (he can only take one) - there are tricks and traps (and ghosts for him to see) in there if he took one.

I was considering him castling Kinside and looking at saccing something on e3. He himself spent ages pondering what happens to him if he 0-0. Suddenly he looked at his clock, shrugged his shoulders and 0-0-0.

Good. I've got dozens of these wee brillo's that were printed all over the place from my golden hey days. I'll submit more. I'll be on top of the sacrifice list before Christmas. :)

(is there an unsound sacrifice list?)

Mar-26-14
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  Check It Out: "There are two types of sacrifices-sound ones and mine." Mikhail Tal
Jun-25-15  whiteshark: Nothing is impossible (in the opening).
Oct-04-16
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  Fusilli: lol. So much for bringing the king to safety!
Oct-04-16
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  perfidious: Ah do bleeve this is what is known as 'castling into it'.
Jul-24-19  sea7kenp: Actually, I'd call this "Castling Into Mate!"
Nov-02-24  areknames: Funny one. Something like 16.Nc4 and White should hold.
Nov-02-24
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  Sally Simpson: My only game to appear in NIC - look at it, a shambles but good fun.

You can only take one piece per move was my war cry back then as I hung out as many pieces as possible. . (and you are only seeing the wins, the losses, not for the faint hearted, have somehow got lost.)

Gordon Morrison, not to be confused with Graham Morrison was a regular at the Edinburgh club, he was there practically every night and we played many games together. I won most but did lose a few when I went sac happy. I knew him for many years but so little about him.

He was in my postal chess team 'The Tartan Rooks' when we won the 4th Division in a league run by CHESS magazine back in 1978 and he lived next door to where the actor Alastair Sim was born and that is it.

I do not think he ever opened a chess book, win or lose he just loved playing the game.

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