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FSR
Member since Aug-27-05 · Last seen Jul-08-25
I am Frederick Rhine. The United States Chess Federation awarded me the titles of National Master (at OTB chess) in 1983, and Senior Master of Correspondence Chess in 1997. In February 2024, less than a year after I began playing in the ICCF, it awarded me the title of Correspondence Chess Master. It looks like later this year I will qualify for the title of International Correspondence Chess Master.

I am the third highest-rated USCF correspondence chess player. https://www.uschess.org/component/o... In January 2025, I was the second highest-rated player, rated just three points below perennial leader Michael Buss.

The August 2020 issue of Chess Life magazine had a profile of me (for the text, see Frederick Rhine (my August 1, 2020 comment in the forum)).

I played in the 1997 USCF Absolute Championship (open to the top 13 correspondence players who accept their invitations), scoring 6-6 (+2 =8 -2). The late Alex Dunne wrote in his book on the Absolute Championships, "This was Rhine's only Absolute and he held his own against the best. His two losses were against previous Absolute winners." http://bit.ly/1NB55YP That book contains my games F Rhine vs R Lifson, 1997 and F Rhine vs D Burris, 1997.

But the 1997 event was not my only Absolute. I have also played in the 2023-25 events. In the 2023 edition, I drew all 12 games. That was enough to tie for second! Unlike the 1997 event, this one was under ICCF auspices and allowed the use of engines. There was only one decisive game! https://www.iccf.com/event?id=101114 In the 2024 Absolute, I have ten draws and a win(!), with just one game left, which will very likely end in a draw. https://www.iccf.com/event?id=105325 This time +1 will probably only be enough to tie for fourth. In the 2025 Absolute, I have nine draws so far.

I have played first board for the Rogue Squadron in the Chicago Industrial Chess League. I have played online for the Shropshire & Friends team in the 4 Nations Chess League (4NCL), and the Oswestry team in the Shropshire League.

I attended Lane Technical High School in Chicago with the late Chessgames.com co-founder Alberto A Artidiello until he moved out of Chicago. Lane's chess team won the Illinois state championship my junior and senior years, becoming the first school ever to win consecutive championships. Albert also became a master, as did my teammates Kenneth Mohr and Christopher Kus. The late FIDE Masters Albert Charles Chow and Morris Giles were also Laneites.

In July 2013, I played in my second and third regular-rated tournaments of the millennium(!), the Greater Midwest Classic and the Chicago Class (under-2200 section). I tied for second, undefeated, in both, winning $700 and $550, respectively, and brought my rating back over 2200. http://www.uschess.org/assets/msa_j... http://www.uschess.org/assets/msa_j...

I have contributed to hundreds of chess-related articles on Wikipedia under the handle Krakatoa, notably "First-move advantage in chess," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-... "George H. D. Gossip," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George... and "Swindle (chess)," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_..., all of which are almost entirely written by me. The first two of those have been Today's Featured Article, the highest honor a Wikipedia article can receive, one attained by about one out of every 1,400 articles. I have received various Wikipedia awards, including the Imperial Triple Crown Jewels and the Timeless Imperial Triple Crown (which only 12 Wikipedians have received). My user page is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:K.... Al Lawrence in the aforementioned Chess Life article referred to my "erudite chess articles on Wikipedia." Chess historian Edward Winter in his article "Wikipedia and Chess" commended my Wikipedia articles on Gossip and Hugh Edward Myers. (The latter article is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_....) https://www.chesshistory.com/winter...

I am the editor and proofreader of the book "Tournament Battle Plan: Optimize Your Chess Results!" by Daniel Gormally. I was the proofreader of the book "Triple Exclam!!! The Life and Games of Emory Tate, Chess Warrior" by Daaim Shabazz.

I was a contributor to the now-defunct Chicago Chess Blog, http://chicagochess.blogspot.com. I discovered, and documented in my blog post https://chicagochess.blogspot.com/2..., what Taylor Kingston calls "the Mortimer Effect," which has lowered the Morphy Numbers of many modern players (maybe you!). https://chesscafe.com/the-skittles-... I have a Morphy Number of 4 by virtue of L Barden vs F Rhine, 2010 as well as two simul games I lost to Arthur Bisguier when I was in high school.

Five hundred and sixty-nine of my games are in chessgames.com's database. My favorites are F Rhine vs D Sprenkle, 1981, K Thompson vs F Rhine, 1992, and F Rhine vs A Boerkoel, 1996, each of which has been Game of the Day. Rhine-Sprenkle was published with my annotations in Chess Informant (Volume 32) and cited in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (Vol. B (2nd ed.) at 183 n.19). In Volume 33 of Chess Informant, my 18th move (18.Nxd6!) in that game was voted the 8th-9th most important theoretical novelty in Volume 32. The game was also cited in MCO-13 and "The Aggressive Nimzowitsch Sicilian 2...Nf6" by Eric Schiller, and occupies an entire chapter in all three editions of "Beating the Sicilian" by John Nunn. It is game 218 in "1000 TN!! The Best Theoretical Novelties" (Chess Informant, 2012). Anish Giri, in his 2023 Chessable course "Lifetime Repertoires: Giri's 1. e4 - Part 3" recommends this line for White. https://www.chessable.com/lifetime-... Following my game against Sprenkle, he writes after 22.Be3, "The computer evaluates this as completely hopeless for Black and it is. Our king is in fact much safer, thanks to our much better pieces." https://www.chessable.com/learn/159... More than 40 years after I played the game, my line still kicks ass!


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Thompson-Rhine was published with my annotations in Chess Informant (Volume 57), and cited in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (Vol. B (3rd ed.) at 172 n.163). Jeremy Silman discusses the game and my analysis of it in his book "Winning with the Sicilian Defence" (2nd ed.).

Joel Johnson in his book "Attacking 101: Volume #005" says of my blitz game F Rhine vs NN, 2019, "White played a flawless Smith-Morra Gambit that IM Marc Esserman would have been proud of." Georges Koltanowski published F Rhine vs A Artidiello, 1974 in his syndicated newspaper column. Richard Palliser discusses the opening of F Rhine vs S Nagle, 1997 in his book "tango!"

I have played some theoretically significant correspondence games in the Damiano Variation of Petroff's Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 Nxe4!?), demonstrating that Black's third move, commonly regarded as a blunder, is fully playable. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... Nikolaos Ntirlis analyzes two of my games in an article on the variation in Volume 158 of Chess Informant. Cyrus Lakdawala and Carsten Hansen include five of my games in their book on the line, "None Shall Pass: The Unbeatable Damiano Petroff: A tricky and surprisingly solid defense."

Jacob Aagaard analyzes the endings of two of my Internet blitz games in his 896-page tome "A Matter of Endgame Technique" (alas, mine was lacking). Cyrus Lakdawala includes my study-like win in F Rhine vs A Zhao, 2019 in his book "Tactical Training in the Endgame." He also mentions me, albeit not by name, in his book "In the Zone: The Greatest Winning Streaks in Chess History" when he refers to "The Classical Sicilian, which as one of my atheist students told me, is the closest thing he has to a religion." Cyrus analyzes my game against Gadir Guseinov in his book "The Makogonov Variation: A ruthless King's Indian killer."

Commentator Mato Jelic somewhat extravagantly calls my game E Sollano vs F Rhine, 1977 "The Greatest Ever Blitz Game Played in Chicago." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl8... See also Suren's analysis at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWa... My 7...Bxc5!! in that game, played the year before Boris Avrukh was born, is a big improvement on the flaccid 7...Bg6, his recommendation in the book "Beating 1.d4 Sidelines" (2012).

Someone also made a video (moves only) of J Aagaard vs F Rhine, 2021, a 2-1 bullet game where I drew and should've beaten the grandmaster - if only I'd had time! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-O... Someone else (or perhaps two different people) did a video (moves only) of Tal vs F Rhine, 1988, my loss to the great Mikhail Tal in a simul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfk... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3o... The latter refers to me as a "great grandmaster!" which isn't quite accurate . . .

User: JimmyVermeer discusses my games NN vs F Rhine, 2021, P Pantelidakis vs F Rhine, 1974, and P Napetschnig vs F Rhine, 1977 in his video "The 109 fastest checkmates in chess history, part 10 of 11." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GT... The sequel "The 109 fastest checkmates in chess history, part 11 of 11," contains a Fool's Mate I played, which I had mentioned in a comment on this site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Z... Napetschnig-Rhine is also mentioned in https://www.chess.com/terms/fools-m.... Rick Kennedy discusses my game F Rhine vs NN, 2018 on his Jerome Gambit blog. https://jeromegambit.blogspot.com/2... My game F Rhine vs NN, 2010 is mentioned in the "Checkmate Patterns Course" by Raf Mesotten and John Bartholomew on chessable.com.

I composed this study, which Pal Benko published in "Benko's Bafflers" in Chess Life, May 2006:

White to play and draw


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The solution is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stale... It is based on an earlier study of mine, also published in Benko's column. Both compositions also appear in Harold van der Heijden's endgame study database. https://www.chess.com/news/view/76-... The above study is also cited in "The Complete Chess Swindler" by David Smerdon and "Rewire Your Chess Brain: Endgame Studies and Mating Problems to Enhance Your Tactical Ability" by Cyrus Lakdawala.

I was once one of the world's best players at suicide chess (also known as "losing chess"), a chess variant where one wins by giving away all of one's pieces. http://perpetualcheck.com/antichess...

I have successfully submitted 236 puns for Game of the Day. Game Collection: Puns I submitted. User: johnlspouge has remarked, "As far as I can tell, <FSR> is churning out 'actual puns' almost as fast as I can [insert bodily function of choice]." K Tjolsen vs S Marder, 2010. The coveted 2013 Caissar for Best (Worst) Pun went to "Control-Ault-Delete," the pun I submitted for Fischer vs R Ault, 1959, the Game of the Day on December 19, 2012. I won the 2019 Caissar in the same category for my greatest pun ever (and IMO one of the greatest chessgames puns ever) "Late December Back in '63: What a Lady, What a Knight!," N Littlewood vs B Brinck-Claussen, 1963, the Game of the Day on December 30, 2019. Since Caissars are awarded in January, my wins may illustrate recency bias.

Nine of my games have been Game of the Day: NN vs F Rhine, 1977 ("Strangers on a Train"), F Rhine vs F Lasch, 1986 ("Lasch Call"), K Thompson vs F Rhine, 1992 ("Like a Rhinestone Cowboy"), R Delaune vs F Rhine, 1997 ("Red Red Rhine"), F Rhine vs D Burris, 1997 ("Fred Rhine Felled"), F Felecan vs F Rhine, 2019 ("Felecan Brief"), F Rhine vs D Sprenkle, 1981 ("Sparkling Rhine"), F Rhine vs A Boerkoel, 1996 ("Das Rhinegold"), and F Rhine vs NN, 2018 ("'Twas the Night Before Christmas"). Six wins, a draw, and two losses.

I am responsible for World Junior Championship (1957), Vidmar Memorial (1969), Carlsen - Anand World Championship Match (2014), Game Collection: Drawing lines, and 32nd Correspondence World Championship (2020), among others. Legendary chess journalist Leonard Barden recently told me in an email, "I follow your many thoughtful contributions to chessgames.com with interest."

I am a member of the ChessBookie Hall of Fame, having finished fourth in the Summer 2015 Leg, seventh in the Winter 2016 Championship Leg, ninth in the Winter 2017 Championship Leg, ninth in the Spring 2017 Leg, and seventh in the Summer 2017 Leg.

I am very active on Chessable, where my handle is "Krakatoa." https://www.chessable.com/profile/K... I am a "Legend" and have 134 badges, five shy of the world record held by Maestro. https://www.chessable.com/badges/Ma...

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   FSR has kibitzed 29985 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Jul-08-25 FSR chessforum (replies)
 
FSR: Submitted: [Event "ENG/1/TB Open Group 20 (ENG)"] [Site "ICCF"] [Date "2025.06.20"] [Round "-"] [White "Rhine, Frederick"] [Black "Loeffler, Werner"] [ECO "D31"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2341"] [BlackElo "2333"] [Source " ...
 
   Jul-08-25 G Atwood vs Cotter, 1795 (replies)
 
FSR: The pun is essentially a duplicate of <Welcome Back Cotter> Philidor vs Cotter, 1789 .
 
   Jul-08-25 Kenneth Rogoff (replies)
 
FSR: <al wazir: . . . If a terrorist had tried to carry explosives in his jock strap, we would all have had to take our pants off.> Yes. I always figured some terrorist would be caught hiding explosives or weapons in his ass, and then we'd all get strip searched.
 
   Jul-07-25 A Savko vs C Bauer, 1993
 
FSR: <Gregor Samsa Mendel: White missed the obvious 23 fxg6+ and blew the win.> Very strange.
 
   Jul-07-25 Messinger vs M Rack, 1989
 
FSR: Sweet finish.
 
   Jul-07-25 J Sarkar vs G Sagles, 1999
 
FSR: More incisive is 4.c4!, hoping for 4...Bb4+? 5.Ke2!, winning a piece. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che...
 
   Jul-05-25 Peter Dely (replies)
 
FSR: <Fusilli: <CHC> I don't follow. I don't think any of these was given posthumously.> No, but FIDE belatedly awarded the great Sultan Khan the title of Honorary Grandmaster at age ~120, almost 58 years after his death. To my knowledge, this is FIDE's first posthumous award of ...
 
   Jul-05-25 P Dely vs B Sandor, 1953
 
FSR: After 23.Kg1 Bh3 White's position would be doubleplusungood.
 
   Jul-05-25 T Pekin vs C A Blanco Gramajo, 2018
 
FSR: <perfidious: <FSR: Incidentally, the tablebases will tell you that this position, with Black to move, is a win for White, but that with perfect play it will take 517 moves! No doubt you can all see that . . .> Even this <life 1200 player> can suss that out in a ...
 
   Jul-05-25 P Dely vs J H Donner, 1961 (replies)
 
FSR: Delycious! And yes, how has this never been GOTD?
 
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Jun-26-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Online blitz"]
[Site "lichess"]
[Date "2025.06.25"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "NN"]
[Black "Frederick Rhine"]
[ECO "A45"]
[PlyCount "10"]
[Source "https://lichess.org/nK2amgiCN2zt"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 c5 3. Nf3 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 5. Bxe5 Qa5+ 0-1

Jun-26-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "ENG/1/TB Open Group 20 (ENG)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.20"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Agramonte Quevedo, Nelson Alejandro"]
[ECO "D47"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2341"]
[BlackElo "2346"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1550360"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 b4 9.Ne4 Nxe4 10.Bxe4 Bb7 11.Nd2 Be7 12.O-O O-O 13.b3 Nf6 14.Bf3 Nd5 15.Bb2 c5 16.dxc5 Bxc5 17.Nc4 Qg5 18.Qe2 Be7 19.g3 Nc3 20.Bxc3 Bxf3 21.Qxf3 bxc3 22.e4 Bf6 23.Rad1 a5 24.e5 Bxe5 25.h4 Qf6 26.Qe3 Bc7 27.Rc1 Rfc8 28.Qxc3 1/2-1/2

Jun-26-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "ENG/1/TB Open Group 19 (ENG)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.20"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Agramonte Quevedo, Nelson Alejandro"]
[ECO "D45"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2341"]
[BlackElo "2346"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1550329"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.Bd3 O-O 8.O-O dxc4 9.Bxc4 b5 10.Be2 a6 11.Ng5 Bb8 12.Nce4 Bb7 13.Nc5 Nxc5 14.dxc5 h6 15.Nf3 a5 16.e4 Qe7 17.Be3 Ng4 18.Bd2 Rd8 19.Rad1 Ne5 20.Be3 Nxf3+ 21.Bxf3 Be5 22.Be2 Bf6 23.f4 1/2-1/2

Jun-27-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "WSTT/3/25/2"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.04.15"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Koken, Ali"]
[ECO "C44"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2341"]
[BlackElo "1993"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1541268"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d4 exd4 5.Ng5 Nh6 6.Nxf7 Nxf7 7.Bxf7+ Kxf7 8.Qh5+ g6 9.Qxc5 d5 10.O-O dxe4 11.c3 Qd6 12.Qxd6 cxd6 13.cxd4 Nxd4 14.Nc3 Bg4 15.Nxe4 Nc2 16.Nxd6+ Ke6 17.Bf4 Nxa1 18.Rxa1 Rhf8 19.Bg3 b6 20.f3 Bf5 21.Re1+ Kd7 22.Rd1 Ke6 23.Re1+ Kd7 24.Rd1 1/2-1/2

Jun-28-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "ENG/1/TB Open Group 19 (ENG)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.20"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Pohjosmäki, Risto"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "B67"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2347"]
[BlackElo "2341"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1550323"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.O-O-O Bd7 9.Kb1 Nxd4 10.Qxd4 Be7 11.f3 Bc6 12.Bd3 Qc7 13.h4 h6 14.Bc1 O-O-O 15.Bc4 Rhg8 16.Qe3 d5 17.exd5 Nxd5 18.Bxd5 exd5 19.Ne2 Rge8 20.Qf2 Bf6 21.Nd4 Kb8 22.h5 Ka8 23.b3 Bd7 24.g4 Qc5 25.Bb2 Re7 26.Rhe1 Rde8 27.Rxe7 Qxe7 28.Qd2 Qe3 29.Qb4 Qe5 30.Qb6 Rc8 31.a4 Qh2 32.Re1 Qd2 33.Rc1 Be7 34.Nb5 axb5 35.Bd4 Kb8 36.Qa7+ Kc7 37.Qb6+ Kb8 38.Qa7+ Kc7 1/2-1/2

Jul-01-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Online blitz"]
[Site "lichess"]
[Date "2025.07.01"]
[White "Frederick Rhine"]
[Black "NN"]
[ECO "B06"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[Source "https://lichess.org/OzcfS7GOmGt4"]

1. d4 g6 2. e4 Bg7 3. h4 e6 4. h5 b6 5. h6 Bf8 6. Nf3 Be7 7. Nc3 Bb7 8. Bd3 Na6 9. Be3 d6 10. Qd2 f6 11. d5 exd5 12. exd5 Nb4 13. Bc4 Qd7 14. Nd4 O-O-O 15. a3 Na6 16. Ne6 Re8 17. b4 f5 18. Qd3 Nb8 19. Nb5 a6 20. Na7# 1-0

Jul-02-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "ENG/1/TB Open Group 19 (ENG)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.20"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Tonisson, Priit"]
[ECO "A05"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2341"]
[BlackElo "2339"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1550344"]

1.g3 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bg2 c5 4.O-O g6 5.d4 cxd4 6.Nxd4 Bg7 7.c4 O-O 8.cxd5 Nxd5 9.Nc3 Nb6 10.Ndb5 Nc6 11.Bf4 Bd7 12.a4 Nc4 13.b3 N4e5 14.Ra2 a6 15.Na3 Nf3+ 16.Bxf3 Bxc3 17.Qc1 1/2-1/2

Jul-02-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "ENG/1/TB Open Group 19 (ENG)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.20"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Wydornik, Robert"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "B67"]
[Result "1/2-1/2]
[WhiteElo "2342"]
[BlackElo "2341"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1550341"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.O-O-O Bd7 9.f3 Nxd4 10.Qxd4 Bc6 11.Qf2 b5 12.h4 Qc7 13.Kb1 b4 14.Ne2 d5 15.Nd4 Bb7 16.e5 Qxe5 17.Re1 Qc7 18.h5 h6 19.Be3 Nd7 20.Rh4 Bd6 21.Nf5 O-O 22.Nxh6+ Kh8 23.Rg4 Rae8 24.Bd4 e5 25.Qd2 f6 26.Bd3 exd4 27.Rxe8 Rxe8 28.Nf7+ Kg8 29.h6 Kxf7 30.Bg6+ Kg8 31.Bxe8 Bf8 32.Bxd7 Qxd7 33.hxg7 Bxg7 34.Qxb4 d3 35.cxd3 Kf7 36.Qa5 Bc8 1/2-1/2

Jul-02-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "WSTT/4/25/4"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.05"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Aymard, Michel"]
[ECO "C41"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2341"]
[BlackElo "2040"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1554445"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.Bf4 O-O 7.Qd2 Nc6 8.O-O-O Nxd4 9.Qxd4 Be6 10.f3 a6 11.h4 b5 12.g4 c5 13.Qe3 b4 14.Na4 Bd7 15.b3 Bxa4 16.bxa4 d5 17.g5 d4 18.Qd2 Nh5 19.Bc4 Kh8 20.Bh2 f5 21.exf5 Rxf5 22.Qe2 Nf4 23.Bxf4 Rxf4 24.Bxa6 Bd6 25.Kb1 Ra7 26.Bb5 Qc7 27.h5 Rf5 28.Qe4 Bf4 29.Qe8+ 1-0

Jul-02-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "ENG/1/TB Open Group 19 (ENG)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.20"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Mihai, Partenie"]
[ECO "A29"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2341"]
[BlackElo "2344"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1550338"]

1.g3 e5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Bg2 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.O-O Nb6 7.Nc3 Be7 8.a3 O-O 9.d3 Be6 10.Be3 h6 11.Rc1 Qd7 12.b4 a6 13.Ne4 Rad8 14.Nc5 Bxc5 15.Bxc5 Rfe8 16.Re1 Bd5 17.e4 Be6 18.Rc3 Bg4 19.Qc2 Bxf3 20.Bxf3 Na7 21.Bxb6 cxb6 22.Rc7 Qxd3 23.Qxd3 Rxd3 24.Be2 Rxa3 25.Rxb7 Nb5 26.Bxb5 axb5 27.Rxb6 Rc8 28.Rxb5 f6 29.Rb7 Rc2 30.Rd1 Rf3 31.Rdd7 Rfxf2 32.Rxg7+ Kf8 33.Rgd7 1/2-1/2

Jul-03-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "WS/MN/B/87"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.04.12"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Ticleanu, Stefan"]
[ECO "A20"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2341"]
[BlackElo "2332"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1540198"]

1.g3 e5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Bg2 c6 4.Nf3 e4 5.Nd4 d5 6.d3 Bc5 7.Nb3 Bb6 8.cxd5 exd3 9.Nc3 O-O 10.Qxd3 Nxd5 11.Nxd5 cxd5 12.Qxd5 Qxd5 13.Bxd5 Nc6 14.Bd2 Rd8 15.Be4 Re8 16.Bxc6 bxc6 17.Bc3 Ba6 18.e3 Rad8 19.Rd1 Bc4 20.Rd2 h5 21.Rg1 Be6 22.Kd1 f6 23.Kc2 Rc8 24.Rgd1 Bf5+ 1/2-1/2

Jul-04-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: User: FSR on today's GotD page you posted two unique positions, a mutual Zugzwang and a <Win in 517-moves>. Many thanks for posting those unusual positions.
Jul-05-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: <offramp> My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed them.
Jul-05-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "2nd GO 0-2750 7 (GER)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.04.30"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Annoni, Riccardo"]
[Black "Kazoks, Aivars"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E97"]
[WhiteElo "2384"]
[BlackElo "2384"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1543249"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 O-O 5. Nf3 d6 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5 Ne7 9. b4 Nh5 10. c5 Nf4 11. Bc4 Bg4 12. h3 Bh5 13. Re1 g5 14. a4 Kh8 15. Ra3 f5 16. Bxf4 gxf4 17. a5 Rb8 18. Kh2 Qd7 19. Bd3 c6 20. Nxe5 Bxe5 21. Qxh5 f3+ 22. g3 f4 23. g4 Ng8 24. g5 dxc5 25. bxc5 Qg7 26. Rg1 Bd4 27. Nd1 Bxc5 28. Rc3 b6 29. dxc6 Rbc8 30. g6 Rxc6 31. e5 Ne7 32. Rc2 Nxg6 33. Bf5 Rxf5 34. Qxf5 Qxe5 35. Qf7 1-0

Jul-05-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Here is some cool analysis by Giri in his Chessable Lifetime Repertoire course on the Gruenfeld: https://denverchess.com/games/view/...
Jul-05-25  stone free or die: Of course it's not a Grunfeld without the ...d5.

Here's a couple of games matching the position after 10.h5:

Ding Liren vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2021

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;; <Kovchan, A // Roshka, Yevgeniy * (R5.3) 37 1/2-1/2>
;; <Roshka, Yevgeniy -- Kovchan, A (R5.3) 37 1/2-1/2>

[Event "22nd Sant Marti Open 2022"]
[Site "Barcelona ESP"]
[Date "2022.07.17"]
[EventDate "2022.07.13"]
[Round "5.3"]
[White "Roshka, Yevgeniy"]
[WhiteElo "2497"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[WhiteFideId "14129558"]
[Black "Kovchan, A"]
[BlackElo "2468"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[BlackFideId "14103052"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E60a"]
[Opening "King's Indian defence"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.h4 Bg7 4.Nc3 c5 5.d5 d6 6.e4 e6 7.Be2 exd5 8.exd5 Nbd7 9.Nf3 Ng4 10.h5 O-O 11.Ng5 Re8 12.Kf1 Ndf6 13.hxg6 hxg6 14.g3 Bf5 15.Rh4 Qd7 16.Kg2 Re7 17.Bf4 Rae8 18.a4 a6 19.a5 Ne5 20.Ra3 Qc7 21.g4 Bc8 22.f3 b6 23.Qh1 Nexg4 24.Nce4 Bf5 25.Kf1 Nh5 26.Rxh5 gxh5 27.Bxd6 Rxe4 28.Bxc7 Rxe2 29.Ne4 Rxb2 30.Qxh5 Bxe4 31.Qxg4 Bg6 32.f4 Rb1+ 33.Kg2 Be4+ 34.Kf2 Rb2+ 35.Kg1 Rb1+ 36.Kf2 Rb2+ 37.Kf1 1/2-1/2

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Jul-05-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: <stone free or die> Giri's course is a Lifetime Repertoire course, so it covers all of White's alternatives (having played 1.d4) to allowing the Gruenfeld (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5).
Jul-05-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "WSTT/RD/F14"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.05.01"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Kapusuz, Hasan Huseyin"]
[ECO "C42"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2341"]
[BlackElo "2168"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1546029"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.O-O Be7 8.c4 Nb4 9.Be2 Be6 10.Nc3 O-O 11.Ne5 c5 12.Nxe4 dxe4 13.d5 Bc8 14.a3 Na6 15.f4 f6 16.Be3 g6 17.h3 fxe5 18.fxe5 Rxf1+ 19.Qxf1 Qf8 20.Qf4 Qxf4 21.Bxf4 Bh4 22.e6 Bf6 23.Rd1 Nb8 24.Bd6 Bxe6 25.dxe6 Bd4+ 26.Kh1 Nc6 27.e7 Kf7 28.Rf1+ Bf6 29.Bxc5 Nxe7 30.g4 Ke6 31.Rd1 Nc6 1/2-1/2

Jul-05-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "WSTT/4/25/4"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.05"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Aymard, Michel"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "C41"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2040"]
[BlackElo "2341"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1554449"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.Bf4 Nc6 7.Qd2 O-O 8.O-O-O Nxd4 9.Qxd4 a6 10.e5 dxe5 11.Qxe5 Bd6 12.Qd4 Bxf4+ 13.Qxf4 Qe7 14.Bc4 Be6 15.Rhe1 Rad8 16.Bxe6 Rxd1+ 17.Nxd1 fxe6 18.Qe3 Re8 19.g3 Nd5 20.Qd3 Qb4 21.Re5 Qd6 22.Qe2 Nb4 23.Nc3 h6 24.Re3 Nc6 25.a4 Rf8 26.f4 e5 27.fxe5 Qe6 28.g4 Rf4 29.h3 Rc4 30.Kb1 Rc5 31.Qd3 Rxe5 32.Rxe5 Qxe5 33.Na2 Kf8 34.Qb3 Qe1+ 35.Nc1 Qb4 36.Qe6 Qd6 37.Qc8+ Nd8 38.Qf5+ Ke7 39.g5 hxg5 40.Qxg5+ 1/2-1/2

Jul-05-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "ENG/1/TB Open Group 20 (ENG)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.20"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Lemke, Burghard"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "B56"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2338"]
[BlackElo "2341"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1550381"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.f3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.Be3 d5 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Nxd5 Qxd5 11.Qxd5 Bxd5 12.O-O-O O-O-O 13.c3 Be7 14.Bb5 h5 15.Kc2 g5 16.h3 Kc7 17.Nd2 g4 18.hxg4 hxg4 19.Rxh8 Rxh8 20.Nc4 Be6 21.Bxc6 Bxc4 22.Bxb7 Kxb7 23.Rd7+ Kc6 24.Rxe7 Rh2 25.Rxe5 1/2-1/2

Jul-05-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "USCF/WS/25A01 (USA)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.03.03"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Sogin, David"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "D05"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2315"]
[BlackElo "2339"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1530040"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.e3 b6 4.Bd3 Bb7 5.O-O d5 6.b3 Bd6 7.Bb2 O-O 8.Nbd2 Qe7 9.a3 c5 10.Qe2 Ne4 11.c4 f5 12.cxd5 exd5 13.Ne5 cxd4 14.exd4 Nc6 15.Ndf3 Nd8 16.Rac1 Ne6 17.Bb5 Rad8 18.b4 g5 19.Nd3 g4 20.Nfe5 Qh4 21.Rc2 Kh8 22.Qd1 N4g5 23.Bc1 f4 24.Qxg4 Qxg4 25.Nxg4 h5 26.Nge5 Nxd4 27.Bb2 Bxe5 28.Nxe5 Nxc2 29.Nf7+ Kg8 30.Nxg5 Bc8 31.Ba4 Bf5 32.Bxc2 Bxc2 33.Ne6 Rde8 34.Nxf8 Kxf8 35.f3 Kf7 1/2-1/2

Jul-06-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "ENG/1/TB Open Group 20 (ENG)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.20"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Räßler, Arndt"]
[ECO "C11"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2341"]
[BlackElo "2335"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1550384"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Be3 a6 8.Ne2 Qb6 9.Qc1 Be7 10.c3 O-O 11.h4 f6 12.h5 h6 13.Rh3 Rf7 14.Kf2 fxe5 15.dxe5 d4 16.cxd4 cxd4 17.Nexd4 Bc5 18.Nb3 Bxe3+ 19.Qxe3 Rxf4 20.Qxb6 Nxb6 21.Re1 a5 22.a3 Nd5 23.Kg3 1/2-1/2

I have no idea how to transliterate Räßler.

Jul-07-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "ENG/1/TB Open Group 19 (ENG)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.20"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Bragesjö, Tomas"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "B67"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2347"]
[BlackElo "2341"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1550308"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.O-O-O Bd7 9.f3 Nxd4 10.Qxd4 Bc6 11.Qf2 b5 12.Bd3 Be7 13.h4 b4 14.Ne2 O-O 15.Nd4 Bd7 16.g4 a5 17.Kb1 a4 18.Be3 Qc7 19.h5 a3 20.b3 h6 21.Qd2 e5 22.Nf5 Bxf5 23.gxf5 Kh7 24.Qxb4 d5 25.Qe1 d4 26.Bd2 Nd7 27.Rc1 Nc5 28.Bc4 Na4 29.Bd5 Rab8 30.Rg1 Bf6 31.Ka1 Rfd8 32.bxa4 Rxd5 33.exd5 e4 34.fxe4 d3+ 35.e5 Bxe5+ 36.c3 Rb2 37.Qe4 Rxd2 38.f6+ Kh8 39.fxg7+ Bxg7 40.Qe8+ 1/2-1/2

Jul-08-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "ENG/1/TB Open Group 20 (ENG)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.20"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Loeffler, Werner"]
[ECO "D31"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2341"]
[BlackElo "2333"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1550388"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 e6 4.e4 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Qxd4 7.Bxb4 Qxe4+ 8.Be2 Na6 9.Ba5 b6 10.Qd6 Bd7 11.Bc3 f6 12.Nf3 Nh6 13.Rd1 Rd8 14.Qa3 Bc8 15.Nd2 Qf4 16.Bh5+ Nf7 17.O-O c5 18.Qa4+ Ke7 19.Rfe1 Rhe8 20.a3 Kf8 21.b4 cxb4 22.axb4 Bb7 23.Re3 Qg5 24.Bf3 b5 25.Qa1 Bxf3 26.Nxf3 Rxd1+ 27.Qxd1 Qf4 28.cxb5 Nc7 29.Bd4 Nxb5 30.Bc5+ Kg8 31.Qe2 a6 32.Rxe6 Qc1+ 33.Ne1 Rxe6 34.Qxe6 h6 35.Qc8+ 1/2-1/2

Jul-08-25  VerySeriousExpert: Dear Mr. Rhine, you have written above: "I have no idea how to transliterate Räßler". Well, it should be transliterated from German as ' Raessler ', it is the only way.
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