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THE 2007 CONTEST IS COMPLETE.
We released a total of 64 clues and awarded 64 presents.
Although the contest is over, we archive the clues and their answers below for your enjoyment.
| The Chessgames Holiday Present Hunt is over. Congratulations to the winners!
The winner of the grand prize House of Staunton drawing was
announced at the Kibitzer's Café on Christmas day, 2007, and was user
Hesam7. Congratulations to Hesam and all the other winners! |
THESE CLUES HAVE BEEN SOLVED: [click here for short list] |
| clue #2: prize claimed by cu8sfan! | |
"Asking for Trouble"
| SOLUTION: | Fischer vs K Darga, 1960 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Title from Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games
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| clue #3: prize claimed by thatsmate! | |
The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly on New Zealand.
| SOLUTION: | G Spain vs M McNabb, 2006 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Graeme Spain is a New Zealand chessmaster.
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| clue #4: prize claimed by cu8sfan! | |
A game before 1970 that ends: Na8 1-0
| SOLUTION: | Petrosian vs R Teschner, 1962 |
| PRIZE: | A One Year Subscription to New in Chess Magazine
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | This is the only game in our database which fits the criteria.
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| clue #5: prize claimed by Stonehenge! | |
S.T. vs M.E.
| SOLUTION: | S Tavares vs M Ebeling, 1981 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | You thought we meant Tartakower vs Euwe, didn't you?
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| clue #6: prize claimed by evenua! | |
A rook sac on move 6.
| SOLUTION: | M Lange vs M C Schmucker, 1848 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | 6.Qh5! leaves the rook on h1 hanging.
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| clue #9: prize claimed by NakoSonorense! | |
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=n where n is a 7 digit palindromic prime number.
| SOLUTION: | Smejkal vs A Haik, 1982 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | 1276721 is prime (it has no factors) and palindromic (reads the same backwards as forwards). |
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| clue #10: prize claimed by Whack8888! | |
"Two Theatres of War"
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| clue #11: prize claimed by Archives! | |
Swindled into stalemate.
| SOLUTION: | Kasparov vs N McDonald, 1986 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Used as a puzzle used in 2004.
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| clue #12: prize claimed by cu8sfan! | |
A Nervy Rube
| SOLUTION: | R Averby vs V M Ostroverkhov, 1967 |
| PRIZE: | The book Vishy's Victory, published by Impala Press
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | "A Nervy Rube" is an anagram of "Rune Averby", the Swedish correspondence champion.
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| clue #13: prize claimed by Archives! | |
"It worked."
| SOLUTION: | Einstein vs Oppenheimer, 1933 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Oppenheimer's famous quote regarding the first atomic bomb testing.
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| clue #15: prize claimed by refutor! | |
"He plays only Bender's Move"
| SOLUTION: | Tal vs Fischer, 1959 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Mentioned by Tal in the introduction to this game from his autobiography.
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| clue #16: prize claimed by R.Sergiu! | |
An Englishman in New York
| SOLUTION: | Kasparov vs Sting, 2000 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Kasparov played singer/bassist Sting and his entire band in New York City.
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| clue #17: prize claimed by The beginner! | |
Long Cab Drive?
| SOLUTION: | S Sloan vs R Loong, 1989 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Sam Sloan once drove a taxicab in New York city.
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| clue #18: prize claimed by krpvksprv! | |
Paper Tiger.
| SOLUTION: | A Turing vs A Glennie, 1952 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Computer pioneer Alan Turing played this game with an algorithm he computed with pencil and paper.
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| clue #19: prize claimed by cu8sfan! | |
QBVM NPSQIZ vs UIPNBT XPSSBMM
| SOLUTION: | Morphy vs F Perrin, 1857 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | A cryptogram created by adding one to each letter. |
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| clue #20: prize claimed by Pi Guy! | |
An Early Grandmaster Draw
| SOLUTION: | Marshall vs Alekhine, 1924 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Marshall and Alekhine were among the five original grandmasters as declared by Russian Tsar Nicholas II.
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| clue #21: prize claimed by aphasia! | |
Russian, Female, and Short.
| SOLUTION: | S Milliet vs I Ludwig, 2001 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | It's a Russian game (the Petroff Defense), the players are both females, and it's a short game.
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| clue #22: prize claimed by al wazir! | |
Spanish, Female, and Short.
| SOLUTION: | A Zozulia vs Short, 2007 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | It's a Spanish game (the Ruy Lopez), one of the players is a female, and the other player is Nigel Short.
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| clue #23: prize claimed by aphasia! |
| SOLUTION: | R Byrne vs Fischer, 1959 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | The New York Times caption read: "Fischer becomes fidgety as he ponders move against Robert Byrne on January 4, 1959."
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| clue #24: prize claimed by tpstar! | |
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=n where n is a 7 digit prime number found in the first 1000 digits of π.
| SOLUTION: | I Stohl vs Seirawan, 1990 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | 1133053 is prime, and starts at the 362nd digit of π (pi).
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| clue #25: prize claimed by aphasia! | |
"I beat a great master!"
| SOLUTION: | Janowski vs Reshevsky, 1922 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Said by young Reshevsky, as reported in Ed Lasker's Chess Secrets. |
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| clue #26: prize claimed by Hesam7! | |
On the air.
| SOLUTION: | Kasparov vs TV viewers, 1991 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Kasparov played this game against viewers of a Spanish television show.
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| clue #27: prize claimed by Shinermatt! | |
Feynman's Analogy
| SOLUTION: | A Reshko vs O Kaminsky, 1972 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | In The Pleasure of Finding Things Out physicist Richard Feynman draws an analogy between chess and scientific discovery: "You discover one day in some chess game that the bishop doesn't maintain its color, it changes its color. Only later do you discover a new possibility, that a bishop is captured and that a pawn went all the way down to the queen's end to produce a new bishop."
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| clue #28: prize claimed by Buddy Revell! | |
Indian, Female, and Short.
| SOLUTION: | G Mammadzada vs I Furtado, 2007 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Ivana Furtado is a chess prodigy from Goa, India. Both of these girls are about four feet tall--normal for their age. |
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| clue #29: prize claimed by neurome! | |
This game wards off vampires.
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| clue #30: prize claimed by Doktorn! | |
Torrent Shirt 1-0
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| clue #31: prize claimed by aphasia! | |
A case of do or die.
| SOLUTION: | H Bogart vs NN, 1933 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | A line from the song As Time Goes By immortalized in Bogart's 1942 film, Casablanca.
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| clue #33: prize claimed by sneaky pete! | |
"The kid is good!"
| SOLUTION: | L Christiansen vs Kasparov, 1982 |
| PRIZE: | A One Year Subscription to New in Chess Magazine
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Christiansen's comment in his annotations after losing to young Kasparov in the Interzonal (as reported in Chess Life.)
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| clue #34: prize claimed by CaptGeorge! | |
No Room at the Hotel
| SOLUTION: | Blackburne vs A Marriott, 1871 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Marriott is an international chain of hotels. In the final positon, the king has "no room".
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| clue #35: prize claimed by Archives! | |
The number of letters in White's name, multiplied by the number of moves in the game, is 76.
| SOLUTION: | L Wu vs P Michalik, 2005 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Li Wu wins in 19 moves. 4 x 19 = 76
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| clue #36: prize claimed by Aurora! | |
Double check the software.
| SOLUTION: | Blitz vs Belle, 1978 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | An early example of tactical vision by a computer. The final move is double-check and mate.
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| clue #38: prize claimed by Buddy Revell! | |
From 3:47 to 4:32.
| SOLUTION: | G Tringov vs Fischer, 1965 |
| PRIZE: | Great British Chess Triumphs (DVD)
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | From the Capablanca Memorial Tournament in Havana, 1965. Fischer played from the Marshall Chess Club in New York via Telex. The exact clock times were recorded move by move, and are reprinted in Wade and Connell's Bobby Fischer's Chess Games. The times refer to Fischer's clock: his first move was made when his clock read 3:47 (17 minutes late) and when he made his final move, his clock read 4:32. |
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| clue #39: prize claimed by Sibahi! |
| SOLUTION: | M Wind vs T Winckelmann, 1993 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | The symbols should be interpreted: "approximately equal to", "immortal" (infinite), and "draw". This game is similar to Hamppe vs Meitner, 1872, the "Immortal Draw".
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| clue #40: prize claimed by Annie K.! | |
A Mindful Arbiter
| SOLUTION: | de Firmian vs Alburt, 1988 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | "A Mindful Arbiter" is an anagram for "DeFirmian-Alburt".
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| clue #41: prize claimed by sneaky pete! | |
This is the first game in which analysis is accurate.
| SOLUTION: | F Duz-Khotimirsky vs J Mieses, 1909 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Lasker's book The International Chess Congress, St. Petersburg, 1909 begins with the sentence "This is a book in which analysis is accurate." This game is the first game in that book.
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| clue #42: prize claimed by squidward! | |
The total number of letters in both players' names, added together, is 62.
| SOLUTION: | Znosko-Borovsky vs C Watson, 1922 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Both players have very long names in our database.
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| clue #43: prize claimed by Xeeniner! | |
Staged Women's Wrestling?
| SOLUTION: | E Z Adams vs Torre, 1920 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | A famous game where one queen (a "woman") hunts the other. The game is widely believed to be analysis ("staged").
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| clue #44: prize claimed by neurome! | |
Molon Labe!
| SOLUTION: | L Kokkinos vs E Paoli, 1979 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | A reference to the name Leonidas. "Molon Labe" is the defiant response of King Leonidas of Sparta to the Persian's demand to hand over their weapons. It means "Come and take them."
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| clue #45: prize claimed by cu8sfan! | |
The number of letters in White's name, multiplied by the number of moves in the game, multiplied by the year of the game, is 1,144,556.
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| clue #46: prize claimed by doglikegroove! | |
TFMHYVIT EH XSRTLIRM
| SOLUTION: | Gunsberg vs Chigorin, 1883 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | The code is a "reflection cypher" (e.g. A→Z, B→Y, C→X, etc.) for "GUNSBERG VS CHIGORIN". And Isidor Gunsberg is widely believed to be the brains behind the "automaton" called Mephisto.
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| clue #47: prize claimed by sneaky pete! | |
The System Wins a Miniature.
| SOLUTION: | H Berliner vs R Ault, 1959 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Berliner wins in only 16 moves, with ideas later codified in his book The System.
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| clue #48: prize claimed by Eric The Great! | |
Beauty and the Beast
| SOLUTION: | S Polgar vs Dappet, 1995 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Zsuzsa is the beauty; the computer is the beast.
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| clue #49: prize claimed by Buddy Revell! | |
A Wondrous Bird
| SOLUTION: | J Pelikan vs P Bohosiewicz, 1936 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | The game is Bird's opening, and also an oblique reference to the old rhyme, "Oh, a wondrous bird is the pelican! His bill holds more than his belly can." (Dixon Merritt)
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| clue #50: prize claimed by GeauxCool! |
| SOLUTION: | F Erkel vs L Spitzer, 1858 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | The painting is that of Hungarian opera composer and chess master Ferenc Erkel.
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| clue #51: prize claimed by Touch of Knight! | |
Skip to my Loo?
| SOLUTION: | Kramnik vs Topalov, 2006 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | The game was "skipped" due to protests regarding the "loo" (toilet).
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| clue #52: prize claimed by ruelas007! | |
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| SOLUTION: | M Rotova vs P Mors, 1992 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Morse code for "Queen Sacrifice", and here Mr. Mors makes a beauty.
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| clue #54: prize claimed by tpstar! | |
Far From Home
| SOLUTION: | M From vs S Loyd, 1867 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Chess master Martin Severin From traveled from his home in Denmark to Paris to play this game.
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| clue #55: prize claimed by Buddy Revell! | |
Small Lit Room
| SOLUTION: | Oll vs M Ulybin, 1989 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | "Small lit room." is an anagram for "Oll's Immortal", which this brilliancy surely is.
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| clue #56: prize claimed by Manic! | |
WC Zugzwang
| SOLUTION: | Steinitz vs Lasker, 1896 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | WC implies World Champion. Lasker's 24...Rg8!! leaves Steinitz without a move.
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| clue #57: prize claimed by Buddy Revell! |
click for larger view
| SOLUTION: | Leko vs Adams, 2001 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | The key is the weird position of the kings on the c-file, which can be easily explained only if this game was Fischerandom (Chess960).
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| clue #58: prize claimed by sneaky pete! | |
Don't kill him.
| SOLUTION: | D Weir vs J Messenger, 1951 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | A reference to the expression, Don't kill the messenger.
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| clue #59: prize claimed by Eric The Great! |
| SOLUTION: | A Kveinys vs Y Lim, 2002 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Each symbol is a digit reflected horizontally (obscure the left sides to see the numbers). And this is game # 1257207.
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| clue #60: prize claimed by MyCatPlaysChess! |
From 22:14 to 7:07
From Matthew to Michael
| SOLUTION: | Adams vs Kasimdzhanov, 2004 |
| PRIZE: | A One Year Subscription to New in Chess Magazine
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Matthew 22:14 is the famous line "For many are called, but few are chosen." At the 2004 FIDE World Championship, on the 7th game of the 7th round (hence 7:07) Rustam Kasimdzhanov scored the winning point against Michael Adams, to become the sole winner of a 128 player knockout tournament.
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| clue #61: prize claimed by arctic tern! | |
Odds were against him.
| SOLUTION: | Morphy vs J Thompson, 1859 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Morphy lost the game without his queen's kinght.
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| clue #62: prize claimed by Eric The Great! | |
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=n where n is the next number in this sequence: 1, 256, 19683...
| SOLUTION: | Geller vs Smyslov, 1952 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | 17=1, 28=256, 39=19683, 410=1048576
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| clue #63: prize claimed by ltsiros! | |
Premier Français.
| SOLUTION: | Greco vs NN, 1620 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Meaning "first French"; this is the first known French Defense.
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| clue #64: prize claimed by pawnofdoom! | |
Castling Into the Lion's Mouth
| SOLUTION: | Ed. Lasker vs F Englund, 1913 |
| PRIZE: | A Four Month Free Subscription to Chessgames.com
...plus an entry in to the Grand Prize drawing! (See Official Rules for info.) |
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| COMMENT: | Note by Tartakower in his book 500 Games of Chess
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might appear, and as soon as it does, the race is on.
- Some clues involve initials. A clue "B.F. vs B.S." may refer to Bobby Fischer
vs Boris Spassky.
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to more than one possible game. You'll simply have to search through the possible
games to find the specific game with the prize on it.
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want to look at Paul Morphy games from 1850. ("Apply Humor" is an anagram of "Paul Morphy".)
- Some clues are puns, similar to what you might find on our Game of the Day.
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not including the Grand Prize.
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measures in place designed to detect and prevent this. Anybody caught using these methods
will be disqualified, and the prizes will not be awarded but instead returned to the
prize pool.
- These hints are not inclusive; some types of clues might not be described herein. You're
on your own--good luck!
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