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| Dec-07-05 | | Chess Clasics: gxf8=Q++
If there were a rook on h7, black's king on e7, and the pawn having just captured and promoted from g7, this would work! |
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| Apr-12-06 | | MorphyMatt: <mjk> dxe5e.p. isn't possible, but 1. dxe6e.p.++ is |
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May-22-06
 | | OhioChessFan: <Lol. That's the longest possible move to write: 46. ... Qexb4# >
Only the Q on the efile could make that move with mate, so the e is superflous. Usually algebraic notation ignores that convention which descriptive employs, which strikes me as a loss of charm. But if you construct the position with another Queen on e7, then the last move would be Qe4xb4# and all the characters would be necessary. |
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May-22-06
| | OhioChessFan: <aw1988> how is Ba1b2 an obviously illegal move? |
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| May-22-06 | | James Demery: I`ve always admired Edward Lasker. An engineer by profession, he played the best players in the world and had some measure of success. |
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| Aug-15-06 | | Kwesi: I reckon this is a long move to write:
click for larger view1.Qh8xc3# |
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Aug-29-06
 | | nasmichael: "In 1913, Alekhine defeated Edward Lasker in a match with three wins at Paris – London." (Wikipedia--'Alekhine') Of the three games, which game do you (collectively) think was the toughest for the players? Is there any commentary by the players themselves on the matter? |
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Aug-29-06
| | nasmichael: [Event "Paris m (01)"]
[Site "Paris m (01)"]
[Date "1913.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Lasker Ed"]
[Black "Alekhine Alexander"]
[ECO "C46"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "50"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 g6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bg7 6. Be3 Nge7 7. Qd2
O-O 8. Bc4 Na5 9. Be2 d5 10. Bh6 c5 11. Bxg7 Kxg7 12. Nf3 d4 13. Rd1
Nac6 14. O-O f5 15. Bc4 Qa5 16. Nd5 fxe4 17. Nxe7 exf3 18. Qg5 Qd8
19. Rfe1 Re8 20. Qxc5 Rxe7 21. gxf3 Bh3 22. Rxe7+ Qxe7 23. Qxe7+ Nxe7
24. Rxd4 Nc6 25. Rh4 Bf5 0-1
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Aug-29-06
| | nasmichael: For those who stay on one page awhile, for comparison, here is another--the rest are here in the proper space to peruse at your leisure. I have met some of you who actually play through games on a regular board, versus the screen alone, to make opportunity to follow your own thoughts on the games. (Kudos to you, BTW)
[Event "Paris m (02)"]
[Site "Paris m (02)"]
[Date "1913.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alekhine Alexander"]
[Black "Lasker Ed"]
[ECO "C28"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "78"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nc6 4. d3 Bc5 5. Bg5 d6 6. Na4 Bb6 7. Nxb6
axb6 8. Ne2 Be6 9. Nc3 h6 10. Bh4 Qe7 11. f3 O-O-O 12. Nd5 Bxd5 13. Bxd5
g5 14. Bf2 Nxd5 15. exd5 Nb4 16. c4 f5 17. O-O h5 18. a4 Rdg8 19. a5
bxa5 20. Rxa5 Na6 21. b4 Kd8 22. c5 Ke8 23. d4 Kf7 24. b5 dxc5 25. bxa6
b6 26. d6 Qxd6 27. Qb3+ Qe6 28. d5 Qd6 29. Ra2 Ra8 30. Re1 Rhd8 31. Qd3
Qf6 32. g4 c6 33. gxf5 Rxd5 34. Qe4 h4 35. Qg4 Qh6 36. Be3 Kf6 37. Rg2
Rg8 38. f4 exf4 39. Bxc5 1-0
The match ended with Alekhine's score +5, -0, =2. |
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Oct-08-06
 | | Phony Benoni: <Kwesi> I'm afratd that your position does not qualify. Since only one queen can capture the pawn, the move would simply be 1.Qxc3#. I think this one would work:
click for larger view
Now White has the choice of 1.Qe6xc4# or 1.Qe2xc4#.
It might be hard to get longer than that if you don't use "++" as double check. Come to think of it, though, if this happened after move 100... |
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Jul-07-07
 | | notyetagm: Alekhine played such beautiful tactical games. |
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| Jul-07-07 | | sanyas: Incidentally, in <Kwesi>'sposition, if you take out the pawn, moving the top right queen to the vacant corner results in a rare incidence of being forced to give the full algebraic notation, as there is no way to abbreviate it. That is, 1.Qh8a1. |
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| Aug-04-07 | | Bernicheck: <Phony Benoni> I'm afraid your position doesn't qualify either. The moves would be notated: Q6xc4# or Q2xc4# respectively. But, if you add another queen at a2, you would indeed have the choice of Qe2xc4#. |
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Aug-04-07
| | Phony Benoni: <Bernicheck> You're right. Thanks for pointing that out. |
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| Jan-05-09 | | WhiteRook48: The white king is surrounded by queens |
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| Jan-09-09 | | WhiteRook48: why isn't this game of the day yet?
think of all the pun possiblities... (sorry if I'm being offensive) |
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| Jan-31-09 | | WhiteRook48: why 45. Qxa7? was Edward Lasker drunk? |
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| Jul-17-09 | | WhiteRook48: 44 Qxe4 is superior |
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Oct-26-09
| | mig55: Kwesi, you dont need to note Qh8xc3 since its the only queen that can beat on c3...Just Qxc3# |
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| Oct-26-09 | | lzromeu: 41.QD1 was crushing, or I miss something? |
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Oct-26-09
 | | David2009: <May-22-06 James Demery: I`ve always admired Edward Lasker. An engineer by profession, he played the best players in the world and had some measure of success.> I agree totally. I found his book "Modern Chess strategy" one of the most useful I have ever read. I used also to own his autobiography "Chess for fun and chess for blood" but unfortunately lost it. There are some wonderful anecdotes and good stories in it. |
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Oct-26-09
 | | paulalbert: Gentlemen, I agree with you about Edward Lasker. I had the fortune to meet him at the Marshall Chess Club where he gave a lecture on his win over Reti in the 1924 NY Tournament. This was about one year before he died in his mid nineties, but at that time he was still in excellent health, both physical and mental. He autographed his also excellent book Chess Secrets, one of my prized possessions in my chess book collection. Paul Albert |
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| Jul-04-10 | | Obscure Reference: If 41.QD1 QG3+
42.KA4 QH4 |
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Jul-04-10
 | | Calli: 39.Qc2+? is really a bad move because it allows f5. Why take the Q out of the center without reason? The immediate 39.d7 looks like a draw. |
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| Sep-16-10 | | madhatter5: the longest possible move to write is 144...dxe5 e.p.++ !? |
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