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Alexander Alekhine vs M von Feldt
"Feldt Tip" (game of the day Jun-30-2010)
Blindfold simul, 5b (1916) (blindfold), Tarnopol AUH
French Defense: Classical. Delayed Exchange Variation (C11)  ·  1-0

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Feb-11-02  knight: If black accepts the queen sacrifice he gets mated with Ng5.
Nov-19-02  muayad ali: 17 g4 Be4
18 Kh4++
Nov-19-02  Bears092: Nh4 mate, not Kh4
Feb-17-03  chesspatzer: Alekhine played this game blindfolded. I wish I could play this well seeing the board.
May-13-03  ughaibu: Here you go.
Jun-04-03  chessamateur: Is this the orginal score? I think black resigned actaully after the 17th move (17. g4) 1-0.
Jun-04-03  caseyclyde: And I have seen the last moves being 16. Qxe6+ Kg6 17. g4 Be4 18. Nh4#
Jun-06-03  chessamateur: well according to Larry Evans article in Chess Life Von Feldt resigned after 17. g4 so I don't know. There's probably many different versions. Unfortunately we don't know the original so, oh well. At least we have the game and its a great minature (its in my collection: chessamateur's favorite minatures).
Jun-06-03
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  chessgames.com: We'll go with 17.g4 0-1 until we know different.
Oct-07-03  ughaibu: AdrianP: I think this is the one you mean.
Oct-07-03  AdrianP: <ughaibu> It certainly is...! I'm very impressed that you have it at your fingertips!
Nov-20-03  unclewalter: 16. Ng5 also wins, but I'll give Alekine the nod...Qe6 is prettier.
Nov-20-03  Calli: "Alexander Alekhine's Chess Games, 1902-1946" by Skinner and Verhoeven does have the game ending in 18.Nh4# They state that the game was one of five in a blindfold display at a Russian military hospital at Tarnapol in 1916. Surprisingly. they also say that the opponent was not Feldt or Von Feldt, but actually a Dr Martin Fisher. I don't know if you want to change the name. Alekhine v. Feldt may be too famous to change!
Nov-20-03  crafty: 16. ♘g5 ♔f8 17. ♕xe6 ♗d5 18. cxd5 ♘e5 19. dxe5   (eval 14.20; depth 12 ply; 100M nodes)
Nov-20-03  patzer2: <muayad ali> Good observation! However, I'm more familiar with the notation 17. g4 Be4 18. Nh4#
Nov-20-03
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  Open Defence: <crafty> how do you get the pictures of the knight and queen etc in notation ?
Nov-20-03  MoonlitKnight: Put a { on each side of the notation.
Nov-20-03  kevin86: Nice lesson-CRAFTY-maybe I'll use it sometimes!
Nov-20-03
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  Eggman: In case this isn't understood: Crafty is a computer, folks.
Nov-20-03  ChessPraxis: Probably a human being is running crafty though. But if crafty is running himself than he can probably answers emails.
Nov-20-03  pilot: In Crafty's analysis of 16.Ng5 Kf8 why doesn't White just play 17. Nxe6+ and fork King and Queen instead of taking with Qxe6?
Nov-20-03
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  Sneaky: Pilot, Crafty doesn't fork the king and queen because the threat of mate with Qxe6 is even better--indeed, Black ends up tossing his queen to delay his death anyhow.

My question is, why does crafty suggest Kf8? What's so bad about 16.Ng5+ Kg6?

Nov-21-03  Spitecheck: After Ng5+ Kg6, wouldn't white just play Qxe6 threatening both Qf7+ or B/Qf5+.

Spitecheck

Jun-14-04  Jonathan Kolkey: The noted brilliancy, Alekhine-Feldt (1916) somehow looks contrived. It may well be another one of Alekhine's "fake" simultaneous or blindbold crushes of unknown amateur opponents. In the Feldt game, Black plays like a patzer. But he neglects to trade off the White knight on e5 for many moves. Poor players usually trade pieces when they can't think of anything else to do.

At any rate, the position after Black's 14th move looks like one of those amusing positions that we dream up from time to time as we fiddle with the chessboard. I suspect that Alekhine then created a set of very odd moves to reach this exact position.

Nov-11-04  Bluelapis: Why doesn't above comment explain 15...Qc8 ?? If it occurs, What will happen next ?
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