| Dec-13-04 | | Calculoso: There is no way to prevent mate on the back rank and the loss of the bishop to R6c7. I was hoping that the guy who opened h3 was going to win... |
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| Dec-13-04 | | isolatedpawn: The Bishop is lost and the game as well. The only move to prevent a back rank Mate is 40.a3. (or 40.b3 or 40.Rb1. But then 40...R6c7 and the bishop goes again threatening Mate!!! |
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| Dec-13-04 | | samikd: I did not get the pun :( |
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Dec-13-04
 | | Benzol: <samikd> It might have something to do with the expression "strange brew". |
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| Dec-13-04 | | Reisswolf: <samikd: I did not get the pun :( > It's got to be a pun on "strange brew." At least that would be my guess. |
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Dec-13-04
 | | Sneaky: <She's a witch of trouble in electric blue / In her own mad mind, she's in love with you, with you / Now what you gonna do? / Strange brew... look what's inside of you> I'll leave the job of setting the lyrics to the moves to tpstar :-) |
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Dec-13-04
| | Benzol: <Sneaky> Didn't know you were a Cream fan. |
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| Dec-13-04 | | Reisswolf: Ha ha! I think I Benzol and I posted almost simultaneously. I think I know why samikd is confused. Being Indian, he pronounces "Barua" very differently from how westerners say it. The Indian pronunciation is something like <ss>Buh</ss>ru<ls>ah</ls> where "ss" stands for "short stress" and "ls" for "long stress." The western way of saying that name is <ss>Bu</ss><lt>roo</ls>ah, which is pretty close to "brew." |
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Dec-13-04
| | Sneaky: Benzol, I'm really not a Cream fan, I like Clapton but there's something about Cream that I find morbid and depressing. I could say the same about the Doors. What happened to pretty music? |
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| Dec-13-04 | | captcrisis: Why did White sacrifice his rook at move 35? Do you folks think this was a mistake? |
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| Dec-13-04 | | kevin86: Are these woodpushers-or mouse clickers-really worthy of a gotd? lol 1 h3-a new and exciting move ha ha! |
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| Dec-13-04 | | captcrisis: No, really. I'm a beginner. |
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| Dec-13-04 | | euripides: <captcrisis> I think Kevin's comment referred to the players not to your perfectly reasonable question ('gotd' stands for 'game of the day'). I am not sure what Basman, who is known as one of the most imaginative British players, had in mind by the exchange sacrifice, but I think the point is that after d5 White generates an attack with Qf7+. Sacrificing the exchange (a rook for a minor piece) for a pawn and an attack is often a good idea. Howeer, Basman doesn't seem to have enough here and yes I think it probably is a mistake. One possibility is that Basman was short of time and thought that Black would have to take the bishop on move 38, after which he would win the rook on c6. |
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| Dec-13-04 | | percyblakeney: There doesn't seem to be many good options left for white at the 35th move, and Fritz actually thinks the exchange sacrifice is quite OK given the circumstances, and rates it as the second best move. Anyway, black is much better whatever white would try. |
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| Dec-13-04 | | captcrisis: Thanks. I see that now. |
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| Dec-13-04 | | ajile: Kevin- Michael Basman is the proponent of these "Grob" openings with g4 and h3 etc. He even wrote a book on them. However I don't believe he does too well with it against stronger players. |
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| Dec-13-04 | | Chesspatch: is Basman always well known for uncommon openings? notably with the side pawns, I recalled a match with Anand where he did that, and he won! |
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| Dec-13-04 | | northernsoul: Chessgames - please explain pun! It's driving me mental |
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Dec-13-04
 | | chessgames.com: Benzol, Reisswolf, and Sneaky got it right. |
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| Dec-13-04 | | GreenDayGuy: h3? thats new. can anyone tell me what the point of that move is? |
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Dec-13-04
 | | IMlday: <GDG> The idea is to play on the long diagonal h1-a8 like an English, but with the added point that g4-g5 can knock out N/f6 formations, or secure the e4-square for the N/c3. There are some good examples in the Basman file from circa 1978-1981 with both colours
and wins against some strong players, notably Nunn and Speelman. Eventually Ray Keene mashed it, but it had a brief successful period and is way better than it looks, even with colours reversed. I think it is better deferred, after 1. Nf3 to deter ..e5 first. Also interesting is 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 h6!? against Torre players. 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Bf5 equalizes, and 3.c4 d6 4.Nc3 Bf5
just transposes to Reti's Variation of the Old Indian. |
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| Dec-13-04 | | nosh: My guess on the exchange sacrifice is that white was worried that black's knight would rule the world from that central outpost. No pawns, bishops, or knights to eliminate it. |
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| Dec-13-04 | | KampongBoy: Strange Brew is also the name of a Canadian movie starring the Mackenzie brothers, Bob and Doug. A couple of hosers who had a regular skit on Saturday Night Live called The Great White North (referring to Canada). In this case "Strange Brew" referred to a brewery's special beer. |
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| Dec-13-04 | | KampongBoy: A common hypothetical question in the past has been, "How good could I.M. Michael Basman have become if he played more normal openings?" For more unusual openings check out the games of G.M. Duncan Suttles. |
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| Dec-15-04 | | patzer2: Mycomputers doesn't agree, but it seems to me that the positional clearance move 30...c5! (making ...Nc6 and ...Nd4 possible) gives Black a clear advantage. |
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