| Feb-15-04 | | ughaibu: Catfriend: Extra queens. |
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| Dec-03-04 | | kostich in time: this game was played in the first round at Hastings, when no-one had heared of Pillsbury. However, his skillful resistance against one of the top four players in the world impressed a lot of people. |
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| Jul-16-05 | | Swindler: Pillsbury falls for a book-trap known since the 1870's. Here is a simul game where Fischer uses it: Fischer vs M McDermott, 1964 . |
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Jul-16-05
 | | Calli: 14.Qxf7? let Pillsbury back in the game. Lasker pointed out 14.Bg5! Rg8 15.Qxf7 Rxg5 16.Qe6+ Ke8 17.Rxf6! Rg7 18.Qxe5 and Black position is hopeless. |
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Jul-16-05
 | | tamar: <Calli> That is a cool variation. Lasker gives the variation up to 17 Rxf6 which threatens mate in two, but 17...Rg7 looks plausible until 18 Qxe5 is shown. For example,after 14 Bg5 Rg8 15 Qxf7 Rxg5 16 Qe6+ Ke8 17 Rxf6 Rg7 18 Qxe5 if 18...c6 19 Rf3 Rg6 20 Rf8+! wins the Queen or 20...Kxf8 21 Qh8+ mates. |
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Jul-16-05
| | Calli: For those following along, Rg7 is the only defense to the threatened 18.Rf8+ Kxf8 19.Qf7# However, Qxe5 followed by Rf3 as <Tamar> says threatens the loose rook and there is no real defense. A likely draw for Pillsbury is probably 23...Bg5+ 24.Bxg5 Rxg5 25.Qxh7 Rxd5! 26.exd5 Qg5+ 27.Kc3 Qxd5 His 23...Bb4 looks like an error. |
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Mar-12-07
 | | ketchuplover: Does anyone have the centennial edition book of this tournament? |
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Mar-12-07
 | | paulalbert: <ketchuplover> I have it. Certainly one of the best tournament books ever done and The Centennial Edition published by Pickard & Sons in 1995 is a very high quality work. Paul Albert |
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| Jun-18-08 | | Lutwidge: Lasker at move 23 sez:
"An ingenious manoeuvre, whose outcome is that the bishop is exchanged for the knight. Pretty though it is, it appears doubtful whether it was now the opportune moment to exchange anything which only makes the White Pawns so much stronger and his King safer. The right play seems to be-- 23. ... B to B4
24. RxKt, P to B3
24. B to B4ch, K to R2
25. Kt to B7, Q to Q5
or 25. Kt to B3, Q to Q5
26. R to Bsq, K to R2, leaving him with
27. QxB, QxQ
28. B to K3, QxB, ch
29. KxQ, QR to KBsq,
with good chances for the ending."
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| Jul-02-09 | | Knight13: Black ignores king safety in exchange for material... More like tempo because White developed while Black's king were chased to a corner and made the rook on a8 look pretty stupid. |
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| Aug-13-09 | | d4pawn: Lasker has a blunder in his analysis discussing 11..Rf8 variation. He gives 12.fxe5 dxe5 13.Rf1 Be7 14.Bg5 and now 14..Nh5? allowing White to scoop up 2 pawns. This is avoided by 14..Qd7 or 14..c6 and Black is hanging tough. 14..Qd7 15.Bxf6 c6 16.Qh6 Bxf6 17.Qxf6 Qe7 18.Qxe7 Kxe7. 14..c6 15.Bxf6 Qd7 16.Qh6 Bxf6 17.Qxf6 Qe7 18.Qxe7 Kxe7. Later in his analysis after text move 14.Qxf7? he gives 14.Bg5 Rg8. However, 14..Rf8 puts black in a more shallow grave than does Rg8. 15.Bxf6 Bxf6 16.Rxf6 c6 and White is still winning but the margin is much less. Maybe Lasker didn't devote much time to his analysis or something. Of course, we have Rybka to catch their oversights. Interesting twists in this game though. |
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| Aug-12-10 | | LIFE Master AJ: Round One of the great International Tournament of Hastings, 1895. A BRILLIANT game by both players!!!
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[Event "corr"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1886.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Ranneforth, Heinrich"]
[Black "Michaelson, M."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C30"]
[PlyCount "48"]
[EventDate "1886.??.??"]
[EventType "tourn (corr)"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2000.04.19"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Bc5 3. f4 d6 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bc4 Nc6 6. d3 Bg4 7. h3 Bxf3 8. Qxf3 Nd4 9. Qg3! Nh5 10. Qg4 g6 11. f5 Nxc2+ 12. Kd1 Ne3+ 13. Bxe3 Bxe3 14. fxg6 hxg6 15. Rf1 Bf4 16. h4 Ng3 17. Bxf7+ Kxf7 18. Qxg3 Kg7 19. Qf2 Qxh4 20. Qxh4 Rxh4 21. Nb5 c6 22. Nxd6 Rd8 23. Nxb7 Rxd3+ 24. Ke2 Rd2+ 0-1 (I submitted this game for posting, here. There are also several games in print with 9.Qg3 that are NOT in any DB, see the book: "The Oxford Encyclopedia of Chess Games," for just a few examples.) ********
9.Qg3!! (This idea had been played before, believe it ot not ... so I guess this was a "book" continuation ... but you have got to remember that there weren't hardly any books back then, NO computers, NO databases, etc.) As late as move thirty, (30.Bc3, "="); Fritz 12 shows this game to be dead equal. GM Andrew Soltis covers this game in the book, "The Great Chess Tournaments & Their Stories," page # 54 of the 1975 (hard-back / standard English descriptive notation) edition. |
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sac: 9.Qg3