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Lodewijk Prins vs Lawrence Day
"A Hard Day's Knight" (game of the day Feb-01-07)
Lugano Ol 1968  ·  Sicilian Defense: O'Kelly Variation. Maroczy Bind Paulsen Line (B40)  ·  0-1


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Feb-01-07   laskereshevsky: HELLO FOLKS
Will be nice see same picture of BEATLES playng chess.......
Feb-01-07   Defiler: <Tenderfoot> <I'd probably have just moved the king and been kicking myself for blowing my opportunity right afterwards.>

"Just" moving the king mates too :p Ke7#

Feb-01-07
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  Phony Benoni: Not a bad pun, but I would have preferred "Someday My Prins Will Come".
Feb-01-07   Sibahi: J.H. Donner would've liked this game ..
Feb-01-07   Tactic101: Beautiful game. Nice mate as well. I love that piece sacrifice. Very inspired game from black.
Feb-01-07   CitricAcid13: I can't believe black missed 31. ...Ke7#!!!!!!?! It's a shame, really.
Feb-01-07
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  blair45: I agree with Gypsy -- Prins could have stormed out of the hall or pouted in the corner -- that's the modern way.
Feb-01-07   aldehyde: lovely!!!!
Feb-01-07
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  Peligroso Patzer: The King Hunt in this game is somewhat reminiscent of Edward Lasker's famous game against Sir George Thomas:

Edward Lasker vs G A Thomas, 1911

Feb-01-07   dbquintillion: <Phony Benoni> your remark reminded me of this page:

Ljubojevic vs Miles, 1980

Feb-01-07
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  kevin86: This game had two fun things about it:the marching of white'sd king to death at a faraway place (h8) and the checkmate by castling. Actually,it's a toss up as to what is more elegant: mating by castling or mate by a piece never moved. It's obvious to everyone that the rook never moves-as otherwise he COULDN'T CASTLE.
Feb-01-07   Themofro: Great game by black.
Feb-01-07   zb2cr: Just for completeness...if White plays 29. Kd6, then 29. ... Qc6+; 30. Ke5, Qc5+; 31. Kf6, Qf5+ etc.
Feb-01-07   GrandPatzerSCL: Happy Birthday Lawrence Day!!
Feb-01-07
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  playground player: It's frightening to see such things happen to players who are much better than I am--but also encouraging, in a perverse sort of way.
Feb-01-07   Dr.Lecter: Castling is just a way to make it looke more artistic. If black played Ke7, it would have been the same result.

Otherwise, great game!

Feb-01-07
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  IMlday: Donner would have been happy because he beat Yanofsky, but Suttles (vs Ree) and I won with Black and Macskasy drew Kuijpers. There were several rounds left in the prelim group and only at the end did the tie-break become critical to qualifying to the A-group. I don't think Prins played on after ..Qe4+ but Cozens added the finale for drama in the first edition of "The King Hunt". The second edition also corrected my name from D. Laurence. In the post mortem Robert Hubner, who I knew from the '67 World Junior, suggested 11.g3 as a theoretical improvement (there wasn't much theory back then.)
Feb-01-07   mac17: Great pun!
Jul-06-07   sanyas: But it was already used for L Day vs B Harper, 1975. Doesn't chessgames.com keep track of these things?
Jul-06-07
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  keypusher: <sanyas> <But it was already used for L Day vs B Harper, 1975. Doesn't chessgames.com keep track of these things?>

What an outrage! Have you demanded a refund?

Jul-06-07   sanyas: <keypusher> No, I now see that they've added in an article before this title, so they get off on a technicality.
Aug-13-07   Tenderfoot: <Defiler> Great point, man. I was referring to the lost opportunity to get checkmate by castling. It was my attempt at humor. Better luck next time I suppose!
Apr-14-08   Judah: <Phony Benoni: Not a bad pun, but I would have preferred "Someday My Prins Will Come".>

nice, that one's much better

Jan-02-09   WhiteRook48: Hard Day's Knight? Was this game played at Knight?
Jan-25-09   WhiteRook48: and I would have preferred ...Ke7#
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