Andrei Kharlov vs Aleksey Dreev (1991) Bore us, Kharlov

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Andrei Kharlov vs Aleksey Dreev
"Bore us, Kharlov" (game of the day Jul-21-2004)
USSR Championship (1991), Moscow URS, rd 2, Nov-??
French Defense: Advance. Euwe Variation (C02) · 1/2-1/2

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Jul-21-04		iron maiden: This is the Game of the Day? It's appropriately titled, but...

Jul-21-04		ThomYorke: This game was boring...I hoped something better in the game of the day

Jul-21-04		jaime gallegos: yeah, what happened chessgames.com ? is the tomorrow menu an stalemate and another boring game ?

Jul-21-04		iron maiden: Maybe they're trying to draw a metaphor to actual chess; the games aren't always exciting.

Jul-21-04		Sneaky: There's actually a few things to be said about this game. The sequence starting with 14.Na3 is a twisty and winding road. I imagine that Kharlov must have seen the whole thing when he embarked upon it. For example, did you notice how 18...Ng6 prevents the classic bishop sacrifice 19.Bxh7+? Why not 15...Rxa1? Why not 16...cxd3? And in the final position, what would be White's next move to hold things together?

Jul-21-04		themindset: whatever, it's still a boring game... acknowledged by the subtitle "bore us" i mean the french advance can sometimes be interesting, but as this game shows, it's often a borefest with white only managing the slightest of edge.

Jul-21-04		Shadout Mapes: I agree with Sneaky, after 15...Rxa1 Nd6+ things get quite interesting. 16...cxd3 17.Ra8+ doesn't look good for black, though.

Jul-21-04		waddayaplay: Hehe, I was thinking about Boris Karloff, the movie actor. I saw him in "The Terror" from 1963 with Jack Nicholson. He played in several Frankenstein films in the 30's and 40's.

Jul-21-04		Benzol: His real name was William Henry Pratt. Boris Karloff sounds a better name to play Frankenstein's Monster, however.

Jul-21-04		Calchexas: Boris Karloff...pun's definitely more esoteric than the last few have been.

Jul-21-04		Dillinger: I think this was a case where the pun was thought of first, perhaps at 3am, and then an appropriately boring game was found to suit it.

Jul-21-04		kevin86: Draw!! An exciting word in a western,less so in chess. This game was a typical grandmaster draw-or Russian draw,to be less PC. Boris Karloff was best as a mad scientist in:THE MAN WITH NINE LIVES and THE MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG and of course,the grinch.

Jul-21-04		Derek880: In Beating the French, by Gary Lane, he gives 15...Rxa1? a question mark with the following line: 16 Nd6+ Kf8 17 Ng5, and now he says that White is winning. Also, after 16...cxd3, White has 17 Ra8+ Bc8 18 Qxd3, and White is up the exchange. But, I agree, this is hardly "Game of the Day" material.

Jul-21-04		chessgames.com: <I think this was a case where the pun was thought of first> What do you mean? The pun is ALWAYS thought of first! ;-)

Jul-21-04		Chesspatch: <Sneaky> I agree, Na3 is a nice twist. One which would have been discarded by most amateurs, me including.

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