| Jul-20-05 |
| dac1990: This marks the first known instance of the Atkins diet, which consists of cutting back on good playing and eliminating pieces from your play. That might have been my worst joke, ever. |
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Jul-20-05
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| An Englishman: Good Evening: I dare say that figuring out the reason today's Game of the Day title will prove harder for most people than most of the daily puzzles. Atkins must have seen the Exchange sacrifice coming. I can't believe he allowed it. 27...Nxg3+; 28.Rxg3,Rg6 is bad, but still an improvement. Also, 30...Bg6 lets Black get pinned like a dressmaker's dummy. White *does* threaten 31.Bd3 and 32.Qe5, so defense might no longer be possible, but what about 30...Rh5? 31.Qe2! looks like a winner, but 31...e5; 32.fxe5,Bxc4; 33.Qxd4+,Qe6 seems to allow something bearing a faint resemblence to resistance. |
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| Jul-20-05 |
| blackjacki2: Is it because Ron Popeil's latest informercial is a knife set? |
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| Jul-20-05 |
| Counterpoint: How about 37...Qd5+ 38. Kg1 Qxc5+ 39. Kh1 Qd5+ ... etc? |
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Jul-20-05
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| Chessical: Von Popiel also could have won by means of: <34.Qg5> exf5 35.Bb4 Qxb4 36.Qxh6+ Ke7 37.Qh4+ Kd6 38.Qf4+ |
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Jul-20-05
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| Chessical: <Counterpoint> The black queen is unfortunately pinned. |
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Jul-20-05
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| kevin86: An unprotected pin does the trick-and puts white an exchange to the good-Is Popiel a "Pocket Fischer?" lol |
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Jul-20-05
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| Knight13: Nice game.
The Queen is NOT pinned. She can escape with 37... Qxc5 but 38. Qxe6 follows. Black is totally lost anyway since he's a lot of pawns down. |
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| Jul-20-05 |
| JSYantiss: Knight13, Chessical was referring to the line mentioned by Counterpoint's post above him. Qxc5 is the ONLY move the Black Queen can make, since otherwise it IS pinned. |
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| Jul-20-05 |
| weary willy: <An Englishman: Good Evening: I dare say that figuring out the reason today's Game of the Day title will prove harder for most people than most of the daily puzzles.> An (other) Englishman has the same problem. Can someone explain? Ron Popeil? Who he? |
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| Jul-20-05 |
| Calculon: Is the 'Taimanov' referring to Mark Taimanov? Because Mark was born in 1926 and the game was played in 1902. Maybe it would be more correct to refer to the game as either the Popeil variation or the Atkins variation! Incidentally, Ron Popeil is a well known inventor of the Fishin' Magician, Veg-o-matic, Pocket Fisherman, etc. (Also, a spray-on chemical to your hair to make it look thicker and reduce bald spots.) |
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Jul-20-05
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| refutor: yes but taimanov championed it and analyzed it...just because it was played by someone in the 1800s doesn't mean they should get it named after them |
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| Jul-20-05 |
| Anatooly Homedepotov: <Calculon> yes my girlfriend sprayed about half a can of that "GLH-9 Hair in a Can" spray on my head once and I almost passed out from the fumes. I must have suffered some dane bramage 'cos my chess rating subsequently plunged thru the floor! |
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Jul-21-05
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| kevin86: The queen is pinned-not absolutely,but pinned on the line. A queen can only be line pinned-she can capture the pinning piece. A knight is ALWAYS absolutely pinned. Rooks,bishops,or pawns,can be pinned differently,based on the situation. |
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Jul-21-05
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| Eric Schiller: <kevin> "Absolute pin" is a technical term for a pin where a piece is pinned to a king. The ability to capture the pinning piece is irrelevant. "Relative" pin is used for other pins. |
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Jul-22-05
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| kevin86: <Eric Schiller and others>You are right,an absolute pin involves the king;i was just differentiating between a pin where the piece cannot move at all (let's coin a term-squarebound pin) and a pin where the pinned piece can move along the line of pin. eg.White rook at e1,Black king at e8,queen at e4----the queen can move any square along the e-file,including capturing the rook-if however,a knight is placed in place of the queen,the knight is held at e4 |
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sac: 28.Rxe4
