May-08-06
 | | Benzol: So did John Nunn win this game on time or not? See <ray keene> 's notes in this game Keene vs P H Donoso, 1976 for more info. |
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| Nov-14-06 | | Milo: Black is totally lost anyway, why would there be an argument? |
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Dec-27-06
 | | ray keene: <offramp> <milo> < benzol> sorry to be so slow with this reply-nunn shd have won on time but was disallowed-however he soon forced resignation anyway-blacks flag fell afer he had made his 40th but before nunn replied -under the rules then-i dont know about now-this counted as a loss-or shd have done! the fact that it didnt just points to low quality of officials! |
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| Dec-27-06 | | azaris: Was Nunn just sitting there waiting for Godoy (to punch his clock)? |
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Dec-27-06
| | ray keene: no the rule then was that if you made your 4oth move punched the clock and your flag still fell while the opponent was considering his move then you also lost on time. i have no idea what the current ruling is with time increments-fischer clocks electronics and so on-- |
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| Dec-27-06 | | azaris: How can your flag fall once you've punched your clock and it's your opponent's move? |
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Dec-27-06
 | | davidhchess: As I recall, and its 30 plus years since I played OTB, the clocks then weren't electronic but some had little metal 'flags' that could fall with the least additional vibration so a nudge against the table and the flag could drop. |
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| Dec-29-06 | | themadhair: I recall a few people hitting the clock with increasing force when their opponents were low on time. It is a bit of gamemanship that can prove rather effective. |
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| Jan-13-08 | | newzild: This game affords us a nice demonstration of the strategy of exchanging blockading pieces to allow the advance of a passed pawn. However, it's a pretty routine game, and I can't see why it's been granted "game of the day" status. |
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Jan-13-08
 | | Richard Taylor: This is a ref to Beckett's play: "Waiting for Godot" (of course). Beckett's plays are meant - or considered by some to be dark but I find e.g. his play 'Endgame' to be very funny - did Beckett play chess? And it drove him mad!!? |
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Jan-13-08
| | Richard Taylor: Black's game seems to gradually get worse - I cant find anything he could have done better - the opening doesn't look very good for Black at all. Nunn played a great game of course. |
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Jan-13-08
 | | An Englishman: Good Morning: <Richard Taylor>, Beckett was a strong chess player, not quite in the same league as his friend Marcel Duchamp, but good enough to put up a decent fight. Beckett's novel Murphy features one of the most bizarre composed chess games of all time, and would make a great choice for an April Fool's Game of the Day. Chess didn't drive Beckett mad, and I don't think he was, either. However, he definitely had, shall we say, a "distinctive world view." "Eccentric" might also do the trick. |
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Jan-13-08
| | An Englishman: Good Morning: As for today's game, I think the superficially attractive 28...d5 was the key mistake. It looks pretty, but once the pawn is out of the way, White's Rooks own the d7 square, and the c-pawn becomes a passer. |
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| Jan-13-08 | | Chessmensch: <An Englishman> Is this the game to which you are referring? http://www.redhotpawn.com/gameanaly... |
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| Jan-13-08 | | swissteam: Better might be 14....h6 followed by Be6 transposing into an e5 Sicilian with awkwardly placed white pieces. |
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Jan-14-08
| | An Englishman: Good Evening: That is the very game in question. Good work, <Chessmensch>! |
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Jan-14-08
| | Richard Taylor: <An Englishman> A very proper answer -I have got about every book by Bekectt but never finished Murphy - Watt I did - I saw "Waiting for Godot" played here in Auckaland in the 60s (I knew very little about it but I enjoyed it greatly). My friend who is an actor* was in it also - it is a great play. I knew Duchamp was a player... Yes he had an interesting personality.
A good foil for James Joyce ... whose daughter he sadly rejected. I read a bio of Joyce but not yet one of Beckett. * Matt Sunderland - recently in the NZ film "Out of the Blue"
Thanks for your responce. |
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Jan-14-08
| | Richard Taylor: Ye s28 ..d5 is wrong. 28...Nc5 or g6 holds White up gets the knight in a better place. |
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| Jan-14-08 | | kevin86: Where was the time control? It seems that after 45... Qh5 46 Rd8 forces a quick win anyway. Now if WHITE had forfeited this game on time,then it would be a point to notice. |
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Jan-15-08
| | An Englishman: Good Evening: <Richard Taylor>, I hope you at least read the Murphy-Endon game. It will probably leave you in stitches. A very good bio of Beckett was written by a Deirdre Bair a few decades ago--if my shabby memory holds up for once, I believe it was the only one published during his lifetime. Had all sorts of good material, such as Beckett's work in the Resistance during World War II. |
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| May-10-09 | | WhiteRook48: I have seen Murphy-Endon! It is full of stupid blunders! |
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| Jul-14-19 | | Caissanist: I once sat on an appeals committee where we had to rule on a time forfeit, back in the days of mechanical clocks. It turned out that the clock had a weird defect where, at the very end of the time control, the flag would stay up while it was ticking and then fall once you punched it. We had to let the forfeit stand since there was no white space between the minute hand and the "0" mark, but the guy who lost was understandably upset. |
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