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| Mar-24-06 | | lentil: subtract a hundred years from the date and it all makes sense! |
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| Jul-21-07 | | srinivas6195: advance of kingside pawns seemed good |
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| Oct-28-07 | | Whitehat1963: Wild game!
<subtract a hundred years from the date and it all makes sense!> Agree. |
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May-29-09
 | | JohnBoy: An extremely fun game and should be GotD. "Rhode to success". |
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Aug-02-12
 | | perfidious: In Rohde vs Browne, 1992, played just before this game, Black tried 9....g4, but I can't help the feeling that if he's forced into such a concession, this whole line with 5....h6 and 6....g5 is too loosening. <JohnBoy> may well be right, and the only reason I'm not sure I agree is that this game could easily be a Sunday puzzle. As <lentil> noted long ago, this classic attacking game could have been played in the nineteenth century. |
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| Aug-04-12 | | RookFile: No doubt black's play was suspect, but it took very creative and insightful play by Rhode to bring this out. |
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Aug-04-12
 | | PaulLovric: Hello again Susan. Long time no kibitz....From your profile, "...refused to defend her title in 1999 against Xie Jun, because she believed the conditions were unfair." Did you face a lot of negativity from the chess world and or the media, as Bobby Fischer did when he did a similar thing in 1974? Was 1999 not a good year for you? |
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Aug-04-12
 | | FSR: Funny. Just last night I was thinking about Rohde puns. (OK, I´m weird.) Sadly, he hasn´t played Daniel John King. I was hoping for ¨King of the Rohde.¨ |
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Aug-04-12
| | FSR: What a great game! Somehow I´d never seen it. Definitely something you´d expect to see in Napier´s book <Paul Morphy and the Golden Age of Chess>, not in a late-20th century game between GMs. Incidentally, Rohde´s king also knows how to dance - with greater success than Polgar´s here. DeFirmian vs Rohde, 1989 Somewhere floating around my house I have a copy of a game of Eugene Martinovsky´s (possibly from the 1979 U.S. Open) where his king ventured out to the fourth rank in the opening. As I recall, it began 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.dxc5 e6 4.a3 Bxc5 5.b4 Bxf2+!? (Martinovsky later recommended 5...Ne4!) 6.Kxf2 Ne4+ 7.Ke3 Qf6 8.Kxe4 d5+ 9.Ke3 Qxa1. The game only lasted another 20 moves, ending of course with an attack on the king - by White! |
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Aug-04-12
| | perfidious: <FSR> That wild snippet of Martinovsky's reminds me of this classic (Chigorin vs H Caro, 1898). This game was published at the time in Chess Life, I think. It may also have made Informator, but I'm not sure-almost all my books are packed away. |
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Aug-04-12
| | JohnBoy: Nice calls, <perf> & <FSR>. I'll try to put 5...Ne4 in my bag of tricks. Being a west-coast player in my OTB days, I never met Rhode. Todd Lunna told me that he is great at spotting two & three move combos. Have either of you guys played him? Now we need "Rhode schooled"... |
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Aug-04-12
| | perfidious: <JohnBoy> Actually, I've played both players in this game; my second encounter with Rohde was a few weeks after this game, and I played Susan Polgar in the US game/15 only a few days before this tournament. Many years ago, also played Todd Lunna at the Amateur Team East event in Somerset, NJ-think it was in 1987. |
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| Aug-04-12 | | Llawdogg: Wow! Romantic chess lives! |
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Aug-04-12
| | FSR: <JohnBoy> I never played Rohde, but he´s obviously a great tactician, even by GM standards. |
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Aug-04-12
 | | kevin86: What was wrong with Ms Polgar? She led with her king like a boxer leading with the jaw. |
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Aug-04-12
 | | talisman: this is one wild ass chess game. |
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Aug-04-12
 | | xthred: What a flurry towards the end. |
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| Aug-04-12 | | Mudphudder: If I hadn't seen the names of the players, I might have guessed that this was a game between two 1200 rated players. |
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Aug-04-12
 | | Cemoblanca: That was a brutal game! ;0) |
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Aug-09-12
 | | Honza Cervenka: 17...Ne5 was a howler. Why not simply 17...Ke7? Also Rohde missed much better 13.Bd3. |
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Aug-12-12
| | Cemoblanca: <Honza Cervenka: 17...Ne5 was a howler. Why not simply 17...Ke7? Also Rohde missed much better 13.Bd3.> Well, at the first glance 17...Ke7!? (I should give ?!!?, because it's a risky & at the same time an interesting move) looks a bit dangerous, but after 18.Qf7+ Kd8 black hasn't much to worry about, for example: 19.Qxg7 Re8! 20.Qf6+ Ne7 21.Nf2 d6 22.Bd2 g4! 23.0-0-0 Qc6! 24.c5!? g3! 25.Nd3 g2! & we've a razor-sharp position! That's all for now! I hope I'll come back to this later & try to put more color in it! Now I'm tired! ;0) Cheers! |
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Aug-12-12
 | | Jim Bartle: You can try to invent puns using Michael Rohde all day, but you'll never come close to "Michael Rohde Boat Ashore," Rohde vs Seirawan, 1988 |
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Aug-12-12
| | Cemoblanca: <Jim Bartle> Ahahahaha!!! You're right Jim! This 1 is beyond my human imagination! :D |
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Aug-12-12
 | | chancho: 30.Rf5+ looks simpler, no? |
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Aug-12-12
| | chancho: Ok... 30.Bd2+ is better.
30...Kb6 31.Rb1+ Bb3 32.Rxb3# |
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