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| Feb-02-06 | | Jack Kerouac: Just got back from being On The Road..... |
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Feb-02-06
 | | paulalbert: This game won my brilliancy prize in the 1988 US Championship, Michael Rohde's 3rd straight win. Danny Kopec and Lubomir Ftacnik in their book on the Albert Brilliancy Prizes consider Yasser's 14... b5 as the major strategic error. Michael's 20. c5 is the key strategic move clearing the way for Nc4. Paul Albert |
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| Feb-02-06 | | dakgootje: <misguidedaggression> yup happend to me too, looked at the name when i saw the pirc was refuted... |
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| Feb-02-06 | | SneakysPappy: Sneaky, why don't you ever say something pertinent? |
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| Feb-02-06 | | Jack Kerouac: <SneakysPappy> You are one message old!
Good call. |
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| Feb-02-06 | | kevin86: If you take the beginnings of two songs,both of a religious nature you can do this: Hark,the Herald angel sing...
Michael rowed the boat a shore.
You get:Harkelroad the boat a-shore.
I have some friends whose last name is Harkelroad-they liked it :) lol A queen is vastly better than two pieces-even without pawns it is a struggle to draw from the pieces' side. With two knights or two bishops,however,the pieces can form a barrier to keep the opposing king out. With the different pieces,the queen is far better off. |
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| Feb-02-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: Nice pun, <WannaBe>. :) |
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| Feb-02-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: Nicest move: 26.Bd8! |
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| Feb-02-06 | | LluviaSean: <WannaBe> keep it up!!! |
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| Feb-10-06 | | blingice: I agree with <Jack>: good start. |
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May-29-09
 | | al wazir: Knight on rim leads to trim. |
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| May-29-09 | | randomsac: Lovely combination starting with the double bishop sac. I love how black's queen is constantly in peril afterwards. |
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| May-29-09 | | kevin86: A nice win for white;the queen almost always wins vs two pieces-except when there is no pawns on the board. "On the Rohde Again"
"Rohde Island" |
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| May-29-09 | | WhiteRook48: Hey!! |
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| May-29-09 | | Chessmensch: Rohde's Scholar |
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| May-29-09 | | bengalcat47: You beat me to the Rohde's Scholar pun! The reference to "Harkelroad" reminds me of female tennis player Ashley Harkleroad (very lovely blonde!). |
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| May-29-09 | | lzromeu: Move 28 was a blunder or an error in material calculation? |
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| May-29-09 | | Mulyahnto: <lzromeu: Move 28 was a blunder or an error in material calculation?> It was neither. (Neither black or white blundered on move 28) In black's case, how does one prevent 29. Nf7+ Kg8 30. Nxh6+ Kf8 31. Qg8+ Ke7 32 Qf7#? Only by preventing Nf7+ by playing the text move 28. ... Ng5. Moves like 28. ... Qc7 29. Nf7+ forces 29. ... Qxf7, losing the queen. In white's case Qb3 is the best move because it vacates f7 for the N to give check on the next move and it protects Rd1. |
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| Aug-12-12 | | Cemoblanca: Yessir.. ähh.. Yasser has tried to build an ultra-fine-mini-fortress in injury time, but it was already to toooooo late! By the way: Greets to Jim Bartle! ;0) I'm really outta now! |
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| Mar-09-16 | | zanzibar: I would mark 20.c5! as a good move (and one that amounts to a pawn sac). White plays a strategic-tactical, forcing the b-pawn forward to free c4 for the bishop. Or to get the knight to d5, no matter what White weakens the Q-side lsq's to advantage. The engines disagree with OCF's assessment of 19...b4. What I like is White's play of 20.c5, a pawn-sac that's well worth it. Perhaps Black could have played this...
23...Ng5
click for larger view24.Bxg5 hxg5 25.Nxf7 Rxf7 26.Rc1 Nb7 27.Bxf7+ Qxf7 28.Rxc6 Qxf3 29.gxf3 Na5 (believe it or not, a fairly forced line) 
click for larger viewWhite might be slightly better, but Black has managed to weaken White's pawns and survive to fight on. |
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| Mar-09-16 | | zanzibar: Happened across this game while thinking a little bit about tactical vs. positional play. The game was mentioned in Byrne's Dec 18, 1988 NY Times column: <ACCORDING to the folklore that has sprung up around the game, combinational tacticians are ill at ease facing positional players. But does anyone really know whether this is true?...
Currently on the American scene one of the greatest combinational whizzes is the Queens international master Michael Rohde and one of the greatest positional players is the Seattle grandmaster Yasser Seirawan. But when they met in the 10th round of the United States championship in Cambridge Springs, Pa., Rohde, far from perturbed, won brilliantly and was awarded the prize for the most interesting combination for his effort.> http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/18/s... |
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Mar-10-16
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Thanks for your posts that drew me to this amazing game. Byrne wrote:
<ACCORDING to the folklore that has sprung up around the game, combinational tacticians are ill at ease facing positional players. But does anyone really know whether this is true?...
Currently on the American scene one of the greatest combinational whizzes is the Queens international master Michael Rohde and one of the greatest positional players is the Seattle grandmaster Yasser Seirawan. But when they met in the 10th round of the United States championship in Cambridge Springs, Pa., Rohde, far from perturbed, won brilliantly and was awarded the prize for the most interesting combination for his effort.> But don't you think Rhode plays a wonderful positional game here? Isn't 20.c5 a largely positional sacrifice? Sometimes I think the distinction between positional and tactical players is exaggerated; other times I think it's completely imaginary. 
click for larger viewWhite's 26th move is a beauty. |
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| Mar-10-16 | | zanzibar: <Keypusher> agreed, that move is a nice payoff. One to write home about. |
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Oct-23-24
 | | FSR: A great game and an immortal pun. Somehow I had previously missed both of them. |
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| Oct-23-24 | | Granny O Doul: In reporting on an Amateur Team tournament, Rohde once wrote that the lowlight, for him, was when "Michael Rohde the Boat Ashore" was nominated for the Best Name prize. |
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