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| Dec-05-04 |
| MoonlitKnight: Ofstad was the Norwegian junior champion in 1951, winning with 9/9. He just turned 70, but didn't want this game to appear in the chess magazine, since he was tired of it being re-printed all the time. But of course it was his shining moment of glory. |
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| Apr-14-05 |
| MoonlitKnight: The game is drawn after 17...Nxe6 18.Nxe6+ Kf7 19.Nf4+ Kf8 etc., since 19...Kf6?? loses to 20.Re6+. Fritz suggests that black might try 17...Bh5?!, but further analysis show that white will have the better game after 18.b4!! although the position is incredibly complex. |
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| Sep-02-05 |
| HROKSEYRI: Black might hold the game with 17.- pg6 now 18. Ktxh7 fails after Kg7! |
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| Sep-02-05 |
| Anastasia: <HROKSERYI> I feel that you may not be correct:
17..g6 18.Nxh7+ Kg7 19.Qxe7+ Nxe7 20.Rxe7+ Bf7 21.Rxf7+ Kg8 22.Re7+ etc |
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| Sep-03-05 |
| HROKSEYRI: I was wrong there, sorry! Seems like black´s 16th move, Ktd4 is the draw/loosing one?! If instead 16.-
Ktd8, then 17.KtxKt is forced. If instead 17.Ktg5, Bf7! holds everything and simplifies the game in b. favour. |
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| Sep-03-05 |
| Anastasia: OK u win... this time... |
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| Sep-03-05 |
| Anastasia: <HROKSEYRI> is that an acronymn? |
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| Sep-04-05 |
| HROKSEYRI: No, a name. Hrokseyri, hrok=rook, eyri= a small slice of land reaching out in the sea. Rooks looking like small cliffs there upon, the era named Hrokseyri. |
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| Sep-04-05 |
| samvega: Cool name. In English we have the word eyrie, meaning a nest on a cliff, or a fort built in a high place. |
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| Sep-04-05 |
| HROKSEYRI: Eyrie; possibly the word came into the English language with the Vikings, like so many words in E. Our "eyri",(Icel.) means ear, an ear like piece of land onto the sea. |
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| Sep-11-05 |
| samvega: Some irrelevant etymology that may interest no one: the Anglo-Saxon thiril meaning a 'pierced hole' gives us both 'nostril' and 'thrill' (making a hole --> pierced w/ emotion --> filled w/ pleasure --> thrill). Not everyone knows that. |
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| Oct-23-05 |
| notsodeepthought: <samvega> Indeed I didn't know that - thanks... next time I catch a cold I will make sure to enjoy the thrill of blowing my nose. It's been a year or so since I posted here, but I still think this would make for a nice "early in the week" puzzle at move 19. |
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Oct-23-05
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| WannaBe: I have never really 'liked' the Tarrasch very much, hard to get the c1 bishop going... tend to favor the Winawer... |
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| Oct-23-05 |
| rexeterna: <acirce> And here it is, Game of The Day. |
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Oct-23-05
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| karnak64: Chessgames, why keep picking on my guy Uhlmann? I'm getting a complex! Actually, <Wannabe>, my sense of Uhlmann's career is that he had a tougher time against the Tarrasch than against other White responses. Larsen, for instance, adopted it for his Candidates match in 1971 and scored a win and two draws. |
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Oct-23-05
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| kevin86: HROKSEYRI-sounds like the name of a chess piece in Klingon! lol A really enjoyable game to watch-if only i could play that good. |
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Oct-23-05
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| ajile: <notsodeepthought: He may simply not have realized (until too late) that 19 R:e7 wins, since 19 ... N:e7 fails to 20 Qf6+ - incidentally, this would make for a nice puzzle...> Wow what a beautiful combo. After 20.Qf6+!! gxQ 21. BH6 Mate. The Black Knight taking the rook blocks the e7 square and allows Bh6 after the g pawn captures the White Queen. |
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| Oct-23-05 |
| notsodeepthought: <ajile> Yep. The theme is not that unusual, but rarely seen at this level.
<acirce>: I guess your suggestion for the GOTD pun may have been too erudite... not that I think "Per-fect" is particularly good, mind you. |
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| Oct-23-05 |
| EmperorAtahualpa: 12.Nf5!! 17.Ng5!! Very impressive GOTD! This one is definetely going into my favorite games collection. |
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| Oct-23-05 |
| ughaibu: Except that black would be moving into check with Kg6. |
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| Oct-23-05 |
| MoonlitKnight: I was talking to an old master I met in Croatia during Pula Open this year, and when I told him I was from Norway, he immediately asked me if I knew Per Ofstad. He said he never ceased to be amazed by the game Ofstad - Uhlmann. |
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| Oct-23-05 |
| hamworld: does anyone have a yahoo and would like to add hamworld05@yahoo.com please? i wanna learn things about chess |
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Nov-20-05
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| FSR: Cool game, although unfortunately it's more a blunder on Uhlmann's part than a brilliancy, since simply Nxe6 instead of Bxg5?? would have drawn. |
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| Feb-25-06 |
| MorphyMatt: Tal vs Uhlmann, 1971 |
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Jul-02-08
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| whiteshark: For some conceptual reason black moved the other  on move 17. Call it transcendent if you like. |
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