Martyn J Corden vs Simon Webb (1978) Corden Blue

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Martyn J Corden vs Simon Webb
"Corden Blue" (game of the day Mar-21-2016)
British Championship (1978), Ayr SCO, rd 8, Aug-15
French Defense: Advance. Euwe Variation (C02) · 0-1

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Mar-21-16		catlover: Cordon Bleu? Isn't that lightly breaded fried chicken wrapped around ham and cheese? Martyn Cordon doesn't look chicken in this game, throwing piece after piece into the attack, which unfortunately sputters. There might be a misprint in the game score. I think the 25th move might be Qh8+, not Qh7+. With 25. Qh7+, Webb would surely have simply played 25...BxQ.

Mar-21-16		An Englishman: Good Evening: A failed attack left Corden "blue."

Mar-21-16		Razgriz: Why didn't black capture at 16. .... Bxa5...? He'll get a pawn and a rook for a bishop. Is it because the bishop gets deflected from attacking the f4 square and if he takes, white just marches his pawns? Similarly, in 20. .... Bxd3, he couldn't go after the rook because if he goes go with Bxa4 instead, white goes with Bxg6 and then black can't block with Nh4 anymore..?

Mar-21-16		nisharaj31: Why not 26...Bxh7?

Mar-21-16		nisharaj31: Oops, why not Bxh7 on 25th black move?

Mar-21-16		al wazir: What is going on here? This game makes no sense.

Mar-21-16		Jamboree: So many weird blunders, one must assume that it was either a suicide game, or there are mistakes in the game score. Or maybe a 1-minute game with no increment? Nah - it's from the 1978 British Championship, so it must be a serious tournament game. Was British chess really that weak back then, that the best players in the country could play such a goofy half-drunk coffeehouse game? A real mystery. I'm not going to even bother analyzing any lines, as about one third of the moves are dubious or worse.

Mar-21-16		Virgil A: Next time don't call "Code Blue" when the guy is a DNR !

Mar-21-16		Virgil A: The appropriate title would be... Cancel Corden Blue!

Mar-21-16		morfishine: These are some of the funniest posts for such a schizophrenic and bizarre game

Mar-21-16		BobbieM: I thought the joke was because Simon webb's namesake was in the boyband Blue!

Mar-21-16		Ratt Boy: This might be the worst GOTD that I've ever seen here. My eyes are in pain.

Mar-21-16		morfishine: <Ratt Boy> LMAO This one's definitely in the running...maybe thats the joke

Mar-21-16		ndg2: Cool "attacking defense" and quite typical for the French. I always like those Korchnoi-like counter-attacking moments in my own games.

Mar-21-16		goodevans: <Jamboree: So many weird blunders... Was British chess really that weak back then, that the best players in the country could play such a goofy half-drunk coffeehouse game?> 25.Qh7?? was a clear blunder, if it was actually played, as was 25...Kf7, but <catlover> has already proffered a plausible explanation for these: <There might be a misprint in the game score. I think the 25th move might be Qh8+, not Qh7+.> Apart from these, what other weird blunders can you see? I can't see any.

Mar-21-16		kevin86: White's attack has worn down...and he is down a piece and a rook...I guess it's time to give up...

Mar-21-16		luftforlife: I downloaded the tournament pgn, and, incredibly, the score of this game (played August 15, 1978) checks out via John Saunders's BritBase: http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/bri....

Mar-21-16		luftforlife: I didn't think <cg> had the score wrong, but then again it's hard to believe the game progressed as it did.

Mar-21-16		catlover: <luftforlife> Thanks for checking out the game score. So they must have really played 25.Qh7+ Kf7. Oh, well... Maybe these guys had been smoking something. Maybe they were both trying to throw the game. Maybe competing mafia mobs had money riding on the outcome and that threatening looks from the cigar smoking guys in fedora hats in the audience threw off their play.

Mar-21-16		luftforlife: <catlover>: You're welcome. Frankly, I'm surprised this sort of calamity doesn't happen more often. A few Ayrshire cows munch on some ergot-infested ryegrass, two British-Championship competitors enjoy glasses of farm-fresh raw milk in the canteen a few hours before the match, and next thing you know, the whole game goes up in a blaze of St. Anthony's Fire. You'd have to book up for that particular variation with the Merck Manual -- or maybe with the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Kind regards.

Mar-21-16		newhampshireboy: As a USCF 1500 player I certainly am no chess wizard but this game restored some of my confidence. It is hard for me to conceive of players with these higher ratings playing like this!

Mar-23-16		thegoodanarchist: A textbook example of how to refute an unsound attack

Mar-23-16		alexmagnus: There is a game in a GM blunders collections, where a player announced mate with a similar blunder. And resigned immediately, without waiting for the queen to be captured

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