Baruch Harold Wood vs Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (1946)

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Baruch Harold Wood vs Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander
British Championship (1946), Nottingham ENG, rd 6, Aug-17
Spanish Game: Morphy Defense (C78) · 0-1

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Sep-03-10		GrahamClayton: White wins a pawn with 9.d6, but Black gets excellent compensation in active piece development. A more restrained continuation was 9.c3 ♘b3 10.♕b3 ♕d5 11.♖e1.

Apr-03-17		Sally Simpson: Golombek and Hartston in Alexander's Best Games (game 38) have the this... click for larger view ...as the final position. Black has just played 22. Re8-e5 "White resigns. There is no defence to the threat of 23...Rh5 and 24...Qxh2+." The added moves 23-25 may have been analyse. (does anybody have on hand another source. I'm trying to think of my original source. I think it stopped at move 22 but now not too sure.) What a gallant White Knight, taking on single-handed the whole Black army. It hops about the battlefield, nicks a couple of pawns and makes it back just in time to defend the King. Alas to no avail, but I feel an honorary mention in dispatches is due.

Apr-03-17		Retireborn: Geoff, Chessbase and John Saunders' Britbase pgn both give the game ending after move 25, but you may well be right about them being analysis. Are any sources given in the Hartston/Golombek book?

Apr-03-17		Sally Simpson: Hi Retireborn, No source from Golombek and Hartston. Maybe the Knight removed the last moves from the book because it was too knackered to move anymore. I'll look at CHESS next time I'm at the club. B.H.Wood, the loser here, was the editor of CHESS so if it's in it should be correct.

Apr-03-17		ChessHigherCat: White should have at least played 13. Re1 instead of snapping like broke wood.

Apr-03-17		keypusher: Incidentally, on the last move, ...Rh5 is more than good enough, but 25....Rg5 forces mate in one.

Apr-04-17		yiotta: <keypusher:....25...Rg5 forces mate in one.> I thought so too, but the spiteful 26.Qxf3 is one last gasp.

Apr-04-17		keypusher: <yiotta: <keypusher:....25...Rg5 forces mate in one.> I thought so too, but the spiteful 26.Qxf3 is one last gasp.> Yes, but then 26....Qxf3 is mate. :)

Apr-05-17		Sally Simpson: Hi, A quick trip to my spiritual home, The Edinburgh Chess Club, whose research library has rarely let me down, I found on page 95 of the December 1946 CHESS. Notes by W. Ritson Morry. “In the 6th round B.H.Wood gave an excellent demonstration on how not to play chess in his game v Alexander.” I remind readers that B.H.Wood was the editor of CHESS. Ritson Morry merrily continues: (After White has played 17. Nb5-c3) click for larger view “Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow was scarcely more disastrous than all this.” But onto the matter in hand, the extra moves? C.G. is correct. After 23...Re5 click for larger view White did indeed play 23.g4 “The was just nothing to do” (Ritson Morry) 23....Qxg4 24. Ne3 Qh3. 25. Nf1 Rh5 0-1. (no mention of the quicker mate, by one move, with 24....Rg5)

Apr-05-17		Retireborn: Many thanks for that, Geoff. Does Edinburgh CC have a complete run of CHESS Sutton Coldfield?

Apr-05-17		Sally Simpson: Hi Retireborn, Yes bound in volumes and BCM and many more mags from the 19th century including a set of the Westminster Papers.

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