| Oct-16-07 | | Whitehat1963: Late-in-the-week puzzle after 32...Qxb2. |
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| Jan-18-10 | | MaczynskiPratten: Can't be many examples of a checkmate by a discovered check blocking another check! |
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Jul-19-18
 | | offramp: Probably the best game ever played at Southsea. |
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| Jul-19-18 | | Ironmanth: Maybe..."when I am White I win because I am White AND Bogolyubov!". Sweet! |
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| Jul-19-18 | | ChessHigherCat: I would have played 39. Bd4+ instead, in the guess-the-move mode:
click for larger viewThe unspellable B. (inventor of the unspelling bee) just bored too-hot-to-trot until he made an unsound but interesting sacrifice. |
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| Jul-19-18 | | ChessHigherCat: Bd4 not check, I mean, for the purists! |
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Jul-19-18
| | offramp: <MaczynskiPratten: Can't be many examples of a checkmate by a discovered check blocking another check!> By an amazing coincidence I stumbled across another one, performed by our own <Sally SImpson> and first posted exactly 4 years ago at
Edward Lasker (kibitz #134). Well done, Geoff. |
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Jul-19-18
 | | PawnSac: < ChessHigherCat: I would have played 39. Bd4+ instead, in the guess-the-move mode: > Bxh6 = mate in 5
39.Bxh6 Qxc5 40.Bxg7+ Kg8 41.Bh6+ Kf7 42.Rg7+ Kf8 43.Qf5+ Bd4 = mate in 6
39. Bd4 Re5 40.Bxe5 Qc1 41.Rxh6+ Kg8 42.Rh8+ Bxh8 43.Qg6+ Kf8 44.Bd6+ yea those "purists" would argue for the shorter mate but Bd4 is prettier <wink> |
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| Jul-19-18 | | petemccabe: Playing through the game I saw
37. Bxh6, which looked better to me than EB's Qg4. So I clicked on the Engine button and it agreed. I like this Engine feature (at least, when it says I'm right!). |
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| Jul-19-18 | | cormier: Stockfish 9 13... ba3? <13...bxc3> 14.bxc3 Qa6 15.Be3 Na5 16.Nh3 c4 17.d4 Nb3 = / + -0.98 (31 ply) |
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| Jul-19-18 | | ChessHigherCat: <PawnSac> I saw that mine was a move longer but I like mates that don't involve contact for some reason (fortunately I don't have the same preference with other types of mating) |
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| Jul-19-18 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: Bogo was 61 years old when he played this game, give or take a few days. |
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Jul-09-21
 | | Phony Benoni: What I find remarkable is that the mate on move 40 is White's first and only check of the entire game. |
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Jul-10-21
 | | FSR: <Phony Benoni> An instance where the execution was stronger than the threat. |
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Mar-15-24
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Pity--because Trott came out of the opening with a fine game thanks to White's mishandling of the Knights. The tournament commentary includes some saucy bits: https://www.chesshistory.com/winter... |
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Mar-15-24
 | | Sally Simpson: The game that won an Oscar.
From the Edward Winter site link above given by FSR. "The Bogoljubow v Trott game is used, with colours reversed, in the animated short film War Is Over! directed by Dave Mullins and co-written by him and Sean Ono Lennon. We proposed the 1950 game to him when he requested an illustration of the theme of check followed by immediate checkmate." At the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on 10 March 2024, War Is Over! won the Oscar in the category ‘Best Animated Short Film’. |
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| Mar-23-24 | | mel gibson: I didn't see that.
Stockfish 16 says:
33. dxc5
(33. dxc5 (1.dxc5 Qxa3 2.Nxd6 Qb2 3.c6 Bxc6 4.dxc6 Rc7 5.Qd1 a3 6.Nc4
Qb4 7.Nxa3 Qxa3 8.Rxg6 Rcf7 9.Qc2 Qa5 10.Bg4 Qc7 11.Kg1 Rf6 12.Rxf6 Rxf6
13.Bd7 Rd6 14.Qa4 Bf8 ) +2.59/48 626)
score for White + 2.59 depth 48. |
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| Mar-23-24 | | Messiah: Way too difficult. |
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| Mar-23-24 | | thegoodanarchist: Good game title. |
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Mar-23-24
 | | chrisowen: Ko jufa its heady its dxc5 abbot lab v id ai its she its a fig pug bubble its off baz go its dxc5 cuff :) |
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| Mar-23-24 | | alshatranji: It took me a while to realize (actually suspect) that the action is on the Queen's side, rather than through an attack on the King's side. And then I though the solution was Kxd6, which seems reasonable. But according to Stockfish, it fails to 33...exd4. Yes, this is very difficult. |
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| Mar-23-24 | | alshatranji: Shouldn't that be two checks and a mate? |
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Kibitzing
sac: 33.dxc5