Jul-12-05
 | | TheAlchemist: Only B Kazic vs B Vukovic, 1940 has been praised so far, but here's the (probable) original, if only slightly different, but with the same motif. |
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| Jul-12-05 | | fgh: I remember seeing this game in one book on tactics. It's a very nice combination, in my opinion. |
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| Feb-23-06 | | Mating Net: I just discovered this game, and what a find! After 13...Ne5 White realizes that Black has a stalemated King. All he has to do is give check on f6 and it's 1-0, LOL. White orchestrates a Knight double team on f6, via a Queen sac that is a thing of beauty. Well done. |
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| Apr-25-06 | | dakgootje: Nice game, but why not Be6? |
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| Jan-05-07 | | WarmasterKron: <dakgootje> Nowadays, 8...Be6 is the standard move and certainly much less risky for Black. However, ...Kf8!? is by no means losing, but requires care. There seem to be numerous inaccuracies here, according to CN. 4793, including move order and the name of the White player. |
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| Sep-13-07 | | Ryan Razo: 12... ♗f8 would have been better.
Also, Fred Reinfeld gave 14 ♘xe5 and 15 ♘d7 three exclamation marks. <WarmasterKron> <There seem to be numerous inaccuracies here...including move order...> Indeed. One book (Fred Reinfeld's <How to Win Chess Games Quickly>) has it as: 1 e4 e5 2 ♘f3 ♘f6 3 ♗c4 ♗c5 4 O-O ♘f6 5 d4 exd4 6 e5 and so on... |
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| Sep-17-09 | | WhiteRook48: Black is immediately lost after 14 Nxe5 |
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| May-27-13 | | My Face: 14...Be6 is met by 15.Qg4+! Bxg4 16.Nxg4 followed by mate at f6 |
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| Mar-24-24 | | Cassandro: Sorry, Miss S. I like your style, but that pun is as weak as it gets. |
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Mar-24-24
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: If you don't have a map of the theory in the forest of the Max Lange, you will get munched. Even in 1918, people knew that 8...Kf8 rarely led to a happy ending. Still, kudos to Charlie Brown, who finally won. According to legend, the Peanuts hero did win a baseball game after about a half century of trying, but methinks he might have fared better at chess. |
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Mar-24-24
 | | HeMateMe: Superb pun! Does England have a 'Peanuts' type comic strip? As a kid I remember reading Andy Capp, a sort of Brit slagger, which was carried in a lot of American newspapers. Not sure if that counts. |
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| Mar-24-24 | | Cecco: I read that the German tennis player of the 1930s Gottfried von Cramm, who had the noble title of "baron", did not play a defensive shot, the lob, because he considered it not dignified enough. I wonder if something like that, for a romantically inspired chess player, prevented black from playing the defensive (and urgent) 12. ... Bf8, which would have saved him (as already indicated by <Ryan Razo>). Perhaps, at least unconsciously, that retreat of the bishop could be considered not dignified enough. |
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Mar-24-24
 | | saffuna: <I read that the German tennis player of the 1930s Gottfried von Cramm, who had the noble title of "baron", did not play a defensive shot, the lob, because he considered it not dignified enough. > Interesting. Never hitting a lob would be like never castling in chess. It would mean conceding many points that might be won, as well as letting the opponent hang over the net to volley. |
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| Mar-24-24 | | goodevans: <Ryan Razo: 12... ♗f8 would have been better.> With 12...Bb6? Black maintains the protection of his d-pawn (which was perfectly well defended anyway) when he should have been protecting his K. That blunder allowed for a very pretty finish without which this game would probably never have seen the light of day so thanks, Gibbs, whoever you were. N.B. According to his player page, Gibbs was still playing competitively some 72 years later. |
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| Mar-24-24 | | thegoodanarchist: <N.B. According to his player page, Gibbs was still playing competitively some 72 years later.> He had a lot of free energy. |
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| Mar-24-24 | | Allderdice83: 11. Nc3?! is a TN, but not a good one according to Stockfish. The idea of course, is 11 ... dxc3?? 12. Qxd8 Nxd8 13. Re8! with mate next move. But after 11 ... Bf8, the bishop and knight are both threatened, and White has no better than to trade off into an endgame down a pawn, albeit a doubled pawn. As mentioned above, 12 ... Bf8 preserves equality for Black. After 12 ... Bb6??, the dark-squared bishop is out of the game, unable to counter White's bishop on h6. The Black king and rook are shut in, leading to a quick end. |
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Mar-24-24
 | | MissScarlett: < Sorry, Miss S. I like your style, but that pun is as weak as it gets.> Try Englisch vs M Bier, 1879 (kibitz #2). <Does England have a 'Peanuts' type comic strip?> Does it really need to be said that the Brits invented comic strips? I was going to claim <Hagar the Horrible> but he turns out to be American. I can picture Hagar confronting a lone soldier with <You and whose army?> Around a bend in the mountainous road lay a multitude stretching to the horizon. <Gibbs, whoever you were.> In C.N. 4793 Brown claimed (in 1939) that Gibbs was a member of the Imperial Chess Club and had since died. Percy Gibbs must be the likeliest candidate, but one can find references to a couple of other Gibbses in the chess press around this time. If we had access to the <Field> of late 1918, as suggested by Brown, the matter might be resolved. |
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| Mar-24-24 | | Nosnibor: "Charlie Brown is a clown he wears his trousers upside down." This is the comic strip person that I remember has a kid. |
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Mar-24-24
 | | Breunor: Thegoodanarchist, how didn't that free energy not fall to entropy? |
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Kibitzing
sac: 14.Nxe5