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Jan-09-08
 | | patzer2: <Riverbeast> Guess even strong players can make an early opening blunder.
I don't feel so bad about mine now. |
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| Jan-09-08 | | Riverbeast: <Guess even strong players can make an early opening blunder> Back then, the British players were all weak anyway...guys like 'Winter' and 'CHOD Alexander', the best Britain had to offer, were just a bunch of punching bags for the real players.... Actually, until Tony Miles came around in the 70s, Britain didn't have any world class players...their best was Staunton....AKA Howard The Duck...the guy who ran from Morphy |
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Jan-09-08
 | | parmetd: that is true but still its saying this game is here because these players have name recognition. |
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| Jan-09-08 | | Riverbeast: Why not show Kramnik hanging mate in one to the computer for 'Game of the Day'? Actually, up until that point, Kramnik had played a good game...it was certainly more interesting than this |
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| Jan-09-08 | | syracrophy: <chessgames.com> What kind of bad joke is this? A four-move game as a GOTD? Really shameful Since there is a long list of incredible games that really deserve to be GOTD. Better games than this one |
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| Jan-09-08 | | drpoundsign: Fool's Mate there. Dont move king's bishop pawn. protect your b***s |
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Jan-09-08
 | | dabearsrock1010: <weisyschwarz> honestly I have some good opening blunders from playing Fritz although I did beat Fritz last night with it set to 1900 (although I doubt it's playing at that strength but of course I like to think it is)...one is a queen trap in the opening which isn't easy to do so if you're interested let me know |
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| Jan-09-08 | | Cibator: <Riverbeast>: No need to single out Staunton. EVERYONE (Yanks included) ran from Morphy when he offered pawn and move to anybody in the world. |
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Jan-09-08
 | | playground player: Gee, right out of Pandolfini's "Traps and Zaps." |
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| Jan-09-08 | | Riverbeast: <No need to single out Staunton. EVERYONE (Yanks included) ran from Morphy when he offered pawn and move to anybody in the world.> I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the fact that Staunton refused to come to america to play morphy ("too busy"), but instead invited Morphy to come play in Europe. Once Morphy got to Europe and challenged Staunton repeatedly, he received the same replies: "too busy", "previous engagement", "need more time", etc....a classic case of yellow fever
<right out of Pandolfini's "Traps and Zaps."> Right out of "How to beat a rank beginner without having to think"....along with the Scholar's Mate and Mate in Two Moves. |
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Jan-09-08
| | weisyschwarz: Keep the pun, use this game:
W Hasenfuss vs A Simonson, 1933 |
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Jan-09-08
 | | chessgames.com: <chessgames.com> <What kind of bad joke is this?> Perhaps we could have saved it for April 1st, but we make no apologies. It's remarkable in several ways. Obviously, it's one of the shortest games in the database. But unlike most ultra-short encounters, here both men were strong and accomplished players, competing in a real tournament. Also, it's the source of some historical controversy (see links to E. Winter et. al., earlier in the thread). Plus, for what it's worth, the pun fits like a glove. |
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Jan-09-08
 | | Gambit All: It's Game of the Day because it was from an actual event - not an off hand game - and was probably one of the shortest sanctioned games on record |
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| Jan-09-08 | | Riverbeast: Game of the Minute? |
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Jan-09-08
| | TigerG: Is this the shortest game of the day there ever was? |
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Jan-09-08
| | parmetd: I have to admit if this was the april 1st game I would be laughing on the floor but as it is... quite sad. |
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| Jan-09-08 | | Amarande: Another similar trap: 1 d4 Nf6 2 Bg5 c6?! 3 e3?? Qa5+  I believe this has occurred in tournament play, too.Further extension of the motif: 1 d4 Nf6 2 Bg5 c5 3 e3!? Qa5+ 4 Nc3?? (4 Nd2 cxd4 5 Bf4 dxe3 6 Bxe3 is an unclear gambit) cxd4! and two White pieces are attacked. The version of the 5th-rank-fork theme as shown in this game is perhaps less pleasing, mainly because of White's less natural opening play to begin with - the normal response to the Benoni being simply d5 with generally a superior game; c4 is played only later, and often never as the square is a good one for a White Knight. (It is for this reason that the Benoni is normally played today via 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 c5, Black waiting for White to declare his c-pawn's intentions first) |
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Jan-09-08
 | | Infohunter: <Amarande: Another similar trap: 1 d4 Nf6 2 Bg5 c6?! 3 e3?? Qa5+ I believe this has occurred in tournament play, too.> That was Z Djordjevic vs M Kovacevic, 1984, to which reference was made earlier in this thread. According to Tim Krabbé it was repeated in a game Vassallo - Gamundi, tt Spain, Salamanca 1998, but <cg> does not archive it. See this page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records.... |
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Jan-11-08
| | patzer2: Here's a neat selection of short games on utube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWDG... |
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| Mar-23-08 | | Cibator: Just come across another four-mover won by Ortvin Sarapu in the Easter week-ender at Auckland, 1975: 1.e4 d6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c3 Nxe4?? 4.Qa4 1-0
Source: Sarapu's autobiog "Mr Chess", pub. 1993. |
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Nov-03-09
 | | Benzol: I know that some of you have but there may be kibitzers on this game that haven't seen this one played more than seventy (!) years previously. Namely Shumov vs Jaenisch, 1851 The moral seems to be never give up.
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Sep-20-11
| | Benzol: <Cibator> <Just come across another four-mover won by Ortvin Sarapu in the Easter week-ender at Auckland, 1975:
1.e4 d6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c3 Nxe4?? 4.Qa4 1-0
Source: Sarapu's autobiog "Mr Chess", pub. 1993.> Sarapu's opponent in the above post was Peter B Goffin |
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Sep-20-11
| | Resignation Trap: <Cibator> Our user <Phony Benoni> plays that line with white sometimes and calls it simply "The Stupid Trap". |
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Sep-21-11
 | | Phony Benoni: Yes, I've pulled it off a few times. However my opponents, unlike Sarapu's, tend not to resign on move 4. Fancy that. |
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Apr-27-13
 | | DoctorD: The Arbeiter Zeitung (Wien) in its issue for 16.July 1933 called this the shortest game ever played in an international tourney; would that still hold today? |
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