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| Oct-08-03 | | MoonlitKnight: This was the opening Kaspy beat Deep Junior with. 12-year-old Carlsen demonstrates that one just as well might leave the pawn after 7.g4. 32.♗g6! with mate in next was really a nice finish to a great attacking game. |
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| Nov-21-03 | | Benjamin Lau: A very pretty move. Interestingly, I managed to get this quickly not through calculation but through intuition (which is unusual for me, I usually don't trust my instincts.) All the variations seem to click together with mathematical precision. The move threatens epaulette mate one way, and Q + N mate the other. Very nice. |
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Nov-21-03
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| Nov-21-03 | | Diggitydawg: Is the middle name of Black for real? If so, that must be the worst name in chess (and we've seen some humdingers). I feel so sorry for that person and the teasing he must have received growing up. |
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| Nov-21-03 | | euripides: The idea of the exchange sacrifice followed by 18 Qc1 and the domination of the black squares by the queen is very impressive. |
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| Nov-21-03 | | Benjamin Lau: The g4!? pawn thrust is getting ever more common. It's a part of standard practice in the Sicilian now, no longer restricted to just the Keres. It's in the Semi-Slav apparently too. I think that very soon it will be a normal idea (it won't get the !?) and will be played just like one would play f4. It's surprising how much chess had advanced since the days of Tarrasch. He would have had a heart attack (and so would many other old masters) if he saw g4!?. Nobody in modern chess seems to pay attention to the "thou shalt move only your center pawns in the opening" rule anymore. |
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| Nov-21-03 | | unclewalter: "you better believe it...or my name's not Ass." -black |
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| Nov-21-03 | | northernsoul: diggitydawg:
He's from Iceland. Maybe ass doesn't have that connotation there... |
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| Nov-21-03 | | panigma: I went to middle school with a guy who's last name was Flamerass. No joke. He was from Sweden. He got beat up almost every day. He wasn't a chess player, though... Hey, Benjamin, what is an "epaulette mate?" |
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| Nov-21-03 | | AdrianP: <panigma> <epaulette mate> have a look at the discussion here... H E Atkins vs Gibson, 1924 I've started a v. small collection of epaulette mates (2, so far...!). If anyone can point me to anymore, please do. |
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| Nov-21-03 | | ughaibu: AdrianP: This one has a nice epaulette theme though the mate isn't realised: Alekhine vs Bogoljubov, 1913 |
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| Nov-21-03 | | patzer2: The winning 32. Bg6+! is a stunning deflection move by the young Carlsen. The capture of the bishop is forced. If 32...Kxg6 33. Qh5#, and if 32...Rxg6 33. Qe7#. |
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| Nov-21-03 | | AdrianP: <ughaibu> Thanks for that... I'm afraid it doesn't quite meet the stringent criteria I've imposed for the collection...! But keep 'em coming. |
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| Nov-21-03 | | panigma: Thanks Adrian. I'm still a little confused, however. What is the criteria for a mate to be called an "epaulette mate?" For example, does the mated king need to be surrounded by its own pieces on a all sides but one, etc....? Also, does anyone know the origin of the term "epaulette mate?" |
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| Nov-21-03 | | AdrianP: <Panigma> The term derives (as I said on the other page) from the fact that the surrounding pieces look like military shouderpads (=epaulettes (French)). The most common form is R K R on the back rank a check coming from in front of the king. The pieces on the side are usually rooks because any other piece will normally be able to interpose (although other pieces are possible - they might be pinned against the K). I would think that technically any configuration with K and two pieces on either side would be an epaulette mate. I.e. any configuration where the characteristic "shoulder pad" configuration is apparent. I hope that's helpful and hasn't got you even more confused... It's certainly got me confused ;-) |
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| Nov-21-03 | | panigma: Thanks. |
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| Nov-21-03 | | kevin86: If 32...♖xg6 33♕e7*
If 32...♔xg6 33♕h5* |
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| Nov-21-03 | | raylopez99: 32. Bd5, the move I picked, also wins (forced mate) |
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| Nov-21-03 | | crafty: 32. ♗d5 ♔g6 33. ♗xg8 ♗xh3+ 34. ♔g1 ♗g4 35. ♗e6  (eval 10.54; depth 12 ply; 250M nodes) |
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| Nov-21-03 | | Whitehat1963: No lie: there was a high jumper on my college track team named Rod Dyck and a shot putter named Anita Cox. And my sister-in-law, a teacher's aid, said there was a boy in her kindergarten class named @#$%head (pronounced Shih-theed), and a girl named Gonorrhea (pronounced gun-OR-eeah). Next to those, "Ass" isn't such a bad name, especially as a middle name. But why on earth would you ever use more than your middle initial if your middle name was "Ass"?? |
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| Nov-21-03 | | rover: AdrianP: In Reggio vs J Mieses, 1903 black wins material by threatening epoulette mate. Sort of. |
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| Nov-21-03 | | raylopez99: Thanks Crafty. It would be interesting to see if White, up a queen with no compensation for Black, can claim that the line 32. Bd5 is in fact a forced mate. I guess you would have to search the entire chess tree and show that all lines, with best play on both sides, lead to mate. Anyway I maintain it's a forced mate to be up a queen with no counterplay on the other side! ;-) |
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| Nov-21-03 | | MoonlitKnight: I believe Gretarsson is no ass, even though he lost to a tweleve-year-old. He's rated 2513 FIDE. |
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| Nov-22-03 | | Larsker: His real name is Helgi Áss Grétarsson as you can see on this page: http://icechess.com/skakhatid/greta... Letters from other languages are often reduced when used in English. |
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| Nov-22-03 | | FeArMySkiLLz: Nice play |
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