| Dec-03-04 | | Knight13: Staunton wanted a draw in the endgame play but Saint Amant refused it till it really became a drawn game. 3... exd4 is better. 4. Qxd4 Nc6 and Black just wasted one move by moving the queen. 3... Qe7?! blocks the dark bishop. Maybe he saw the move 3... Nc3 4. d5 so he maked that move (3... Qe7?!). Good game always! |
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| Oct-14-07 | | nimh: Rybka 2.4 mp, AMD X2 2.01GHz, 10 min per move, threshold 0.33. Staunton 12 mistakes:
4.Nc3 0.08 (4.Nf3 0.47)
12.f5 1.00 (12.Bxe6 1.40)
20.Nb6 -0.08 (20.Be1 0.37)
24.b4 -1.04 (24.Re1 -0.03)
25.c3 -1.92 (25.b5 -1.01)
34.f6 -1.08 (34.Rd1 -0.68)
40.Rf7+ 0.00 (40.Qxe2 0.78)
57.Rf7+ -0.85 (57.g4+ -0.51)
61.g4 -1.59 (61.g3 -0.76)
63.Rh7 -1.58 (63.Rc6 -0.91)
65.Kd4 -2.69 (65.Ke6 -0.93)
67.Rc6 -5.03 (67.Ke5 -2.58)
De Saint Amant 14 mistakes:
6...Ne5 0.53 (6...Qc5 0.14)
9...h6 0.70 (9...g6 0.31)
10...Ng6 0.73 (10...Ned7 0.39)
11...Be6 1.40 (11...Qc7 0.76)
15...Ned7 1.53 (15...Qd8 1.18)
26...Qd6 -1.01 (26...Qxb5 -1.89)
36...Qe5 0.82 (36...Re6 -0.88)
60...Rb2 -0.76 (60...c4 -1.18)
62...Rb3 -0.91 (62...Kf4 -1.59)
63...Rb4 0.00 (63...Rd3+ -1.58)
64...c4 -0.93 (64...Kf4 -1.64)
67...Kg5 0.00 (67...c3+ -10.42)
68...Kh6 -0.43 (68...Kf4 -1.51)
73...Rd3+ 0.00 (73...Rb3 -0.43) |
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| Aug-24-09 | | WhiteRook48: find the worst moves on moves 67 |
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| Nov-15-11 | | AnalyzeThis: This game is nonsense, of course. Black should have won the endgame without fail. |
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| Feb-04-12 | | Knight13: I kind of like the "piling the rooks on the a-file" strategy. Although it seems that White doesn't gain much of anything out of it, Black would actually gain way more if HE was allowed to double his rooks on the a-file. Prevention 101! |
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| Dec-16-12 | | poorthylacine: The beauty of the variations also contributes to the one of a game, even the player(s) eventually missed it.
It's a pleasure to consider 67...c3!! 68.Kxc3 Rc4+! 69.Rxc4 bxc4 70.Kxc4 g5 and Black wins. |
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| Nov-18-16 | | Tuan9371: A nice games, the match between staunton and amant is very useful for we study |
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| Mar-20-21 | | Amed1: Interesting game. In the middlegame Black has an advantage but he threw it with 36 ... Qe5 ?? In the end, Black had the opportunity to close the game with 67 ... c3 !!, taking advantage of the fact that the king was close to the white pawns. |
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| Aug-05-24 | | BxChess: <Lossmaster:> There is something retrograde about the pun. |
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| Aug-05-24 | | thegoldenband: Magnificent palindrome! |
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| Aug-05-24 | | areknames: <thegoldenband> Yes, not bad at all ;) |
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| Aug-05-24 | | Teyss: Nice palindrome referencing the White player's name and the outcome. Now let's find a palindrome with the Black player's full name. It could work in medieval Northern Finnish. |
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| Aug-05-24 | | goodevans: <Knight13: Staunton wanted a draw in the endgame play but Saint Amant refused...> Under modern rules Staunton would have been able to claim a draw by threefold repetition with his 81.Ke6 but this was played decades before that rule's codification. You gotta wonder whether games then would have gone on for hours with each side hoping the other would diverge with an inferior move. |
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Aug-05-24
 | | offramp: I think that palindromes are slightly garbage. No offence! But if the Game of the Day Title was a palindrome, then it would be GREAT if the game began like this:
click for larger view
...and ended with this:
click for larger viewOddly enough, I think there are a few of these games. |
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Nov-23-24
 | | GrahamClayton: The way Staunton's king approaches Saint-Amant's pawn without allowing a check on either b1 or d1 is amusing. |
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