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Boris Becker vs Garry Kasparov
"The Taking of Parham 123" (game of the day Mar-08-2024)
Internet exhibition game (2000), Berlin GER / New York, NY USA, Mar-15
King Pawn Game: Parham Attack (C20)  ·  0-1

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May-01-14  GumboGambit: < profK: Boom Boom got bounced but who else would have played 2.Qh5 against Kasparov???>

Woody Harrelson

W Harrelson vs Kasparov, 1999

Oct-09-15  thegoodanarchist: The Taking of Parham 123!
Apr-01-16  dumbgai: White starts well with 1. e4, and it all goes downhill from there.
Nov-07-18  OrangeTulip: Game, set and match for mr Weinstein
Jun-02-20  Albion 1959: Boris is clearly a better tennis player than a chess player !
Jun-02-20  Damenlaeuferbauer: I think Garry Kasparov is THE chess player in the history of the royal game, against whom you can afford dubious openings like 1.e4,e5 2.Qh5? at least. Maybe he is/was the BEST opening player of all times. There were top players, e.g. Valery Salov, Joel Lautier, and Alexander Nenashev/Graf, who said, that without opening theory (e.g. in Chess 960) he would never become world champion and that Anatoly Karpov and Vladimir Kramnik had a better feeling for / understanding of chess. Unfortunately, there was no re-match between my compatriot and Gazza on carpet, clay, concrete, or grass, but I guess Boris would have lost on clay too (remember, as professional he never won a tournament on clay).
Dec-08-20
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  Korora: Moving the ♕ FOUR TIMES in the opening!? Including on moves 2, 3, AND 4!? Fluorine+a generic anion+iodine+a generic ligand: FAIL.
Dec-15-20  Viking707: Well if it's any consolation, Becker, even in his deteriorated condition could still crush Kaspy in a tennis match today!
Aug-25-21  Whitehat1963: Hilarious look at the Opening of the Day.
Jul-23-23  generror: If you know a bit about Boris, this game is 100% him xD

If I was Kasparov, I would have taken his beloved queen before mating him by <19...Qf1+ 20.Ke4 Qe2+ 21.Kd5 Be6+>. And if <20.Ke3 Qe2#> is a nicer mate.

Mar-08-24  Cecco: If I were a member of the site I would complain that a game of the day is wasted on this stuff.
Mar-08-24
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: Funny how Black's ...Qh4 worked so much better than White's Qh5. Also, impressive pun; refers to the book and the movies The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3.
Mar-08-24
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  HeMateMe: I love the pun (and the Walter mathaeu movie) but where does 'parham' come in?
Mar-08-24
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  offramp: The game is garbage, and the opening (the stupid Parham Attack) is even more garbager.

The pun by <User: thegoodanarchist> is good!

That Pun could have been used at, for example, P Maghsoodloo vs Vidit S Gujrathi, 2024.

Parham Maghsoodloo could have given his opponent a 1-2-3!

Mar-08-24
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  offramp: I used to work in Pelham Street in Kensington, London.

I knew the ๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ and the ๐Ÿ“–.

But I knew another famous film with Roger Moore. <The Man Who Haunted Himself>, with Moore playing Harold Pelham. The ๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ is based on a short story by Anthony Armstrong, called <The Strange Case of Mr Pelham>.

Mar-08-24
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  Honza Cervenka: I guess that Ivan Lendl could play better chess than Boris Becker.
Mar-08-24
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  Plaskett: Short visited Boris Becker to play chess against him at his London home and told me that he was impressed that a guy who, the previous week, had not even been familiar with the value of the pieces was, nevertheless, able to take Short into a King and Pawn ending. I comunicated Short's opinion to Becker on Twitter, and he was appreciative.
Mar-08-24  thegoodanarchist: <Cecco: If I were a member of the site I would complain that a game of the day is wasted on this stuff.>

Celebrity games have a novelty appeal. Another example is Magnus playing Bill Gates, or the games of Humphrey Bogart.

Besides, it is instructive to see how the top players dismantle unsound play. It's one way we learn and improve.

Mar-08-24  thegoodanarchist: <An Englishman: ... Also, impressive pun>

<offramp: ...The pun by <User: thegoodanarchist> is good!>

Thank you for your kind words.

Mar-08-24
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  offramp: He is right, User: thegoodanarchist.
This game isn't very good but there's a lot of people, including me, who talked about it.

Some new chess-players don't know what to do against 2. Qh5, so now you know, from the horse's mouth.

I have been a big fan of Bouncing Becker since he appeared out of nowhere to win Wimbledon when he was 17 years old. He's a very funny guy.

Mar-08-24
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  OhioChessFan: Excellent pun, horrible game, but the celebrity factor carries it.
Mar-08-24
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  OhioChessFan: <HMM: but where does 'parham' come in?>

The opening is called the Parham Attack on this site. I would call it the Kentucky Attack.

<King Pawn Game: Parham Attack (C20) ยท 0-1 >

Mar-08-24
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  playground player: That's a playground opening if I ever saw one.
Mar-09-24
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  Teyss: After this game, Becker and Kasparov played a tennis match. Boris, who is right-handed, only used his left hand as a way of giving odds. The score was 6-0, 6-0, 6-1. Garry managed to score one point in the last set because Boris was laughing so much he had trouble focusing. Still, that was also a 1-2-3.

The Parham Attack has different names of which, appropriately, the Patzer Opening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danve... It is named after Bernard Parham who frequently used it. Of his 8 games in the database, he played 7 times 1.e5 ... 2.Qh5 with the less-than-awesome score of +3 -3 =1.

Only 41 games in the DB with 2.Qh5 giving a paltry win rate for White of 20% vs 56% for Black. Even Carlsen tried it, with limited succes: Carlsen vs S Vokhidov, 2018 ; Carlsen vs Dominguez Perez, 2019.

Only game in the DB with 3.Qh3: interesting but failed attempt to get Garry out of his encyclopaedic opening repertoire. You think this game was a rout? Have a look at that one: NN vs S Polgar, 1976.

Mar-09-24
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  HeMateMe: Boom boom was paroled from a London jail early (tax evasion). Was he booted out of England or does he still maintain a home in the U.K.?
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