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| Apr-01-09 |
| gustavoarsilva: This game is the last one in Raymond Keene's excellent book "Aron Nimzowitsch: a reappraisal". It is a bogus game, a fiction created by Hans Kmoch, poking fun at Nimzowitsch ponderous writing style. Nimzowitsch liked the pun very much, so Keene says. |
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Apr-01-09
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| Viewer Deluxe: As <Milo>, <Marco65>, <JohnTal>, <patzer2>,
already pointed out 21...Qb1+ was winning for Black. Yes, it is a checkmate in four.
Even bigger joke is that Black had three opportunities to play it.
Now, White (being only a genius) missed a checkmate in four himself
while playing the 23.Qh7. So altogether four checkmates in four were missed.
Take a look: http://chesstuff.blogspot.com/2009/... |
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Apr-01-09
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| MethodMan: But he still has the knight on d3 to block that check protected by the bishop on f4. In addition, he didn't have time because he was getting a combination shoved down his throat. Mate in 4 after 23.Qh7? It was Checkmate on move 24. |
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Apr-01-09
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| Chachaman: It's a good composition, despite the flaw on move six. Don't focus on the silly nature of the game: focus on the ideas behind the moves. Even though Nimzowitsch should have been crushed, the position was quite striking, with the overprotection completed. It was a very interesting strategic game despite the tactical flaws. |
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| Apr-01-09 |
| akapovsky: Komch is such a genius he dosen't see 5.Nc6 <Bb5!>? 6.Qa5+.It's wierd because the annotations refer to nimzo himself annotating but It's Komch.The whole game is wierd?? April fools indeed. |
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| Apr-02-09 |
| AnalyzeThis: Of course he saw it. It's a satire, the point of that was to draw attention to how Nimzo can be so enamored by strategical themes that he can overlook tactical shots. In any event, the Bb5 Qa5+ idea has already be pointed out in this thread. |
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| Apr-02-09 |
| njchess: This game is a pretty famous, or perhaps infamous, satirical piece created by Hans Kmoch, a Dutch IM from the 1920s and 1930s. (Note the event name is Composition.) Nimzowitsch thought it was hilarious and no, he never played this game. Kmoch also wrote many articles and books regarding chess including, interestingly, in light of this game, "Die Kunst der Verteidigung" (The Art of Defence) which was the first of it's kind on the subject. In terms of writing, he is best known for "Pawn Power In Chess" (1959) which, though instructive, is also inadvertently (I assume...) hilarious. Always a fun April Fools game. |
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| Apr-02-09 |
| sneaky pete: Yes, and Mozart was a Dutch composer from the 1780s and 1790s. Only Hitler, although pretty famous, wasn't Dutch. I believe he was Danish. |
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Apr-02-09
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| AgentRgent: <sneaky pete: Only Hitler, although pretty famous, wasn't Dutch. I believe he was Danish.> Hitler was of Austrian birth. |
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Apr-02-09
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| whiteshark: There are only two things I hate; those who are intolerant of other people's cultures........and the Dutch. |
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Apr-02-09
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| Gambyt: WS, thats a very racist thing to say.
There are three kinds of people I hate:
1. Racists.
2. People who cannot understand irony.
3. People who are ignorant of culturally based humor (like a movie tie-in) |
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| Apr-03-09 |
| sneaky pete: Good evening:
I'm a British tourist
and I'm very, very rude
I hate the stinking foreigners
hate their stinking food
I don't like French or Germans
Don't care for Belgiums much
But worst of all, most of all
I hate the Dutch
The Dutch, the Dutch
I hate them worse than dogs
They live in windmills
And mince around in clogs
They don't have any manners
They don't say 'thanks' or 'please'
All they eat is tulips
And stinking Gouda cheese
I'm a British tourist
With a countenance severe
I love to stike the foreign type
And box their poxied ears
But there's one woggy dago
I cannot bear to touch
The slimy crawling
Stench appalling
Snotty grotty Dutch
The Dutch are mad
Their fingers stuck in dikes
They use the wrong side of the road
And ride around on bikes
They don't have any manners
Don't have any brains
There's only one race worse than them
and that's ... THE ... DANES |
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Apr-03-09
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| beenthere240: People who are pointing out that black has a forced mate around 21 may be missing the point that white has constructed the mating net around his own king by overprotecting the e5 pawn with moves like Re2, Rhe1, and Nf3. It's a really funny and entertaining composition. |
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| May-05-09 |
| gustavoarsilva: Hello, Sneaky Pete!
I have just read your poem (April 3) and I laughed a lot. Congratulations ! Now, have you ever considered writing something about Argentines? As a native of Brazil I'd like it very much. Best regards.
Gustavo |
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| May-05-09 |
| sneaky pete: <gustavoarsilva> I am no poet, I only copied those lyrics. They were written, as any veteran visitor of this site will confirm, by <An Englishman>. By the way, did you know that Steinitz, in his younger years, was known as the Dutch Morphy? |
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| May-05-09 |
| JonathanJ: wasn't steinitz austrian by birth? |
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| May-08-09 |
| gustavoarsilva: To Sneaky Pete and Jonathan J:
Steinitz was born in Prague in 1834. |
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| Sep-03-09 |
| JamesMazur2: 2 comments:
First, note the annotation on 5...Qb6. 5...Nc6 is actually a plenty good move. In fact, White should not respond 6. Bb5 becuase Black has 6...Qa5+, winning the bishop. Second, White's opening is not as amazing as the person annotating claims. Black wins with 21...Qb1+, 22...Qb1+, or 23...Qb1+! |
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| Sep-03-09 |
| AnalyzeThis: James - this is not a real game, and the comments are a tongue-in-check parody of Nimzo. Not meant to be taken seriously. |
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| Sep-03-09 |
| AnalyzeThis: Hans Kmoch is making a point with 5...Nc6 6. Bb5 (allowing ...Qa5+ winning the bishop.) It is: Nimzo could focus sometimes so much on 'strategic' details that he could miss the forest for the trees. |
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| Sep-14-09 |
| Wayne Proudlove: I read about this; putting chess to the side for a moment, the satirical writing is a wonderful example of modernist style that was in vogue at the time.
I believe that Nimzowich was so convinced by his theory of overprotection that he and his friend worked together to create this phony game as a way of advocating its utility. |
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| Oct-06-09 |
| ILoveThisSite: What happens if black captures the b-pawn on his 11th move? By the way I thought Steinitz was called the Austrian Morphy. |
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Oct-07-09
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| Phony Benoni: <ILoveThisSite>: Don't analyze this game too closely, or at all for that matter. The whole thing is a concocted, satirical joke, and not meant to make sense. |
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| Oct-07-09 |
| AnalyzeThis: That's right. If you actually analyze this game, you notice little details like the fact that on move 21, black actually has mate in 4, but instead chooses to entomb his own king. The whole thing is a delightfully comical farce. |
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Oct-07-09
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| An Englishman: Good Evening: It's been a while since I visited this page, and I rather wish I hadn't stayed away for so long. I did not and have never written anything about the Dutch, contrary to the May-05-09 claim of <sneaky pete>. So the poem in question is not mine. I did, however, once write a play about a painting by the Belgian Rene Magritte. That's about as close to writing about the Dutch as I have ever gotten. Furthermore, the Belgians might claim that they're nothing like the Dutch, and I would agree. They have better beer. Kriek Lambic, anyone? |
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