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Emory Tate vs Manfred Herfel
Giessen op (1991), rd 7
Alekhine Defense: Two Pawn Attack (B02)  ·  1-0

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Mar-06-13
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  GrahamClayton: 4... d5 5. c5 ♘6d7 6. d4 e6 7. b4 with a large space advantage.
Mar-06-13  Garech: Crazy game! 5.Ra3! I mean, I've heard of developing knights before bishops, but...rooks!?

-Garech

Mar-06-13
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  Phony Benoni: <Garech> Actually, Tate's record is <4.Ra3>:

E Tate vs P Waldowski, 1989

But he lost that game, so it must have been premature.

The all-time record, never to be broken except if someone gives odds of the a-pawn, is <2.Ra3>:

A Smirnov vs V Shepelev, 2005

One suspects that might not have been a serious game.

The original pioneer, of course, was Bird:

Bird vs J W Shaw, 1877

I have trouble of thinking of anything else to say about that game. It is ... er, unique.

Jan-17-22  Bartleby: Tate's innovation 5. Ra3 in the chase variation of the Alekhine's Defence I think even bears his name. Makes for an enterprising, unbalanced game right on the onset. I played one of his pupils in a tournament many years ago and he played this sideline with 4. a4 but after 4. ...a5 declined to emulate Tate and just played 5. d4.

One of my favorite early rook maneuver games is this old one-- Keres vs Flohr, 1937 --by a young Paul Keres, not a position you'd expect from a sane and sober Reti Opening. Looks like a whacky experiment by Kurt Richter or Emil Joseph Diemer or someone.

Jan-17-22  Granny O Doul: The triumph of the knight on b1 over the bishop on f8.

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