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| Mar-11-06 | | Karpova: Wow, Kelly Cottrell actually resigned!! Why not 33.Bh4 ? That would fit her style |
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| Mar-12-06 | | cade: Hahaha that was my immediate thought. The obvious conclusion is that Cottrell simply missed 33.Bh4 and thought it was mate. |
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| Mar-13-06 | | Aware: got it
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| Mar-13-06 | | Gregor Samsa Mendel: 19 hxg3?? Sometimes capturing towards the center is not the best move. |
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| Mar-13-06 | | MindRotorVias: White should have played 7.f3 and would have gotten a good game. |
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| Mar-13-06 | | notyetagm: In Murray Chandler's excellent Chess Tactics For Kids, this is called the <The Rh8+/Nf7+ Trick>, from White viewpoint of course. The point is that after 19 hxg3??, the White g1-king is <overworked>, having to defend two squares that are a knight move apart,the f2-forking square and the h1-checking square. Black then wins with 19 ... ♖h1+! 20 ♔xh1, <decoying> the White king onto the h1-square while simultaneously <deflecting> him from defending the f2-forking square. 20 ... ♘xf2+ and 21 ... ♘x♕ then leaves Black ahead a queen and a pawn for a rook. |
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| Mar-13-06 | | dzechiel: Took me the better part of a minute to find the rook check, I kept wanting to try and bring the queen in for a checkmate. A good Monday puzzle. |
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| Mar-13-06 | | Hongkonger: Took me a few moments sad to say. I was looking at 19...Nxf2 with the threat of Rh1 or the white Q but couldn't see anything if white simply took the knight. Then I realised that all I had to do was to reverse the move order.
But good grief, why on earth did white play on?
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| Mar-13-06 | | MindRotorVias: Kelly Cottrell has 10 games in the chessgames database and has lost them all. She plays all her games out to checkmate, except for today's game and this one. [Event "World Open: 7-Day"]
[Site "Philadelphia"]
[Date "2003.06.30"]
[EventDate "2003.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Kelly Cottrell"]
[Black "Orest Popovych"]
[ECO "E94"]
[WhiteElo "1505"]
[BlackElo "2331"]
[PlyCount "28"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Nf3 Nbd7 7. O-O e5 8. Bg5 h6 9. Be3 Ng4 10. Bd2 exd4 11. Nxd4
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Nxf2! 12. Kxf2 Bxd4+ 13. Be3 Qh4+ 14. g3 Qxh2+ 0-1 |
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| Mar-13-06 | | simsan: Got it, but after having used way too much time ~ 1 min. The puzzle clearly is about attacking the king. The only piece that can deliver a check is the rook. It immediately appears to be the right move (from a puzzle perspective). Yet I spend "forever" until I see that Kxh1 allows Nxf2, and that this will fork the K and Q. I a) would have missed this OTB, and b) will succumb to these kinds of tricks (deflections and knight forks) all the time :-( |
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| Mar-13-06 | | logo: hehe, i'm glad i'm not the only one who spend some time finding the solution of this monday puzzle.... |
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| Mar-13-06 | | jamesmaskell: <logo> Also lets not forget that Kelly Cottrell couldnt find it either, thus the game ended as it did! |
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Mar-13-06
 | | Eggman: Who is this Kelly Cottrell? Is she some kind of celebrity? I find it odd that someone rated 1663 (USCF) has ten games in this database, and further that all but one of these games has attracted kibitzing. By the way, she is now Kelly Cottrell-Finegold. Did she marry Ben Finegold? |
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| Mar-13-06 | | prinsallan: Easy today, easy setup of a nice knight-fork. |
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| Mar-13-06 | | jamesmaskell: <Eggman> yep. She played all her games in the US Championship bar one through to legal mate. Literally. She also lost every game...another record... |
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| Mar-13-06 | | Jim Bartle: "She played all her games in the US Championship bar one through to legal mate." The only thing missing was Legal's Mate. |
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Mar-13-06
 | | OhioChessFan: She plays as if she's spent too much time in a bar. |
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| Mar-13-06 | | maxfrank: Enough of this sexist bashing!!! Kelly played by the qualification rules, which included some schedule shifting late in the game that caused Susan Polgar to opt out. The fact is, that Kelly is probably YOUR level. I've drawn a 2300+, but never managed more than a loss vs. 2400+. What about you bashers? |
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| Mar-13-06 | | BishopofBlunder: The amount of time it took me to find this makes me feel stupid. First, because it was a minute or so before I realized the puzzle was not "White to play". Second, I saw the rook check and the knight fork at f2, but just wasn't smart enough to put them together. And now that <notyetagm> has pointed out that this combination is featured in a book for kids, I feel even more stupid. :) |
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| Mar-13-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: <Enough of this sexist bashing!!!> <maxfrank> Bashing indeed, which is not very nice. But sexist? Could you point that out to me please? Because I'm missing that part. |
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| Mar-13-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: By the way, I solved this cute little puzzle in a couple of seconds. :) I guess Cottrell could have avoided all this with 18...fxg3? |
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| Mar-13-06 | | KingV93: She played her games out to the end? bully for her! I don't think there is very much wrong with asking your opponents to demonstrate that they indeed do know how to finish you off even if they are much higher rated, maybe she wanted to see the artistic merit of her own demise ! :P
Apparently she is married to Ben Finegold and as I posted on her page we should all find this encouraging as she is quite attractive and he looks like the pillsbury dough-man. |
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| Mar-13-06 | | Jim Bartle: What's curious is that she fell for basically the same tactic--giving up a rook to fork the queen--in the previous round vs. Schneider, only with black. |
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| Mar-13-06 | | WarehouseMan: e4 was blacks stronghold from which operations were conducted. Who is this Kelly person anyhow? a new hottie? |
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| Mar-13-06 | | myratingstinks: bashing? bashing?! I was sincerely thinking that this was a bunch of 6 year olds playing. The series of moves leading up to the fork is just plain obvious. I propose a ban on all Cottrell-Feingold games. However, it is monday ladies & gents. There are those of us with lesser acumen that need to feel good about ourselves ;) |
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sac: 19...Rh1+