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Julius Silverman vs Erich Eliskases
"Hi Yo Silverman!" (game of the day May-20-2021)
Birmingham (1937), Birmingham ENG, rd 7, Jan-15
King's Gambit: Accepted. Bishop's Gambit Bogoljubow Defense (C33)  ·  1-0

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Kibitzer's Corner
Dec-17-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  sleepyirv: Monday/Tuesday Puzzle at move 19.
Dec-17-13  RedShield: <Birmingham, 1937>? That's a new one to me. Any more details?
Dec-18-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: Played in January 1937, shortly after Hastings. Winners were Prins and Eliskases.

Other participants: Winter, Koltanowski, Ritson-Morry, Blow, Silverman, Snosko-Borowski, Reynolds, Wood and Aldis.

Jan-20-17
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: Nice win by an "amateur" player against a reasonably well-known international player.
Jul-09-20
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  Phony Benoni: That was probably not the best moment for taking b-pawn with the queen.
May-20-21  SeanAzarin: Frank Marshall's favorite story to tell was about a poor but honest man who was on his deathbed. He called his three sons around him so they could hear his last words.

"My sons," he said, "I have nothing in the way of worldly goods to leave you. But I have a piece of advice for you which is worth more than gold."

He paused to get his breath back, and his sons waited expectantly.

"NEVER capture the Queen Knight Pawn with your Queen!"

This game shows why.

May-20-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  al wazir: If 19...Rxf7, then 20. Qxf7+ Kh8 21. Qf8+ Rxf8 22. Rxf8#.
May-20-21  goodevans: It seems to me that from move 9 to move 16 White was finding a series of 'only moves' and that any deviation from that path would have given Black a significant advantage.

We'll never know whether White saw all this from early on or was just finding resources as Black posed the problems. If, for example, Black had been able to capture <10...fxe3> then those cental pawns would have been quite menacing. It's not obvious, to me at least, when you look at the position before, say, 10.Ne5 that that capture isn't possible (with Black's N on c6 instead of b8 then it would have been fine).

After <17.Rxf4> the tables were turned and it was Black that was looking for resources to stay in the game. He failed on only his second attempt.

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