Malcolm Pein vs Wolfgang Huisl (1984) Pop Goes the Huisl

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Malcolm Pein vs Wolfgang Huisl
"Pop Goes the Huisl" (game of the day Feb-28-2014)
Lugano Open (1984), Lugano SUI, rd 7, Mar-??
Dutch Defense: Hopton Attack (A80) · 1-0

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Feb-28-14		paramount: Make a so-so pun for a so-so game for GOTD becomes a routine for CG.com now.

Feb-28-14		Phony Benoni: After <16.Qxf6>, I suppose that after 16...Rg8 17.Bb5+ Nd7 18.Rxh7 Black might well wish he were in zugzwang. And trying the immediate 14...cxd5 gets destroyed by 15.Qxf6 and 16.Nb5. So what happened? Is the Dutch really this bad? It looks like Old School Caveman Chess from White, and Black just wasn't careful. Judging from the later tactics 13...Qc7 was probably a mistake, but that's easy to see only in retrospect. The pun turns on how <Huisl> is actually pronounced. If it's not even close to "Weasel", then the pun give me a Pein (unless that is actually pronounce "pine"). I rather liked the game, and gave the pun a decent grade in the Pun Voting Booth on that basis.

Feb-28-14		RedShield: Dominic Lawson's book <The Inner Game> alleged that within Short's camp, Pein was more commonly known as <The Weasel>.

Feb-28-14		Shams: Malcolm Pein tweets that he's "chuffed" to have had this game chosen today. Don't think players don't notice!

Feb-28-14		diagonal: Those were the days, Malcolm Pein, today well-respected tournament director, in the then annually Lugano Open Series. Lone Pine in the '70ies (until 1981) and Lugano in the '80ies can be regarded as the predcessors of Gibraltar today. Once we got to Lugano, there were always a whole bunch of young Brits such as Miles, and Nunn, Short, Plaskett, Flear, Pein, King, Conquest, Hebden, Hodgson, or Norwood, gone to investment banking later (Stean already retired from chess in 1982, Keene played only occasionally till the mid-eighties, I can't remember seen them in Lugano). The Lugano Open in March 1984 was won by Gyula Sax (R.I.P.) with strong 8/9 points, a full point ahead of John Nunn, followed by - among many others - Florin Gheorghiu (a very regular Open competitor), Yasser Seirawan (Lugano winner in 1983 & 1987), Vlastimil Hort (no. 10 ELO in January 1984), Boris Spasski, Viktor Korchnoi (Lugano winner in 1982, 1986 and in 1989, the last edition of this Open scacchistico internazionale di Lugano), Eugenio Torre, Rudolf Teschner (born 1922, died 2006), Daniel King (today well-respected author, broadcaster and coach), Edmar Mednis (born 1937, died 2002), Jay Whitehead (R.I.P.), John Fedorowicz, Werner Hug (the Swiss who was Junior World Champion from 1971 but never got the GM title), Malcolm Pein as mentioned, Levente Lengyel (born 1933), Glenn Flear, young Klaus Bischoff, and many others. In total there were 196 participators in the main section and 192 players in the general section. Cvitan and Kudrin made a GM norm. Best woman was stunning Tatjana Lematschko with 6.5 / 9 points, beating John Nunn! Watch this space for some good Lugano 1984 impressions: <<http://nezhmet.wordpress.com/catego...>> Other super-strong guests at Lugano in the 1980s apart from the mentioned three-times winner Korchnoi (who made the Lugano Open as frequent headliner in the eighties so popular), Spasski (a true gentleman who doesn't hesitate to compete and contribute in an Open as former World Champion), twice-winner Seirawan, Sax, Short, Nunn, Miles, Hort, Torre, were among others - Timman, Hübner, Larsen, Ftacnik (close winner in 1988 with seven players shared first, among them Korchnoi as third after tie-break), Georgiev, Nikolic, I. Sokolv, Sosonko (winner of the very first edition in 1976), Böhm, Gutman, Tukamakov, Psakhis, Balaschov, Spraggett, Rogers, Nogueiras, Ocampos, Gulko, Browne, De Firmian, Henley, Benjamin, Dlugy, Rogers, first Italian Grandmaster Mariotti (winner in 1979), Tatai, Tóth (twice-winner in the earlier years), Godena, Ralf Hess (who won as an amateur in 1978), rising youngsters as Piket, Lautier, always mixed with highly reputated oldies such as Gligoric, Szabo, Reshevsky!, mentioned Mednis, and ladies, eg. Pia (with brother Dan also playing) Cramling, Alisa Maric (beating Anand), Maja Chiburdanidze, mentioned Tatjana Lematschko; and as a special highlight Anatoly Karpov (for a separate blitz tournament in 1988, which he won; he did not want to take part in the Open format). Those were the days, and as disclaimer: Malcolm Pein's Opus Magnum at Lugano, in March 1988 against then reigning Junior World Champion 1987, a win versus - guess who - Vishy Anand: <<M Pein vs Anand, 1989>> (note: the correct year is 1988, not 1989).

Feb-28-14		kevin86: If black lost the game on time-the pun could be: "I haven't got time for the pain".

Feb-28-14		thegoodanarchist: this game was weak. I must agree with < <paramount>: Make a so-so pun for a so-so game for GOTD becomes a routine for CG.com now.>

Feb-28-14		Check It Out: I felt bad that negative comments about the game quality may have dampened Malcolm Pein's "chuff". If this were one of CG's regular's game we might have been a tad nicer. So, I tossed the game in to Shredder to see what happened. It turns out the only really bad move was 13...Qc7; the engine prefers 13...Qd7, 13...Qe7, or 13...Bc7. That's a fine turn on which to judge the entire game. Pein played engine approved moves throughout for the most part, deftly taking advantage of his opponents mistake, and his opponent did the best he could after making a move that is not so easy to see is bad.

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