| Jan-31-10 | | Absentee: This looks like a joke. |
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| Jan-31-10 | | JonathanJ: rybka says black wins after 10. ... d6 |
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| Jan-31-10 | | Alphastar: Both players had spent well more than an hour when the repetition was forced. Smeets had prepared up to 7. ..Kg6. After ten minutes Short came up with 8. Bg5 (which appears to be a new move), after which Smeets went into the think tank for about an hour. No joke, I think it was all pretty serious, or they wouldn't have used so much time on it. |
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| Jan-31-10 | | chessmoron: <JonathanJ> That is right. 10...d6! will make Short down a major piece and a pawn. |
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| Jan-31-10 | | acirce: I wonder how many people will look at the game list, notice that this one was a 14-move Petroff draw, and just ignore it. |
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| Jan-31-10 | | 1. h4: <acirce>
How true. :) |
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| Jan-31-10 | | Smileshire: Smeets takes an hour for shorts move 8?
And then 3 moves later Short would be down one peice? I haven't studied this game yet but no wonder Smeets is bottom of the group. But my excuse for Nigel is to remember that he loves to play unorthodox moves these days as he stated that he only wants to enjoy the games. |
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Jan-31-10
 | | Richard Taylor: I won a game as White with this line in a correspondence game (on "Red Hot Pawn" with each player having 7 days to move...lol ... so it wasn't just rubbish ) a few years ago. I must look it up. I saw the line in an old ECO vol I have... |
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| Jan-31-10 | | play2win: Acirce - I actually saw that it was 14 moves and immediately clicked on the game, curious as to what line was chosen to reach a draw in just 14 full moves. |
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| Jan-31-10 | | whiteshark: <Novelty of stem-game: 7. ...Kg6> Considering the following corr.game, it's Nigel's <8.Bg5> is the TN. [Event "Joaquim Fabiano Memorial A"]
[Site "CXEB Email"]
[Date "2003.12.29"]
[White "Chambers, Duncan (ENG)"]
[Black "Vosahlik, Jiri (CZE)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C43"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 Nxe4 4. dxe5 Bc5 5. Bc4 Nxf2 6. Bxf7+ Kxf7 7. Qd5+
Kg6 8. Rf1 d6 9. Rxf2 Bxf2+ 10. Kxf2 h6 11. Nc3 Rf8 12. Qe4+ Bf5 13. Nh4+ Kh7
14. Nxf5 g6 15. Qxb7 Nd7 16. exd6 Qh4+ 17. g3 Qxh2+ 18. Qg2 Rxf5+ 19. Bf4 Rxf4+
20. gxf4 Qxf4+ 21. Kg1 Rf8 22. Rf1 Qd4+ 23. Kh1 Qxd6 24. Rxf8 Qxf8 25. Qc6 Qf1+
26. Kh2 Qf4+ 27. Kg2 Nf6 28. Nb5 Qg5+ 29. Kh1 Nd5 30. Qd7+ Kg8 31. Qe6+ Kg7 32.
Qd7+ Kf8 33. Nxa7 Qc1+ 34. Kg2 Qxc2+ 35. Kh3 Qd3+ 36. Kh2 Qd2+ 37. Kg3 h5 0-1 |
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| Jan-31-10 | | thegreenknight: A Short draw but highly entertaining - looks straight out of the 19th century the computers weren't impressed but who cares about them? |
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| Feb-01-10 | | Fanques Fair: I have won a miniature with 5- Qd5 !? , Bxf2+, 6- Ke2, e5, 7- exf6, Nxf6 8- Qe5+, Kf7 9-Ng5+, Kg6 10-Kd1 ! , Re8, 11- Bd3+ , Kh5, 12- Be2+, Kg6 ,13- Bd3+,Kh5 , 14- Ne6+, Kh4 15-Qg5++. Obviously it´s not an immortal game, but this variation is wild. I don´t know if it´s sound, probably not, but as a surprise at blitz i may be playable. Any way, it doesn´t seem worse than 5- Bc4. |
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| Feb-01-10 | | Fanques Fair: Correcting, 6-...f5 ( and not e5) in the game above. |
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| Feb-01-10 | | erimiro1: Well done Mr. Short. You brought
us the kind of chess we miss, the one that is hidden in the old yellow books, suffering from the computezised era. You demonstrated both: sense of humor in the last round of the tournament and respect for all the pioneers of the game. If someone prefers the dry, boring, almost dead style of most of current players, who play automaticly their first 30 moves, I feel a deep sorrow for him. |
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| Feb-01-10 | | zanshin: This game should be submitted to Guess-the-Move! |
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Feb-01-10
 | | sleepyirv: Somewhere, Traxler is laughing. |
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| Feb-01-10 | | erimiro1: As I wrote earlier, such a game is taken from another era, so I opened an old-yellow book, taken from another era - "Dreispringerspiel bis Konigsgambit" (3 knights game and king gambit) by Paul Keres (1971 edition). It mention only the variant: 6.B:f7+ Kf8 7.Qd5 N:h1 from the game Simagin-Chatschaturow, 1959 and continued 8.Bh5 Qe7 9.Bg5 Bf2+ 10.Ke2 Qe6 11.Nc3! |
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| Feb-01-10 | | Topster: This was clearly a pre-arranged draw between two bottom of the table players anxious to put the tournament behind them. Topster :-( |
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| Jul-04-11 | | bronkenstein: Keymoments:
<4...Bc5!> , Smeets accepts the challenge in this sharp and crazy line ( only few days earlier Kramnik against Short simply varied by <4...d5!?> , and almost lost the game , thanks to Nigel missed few winning shots Short vs Kramnik, 2010 ) <6...Kxf7> , computers prefer <6...Kf8!?> <9.Rf1!> with dangerous initiative instead of <9.Nh4?> , but to proove the mistake Smeets had to dare playing his king to g3 (!!) , for example <10...d6!!> (instead of <10...Kh6?= >) <11.Ndf3 Kg4>
<12. Qd2 Ne4>
<13.h3 Kg3 >and black is...winning !! (credits to GM Shipov) After prolonged thinking , Smeets opted for draw continuation. <Oh, no, not another 14 moves draw!> =) |
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