Aug-14-14
 | | alexmagnus: Kurt Meier's last game. He had a fatal heart attack either during it or immediately after it finished. Joining the macabre club of chess players who died/suffered something fatal over the board (among the more known players, Bagirov and Gipslis are prominent examples - IIRC, for those two the cause of death was heart attack too). |
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Aug-15-14
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: If the CG bio is correct, he was not even 30 years old. |
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| Aug-15-14 | | zanzibar: His FIDE card is here (#1307398):
http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?...
It doesn't list his dob. Be careful though, others have confused his rating (1944) with year. I believe someone mentioned he was 65 years old on on his player page - see it for more details. Kurt Meier |
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| Aug-15-14 | | zanzibar: FIDE's download of this game give Meier a win, as does Chess-Results. <CG> scores it a draw. The position after 61...Bd6
click for larger viewshould be a win for White. But the final position after 62.Bb5+?! Kd4 63.Kf3 Bxf4 64.Kxd4 Kxd5 should be a draw: 
click for larger view |
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| Aug-15-14 | | joeyj: Here's his pic ...
http://www.thechessdrum.net/blog/20... |
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| Aug-16-14 | | paulofx2071: he told her story in Leontxo Garcia from Norway, especially the Country of Spain sent Meier's body was covered with sheets removed from the game room while the Olympics were fighting elsewhere. The Honduran Héctor Mejía, match referee of the tragedy, told about what happened: "As were the pieces on the board at that time, I think Meier thought he was going to win when his opponent found a combination that ensured the tie. Right there began to subside slowly in his chair, and finally his head fell on the board"
Then, el game dont finish |
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| Aug-17-14 | | The Last Straw: The player playing black resigned what would have been a draw as a mark of respect in order to make sure Kurt Meier won the last game of his life. A small act (just resigning one game), but an act that may be remembered forever. |
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| Aug-25-14 | | Lovuschka: @alexmagnus, Aug-14-14:
Gipslis had a heart attack while playing that caused his death, that is true. It is notable, however, that he suffered the heart attack on 30 January 2000 and died on 13 April 2000 as a result of it. |
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| Aug-31-14 | | zanzibar: <Kurt Meier>'s biography contains an explanation of the final result for this game. |
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Jan-15-24
 | | al wazir: 28...c6 would have been interesting.
29. dxc6 Rxd1 (29...Rc8 30. cxb7 Rb8 31. Bc6) 30. c7 Rc1 31. Bd7 (31. c8=Q Bg1+ 32. Nxg1 Rxc8) Bg1+ 32. Nxg1 Rxc7. But not as interesting as the actual conclusion of the game. |
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| Jan-15-24 | | Lossmaster: "Never resign. There is always the chance that your opponent may drop dead before he mates you."
(one of a set of British mock rules cited in I.A. Horowitz’s "Complete Book of Chess") |
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| Jan-15-24 | | goodevans: It's a good pun and possibly the longest we've had for a GOTD. |
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Jan-15-24
 | | MissScarlett: It’s 76 characters, which happens to be the limit. |
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Jan-15-24
 | | Teyss: A strict application of "sudden death" game rules. Hem. High level of fair play from Alain Patience Niyibizi to resign in this equal position. I guess the pun reached the maximum length possible, else it would have been "Don't go with Patience into that good night; Rage, <rage> against the dying light!" Other examples such games:
Olland vs A Hamming, 1933
C Purdy vs I Parsonage, 1979
T Laasanen vs Bagirov, 2000 Then of course there's Zukertort but I cannot find that game even on another database. |
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| Jan-15-24 | | mrknightly: I was playing in the DC Open in the mid-60's, and I heard a crash at the end of the long playing table. The guy sitting at the end of the table was on the floor suffering from a heart attack. We stopped our clocks; the EMT's came, but unfortunately, he passed away. I was only 16 or so. I was so upset that when we resumed playing, I left my Queen en prise in a winning game. |
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Jan-15-24
 | | perfidious: In A Shaw vs V Bellas, 1998, my opponent passed on and the game was adjudicated. |
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| Jan-15-24 | | Arlekhino: Two things:
1. About the length of the pun, actually, if it was possible, it should have been "Don't go with Patience into that good night; Rage, rage against the dying of the light!" (instead of "dying light", which gives a different meaning for this quote to the famous poem by Dylan Thomas). 2. I have a personal and equally tragic story of a player dying at the chessboard. It was at the early 1990's, I was about twenty years old, playing blitz games at our local chess club (here in Curitiba, Brazil). A senior player of about 70 years old (he was a strong player) suffered a heart attack after being defeated by me, in a game that went into a furious time scramble, where I managed to checkmate him. He stood up (he had been playing for some time, defeating all comers before I finally won that game), then he fell backwards, and I could see the light in his eyes turning off. People tried to reanimate him, but when a doctor arrived, he confirmed that the old man had died. I left the club in a state of shock, and still to this day I feel somewhat guilty of causing a man's death, but I take some consolation in the fact that perhaps it was his time to go, and his life ended while he was doing something he loved to do. |
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Jan-15-24
 | | Honza Cervenka: 19.Kxh3 seems to be ok for white. |
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Kibitzing
