Aug-02-15
 | | FSR: A pawn up with a winning position, Black plays a little combination to win another pawn, but overlooks White's stalemate trick. Had I been White, I would have preferred for the final move 27.Qf7+!, giving Black the "option" of 27...Kh8?? 28.Qf8#. |
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Aug-02-15
| | FSR: This is the shortest known serious game ending in stalemate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_... |
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| Mar-06-19 | | Petrosianic: Yes, 23...Rxf3!?? is where Black loses the win. After a boring move, like Bf5 or Bg6, Black is still a pawn up, likely to win White's d pawn at some point, and should win fairly easily. |
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| Mar-06-19 | | Petrosianic: <FSR> <I would have preferred for the final move 27.Qf7+!, giving Black the "option" of 27...Kh8?? 28.Qf8#.> I like the way you think. Just in case Black was feeling suicidal after blowing the win, why not give him a chance to act it out? |
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Mar-17-19
 | | The Long Diagonal: This would make a great spoiler puzzle. |
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| Dec-29-21 | | NYKevin: Interestingly, under modern (FIDE) rules this game is drawn after 27. Qf8+, because after that point, "a checkmate cannot occur by any possible series of legal moves" (FIDE rules, section 9.6). I am not aware of whether that exact wording was in effect in 1982, but if this were played over the board today, it would not be considered stalemate but a "dead position," at least officially. Online chess sites usually do not implement the dead position rule and instead have an "insufficient material" rule, which is similar but not identical, because it does not include situations like this game. |
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| Nov-04-23 | | kereru: I guess on a very literal reading of modern FIDE rules, 27...Kxf8 is technically illegal because 27.Qf8+ ended the game with a dead position. 27.Qf7+ would have avoided this issue :) |
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| Nov-04-23 | | stone free or die: Interesting, and very technical, observations.
It's not completely academic, because of this rule: <5.1.2 The game is lost by the player who declares he/she resigns (this immediately ends the game), unless the position is such that the opponent cannot checkmate the player’s king by any possible series of legal moves. In this case the result of the game is a draw.> So if Black had resigned after 27.Qf8+ (or flagged(?)) and White claimed the win the rules say the game must(?) be adjudicated a draw. https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/E... |
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| Nov-05-23 | | areknames: FWIW I was there, although I don't remember becoming aware of this game at the time. I played 4th board on our club's B-side and did ok (a fantastic experience) whilst our A-side led by IM Bela Toth won the champioship. The tournament wasn't played in Ravenna proper but rather in Lido Adriano, basically a holiday village - still technically part of Ravenna - which at the time was virtually uninhabited outside of the summer months. |
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| Nov-07-23 | | stone free or die: Always nice to hear first-hand reports, <areknames> - thanks. Side comment - whereas the British subdivision of a municipality is a borough, it seems the Italian subdivision is a <fraction> (it - frazione)! https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lido_...
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frazi... |
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