| A damsel named Caissa vs. Ares, God of War (composed game) by SirChrislov
1.P-K4 P-K4 2.P-KB4 PxP 3.N-KB3 B-K2 4.B-B4 N-KB3 5.P-K5 N-N5 6.Q-K2 Castles 7.N-B3 P-QB3 8.P-Q4 P-Q4 9.B-Q3 B-R5ch 10.P-N3 PxP 11.BxPch K-R1 12.PxP BxPch 13.K-B1 N-B7 14.QxN BxQ 15.KxB Q-N3 16.R-R2 N-Q2 17.B-B5ch K-N1 18.B-N5 P-N3 19.QR-R1 PxB 20.R-R8ch K-N2 21.R1-R7ch K-N3 22.N-R4ch KxB 23.R-N7ch K-B5 24.N-N2++. inspired by A Filipowicz vs A Tarnowski, 1962 I have one game in this database R Schloss vs C G Jaime, 2009. For a short time, I was a student of soviet GM Eduard Gufeld. this brief but golden opportunity to grow was a great privilege. In his peak, he defeated Tal, Spassky, Smyslov, Korchnoi, Bronstein, etc. He drew Kasparov, Karpov, Petrosian, Keres, Geller, etc. His best game Bagirov vs Gufeld, 1973 is honored in the famous book World's Greatest Chess Games as well as numerous literature and I do it honor here: This is the sensational finale of the immortal Mona Lisa game. black mates in 8 moves: 
click for larger view...Nb4+!! 30.Kxb3 (30.Kc1 Rb1+!! 31.Kxb1 Nd5+ 32.Kc2 Qb2+ 33.Kd3 Qb5+, etc.)30...Nd5+ 31.Kc2 Qb2+ 32.Kd3 Qb5+ 0-1. the finish is 33.Kc2 Qe2+ 34.Kb3 Qb2+ 35.Kc4 Qb5#. "This game was unique in my career. I am grateful to my destiny for this particular evening." --E. Gufeld in "My life in chess: The Search for La Gioconda" I used to be an amateur chess piece collector but I have stopped (it is a very expensive hobby!) my favorite and most valuable set is the Dubrovnik 1950 design used in Fischer-Spassky '92. I was lucky to get this set with a certificate of authenticity signed by its original designer Andrija Maurovic who is a european cartoon artist. This set, combined with the Drueke board(used in Kasparov-Deep Blue '97) looks amazing. In 2002, I became obsessed with beating the strong Chessmaster program. this was a very unhealthy and time-consuming obsession. many sleepless nights. after many empty jars of coffee and more than one hundred lost games, I was finally able to beat it(on 100% play strength) using 2 techniques: (1) A setup that Ernest F Pecci calls the "barrage position" (pawns on d4, e3, f4) and
(2) Play the middlegame "a la Kasparov" this means block the position until the program wont know what to do and will usually just play one piece back and forth: 1.d4 d5 2.e3 Nf6 3.Nd2 e6 4.Bd3 Bd6 5.f4 0-0 6.Ngf3 c5 7.c3 c4 8.Bc2 Nc6 9.Rg1 Bd7 10.g4 h6 11.h4 Qa5 12.Nh2 Rac8 13.g5 hxg5 14.hxg5 Nh7 15.Qe2 Ne7 16.Ndf1 Rfd8 17.Bd2 Ba4 18.Bb1 Qb6 19.Bc1 Nf8 20.a3 Nfg6 21.Ba2 Nf5 22.Rb1 Bc7 23.Ng4 Bb8 24.Nf2 Bd6 25.Nd1 Bc7 (a human would be pawnstorming the q-side here)26.Nh2 a6 27.Ng4 Bd6 28.Ngf2 Bb8 29.Bd2 Bc2 30.Rc1 Bb3 31.Bb1 Qc6 32.Qg4 Qd7 33.Ke2 b6 34.Nh3 Ba4 35.Rh1 Rf8 36.Rh2 Rfe8 37.Kf1 Red8 38.Re2 Nge7 39.Be1 Bb3 40.Ndf2 Ng6 41.Bd2 a5 42.Rce1 Ba4 43.Bc1 Bd6 44.Nh1 Re8 45.Ng3 Nge7 46.Rh2 Nxg3+ 47.Qxg3 Nf5 48.Qg4 Bb8 49.Ke2 Rf8 50.Reh1 Rfd8 51.Ng1 Kf8 52.Nf3 g6 53.Nd2 Bb5 54.Nf1 Ke7 55.Ng3 Ba4 56.Rh7 Qb7 57.Qh3 Rg8 58.Nxf5+ gxf5 59.Qh5 Ke8 60.Qh6 Qe7 61.Qh3 Qd7 62.Qf3 Bd6 63.Qh5 Kf8 64.Qf3 Ke8 65.R1h4 Be7 66.Qg3 Qc7 67.Qg2 Qd7 68.Qf3 Kf8 69.Qh5 Bd6 70.Qf3 Ke8 71.R4h6 Kf8 72.g6 Rg7 73.Rxg7 Kxg7 74.Qh5 Bxf4 75.exf4 Kf8 76.Rh8+ Ke7 77.Qg5+ Kd6 78.Rxc8 Qxc8 79.g7 Qg8 80.Qh6 Bc2 81.Bxc2 Qd8 82.Qh8 Qxh8 83.gxh8Q Kc7 84.Ba4 b5 85.Bxb5 e5 86.dxe5 a4 87.Qe8 f6 88.Qd7+ Kb8 89.Bc6 d4 90.Qb7# 1-0 <An old truth, both in
life and chess: "An
exceptional moment is
worth more than a year
serenely lived, or a
tournament won."> -- GM Lev A. Polugaevsky Some exceptional moments of mine: (all from tournament games. the last two are compositions) 
click for larger view...Nxe3 2.Bxf5 Qxf5 3.fxe3 Bxe3+ 4.Kh2 Bf4+ 5.Kg2 Qg5+ 6.Kf3 Qg3+ 7.Ke4 Qe3+ 8.Kf5 g6+ 9.hxg6 fxg6+ 10.Ke6 Rae8+ 11.Kd7 Rd8+ 12.Ke6 Qh3+ 0-1 
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Proudest chess moment: this finish was against a strong armenian player. I have reached a winning position (29.Qxf2 Rxf2 30.Rxe5 g6 31.Rexe8+ with a winning endgame) but I played the following mate in ten, "a la Fischer" I like to say: 1.Rxe8+ Kxe8 2.Rxe5+ Kd7 3.Qe7+ Kc6 4.Qe8+ Kd6 5.Qb8+ Kc6 6.Qa8+ Kd7 7.Qb7+ Kd8 8.Rd5+ Ke8 9.Qd7+ Kf8 10.Qd8# 
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1.Ne6+ Kh7 (if ...fxe6, the line I had in mind was 2.Qd4+ Nf6 3.Rc7+ and wins) 2.Rh8+ Kxh8 3.Qd4+ f6 4.Qd8+ 1-0 
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...Nh3+ 2.Kh1 Qg1+!! 3.Rxg1 Nf2#smothered mate. Lucena's Legacy! 
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a smothered between two rooks. very rare. 1.Qb4+ Kg8 2.Ne7+ resigns(...Kf8 3.Ng6+ Kg8 4.Qf8+ Rxf8 5.Ne7#) 
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these are 2 problems I have composed. they were inspired by post-mortem combinations found in 2 of my games and are dedicated to the memory of my ex-trainer GM Eduard Gufeld who passed in 2002. my sincerest regret for not being able to attend his funeral. white mates in seven 1.Re8+ Kf6 2.Rd6+ Kf5 3.Bg6+ Kg4(...Kf4 4.Rd4#) 4.Rd4+ Bf4 5.Re5! Nc6(or any move) 6.Bh5+ Kh4 7.Rxf4# 
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white has a spectacular king hunt mate in seven 1.Qd8+ Kxe6 2.Rc6+ Kf5 3.Qd7+ Ke4 4.Rc4+ Ke3 5.Qd4+ Ke2 6.Rc2+ Ke1 7.Qg1#. it is also a mate in two.* La vida es una ola de nuevos horizontes, lo importante es no detenerse. Que tengas un dia lleno de bendiciones. <<These are some "numerical coincidences" I discovered about Bobby Fischer>> Fischer died at age 64, there are 64 squares on a chessboard. 64 + 64 = 128
1 + 2 + 8 = <11>
Fischer became the <11th> World Champion of Chess. His best tournament record: <11-0> at the US Championship of '63 <11...Na4!!> beginning of the combination in the Game of the Century. Fischer's greatest wins to americans were against the Byrne brothers. Donald Byrne = <11> letters, Robert Byrne = <11> letters. Geller and Tal are the only players in history with plus scores against Fischer in regular tournament games. Yefim Geller = <11> letters. Tal vs. Fischer in tournament games: they faced each other <11> times. "At <11> I just got good." -Fischer <11th> letter in the alphabet: K for King: In 1960, Fischer loses to Spassky in the black side of a king's gambit. This infuriates him and he promptly writes an article explaining its unsoundness but he never actually proved he could beat it otb. King's Gambit = <11> letters. To this day: King's gambit 1, Fischer 0. In the last professional game of his career, Fischer played his favorite King's Indian Defense (KID) = "King is Dead." The last piece Fischer touched in that game was a king move (27...Kg7) afterwhich Spassky resigned and Fischer never played chess again. The similarities in the lives and careers of Morphy and Fischer are well known. Fischer said and liked to believe he was the reincarnation of Morphy. <Morphy> = 6 letters. Fischer discovered chess at age 6. <Paul Charles Morphy> = 17 letters, <Bobby Fischer> = 12 letters 17 + 12 = 29
Fischer became world champion at age 29.
*1.Re8+!! Kxe8 2.Qd8 Checkmate and good day to you, sir. | 
