User Profile: beatgiant

beatgiant
Member since Jun-05-04 · Last seen May-24-13

An American amateur.
Following are positions on many hot-button issues of the site.
Greatest player of all the 18th century? Philidor.
Who would have won a hypothetical Staunton-Steinitz matchup? Steinitz.
Was there an unwritten "win by two" clause in the Lasker-Janowski (1910) match? No.
Did Alekhine deliberately throw the 1935 title match, so as to get a rematch and thus be paid twice for playing Euwe? Hmmm....
Did Stalin order Flohr not to try hard to beat Botvinnik? No.
Who would have won a never-played Fischer-Gligoric match? Fischer.

What's the worst opening? 1. h4.

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beatgiant has kibitzed 1932 times to chessgames [more...]

May-20-13 Spark vs Shredder, 2010

beatgiant: <AylerKupp> <Sorry about the delay in responding but sometimes life gets in the way.> Not at all; my question was just idle curiosity. I followed Houdini's line thus far: 32...Rxd5 33.Kg1 Rd1+ 34.Re1 Rd4 35.Qc3 Rxg4+ 36.Kf2 Rf4+ 37.Ke2 d5 38.Bd3 e4 [DIAGRAM] Here, ...

May-09-13 Smyslov vs Browne, 1970

beatgiant: <wwall> On 51...f5, wouldn't White play <52. exf5> gxf5 53. g5, similar to the actual game?

May-07-13 Louis F Stumpers

beatgiant: Supposedly collatz-like sequences are Turing-complete (see http://esolangs.org/wiki/Collatz_fu... ), meaning they can represent any computation. Homework: Implement a chess-playing program as a collatz-like sequence.

May-07-13 J Hanken vs T Weinberger, 1976

beatgiant: 36...Bxa5 is a dead draw. I don't see how Black can recover after missing that.

May-06-13 Flamberg vs Spielmann, 1912

beatgiant: On 34. g3 <h4> 35. gxh4 gxh4 36. Kf4 a4 37. a3 Kg6, it looks to me like White will eventually have to give ground. Unfortunately, White's queenside pawn structure doesn't allow him to create a passed pawn there.

May-06-13 Lasker vs N Whitaker, 1907

beatgiant: <drukenknight> I don't see the final position as a fortress. Black has a decisive material advantage and does not need to hurry. For example, 42. Kd2 Qe7 43. Ke3 Rxa5 44. Qg4 Rg5 45. Qh3 Rg6 46. Qc8 Re6 47. g3 Qg5+ 48. Ke2 Qd5 49. Ke3 Ra6, Black is making slow but steady ...

May-04-13 Tarjan vs Browne, 1969

beatgiant: <wwall> Looks like you may have intended to post this on another page. None of the moves in the analysis fit this one.

Apr-21-13 Fischer vs Petrosian, 1971

beatgiant: <Petrosianic> <you can see in this game some of the trouble that White gets into> So much so that even the extra tempo didn't help.... <For a must win game...another Sicilian> Black probably chose the French hoping for a game like Fischer vs Petrosian, 1962 or ...

Apr-14-13 Lasker vs Maroczy, 1902

beatgiant: <ughaibu> At first glance, in the line above after 19. Qf6 Rf8 <20. d6> looks like a killer.

Apr-05-13 Alexander Alekhine

beatgiant: <leka> <averidge is 1400> In US ratings at least, I believe the average is 1500.

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