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| Oct-18-10 | | jackpawn: Found immediately. I love x-rays. |
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| Oct-18-10 | | kevins55555: 17. Qh8+!! Bxh8 18. Rxh8# mate! It's a sacrifice! 6 points losing in exchange but checkmate! |
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| Oct-18-10 | | riverunner: boy it's windy in here. |
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| Oct-18-10 | | turbo231: <gars: I love Mondays! I love only Mondays! I hate all the other days...> I know what you're talking about. I used to try hard every day. Now I only look at mon, tues, and wed, sometimes thur's puzzles. The other days give me a headache. I'm thinking about only doing monday and tuesday's puzzles because the more puzzles I do the worse I get. |
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| Oct-18-10 | | TheaN: ?!
For some odd reason I saw a pawn at h2 for 5 minutes I was looking at this game, before giving up seeing Qh8† leads to nothing then. Guess it's late, now almost 2AM here. Ofc, OTB Qh8† is an instant spot and was my first candidate here. |
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| Oct-18-10 | | redorc19: Isn't this an X-RAY tactic???? |
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| Oct-18-10 | | EXIDE: 16. ..,Bxd4 was a mistake. Did black really think white had made an error on the knight capture of pawn the previous move? OK for Monday. |
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| Oct-18-10 | | lionel15: I thought it was rather neat. But then I like chess I can understand |
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Jun-06-12
 | | FSR: Death of a Salesman (someone else submitted this pun before I did, alas). |
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Sep-14-15
 | | Domdaniel: Miller's Crossing.
Renaud and Kahn classify this as Mate No. 9B.
I'm not convinced that classifying mates like this is a useful exercise - on one hand, the naming of basic types can help players to remember patterns and see opportunities, but on the other hand, there will always be exceptions. And an over-formal concept of mating patterns may lead to chances being overlooked. Still. 16.Nxd4 is a pretty blow. |
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| Sep-19-17 | | Arconax: <offramp: Time-waster on Friendly Shaft, THAT would be funny.> What about "Death of a Low Man"? That would point to Black's surname who after all lost the game, hence "death to..", but more importantly, it would also point to Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" where the protagonist is a man named Loman (Willy Loman). Now, THAT would be both intelligent AND funny. |
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Sep-19-17
 | | offramp: <Arconax>, I am sorry, but I deleted my comment for being politically incorrect. |
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| Sep-19-17 | | Arconax: Even your avatar looks politically incorrect to me, <offramp>. |
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Sep-19-17
 | | ferrabraz: If 16... Ra2 17. Qh7 Kf8 18. Qg7! Kg7 19. Ne6 and Rh8# |
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| Sep-19-17 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: The Reti Opening prior to 1924? Interesting! |
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| Sep-19-17 | | Retireborn: <Cheapo> There's even an example with 3.b4 played in 1909 (by an FG Richter) in my database. Perhaps the first Reti with a double fianchetto is this game:- Reti vs G Fontein, 1923 |
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| Sep-19-17 | | waustad: Some day a pun with "noodles" will come up with black as the victim. |
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| Sep-20-17 | | kevin86: Quaint mate in the corner! |
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| Sep-20-17 | | kevin86: Yo Loman: NO SALE! |
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| Sep-20-17 | | kevin86: Pun: Death of a salesman! |
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| Jun-17-18 | | CheckMateEndsTheGame: I think this is in Yakov neishtadt book as well |
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| Jun-06-19 | | sneaky pete: The duplicate Euwe vs Loman, 1924 has a wrong year but (probably) the right moves (resignation at move 17). The tags Rotterdam (for event and site) is almost certainly wrong. Hans Kmoch, Euwe slaagt, 1937 (a game collection with biographical notes) states that thie game (17 moves) was played October 4 and refers to the event as <Bekerwedstrijd S.S.S.>. The first part
means: Cup Tournament and the S.S.S. stands for Scheveningsche Sschaak-Sociëteit (Scheveningen Chess Socuiety). So I believe this game was not played in Rotterdam, but in Scheveningen (or Scheveningen NED, as the scientists say). Euwe won a double round robin quadrangular in Scheveningen, 1923, with 6 points from 6 games. This database has 2 wins each (one as white, one as black) with Fontein and Rueb and one win as black with Loman. All these games are tagged SSS Cup and Scheveningen NED. I humbly propose that this is the missing sixth game, with 17 or 18 moves, I don't care. |
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| Mar-04-20 | | OrangeTulip: Is b4 an invention by Euwe?
In which case it could be named the Reti Euwe variation |
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| Jul-07-23 | | generror: Poor Loman really looks like a patzer here, but he seems to have been quite strong, even beating both E. Laskers: Lasker vs R Loman, 1903 R Loman vs Ed. Lasker, 1912 |
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| Aug-07-24 | | generror: And man, that's why I don't like fianchettoing my bishop on the kingside. It's just so easy to attack with h4-h5, and as we see here, together with the enemy bishop fianchettoed on the queenside (which I do like), you can get into biiig trouble really quick. Of course Black could have defended better, but still, a nice quick and painless win that I think makes a good model game. Classic "sac, sac, mate", too. |
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