| Jun-04-18 | | sneaky pete: No sex and drugs here, but after move 12
click for larger viewand move 15
click for larger viewit sure is rock 'n roll.
The game is from a team maych between France and Denmark. |
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Jun-04-18
 | | takchess: @sneaky pete . Interesting find . where did white go wrong ? at 8 Nxg4 ? Bxg4 better? |
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| Jun-04-18 | | ChessHigherCat: <sneaky pete> good game, but I wouldn't be sure there weren't any drugs :D <takchess>: white made all the right moves until move 10, when he could have won like this: 10. Bc4 Nf2 11. Qh5 Qf6 12. Nfd5 Qg7 13. Nxc7+ Kd7 14. Bxh6 Qg6 15. Qf3 Qxh6 16. Nxa8 Kd8 17. Rf1 f5 18. Qxg3 Nxe4 19. Nxe4 fxe4 20. Rf2 Bd7 21. Bd5 Bc6 22. Qc3 e3 23. Rf3 Qxh4+ 24. Ke2 Bb5+ 25. Bc4 Bxc4+ 26. Qxc4 Nc6 27. Raf1 (with a rook up and a strong attack) |
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Jun-04-18
| | takchess: I play the King G as White . I have to laugh at the comment from John Shaws King Gambit book. ......I once asked English GM Mark Hebden, who played the King’s Gambit for many years, what the most
effective defences against it were. “All of them. |
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Jan-31-25
 | | HeMateMe: I'll bet he has a lotta girlfriends... |
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Jan-31-25
 | | FSR: I have played for the United States a couple of times in correspondence matches against other countries. These matches have dozens of boards, and the players on the bottom boards may have very low ratings. I'm guessing that these guys weren't playing anywhere near Board 1. |
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Jan-31-25
 | | Troller: Not sure if this is from a match DEN-FRA. Denmark and France did not meet in group play at either the Olympics or the European Ch during this time, as far as I can see. Nor can I locate an isolated match. But inter-European groups would begin on regular basis throughout the year, it could stem from one of these. As for who is playing Black, Allan Jensen was pretty active at this time; but "Jensen" is the commonest surname in Denmark. |
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Jan-31-25
 | | OhioChessFan: Decent pun. Strange that White played to mate. |
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| Jan-31-25 | | goodevans: <I'll bet he has a lotta girlfriends...> 😂 <I'm guessing that these guys weren't playing anywhere near Board 1.> Indeed. In a correspondence game I'd expect fewer mistakes even in the quagmire that's the King's Gambit. How difficult, for instance, was <12.Ng5> to find (if 12...Qxh1 then 13.Qxf7+ ±). |
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Jan-31-25
 | | Honza Cervenka: For a correspondece game it was a blunderfest. It started with 8...g3?, which is not a good idea here. I see that black hopes that he can place his Knight on f2 via g4, but it is quite slow and ineffective plan here, which simply drops Pf4. Normal move is 8...Nh5. 10.Nh3 was definitely a suboptimal choice (natural 10.Bc4 was certainly much better, 10...Nf2 is not an option here for 11.Qh5 +-) but after 10...Qxh4 11.Bxh6 Qxh6 12.Qd2 white is OK. 11.Qf3 was a mistake, which could lose quickly after 11...Nh2! 12.Qd1 Bxc1 13.Qxc1 Bxh3 and white cannot retake the piece for discovered check 14...g2+. But black instead of that played 11...Nf2??, which just runs into simple and quite obvious 12.Ng5 with a threat of deadly check on f7 (12...Qxh1 13.Qxf7+ Kd8 14.Nd5 wins easily, against mate on e7 is no satisfactory defence, as 14...Re8 allows 15.Qxc7# and 14...Bd7 leads to 15.Ne6+ Kc8 16.Ne7# or 15...Bxe6 16.Qxc7+ Ke8 17.Qe7#) and discovered attack on black Queen. 12.Rg1?? was the last and decisive mistake. |
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Jan-31-25
 | | Teyss: I don't get the pun, it's the limit of my English or my culture or both. Is it "Hung Jury"? Also don't understand <HeMateMe: I'll bet he has a lotta girlfriends...> which seems to be really funny. Yes a joke explained is less amusing but at least a hint would be appreciated. <Honza Cervenka> Thanks for the excellent analysis. |
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Jan-31-25
 | | perfidious: <Teyss>, when a man is described as 'hung', it means he is regarded as well endowed. The pun is indeed a play on the term hung jury. |
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| Jan-31-25 | | Pyrandus: The Great Blunder-Festival! |
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Jan-31-25
| | Teyss: Hi perfidious,
Thanks for the explanations. Dury + "J" from "Jensen" = Jury, why not. As to being well endowed, surely it relates to intellectual faculties since this is a respectable site. Hence we won't mention how "Dur" translates from French. |
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Jan-31-25
| | FSR: <Troller: Not sure if this is from a match DEN-FRA. Denmark and France did not meet in group play at either the Olympics or the European Ch during this time> It was a correspondence match. ICCF has correspondence matches between countries all the time. I have played for the United States in correspondence matches against Norway and Mexico, and have been invited to play in others that I declined. The matches I have participated in have had ~30-40 boards and players with a wide range of playing strengths participating. Here is the cross-table from one: https://www.iccf.com/event?id=103635 |
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Feb-06-25
| | Troller: <It was a correspondence match.> Indeed - but when checking the corr chess records from mid-70s I cannot locate a DEN-FRA match. There were a lot of matches connected to corr Olympics and corr European Ch. Then some ad-hoc matches versus different countries but again, no mention of France. Of course, it was the golden era of correspondence chess, so there might have been matches that never went on record. Individual international groups would start all the time though, hence my speculation that this could come from one of these. |
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