| Dec-20-22 | | goodevans: Dieter Keller was by all accounts a pretty decent player so I can only assume that he usually played much better than this. Just how many bad moves did he make in this game? As a GOTD neither pun nor game is particularly memorable but at least Janetschek showed us in no uncertain terms how to punish poor play. |
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Dec-20-22
 | | FSR: Dieter apparently decided in 1967 to try out Bird's instead of his usual 1.e4, and an odd Bird at that, following up 1.f4 with b3. Repertoire Explorer: Dieter Keller (white) The result was two quick, disastrous losses, against not particularly distinguished opposition. This was the longer of the games. The shorter was D Keller vs W Halser, 1967. After that, Dieter understandably decided to give up the Bird's. |
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Dec-20-22
 | | Honza Cervenka: 6.d3 was a bad idea. |
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| Dec-20-22 | | AlicesKnight: < ... a pretty decent player ...> - he had I think a win against Fischer, but here Black simply geared up to do a a hatchet job while the white P wasted time wasting its opposite numbers. Control by 2 Bs of open lines also a feature. |
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Dec-20-22
 | | Stonehenge: According to https://chess-results.com/tnr1493.a... white was a certain Hans Keller from Styria, who scored 4/15. Not Hans Keller who died in 1966. |
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| Dec-20-22 | | sfm: The early bird gets the worm
The early worm gets eaten
But at times it is the Bird gets eaten, the game being so short that it compares to scoring 'a birdie' or even 'an eagle'. 1.f4 is of course playable (haven't we all? Great surprise weapon), but we know it is one of the worst moves White can start with.
Doing nothing for the development but weakening the king side, giving away his 1st move-advantage, and narrowing the path for White. No wonder it is so rarely seen on the top. As <Honza Cervenka> and also The Engine points out, the plausible move 6.d3?? (good in 'similar' positions) is already losing. What is so bad? The weakness of e3, after Bh6.
6.-,Nc6
7.Nf3,e5!
8.fxe5(?)
Here the Engine gives
8.-,exf
9.Nc3,Bh6
10.Nd1,Ng4
11.c3,Re8 -+
Sick bird never got to fly.
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Tired of the knight on h3? But 12.h3,Nxe3 13.NxN,e4 is deady. Black instead played
8.-,Ng4(?)
which is also good enough.
White got himself into a nasty start, giving Black reaching a superior position without headache. The idea of combining Bb2 with f4 is fine - but it is also two moves that both weakened the king side. Disasters can strike quickly. This is surely the most famous example.
Larsen vs Spassky, 1970 |
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Dec-20-22
| | FSR: Evidently in light of <Stonehenge>'s discovery, White has been changed to Hans Keller. I suspect that Dieter Keller is also not to be blamed for D Keller vs W Halser, 1967, Dieter's other supposed disastrous foray into the Bird's. That game, like this game, was played in Austria in 1967, so Hans Keller of Styria may also have been the perpetrator. (The exact date and tournament of the Halser game are not given.) Dieter Keller is Swiss, and played mostly in Switzerland. It looks like the Halser game, if he played it, might be the only game in the database that he played in Austria. I can't find the Halser game on ChessBase Online. If it were up to me, I would be inclined to change White in the Halser game, like this one, to Hans Keller of Styria. The two games are similar, both were played by a Keller in Austria in 1967, and they look dissimilar to anything in Dieter Keller's oeuvre. |
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| Dec-20-22 | | AlicesKnight: Thanks to <Stonehenge> and
<FSR> for corrections to misattributions. |
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| Dec-20-22 | | stone free or die: I would urge some measure (ok, a good measure) of caution in identifying White beyond <Keller>. E.g. Di Felice has the xtab for the tournament (<Chess Results, 1964-1967 p378>): <GRAZ (AUT), 11-25 VI, 16th AUT ch> Sourcing his results from
<"Österreichische Schachzeitung" 1967 p80> Likely Di Felice's source didn't give the full names of 3 of the bottom four scorers (Lukan, Wilheim Schwarzbach, Keller, and Leingstaetter). The tournament results are also mentioned in another, fairly authoritative looking source: <From 18.6. – 1.7. the men's state championship took place in Graz. master
became the Viennese Karl Janetschek
(12.5) before Alexander Prameshuber
(12.0) and the Lower Austrian
Franz Stoppel (10.0). The fourth place
went before the Styrian Walter Halser
Franz Auer (both 8.5 each). Next Anton
Strauss, Josef Lokvenc (both 8.0 each),
Hans Müller (7.5), the three Styrian Horst
Watzka, DI Otto Vodep and Georg Danner (all 7.0 each), and Dr. Rudolph Palme
(6.5); 16 participants.>
http://niederoesterreich.chess.at/C... The bottom four scorers aren't mentioned here at all. The fact that Graz is in Styrian might explain the strong representation, but I again caution on a positive identification of the player without consulting more authoritative sources. (Yes, I'm saying it's guesswork - it might be correct guesswork, but guesswork all the same. At least until I can gauge the historical reliability of <chess-results>).
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| Dec-20-22 | | stone free or die: Note the second source slightly disagrees on the tournament bracket dates. |
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