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Richard Teichmann vs Amos Burn
Ostend (1905), Ostend BEL, rd 14, Jul-01
Spanish Game: Closed. Averbakh Variation (C87)  ·  0-1

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Jan-31-05  percyblakeney: 13. ... Kh8 does look strange. Burn intended to play Ng7 but picked up the rook on f8 by mistake, "which cost him the exchange since the piece has no legal move and Burn was constrained under the rules to make a move with his king". From R.N. Coles book on Burn, quoted in Richard Forster: Amos Burn. A Chess Biography.

Well done by Burn to win the game after such an unfortunate incident...

May-16-08
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  GrahamClayton: What would have been the situation if Black had no legal move with his King?
Jan-12-14  RedShield: Indeed. Why should one be penalised for touching a piece that has no legal move?
Jan-12-14
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  OhioChessFan: Strangely aimless play by Teichmann. I'm sure there was some point to 28. Na4 but I'm at a loss what it might have been.
Jan-12-14  RedShield: One idea behind the move is it gives the option of playing 29.Nc5.
May-17-18  zanzibar: As <percyblakeney> noted, here's a contemporaneous source:

<This of course entailed the immediate loss of the exchange, and many players would have resigned in disgust. The coolness which is associated with Burn's name once more asserts itself; so exact is his play from this point that it is not easy to discern the disadvantage under which he is labouring>

https://books.google.com/books?id=a...

May-17-18  Cibator: White just never gets his forces co-ordinated (the LSB in particular is little more than a spectator throughout). Black's minor pieces by contrast are all hyperactive.

Here's another example of how accidentally losing the exchange is sometimes by no means disadvantageous (Napier-Moxon, played in an Oxford-Cambridge match in the 1950s, cited by Assiac in "The Delights Of Chess".)


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Play continued: 1. ... Rhe8?? (chess blindness, apparently) 2.Bxe8 Rxe8 3.b3 Na5 4.Qd2 and strangely enough Black has the better game. He proved it with 4. ... Nf4 5.Ne3 Qa3, regaining the exchange at once.

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