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Feb-18-09
 | | gawain: Obvious but very nifty. Try the most ridiculous move available, Qg7+, and watch as the mate unfolds. I adore this kind of puzzle. |
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| Feb-18-09 | | zb2cr: Hi <ZUGZWANG67>,
Actually, I prefer using the Giuoco Piano line myself to the Ruy Lopez. Fewer analyzed lines to remember to great depth with a less-popular variation. I've had some success with it, but I'm strictly a club player. I allowed my USCF rating to go inactive at 1456. If you could look at some of the games of the more advanced players here, you would have a better idea of the value of that system. For example, one poster here, <Honza Cervenka> is rated 2200 in correspondence and has had a number of games published on this site under the name <Jan Cervenka>. While he has not played the Giuoco Piano opening or the Evans Gambit as White, he has a few games facing them as Black posted on <chessgames.com>. There are probably others; Grandmaster Ray Keene occasionally posts here, for example. |
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| Feb-18-09 | | zb2cr: To <ZUGZWANG67>,
Strike that "occasionally" comment on Ray Keene--he maintains a forum here that's quite active (301 total pages). He responds to questions that other posters place there--you might ask him what his opinion of the line is! |
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| Feb-18-09 | | DarthStapler: Got it |
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| Mar-22-09 | | WhiteRook48: I play 3 Bc4 after 1. e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6, even though I don't play the piano :D
But I NEVER play 1 e4 |
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| Jul-14-09 | | Hubner: 16 Bc1 ..
18 Bb2 ..
Great move´s. |
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| Oct-31-10 | | Elsinore: His winning percentage wasn't great, and Morphy owned him, but Bird put together some great games. This is one of the nicest mates you'll see. |
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| Jul-15-13 | | notyetagm: Bird vs Pinkerley, 1850 22 ?
click for larger view22 ♕h6-g7+! <square clearance: h6>
click for larger view22 ... ♘e6x♕g7 23 ♘g4-h6+
click for larger view23 ... ♔g8-h8 24 f6x♘g7#
click for larger view |
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| Jul-15-13 | | notyetagm: Bird vs Pinkerley, 1850 Game Collection: SQUARE CLEARANCE 22 Qh6-g7+! vacates the h6-square for 23 Ng4-h6+, mating |
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| Jul-15-13 | | notyetagm: <WhiteRook48: I have seen this game before, so I got the puzzle in 1 second. 22. Qg7+!! Nxg7 23. Nh6+!! Kh8 24. fxg7#> I have never seen the puzzle position before but I figured it out from scratch because 22 ♕h6-g7+! is the absolute <MOST FORCING CHESS MOVE> in the position. The position with White to play on move 22 was featured in this past Saturday's edition of Chess Today, in Test Yourself!. |
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| Jul-15-13 | | notyetagm: Bird vs Pinkerley, 1850 Game Collection: FCM: FORCING CHESS MOVES (FM HERTAN) 22 Qh6-g7+! is the most forcing move in the position, forces mate |
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Sep-20-22
 | | catlover: Just when you thought you had cleverly left your knight to protect g7 from disaster.... |
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| Sep-20-22 | | sfm: Bird found a lovely mate.
But instead of
19.-,Nc5??
20.Qe3!
which is seriously over, the Engine says Black is fine after
19.-,Qf4 |
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| Sep-20-22 | | AIC: Great dark-squares bishop manoeuvres by white. But looking on how black has chosen to arrange its pieces against Mr. Bird, the result would have been the same (but a bit later) |
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Sep-20-22
 | | MissScarlett: The PGN shows that this is meant to be a QR odds game - the SetUp string needs correcting. User: notyetagm's diagrams suggest it used to present correctly. I need to finally bite the bullet and buy Renette's book on Bird, but in the meantime, does anyone know the source for this game? |
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| Sep-20-22 | | Hans Renette: You should!
But is this not in the fragment on Amazon? |
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Sep-20-22
| | MissScarlett: Do you have another book in the pipeline? |
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| Sep-20-22 | | Hans Renette: three. Wisker & Lasker |
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Sep-20-22
| | MissScarlett: A Lasker double volume? How many games you got? |
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| Sep-20-22 | | Hans Renette: Publisher does the counting :) |
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| Sep-20-22 | | goodevans: <MissScarlett: The PGN shows that this is meant to be a QR odds game...> I wish I'd known that before I played through it this morning. <... - the SetUp string needs correcting. User: notyetagm's diagrams suggest it used to present correctly.> Actually (as I suspected, I think I've seen something like this before) if you switch off the SF annotations then it <does> present correctly so maybe the fault is to do with that. |
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Sep-20-22
| | MissScarlett: I corrected it earlier. I hadn't looked at the computer annotated page. |
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Sep-20-22
 | | GrahamClayton: My source for the pun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp-... |
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Sep-20-22
| | MissScarlett: I guessed it was a snooker allusion. |
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Nov-05-22
 | | Korora: P(a)wned! |
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