| Oct-13-04 | | Whitehat1963: I think Blackburne couldn't believe he could lose to this guy, so he played to the bitter end. |
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Oct-13-04
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| Oct-13-04 | | akiba82: Black was only sixteen at the time, and not well known. Too bad he didn't continue to play, he had talent. |
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| May-31-05 | | Knight13: Man! Blackburne's 2 pawn sacrifice really killed him. |
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| Feb-08-09 | | DarthStapler: The tactics here were just crazy |
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| Feb-08-09 | | binno: I think Danish Gambit was considered a valid opening in that age. |
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| Feb-08-10 | | backrank: This is what can happen when an experienced Grandmaster plays a 'lesser' opponent and tries to smash him in a few moves. The 'weaker' player finds always the right way to defend, and in the end he exchanges into a pawn endgame that leaves the Grandmaster absolutely no chances. Alas! |
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| Jun-05-14 | | ljfyffe: Re:akiba. Sarcasm, perhaps. MacLeod continued to play. Won Minnesota Championship in 1899; Western Championship in 1901. William may have been his brother. Nick was known for MacAttack: 1e4 e5 2c3. |
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| May-04-21 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: Since the Duncan MacLeod games in the database are useless (the scores are very incomplete), I'll use this fun contest for the Highlander pun. Nicholas MacLeod evidently had a steady hand in endgames against any level of opponent; see also his simul win vs. Lasker. |
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| Mar-31-24 | | goodevans: <backrank: This is what can happen when an experienced Grandmaster plays a 'lesser' opponent and tries to smash him in a few moves. The 'weaker' player finds always the right way to defend...> Except that's not what happened here. Blackburne missed several winning opportunities. Perhaps the most obvious was 15.Qxb7. The pun is very good. The game less so. |
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Mar-31-24
 | | Teyss: Blackburne could easily have resigned on move 51 or 43 or even much earlier but I think he was so p***d off about losing that he dragged it on for as long as possible, still without giving his opponent the pleasure of checkmating. If the pun is intended as “MacLeod Is Immortal”, excellent indeed although it could apply to different games, for instance:
Marshall’s immortal: Marshall vs G Marco, 1904
Karpov’s immortal: Karpov vs Csom, 1977
Christiansen’s immortal: J L Burden vs L Christiansen, 1992
Carlsen’s immortal: Carlsen vs G Jones, 2018
Schiffers’ and Chigorin’s immortal (er, whatever): Schiffers vs Chigorin, 1897. Courtesy of <FSR>:
Game Collection: Great comebacks
Game Collection: Outrageous swindles |
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| Mar-31-24 | | mrknightly: "Scot's wha' ha'e!" |
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Mar-31-24
 | | offramp: The film was on telly last night. Oddly enough, yesterday I offered my learned insight, to the generations, about a famous Scottish ballad: Steinitz vs A Mongredien, 1862 (kibitz #36)
<<Augustus Mongredien appears in the old Scottish ballad, <"The Bonnie Earl o' Moray.">:
<"Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands,
Oh where have you been?
They have slain the Earl o' Moray
And played Mongredien.">>>Some other git had already made a disquisition about MY disquisition. In fact, I am going to make a disquisition about that. Anyway, I don't like <Highlander>. I think the film is a load of tripe. And Christopher Lambert is French; who chose him to play a Scot? Why did Blackburne play MacLeod? |
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| Mar-31-24 | | Muttley101: <offramp: Why did Blackburne play MacLeod?> They had a dispute about a haggis. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 41...Rxe5