Dec-17-03 | | youngplayer11: I saw up to move 16 but i was looking at possibilaties of Nf3 forking the Queen and king so i missed it |
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Dec-17-03 | | Hoozits: Although I haven't taken much time to think about it, 14...Qf3 looks interesting as well. Any comments? |
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Dec-17-03 | | Catfriend: Yes
14..Qf3 wins, but less effectively.
15.B:h7+ K:Bh7 16.Qg5 Kg8 17.Qg3 Q:Qg3 18.h:Qg3 Bf5 19.Ne3 and black doesn't win immediately, though of course he can hope for an easy point |
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Dec-17-03 | | kevin86: Amos Burn has been known for his defensive chess-yet every game I've seen hasn't been so. Did he ONLY play that way when he got that infernal pipe lit? |
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Dec-17-03 | | TheAussiePatzer: 13... Qf3 is better (14. gxf3? Nxf3+ 15. Kf1 Bh3#), and fritz gives: 14. Ne3 Qxf2+ (-1.8) |
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Dec-17-03 | | JungleBoy: what about 15 kg1? i know the queen is dead but i was under the impression that in all these problems it was a forced mate that followed. what is it? |
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Dec-17-03
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Dec-17-03 | | Andy White: they don't all lead to forced mates, but they almost always produce situations which are virtually certain wins (e.g. loss of queen, sometimes even loss of a rook). I do prefer the forced mates though |
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Dec-17-03 | | talchess2003: exf6? white had many other stronger plans here... Even though it does open the bishop's diagonal, whit doesn't need the bishop to mate black in this opening... |
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Dec-17-03 | | kevin86: The strict definition of a "chess problem" is a definite "White to play and mate in (x number of moves)(usually two). What we have here are "studies"
Note:we have moderated a lot of our words and phrases-eg. tornado warning;used to mean a tornado has be spotted in person,not it means that it is spotted by doplar radar. |
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Aug-27-04 | | patzer2: Black's 14....Bxg2+! is the solution to number 4909 in Laszlo Polgar's 1994 Book "Chess." Note that 13...Bh3! sets up this move. |
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Nov-02-04 | | Bobak Zahmat: Move 13. ... Bh3!! is an exellent move. I don't think white can defend this by any shot. |
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May-07-05 | | aw1988: What happens if simply gxh3? |
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May-07-05 | | azaris: Nf3+ and wins. |
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May-07-05 | | aw1988: Oops. I'm blind. |
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May-07-05 | | azaris: I guess this would be a good time to play a move in our game, then? Nah, there's no hurry. |
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Oct-16-11 | | karnak64: "Max Harmonist" sounds like the name of an a capella vocal group ... |
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Feb-10-12 | | Sem: Before WWII there was a wellknown vocal group in Germany called 'The Comedian Harmonists'... |
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Feb-10-12 | | JoergWalter: first boygroup ever.
However, Harmonist was a ballet dancer, afaik.
http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=... |
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Feb-10-12 | | JoergWalter: And here is one of Harmonist's memorable games:
Gunsberg vs Harmonist, 1887 |
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May-04-16 | | zanzibar: Hate to break it to you, but Harmonist could see mate-on-move, and White resigned after 17...Qh3+. <TB ~+ G-144 p188/468> |
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