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Charles Jaffe vs Samuel Reshevsky
"Pick On Someone Your Own Size!" (game of the day Aug-16-2025)
New York blindfold (1920) (other), Hotel Pennsylvania, New York, NY USA
King's Gambit: Declined. Classical Variation Rotlewi Countergambit (C30)  ·  0-1

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Sep-21-05  Achilles87: Interesting to see a 9 year old kid beat a 46 year old professional chess player, as black and within 20 moves.
Sep-21-05  RookFile: 8. a4 is an interesting move. If 8.... Ba5+ 9. Bd2 Bxd2 10. Nbxd2 should be ok for white. If he wants to get crazy, he can consider 9. Kf2, trying to somehow get at the bishop on a5.
Dec-03-06  Karpova: What a humiliation!
Aug-16-25
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: White's KG-Evans Gambit hybrid looks intriguing thanks to that massive pawn center, but fares poorly in the database. Not sure why.
Aug-16-25  goodevans: It never ceases to amaze me how anyone can play such complex positions blindfold, let alone a 9 year old.

Not sure the final position merited a resignation. Sure, after 18.dxc7 Bxc7 21.Qd5 White will end up losing the exchange on f1 but even after the Qs come off there's plenty of play left in the position.

Incidentally, it wasn't necessary to maintain the protection of the B with <17.Qc4>. After, for instance, <17.Qb2>, if <17...Kxf7?> then huge complications would ensue with <18.Nc4!> which appear to greatly favour White.

Aug-16-25  Thegamelover: I think it was premature for the white to resign! There is so much to play left.
Aug-16-25
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  offramp: It would be easier, for chess history, to Sellotape Chajes and Jaffe together.

Then we would all heave a huge sigh of relief.

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