| Nov-17-04 | | InspiredByMorphy: Doesent 12. ...Be7 or 12. ...Qd6 safely keep the extra piece? Black shouldnt have gotten greedy for another one
with 12. ...exf3 . This allows white to engage in the only
promising attack available. |
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| Nov-17-04 | | Saruman: After 12.-Qd6 I think white should try;
13.Qe2 with the idea of Nxe4 threatning
14.Nf6++ Kf7 15.Qe8# (just to demonstrate the coordination of whites pieces). Although black has other replies I think white can win by threatning the Q with let say Rd1 and develop an attack. My conclusion would be that black has to play accuratly to survive. |
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| Nov-17-04 | | Saruman: Though I think black is slightly better after 12.-Be7. |
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Jan-21-23
 | | fredthebear: Helpmate. Swallow's Tail Mate. Gueridon Mate. |
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| Jan-21-23 | | Messiah: Nice! |
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| Jan-21-23 | | whiteshark: <ftb> That's 3 mates in a row, isn't it? |
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Jan-22-23
| | fredthebear: Why yes, three it is.
Does this remind you of Athos, Porthos and Aramis, or Moe, Larry, and Curly? Maybe Alnitak, Mintaka, and Alnilam, or TV brothers Mike, Robbie, and Chip? Some might remember Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Janice Rule, or farther back the Andrews Sisters. There was Peter, Paul & Mary; Crosby, Stills & Nash; the Supremes; Run DMC; the Police; Green Day; Beastie Boys; Nirvana; TLC; Dixie Chicks; ZZ Top; Rush; the Pointer Sisters; Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Tony Orlando and Dawn (have a listen: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... ); and brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb - the Bee Gees ! ! ! (Yeah, FTB does feel like Harry at the moment.) The tragic plane crash of 1959 was "The Day the Music Died": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_D...
We lost Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper). Singer/song writer Don McLean sings about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_... Let's pick up the pace. How about the record setting golden trio of Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson? Farther back was Chris Mullin, Mitch Richmond, and Tim Hardaway. Most Left Coast fans were probably thinking of the Hall of Famers Jerry West, Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain, or these '80's Lakers Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, Jamaal Wilkes, and Ervin Magic Johnson. Back East, there was Ron Francis, Jaromir Jagr, and Mario Lemieux as well as Mike Bossy, Clark Gillies, and Brian Trottier. Maybe Johnny Bucyk, Phil Esposito, and Bobby Orr yet undoubtedly Paul Coffey, Mark Messier, and Wayne Gretzky. Time remembers darker days, the meetings of the Allied "Big Three"— Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill. Before them Emanual Lasker, Jose R. Capablanca, and Alexander Alekhine ruled the 64 squares. Today, it's AOC's three branches of American government that count: https://www.dailywire.com/news/watc... That's nothing like the Triple Crown of American horse racing: Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes. Skyward, there will always be a place in history for Neil Armstrong, Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, and Michael Collins. Greek mythology tells of Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. Ah, but it's the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit who reign supreme. See Matthew 28:19. Of course <whiteshark> being a whiteshark could be thinking of Brody, Quint, and Hooper singing on the boat... https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... |
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Jan-22-23
 | | Sally Simpson: Hi Fred,
The Three Amigos, The Beverly Sisters, Charlie's Angels and how could you forget the Polgar Sisters? (shame on you) Possibly The Three Wise Men, nobody knows how many there really were, the Bible does not say. (I once got a clip around the ear hole from my teacher for calling them Huey, Dewey, and Louie?) Back to chess; 'The Gothenburg Triangle'
Geller vs Panno, 1955
Keres vs Najdorf, 1955
Spassky vs Pilnik, 1955
(see also Bronstein vs A Medina Garcia, 1955 (kibitz #44) ) Tripled Pawns, The Triple Crown (Rugby Union) and the 3 pts. I scored in the 1976 Skegness Open. (though one was a defaulted bye...it still counts!) |
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Jan-22-23
 | | perfidious: In point of fact, Edmonton featured six Hall of Famers playing for them: Grant Fuhr, Jari Kurri and Glenn Anderson also laced 'em up for those Oilers squads. Was a treat to watch them play. |
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Jan-22-23
| | fredthebear: FTB blundered on the Polgar Sisters. Add me to the club. Twas out of gas at that point, checking on the correct spellings. For Americans, the double play combination of "Tinker to Evers to Chance" must be on the list as well: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...
As far as pitching goes, Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz - the mainstays of the Atlanta Braves are probably better remembered than the Nasty Boys Norm Charlton, Rob Dibble and Randy Myers of the Cincinnati Reds bullpen. Some blogger on another chess website posed this question: Is Caruana, Nakamura and So the greatest trio in US chess history since Reshevsky, Fine and Kashdan? I'd include Larry Evans, Bobby Fischer, and Walter Browne to the conversation. |
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Jan-23-23
| | Sally Simpson: Just joshing with you Fred regarding the Polgars. The greatest American trio begin with the letter 'M'. Morphy, Marshall and ..er...er...Morphy's Dad! |
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Jan-24-23
| | fredthebear: Truth be told <Sally>, you've had me thinking about those lovely, brave sleuths - Charlie's Angels the past couple of days. (Did you forget to count Charlie -- makes four?) That was must see TV back in the 1970s, as was The Six Million Dollar Man (Lee Majors was also a regular cast member of The Big Valley as one of the Barkley brothers: Jarrod, Nick, and Heath as played by Majors). It's not like we had a lot of other choices. No need for a remote control which we didn't have either. Let's omit the beloved Frank J. Marshall to tighten up the time span of the great American chess trio. The Scottish-born immigrant George McKenzie (1837 - the same birth year as Paul Morphy) dominated American chess after Morphy. Still later James Mason must be included. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James... Back in my young adult days when I couldn't afford much but fine Dover publishing chess books, Mason's "The Art of Chess" kept me quite challenged many an evening. Reinfeld puzzles were a piece of cake compared to those in Mason's book. Thus, <Morphy, McKenzie, and Mason> make a tremendous trio of great American chess players the latter half of the 19th century. |
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Jan-24-23
| | fredthebear: Dover publishers have downsized their chess book offerings as decades have passed, but many of the all-time classics written in English descriptive notation remain available at affordable prices: https://doverpublications.ecomm-sea... Those who pitch their tent on the Rogoff page having no use for classic chess books can find adult coloring books at Dover publishers. It's a great, versatile publishing company! For club players, I would recommend "Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur" by Max Euwe and Walter Meiden (as well as Max Euwe's "The Logical Approach to Chess," "Strategy & Tactics in Chess," and "The Road to Chess Mastery" from other book dealers, likely used) before reading James Mason's "The Art of Chess" which is 340 pages! Mason does not spoon-feed the reader as much as Euwe does IMHO. Those readers demanding an algebraic notation offering from Dover Publishers would do well to buy any book by Tim Harding. Also, if memory serves correctly, there are two tournament books published in algebraic notation: Carlsbad International Chess Tournament 1929 by Aron Nimzovich, translated by Jim Marfia (30 games) and Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 by David Bronstein (210 games). The sign says "free shipping" on orders over $25.00. Several chess offerings are available as e-books. You can bundle -- get both versions and save a bunch. For those wondering about adult coloring e-books, well... I'll have to get back to you on that one, the pace of new technology being what it is. |
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Jan-24-23
 | | HeMateMe: after 50 years isn't copywrite protection ended? Meaning, books dumped on the internet can simply be downloaded, no charge, as the original author no longer has any legal hold on his/her books. |
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Jan-24-23
| | perfidious: Here in the States, copyrights generally expire 70 years after an author's demise or 95 years after publication. |
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| Jan-24-23 | | areknames: <Here in the States, copyrights generally expire 70 years after an author's demise> It's the same at least in the EU and Australia, I remember how furious James Joyce's nephew was in 2011, can you imagine the hordes of people breaking the internet shamelessly downloading Ulysses and Finnegans Wake? LOL! |
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