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| May-03-03 | | suenteus po 147: 43...Qc3?? Almost anything would have been better! As Evans notes in his book 10 Most Common Chess Mistakes: 43...Qa1+ 44. Kd2 Qb2+ is the simplest path to victory. Still, it's to Congdon's credit that he didn't resign and won the stalemate! |
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| Oct-01-03 | | GoodKnight: You've got to hand it to him. That was a clever little bit of chess! |
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| Oct-01-03 | | drukenknight: GoodKnight: Have you seen this stalemate?
Larry Evans vs Reshevsky, 1963 |
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| Oct-02-03 | | GoodKnight: <drunkenknight>
I have actually, thanks. It's in my collection (GoodKnight's Random Stuff). |
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| Nov-01-03 | | patzer2: A good opening alternative is 7. Re1 (white wins 44%) or 7. Qe2 (white wins 43%) or 7. e5 relatively untried with one draw in Showalter vs E Delmar, 1893 |
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| Nov-01-03 | | patzer2: Perhaps better was 11. Qe4 as in Burn vs Metger, 1887 |
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| Nov-01-03 | | WhyDevelop: Pretty easy. Interesting though. |
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Nov-01-03
 | | Sneaky: Well at least this one isn't going be busted by crafty ;-) |
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Nov-01-03
 | | Eggman: FARGES vs RAKHINSTEYN
You like this? This is nothing compared to Farges-Rakhinsteyn, Toronto 1985. Unfortunately I don't have the score to the entire game but the following position, with White to play, was arrived at (believe me, it's worth your while to check this out): White: Kh3, Qf4, Rf3f6, Pc4d3e5h2
Black: Kg7, Qd4, Rd7f8, Pa6b7c5e6f7g6h6
(e.g. "Rf3f6" means Rooks at f3 and f6)
Three pawns down, White is desperate. Black has just played ...Qd4??, allowing White to unleash one of the greatest stalemate sacrifices of all time. Here it is: 1.Rxg6+!! Kxg6
(if 1...fxg6 2.Qxf8+ Kh7 3.Rf7+ Rxf7 4.Qxf7+ with perpetual)
2.Qf6+ Kh7
(if 2...Kh5?? 3.Rf5+ exf5 4.Qxf5 Checkmate!)
3.Rg3 Rg8 (forced)
4.Rg7+!! Rxg7 (forced)
5.Qxh6+! Kg8 (5...Kxh6 is stalemate!)
6.Qh8+ Kxh8 Stalemate! |
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| Nov-01-03 | | kevin86: Black ends up 5 pawns up,but white has no where to go=DRAW! See also Horowitz vs Pavey for another stalemate trap. |
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| Nov-01-03 | | patzer2: Kasparov and Keene in BCO note that Bird's Defense in the Ruy Lopez (3...Nd4) "conceals a multiplicity of tricks to swing on the unwary Lopez player, but theory claims a small edge for White if he can steel clear of the pitfalls." BCO indicates 7. Re1 leads to a slight white advantage. According to BCO, best play might go 7. Re1 d6 8. d3 Be7 9. Nd2 0-0 10. Nf3 with a slight white advantage as in Liberzon-Henley, Lone Pine, 1980.
Note that after the BCO recommended 7. Re1 d6 8. d3 Be7 white wins four of five games ( Yanofsky vs Thomas A R B, 1953 and Sardarov Eduard vs Bagirov, 1957 and E Bykova vs O Rubtsova, 1958 and Vasilii Sava vs A Chirpii, 2001) and draws in Kiselev Alexander vs Burakovsky Marat, 1999 per the ChessGames.Com database. |
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| Nov-01-03 | | Diggitydawg: I have theory about this game: Delmar was so furious that white did not resign by the 35th move that he played quickly and carelessly, as if to point out to Congdon, "Look, I don't even need to think in order to win in this position." Unfortunately, when one ceases to think in a game, a result like this can happen. |
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| Nov-01-03 | | talchess2003: W/ queens on the board u dont resign.. there is always hope for hte perpetual. But if it was king - 5 pawns.. yea resign or be disgraced |
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Nov-01-03
| | Sneaky: I friend of mine, at his first chess tournament, found himself on the losing end of a K+Q vs K ending. His opponent was so perturbed at my friend not resigning that he blitzed out the remaining moves, as if to show off. Ooops... STALEMATE!!! Imagine how that guy must have felt. If it was a cartoon, big donkey ears would have grown out of his head. |
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| Nov-01-03 | | Dan101847: This was my first look at the Chessgames site. I just went through the game, and totally broke out laughing at the conclusion. And it feels good to laugh!!! Thanks, Chessgames!! |
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| Nov-01-03 | | almaviva: final imprevisto.. al menos para las negras!!... |
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| Apr-13-04 | | InspiredByMorphy: <suenteus po 147> <43...Qc3?? Almost anything would have been better!> I couldn't agree more. 43.Qa1+ is obviously the right move. I my first impression was 43.Qg4+ |
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| Apr-13-04 | | InspiredByMorphy: Just a note of interest, 8.Nxd5 allows 9.Be7 are a little out of the ordinary for most Bird's defense players, as most would play 8.cxd5 followed by 9.Ne7 |
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| Jul-19-04 | | DanielBryant: Very nice. |
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| Jul-19-04 | | suenteus po 147: Man, this game brings back some memories. This game is just old-fashioned pawn snatching up until the end. It just goes to show how worthless those pawns are if you can't turn their captures into a win. When I first started playing chess online I would draw positions exactly like this because I never gave up, and my opponent, arrogant or annoyed, would always slip up and give me an opportunity. These forced stalemates make for great puzzles. They teach us to always look for a way out. |
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Jul-19-04
 | | cu8sfan: Here at chessgames.com it's always TGIM! |
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Jul-19-04
 | | Benzol: It also happened to Reshevsky against Pilnik if I remember correctly. The game doesn't appear to be in the database. Here's another example Chigorin vs Schlechter, 1905 |
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| Jul-19-04 | | Jatayu: for black it was a classic case of snatching defeat (essentially, after that position) from the jaws of victory. |
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| Jul-19-04 | | nikolaas: Too easy. |
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| Jul-19-04 | | fred lennox: An old advice is if you can check do so, it might be mate. I could add, if it isn't mate, at least it ain't a draw. 42...Qg5+ if 43. Kxd3...Qg3+ |
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