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Solomon Rubinstein vs Adolf Jay Fink
"The Fink is a King!" (game of the day Mar-10-2025)
USA (1916)
Italian Game: Two Knights Defense. Polerio Defense Suhle Defense (C59)  ·  0-1

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May-22-04
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  tpstar: An interesting Two Knights, with 14 ... Rb8 & 15. Na3, both reasonable. After 16 ... Rxb5!? 17. Bxb5 why not 17 ... Qc5 chasing the Pe5 (18. c4 d3+ 19. Kh1 Bxe5 20. fxe5 Qxe5) instead of the Nf2 business? If 21. Bf4 Qd4 eyes f2 and b2; on other moves, 21 ... Ng4 is a mate threat. Check out the priceless comment on Move 24; Black has 2 connected passed Pawns on the 5th & 6th ranks, and he'd rather be White? (TIAJR?!) The weak back rank was fatal, although 32 ... Bg4! was quicker.
Jan-19-12  drakkenboy: Why f4 instead of d4?
Jan-19-12  Jason Frost: <tpstar:...Black has 2 connected passed Pawns on the 5th & 6th ranks, and he'd rather be White?...>

Black is obviously better, but after 24... Qh4 I can't see why not 25. Bd2? After which the a-pawn should fall, black's passers get blockaded along the dark squares, and white just looks better.

Jan-19-12  Shams: <Jason Frost> You seem to be annotating the position: +/+ =)

Very complicated. You must be correct to keep the bishop on the g1-a7 diagonal, with 25.Be3 also strong. The blockade looks promising. One drawing line might be 25.Bd2 f5 26.exf6 Rxf7 27.Qxa6 Rf2 28.Be3 Rxg2 29.Kxg2 Qh3+ with a perpetual.

In addition to taking on a7 White threatens c4-c5-c6 when the idea of Bb5-c4 makes Black think twice about breaking with the f-pawn.

Jul-02-14
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  SonOfSteel: .
Is anyone familiar with the Arnold-Chigorin 1885 game from St.Petersburg ? It ended:

18. a4 d3+ 19. ♔h1 a6 20. ♘c4 ♘xc4
21. ♗xc4 ♗g4 22. a5 ♕a7 23. ♕a4 ♗e2 24. ♖e1 ♘g4 25. h3 ♕f2 26. ♗d2 ♗c5 27. ♗xf7+ ♖xf7 28. ♕e8+ ♔h7 29. ♕xf7 ♕xg2+ 30. ♔xg2 ♗f3+ 31. ♔f1 ♘h2# 0-1

I was surprised it's not in the game collection here.

Mar-10-25
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  Korora: Wasn't expecting a <Wizard of Id> reference!
Mar-10-25
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  beatgiant: <Korora> Nobody expects the scampish idquisition!
Mar-10-25  YoungEd: Stockfish disagrees with Fink's note after 24. ♕g1!
Mar-10-25
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  HeMateMe: That brings back MEMORIES! My favorite comic strip.
Mar-10-25
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  OhioChessFan: Amusing pun. Hadn't thought of that comic strip in years.
Mar-10-25  Allderdice83: Looking at this with Stockfish, Black erred with 11 ... Qc7, going from -0.3 to +0.5. Black keeps a slight advantage with 11 ... exf3 12. Nxf3, and then some reasonable developing move; 12 ... Qb6 is the top engine choice (13. d4 c5 14. O-O O-O), but 12 ... O-O and 12 ... Bb7 are also good.

14. c3 is a mistake; White should play 14. d5. After 14 ... Bxe5 15. fxe5 Qxe5 16. Qe1 Nb7 17. Bxh6! Qd4+ (17 ... gxh6 18. Qxf6) 18. Be3 Qd6 (18 ... Qxc3? 19. Nxc3 would go into a losing endgame), the Black pawns are weak, and the knight's pretty bad on b7 (+0.6).

21 ... Nb7? is a mistake; Black should play 21 ... Qd4! After 22. Bf4 e3 23. Qf3 g5 24. Bxe3 Nxe3 25. bxa5 d2, Black has a protected pawn on row 2 and a ferocious attack with Bf5 and Be4 coming. After 21 ... Nb7, White should play 22. Qd2 f5 23. h3 Nxe5 24. Bb2 Ng6 25. Qc3, maneuvering into a counterattack (-0.1)

In response to the annotation, Stockfish says Black is definitely better (-1.1) after 24. Qg1, but 24 ... Qh4?! makes it equal, and White has many ways to maintain equality. None of them involve moving the bishop off the diagonal in front of the pawns with 25. Bb2? After that, it's all downhill for White. Even better than 31 ... Qxd1! is 31 ... Bh3! with mate in 5.

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