| Jul-25-05 | | Veryrusty: Does anyone else think this is too cute for a real game? The interference is lovely (24. ... Rxe6, 25.Nhg6+, Kg8; 26 Rh8#; or 24. ... Bxe6; 25. Nf5+, Kg8; 26. Ne7#) -- but isn't that too cute? |
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| Apr-02-06 | | syracrophy: The final position was taken as a problem of "Mate in three" with the theme of interception. From the move 24 is "White to play and mate in three"
In a few books, this position appears as "Mate in 3"
Interestin! Loyd got an incredible "Mate in three" problem from one of his games! |
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| Oct-21-06 | | crptone: I also can't believe this... It's too much of a coincidence for me. |
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| Oct-21-06 | | aw1988: Speculation is really useless although it deserves for the sake of it investigation. |
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| Aug-16-07 | | Prime23: How about 24. Nhg6 am i missing something. |
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| Aug-16-07 | | syracrophy: <Prime23: How about 24. Nhg6 am i missing something.> 24.♘hg6+ ♗xh3
Now you see the idea of 24.♕e6!!, an awesome sacrifice of interception: <a)> 24...♗xe6 25.♘f5+ <The rook is blockated> ♔g8 26.♘e7# <b)> 24...♖xe6 25.♘hg6+ <The bishop is blockated> ♔g8 26.♖h8# |
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| Feb-06-08 | | just a kid: Wow!What a sacrifice by Loyd! |
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Feb-10-08
 | | tpstar: 24. Qe6! is a beautiful Interference move well worthy of the great problem composer. Yet White has another forced win with 24. Nf5+ Rh6 25. Rxh6+ gxh6 26. Qxc7+ and mate on g7. Surely Loyd discounted this sequence since it begins with a check. =) "Interception" is a football term. ;>D |
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| Feb-11-08 | | just a kid: <tpstar>Basketball or Hockey for that matter. |
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Jan-02-12
 | | FSR: Did Loyd really play this? IIRC he won with a more prosaic move and only later discovered the problem-like Qe6!! (a Novotny, I think). |
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Jan-02-12
 | | Penguincw: < King's Gambit: Accepted. Polerio Gambit > A gambit in a gambit. |
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Apr-03-12
 | | scutigera: Maybe it's real, maybe not, but even if it's a fake it's great fun and certainly as worthy of preservation as, say, Miles vs Huebner, 1985. I agree with Andrew Soltis that, while there may not be room for fraud in chess, there's certainly room for the composed game as a category to go along with the problem and the study. |
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Oct-15-12
 | | Phony Benoni: <FSR> has it right. Here's a comment from Tim Krabbe's Open Chess Diary, no. 268: "<However, as Loyd himself mentioned, 24.Qe6 was not really played. Instead, he announced a mate in 6, beginning with 24.Nf5+. Only a quarter of a century later, did he "announce a mate more in accordance with the modern preference for problems in a few moves," with Qe6."> Krabbe also gives the game as having been played in 1876, which seems likely--Loyd would have been only 15 in 1856. |
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| Oct-15-12 | | Calli: Believe or not dept.: the game was played by correspondence when Sam was only 12 in 1853. Qe6 was not played and Black is Dr C.C. Moore who later owned the American Chess Journal. http://books.google.com/books?id=HR... |
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Oct-16-12
| | Phony Benoni: <Calli> What ho! I knew Loyd composed problems from a young age, but didn't know he was capable of this--though he admits getting some help from older brother Thomas. |
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| Jan-30-17 | | syracrophy: <tpstar> Indeed! The English translation of the Spanish term "intercepción" sounds kinda weird. Interception ≠ Intercepción. Interference is precise. |
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| Dec-03-20 | | Everett: Well, 24 white to move and win is certainly a worthy puzzle of the day. Hopefully such a gem will make it there soon. |
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