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Emanuel Lasker vs H M Howe
"Howe Do You Like Them Apples?" (game of the day Aug-24-2007)
Simul, 23b (1902) (exhibition), Chicago, IL USA, Dec-12
Italian Game: Classical Variation. General (C53)  ·  1-0

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Aug-24-07  RandomVisitor: If Black wants to play the 4...d6 line, 6...Bb6 is better.
Aug-24-07  CapablancaFan: Oh man, the great Lasker does it again. I mean how many people realized that 7.Kf1 was an indirect attack on black's king bishop! 37.Qxg5+! must have come as a shock. Howe could he not see that? LOL.
Aug-24-07  syracrophy: The only good thing of this game is the last move 37.♕xg5+!!. It's not good for a GOTD to have won a piece already at the first moves of the game
Aug-24-07  7Heaven: what does GODT stand for?
Aug-24-07  somitra: <7Heaven: what does GODT stand for?> GOTD is the acronym for "Game Of The Day" GODT is a typo. :)
Aug-24-07
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  Eggman: Would Black be so bad after 8...Nf6?
Aug-24-07
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  Honza Cervenka: <Eggman: Would Black be so bad after 8...Nf6?> Certainly not so bad but still bad enough after 9.Bxf7+. But why not 8...Qd7?
Aug-24-07  ounos: Hehe, Black couldn't even compensate by capturing that pawn: 12. ... Qxe4 13 Qe1 and the joke is complete! :-)
Aug-24-07  Crowaholic: My favorite continuation is: 37. ..Rg7 38. Bxf6?! Rxg5 39. Rh8+ Kf7 40. Rxf8+ Kxf8 41. Bxg5

It's not the fastest way to mate, but it's fun. :-)

Anyway, 37. ..Rg7 is apparently not the best defensive option - ..Qg7 seems preferable.

Aug-24-07
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  keypusher: <syracrophy: The only good thing of this game is the last move 37.Qxg5+> Agree.
Aug-24-07  kevin86: GOTD-really! Why Mr. Howe played on after blundering a piece away to the World Champion is sheer folly, The queen sac at the end is pretty-not to mention it fits in with the often repeated Reti-Tartakower mating theme.
Aug-24-07  argishti: why 7. Ba5??
Aug-24-07  Karpova: <arghisti>
To avoid white playing d5-Qa4 Qxb4
With the Ba5 he can simply answer Qa4+ with c6 and the Qd8 covers the Ba5
Aug-24-07  Duque Roquero: Not a good game.
Aug-24-07  dabearsrock1010: stupid gotd i dont even understand whats so good about it
Aug-24-07  wanabe2000: Must be better games of the day than a simul. Except for the Kf1 move this game doesn't seem remarkable.
Aug-24-07
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  fm avari viraf: Black has lost a piece on the 12th move & to continue playiny against a giant Lasker is just stupidity!
Aug-24-07  argishti: ooo thats right! thanks karpova.
Aug-24-07  Mendrys: Given that this was a simul and Howe knew going in he had little if any chance of winning, why resign? That being said I don't think this was GOTD material. I agree with Cabablanca fan. I'm sure Howe didn't know what to make of 7. Kf1.

Howe does win an amusing game against Beers in:
H Howe vs W Beers, 1940

Aug-24-07  JG27Pyth: I agree with the majority here... not a good GOTD, especially compared with recent GOTD's which have been excellent.

7. Kf1 is surprising... but the response 7...Ba5 strikes me as 100% garbage. Throwing away tempo's? in the opening? against Lasker? please.

Aug-24-07  Calli: Brilliant strategy from Howe! He doesn't resign when losing a piece, but maneuvers Lasker into a picturesque finale. Instead of the gamescore being thrown away and Howe long forgotten, he is now immortalized in the GOTD.
Aug-24-07  RookFile: So, it was a simul. He probably travelled a ways to play the world champion, in a day when travel wasn't so convenient.

I don't blame the guy for playing a few more moves, not that it changed anything, of course.

Nov-25-14  TheFocus: From a simul at the Chicago Chess Club in Chicago, Illinois on December 12, 1902.

Lasker scored +21=1-1.

Nov-23-18  GumboGambit: According to the Oxford Companion to Chess, 7. Kf1 is known as the Miss in Baulk Variation. Lasker tried this peculiar move in another game during Simul against Anna Bell Lynn. It was the one game he lost.
Dec-14-21  Messiah: What a horrible pun.
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