Aug-13-08 | | gazzawhite: This is tragic. |
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May-16-09
 | | alexmagnus: Are this one and Fritz-Kramnik the only examples of world champs overlooking mate in 1? |
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May-16-09
 | | keypusher: <alexmagnus> Talk about castling into it! I would guess this is a simul, so I am not sure it "counts". Botvinnik allowed a mate in one here:
Tolush vs Botvinnik, 1944
Not sure if you consider Adolf Anderssen a world champ: Staunton vs Anderssen, 1851
Botvinnik was completely lost when he got mated, while Anderssen was winning. Also, of course, Anderssen didn't have a clock! The other funny thing is that Botvinnik and Anderssen both had plus scores against the opponents who checkmated them. |
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May-16-09 | | Granny O Doul: Simul games certainly don't count. Also the World Champion title was introduced only with the Steinitz-Zukertort match in 1886. If you count before that, then there's no justification to not count Morphy, Anderssen, Staunton, St. Amant, LaBourdannais, Deschapelles, Philidor, etc. |
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May-16-09 | | Granny O Doul: Hmm. Even before White's last, this was already the worst game of chess ever played. |
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Aug-17-09 | | tentsewang: HAHA the first world's chess champion got mate by a regular checkmate in 12 moves! Even NN plays better than that! |
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Jul-31-10 | | BobCrisp: Euwe overlooked a mate in one vs Salo Landau in a 1933 game that's not in the database. Here's the crucial position:
 click for larger viewEuwe has to defend with Qg1 but finds instead 27.Bxb6. |
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Aug-02-10 | | BobCrisp: Correction: it's a June 1934 game. Euwe plays two training matches in preparation for the Zurich tournament - he defeats Johannes Hendrik Otto Van den Bosch 6-0 and Landau 4.5-1.5. |
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Jan-03-12
 | | FSR: Was Steinitz drunk? Apart from falling into mate in one, he overlooked a forced win on both move 9 and move 10 with the simple Nxc6 bxc6 Nxd6+. I'm no Steinitz and I don't overlook such obvious tactical wins, even in simuls. |
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Jun-26-12 | | LoveThatJoker: Guess-the-Move Final Score:
Steinitz vs H Voigt, 1885.
YOU ARE PLAYING THE ROLE OF VOIGT.
Your score: 20 (par = 13)
LTJ |
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Feb-02-13 | | smalldreams: "Event: Philadelphia. Site: London" |
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Feb-02-13 | | smalldreams: Is this actually a simul game? |
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Oct-15-16 | | wordfunph: uh ohhhh... |
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Jan-17-18 | | Jean Defuse: ...
<smalldreams: "Event: Philadelphia. Site: London" - Is this actually a simul game?> An offhand game played in Feb. 1885 in Philadelphia - Source: Sid Pickard - The Games of Wilhelm Steinitz p. 179 #692. ... |
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Apr-23-20 | | mcb: Would you mind if I ask what the average rating is in this group of players? |
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Dec-09-20 | | sea7kenp: So, at Move 12, White's asking himself if it's time to Castle yet? The answer? NO!!!! |
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May-24-23
 | | fearlessone: I was asking myself what does black do after 9. Nxc6 and Stockfish confirms black is busted with best move (9.57) [24] 9. ... bxc6 10. Nxd6+ Ke7 11. Bf4 Qa5+ 12. c3 Nh6 13. Nc4 Qd5 14. Qc2 Rd8 15. Ne3 Qh5 16. Be2 Qg6 17. Qa4 e5 18. Bxe5 Kf8 19. Bc7 Re8 20. O-O-O Kg8 21. Bd3 Qf6 22. Rhf1 Nf5 23. Bxf5 Bxf5 and black is very helpless in best line and down full piece and pawn with 3 pawn islands vs white 2. |
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