Edward Olly vs Adolf Albin (1893) Olly Olly Albin Free!

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Edward Olly vs Adolf Albin
"Olly Olly Albin Free!" (game of the day Oct-14-2013)
Impromptu International Congress, New York (1893), Brooklyn, NY USA (Brooklyn CC), rd 10, Oct-13
Uncommon King's Pawn Opening (B00) · 1-0

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Feb-08-11		Phony Benoni: An exciting finish. You might enjoy figuring out the position after <50.h7>: click for larger view

Oct-14-13		offramp: Good game. The pun required a google search; the concept is not known on my side of the Atlantic.

Oct-14-13		al wazir: 50...Bh8 would have won for black.

Oct-14-13		Jjoq: <al wazir> 50 ... Bh8 51. c7 Rc8 52. Bxe6 Rxc7 53. f6 Ke8 54. Bf5

Oct-14-13		Jamboree: Great tactics in the final 12 moves or so -- but the opening was WHEW a real stinker! Both sides played about 5 sub-optimal moves each, throwing away tempi and backpedaling on strategies every other move. Albin was famous enough to have an opening named after him, and was the equivalent of a grandmaster in his day, but if this game is any indication, he should have stuck to his namesake gambit whenever possible because he looks like he has no idea how to play any other opening without getting himself into trouble!

Oct-14-13		al wazir: <Jjoq>: You're right.

Oct-14-13		Abdel Irada: Another fine mess.... ∞

Oct-14-13		OleBrumm: 50...exf5+ draws, I think. 51.Kxf5 Rxd5 52.Rxd5 b1Q+ 53.Kxe5 Qe1+ and the King can't escape perpetual checks.

Oct-14-13		thomastonk: <OleBrumm> I agree. I tried 50.. exf5+ 51.♔xf7 ♖xd5 52.c7?!, but couldn't make it work: 52.. b1♕ 53.♖xb1 ♗xc7+ 54.♔e4 ♖e5+, and then maybe 55.♔f3 ♔g7 56.♖d1 ♖e7 57.g6 ♗e5 58.♖d8 ♔xg6 59.h8♕ ♗xh8 60.♖xh8 and White is worse, but not lost.

Oct-14-13		Castleinthesky: Great game, I think Albin is in a mess more than free. He didn't even have a counter-gambit!

Oct-14-13		Kikoman: position after 51. f6 click for larger view nice game. :D

Oct-14-13		johnlspouge: 49...Rxd5 50.Rxd5 b1(Q) is mate in 3: 51.Rd8+ Kf7 52.g6+ Kf6 53.Rf8#

Oct-14-13		kevin86: Simon,Theodore,and ALBIN!

Oct-14-13		Domdaniel: Black's opening play is at least original: White's is clueless. Amazingly, he still reaches a position where he can sacrifice a piece ... and, hey ho, we get an old-fashioned romantic attack. Complete with errors all round. Would anyone care to explain the pun? Is it a sports chant, or something?

Oct-14-13		Domdaniel: OK, I get it. REM and Amanda Palmer, and many others, have songs feauturing the phrase. And it turned up in Star Trek. So I never noticed. I guess I never played 'Kick the Can'.

Oct-14-13		Phony Benoni: <Fomdaniel> I might as well confess it's one of my puns. Apparaent I ran with a pretty rough crowd as a child, as we never played anything as sophisticated as "Kick the Can". Instead, we used it as the final phase of a round of Hide and Seek; the Seeker would yell "Alley Alley Oxen Free" to signal that the "Hiders" could safely come out. I didn't like the game (being too big to be a good Hider), and would generally use the Hiding phase as an opportunity to sneak away and go home. I must have won, since they never found me.

Oct-14-13		Abdel Irada: Are you sure they looked? :-P ∞

Oct-18-13		FSR: Inexplicably, 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Bd7 never really caught on. Opening Explorer

Oct-18-13		FSR: Olly only has one other win in the database (as against nine losses and one draw, against the less-than-mighty Gossip). It's this game, where he whipps Showalter: Showalter vs E N Olly, 1893

Oct-18-13		Domdaniel: <FSR> -- <1.e4 d6 2.d4 Bd7 never really caught on> I had a game as White a couple of years ago -- against an up-and-coming young female player who later played in an international event for girls -- which began 1.Nf3 d6 2.d4 Bd7 3.e4 c5. GM Baburin later pointed out a couple of ways I could have got an advantage. Instead, I played 4.c3 and had to struggle to win.

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