Anthony Santasiere vs Charles Rehberg (1948)

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Anthony Santasiere vs Charles Rehberg
49th US Open (1948), Baltimore, MD USA, rd 10, Jul-15
Van Geet (Dunst) Opening: General (A00) · 0-1

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May-29-13		Phony Benoni: There are many ways to react to a loss, a few of which are not violent. A common one is denigrating your opponent and their play, which however can make it difficult to praise your own. Or you can praise your opponent's play to the heavens, crediting them with immortal insight. This is, of course, much more effective if you win the game, but even in a loss you can make your own play seem better. Santasiere took the latter course here, commenting in the "American Chess Bulletin" (Nov/Dec 1948): <"One of the great games in chess history!"> Well, OK. Santasiere was a poet after all, so he was entitled to a little license at times. So why don't more players adopt the complementary attitude? It's very hard to admit someone is better than you, even over the course of a single game. Most players seem to have the attitude of Russian novelist Vladimir Brusiloff, as reported in P.G. Wodehouse's short story, "The Clicking of Cuthbert": <"No novelists any good except me. Sovietski--yah! Nastikoff--bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any good except me. P.G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad. Not good, but not bad. No novelists anywhere any good except me.">

May-29-13		perfidious: The position after ten moves should be good for White, by analogy with this line in the 5....gxf6 Caro-Kann (Opening Explorer), and degenerated into a typically messy middlegame which is characteristic of that line.

May-29-13		micartouse: <One of the great games in chess history!> Haha that's great! I want so badly to rule out the possibility of sarcasm.

Dec-17-14		jerseybob: Rehberg actually won 5 games in this tourney although you wouldn't know it from this game selection.

Dec-17-14		Phony Benoni: That's the curse of being a mid-level player at a large open tournament. Usually, your wins are against weak players, your losses to strong ones. Guess which get published and preserved? Unfortunately, we'll have to take away one of CFR's wins. C F Rehberg vs E Weissenborn, 1948, from the Puget Sound League, should be attributed to <George Rehner>.

Dec-17-14		jerseybob: Phony: Oh God, me and my big mouth! Sorry Charles. But seriously, a lot of good games by MASTERS don't get preserved either if they occurred in weekend swisses. Gore-Benko 1965 is one such.

Dec-18-14		perfidious: <jerseybob> Lot of those from the pre-computer epoch between even strong masters.

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