| Jul-06-21 | | Jean Defuse: ...
<Hans Renette> (H.E. Bird - A Chess Biography, p. 357) dated this game from round 6 on <March 6th> 1886. Game source is the 'Morning Post' 15.03.1886. Bird's round 1 game (17.02) was Bird vs Blackburne, 1886 ... |
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Jul-06-21
 | | MissScarlett: It?s sometimes the case that all of a player?s (or players?) games from an event are dated to the first round. |
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Jul-06-21
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
<Jean Defuse> Thank you again! Going through <Urcan and Hilbert's> biography, I am just moving on to this tournament now, having just finished uploading the games they provide for the 1st Irish Chess Association Congress of 1885. Clicking "view" I can see source for this game upload was <F.F. Rowland's> 'Pollock Memories' (pp.38-39). Checking that volume, it says only that the game was played in The British Chess Club Masters tournament in "Spring 1886." Luckily, now we have both you and <Urcan and Hilbert's> "W.H.K. Pollock: A Chess Biography with 523 Games" (McFarland 2017). On pages 340-341 of their work, they give the same information as <Hans Renette>, and list the same primary source as well, the "Morning Post" March 15, 1886. I will change the header now.. |
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Jul-06-21
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<MissScarlett> That is interesting! I don't recall coming across an event in which all the games of a player have been dated to the first round? Are there any infamous examples of this odd practice you might point me too? |
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Jul-06-21
| | MissScarlett: Not off the top of my head, but I?ve seen it. |
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Jul-06-21
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Miss?Scarlett> I've often believed you in the past, and I can'?t see any reason to stop now. I see you'?re still putting faith in our new tech team being able to fix all of the cocked up characters scattered through the entire history of cg?com? |
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Jul-06-21
| | jessicafischerqueen:
Hang on this is worth testing here and now-
I've |
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Jul-06-21
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<MissScarlett>
You have just made a post in which your "I've" has been rendered by cg.com into "I?ve" I have just now made a post in which my "I've" has faithfully been rendered without cocking it up. This strikes me as valuable information to pass on to the tech team... What could account for the difference? |
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Jul-06-21
| | MissScarlett: My apostrophes show up fine in <Preview Kibitz>, so I don't get any advance warning about what works or not. But as there's no obvious alternative to the apostrophe on my keyboard, it wouldn't matter in any event. |
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Jul-06-21
| | jessicafischerqueen:
Ok that's useful information at the least. What on earth would be going on with the current setup that some computers can reliably record an ' mark, but not others? I don't envy our techs. |
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| Jul-06-21 | | sudoplatov: Though not applicable to this game necessarily, it would seem that the best reply to 1.e4 c5, 2.d4 cxd4, 3.Nf3 would be 3...a6. Chess365 gives Black 47.3% wins to 29.5% for White and this site gives 50% to 27% for Black. L?wenthal and La Bourdonnais had already played 1.e4 c5, 2.Nf3 Nc6, 3.d4 cxd4, 4.Nxd4 e5 so the idea of ...a3 should have been in the air (Anderssen did make use of this strategy but with colors reversed and Somacarana did the O'Kelly in 1858.) |
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| Mar-21-25 | | goodevans: Really nice game. I wonder at what point White saw <39...Ng6!> or whether it arrived with a shock. |
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| Mar-21-25 | | goodevans: ''Fish or Fowl?'' |
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Apr-18-25
 | | Check It Out: Tastes like chicken. I imagine white saw the royal fork coming. |
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Apr-18-25
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Now all we need consists of a game between someone named Shell and someone named LeBoeuf. I have great confidence in everyone. You will guess the title. |
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Apr-18-25
 | | Breunor: 15 Ne1 really seems strange? Not Nd4? |
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| Apr-18-25 | | Teyss: Excellent pun, great game. White's build-up on the Kingside could have given goose flesh, but he was actually chasing a red herring. Meanwhile Black didn't chicken out nor foul up. 37...? would be a nice mid-week puzzle. 39...Ng6! is a precise move preventing 40.Qe8# and Rxe3 because of the royal fork. |
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Apr-18-25
 | | OhioChessFan: Clever pun. |
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Apr-18-25
| | MissScarlett: As it's Good Friday, fish, please. |
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| Apr-18-25 | | Teyss: <MissScarlett: As it's Good Friday, fish, please.> I missed that, the timeliness makes the pun even better. |
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Apr-18-25
| | MissScarlett: George Salmon en croute on the menu. Roast Lamb with D Minte sauce over the weekend. |
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Apr-18-25
 | | Stonehenge: A C Chow vs L Bass, 1982. |
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| Apr-20-25 | | FM David H. Levin: <<Breunor>: 15 Ne1 really seems strange? Not Nd4?> Perhaps White thought that 15. Nd4 Qxd6 16. Nxf5 Qxd1 17. Rxd1 gxf5 would be much better for Black owing to the weakness of the c3-pawn. 
click for larger viewAlthough that pawn cannot be protected excepted by putting the dark-square
bishop on a passive square, White could try to offset its loss by targeting the f5-pawn: 18. Rb1 b6 19. Rb5 Bxc3 20. Rxf5 Nd4 21. Rg5+ Kh8 22. Bf1 (A "pre-interposition"
in anticipation of a Black rook's soon reaching d1 via d8.) 22...Nxc2, 
click for larger viewand White has some play for the pawn.
Instead of 19. Rb5 in the above line, White might try 19. Rd5: 19. Rd5 Bxc3 20. Rxf5 Nd4 21. Rg5+ Kh8 22. Bf1 Nxc2 23. Rb3 
click for larger view(A key difference: White's b-rook has access to the third rank, which his d-rook lacked. If now 23...Rac8, then 24. Rxc3 Rxc3 25. Bb2 Rc8 26. Rg3 e3 27. fxe3 [Threatening 28. e4.] 27...f6, 
click for larger viewand White can restore material equality if there's nothing better.) Returning to the position after 23. Rb3,
click for larger view23...Bg7 could be answered by 24. Rbg3 or 24. Rh3, after which White's pressure probably would soon result in regaining the pawn. I don't know that I would have found all of this (assuming it's valid) under tournament
conditions, but my conviction that 15. Nd4 is liable to be better than 15. Ne1 would have prompted me to try very hard to find a way for the former move to succeed tactically. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 37...Qxd1+