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FSR
Member since Aug-27-05 · Last seen Jul-01-25
I am Frederick Rhine. The United States Chess Federation awarded me the titles of National Master (at OTB chess) in 1983, and Senior Master of Correspondence Chess in 1997. In February 2024, less than a year after I began playing in the ICCF, it awarded me the title of Correspondence Chess Master. It looks like later this year I will qualify for the title of International Correspondence Chess Master.

I am the third highest-rated USCF correspondence chess player. https://www.uschess.org/component/o... In January 2025, I was the second highest-rated player, rated just three points below perennial leader Michael Buss. https://www.uschess.org/component/o...

The August 2020 issue of Chess Life magazine had a profile of me (for the text, see Frederick Rhine (my August 1, 2020 comment in the forum)).

I played in the 1997 USCF Absolute Championship (open to the top 13 correspondence players who accept their invitations), scoring 6-6 (+2 =8 -2). The late Alex Dunne wrote in his book on the Absolute Championships, "This was Rhine's only Absolute and he held his own against the best. His two losses were against previous Absolute winners." http://bit.ly/1NB55YP That book contains my games F Rhine vs R Lifson, 1997 and F Rhine vs D Burris, 1997.

But the 1997 event was not my only Absolute. I have also played in the 2023-25 events. In the 2023 edition, I drew all 12 games. That was enough to tie for second! Unlike the 1997 event, this one was under ICCF auspices and allowed the use of engines. There was only one decisive game! https://www.iccf.com/event?id=101114 In the 2024 Absolute, I have ten draws and a win(!), with just one game left, which will very likely end in a draw. https://www.iccf.com/event?id=105325 This time +1 will probably only be enough to tie for fourth. I have also begun play in the 2025 Absolute, with eight draws so far.

I have played first board for the Rogue Squadron in the Chicago Industrial Chess League. I have played online for the Shropshire & Friends team in the 4 Nations Chess League (4NCL), and the Oswestry team in the Shropshire League.

I attended Lane Technical High School in Chicago with the late Chessgames.com co-founder Alberto A Artidiello until he moved out of Chicago. Lane's chess team won the Illinois state championship my junior and senior years, becoming the first school ever to win consecutive championships. Albert also became a master, as did my teammates Kenneth Mohr and Christopher Kus. The late FIDE Masters Albert Charles Chow and Morris Giles were also Laneites.

In July 2013, I played in my second and third regular-rated tournaments of the millennium(!), the Greater Midwest Classic and the Chicago Class (under-2200 section). I tied for second, undefeated, in both, winning $700 and $550, respectively, and brought my rating back over 2200. http://www.uschess.org/assets/msa_j... http://www.uschess.org/assets/msa_j...

I have contributed to hundreds of chess-related articles on Wikipedia under the handle Krakatoa, notably "First-move advantage in chess," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-... "George H. D. Gossip," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George... and "Swindle (chess)," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_..., all of which are almost entirely written by me. The first two of those have been Today's Featured Article, the highest honor a Wikipedia article can receive, one attained by about one out of every 1,400 articles. I have received various Wikipedia awards, including the Imperial Triple Crown Jewels and the Timeless Imperial Triple Crown (which only 12 Wikipedians have received). My user page is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:K.... Al Lawrence in the aforementioned Chess Life article referred to my "erudite chess articles on Wikipedia." Chess historian Edward Winter in his article "Wikipedia and Chess" commended my Wikipedia articles on Gossip and Hugh Edward Myers. (The latter article is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_....) https://www.chesshistory.com/winter...

I am the editor and proofreader of the book "Tournament Battle Plan: Optimize Your Chess Results!" by Daniel Gormally. I was the proofreader of the book "Triple Exclam!!! The Life and Games of Emory Tate, Chess Warrior" by Daaim Shabazz.

I was a contributor to the now-defunct Chicago Chess Blog, http://chicagochess.blogspot.com. I discovered, and documented in my blog post https://chicagochess.blogspot.com/2..., what Taylor Kingston calls "the Mortimer Effect," which has lowered the Morphy Numbers of many modern players (maybe you!). https://chesscafe.com/the-skittles-... I have a Morphy Number of 4 by virtue of L Barden vs F Rhine, 2010 as well as two simul games I lost to Arthur Bisguier when I was in high school.

Five hundred and fifty-seven of my games are in chessgames.com's database. My favorites are F Rhine vs D Sprenkle, 1981, K Thompson vs F Rhine, 1992, and F Rhine vs A Boerkoel, 1996, each of which has been Game of the Day. Rhine-Sprenkle was published with my annotations in Chess Informant (Volume 32) and cited in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (Vol. B (2nd ed.) at 183 n.19). In Volume 33 of Chess Informant, my 18th move (18.Nxd6!) in that game was voted the 8th-9th most important theoretical novelty in Volume 32. The game was also cited in MCO-13 and "The Aggressive Nimzowitsch Sicilian 2...Nf6" by Eric Schiller, and occupies an entire chapter in all three editions of "Beating the Sicilian" by John Nunn. It is game 218 in "1000 TN!! The Best Theoretical Novelties" (Chess Informant, 2012). Anish Giri, in his 2023 Chessable course "Lifetime Repertoires: Giri's 1. e4 - Part 3" recommends this line for White. https://www.chessable.com/lifetime-... Following my game against Sprenkle, he writes after 22.Be3, "The computer evaluates this as completely hopeless for Black and it is. Our king is in fact much safer, thanks to our much better pieces." https://www.chessable.com/learn/159... More than 40 years after I played the game, my line still kicks ass!


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Thompson-Rhine was published with my annotations in Chess Informant (Volume 57), and cited in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (Vol. B (3rd ed.) at 172 n.163). Jeremy Silman discusses the game and my analysis of it in his book "Winning with the Sicilian Defence" (2nd ed.).

Joel Johnson in his book "Attacking 101: Volume #005" says of my blitz game F Rhine vs NN, 2019, "White played a flawless Smith-Morra Gambit that IM Marc Esserman would have been proud of." Georges Koltanowski published F Rhine vs A Artidiello, 1974 in his syndicated newspaper column. Richard Palliser discusses the opening of F Rhine vs S Nagle, 1997 in his book "tango!"

I have played some theoretically significant correspondence games in the Damiano Variation of Petroff's Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 Nxe4!?), demonstrating that Black's third move, commonly regarded as a blunder, is fully playable. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... Nikolaos Ntirlis analyzes two of my games in an article on the variation in Volume 158 of Chess Informant. Cyrus Lakdawala and Carsten Hansen include five of my games in their book on the line, "None Shall Pass: The Unbeatable Damiano Petroff: A tricky and surprisingly solid defense."

Jacob Aagaard analyzes the endings of two of my Internet blitz games in his 896-page tome "A Matter of Endgame Technique" (alas, mine was lacking). Cyrus Lakdawala includes my study-like win in F Rhine vs A Zhao, 2019 in his book "Tactical Training in the Endgame." He also mentions me, albeit not by name, in his book "In the Zone: The Greatest Winning Streaks in Chess History" when he refers to "The Classical Sicilian, which as one of my atheist students told me, is the closest thing he has to a religion." Cyrus analyzes my game against Gadir Guseinov in his book "The Makogonov Variation: A ruthless King's Indian killer."

Commentator Mato Jelic somewhat extravagantly calls my game E Sollano vs F Rhine, 1977 "The Greatest Ever Blitz Game Played in Chicago." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl8... See also Suren's analysis at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWa... My 7...Bxc5!! in that game, played the year before Boris Avrukh was born, is a big improvement on the flaccid 7...Bg6, his recommendation in the book "Beating 1.d4 Sidelines" (2012).

Someone also made a video (moves only) of J Aagaard vs F Rhine, 2021, a 2-1 bullet game where I drew and should've beaten the grandmaster - if only I'd had time! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-O... Someone else (or perhaps two different people) did a video (moves only) of Tal vs F Rhine, 1988, my loss to the great Mikhail Tal in a simul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfk... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3o... The latter refers to me as a "great grandmaster!" which isn't quite accurate . . .

User: JimmyVermeer discusses my games NN vs F Rhine, 2021, P Pantelidakis vs F Rhine, 1974, and P Napetschnig vs F Rhine, 1977 in his video "The 109 fastest checkmates in chess history, part 10 of 11." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GT... The sequel "The 109 fastest checkmates in chess history, part 11 of 11," contains a Fool's Mate I played, which I had mentioned in a comment on this site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Z... Napetschnig-Rhine is also mentioned in https://www.chess.com/terms/fools-m.... Rick Kennedy discusses my game F Rhine vs NN, 2018 on his Jerome Gambit blog. https://jeromegambit.blogspot.com/2... My game F Rhine vs NN, 2010 is mentioned in the "Checkmate Patterns Course" by Raf Mesotten and John Bartholomew on chessable.com.

I composed this study, which Pal Benko published in "Benko's Bafflers" in Chess Life, May 2006:

White to play and draw


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The solution is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stale... It is based on an earlier study of mine, also published in Benko's column. Both compositions also appear in Harold van der Heijden's endgame study database. https://www.chess.com/news/view/76-... The above study is also cited in "The Complete Chess Swindler" by David Smerdon and "Rewire Your Chess Brain: Endgame Studies and Mating Problems to Enhance Your Tactical Ability" by Cyrus Lakdawala.

I was once one of the world's best players at suicide chess (also known as "losing chess"), a chess variant where one wins by giving away all of one's pieces. http://perpetualcheck.com/antichess...

I have successfully submitted 236 puns for Game of the Day. Game Collection: Puns I submitted. User: johnlspouge has remarked, "As far as I can tell, <FSR> is churning out 'actual puns' almost as fast as I can [insert bodily function of choice]." K Tjolsen vs S Marder, 2010. The coveted 2013 Caissar for Best (Worst) Pun went to "Control-Ault-Delete," the pun I submitted for Fischer vs R Ault, 1959, the Game of the Day on December 19, 2012. I won the 2019 Caissar in the same category for my greatest pun ever (and IMO one of the greatest chessgames puns ever) "Late December Back in '63: What a Lady, What a Knight!," N Littlewood vs B Brinck-Claussen, 1963, the Game of the Day on December 30, 2019. Since Caissars are awarded in January, my wins may illustrate recency bias.

Nine of my games have been Game of the Day: NN vs F Rhine, 1977 ("Strangers on a Train"), F Rhine vs F Lasch, 1986 ("Lasch Call"), K Thompson vs F Rhine, 1992 ("Like a Rhinestone Cowboy"), R Delaune vs F Rhine, 1997 ("Red Red Rhine"), F Rhine vs D Burris, 1997 ("Fred Rhine Felled"), F Felecan vs F Rhine, 2019 ("Felecan Brief"), F Rhine vs D Sprenkle, 1981 ("Sparkling Rhine"), F Rhine vs A Boerkoel, 1996 ("Das Rhinegold"), and F Rhine vs NN, 2018 ("'Twas the Night Before Christmas"). Six wins, a draw, and two losses.

I am responsible for World Junior Championship (1957), Vidmar Memorial (1969), Carlsen - Anand World Championship Match (2014), Game Collection: Drawing lines, and 32nd Correspondence World Championship (2020), among others. Legendary chess journalist Leonard Barden recently told me in an email, "I follow your many thoughtful contributions to chessgames.com with interest."

I am a member of the ChessBookie Hall of Fame, having finished fourth in the Summer 2015 Leg, seventh in the Winter 2016 Championship Leg, ninth in the Winter 2017 Championship Leg, ninth in the Spring 2017 Leg, and seventh in the Summer 2017 Leg.

I am very active on Chessable, where my handle is "Krakatoa." https://www.chessable.com/profile/K... I am a "Legend" and have 134 badges, five shy of the world record held by maestro. https://www.chessable.com/badges/Kr...

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   FSR has kibitzed 29914 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Jul-01-25 FSR chessforum
 
FSR: Submitted: [Event "Online blitz"] [Site "lichess"] [Date "2025.07.01"] [White "Frederick Rhine"] [Black "NN"] [ECO "B06"] [Result "1-0"] [PlyCount "39"] [Source " https://lichess.org/OzcfS7GOmGt4 "] 1. d4 g6 2. e4 Bg7 3. h4 e6 4. h5 b6 5. h6 Bf8 6. Nf3 Be7 7. ...
 
   Jul-01-25 Kenneth Rogoff (replies)
 
FSR: The URL saffuna gave appears to have an extra character. The correct URL is https://www.al.com/politics/2025/06...
 
   Jun-29-25 Alekhine vs G Tan, 1933
 
FSR: Black should play 5...e5! with decent compensation for the sacrificed pawn. Opening Explorer . E.g., E Vorobiov vs Zvjaginsev, 2008 (1/2, 31); F Rhine vs W Pietrzak, 2023 (1-2, 34).
 
   Jun-29-25 F Rhine vs NN, 2022 (replies)
 
FSR: I just played this game again on lichess, except that my opponent deviated with 9...Nxc6, and resigned after 10.Bxc6+. https://lichess.org/tavrV4MnjRGP As for <Sally Simpson>'s suggested gambit with 3...c6!?, yes, it is playable. F Rhine vs W Pietrzak, 2023 (1/2-1/2, 34). After ...
 
   Jun-28-25 E Szalanczy vs T Nguyen, 2009 (replies)
 
FSR: I should mention that for this sort of record a good place to start is Tim Krabbé's Open Chess Diary, specifically https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/record... . For other chess records, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_... . I wrote much of that article.
 
   Jun-28-25 J Levitt vs R Lev, 1989 (replies)
 
FSR: <stone free or die> If the position is repeated three or four times, it is up to the players whether one of them wants to claim a draw. But <In 2014 FIDE introduced a rule providing for a mandatory draw in the event of a fivefold repetition. If the same position occurs five ...
 
   Jun-27-25 Evans vs Lombardy, 1972 (replies)
 
FSR: <Granny O Doul> Black playing his first move before White has done so is weird. The normal procedure would be for Black, upon arriving at the board, to hit his clock (without making a move), thereby starting White's clock.
 
   Jun-27-25 J Owens vs F Rhine, 2024
 
FSR: Note that my king bishop never moved! According to Tim Krabbé, J Levitt vs R Lev, 1989 holds the record for the longest game with an unmoved bishop. https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/record... ("Longest immobility"). Poor Lev's bishop was shut in on c8, but he still managed to drag the game
 
   Jun-27-25 A J Goldsby vs F Goodenough, 1974 (replies)
 
FSR: <Sally Simpson> It wasn't a postal game. My guess is that <P.C.C. Championship> means "Pensacola Chess Club Championship."
 
   Jun-27-25 G Jacewicz vs F Rhine, 2024
 
FSR: 3...Nf6, as I played in T Thomas vs F Rhine, 2025 , is also good. Then White's best is 4.d4, transposing to main lines. 4.g3 would be met by 4...d5!, equalizing. In this game I avoided 3...Nf6 because I was committed to the Najdorf, which would be impossible after 3...Nf6 4.d4. At the ...
 
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Jun-07-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Online blitz"]
[Site "lichess"]
[White "Frederick Rhine"]
[Black "NN"]
[ECO "A40"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Date "2025.06.07"]
[PlyCount "23"]
[Source "https://lichess.org/Kr0Jj2amBBsJ"]

1.d4 e5 2.dxe5 Nc6 3.Nf3 Bc5 4.Nc3 a6 5.Ne4 Ba7 6.Bg5 Nge7 7.Qd2 O-O 8.Nf6+ gxf6 9.Bxf6 Qe8 10.Qg5+ Ng6 11.Qh6 Nxe5 12.Qg7# 1-0

Jun-08-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "MVMD 2300-2399 (BUL)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2024.07.25"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Hunger, Horst"]
[ECO "A65"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2334"]
[BlackElo "2395"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1481455"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 e6 4.e4 c5 5.d5 d6 6.Nc3 Bg7 7.Nge2 exd5 8.cxd5 Nbd7 9.Ng3 h5 10.Be2 h4 11.Nf1 a6 12.a4 Rb8 13.a5 O-O 14.g4 c4 15.Ne3 b5 16.axb6 Nxb6 17.O-O Nfd7 18.Kh1 Nc5 19.Nf5 Be5 20.Nh6+ Kh7 21.g5 Bg7 22.Ra3 Bxh6 23.gxh6 f5 24.Rg1 f4 25.Bd2 Qe7 26.Nb1 Kxh6 27.Bc3 Bd7 28.Nd2 Bb5 29.Qf1 g5 30.Bd4 Rg8 31.Qf2 Rgc8 32.Rc3 Rc7 33.Qg2 Rg8 34.h3 Nba4 35.Rc2 Nb6 36.Rgc1 Rgc8 37.Nf1 a5 38.Nh2 Bd7 39.Bf1 Kg6 40.Rd1 Ba4 41.Ng4 Qf8 42.e5 Bxc2 43.Qxc2+ Qf5 44.Qf2 Nd3 45.Bxd3 cxd3 46.Bxb6 Rc2 47.Qf1 Re2 48.Bf2 Re8 49.b3 1-0

Jun-09-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Winning F Rhine vs H Hunger, 2024 gave me my first ICCM (correspondence IM) norm. In another tournament I am completely winning in my last game (over +3). Winning that one will give me a SIM (Senior International Master) norm and the ICCM title. In that tournament, it looks like I will tie for first with Robert Wydornik, whom I have played seven times (and will soon play twice more). He is also about to get the ICCM title the same way - by getting an SIM norm in that tournament and an IM norm in another tournament that he's already completed.
Jun-09-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "NATT/8 (WLS)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2024.11.15"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Hernandez Martinez, Jeronimo"]
[ECO "D43"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2335"]
[BlackElo "2380"]
[Board "6"]
[WhiteTeam "United States"]
[BlackTeam "Mexico"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1508263"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 c6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bxf6 Qxf6 7.e3 Nd7 8.Bd3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 g6 10.O-O Bg7 11.e4 e5 12.d5 Nb6 13.Qd3 O-O 14.Bb3 cxd5 15.Bxd5 Rd8 16.Qe3 Rb8 17.h3 Be6 18.Bxe6 Qxe6 19.Rfd1 Rbc8 20.Rac1 Bf8 21.Rxd8 Rxd8 22.Kh2 Kg7 23.Qe2 Qc4 24.Qxc4 Nxc4 25.Rc2 Na5 26.Kg1 Nc6 27.Kf1 f5 28.Rd2 Rxd2 29.Nxd2 Bb4 30.Ke2 Bxc3 31.bxc3 Kf6 32.Ke3 Ke6 33.exf5+ gxf5 34.f4 b5 35.g3 Kd5 36.Nf3 exf4+ 37.Kxf4 Kc4 38.Kxf5 a5 39.Ne5+ Nxe5 40.Kxe5 Kxc3 41.g4 a4 42.h4 1/2-1/2

Jun-09-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "2nd DKM 0-2750 6 (BUL)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.01.25"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Lemke, Burghard"]
[ECO "A90"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2339"]
[BlackElo "2337"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1524824"]

1.d4 f5 2.g3 e6 3.Bg2 Nf6 4.c4 d5 5.Bf4 c6 6.Nf3 Be7 7.O-O Nbd7 8.Qc2 Ne4 9.Nc3 O-O 10.Rad1 a5 11.a4 Bb4 12.Na2 Bd6 13.Bxd6 Nxd6 14.b3 b6 15.Nc1 Ba6 16.Nd3 Rc8 17.Rfe1 dxc4 18.Nde5 c5 19.d5 exd5 20.Nxd7 Qxd7 21.Rxd5 Qe6 22.Ng5 Qf6 23.bxc4 Rcd8 24.Nh3 Nxc4 25.Nf4 Nd6 26.h4 Kh8 27.h5 Ne4 28.Red1 Rxd5 29.Nxd5 Qc6 30.Nf4 c4 31.Rd5 Bc8 32.Bxe4 fxe4 33.Qxe4 Qf6 34.Rd1 c3 35.Qc2 Bb7 36.f3 Rc8 37.Kf2 Ba6 38.h6 g5 39.Nh5 Qxh6 40.Qxc3+ Kg8 41.Nf6+ Kg7 42.Nh5+ Kg8 43.Nf6+ 1/2-1/2

Jun-11-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Clock simul"]
[Site "London, ENG"]
[Date "1983.12.21"]
[EventDate "1983.12.21"]
[Round "-"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Garry Kasparov"]
[Black "Stuart Rachels"]
[ECO "A57"]
[WhiteElo "2690"]
[BlackElo "2381"]
[PlyCount "101"]
[Source "Stuart Rachels, The Best I Saw in Chess, p. 15"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. e4 g6 7. f4 Bg7 8. Bb5+ Nfd7 9. a4 a6 10. Be2 Qh4+ 11. g3 Qd8 12. Nf3 O-O 13. O-O Re8 14. Nd2 Nf8 15. Bf3 Nbd7 16. Re1 Rb8 17. Nc4 Nb6 18. Ne3 Bd7 19. a5 Nc8 20. Nc4 Bb5 21. Qb3 Bxc4 22. Qxc4 Nd7 23. Re2 b5 24. axb6 Ncxb6 25. Qa2 c4 26. Be3 Qc7 27. Qa5 Rec8 28. Bg4 Rd8 29. Rd1 Qb7 30. Bf2 Re8 31. Kg2 h5 32. Bf3 Rec8 33. e5 Nc5 34. e6 f5 35. Bxc5 Rxc5 36. Qxc5 dxc5 37. d6 Qa7 38. e7 Qd7 39. Nd5 Qxd6 40. e8=Q+ Rxe8 41. Rxe8+ Kh7 42. Nc3 Qf6 43. Rde1 Qd4 44. R8e6 Qd8 45. Rd1 Qb8 46. Rd2 a5 47. Re7 Qf8 48. Rb7 Qf6 49. Re2 Kg8 50. Re8+ Bf8 51. Nd5 1-0

This game is from Rachels' autobiography. The event was a 10-board clock simul in London between Kasparov and ten promising juniors. Rachels says that he couldn't find any references to this event on the Internet! Weird.

Jun-13-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "2nd GO 0-2750 8 (GER)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.04.30"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rodriguez Zas, Jose Alejandro"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "D86"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2349"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1544080"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bc4 c5 8.Ne2 Nc6 9.Be3 O-O 10.O-O b6 11.Qd2 Bb7 12.Rac1 e6 13.Rfd1 Na5 14.Bd3 Rc8 15.Bg5 Qd7 16.h4 cxd4 17.cxd4 Rxc1 18.Rxc1 Nc6 19.Bb5 a6 20.Bxc6 Bxc6 21.h5 Bxe4 22.Qf4 Bf5 23.h6 Bh8 24.Qf3 e5 25.d5 Bg4 26.Qe4 Bxe2 27.Qxe2 Qxd5 28.Qxa6 e4 29.Be3 Bb2 30.Rb1 1/2-1/2

Jun-15-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "WS/MN/B/87"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.04.12"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Gerlinger, Uwe-Michael"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "A37"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2300"]
[BlackElo "2341"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1540157"]

1.Nf3 c5 2.g3 Nc6 3.Bg2 g6 4.c4 Bg7 5.Nc3 d6 6.O-O Bf5 7.h3 e5 8.a3 a5 9.d3 Nge7 10.Bg5 f6 11.Bd2 O-O 12.Nh2 Bd7 13.Rb1 Kh8 14.e3 f5 15.Qc2 g5 16.Ne2 Qc8 17.Nc3 Qd8 18.Rfc1 Rc8 19.Be1 Be8 20.Nd5 Nxd5 21.Bxd5 Bf7 22.Qd1 f4 23.Be4 Qf6 24.b4 axb4 25.axb4 Bg6 26.bxc5 Bxe4 27.dxe4 dxc5 28.Rxb7 1/2-1/2

Jun-17-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "WSTT/RD/F14"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.05.01"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Kapusuz, Hasan Huseyin"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "C43"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2168"]
[BlackElo "2341"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1546024"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.d4 Nxe4 4.Bd3 Nc6 5.O-O d5 6.dxe5 Nc5 7.Bb5 a6 8.Bxc6+ bxc6 9.Nd4 Ne6 10.Nxc6 Qd7 11.Na5 Bb4 12.Bd2 Bxa5 13.Bxa5 Bb7 14.f4 Qb5 15.Be1 Qb6+ 16.Kh1 d4 17.Nd2 O-O-O 18.f5 Nc5 19.Nc4 Qb5 20.Qe2 Ne4 21.a4 Qd5 22.Rf3 g6 23.Qf1 gxf5 24.Na5 Ba8 25.Qxa6+ Kd7 26.Qb5+ Kc8 27.Qa6+ Kd7 28.Qb5+ Kc8 29.Qa6+ 1/2-1/2

Jun-18-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "RoW/C2024/sf. 5"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2024.09.30"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Jenkinson, Simon W."]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "A28"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2436"]
[BlackElo "2334"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1493103"]

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.e4 Bb4 5.d3 d6 6.a3 Bc5 7.b4 Bb6 8.Na4 Bd4 9.Rb1 Bg4 10.Be2 Bxf3 11.Bxf3 a6 12.Qd2 b5 13.Nc3 bxc4 14.dxc4 Bxc3 15.Qxc3 Nd4 16.Qd3 a5 17.b5 Nd7 18.O-O Nc5 19.Qd1 O-O 20.Bb2 Ncb3 21.Bg4 a4 22.f4 Qh4 23.Bc3 Rae8 24.g3 Qe7 25.fxe5 dxe5 26.Bb4 Qg5 27.Kg2 Qg6 28.Bxf8 Rxf8 29.Rb2 Qxe4+ 30.Bf3 Nxf3 31.Qxf3 Qxc4 32.Qc6 Qxc6+ 33.bxc6 Rd8 34.Re1 f6 35.Re4 Nd4 36.Rb7 Ne6 37.Rb2 1/2-1/2

Jun-20-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "VWC 14 SF 3"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.05.01"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Loeffler, Werner"]
[Black "Lins, Thomas"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A32"]
[WhiteElo "2333"]
[BlackElo "2428"]
[PlyCount "36"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1539223"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Bf4 d5 4. Nc3 c5 5. Nf3 cxd4 6. Nxd4 Nbd7 7. Qa4 Bc5 8. Nb3 O-O 9. Nxc5 Nxc5 10. Qa3 b6 11. cxd5 Nxd5 12. Nxd5 exd5 13. e3 Bb7 14. Rd1 d4 15. Bc4 Qf6 16. O-O dxe3 17. Bxe3 Bxg2 18. Kxg2 Qg6+ 1/2-1/2

Jun-21-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "WSTT/4/25/4"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.05"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Caron, Sérgio Valladares"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "C41"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2406"]
[BlackElo "2341"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1554436"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.f3 d5 6.e5 Nh5 7.g3 c5 8.Nb5 d4 9.f4 g6 10.Nd2 a6 11.Na3 Be7 12.Bg2 Ng7 13.O-O h5 14.Nac4 Nc6 15.a4 Bg4 16.Bf3 Be6 17.b3 Rc8 18.Ne4 Nf5 19.a5 Qc7 20.Be2 Kf8 21.Bd3 Kg7 22.Qe2 Nb4 23.Bd2 Nxd3 24.cxd3 Qc6 25.h3 Rcd8 26.Rae1 Bd5 27.Qf3 Qe6 28.Rf2 Bc6 29.Rh2 Rde8 30.Rf1 1/2-1/2

Jun-21-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "WSTT/4/25/4"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[EventType "correspondence thematic tournament"] [Date "2025.06.05"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Caron, Sergio Valladares"]
[ECO "C41"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2341"]
[BlackElo "2406"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1554443"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.Bf4 Nc6 7.Qd2 Nxd4 8.Qxd4 a6 9.O-O-O O-O 10.Kb1 b5 11.f3 Be6 12.Qf2 c6 13.Be3 b4 14.Ne2 Qa5 15.Nc1 Qc7 16.g4 d5 17.g5 Nd7 18.h4 dxe4 19.fxe4 a5 20.Bf4 Qa7 21.Qxa7 1/2-1/2

Jun-22-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Online blitz"]
[Site "lichess"]
[Date "2025.06.22"]
[White "Frederick Rhine"]
[Black "NN"]
[ECO "C00"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "19"]
[Source "https://lichess.org/XXbBPUscwvO0"]

1.d4 e6 2.e4 Bb4+ 3.c3 Be7 4.Bd3 Nf6 5.e5 Nd5 6.Qg4 g6 7.Bh6 f5 8.exf6 Nxf6 9.Qxg6+ hxg6 10.Bxg6# 1-0

Jun-22-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "ASIGC55 3 (ITA)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2024.12.15"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Schmitt, Dariusz"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "A62"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2393"]
[BlackElo "2335"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1514798"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 c5 4.d5 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nc3 g6 7.Bg2 Bg7 8.Nf3 O-O 9.O-O Re8 10.Re1 Nbd7 11.Bf4 Ng4 12.h3 Nge5 13.Ne4 Qe7 14.Rc1 h6 15.h4 b6 16.Qa4 Bb7 17.Nxe5 Nxe5 18.b4 f5 19.Bxe5 Bxe5 20.Nd2 f4 21.gxf4 Bxf4 22.e3 Be5 23.bxc5 bxc5 24.Qg4 Qg7 25.Nc4 Bc8 26.Qd1 Qe7 27.Nxe5 Qxe5 28.Qd3 Kg7 29.Rb1 Qf6 30.e4 Qxh4 31.e5 Bf5 32.Rb7+ Kg8 33.Qb3 c4 34.Qc3 Rab8 35.Rxb8 Rxb8 36.exd6 Qf4 37.Bf1 Qg4+ 38.Bg2 Qf4 39.Bf1 1/2-1/2

Jun-22-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: We interrupt World War III to bring you a glorious checkmate: https://lichess.org/XXbBPUscwvO0 So much for "develop knights before bishops."


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Jun-25-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "ENG/1/TB Open Group 19 (ENG)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.20"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Thomas, Tim"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "B67"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2345"]
[BlackElo "2341"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1550334"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nge2 Nf6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 d6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.O-O-O Bd7 9.f3 Nxd4 10.Qxd4 Bc6 11.Qf2 b5 12.h4 Qc7 13.Kb1 b4 14.Ne2 d5 15.Nd4 Bb7 16.e5 Qxe5 17.Re1 Qc7 18.h5 h6 19.Be3 Nd7 20.Rh4 Bd6 21.Nf5 O-O 22.Nxh6+ Kh8 23.Rg4 Rae8 24.Bd4 e5 25.Qd2 f6 26.Bd3 exd4 27.Rxe8 Rxe8 28.Nf7+ Kg8 29.h6 Kxf7 30.Bg6+ Kg8 31.Bxe8 Bf8 32.hxg7 Bxg7 33.Bxd7 Qxd7 34.Qxb4 d3 35.cxd3 Kf7 36.Qa5 1/2-1/2

Jun-25-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "2nd GO 0-2750 7 (GER)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.04.30"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Lunek, Ferry A."]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "B69"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2342"]
[BlackElo "2341"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1543584"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.O-O-O Bd7 9.f4 Be7 10.Nf3 b5 11.Bxf6 gxf6 12.Kb1 b4 13.Ne2 h5 14.Ned4 Qb6 15.Be2 a5 16.Rhe1 a4 17.Nxc6 Bxc6 18.Bc4 Qc5 19.Qd3 Kf8 20.Nd4 Bd7 21.b3 a3 22.Qf3 Ra5 23.f5 exf5 24.Nxf5 Qe5 25.c3 h4 26.Re2 bxc3 27.Kc2 Bxf5 28.exf5 Qxf5+ 29.Kxc3 h3 30.b4 hxg2 31.Qxg2 Ra7 32.Qd5 Rh3+ 33.Rd3 Qxd5 34.Bxd5 Rc7+ 35.Kd2 Rh4 36.Rc3 Bd8 1/2-1/2

Jun-26-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Online blitz"]
[Site "lichess"]
[Date "2025.06.25"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "NN"]
[Black "Frederick Rhine"]
[ECO "A45"]
[PlyCount "10"]
[Source "https://lichess.org/nK2amgiCN2zt"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 c5 3. Nf3 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 5. Bxe5 Qa5+ 0-1

Jun-26-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "ENG/1/TB Open Group 20 (ENG)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.20"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Agramonte Quevedo, Nelson Alejandro"]
[ECO "D47"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2341"]
[BlackElo "2346"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1550360"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 b4 9.Ne4 Nxe4 10.Bxe4 Bb7 11.Nd2 Be7 12.O-O O-O 13.b3 Nf6 14.Bf3 Nd5 15.Bb2 c5 16.dxc5 Bxc5 17.Nc4 Qg5 18.Qe2 Be7 19.g3 Nc3 20.Bxc3 Bxf3 21.Qxf3 bxc3 22.e4 Bf6 23.Rad1 a5 24.e5 Bxe5 25.h4 Qf6 26.Qe3 Bc7 27.Rc1 Rfc8 28.Qxc3 1/2-1/2

Jun-26-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "ENG/1/TB Open Group 19 (ENG)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.20"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Agramonte Quevedo, Nelson Alejandro"]
[ECO "D45"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2341"]
[BlackElo "2346"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1550329"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.Bd3 O-O 8.O-O dxc4 9.Bxc4 b5 10.Be2 a6 11.Ng5 Bb8 12.Nce4 Bb7 13.Nc5 Nxc5 14.dxc5 h6 15.Nf3 a5 16.e4 Qe7 17.Be3 Ng4 18.Bd2 Rd8 19.Rad1 Ne5 20.Be3 Nxf3+ 21.Bxf3 Be5 22.Be2 Bf6 23.f4 1/2-1/2

Jun-27-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "WSTT/3/25/2"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.04.15"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Koken, Ali"]
[ECO "C44"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2341"]
[BlackElo "1993"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1541268"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d4 exd4 5.Ng5 Nh6 6.Nxf7 Nxf7 7.Bxf7+ Kxf7 8.Qh5+ g6 9.Qxc5 d5 10.O-O dxe4 11.c3 Qd6 12.Qxd6 cxd6 13.cxd4 Nxd4 14.Nc3 Bg4 15.Nxe4 Nc2 16.Nxd6+ Ke6 17.Bf4 Nxa1 18.Rxa1 Rhf8 19.Bg3 b6 20.f3 Bf5 21.Re1+ Kd7 22.Rd1 Ke6 23.Re1+ Kd7 24.Rd1 1/2-1/2

Jun-28-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "ENG/1/TB Open Group 19 (ENG)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.20"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Pohjosmäki, Risto"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "B67"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2347"]
[BlackElo "2341"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1550323"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.O-O-O Bd7 9.Kb1 Nxd4 10.Qxd4 Be7 11.f3 Bc6 12.Bd3 Qc7 13.h4 h6 14.Bc1 O-O-O 15.Bc4 Rhg8 16.Qe3 d5 17.exd5 Nxd5 18.Bxd5 exd5 19.Ne2 Rge8 20.Qf2 Bf6 21.Nd4 Kb8 22.h5 Ka8 23.b3 Bd7 24.g4 Qc5 25.Bb2 Re7 26.Rhe1 Rde8 27.Rxe7 Qxe7 28.Qd2 Qe3 29.Qb4 Qe5 30.Qb6 Rc8 31.a4 Qh2 32.Re1 Qd2 33.Rc1 Be7 34.Nb5 axb5 35.Bd4 Kb8 36.Qa7+ Kc7 37.Qb6+ Kb8 38.Qa7+ Kc7 1/2-1/2

Jun-29-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: [Event "ENG/1/TB Open Group 19 (ENG)"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2025.06.20"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Wydornik, Robert"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "B67"]
[Result "1/2-1/2]
[WhiteElo "2342"]
[BlackElo "2341"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1550341"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2 a6 8.O-O-O Bd7 9.f3 Nxd4 10.Qxd4 Bc6 11.Qf2 b5 12.h4 Qc7 13.Kb1 b4 14.Ne2 d5 15.Nd4 Bb7 16.e5 Qxe5 17.Re1 Qc7 18.h5 h6 19.Be3 Nd7 20.Rh4 Bd6 21.Nf5 O-O 22.Nxh6+ Kh8 23.Rg4 Rae8 24.Bd4 e5 25.Qd2 f6 26.Bd3 exd4 27.Rxe8 Rxe8 28.Nf7+ Kg8 29.h6 Kxf7 30.Bg6+ Kg8 31.Bxe8 Bf8 32.Bxd7 Qxd7 33.hxg7 Bxg7 34.Qxb4 d3 35.cxd3 Kf7 36.Qa5 Bc8 1/2-1/2

Jul-01-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Online blitz"]
[Site "lichess"]
[Date "2025.07.01"]
[White "Frederick Rhine"]
[Black "NN"]
[ECO "B06"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[Source "https://lichess.org/OzcfS7GOmGt4"]

1. d4 g6 2. e4 Bg7 3. h4 e6 4. h5 b6 5. h6 Bf8 6. Nf3 Be7 7. Nc3 Bb7 8. Bd3 Na6 9. Be3 d6 10. Qd2 f6 11. d5 exd5 12. exd5 Nb4 13. Bc4 Qd7 14. Nd4 O-O-O 15. a3 Na6 16. Ne6 Re8 17. b4 f5 18. Qd3 Nb8 19. Nb5 a6 20. Na7# 1-0

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