Cambridge University vs Bethlem Royal Hospital (1883) One Flew Over the Kingside Nest

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Cambridge University vs Bethlem Royal Hospital
"One Flew Over the Kingside Nest" (game of the day Jun-04-2012)
Correspondence game (1883) (correspondence), Dec-??
Sicilian Defense: Paulsen. Normal Variation (B45) · 0-1

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Jun-04-12		Phony Benoni: <Bethlehem Royal Hospital> (the submitter, who knows who he is, committed a typo) was the formal name for Bedlam Asylum. For many years this game was thought to be spurious, but Edward Winter has an article demonstrating its authenticity: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

Jun-04-12		OhioChessFan: Winter waits until the end to say: <Chernev may indeed smile; his only slip seems to have been the ‘1885’.> I had noticed that problem immediately and was going to post about it.

Jun-04-12		SimonWebbsTiger: And there I was thinking the Light Blues were having a dig at Oxford.

Jun-04-12		rilkefan: I'm guessing the Bedlam team had the advantage of being sober.

Jun-04-12		HeMateMe: white played horribly, getting his (their) Queen trapped like that. Chess 101. Lovely pun, though.

Jun-04-12		jahhaj: Queen trapped? Did White not notice Qe8+?

Jun-04-12		crafty: 26. ♕e8+ ♖g8 27. ♕d7 ♕d4+ 28. ♖f2 ♘c8 (eval -2.33; depth 19 ply; 1000M nodes)

Jun-04-12		SimonWebbsTiger: Is this the first instance of cheating in chess? How on earth could Bedlam play any moves since they were in straightjackets and the only opening theory they knew was hahahahahahaha, mother to down ship

Jun-04-12		Infohunter: <Chernev may indeed smile; his only slip seems to have been the ‘1885’.> No wonder I couldn't find this game when I looked for it here at <cg>--just a couple of days ago, as chance would have it.

Jun-04-12		offramp: How did the Bedlam players consult with each other? After all, rolling around in a strait-jacket on a kapok floor wearing a tin-foil hat and screaming "What's the next move, Kenneth" into a red plastic mobile phone that squeaks when you bite it is hardly conducive to good chess.

Jun-04-12		sorokahdeen: Boy, these pre-dissemination-of-Steinitz's-theories games are a hoot! A sicilian with an early ...d5 at the cost of doubled, isolated f-pawns in the king's position. An opponent who, given a knight that can never be shifted from d4 after 18. c3 followed by Ra-e1, f4, Re3, Rfe1, Rh3... Instead, it was like looking at a firesale on one-move-threats.

Jun-04-12		OhioChessFan: <offramp: How did the Bedlam players consult with each other? After all, rolling around in a strait-jacket on a kapok floor wearing a tin-foil hat and screaming "What's the next move, Kenneth" into a red plastic mobile phone that squeaks when you bite it is hardly conducive to good chess.> I heard that's how Black chose their first move in this game: Chessgames Challenge: Team White vs Team Black, 2006

Jun-04-12		IMRKs: The pun is EPIC

Jun-04-12		Bishoprick: Don't understand why White resigned. Bxg4 White gets two rooks for the queen. That's not a bad deal. Of course, I may be missing something. . . But if he's going to resign because of an exchange down, he could have resigned earlier. The queen "trap" had nothing to do with it.

Jun-04-12		Call Me TC: Epic but inaccurate, therefore pointless and stupid.

Jun-04-12		IMRKs: its not about the queen trap, its about white getting trapped while (the common traditional) thinking he crushed the king side castle when in fact blacks king is way more safer and after Qe8+ Rg8 black is the exchange up and simply better.

Jun-04-12		Badmojo: To Bedlam and Part Way Back. Anne Sexton's hospital.

Jun-04-12		Call Me TC: Bethlem Royal Hospital aka <The Friends of Paul Morphy>

Jun-04-12		solskytz: Chess players: intellectuals or madmen? Ladies and gentlemen, the answer is right in front of you!

Jun-04-12		Call Me TC: European chess masters seem relatively sane. It's the Americans (Morphy, Steinitz, Pillsbury, Raymond Weinstein, Fischer) that one has to worry about. <Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.>

Jun-04-12		Bishoprick: Call Me TC, why include Steinitz and Pillsbury in that list? As far as I know, neither of those two was nuts.

Jun-04-12		maxi: The nice part is that it's possible to get really good games in the nuthouse.

Jun-04-12		HeMateMe: I just hope they weren't serving liver during the pre-game buffet.

Jun-04-12		Benzol: Chianti and flava beans anyone?

Jun-04-12		Chessmensch: Very worthwhile stuff re Bethlem Royal Hospital on Google including a Wikipedia article, sites with photos and case histories, etc.

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