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Feb-01-08
 | | IMlday: Thanks guys. Mother Nature seems to have conjured up a giant storm to interfere with my going to the Guelph tournament. Just snow might be okay, but freezing rain is on the menu too, so hibernation instead. |
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| Feb-01-08 | | mack: <Imlday> Could be a blessing in disguise. Don't forget that it was being snowed in on his farm that forced Dylan to write the songs for Time Out of Mind. Maybe you'll bust the Petroff whilst you're stuck. Happy birthday! |
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| Feb-01-08 | | pferd: One evening in the summer of (approx.) 1967 at the RA centre in Ottawa looking for a game of duplicate bridge, I wandered into the Ottawa Chess Club. They were presenting the trophy for club champion, and to my surprise up to the front walked a slender youth about 17 years old. Guess who! Lawrence: Thanks for your many years of contribution to Canadian chess. |
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| Feb-01-08 | | Iamsuperman: Happy birthday L. Day! |
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| Feb-01-08 | | Riverbeast: Happy Birthday IM Day (nice game against Prins by the way) |
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| Feb-01-08 | | Shams: IM Day, happy five-nine.
How does it feel to have that <(1949 - ?)> next to your name in the POTD section of the home page? I would think it might creep me out a bit. <Shams (1975 - ?)>
alright, I'll die someday. I get it. |
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| Feb-01-08 | | refutor: <freezing rain> i think we're still gonna go...we're going to stay up there saturday and night and it's supposed to be sunshiny by sunday so cross your fingers |
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| Feb-01-08 | | jovack: Santa Claus plays chess! |
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| Feb-01-08 | | Shams: <Santa Claus plays chess!> the longer the beard, the better the endgame player. |
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| Feb-01-08 | | brankat: Happy Birthday Mr.Day! |
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| Feb-01-08 | | Resignation Trap: Have a Happy BirthDay! |
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Feb-01-08
 | | moronovich: Happy Birthday ! And the wish of many more to come. |
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Feb-01-08
 | | ray keene: our birthdays are very close-i have just turned 60-we shd think of something imaginative for your 60th next year-maybe release 60 rats from a lab onto a giant chessboard to celebrate 1---g6-or maybe a rat themed event in your honour? |
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| Feb-01-08 | | THE pawn: So Gandalf does play chess... |
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| Feb-02-08 | | Gameoverziggy: Belated Happy Birthday Lawrence |
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| Feb-02-08 | | NMAlvahMayo: Hi Lawrence,
Greetings from Nova Scotia!In honour of your birthday, check out this idea in the Modern:1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.c4 c5 4.Be3 Qb6 5.Nc3 cxd4 6.Nd5 dxe3 7.Nxb6 exf2+ 8.Kxf2 axb6... This was actually played 7 years ago or so as I played black against a former Nova Scotian champ via Estonia. I didn't prepare the line as I did not consider 4.Be3 as a move in this position. As such, I played Qb6 in the spirit of punishing Be3. After 5.Nc3 in the game, Qxb2 seems to run into Nb5 where white can force a draw so I rejected it. I played cxd4 as the move which would seem to be the logical followup to c5 and Qb6 again punishing Be3.
The next few moves all stem from that vein of punishing Be3 which seems to be a flaw to me. IF the premise of Be3 being a flaw is valid, then the remaining play from a logical standpoint should be correct. Black's pieces all get nice squares, white has an idiot light B, his Q is stuck guarding the b2 pawn and pawn levers are in short supply.
Those were first reactions during the game and I ended up spending hours analyzing the variation after the fact more or less confirming my original observations. |
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Feb-02-08
| | ray keene: very similar in concept to agdestein v keene gausdal 1983 |
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Feb-02-08
| | IMlday: Looks like the ♕ can't do much damage since Black is so strong on the dark squares. Agdestein's Qc2 isn't cohesive since it protects the safe light squares instead of Miles' Qd2 covering dark squares. Safety first, as an axiom, sometimes turns wins to draws but it's not clear White is actually winning since no plan is apparent. Another way to handle 4.Be3!? would be 4..cxd4 5.Bxd4 f6 intending ..Nh6 as in some more normal Maroczy variations. For ♕ sacs with positional compensation there's a Bronstein variation against the Saemisch that is fun to play but probably Fritz wouldn't recommend it.
For my first day at 59 I looked through
Najdorf (b. 1910) games from 1969. Here's one with interesting strategy: Bobotsov vs Najdorf, 1969 but I probably would have declined the draw. Another beautiful 'no tactics' display: Najdorf vs Unzicker, 1969 |
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| Feb-02-08 | | NMAlvahMayo: After some digging, here's the gamescore from that stem Modern variation: [Event "Canada Day Open"]
[Site "Dalhousie University/Halifax"]
[Date "1999.07.01"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Harold Uuetoa"]
[Black "Alvah Mayo"]
1. c4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. e4 c5 4. Be3 Qb6 5. Nc3 cxd4 6. Nd5 dxe3 7. Nxb6 exf2+ 8. Kxf2 axb6 9. Qd2 Nc6 10. Nf3 Nf6 11. Bd3 Ng4+ 12. Ke2 O-O 13. h3 Nge5 14. Nxe5 Nd4+ 15. Kf2 Bxe5 16. Rhf1 d6 17. Kg1 Be6 18. Qb4 Nc6 19. Qb5 Ra5 20. Qb3 Rfa8 21. a3 b5 22. Qc2 bxc4 23. Be2 Bd4+ 24. Kh1 Ne5 25. Rad1 Bc5 26. Rfe1 b5 27. Qc3 Ra4 28. Rf1 b4 29. axb4 Rxb4 30. Ra1 Rab8 31. Ra2 Rb3 32. Qd2 Re3 33. Qc2 c3 34. bxc3 Bxa2 35. Qxa2 Rxc3 36. Bg4 Re3 37. Be6 Rf8 38. Bd5 Kg7 39. Qa6 e6 40. Bxe6 fxe6 41. Rxf8 Kxf8 42. Qc8+ Ke7 43. Qb7+ Nd7 44. Qa8 Re1+ 45. Kh2 Bg1+ 46. Kh1 Bd4+ 47. Kh2 Be5+ 48. g3 Re3 |
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| Feb-03-08 | | cunaki: Is Lawrence Day Newton in disguise? To me he looks more like a recently defunct visitor to Iceland. STL
If I were a chessplayer and had to choose an ikon I'd go with Philidor as he is the only great chessplayer who also was a great composer or a great anything else. Erkel doesnt count as he is unknown in the West and he was only a competent chessplayer not a great one. So chess seems to take such effort that excellence in any other field was impossible except for Philidor. Until Kasparov becomes president which is improbable.
No word if Ruy Lopez was a great theologian or perhaps a saint. So he retains the only opening which is still vibrant after four centuries. Newton probably played chess but how well is unknown. |
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| Feb-03-08 | | Red October: <I'd go with Philidor as he is the only great chessplayer who also was a great composer or a great anything else.> well, Smyslov was a very accomplished singer and just missed out on joining the Bolshoi Theater I believe. Simon Agdestein was a footballer I have read... and maybe Kasparov would be a politician ? :) |
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| Feb-03-08 | | Karpova: <cunaki: STL If I were a chessplayer and had to choose an ikon I'd go with Philidor as he is the only great chessplayer who also was a great composer or a great anything else.> Dr. Emanuel Lasker was a mathematician and philosopher also. Einstein thought highly of him. Howard Staunton wrote a lot on Shakespeare.
Mark Taimanov is a great pianist.
just to name a few... |
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| Feb-03-08 | | brankat: Off the top of my head:
-- Dr.Lasker had 2 doctorate degrees: Mathematics and Philosophy. A number of other interests, too. -- Dr,M.Vidmar in electrical engineering. Was a University professor and a dean of Ljubljana University. A multiple director and CEO. -- Dr.S.Tarrasch, a MD.
-- Dr.O.Bernstein, Dr.S.Tartakower, Dr.A.Alekhine, Dr.K.Treybal, all had doctorates in Law, and extensive interests and knowledge in other areas. -- Dr.Max Euwe, a University professor of mathematics. All of the above were also talented and prolific authors. The list of highly cultured, educated, multi-talented, intellectual Chess Masters continues: -- Prof.Dr.M.Botvinnik, Dr.Fine, V.Smyslov, S.Reshevsky, S.Gligoric, Dr.P.Trifunovic, O.Panno, Dr.M.Filip, Dr.A.Fuderer, M.Tal, Dr.R.Huebner, etc, etc. Unfortunately, this is all in the past. In last 2-3 decades all of this has changed. The demands of a present day professional player leave little, if any, room for anything else, but Chess. Until, by the age of 40, or so, they are mostly washed out "former" players, with no skills, knowledge or interests. The intellectual giants chess masters of the days bygone, we shall see no more. |
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Feb-03-08
 | | Open Defence: Botvinnik was an engineer, also let us not forget that the Old Masters wrote wonderful books and illuminated the mere chess moves with their wit and literary skills |
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| Feb-03-08 | | brankat: <Open Defence> Botvinnik followed the example of M.Vidmar. Got a degree in electrical engineering, then a Doctorate degree, followed by a Professor's tenure at the Institute for Technical Sciences of the University of Moscow. Also, M.Botvinnik was one of the pioneers of chess-related computer programming. |
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