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FSR
Member since Aug-27-05 · Last seen Jun-22-25
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 forty-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 234 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 29833 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Jun-22-25 Kenneth Rogoff (replies)
 
FSR: <Rdb: <saffuna: he did it <United States dropped bombs on three nuclear sites in Iran on Saturday, President Trump announced, bringing the U.S. military directly into Israel’s war with Iran>> How many nobel peace prizes does trump deserve - five or more ?> At least. ...
 
   Jun-21-25 A Staehelin vs M Vidmar Jr, 1949
 
FSR: Vidmar Jr., who would be named an IM the next year, unexpectedly found himself in trouble against the hapless Staehelin. In desperation he offered a draw, and must have been relieved when Staehelin accepted. Staehelin should have played on with 26.Bxd8! gxf4 27.Bxe7 Qe8 28.Bg5 (+4.85 ...
 
   Jun-21-25 E Lundin vs A Staehelin, 1952
 
FSR: Eleven years ago, Bernie Sanders and his wife Jane played in a simul in Burlington against David Carter, described (erroneously?) as "Vermont’s lone national chess master." https://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMess...
 
   Jun-21-25 E Canal vs A Staehelin, 1952
 
FSR: Another less than sterling performance by Staehelin.
 
   Jun-21-25 C Tsai vs Browne, 2002
 
FSR: Browne had a winning advantage after 18.dxc5? (18.h3 cxd4 19.Nd5=) Qc7! He could have kept it with 22...a5! (stopping b4) rather than weakening his kingside with 22...Bxb2? 23.Qxh6, although he was still better after that. 28...Ng5! would have left him with a big advantage. His ...
 
   Jun-21-25 M A Gomes vs C Tsai, 2008
 
FSR: Looks like an incomplete game.
 
   Jun-21-25 J Trapl vs E Perez Gosalbes, 1961
 
FSR: Caught in a Trapl.
 
   Jun-21-25 FSR chessforum
 
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"]
 
   Jun-20-25 M Aleman Dovo vs L Prins, 1939
 
FSR: <OCF> <An Englishman> Thank you. For those who don't get the allusion, <The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air> (1990-96) was a TV sitcom that starred the young <Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager born and raised in West Philadelphia who ...
 
   Jun-16-25 V Kahn vs O Bernstein, 1926 (replies)
 
FSR: Seems harder than I’d expect on a Monday.
 
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Feb-08-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "XXXIV Open Internacional Villa de Benasque"] [Site "Benasque ESP"]
[Date "2014.07.12"]
[EventDate "2014.07.04"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Enrique Colon Garcia"]
[Black "Renier Castellanos Rodriguez"]
[ECO "A15"]
[WhiteElo "2335"]
[BlackElo "2488"]
[Source "non-public KillerChessTraining video"]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 O-O 5.O-O d6 6.Nc3 e5 7.d3 h6 8.Rb1 Re8 9.b4 e4 10.Nxe4 Nxe4 11.dxe4 Rxe4 12.Bb2 Bxb2 13.Rxb2 Qf6 14.Rc2 Nc6 15.b5 Nd4 16.Nxd4 Rxd4 17.Qa1 Kg7 18.e3 Rd3 19.Qc1 Qe5 20.Re1 Qc5 21.Be4 Ra3 22.Qb2+ f6 23.Rd1 Be6 24.Rd5 1-0

Comment: http://chess-results.com/tnr139241....

You can play over the game at https://denverchess.com/games/view/....

Feb-26-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "99th US Open"]
[Site "Kailua-Kona, HI USA"]
[Date "1998.08.02"]
[EventDate "1998.08.01"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Gregg D Fritchle"]
[Black "Julian M Hodgson"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "2575"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[Source "https://old.chesstempo.com/gamedb/g..."]

1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. f4 c6 4. Nf3 d5 5. e5 Nh6 6. Be3 Na6 7. c3 Nc7 8. Na3 f6 9. Nc2 O-O 10. Be2 Bf5 11. O-O Ne6 12. Nh4 Be4 13. Bd3 f5 14. h3 Kh8 15. g4 Bxd3 16. Qxd3 fxg4 17. hxg4 Nxg4 18. Bd2 Nh6 19. Qh3 Qd7 20. Nxg6+ hxg6 21. f5 Ng5 22. Bxg5 Rxf5 23. Qh4 Kg8 24. Ne3 Rxf1+ 25. Rxf1 Nf5 26. Nxf5 gxf5 27. Bxe7 Qe6 28. Qg5 Kh7 29. Qxf5+ Qxf5 30. Rxf5 Kg6 31. Rf2 Re8 32. Bc5 b6 33. Bd6 Re6 34. Bf8 Bxf8 35. Rxf8 c5 36. Rd8 cxd4 37. cxd4 Rc6 38. Rd6+ Rxd6 39. exd6 Kf6 40. Kf2 Ke6 41. Kf3 Kxd6 42. Kf4 Ke6 43. Kg5 a5 44. a4 b5 45. b3 1-0

Mar-06-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Em-Ozero"]
[Site "Em-Ozero USSR"]
[Date "1988.??.??"]
[EventDate "1988.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Serov"]
[Black "Gorbunov"]
[Source "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F34..."] [ECO "C00"]

1.e4 e6 2.f4 Qh4+ 3.g3 Qf6 4.e5 Qf5 5.Bd3 1-0

Mar-09-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Online blitz"]
[Site "play.chessbase.com"]
[Date "2021.03.09"]
[EventDate "2021.03.09"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "NN"]
[Black "Frederick Rhine"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.e3 Nc6 3.f3 e5 4.d5 Ne7 5.c4 Ng6 6.e4 Bc5 7.Bg5 Nxe4 8.Bxd8 Bf2+ 9.Ke2 Nf4# 0-1

A weird cousin of Légal's Mate. See also NN vs F Rhine, 2019. You can play over the game at https://denverchess.com/games/view/....

Mar-12-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Online blitz"]
[Site "play.chessbase.com"]
[Date "2021.03.12"]
[EventDate "2021.03.12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Frederick Rhine"]
[Black "NN"]
[ECO "D06"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nf6 3.cxd5 Nxd5 4.Nf3 e6 5.e4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Bb4 7.Bd3 Bxc3+ 8.bxc3 O-O 9.e5 Nd5 10.Bxh7+ Kxh7 11.Ng5+ Kg8 12.Qh5 Re8 13.Qxf7+ Kh8 14.Qh5+ Kg8 15.Qh7+ Kf8 16.Ba3+ Ne7 17.Qh8# 1-0

You can play over the game at https://denverchess.com/games/view/....

Mar-12-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Online 10-minute game"]
[Site "chess.com"]
[Date "2021.01.23"]
[EventDate "2021.01.23"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Tran Nguyen Duy Tung"]
[Black "NN"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "1766"]
[BlackElo "1765"]
[Source "https://www.chess.com/live/game/632..."]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Ke6 6.Qh5 Nxc2+ 7.Kf1 Nxa1 8.Qf5+ Ke7 9.Qf7+ Kd6 10.Nc4+ Kc5 11.Qd5+ Kb4 12.a3+ Kb3 13.Qb5+ Kc2 14.Nc3 c6 15.Ne3+ Kxc1 16.Ke2# 1-0

You can play over the game at https://denverchess.com/games/view/....

Mar-19-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: My greatest correspondence game: K Thompson vs F Rhine, 1992 (published with my annotations in Chess Informant 57; cited in ECO)

My greatest OTB game: F Rhine vs D Sprenkle, 1981 (published with my annotations in Chess Informant 32; voted one of the 10 most theoretically important games in Informant 32; cited in ECO, MCO, and The Aggressive Nimzowitsch Sicilian 2...Nf6 by Eric Schiller ; republished in 1000 TN!! The Best Theoretical Novelties (Chess Informant, 2012); occupies a full chapter in all three editions of Beating the Sicilian by John Nunn)

My greatest blitz game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl8...

My greatest simul game: A Grigoryan vs F Rhine, 2020 (admittedly it helped that he hung a rook . . .)

My greatest ending: F Rhine vs Alex Zhao, 2019 after 50...Kc4


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(cited in Endgame Tactics: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala)

My greatest swindle: F Rhine vs S Nagle, 1997 after 27...Ra2??


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My greatest composition:


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White to play and draw. Benko's Baffler's, Chess Life, May 2006. (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)

My greatest pun: N Littlewood vs B Brinck-Claussen, 1963 ("Late December Back in '63: What a Lady, What a Knight!"). Winner of 2019 Caissar for Best (Worst) Pun.

My greatest game collection: Game Collection: Drawing lines

Mar-21-21  thegoodanarchist: I am here to ask you a question about Rubinstein, since you are the only regular on this website who seems to be a fan of him.

On the home page there is a section called "Example Searches" and one of them is "Rubinstein's Records". I clicked on it, and it took me to a collection of 4 games. I chose to click on the one against Spielmann:

Spielmann vs Rubinstein, 1920

But there is nothing in the annotations nor comments that explains what the record is, for this game. Do you happen to know?

Mar-21-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: <thegoodanarchist> Sorry, I don't know. Rubinstein obviously was a great player, but I wouldn't describe myself as a fan. Lasker is another story.
Mar-23-21  thegoodanarchist: OK, thanks all the same.
Mar-27-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "North American Open"]
[Site "Las Vegas, NV USA"]
[Date "2007.12.28"]
[EventDate "2007.12.26]
[Round "5"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Todd Andrews"]
[Black "Hikaru Nakamura"]
[ECO "B03"]
[WhiteElo "2399"]
[BlackElo "2729"]
[Source "http://www.chess7.com/game/todd-and..."]

1.e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. exd6 cxd6 5. c4 Nb6 6. Nc3 g6 7. Be3 Bg7 8. Rc1 O-O 9. b3 Bf5 10. Nf3 Bg4 11. Be2 e6 12. O-O d5 13. c5 Nc8 14. b4 Bxf3 15. Bxf3 a6 16. a4 Nc6 17. b5 Na5 18. Re1 h6 19. Bf4 Ne7 20. Be5 Bxe5 21. Rxe5 Nf5 22. Be2 axb5 23. axb5 Qf6 24. f4 Nxd4 25. Qxd4 Nb3 26. Qe3 d4 27. Ne4 Qxe5 28. Qf3 Qf5 29. g4 Qxe4 30. Qxe4 Nxc1 31. Bc4 d3 32. Qe3 Rfd8 33. Qd2 Ra4 34. Bxd3 Nxd3 35. c6 Ra1+ 0-1

Comment: When I submitted this game to denverchess.com, for some reason it displays with "2... 00 2... 00" at the beginning of the game. https://denverchess.com/games/view/... I don't know why it does this.

Apr-01-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Hardest problem ever!!! White to play and mate.


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Apr-01-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: CG.C missed the boat on April 1. This would have been a good Puzzle of the Day.
Apr-01-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Diademas: <FSR>
I've put Stockfish™ on it. We'll have the answer in the morning.
Apr-02-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Check It Out: It would be easy except that darn rook is in the way!
Apr-03-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Winston-Salem Ladder"]
[Site "Winston-Salem, NC USA"]
[Date "1971.11.10"]
[EventDate "1971.??.??"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Claude Bloodgood"]
[Black "Cetenski"]
[Source "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claud..."]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qb6 8.Qd2 Qxb2 9.Rb1 Qa3 10.f5 Nc6 11.fxe6 fxe6 12.Nxc6 bxc6 13.e5 dxe5 14.Bxf6 gxf6 15.Ne4 f5 16.Be2 Be7 17.Bh5+ Kf8 18.Qh6+ Kg8 19.Rb3 1–0

Apr-03-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Correspondence game"]
[Site "correspondence"]
[Date "1997.??.??"]
[EventDate "1997.??.??"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Claude Bloodgood"]
[Black "Barnsley, Anthony R"]
[WhiteElo "2250"]
[BlackElo "2475"]
[Source "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claud..."]

1.Nf3 d5 2.b3 c5 3.e4 dxe4 4.Ne5 Nd7 5.Bb5 a6 6.Bxd7+ Bxd7 7.Bb2 Bf5 8.O-O e6 9.f3 exf3 10.Qxf3 Qc7 11.Na3 f6 12.g4 Bg6 13.Rae1 O-O-O 14.Nec4 h5 15.g5 Bf5 16.gxf6 gxf6 17.Bc3 Qg7+ 18.Kh1 Rh6 19.Ba5 Rd4 20.Nb6+ Kb8 21.Nac4 Qc7 22.Nd5 Qc6 23.Bc7+ Ka7 24.Bb6+ 1/2–1/2

Apr-04-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Diademas: Your puzzle was way too hard. Couldn't get that pesky rook out of the way.
Here is a twist.


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Black to move. Can he salvage a draw?

Apr-08-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Little-known fact: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ is called the BOGO-Indian Defense because Black "buys" one Indian defense but if White plays 4.Nc3 he gets a second one (the Nimzo-Indian) free.
Apr-08-21
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  FSR: I have a Morphy number of 4. I drew Leonard Barden in an online 15-minute game. L Barden vs F Rhine, 2010. Barden drew Mieses at the Hastings Premier Reserves 1948-49. Mieses drew Bird in the last round at Hastings 1895. Bird vs J Mieses, 1895. Bird lost five games to Morphy in 1858 and 1859. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... Indeed, as I documented in Wikipedia, Barden has a Morphy number of three by six different routes, more than any other living player. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona...
Apr-08-21
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  Diademas: <FSR: I have a Morphy number of 4.>

How low do you get if; You beat a player, who beat a player, who beat a player, who ... , who beat Morphy?

Apr-08-21
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  FSR: <Diademas> If the chain consists solely of victories, it is a Morphy victory number rather than an ordinary Morphy number. Someone who beat Morphy has a MVN of 1. Someone who beat that person has a MVN of 2. Someone who beat that person has a MVN of 3. Et cetera.
Apr-08-21
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  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Online blitz"]
[Site "play.chessbase.com"]
[Date "2021.04.08"]
[EventDate "2021.04.08"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "NN"]
[Black "Frederick Rhine"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.Nge2 e6 6.d3 Nge7 7.Be3 Nd4 8.O-O d6 9.f4 O-O 10.h3 Bd7 11.g4 f5 12.exf5 gxf5 13.Rb1 Bc6 14.Ng3 Qd7 15.Nce2 Bxg2 16.Kxg2 Nd5 17.Bxd4 cxd4 18.Rf3 Ne3+ 19.Rxe3 dxe3 20.c3 Qc6+ 21.Kg1 fxg4 22.hxg4 Qf3 23.g5 Rxf4 24.Nxf4 Qxg3+ 25.Ng2 Rf8 26.Qh5 Qf2+ 27.Kh1 Be5 28.Qg4 Qf1+ 0-1

You can play over the game at https://denverchess.com/games/view/...

Apr-17-21
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  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Budapest"]
[Site "Budapest HUN"]
[Date "1976.??.??"]
[EventDate "1976.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "NN"]
[Black "Zsuzsa Polgar"]
[ECO "C20"]
[PlyCount "18"]
[Source "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huj..."]

1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Nc6 3.Bc4 g6 4.Qf3 Nf6 5.Qb3 Nd4 6.Qd3 d5 7.exd5 Bf5 8.Qg3 Nxc2+ 9.Kf1 Bd6 0-1

Apr-21-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Dan MacAdam Memorial"]
[Site "Victoria, BC CAN"]
[Date "2005.01.22"]
[EventDate "2005.01.2?"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Paul Leblanc"]
[Black "Dan Scoones"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "2032"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[Source "https://www.365chess.com/game.php?g..."]

1.d4 Nf6 2.g3 c5 3.dxc5 e6 4.b4 a5 5.c3 axb4 6.cxb4 b6 7.Bg2 Ra7 8.Bf4 Bb7 9.Bxb7 Rxb7 10.Bd6 bxc5 11.Bxf8 Rxf8 12.bxc5 Qa5+ 13.Nd2 Rb2 14.Rb1 Qxd2+ 0-1

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