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FSR
Member since Aug-27-05 · Last seen May-23-25
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 currently the third highest-rated player on the USCF's list of the top correspondence chess players in the country. 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 twenty-three 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 232 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. My pun "A Fine Attack" for I A Horowitz vs Fine, 1934 holds the record for the longest known time elapsed between pun submission and use as GOTD: 12 years, 4 months, and 18 days.

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 29577 times to chessgames   [more...]
   May-23-25 FSR chessforum
 
FSR: Submitted: [Event "WSTT/RD/F14"] [Site "ICCF"] [EventType "correspondence thematic tournament"] [Date "2025.05.01"] [Round "-"] [White "Hagnere, Jean-Michel"] [Black "Rhine, Frederick"] [ECO "C43"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2254"] [BlackElo "2341"] ...
 
   May-23-25 Kenneth Rogoff (replies)
 
FSR: <OCF> State courts routinely rule on issues arising under the United States Constitution or federal statutes. <In contrast to the federal system, the states operate courts of general jurisdiction, which are not subject to the constitutional jurisdictional limits placed on ...
 
   May-21-25 K Krstev vs M Longer, 1960 (replies)
 
FSR: <perfidious> I had to look that up. <Another form of side bet you can make in tournaments is the last longer bet. This is where one or more players make a private wager about who among them will last longest in the tournament. The final survivor then wins the money. So if Bill,
 
   May-21-25 G Marencev vs B Ilievski, 1971
 
FSR: Magnum Borce.
 
   May-21-25 Carl Walcker
 
FSR: This guy has just two games in the database, but they're a nice pair: a win against Bogolyubov, albeit in an offhand game, and a striking win in a Gruenfeld, where he anticipated Fischer's "Game of the Century" against Donald Byrne by playing a Gruenfeld where he responded to his ...
 
   May-21-25 Karlsbad (1923)
 
FSR: Reti had an odd result. His three losses were to Wolf, who finished 14th, and Spielmann and Chajes, who tied for last. Had he gotten an even score in those games, and everything else been the same, he would have won the tournament outright.
 
   May-19-25 Alekhine vs Maroczy, 1923
 
FSR: Looking at this game in a vacuum you might think, "This Maroczy is an idiot!" But this was his only loss in the tournament! Teichmann lost two, and everyone else lost at least three - including Alekhine and Bogolyjubov, with whom he tied for first! Karlsbad (1923) .
 
   May-18-25 Smyslov vs Fischer, 1970 (replies)
 
FSR: I had not seen this game before. I am currently playing this line as Black in an ICCF game, but my opponent deviated with 11.Qb4 Nc6 12.Qa4?! I have a big advantage, but it's almost impossible to win a correspondence game against an opponent who's using an engine (this is legal in ...
 
   May-17-25 R Wydornik vs F Rhine, 2024
 
FSR: <perfidious> Yes, my near-namesake was very dogmatic. He would be appalled by some of the things one sees nowadays. E.g., Kramnik vs Carlsen, 2024 .
 
   May-17-25 M Yilmazyerli vs S Nitin, 2023
 
FSR: 19...Ne5! 20.Rd4 a5 21.f4 Ng4 is the most reliable route to equality. Note that if White tries to cash in by winning the e-pawn he is actually worse after 22.Rxe7 Rfe8 23.Rde4 Rxe7 24.Rxe7 Nxh2 or 22.h3 Nf6 23.Rxe7 (23.Ba4! Ra7=) Rfe8 24.Rxe8 Rxe8, e.g. 25.a3 bxa3 26.bxa3 Ne4!, when ...
 
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Aug-18-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "WS/M/902"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2023.05.23"]
[White "Tropf, Peter"]
[Black "Campani, Paolo"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "2367"]
[BlackElo "2176"]
[PlyCount "43"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. dxe5 Nf5 8. Qxd8+ Kxd8 9. Nc3 Bd7 10. h3 Ke8 11. Bf4 Bc5 12. Ne4 Bb6 13. Rfe1 Be6 14. Rad1 h6 15. g4 Ne7 16. Kh2 Rd8 17. Bd2 c5 18. Nh4 Nc6 19. b3 Nd4 20. c3 Nc2 21. Re2 c4 22. Nf5 1-0

This is the only decisive game thus far in the tournament. I'm not sure if Black resigned or lost on time. He is not obviously lost, and surely would not resign in an OTB game. Stockfish 16 shows that Black's only decent moves are 22...Rg8 and 22...Rh7. In each case, at depth 30/59 (i.e. analyzing everything 30 ply deep and key lines 59 ply deep) it shows White with an advantage of +0.84 or +0.85 - large but not clearly decisive.

Aug-20-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Molodezhka-POL online"]
[Site "Lichess.org INT"]
[Date "2020.05.11"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Tomczak, Jacek"]
[Black "Antipov, Mikhail Al"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C57"]
[WhiteElo "2605"]
[BlackElo "2584"]
[PlyCount "28"]
[EventDate "2020.05.11"]
[EventType "schev (blitz)"]
[EventRounds "7"]
[EventCountry "RUS"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 196 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2020.07.31"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2020.07.31"]
[SourceQuality "1"]
[WhiteTeam "Alinas Friends"]
[BlackTeam "Molodezhka super team"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "POL"]
[BlackTeamCountry "RUS"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 Bc5 5. Bxf7+ Ke7 6. Bd5 Qe8 7. Bf7 Qf8 8. Bb3 Bxf2+ 9. Kf1 d5 10. Qf3 Bh4 11. Bxd5 Nxd5 12. exd5 Nd4 13. Qxf8+ Rxf8+ 14. Nf3 Rxf3+ 0-1

Aug-21-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: [Event "WSTT/RD/57"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2023.07.30"]
[EventDate "2023.07.30"]
[EventType "correspondence thematic tournament"] [Round "-"]
[White "Renard, Stephane"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C42"]
[WhiteElo "2405"]
[BlackElo "2280"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1407470"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.h3 d5 4.exd5 e4 5.Ne5 Qxd5 6.d4 exd3 7.Nxd3 Nc6 8.Nc3 Qa5 9.Be2 Ne4 10.O-O Nxc3 11.bxc3 Bd6 12.Bd2 O-O 13.Re1 Qa4 14.Bf3 Bf5 15.Bd5 Rad8 16.Rb1 Na5 17.Qf3 Bg6 18.Bg5 Rde8 19.Bf4 Bxf4 20.Nxf4 Bxc2 21.Rxe8 Rxe8 22.Rb4 Qd7 23.Bxb7 Nxb7 24.Qxb7 g5 25.Rd4 Qe7 26.Nd5 Qe1+ 27.Kh2 Qxf2 28.Nxc7 Re3 29.Qb8+ Kg7 30.Ne8+ Kg6 31.Rd6+ Re6 32.Rxe6+ fxe6 33.Nd6 Qf4+ 1/2-1/2

Aug-22-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "WSTT/GD/60"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2023.08.05"]
[EventDate "2023.08.05"]
[EventType "correspondence thematic tournament"] [Round "-"]
[White "Lifschutz, Abel"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "D85"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[BlackElo "2280"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1407944"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Nf3 c5 8.Rb1 O-O 9.Be2 cxd4 10.cxd4 Qa5+ 11.Bd2 Qxa2 12.O-O Bg4 13.Be3 Nc6 14.d5 Ne5 15.Rxb7 a5 16.Re1 Nxf3+ 17.Bxf3 Bxf3 18.gxf3 Qc4 19.Rxe7 a4 20.e5 a3 21.d6 a2 22.Bd4 Rfb8 23.Rc7 Qe6 24.Ba1 Bxe5 25.Rxe5 Rb1 26.Rc1 Rxa1 27.Rxe6 Rxc1 28.Qxc1 a1=Q 29.Re1 Qxc1 30.Rxc1 Kg7 31.Kg2 1/2-1/2

Aug-31-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "WS/M/908"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2023.07.21"]
[EventDate "2023.07.21"]
[EventType "correspondence tournament"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Lipsits, Sasha"]
[ECO "D10"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2280"]
[BlackElo "2283"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1406271"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.cxd5 cxd5 4.Bf4 Nc6 5.e3 Bf5 6.Qb3 Qd7 7.Nc3 e6 8.Nf3 f6 9.Be2 g5 10.Bg3 h5 11.h4 g4 12.Nd2 Bg6 13.O-O Nh6 14.Bb5 Nf5 15.Ne2 Kf7 16.Rac1 Rc8 17.e4 Nxg3 18.fxg3 Bh6 19.e5 Bf5 20.Rc5 Kg6 21.Nf4+ Bxf4 22.Rxf4 fxe5 23.dxe5 Rhd8 24.Qc3 d4 25.Qc1 d3 26.Rfc4 Qg7 27.Kh2 Qh6 28.Bxc6 Rxc6 29.Rxc6 bxc6 30.Rxc6 Qe3 31.Rd6 Rf8 32.Qc3 Rf7 33.b4 Kg7 34.a4 Bg6 35.Rxe6 Rf2 36.Qc6 Bf7 37.Re7 Qb6 38.Qc3 Kf8 39.Rd7 Be8 40.Rd6 Qe3 41.Rf6+ Rxf6 42.exf6 Kf7 43.Nc4 Qe6 44.Ne5+ Kxf6 45.Nxd3+ Kf7 46.b5 Qd6 47.Nf4 1-0

This is my first ICCF win. My prior 37 games to finish have all been drawn. Almost all ICCF games these days end in draws.

Sep-01-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: [Event "WS/M/908"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2023.07.21"]
[EventDate "2023.07.21"]
[EventType "correspondence tournament"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Pietrzak, Waldemar"]
[ECO "D06"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2280"]
[BlackElo "2126"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1406277"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d5 3.cxd5 c6 4.dxc6 Nxc6 5.Nf3 e5 6.dxe5 Qxd1+ 7.Kxd1 Ng4 8.Ke1 g6 9.Nc3 Bg7 10.e4 O-O 11.h3 Ngxe5 12.Nxe5 Nxe5 13.f4 Nd7 14.e5 Nb6 15.Be2 f6 16.exf6 Bxf6 17.Kf2 Be6 18.Re1 Rfd8 19.Bf3 Bf7 20.Kg3 Rac8 21.Ne4 Bg7 22.a4 Nc4 23.Ng5 Rc7 24.Nxf7 Kxf7 25.Rb1 Nd6 26.h4 Nf5+ 27.Kh3 h5 28.Rd1 Rxd1 29.Bxd1 Rd7 30.Bc2 Bf6 31.g3 Rc7 32.Bd3 Rd7 33.Be2 Rc7 34.Bd1 1/2-1/2

At first blush this line seems ridiculous, but Black gets a lot of play for his sacrificed pawn. The two people who address it in Chessable courses conclude that White only gets a small advantage. The engines agree.

Sep-04-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: [Event "WSTT/GD/60"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2023.08.05"]
[EventDate "2023.08.05"]
[EventType "Correspondence thematic tournament"] [Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Lifschutz, Abel"]
[ECO "D85"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2280"]
[Score "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1407931"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Nf3 c5 8.Be3 Qa5 9.Qd2 Nc6 10.Rb1 a6 11.Rc1 cxd4 12.cxd4 Qxd2+ 13.Kxd2 e6 14.Bd3 O-O 15.h4 h6 16.Rc5 Bd7 17.Rb1 b5 18.e5 Rfd8 19.Be4 Rac8 20.Rbc1 Nb4 21.a3 Rxc5 22.Rxc5 Nd5 23.Bxd5 exd5 24.Rxd5 Bf8 25.Ne1 b4 26.a4 b3 27.Nd3 b2 28.Nxb2 Bb4+ 29.Kd3 Bf5+ 30.Kc4 Be6 31.Kxb4 Bxd5 32.Nc4 Bxg2 33.Nb6 f6 34.e6 Rd6 35.d5 Bxd5 36.Kc5 Rxb6 37.Kxb6 g5 38.hxg5 hxg5 39.Kxa6 1/2-1/2

Sep-11-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "WSTT/GD/60"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2023.08.05"]
[EventDate "2023.08.05"]
[EventType "correspondence thematic tournament"] [Round "-"]
[White "Ortiz Rubio, Alfonso"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[BlackElo "2280"]
[ECO "D85"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1407949"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Nf3 c5 8.Rb1 O-O 9.Be2 cxd4 10.cxd4 Qa5+ 11.Bd2 Qxa2 12.O-O Bg4 13.Bg5 h6 14.Be3 Nc6 15.d5 Ne5 16.Rxb7 a5 17.Rxe7 a4 18.Bd4 Nxf3+ 19.Bxf3 Bxf3 20.gxf3 Bxd4 21.Qxd4 a3 22.d6 Qb2 23.Qd5 Rab8 24.Rc7 Rb5 25.Rc5 Rxc5 26.Qxc5 a2 27.Qa5 Qf6 28.Kg2 Qg5+ 29.Qxg5 hxg5 30.Ra1 Ra8 31.d7 Rd8 32.Rxa2 Rxd7 33.f4 gxf4 34.Kf3 Rd3+ 35.Kxf4 Rh3 36.f3 Rh5 37.Kg4 f5+ 38.Kf4 fxe4 39.fxe4 Kf7 40.Rf2 Ke6 41.Ra2 Rh4+ 42.Kg5 Rxe4 43.Kxg6 Rg4+ 44.Kh5 Rg7 45.h4 1/2-1/2

Sep-11-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "2023 USCF Absolute Ch, USCF/WS/23A01 (USA)"] [Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2023.03.01"]
[EventDate "2023.03.01"]
[EventType "correspondence tournament"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Sogin, David"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]
[BlackElo "2321"]
[ECO "E71"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1384045"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.h3 O-O 6.Be3 e5 7.d5 Na6 8.g4 Nc5 9.f3 a5 10.Qd2 c6 11.Nge2 a4 12.h4 Bxg4 13.fxg4 Ncxe4 14.Nxe4 Nxe4 15.Qb4 a3 16.bxa3 Qc8 17.Bh3 cxd5 18.cxd5 Nc5 19.Rd1 Ra4 20.Qb5 Rxa3 21.g5 Qa8 22.Bxc5 Ra5 23.Qd3 e4 24.Qxe4 Rxc5 25.O-O Qxa2 26.h5 Rc4 27.Qe7 Qb3 28.Kg2 gxh5 29.Bf5 Be5 30.Rd3 Rg4+ 31.Bxg4 Qxd3 32.Bxh5 Qxd5+ 33.Rf3 Qa2 34.Kg1 Qd5 35.Rf2 b5 36.g6 hxg6 37.Bxg6 Qd1+ 38.Rf1 Qd5 39.Rf2 Qd1+ 40.Kg2 Qd5+ 41.Rf3 Kg7 42.Bh5 Rh8 43.Qg5+ Kf8 44.Kf1 Rg8 45.Qd8+ Kg7 46.Qh4 f6 47.Re3 Qd1+ 48.Kf2 Qa4 49.Re4 Qa7+ 50.Kf1 Qa1+ 51.Kf2 Qa7+ 1/2-1/2

Sep-11-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Correspondence"]
[Site "Internet"]
[Date "2023-04-06"]
[EventDate "2023-04-06"]
[EventType "correspondence tournament"]
[White "NN"]
[Black "Frederick Rhine"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2651"]
[BlackElo "2343"]
[ECO "D86"]
[Source "GameKnot"]

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. Rc1 Bb7 12. Qd2 e6 13. Rfd1 cxd4 14. cxd4 Na5 15. Bd3 Rc8 16. h4 Qxh4 17. Bg5 Qg4 18. f3 Qh5 19. Rxc8 Rxc8 20. e5 h6 21. Be7 g5 22. Bb1 Ba6 23. Qe3 Qh4 24. g3 Qh3 25. Qe4 Qf5 26. Qxf5 exf5 27. Kf2 Re8 28. Ba3 Nc4 29. Bb4 Nb2 30. Rd2 Nc4 31. Rd1 Nb2 32. Rd2 Nc4 33. Rc2 f6 34. f4 fxe5 35. fxe5 Bxe5 36. dxe5 Nxe5 37. Rd2 Ng4+ 38. Ke1 Ne5 39. Kf2 Ng4+ 1/2-1/2

Sep-25-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "WS/M/908"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2023.07.21"]
[EventDate "2023.07.21"]
[EventType "correspondence tournament"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Bourgault, Julien"]
[Black "Rhine, Frederick"]
[ECO "C24"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2231"]
[BlackElo "2280"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1406270"]

1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d3 c6 4.Nf3 d5 5.Bb3 a5 6.a4 Bb4+ 7.c3 Bd6 8.O-O O-O 9.Re1 dxe4 10.dxe4 Na6 11.Bc2 Qe7 12.Nbd2 Nc5 13.h3 Bc7 14.Nc4 h6 15.Qe2 Bd7 16.Bd2 b5 17.axb5 cxb5 18.Ne3 Be6 19.Nf5 Bxf5 20.exf5 e4 21.g3 Qd7 22.Nd4 Rfb8 23.Be3 a4 24.Rad1 Qe8 25.Bd2 Ra6 1/2-1/2

Sep-30-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Costa del Sol-12"]
[Site "Malaga"]
[Date "1972.02.12"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Browne, Walter"]
[Black "Cordovil, Joao Maria"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B29"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "1972.02.03"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "ESP"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 2022"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2021.10.06"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2021.10.06"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. Nc3 e6 5. Nxd5 exd5 6. d4 Nc6 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8. Qxd5 Qb6 9. Bc4 Bxf2+ 10. Ke2 O-O 11. Rf1 Bc5 12. Ng5 Nd4+ 13. Kd1 Ne6 14. Ne4 d6 15. exd6 Rd8 16. Qf5 Bxd6 17. Nxd6 Qxd6+ 18. Bd3 Qxh2 19. Qxf7+ Kh8 20. Bg5 Rg8 21. Bd2 Nc5 22. Qf3 Nxd3 23. cxd3 Qh4 24. Kc2 Be6 25. Bc3 Qa4+ 26. Kd2 Rad8 27. Rae1 Qa6 28. a3 Rd7 29. Rh1 Rgd8 30. Re3 Kg8 31. Qe4 Rf7 32. Qxe6 Rxd3+ 33. Kc2 Rxe3 34. Qxe3 Qg6+ 35. Kb3 Qxg2 36. Qe8+ Rf8 37. Qe6+ Kh8 38. Rd1 a5 39. Rd7 a4+ 40. Ka2 1-0

Sep-30-23  VerySeriousExpert: Dear Mr. Rhine, thank you a lot! Thank you for the above GM Antipov's miniature J Tomczak vs M Antipov, 2020 also!
I have commented it today with a pleasure!
Sep-30-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: <VerySeriousExpert> You're welcome! I am going to look at some videos on the Traxler. I've never been bold/crazy enough to play it, but I'm going to try it in some blitz games. Probably will win some nice games, and have others where I end up down a ton of material for nothing.
Oct-02-23  VerySeriousExpert: Dear Mr. Rhine, I hope that the following publication on ex-WCC Lyudmila Rudenko's C57 Traxler games (they were found by Yury Bukayev in literature and published by Rick Kennedy here) can help you with it: https://jeromegambit.blogspot.com/2... .
Oct-02-23  VerySeriousExpert: I think, here the game Zak - Rudenko is more valuable. Ex-WCC Lyudmila Rudenko played very well here and punished her opponent for his large mistake 8.Bxd5??.
Oct-07-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "WSTT/GD/60"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2023.08.05"]
[EventDate "2023.08.05"]
[EventType "correspondence thematic tournament"] [Round "-"]
[White "Rhine, Frederick"]
[Black "Ortiz Rubio, Alfonso"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2280"]
[ECO "D85"]
[Source "https://www.iccf.com/game?id=1407932"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Nf3 c5 8.Be3 Qa5 9.Qd2 O-O 10.Rc1 Nd7 11.Bd3 e5 12.d5 f5 13.Qc2 f4 14.Bd2 b5 15.c4 b4 16.O-O Qd8 17.a3 a5 18.Ra1 Rb8 19.axb4 axb4 20.Ra7 g5 21.Rfa1 g4 22.Ne1 Rb6 23.Qd1 Rg6 24.g3 Qb6 25.Bc1 Bh6 26.Bf1 Nf6 27.Nd3 Nxe4 28.Qe2 Ng5 29.Nxe5 fxg3 30.hxg3 Nf3+ 31.Nxf3 gxf3 32.Qe7 Rg7 33.Qe5 Rf5 34.Qe4 Bxc1 35.Rxg7+ Kxg7 36.Rxc1 Rf7 37.Rd1 Bf5 38.Qe3 Qd6 39.Bd3 1/2-1/2

Oct-08-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: <VerySeriousExpert> Thanks for pointing me to the Rudenko games. Zak's blunder 8.Bxd5?? was very naive, especially for a correspondence game!
Oct-08-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "ARG-ch"]
[Site "Buenos Aires"]
[Date "1949.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Czerniak, Moshe"]
[Black "Shocron, Ruben"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C47"]
[PlyCount "93"]
[EventDate "1949.09.27"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "23"]
[EventCountry "ARG"]
[SourceTitle "EXT 2016"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2015.10.08"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2015.10.08"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Nxe4 6. Nxe4 Qe7 7. Be2 Qxe4 8. Nb5 Kd8 9. O-O Bc5 10. Bd3 Qh4 11. g3 Qf6 12. Qh5 Ne5 13. Be4 h6 14. Bf4 Re8 15. Nc3 c6 16. Rad1 g5 17. Be3 Bxe3 18. fxe3 Qg7 19. Bf5 Kc7 20. Ne2 d5 21. Nd4 Be6 22. Rd2 Rad8 23. Rdf2 Kb8 24. Bxe6 fxe6 25. Rf6 Qd7 26. Rxh6 Re7 27. Rff6 Rde8 28. Rh8 c5 29. Nxe6 b6 30. Rxe8+ Rxe8 31. Nxg5 Re7 32. Nf3 Ng4 33. Rf8+ Kb7 34. Qf5 Nxe3 35. Qxd7+ Rxd7 36. c3 Nd1 37. Ne5 Re7 38. Rf7 Rxf7 39. Nxf7 Nxb2 40. h4 c4 41. Kf1 Nd3 42. Ke2 Nc5 43. h5 Ne6 44. h6 Nf8 45. g4 Kc7 46. g5 Kd7 47. Ne5+ 1-0

Comment: A historically significant game. This game and the classic Bogoljubov vs L Schmid, 1949, both played in 1949, are the first known games with the shocking TN 5...Nxe4!? It's not clear whether Schmid or Shocron got there first.

Oct-08-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Never mind. Although the exact date that Czerniak-Shocron was played isn't specified, the EventDate (i.e. the start of the tournament) is given as 9/27. Bogo-Schmid was played in May, so it was first. Perhaps Shocron saw that game in some chess magazine and was inspired to play 5...Nxe4 himself.
Oct-09-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "GER Pyramid email"]
[Site "GER email"]
[Date "2005.07.27"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Langschmidt, Dirk"]
[Black "Bergerhoff, Ralf"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C02"]
[WhiteElo "1942"]
[BlackElo "2454"]
[PlyCount "42"]
[EventDate "2005.??.??"]
[EventType "tourn (corr)"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "GER"]
[SourceTitle "Corr 2020"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2019.09.30"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2019.09.30"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. a3 Nh6 7. b4 cxd4 8. Bxh6 gxh6 9. cxd4 Bd7 10. Nc3 Nxb4 11. axb4 Bxb4 12. Qb3 Rc8 13. Rc1 Qa5 14. Kd2 O-O 15. Bd3 Rc7 16. Ng1 f6 17. f4 fxe5 18. fxe5 Ba4 19. Qb2 Qb6 20. Ke3 Qxd4+ 21. Kxd4 Bc5# 0-1

Oct-10-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Submitted:

[Event "Montevideo zt 2.5"]
[Site "Montevideo"]
[Date "2019.04.14"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Dotta, Gian Franco"]
[Black "Roselli Mailhe, Bernardo"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C00"]
[WhiteElo "1959"]
[BlackElo "2454"]
[PlyCount "34"]
[EventDate "2019.04.13"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "URU"]
[SourceTitle "CBM 189 Extra"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2019.06.03"]
[SourceVersion "1"]
[SourceVersionDate "2019.06.03"]
[SourceQuality "1"]

1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e5 c5 4. b4 d4 5. bxc5 Bxc5 6. Ba3 Qa5 7. Bxc5 Qxc5 8. c3 Nc6 9. cxd4 Nxd4 10. Qa4+ Bd7 11. Qxd4 Qc1+ 12. Ke2 Bb5+ 13. d3 Rd8 14. Nbd2 Qa3 15. Qg4 Qc3 16. Rd1 Rxd3 17. Ke1 Re3+ 0-1

Oct-10-23  Messiah: In your description http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalem... is not a valid URL anymore, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stale... works instead.
Oct-11-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: <Messiah> Thanks. Corrected.
Oct-16-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Think of how crazy the whole Christian fable is. You have an invisible man in the sky who has infinite powers. He creates one man and a bunch of animals. The man quickly gets bored with the animals and is like, "can't you create someone like me I can hang with"? So God takes one of the guy's ribs and makes a female version of him. The guy and his gal are having a great time in the Garden of Eden, but then Eve talks to a snake and eats an apple!! Horrors! God has a @#$% fit, throws them out of the Garden, and decides that all of Eve's descendants will, after death, burn in hell for eternity as punishment for Eve's "original sin." Talk about anger management issues!

Some time later, God gets pissed at all humans and decides he's going to drown almost all of them, and almost all the animals for good measure. Did I mention anger management issues? But he decides to delay his mass murder for 120 years (talk about malice aforethought!), and commissions some 500-year-old guy to build an ark to hold all the people and animals. Somehow the 500-year-old guy does it - BY FAR the greatest engineering achievement in history. And somehow Noah summons all these animals from all over the globe, just two of each, or maybe a few more from some species, from places Man didn't even know existed, including places thousands of miles away, and across oceans, and they somehow all make it onto the ark. Except maybe not the dinosaurs?

Then God floods the planet for 40 days and 40 nights, drowning everyone and everything that's not on the Ark, but somehow the Ark works great and somehow Noah feeds all those people and animals. Without refrigeration, and without the animals eating each other. How could Noah build this huge waterproof Ark? How could it hold all those animals? How could Noah store all that food, and accommodate all those animals' different diets, and feed them for 40 days? Finally God ends the flood, the animals disembark, and somehow make it back whence they came, in many cases thousands of miles away and across oceans, eating God knows what (literally) en route, and somehow they recreate all their species from just two of each kind.

Then 4000 or so years after that, God decides maybe it was kind of mean of him to consign everyone to hell just because their great-great-great [insert hundreds of "great"s] grandmother Eve talked to a snake and ate an apple. So he finds a hot virgin and knocks her up. With himself. This human version of God lives for 33 years, pisses off some people, gets crucified, dies, but rises from the dead three days later.

That somehow enables people thereafter to have the option of going to heaven instead of hell, provided that they constantly tell God how wonderful He is, and give 10% of their income to the church. And for God's sake, be sure to pick the RIGHT church! The Bible teaches us that God is jealous; He commands that "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." If you pick the wrong god or even the wrong flavor of Christianity or Islam or whatever, you're still going to hell. And remember, "God is love."

It all makes perfect sense, right?

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