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Mar-08-09
 | | Phony Benoni: Maybe this one will be a bit easier, from Mazel - Rauzer, same tournament: <18.?>
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| Mar-09-09 | | great uncle bulgaria: i keep seeing problems with 22 ng2
the knight on h4 is really the one defender that poses a problem for this combination. |
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Mar-09-09
| | Phony Benoni: Are you talking about the position after 21...Be3 22.Ng2?
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Hmm, that's interesting. My first thought was 22...Nxd1+ 23.Nxe3 Nxe3, and both queens are under attack. But what if White just plays 22.Kf1 or 22.Kh1? Oh, wait: 22....Nxd1+ 23.Kh1 Nf2+ 24.Kg1 Bxg2!!
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Now 24.Kxg2 Qh3+ 25.Kg1 Ng4+ leads to mate, as does 24.Bxg2 Ne4+ 25.Kf1 (25.Kh1 Nxg3!+) Qxg3!!. Best, kind of, is 24.Bxg4 Nxd3+ 25.Kxg2 Nxe1+ with the ugliest knight fork of 1931. Afer 22...Nxd1+ 23.Kf1 the windmill can no longer spin, but Black has 23...Qf5 24.Rxd1 g5, and White cannot escape the pin with 25.Ke1 due to 25...Bxg2 26.Bxg2 Qf2#. This is crazy stuff. We've got to get this game into the database! |
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| Mar-10-09 | | great uncle bulgaria: <<Are you talking about the position after 21...Be3 22.Ng2? >> thats my thinking. that was why my original post involved removing the knight. everything would flow smoothly if it wasnt for this pesky knight. <<Hmm, that's interesting. My first thought was 22...Nxd1+ 23.Nxe3 Nxe3, and both queens are under attack. But what if White just plays 22.Kf1 or 22.Kh1?>> but 22 ng2 seems sound for white because even after the line you give when both queens are traded off, white can then capture the bishop on h3 and is up a piece. |
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| Mar-10-09 | | great uncle bulgaria: <<Maybe this one will be a bit easier, from Mazel - Rauzer, same tournament:
<18.?> >> 18 rxb pxr 19 rxp+ kf7 20 ng5+ kg7 21 nh5+ kg8 22 rxn im havent thought the rest out too much but black is in deep poo. 22... f6 (or else 23 nf6 and 24 rxp#)
23 nxp rxn 24 rxr ne7 25 bxp nxb
and white has R+N vs R plus a kingside majority of pawns. |
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| Mar-10-09 | | great uncle bulgaria: woops that last post is a little confusing
the move 22 rxn is meant to mean the "h file" knight
ive forgotten how to write it. |
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Mar-10-09
| | Phony Benoni: <great uncle bulgaria>
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In Mazel - Rauser, White does indeed start 18.Rxe6+ fxe6 19.Rxe6+ <DIAGRAM> but Black can try 19...Rf6, protecting his knight on c6. Or, rather, seeming to protect it, as White can play 20.Rxc6 Rxc6 21.Ne5+, and the fork leaves White with two pieces and a pawn for a rook. In answer to your notation question. you would insert the rank or file the moving piece starts from after the name of the piece. For instance, in this diagram, if Black were not in check he could play ...Rae8 or ...Rfe8. If the pieces are on the same file, use the rank number instead. For instance, if White's knight on g3 was on f1, he would have the choice of N1d2 or N3d2. |
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Mar-10-09
| | Phony Benoni: And, meanwhile, back at the Lisitsin - Kasparian game: <Phony Benoni: Hmm, that's interesting. My first thought was 22...Nxd1+ 23.Nxe3 Nxe3, and both queens are under attack. But what if White just plays 22.Kf1 or 22.Kh1?> <great uncle bulgaria: but 22 ng2 seems sound for white because even after the line you give when both queens are traded off, white can then capture the bishop on h3 and is up a piece.> OK. This is very tricky to follow, but one more time, after the hypothetical line 21...Be3 22.Ng2:
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22...Nxd1+ 23.Nxe3 Nxe3 24.Bxg4 Nxc2
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And now you can see it. White's rook on e1 is attacked, and 25.Rc1 Bxg4 26.Rxc2 leaves Black a piece up. Sort of the windmill in reverse. |
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| Mar-10-09 | | great uncle bulgaria: <mazel - rauser>
good point. 19...Rf6 is a move i should be finding.
<lisitsin - kasparian> yes thats ng2 definately refuted. i overlooked where the black knight would be stationed. will you be posting these games in ? they seem quite useful. thanks for the notation help.
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Mar-11-09
| | Phony Benoni: Swindling in chess should be done in a strictly ethical manner, unless there's no other choice. Still, I am proud to report that I've stayed within the confines of the law. Well, maybe once I went a little bit beyond the bounds.
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This was from a team match around 1972 or so. I was White, and had carelessly gotten my king stalemated, leaving no choice but to push my b-pawn and allow Black to convert his a-pawn into something useful. I went ahead and played <1.b5>, hoping my opponent would somehow not take the pawn and I wouldn't have to explain my stupidity to my teammates. Unfortunately, he saw that he could play 1...axb5. Fortunately, he saw that he could play 1...axb5. "Oh, no!', he said. "If I take the pawn, you're stalemated!" "Then the game's a draw?", I said with bated breath.
"I guess so", he replied. We shook hands on the deal, then I silently stole away before <his> teammates descended on the board. |
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| Mar-12-09 | | crawfb5: This swindle from 1991 is for you. I just played ...g5, and White resigned.
click for larger viewOf course a kibitzer just <had> to tell my opponent that 1. hxg5 hxg5 2. Kg4! draws, but by then I had the free half point. :-) I think this ending made the state newsletter. Not the kind of fame I was after, but better to be Black here than White. :-) |
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Mar-13-09
| | Phony Benoni: <crawfb5> That's a good one; I would have put it in my magazine too. Reminds me of a position that Nimzowitsch (or was it Tarrasch?) used in a book to demonstrate a zugzwang maneuver winning a piece for White. It was copied by other authors for years--until a humble amateur pointed out that Black could draw the game despite being a piece down. |
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| Mar-14-09 | | crawfb5: Yeah, the editor would always publish upsets and the like, anything with a ratings difference of a couple hundred points or more, no matter how bad the blunder. It's not like he couldn't tell the difference between a real upset from being outplayed and a howler. He was a 2300 player! I will say in his defense, however, that when he blundered against me once, he did publish it... |
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Mar-14-09
| | Phony Benoni: Well, upsets are news. Man bites dog and all that. I would usually save the really embarrassing stuff for a end-of-the-year feature you can read about starting here: Phony Benoni chessforum Warning: it's a very long and sad story. |
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Mar-14-09
 | | Open Defence: so.. how DO you Pony... |
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Mar-14-09
| | Phony Benoni: <Open Defence> It's hard for me to answer that, since I don't know if you're familiar with the song <Land of a Thousand Dances>. Generational and geographical gaps, you know. Unfortunately, I seem to be nearing the stage of life where I'm the only person left who can remember why my jokes are funny. |
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Mar-14-09
| | Open Defence: aah its nice to feel young once in a way, I need to look that up :) |
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| Mar-19-09 | | DCP23: <Phony Benoni> You have a very witty profile, and I much enjoyed reading it. Thanks! Funny thing is, I'm here since '05 and you since '06, but this is the first time I wandered on your page. Better late than never! :D |
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Mar-19-09
| | Phony Benoni: <DCP 23> Thanks. Wish I could think of something wittier to say. |
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Mar-24-09
| | Phony Benoni: With the retirement of Curt Schilling, one more possible 4-decade baseball player has been lost. Here are some players whose careers began in the 1980s, and were still active in 2008: Tom Glavine 1987-2008
Tom Gordon 1988-2008
Ken Griffey Jr. 1989-2008
Randy Johnson 1988-2008
Jamie Moyer 1986-2008
Kenny Rogers 1989-2008
Rudy Seanez 1989-2008
Gary Sheffield 1988-2008
John Smoltz 1988-2008
Omar Vizquel 1989-2008
So who wil nake it to 2010? Of this group, I'd say that Griffey is the best bet. Rogers is apparently done, and I don't know if Johnson, Seanez, Sheffield or Vizquel can last. (Yes, yes, I know that 2010 is not technially a "new decade", but this is baseball we're talking about, not rocket science.) |
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| Mar-24-09 | | chessman95: <So who will make it to 2010?> I'm going to go with <Gary Sheffield> on this one. If he can find a team that doesn't hate him (good luck Gary) then he will probably play DH for a few more years. I agree with you on Rogers, he's done. <Tom Gordon 1988-2008> Is that guy STILL playing??? Man, after he left the Yankees I thought he was done for. <I'd say that Griffey is the best bet.> I'm still going with Sheffield, but he'll probably make the list too. Sigh, I wish I was a baseball player :(
...by the time I was 40, I could retire! (now that would be sweet) |
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Mar-24-09
| | Phony Benoni: <chessman95> Yeah, Sheffield could possibly make it as a DH somewhere. But remember, I'm from Detroit. I've sat through his act the last couple of years. Whether through injuries or ineffectiveness, he'll be gone from here by midseason. The one I'm really rooting for on the list is Rudy Seanez. Unlike the others, he's never been a star player, just an average guy who got the job done. |
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| Mar-24-09 | | chessman95: <Rudy Seanez>
He's played on 9 different teams!!!
http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/player_loc...
This guy's career stats aren't incredible, but he's sure been a lot of places over the years. |
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| Mar-24-09 | | chessman95: Oops, that link doesn't work. You'll have to type in "Seanez" in the active players box and hit enter to get his stats. Sorry about that... |
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Mar-24-09
| | Phony Benoni: Here are a couple of baseball statistics sites that I use frequently: http://www.baseball-reference.com/s...
http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/...
Rudy Seanez has an interesting batting record. In 17 years, he's had five official at-bats--and five strikeouts. He also managed to pick up a walk--and ended up scoring a run! Here's the game where he had his explosive batting performance: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... |
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