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Member since Aug-16-03 · Last seen Dec-31-25

Some chess books that I think are outstanding:
1. <Fundamental Chess Endgames>, by Müller & Lamprecht, reprinted 2020. 400pp+, £25.
2. <Secrets of Practical Chess>, by Dr Nunn. 256pp (the USUAL 256pp!, i.e. the usual 2^8). £20.
3. <Capablanca's Best Chess Endings>, Irving Chernev's best work. 300pp. £15.
4. <107 Great Chess Battles 1939-1945>, written by Alexander Alekhine, but edited by Edward Winter. 256pp, £15.
5 (a) <Petrosian Year by Year Volume 1 (1942-1962)>, and - Karolyi & Gyozalyan, 484pp.
(b) <Petrosian Year by Year Volume 2 (1963-1984)> - Karolyi & Gyozalyan, 516pp.
They are £34 each. I bought one, then a few months later, the other volume.
They are available in Kindle format!

6. <The Queen's Gambit Accepted: A Sharp and Sound Response to 1. d4> by Chris Ward.
Ward wrote a superb book about the QGD, many years ago. I think this is useful for a book about the QGA. A total antidote to 1. d4, 2. c4.
And now some total clinkers. NOT those well-known garbage chess books.
The following are really bad chess books.
1. <Capablanca: A Compendium of Games, Notes, Articles, Correspondence, Illustrations and Other Rare Archival Materials on the Cuban Chess Genius Jose Raul Capablanca, 1888-1942> by Edward Winter. 360pp. c. £35. The title is the best thing.
2. <Larsen: Move by Move> - Cyrus Lakdawala
Paperback, 488pp.
3. <Emanuel Lasker Volumes 1, 2 & 3 - Forster, Negele & Tischbierek>. £55 each.
This book is unbelievably boring and tedious. Just look through it, then forget about it.
AT THIS SAME TIME a totally superb book has just come out: <Emanuel Lasker All Games Volume 1 & 2: 1889-1940 (2 books)>, £55 for two books:
Volume 1 covers the time Lasker became World Champion and played matches against Steinitz (twice for the World Championship), Bird and Blackburne amongst others. He also took part several famous tournaments including Hastings 1895, St Petersburg 1895-96 and Nuremberg 1896.
Volume 2 covers the time Lasker played matches against Marshall, Tarrasch, Janowski, Schlechter and Capablanca for the World Championship. He also took part several famous tournaments including St Petersburg 1914, New York 1924, Moscow 1935 & 1936 and Nottingham 1936.
Hardbacks, 388 and 342 pages, Russian Chess House. A real bargain.
4. <Pal Benko : My Life, Games and Compositions>, £140. Who is the most famous chess player out of Benko and Fischer? Who published the most plush, most opulent book? Benko.
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Here are another 7 books:

<He received a letter from his bookseller, informing him that only seven copies had been sold, and concluding with a polite request for the balance.
Scythrop <[SKI-throp]> did not despair. <Seven copies,> he thought, <have been sold. Seven is a mystical number, and the omen is good. Let me find the seven purchasers of my seven copies, and they shall be the seven golden candlesticks with which I will illuminate the world.>.>

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   Dec-31-25 P Lalic vs R Marsden, 2025

offramp: The white king's ♘ did a huge amount of damage. An imaginative game.

   Dec-31-25 D Maycock Bates vs P Lalic, 2025

offramp: A very interesting opening variation. It ends here. [DIAGRAM] To reach this position, White has to navigate a drunken boat (Rimbaud).

   Dec-31-25 P Lalic vs J Foley, 2025

offramp: I think Mr Foley should have played 12...f5. His position was lost very early. A version of the Greek gift. GG.

   Dec-31-25 M Ciocan vs P Lalic, 2025

offramp: It's interesting that the doubled pawns on the g-file totally kibosh all kingside attacks by White. I reckon that in the final position Black is half a pawn ahead; but there is no way through.

   Dec-31-25 Caruana vs Carlsen, 2025

offramp: Carlsen played with his usual incisiveness. [DIAGRAM] 29...a4. Black makes a way into the White position. 35...Ra8 [DIAGRAM] Black has made a lot of progress. 44...Kd4 [DIAGRAM] Carlsen would consider this a win. I could learn a lot in these last 10 moves.

   Dec-31-25 P Lalic vs R Haldane, 2025

offramp: White played the Goring Gambit, one of the <safest> gambits, just behind the QGD. By move 16 White had a definite advantage ... [DIAGRAM] White had ♝ & ♗ v ♞&♘ . 16...Ne5. 29...Nf4. [DIAGRAM] White won without moving his Ra1. A good example of the Goring ...

   Dec-31-25 N Theodorou vs L Dominguez Perez, 2025

offramp: <MissScarlett: <cg>'s trademark Ten Days of Christmas limping to a conclusion. A New Year's themed pun is solicited!> One of these things doesn't look like the others. One of these is a Lord of The Rings pun, t was about two days ago.

   Dec-28-25 K Tsarouhas vs X Mastalerz, 2016

offramp: To all chess-players all over the world - no matter how strong you are - I send excellent vibes for the Christmas period, like 23th Dec to 6th Jan.

   Dec-28-25 Anatoly Karpov

offramp: User: Petrosianic thank you for that interesting list. Eugenio Torre <almost> started and ended that list.

   Dec-27-25 Jonathan Hawkins

offramp: Tragic news. Sudden.

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Apr-29-15		Penguincw: < offramp: <Penguincw>, by the way, you can call me Al! > Alright then, <Al>. You can call me <Penguin> (I prefer not to give away my first name, at least for now, but I'll give you a hint: it begins with the same letter as my username... ). < I'm surprised I'm 64th to make 10,000 posts. It's a lot, isn't it? > Yeah, I guess so. I actually keep track of the list of users that have more posts than me, but are not on the leaderboard of ChessGames.com Statistics Page (not really something I should do, but you know, I got time). Anyway, if you're curious, here's my unofficial list of users that fall from 41st - 67th: 41) <hms123> 42) <WhiteHat1963> 43) <timhortons> 44) <Colonel Mortimer> 45) <Karpova> 46) <DcGentle> 47) <Knight13> 48) <slomarko> 49) <Boomie> 50) <tpstar> 51) <Petrosianic> 52) <Suenteus po 147> 53) <PinnedPiece> 54) <ahmadov> 55) <chessgames.com> 56) <Richard Taylor> 57) <kb2ct> 58) <EmperorAtahualpa> 59) <ajile> 60) <WhiteRook48> 61) <zanshin> 62) <Benzol> 63) <virginmind> 64) <offramp> 65) <RandomVisitor> (<10000) 66) <DanLanglois> (<10000) 67) <Penguincw> (<10000) I last updated this list a week ago, and I round all totals to the nearest 100 (and any ties would be settled by ABC), so there may be some inaccuracies, but I think you get the point. I also probably shouldn't be doing/revealing this, but I don't really see much harm (you can always delete this post). I did some research to find all users ahead of me, but I probably missed some users, and if I did, that means you're not 64th. :( I also asked <cg> a while ago for the top 100 or something, but I don't think that idea is very popular beyond me and a few other users...

Apr-29-15		morfishine: <offramp> Congrats on #64 for 10,000 posts! Very fitting! We need more of your dry, sarcastic, witty humour around here! morf *****

Apr-30-15		offramp: <Penguincw: < offramp: <Penguincw>, by the way, you can call me Al! > Alright then, <Al>. You can call me <Penguin> (I prefer not to give away my first name, at least for now, but I'll give you a hint: it begins with the same letter as my username... ).> Okay, Gregory Stevens! Thanks for that very interesting list. I always enjoy your posts! It took me 10 and a half years. In the words of The Grateful Dead, <Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been.> <morfishine: <offramp> Congrats on #64 for 10,000 posts! Very fitting! We need more of your dry, sarcastic, witty humour around here! morf> Thanks, Morf!:-) I always enjoy your comments as well! You, Penguincw, me and a few others like to remind some of the blinkered fanboys at the site that there was a chess before the 21st century. Kipling wrote, <"And what should they know of England who only England know?"> ... and that applies to many things. How can you comprehend some of (say) Carlsen's games without a knowledge of the players and pioneers that preceded him?

May-01-15		offramp: Tony Miles: https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/h...

May-01-15		offramp: I've just read a good story by Phoney Benoni at Eugene B Meyer.

May-03-15		offramp: <Lambda:....A champion who does not defend the title defeats themself.> A genuine sighting of the famous "themself". Here the correct word would be "himself".

May-05-15		offramp: As I walk through this wicked Old World of western Europe I am amazed at how many towns and cities <avoided> being flattened in the two world wars. A lot of bombs fell in those 10 years from both sides but most of the beautiful places seem either unharmed or rebuilt. Even Sarajevo is back to its old beautiful self.

May-05-15		offramp: From the WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, May 24, 1994 MOSCOW -- Doctors are blaming a rare electrical imbalance in the brain for the bizarre death of a chess player whose head literally exploded in the middle of a championship game! No one else was hurt in the fatal explosion but four players and three officials at the Moscow Candidate Masters' Chess Championships were sprayed with blood and brain matter when Nikolai Titov's head suddenly blew apart. Experts say he suffered from a condition called Hyper- Cerebral Electrosis or HCE. "He was deep in concentration with his eyes focused on the board," says Titov's opponent, Vladimir Dobrynin. "All of a sudden his hands flew to his temples and he screamed in pain. Everyone looked up from their games, startled by the noise. Then, as if someone had put a bomb in his cranium, his head popped like a firecracker." Incredibly, Titiov's is not the first case in which a person's head has spontaneously exploded. Five people are known to have died of HCE in the last 25 years. The most recent death occurred just three years ago in 1991, when European psychic Barbara Nicole's skull burst. Miss Nicole's story was reported by newspapers worldwide, including WWN. "HCE is an extremely rare physical imbalance," said Dr. Anatoly Martinenko, famed neurologist and expert on the human brain who did the autopsy on the brilliant chess expert. "It is a condition in which the circuits of the brain become overloaded by the body's own electricity. The explosions happen during periods of intense mental activity when lots of current is surging through the brain. Victims are highly intelligent people with great powers of concentration. Both Miss Nicole and Mr. Titov were intense people who tended to keep those cerebral circuits overloaded. In a way it could be said they were literally too smart for their own good." Although Dr. Martinenko says there are probably many undiagnosed cases, he hastens to add that very few people will die from HCE. "Most people who have it will never know. At this point, medical science still doesn't know much about HCE. And since fatalities are so rare it will probably be years before research money becomes available." In the meantime, the doctor urges people to take it easy and not think too hard for long periods of time. "Take frequent relaxation breaks when you're doing things that take lots of mental focus," he recommends. -- Darren Paul Jones

May-07-15		offramp: Search for Antoni pitxot.

May-08-15		offramp: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/28Qsg...

May-11-15		offramp: My pun list is now at 100: Puns submitted by offramp: Bird, From, New York City Bird vs J Mason, 1876 Suba Good In Senior Suba vs J Schwertel, 2011 Bay City Rollers Fischer vs N Leopoldi, 1963 Not Cricket Anand vs Svidler, 2000 Van der Wiel's Dispersion Forces Checkmate H Ree vs Van der Wiel, 1986 The Watch on the Rhine F Rhine vs A Boerkoel, 1996 Nijboer's Piket Fencing Nijboer vs Piket, 1998 Negative from Reprintsev A Reprintsev vs S Gavritenkov, 1999 Gav is gone A Romero Holmes vs G Wall, 2012 They Saved Hitzler's Brain P Hitzler vs C Rossi, 2005 Check, Pliss Tal vs Pliss, 1950 Wurzel mangled L Christiansen vs A Wurzel, 1991 Van der Weil Forces Dispersion Van der Wiel vs A McCarthy, 1979 Steal This Game A Hoffmann vs Wojtkiewicz, 1989 Bosboom Shake Shake The Room M Bosboom vs C van Oosterom, 2005 What A Load Of Robatsch O Vodep vs Robatsch, 1961 You're Joachim, right? J Wallner vs N Stanec, 2012 P Issing down Gipslis vs P Issing, 1996 J Horner Pat in Corner C Kilpatrick vs J Horner, 2007 McCambridge Mercedes V McCambridge vs E Formanek, 1979 Bad Kissinger A Sirota vs S Kissinger, 1999 The Prospect of Whitby Browne vs K Bachmann, 1968 Apple Arpad B Kostic vs A Vajda, 1921 Saga Foresight V Saga vs A Okos, 1999 Let's Do The TransWarp Again! B Amin vs TransWarp, 2009 The Hanging of Hamann Fischer vs S Hamann, 1968 Rakvisk-A-Boo-Boo Carlsen vs Wang Hao, 2013 Pwened! Owen vs Burn, 1874 On A Ragger Tip S Williams vs M Ragger, 2013 Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad M Dougherty vs M Whissell, 2008 I'm Free! Lasker vs G T Humphreys, 1892 H O, Where You Goin' With that Gun? A Lupo vs H Onoda, 1999 The Karpov the Covenant Gelfand vs Karpov, 1994 Mmm! Yates vs H K Mattison, 1929 I Don't Believe It!! I Anagnostou vs R Byrne, 1952 As Skinny as a Stick of Macaroni D Moody vs J Wysocki, 1990 Richter's Grin Steffen vs K Richter, 1934 The Meeting of Richard & Saladin Teichmann vs Leonhardt, 1911 Dreev the Jackal Dreev vs Movsesian, 2011 The Ascent of F6 K McGeoch vs P Isherwood, 2012 Spaghetti Westerinen Hartston vs H Westerinen, 1973 Double Lutz C Lutz vs M Tratar, 1996 The Pearl of Perl D Freeman vs M Legein, 2011 Red-Nosed Reinderman D Reinderman vs A Volzhin, 1992 Suba-Diva Judit Polgar vs Suba, 1993 Ehlvest-PSzekely Ehlvest vs P Szekely, 1983 Beaten by the Scrivener R Scrivener vs N Whitaker, 1924 These Petrovs Are Making Me Thipsay P Thipsay vs Yu Shaoteng, 2001 Shaoteng Match M Vachier-Lagrave vs Yu Shaoteng, 2006 Stupak Shaker C Ponizil vs K Stupak, 2006

May-11-15		offramp: ... Foundation & Empire Carlsen vs V Gashimov, 2012 Deepan Pizzazz Deepan Chakkravarthy J vs C Praveen Kumar, 2008 What The Romans Did For Us R Levit vs Dzindzichashvili, 1967 Soy un Perdedor Capablanca vs Alekhine, 1927 Too Wise You Are, Too Wise You Be ... D Dvirnyy vs R Akesson, 2014 Lakshmi... Lakshmi not... Sahiti P Lakshmi vs J Anderson, 2012 Why Didn't They Ask Evans? Short vs W McDougall, 2014 Gordon's Alive! G R Evans vs G Gomez, 2003 Pester Lloyd Bondarevsky vs K Lloyd, 1960 Back off, Buddy! Unless you want a hurt neck! Hertneck vs Kasparov, 1994 Stanec versus ... N Stanec vs O Ertl, 2002 Hit Me With His Rhythm Stick G Khoa vs M Al-Hitmi, 2008 Pillsbury Whips Showalter Showalter vs Pillsbury, 1898 Sweet Sweetback's Baadur Song Jobava vs B Savchenko, 2014 Boo! L Mercuri vs J Young, 1991 Emms dispatch Hebden vs Emms, 2014 Southbound Suarez E Maggiolo vs D Suarez, 1994 The Leaders of Chabanon J L Chabanon vs M Vachier-Lagrave, 2003 Komodo Dragon Komodo vs Houdini, 2014 All is Kalme ... C Kalme vs D Sheppard, 1995 Subordinate Clause A Susilodinata vs Carlsen, 2002 Miklos Copes C Flear vs M Galyas, 2014 Baterdene De-hatches T Baterdene vs S Healeas, 2012 Dump of the Stig Carlsen vs S Gabrielsen, 2003 It's Not Howell, It's Hou Yifan Hou vs D Howell, 2008 Lysyj Syzygy K Szabo vs I Lysyj, 2012 It's Not Just Hou, It's Howell Yifan Hou vs D Howell, 2015 Panto Season J Hardinge vs I Panto, 1963 A Chance to Tinker with Evans E Michelakis vs N T Evans, 2013 Who Can Take A Sunrise...? C Sandipan vs Tiviakov, 2007 Back Off, Buddy, Unless You Want A .... Hertneck vs A Bandow, 2004 Heltinga Scheltinga T van Scheltinga vs Alekhine, 1939 Eat Balogh! C Balogh vs Zhang Pengxiang, 2006 Soltis-troying Dzindzichashvili vs Soltis, 1989 Hey, Denis! Khismatullin! D Khismatullin vs Eljanov, 2015 MC-Hammer Carlsen vs J L Hammer, 2009 Slaughter on Tenth Street Soltis vs J Tamargo, 1976 Astonishin'! Tolush vs Antoshin, 1956 The Slough of Deshpande G Nigalidze vs A Deshpande, 2015 Pein In The Ass Hebden vs M Pein, 1987 Grandmaster Norm Capablanca vs N Whitaker, 1909 Howell's Moving Castle D Howell vs C Beaumont, 2011 Hickl Stickl Nikl Pikl J Hickl vs Piket, 1996 Bellyupsky Carlsen vs Beliavsky, 2006 Smyth and Legend Morphy vs S Smyth, 1859 Chao's Theory D Anton Guijarro vs Li Chao, 2015 Last Round At Marienbad Yates vs Rubinstein, 1925 Suffern Suckerpunch G Grasser vs L Winokur, 2014 Quick Turover I S Turover vs Santasiere, 1944 So Like Gandhi A Gandhi vs W Fisher, 2014

May-12-15		offramp: How to quickly draw a chess diagram, by me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uv...

Jun-06-15		offramp: Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film The Man Who Knew Too Much is on right now, on BBC2. I don't know if this is a coincidence or not, but the film's final scene is set on June 6th 1955. That is exactly 60 years ago.

Jun-19-15		offramp: Kasparov a-t-il compris ? Il est pratiquement impossible d’expliquer en une seule page pourquoi le rôle de l’arbitre est devenu si important. C’est en tous cas quelque chose que Garry Kasparov n’a semble-t-il pas compris au vu de son commentaire sur « l’affaire So ». Le Roi Garry n’a-t-il pas encore réalisé que le jeu actuel n’est plus le sien ? Sinon, pourquoi aurait-il brocardé « ces règles inventées par une bande d’idiots » qui ont conduit à la défaite sur tapis vert de Wesley So contre Akobian au championnat des États-Unis, le 10 avril. Évidemment, comme toute chose, elles peuvent être améliorées, mais ces règles existent pour préserver l’intégrité du jeu et rendre la tricherie impossible ou au moins la plus difficile possible. Justement, s’obstiner à prendre l’arbitre pour un idiot peut conduire à ce type de décision sans doute discutable, comme à Saint-Louis, même si vous n’êtes pas un tricheur. Quoi qu’il en soit, c’est le prix à payer si nous voulons garder notre jeu propre.

Jun-19-15		offramp: J. Moussard– P. Barbot Début Réti (A07) Pau 2015 Chpt de France Juniors (ronde 5) Ce championnat a été émaillé de nombreuses fautes dues à la cadence « très rapide » : 1h30 + 30 secondes pour l’ensemble de la partie. Je regrette pour ma part l’accélération des cadences qui ne permet pas de finir les parties proprement, même si, en l’occurrence, j’ai pu profiter du manque de temps quand le jeu est devenu très tactique ! 1.hf3 Avant cette partie, je savais que si je gagnais, j’assurais quasiment le titre, étant donné que j’avais un demi-point de plus que mon concurrent direct. 1...hf6 2.g3 d5 3.bg2 c6 4.0–0 bg4 5.d4 hbd7 6.hbd2 e6 7.h3 On joue habituellement 7...re1 avec l’idée de pousser e4, mais je préfère jouer plus activement. 7...bh5 8.g4?! Je voulais prendre la paire de Fous, mais ayant roqué, j’expose mon Roi à l’ouverture de la colonne « h ». 8...bg6 9.hh4 Le coup logique dans la continuation du plan blanc. 9...bd6 9...be4!? 10.f3 suivi du sacrifice 10...hxg4! 11.hxg4 bxc2 12.qxc2 qxh4 me faisait peur, mais l’ordinateur trouve la compensation pour la pièce insuffisante. 10.e3 qe7 10...be4! 11.f3 hxg4 12.qe1! hxe3! semblait très fort, mais je savais que ce n’était pas le style de mon adversaire qui préfère les positions techniques : 13.hxe4 dxe4 14.bxe3 be7 15.fxe4 bxh4 et malgré mon pion de moins, la position est saine car j’ai la paire de Fous et je contrôle le centre. 11.f4 he4! Un bon coup positionnel qui va me forcer à découvrir mon Roi. 12.hxg6 hxg6 13.hxe4 L’immédiat 13.g5 permettait hg3! 13...dxe4 14.c4 14.g5 est l’option la plus solide, mais la moins ambitieuse, et après 14...0–0–0 15.bd2 f6 16.qg4 rh5! était le coup qui m’embêtait. 14...g5! 15.qb3 0–0–0 16.c5 L’intermédiaire 16.fxg5 qxg5 suivi de 17.c5 pouvait transposer au mieux pour les Blancs, mais donnait aux Noirs des options supplémentaires comme bg3. 16...bc7 17.fxg5! Je n’ai guère le choix si je ne veux pas affaiblir mon pion d4. Si 17.qa4 f5 18.qxa7 gxf4 19.exf4 fxg4 20.hxg4 qh4 et l’attaque noire est trop forte. 17...qxg5 18.rxf7 Le seul coup pour maintenir mon pion avancé en g4 et gagner par la même occasion du matériel. 18...qh4 Le sacrifice 18...hxc5!? était envisageable, et si 19.dxc5?! (19.qc4! hd7 20.bd2) 19...qe5 avec des menaces sur mon Roi. 19.qxe6?? C’est perdant. Juste après avoir joué ce coup, j’ai réalisé que l’attaque noire était irrésistible ! 19...qe1+ 20.rf1 qg3 Les Noirs ont raté le coup gagnant : 20...qe2!! A) 21.d5 rde8 22.qg6 cxd5 23.c6 bxc6 24.qxc6 rxh3! avec la menace imparable reh8 suivie du mat ; B) 21.g5 pour protéger h3 tombe sur 21...rdf8 22.bd2 (si 22.qxe4 rxf1+ 23.bxf1 qh2 mat) 22...qxd2 (ou le [...]

Jun-19-15		offramp: [...] coup plus cybernétique 22...rf3) et les Noirs gagnent ; C) 21.rf2 perd aussi : 21...bh2+ 22.kxh2 qxf2 23.g5 (si 23.qxe4 rxh3+ 24.kxh3rh8+ 25.qh7rxh7 mat) 23...rdf8 24.qxe4 rxh3+ 25.kxh3 rh8+ 26.kg4 rh4 mat. 21.rf7 rhf8?? Ratant à nouveau la ligne gagnante. Les Noirs n’avaient plus qu’à déclouer le Cavalier par 21...kb8! A) 22.bd2 qh2+ 23.kf1 he5! 24.rf2! rhf8 25.be1hf3! 26.qxe4! (si 26.bxf3 rxf3) 26...qg1+ 27.ke2 hxd4+ 28.exd4rxf2+ 29.bxf2qxa1 avec un gain technique ; B) 22.rxd7 22...qe1+ 23.bf1 bh2+! 24.kxh2 qf2+ 25.bg2 rxh3+ 26.kxh3 rh8+ 27.qh6 rxh6 mat ; ou 21...qe1+ 22.rf1 qe2!! ramenant au commentaire du coup précédent. 22.qxd7+! Les Blancs se sauvent en sacrifiant la Dame ! 22...rxd7 23.rxf8+ rd8 24.rxd8+ kxd8 25.bd2 J’ai de petites chances pratiques de remporter la partie avec une Tour, un Fou et un pion pour la Dame. Le pion isolé en e4 est faible. J’ai la paire de Fous et une majorité à l’aile-Roi et au centre. Sauf qu’avec un jeu précis, les Noirs ne peuvent pas perdre ! 25...kd7?! Il fallait jouer 25...qh2+ 26.kf1 bg3! car il est important d’empêcher le Fou blanc de venir en e1. Il est inutile de contrôler les cases noires avec la Dame et le Fou car cela fait double emploi, par contre le défenseur des cases noires chez les Blancs doit être éliminé : 27.be1 bxe1 28.rxe1 qg3 29.b4 g5 et il est difficile de progresser pour les deux camps. 26.re1 bd8 27.re2 bg5 28.kf1 ke6? 28...qh4 29.be1qh6 30.bf2 et maintenant 30...ke6 pouvait encore tenir. 29.be1 qh2 30.b4 a6 31.a4 kd7 32.bf2 ke6 33.rb2 bd8 34.b5 34…axb5 35.axb5 bc7 Il fallait essayer de résister avec 35...kd5! 36.b6 qb8 37.ra2 bf6 38.ra7 qf8! A) 39.ke1 qe7 suivi de 40.kd2! (ou 40.bf1 bxd4!? 41.exd4 e3 42.bg2+! kxd4 43.bg1 kxc5 44.ke2 kxb6 45.bxe3+ kc7 46.ra4) et les Blancs restent mieux ; B) 39.rxb7?? 39...bh4 et le piège se referme sur les Blancs. 36.b6 bb8 37.ra2 g5?? Accélérant la défaite, mais 37...kd7 perd aussi : 38.ra7 kc8 39.bh4 bg3 40.ra8+ bb8 41.bg5 kd7 42.ra7 kc8 43.ra2 bg3 44.ra8+ bb8 45.bf4! 38.ra7 Une position incroyable, où les Noirs ont « réussi à pater » leur Dame et leur Fou... 38...kd5 39.rxb7 ke6 40.rh7 kd5 41.re7 Abandon. Les Noirs n’ont plus de coup : si 41...kc4 42.rxe4 ; et si 41...bg3 42.bg1 gagne la Dame ! 1-0

Jun-19-15		offramp: Winants Luc (BEL) vs Abolianin Arthur (BEL) Ch Belgium (team) 1999/00 Queen's Pawn: Modern 1.d4 g6 2.e4 c6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nc3 d6 5.Be3 Nf6 6.Be2 Na6 7.f4 Qa5 8.Bd2 Qb6 9.e5 dxe5 10.fxe5 Ng8 11.Nf3 Bg4 12.c5 Qc7 13.Qa4 1-0 Black Resigned

Jun-19-15		offramp: Chaim Soutine, painter.

Jun-22-15		offramp: I heard a rumour that a DVD of the film The Wild Geese was in Poundland. I visited every Poundland in London but didn't find it. A bit of a - um - mad rush around for nothing.

Jun-22-15		offramp: TOMATO SAUCE FOR FISH AND STRAWBERRY FANCY Take out some large potatoes, small diced, and let it boil for an hour. Take four pounds of haddock, or four pounds eggs of equal size (like cubes of eggs) and crush in the sauce of beer and stir in a little mayonnaise. Throw in the slices of bruised thyme, pepper, salt, between some ground almonds. (Put a leaf or four tablespoonfuls of it on each one slice of flour by two, and a couple of the rounded ends of Namur.) Finally, rinse in the batter, add a pinch of Thing-in-Itself in a hot silver dish, and salt. Peel some Madeleine cakes that are well cooked, add the salpicon with a pan to fry in butter on a little Tarragon vinegar in each. Stew your mixture and serve.

Jul-05-15		offramp: In most positions I don't calculate more than 250 moves ahead. The game should be over before that.

Jul-06-15		offramp: I am delighted to have my second follower on BookFace. It is someone from chessgames. I wonder if she really loves me? Sigh.

Jul-07-15		offramp: 🝳∬ ∭ ∮ ∯ ∰ ∱ ∲ ∳ ∴ ∵ ∶ ∷

Jul-08-15		offramp: Monsieur César Boutteville nous a quittés ce jeudi 21 mai 2015, il s’est éteint à son domicile de Versailles à 97 ans. Il aurait eu 98 ans le 24 juin prochain. Cet amateur du noble jeu était pour tous les adhérents du Roi Soleil une exception. Un palmarès impressionnant et de nombreuses participations aux Olympiades. Il avait repris part à la compétition à l’âge de 90 ans. Un Homme s’en va mais son souvenir échiquéen et humain restera. Ce fut un honneur pour notre Cercle d’Echecs de l’accueillir et il a joué à 90 ans passés des parties mémorables et souvent de plus de 5 heures. Sincères condoléances à sa famille et ses amis. Il était l’un des ces noms légendaires que tous les jeunes joueurs apprennent à connaître, quand leur passion se teinte d’érudition. L’une de ses figures emblématiques dont on étudie d’abord les parties, avant de s’intéresser à l’homme. On découvre alors son palmarès prodigieux : sextuple champion de France en 1945, 1950, 1954, 1955, 1959 et enfin en 1967, à 50 ans ! Ce record, qu’il partagea si longtemps avec Maurice Raizman, son ancien coéquipier en équipe de France, ne fut battu que par Bacrot en 2012. La passion à 14 ans César Boutteville était né près d’Hanoï, en Indochine (aujourd’hui le Viet-Nam), le 24 juin 1917. Sa mère était d’origine vietnamienne et son père était Français. C’est après son retour en métropole qu’il disputa ses premiers combats officiels : « J’ai commencé vers 1931, tout à fait par hasard. À l’époque, nous habitions à Boulogne-sur-Mer, où nous nous étions installés après avoir quitté l’Indochine où je suis né. Un jour, un monsieur en visite chez moi, nous dit qu’il devait s’occuper des cadeaux pour la fête des échecs. Avec mes frères, nous lui demandons plus de détails car nous étions surpris d’apprendre qu’il y avait cette fête.

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