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| Jan-28-09 | | suenteus po 147: <Phony Benoni> Thanks for posting those 7 missing games. I have submitted them to the database and hopefully they will be uploaded soon. |
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Jan-30-09
 | | Phony Benoni: I'm currently working on a collection of games from the All-Russian Masters tournament at Vilnius (Vilna) 1912, and have found a few games not yet in the database. Here's one I think you'll enjoy: [Event "All-Russian Masters"]
[Site "Vilnius"]
[Date "1912.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Levitsky, Stefan"]
[Black "Rabinovich, Abram Isaakovich"]
[ECO ""]
[WhiteElo ""]
[BlackElo ""]
<1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 d5 4.Qa4 dxe4 5.Nxe5 Qd5 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.Bc4 Qd7 8.d3 exd3 9.0-0 Nf6 10.Bg5 Be7 11.Bxf6 Bxf6 12.Re1+ Be7>
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<13.Bxd3!>
This bishop proceeds to make a royal pain of itself. Naturally 13...Qxd3 allows 14.Qxc6+. <13...0-0 14.Bxh7+!> Not again! This time, 14...Kxh7 runs into 15.Qe4+.
<14..Kh8 15.Bc2 g6 16.Na3 Kg7 17.Rad1 Bd6 18.Qd4+ Kg8 19.Nc4 c5 20.Qd5 Rb8>
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<21.Bxg6>
Oh, now you're just being nasty.
<21...Bb7 22.Bh7+!>
OK, enough is enough!
<22...Kxh7 23.Qh5+ Kg7 24.Qg5+ Kh7 25.Nxd6 cxd6 26.Rd3 f6>
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And now, a little coup for de gráce.
<27.Re7+! 1-0>
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| Feb-02-09 | | Calli: Only 49 of 99 games played at Vilna 1912 are preserved according to Vlastmil Fiala in his Alekhine book, vol 1, 1992. Perhaps some others have come to light since. There were a number of Russian tournaments around that time period and its possible that some games are misassigned. |
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| Feb-02-09 | | whiteshark: <PB>, <Calli>
re: Game Collection: Tournament: All-Russian Masters, Vilnius, 1912 I found this game collection: http://www.pgnmentor.com/events/Vil... With a quick scroll I count 51 games (maybe there are doublets?) while the remaining 36 game were from the B-tournament. |
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Feb-02-09
| | Phony Benoni: <whiteshark> I found that collection too. I think there are only 50 games from the "A" section; the 51st is the famous "Pride of the Family" game Nimzowitsch vs Alapin, 1914, which was not played at the tournament. Of the 50 games, we had 37 in our database and I submitted the remaining 13 last week. They are indicated by "**" in the round-by-round summary in my collection. <Calli> That's good to know. We can hope that some unknown Russian periodical pops up with the rest of the games, but after a century there can't be much hope. |
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| Feb-02-09 | | Calli: Would be suspicious of that 50th game, although its possible one was discovered. I could verify Rubinstein, Alekhine and Nimzo when you finish. |
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Feb-02-09
| | Phony Benoni: Perhaps this game might be worth checking: S Levitsky vs Rubinstein, 1912. The tournament and location are a bit vague, but it fits on year volot, plud iy is also given in the pgnmentor file whiteshark mentioned. It would be good if you could check those three players; that would account for about 30 games right there. The problem, of course, is we're not sure whic is the 50th game your source didn't count! |
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| Feb-02-09 | | Calli: Yes, that is a Vilna 19th rd game, played on Sept 13, 1912. The game continued after 16. Bxc4, but the rest of the score is lost (Donaldson/Minev). |
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Feb-02-09
| | Phony Benoni: Good, that fits in with the reconstruction I've tried to make. Thought it was a pretty short game! I imagine it was copied from an openings book that didn't include the source, just the year. |
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| Feb-03-09 | | Calli: Ok! Rubinstein is 100% correct, including round infomation. Donaldson has one other position against Nimzo, but no other moves either before or after the position are known and so it is useless for CG purposes. I'll check Alekhine next. |
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| Feb-03-09 | | Calli: Alekhine also looks correct according to Skinner. He has a minor discrepancy with Fiala in the round numbers, but as the Skinner book was published later, its more likely to be correct. Also, just noticed that Fiala claims that only 48 of 99 are known. My bad... |
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Feb-03-09
| | Phony Benoni: That's good to hear! I really hope that Alekhine checks out as well, since I made the reconstruction based on a collection of his games which, unfortunately, has not always turned out to be totally accurate. |
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| Feb-03-09 | | Calli: Heh, we posted at the same time. Don't have the rounds for all the nimzo games so I can't check them as well. |
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| Feb-03-09 | | Calli: Okay, I can't vouch for the round numbers, but the Nimzo games are also correct after the Levitsky and Alapin draws get in the database. So we have Rubinstein - 11
Nimzowitsch - 10 (1)
Alekhine - 13 (3)
Total is 34-4 = 30 games verified
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Feb-04-09
| | Phony Benoni: <Calli> Thanks for checking all that. It looks like the collection will probably stay as it is for awhile. I seem to have a penchant for collecting tournaments with incomplete records, but at least I'm providing a base for some real researchers to start working from. I wonder if Fiala's figure of 48 refers to <complete> games. We know the Levitsky v. Rubinstein game was incomplete, and Alekhine v. Levitsky from round 19 looks suspiciusly short as well. |
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| Feb-04-09 | | Calli: That's a good point! Fiala probably is not counting partial scores. There was another Ruby game that Donaldson mentioned is missing the ending although the outcome is fairly obvious, so it was not really a fragment. Fifty may be the correct answer. |
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Feb-05-09
| | Phony Benoni: Answer to the Unpuzzle:
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<1.Nc3 a6 2.Ne4!?>
You never know, you know.
<2...axb5?? 3.Nd6#!> |
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| Feb-05-09 | | holland oats: 3.Nd6 cxd6 right? Was it 1.Nc3 c6 etc? |
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| Feb-05-09 | | DarthStapler: Can't black play cxd6? |
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Feb-05-09
| | Phony Benoni: Yes, yes, yes. There's no pawn on c7; I screwed up the diagram. Sorry about that. I've deleted the original post in the Café. |
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Feb-06-09
| | Phony Benoni: Answer to another Unpuzzle, hopefully with a correct diagram!
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<1...a5 2.Nf3 Re3 3.Nd4 Rc3#> |
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Feb-06-09
| | Phony Benoni: These "Help-Me-Out" mates should not be confused with true composed helpmates, which have an artistic beauty all their own. You can bat your brains out for an hour or too, then be truly impressed by the sheer logic of the solution. Try this one, composed by William Shinkman:
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It's a <helpmate in three>. Black moves first; White delivers mate on his third move, with Black assisting in every way possible. Don't think of "practical game" moves--just figure out a way to mate, even with Black's help! |
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Feb-07-09
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: 1.b6 Rxd8 2.Kb7 Rd7+ 3.Ka6 Rxa7#
...or is posting the solution not allowed? |
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| Feb-07-09 | | whiteshark: Encl pls find my PIN: <2B4U>. Pls keep it p&c! Will u? :D |
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Feb-07-09
| | Phony Benoni: <SwitchingQuyithuig> Posting the solution is always allowed, particularly when you have cooked the problem! Unintended solutions are the bane of composed problems. It's very easy to get caught up in a beautiful idea and relax the discipline needed to cold-bloodedly check for second solutions. By the way, Shinkman's intention was <1.Rh8 Rg8 2.Bg1 Rxg1 3.Rxb8 Rxa1#>. I liked it because of the unusual direction of the mate; you're expecting something on the back rank but it hits on the a-file instead. There have been occasional calls for a composed problem/endgame studies page. I've thought about that, but I'm not the person to host one. My interest is strictly that of a layman. I know what I like and I don't worry much about Wurzburg-Plachutta cutting points or Allumwandlungs or Zepler Whatevers and such. And here's another one I like, composed by Kemp. <Helpmate in four>
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