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Luck in Chess and Strange RHP Games

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Luck in Chess and Strange RHP Games



We pause just a moment whilst I win a £5.00 bet...
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...see I told you I still had Short-Kasparov poster on my wall. Pay up.
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I know in the past I have tackled this tricky subject before but after recently
overhearing a conversation in the greengrocers I thought we’d go over it again.

Some say there is no luck in chess. Others say there is and these discussions often
end up more flamed than Darwin v The Christians.(and that one is still going on.).

But just yesterday as I was standing in the queue I heard Mrs Scroggins tell
Dave our greengrocer that Josef Klinger was lucky when he mated Igor Glek
in the Werfen Open in 1990. This started off a minor argument resulting in Mrs
Scroggins throwing her bananas at Mrs Trupp who lives at the end of the street.

Here is the game in question.

J. Klinger - J. Glek, Werfen Open 1990

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1.Qxc6Re6
2.Qxd5Nxc3
3.Qc4Bxf3
4.gxf3Nxe2
5.Rxe2Nxc5
6.Be3Rg6
7.Kh1Qf6
8.f4Ne6
9.Rc1Qf5
10.d5Qh3
11.Qc8Rxc8
12.Rxc8Nf8
13.Rxf8Kxf8
14.Bc5Kg8
15.Re8

+1

We now look at what the 'unlucky' Black player should played.

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1.d5Qh5
2.Qe4f5
3.Qxe6Rxe6
4.Rec2Rg6

+1

I'll run with this as a Red Hot Pawn theme of the week, a capture on f8 followed by
a Bishop check. You get to decide if the winner was lucky or was the loser unlucky.

Eshez - ciolo RHP 2011

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1.Qg3Qa3
2.Rbd1Qxa2
3.Rxf7Kxf7
4.Bg6Kg8
5.Qf4Nf8
6.Qxf8Kxf8
7.Bc5Kg8
8.Rd8

0


Maite - DigitGus RHP 2003

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1.Qxd4Nc6
2.Qh4Qb6
3.Nc3Bxe5
4.Rae1Bxc3
5.bxc3Qxb5
6.Qh6Qf5
7.Qxf8Kxf8
8.Bh6Kg8
9.Re8

-1

Similar to the one above but with a different build up.

regaliz - mcmahon RHP 2013

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1.Qh5g6
2.Qh6d4
3.b4Bb6
4.Bd2Qf6
5.Qxf8Kxf8
6.Bh6Kg8
7.Re8

-1

We end this week's theme with a Black win.

cham55 - okfalls RHP 2014

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1.dxe5Rxe5
2.Qb7Rfe8
3.Rxe5Qxe5
4.Rf1Qe2
5.Qxa6Bf5
6.Nd4Qxf1
7.Kxf1Bd3
8.Kg1Re1

0

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('Night' by Veronica Kasatkina )

Strange Things That Happen in Red Hot Pawns Games

BlackBuck - socialist1917 RHP 2006

White to play move 26.

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What do you think happened on this board on move 35?

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1.exf4Nc6
2.fxg5Nxd4
3.Bd3Nf5
4.Rc2Nxg3
5.hxg3d4
6.Qxa6Qg4
7.Re2Bd5
8.Re7Bf8
9.f3Rxc7
10.fxg4

0

Next we see Black two pieces down in this position.

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It does not look good does it? So Black attacks White with his King and Rook.

The Pillager - OMuniz860 RHP 2011

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1.Rxd5Kc4
2.Rd8Kd3
3.Bg7Ra7
4.g3Rxa2
5.Bxh6Ra1
6.Kg2Ke2
7.Bxg5Rf1
8.Nf4Ke1
9.Rb8Rxf2
10.Kg1Rf1
11.Kg2Rf2
12.Kg1Rf1
13.Kh2Rf2
14.Ng2Kf1
15.h4Rxg2
16.Kh1Rg1
17.Kh2Rg2
18.Kh3Kg1

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How about this one. Black brings the Queen far too early aiming at f2 for a quick checkmate.
Out pop the White Knights to hound and harass the Queen and at one time White could have
taken the Black Queen. Instead both the a8 and h8 Rooks get taken by the marauding Knights.
Black was only too glad to see those Knights out of the way and duly checkmated White on f2.

montagueX - Silverstriker RHP 2011

We have all seen a Double Rook Sacrifice. You will not see another like this one.

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1.e4e5
2.d3Qf6
3.Nf3Bc5
4.Nc3a6
5.Nd5Qc6
6.Nxe5Qd6
7.Nc4Qc6
8.Ne5Qb5
9.Nxc7Kd8
10.Nxa8Ba7
11.Nxf7Ke7
12.Nxh8Qc5
13.Be3Qb4
14.Bd2Qd4
15.c3Qxf2

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      White takes his wandering Knights back home.
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