by greenpawn34 on May 02 2013 12:05 | 7073 views | 3 edits | Last edit on May 05 2013 13:57
The Duck has left Mexico and Canada and is back in the USA
staying with Kareemelbadry.
Here he is with a bust of Bobby Fischer…
…outside the Yale University Chess Club.
The Duck is off to a chess congress soon so next blog will have pics
of that. (hopefully without Kareemelbadry’s thumb.)
I can spot the word ‘Chess’ from 20 paces.
Proof?
I picked thus up for 10p in a junk shop.
No I have not gone all sappy and soppy. I don’t dislike poetry I have just never got into it.
Under normal circumstances I would not pick this up but I was curious to see if they had
on it ‘Eskimo Nell.’
But what caught my trained eagle eye was this on the back of CD.
OK it’s not ‘Eskimo Nell’ but I had to give it a listen.
Naff…nothing to do with Chess.
I suppose he could not find anything that rimes with En Passant.
In Thread 152579 Wandering King posted this position.
White to play and win.
As the Wandering King says it is a nice easy one.
Worthwhile looking at the whole game as it is an Anti- Dragon Trap
and it's always beneficial to look at the build up.
(Good name for a Chess Author that one: Benny Ficial)
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bc4 g6 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8. e5 Ng4 9. e6 f5 10. Bf4 d5 {Played intending to pick up the e6 pawn. The best move is of course a developing move 10...Bg7. See next game.} 11. Nxd5 {Black resigned as 11....cxd5 12.Bb5+ wins the house. The threat is Nc7+} 11... cxd5 12. Bb5+ {Seen enough?}
Of course the lead up play has been seen on here but in this case the RHP player does not
fall for the trick and the two lads produce a game with an interesting couple of sidelines.
(of course it ends in a blunder but this is RHP, what else do we expect!) 🙂
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 g6 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8. e5 Ng4 9. e6 f5 10. Bf4 Bg7 11. Qd2 O-O {Now I'm thinking 11....Bxd6 would have been a punt up field. Of course Black cannot take it and I cannot see any tactical refutation for punishing this opening pawn grab. It's always risky biscuits nicking a pawn when uncastled. But what does Black do? Is it a valid pawn pinch.} 12. Rd1 d5 {Another engaging line is 13.Nxd5 cxd5 14.Bxd5 Ba6! 15.Bxa8 Qa8. White has a Rook + two Pawns for a Knight and Bishop I'd take Black here. The hit on g2 is critical and if White plays 16. f3 then 16...Qc6 opens a box full of tricks.} 13. Qe2 {Possibly prepping Nxd5 as this stops the Ba6 idea.} 13... Nf6 {This unforced retreat is stopping Nxd5 forever. So it does appear both players were sniffing around Nxd5.} 14. O-O Qa5 {That's a crafty move. White should play 15.Be3 but he just won't let that Nxd5 idea go.} 15. Bb3 Ba6 {White resigned.}
The opening moves of this game hides a trap that has caught 10 players
with the exact same move order.
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nf6 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bc4 g6 8. e5 {Now instead of 8...Ng4 which we have been looking at how about..............} 8... dxe5 {This is the kind of move you know is a blunder the moment your hand let's go of the piece.} 9. Bxf7+ Kxf7 10. Qxd8
Amongst the 10 victims who fell for this trick one escaped.
He did not lose his Queen, he lost his f-pawn and won a Bishop.
Watch as the whole thing blows up in White’s face.
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 Nc6 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 g6 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8. e5 dxe5 {Now instead of winning the Queen with 10.Bxf7+ White went for a win of the f-pawn.} 9. Qxd8+ Kxd8 10. Bxf7 e6 {That pawn winning Bishop is now trapped.} 11. Bg5 Ke7 12. Bxf6+ Kxf6 13. Be8 Bb7 14. Bd7 Ke7 15. O-O-O Rd8 16. Bxe6 {The correct and more exact way to finish this by Black was now to play 16...Bh6+ and then Kxe6 thus contesting the d-file. It matters not here, but on another day in another position it may be important.} 16... Rxd1+ 17. Rxd1 Kxe6 {But this is good enough. Black played on but the end was never in any doubt and Black won without any histrionics.}
And now this:
How often have I said that we at our most vulnerable when playing that winning move.
Yet another example. Behold!
Sirveyor - venda RHP 2013.
Venda (who sportingly drew my attention to this game) is on the brink of
winning. Just one move to tidy things up and job done. Alas…..
[FEN "7k/4R2p/2B3p1/p1p1p3/1pP5/1P4PK/7r/6b1 w - - 0 1"]
1. Kg4 Bd4 2. Kg5 Rh5+ 3. Kf6 e4+ 4. Kf7 {All Black needs to do is play 4....Rf5+ and it's game over. Instead he played his winning move.} 4... e3 {Clever...if 5.Bf3 Rf5+ wins the Bishop. One small snag...} 5. Re8 {Checkmate.}
This game was sent to me as an example of a mate from out of the blue
Zbyszko - Alistair72
FEN
6k1/3q1pp1/2p2n1p/1p2QN2/pPb2N2/P1P3P1/5P1P/6K1 w - - 0 35
[FEN "6k1/3q1pp1/2p2n1p/1p2QN2/pPb2N2/P1P3P1/5P1P/6K1 w - - 0 35"]
35. Nxh6+ gxh6 36. Qxf6 {White would have been quite happy with himself after playing this pawn winning King exposing combination. Unfortunately....} 36... Qd1+ 37. Kg2 Bf1+ 38. Kh1 Bh3
Which brings us on nicely to another batch of….
What Happened Next
…where you have to find the lemon that was actually played in the game
based on the clues I give you.
I like these because you cannot cheat and use a computer unless it has a setting
called a Red Hot Pawn player.
ErniXX - gq80nn RHP 2012
Black. A whole Rook up to play.
White then mates in two…..with a Knight.
FEN
3r3k/1p5n/p4p2/2p4Q/4K1P1/2P1N2P/PP5q/8 b - - 0 38
[FEN "8/8/1R6/p2Q4/k1b1R3/8/1Pr2PPP/6K1 w - - 0 39"] 39. Qd1 {Ah ah. I bet you thought White was going to get back rank mated. White saw the threat to his back rank and forgetting after checkmate the game is over he stopped it. So instead checkmating in one move White found a stalemate in one move.}
interskyboy - blades87 RHP.2011
I wonder if anyone on here has a position where they can deliver checkmate
with either Rook but miss it.
And then 8 moves later his opponent has a chance to mate with either Rook.
Nah…Too many if’s.
White to play. What did White not play. (two answers?)
[FEN "8/pp3RR1/1k6/r1p4p/2P4P/1PKP1P2/P4r2/8 w - - 0 38"]
38. Rxb7+ {Correct White did not play Rf6 checkmate or Rg6 checkmate. Instead he kicked the King across the board to where he could be checked no more.} 38... Kc6 39. Rgc7+ Kd6 40. Rd7+ Ke5 41. Re7+ Kf4 42. Rf7+ Kg3 43. Rb8 Raxa2 44. Rg8+ Kh3 45. Rf5 {And amazingly at the start of this White could have mated with either Rook but missed both moves. Now Black can mate with either Rook. He does not miss it.} 45... Rfc2
We end with a marvelous mating pattern.
After seeing this you will rush off to your Chess Clubs to show it to your chums.
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 {An open Sicilian. I remember when all Sicilians went like this.} 3... cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 {Ah it's one of them...been so long since I 've seen one I've forgotten it's name,} 6. Nf3 {I do recall White is meant to play 6.Nb5. But that was then, this is now.} 6... d6 7. Bc4 h6 8. O-O Bg4 9. h3 Bh5 10. Nd5 {OK let's say this pawn sac was meant to lure Black into a false sense of security.} 10... Nxe4 11. Ne3 Nd4 {White now goes for Legal's Mate.} 12. Nxe5 Bxd1 {Brilliant. Black plays his part in this creating this wonderful wrap up. An inartistic player would have played 12...dxe5 when White has 13.Qxh5 with a good game.} 13. Bxf7+ Ke7 14. Nd5# {Checkmate. The four Knights on d4,d5,e4 and e5 make a wonderful picture.}
The Duck, again with Kareemelbadry’s thumb outside the Yale University Dinning Hall
Better to have posted in the thread link there we can throw the bits about and show diagram.
I very rarely look back in here and only know someone
has replied in here when I get an email, I look in there once a week.
I was pointing out the trick and expecting a refutation,
but there appears not to be one.
Maybe White saw it went nowhere, or missed the whole idea,
or feared there might be a refutation.
After Bxc3 the e-apwn will or should fall and the game looks evenish.
Hi greenpawn,
In answer to your question on move 11....O-O in the game ROGERHALES - nedjeljkod:
I don't see an outright refutation, but black could play Bxc3 (where Qxc3 loses to Qxd6), so bxc3 means the pawn advantage becomes just double c pawns.
I also wonder how easily white would be able to hold his own e6 pawn. Bear in mind the bishop on d6 is in a tactically precarious position. E.g. After Rf6, black threatens Qxd6, Qxd6, exd6, e7+, Be6 where the a8 rook blocks promotion, and white's lack of development means he is no longer able to support the e pawn.
Better to have posted in the thread link there we can throw the bits about and show diagram.
I very rarely look back in here and only know someone
has replied in here when I get an email, I look in there once a week.
I was pointing out the trick and expecting a refutation,
but there appears not to be one.
Maybe White saw it went nowhere, or missed the whole idea,
or feared there might be a refutation.
After Bxc3 the e-apwn will or should fall and the game looks evenish.
In answer to your question on move 11....O-O in the game ROGERHALES - nedjeljkod:
I don't see an outright refutation, but black could play Bxc3 (where Qxc3 loses to Qxd6), so bxc3 means the pawn advantage becomes just double c pawns.
I also wonder how easily white would be able to hold his own e6 pawn. Bear in mind the bishop on d6 is in a tactically precarious position. E.g. After Rf6, black threatens Qxd6, Qxd6, exd6, e7+, Be6 where the a8 rook blocks promotion, and white's lack of development means he is no longer able to support the e pawn.
I like the idea though 🙂
Go to the blog link and post it in the chess forum.
I was wondering when someone would notice that.
Corrected.
Don't know if you can edit, but
jrdavid68 - BTLynx RHP 2011
the comment should be d3 for white (not d6).
Thanks for these - I play the Sicilian regularly, or at least the first few moves.
Yes as it said in note:
"White now goes for Legal's Mate."
An idea that crops up time and time in many settings.
Remember only a piece pinned to a King cannot move.