The RHP Jewel of Doom + The Ducks' Travels Continue
by greenpawn34 on Feb 15 2013 13:44 | 9055 views | 5 edits | Last edit on May 25 2013 15:48
The Duck has left New York. Thank you St40.
And is now staying with kbear1k in Rhode Island.
The snow blizzard which hit the USA has hampered The Duck's visit to the
Blackstone Chess Club but Kbear has sent us a few snaps of The Duck playing
their daughters Duck at chess....in the snow.
Kbear writes:
The Duck is well versed in his classical chess games. My daughter's duck is a
novice. The position should be familiar to all expericenced chess players.
This weekend I'll take "Duck" to the Blackstone Chess Club in Rhode Island and
see if I can get a picture of him with Zugzwang the cat.
Next week I'll get him up to Cambridge, MA.
Thank you Kbear, another pic of The Duck v the daughter's duck at the bottom.
Already have someone lined for the Duck to visit Yale.
After that he wants to go to mid America, east America then Canada.
Offers?
I see in Thread 151247 yet another Piece Evaluation discussion is taking place.
How many times must I slam your heads together over this subject.
Yet you sit there cuddling and quoting from your books written by Kotov, Shirov, Karpov…
Just because someone’s name ends in an ‘…ov’ it does not make them genius correct.
Did Beethoven change his name to Beethovenov when he painted the Blue Danube.
No!
So for the very last time:
Pawns = worthless, get rid of them.
Let kewo be your new hero, your guiding light, your savior.
cLiMan - kewo RHP 2007
Kewo is 8 pawns down. Yes he is facing 8 passed pawns….and wins!
We join this classic masterpiece mid game when kewo is already 4 pawns down.
FEN
5b1r/3k4/7p/pp1PP3/2p1P3/P1P4P/1P1B2P1/5RK1 w - - 0 35
[FEN "5b1r/3k4/7p/pp1PP3/2p1P3/P1P4P/1P1B2P1/5RK1 w - - 0 35"]
35. Rf7+ Ke8 36. Rb7 Bc5+ 37. Kh1 {White is threatening Rb8+ skewering the h8 Rook.} 37... Kf8 38. Rxb5 Bf2 39. Rxa5 {White is 6 pawns up.} 39... Kg7 40. e6 Kf6 41. Ra6 Bg3 42. Rc6 Rf8 43. Bxh6 Rb8 44. Bc1 {How about that for greediest 'I want it all' move of the decade. White is 7 pawns up and refuses to give one back.} 44... Ke5 {Black charges up the board with his King to attack a precious White pawn,} 45. Rxc4 {White holds the e4 pawns and is now 8 passed pawns up.} 45... Rf8 {Black is actually threatening mate in one. A threat that can easily be prevented by Be3.} 46. Kg1 Rf2 {Being 8 pawns down does not phase Black at all. He seizes the 7th rank. Active pieces are more important than daft pawns.} 47. a4 {White has been thrown into disorder. Players this many pawns up cannot think correctly. Their brain is overloaded with Pawn Lust. e2 wins on the spot.} 47... Re2 {Again threatening mate in one. The defence is 14.Bd2 Rxd2 15.Kf1. White panics.} 48. Bf4+ {Now mate cannot be prevented.} 48... Kxf4 49. e5+ {Now Kewo makes the worse move of his life. He had within his grasp the chance to become truly immortal. If he had played 15...Ke3 he could have mated White whilst still being 8 passed pawns down.} 49... Kxe5 {Instead he took one back.} 50. Rd4 Re1 {Despite that one minor imperfection (15…Kxe5) a brilliant and instructive game.}
How the last game should have finished with Kewo playing 15...Ke3
[FEN "8/8/4P3/3PP3/P1R5/2P1k1bP/1P2r1P1/6K1 w - - 0 50"]
50. Rf4 Re1+ 51. Rf1 Bf2+ 52. Kh2 Rxf1 53. e7 Kf4 {Threatening Bg3 mate.} 54. g3+ Kf3 {Still refusing to take a pawn.} 55. h4 {The threat is Bxg3 mate in one, The White King needs some running room.} 55... Bg1+ 56. Kh3 Rf2 57. e8=Q {What else?} 57... Rh2 {You don’t seen many final positions like that down at your chess club.}
Rooks
The Queen's Rook takes to long to get into play so offer it as bait
on an open diagonal to a g7 Bishop or to a Knight via Nc2+.
TomFMK - BigJase RHP 2007
TomFMK lures the g7 Bishop out of it’s shell first with the Queen’s Rook
and then offers the same Bishop the King’s Rook.
Black took both with the expected result.
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. e5 Nd5 5. Bc4 e6 6. d3 g6 7. O-O Bg7 8. Re1 {Deep, very deep, deeper than the deepest ocean in it's deepest bit. White places the Rook on e1 as future bait.} 8... O-O 9. Bxd5 exd5 10. Bg5 Qb6 11. b3 {White opens the a1-h8 diagonal for the g7 Bishop and Black wastes no time in opening up the diagonal.} 11... d6 12. exd6 {The Rook is yours Black, in return White gets....} 12... Bxa1 13. c3 {All those dark squares around your King.} 13... Bd7 14. Qd2 d4 15. Bf6 Bxc3 16. Qh6 Bxe1 {That is the 2nd Rook taken by the Bishop in this game.} 17. Qg7 {Checkmate on g7 in a fianchettoed position. A perfect example.}
Knights
Keep Knights, they are tricky. Only a few players know how to move them.
germfreak - Feicko RHP 2008
Germfreaks Knight wins this one single-handed. The rest of the White pieces
don’t even move.
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 5. Nb5 Nge7 6. Nd6 {I told you Knights were tricky. (by the way this has happened with the exact same move order 3 times on RHP.)}
Bishops
Wait till your mug opponent castles.
The Queen's Bishop pins and chops the Knight on f6 or f3.
This opens the door for the King's Bishop to sac on h7 or h2.
1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bg5 {There is the Queen’s Bishop taking up it's station.} 3... e6 4. e3 {Adding an extra defender to the d-pawn and preparing Bd3. (yes that note has been lifted from Chernev’s Logical Chess.} 4... Be7 5. Bd3 O-O 6. h4 Nc6 {OK after 6 moves everything is in place.} 7. Bxf6 {Chops the defender of h7.} 7... Bxf6 8. Bxh7+ {Sac on h7} 8... Kxh7 9. Ng5+ Bxg5 10. hxg5+ Kg8 11. Qh5 f6 12. g6 Re8 13. Qh8 {Checkmate. How easy was that.}
Queens.
Waste of space, a liability. Sac her the first chance you for any active Bishop or Knight.
Indosmart - SilentSpic RHP 2007
Indosmart shows us what to do with Queens and also puts into action some of the other
ideas we have discussed. Sacs a pawn, sacs the a1 Rook to a Nc2+ and those tricky Knights.
One of the best ever games played on Red Hot Pawn. It needs a name.
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 Bg4 {Already the White player should be thinking about moving that f3 Knight. Just because it is pinned to the Queen does not mean it cannot move. Only pinned pieces to the King cannot move. Please remember that.} 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. b4 {Exceptional Brilliance. This is why nature gave us imagination. The concept becomes clearer on the next move.} 5... Nxb4 6. Nxe5 {See it now? If the Black Knight was still on c6 than Black could play 6...Nxe5 here. Now go back one move and stare at the diagram till your eyes water. You will only see such moves once in a millennium.} 6... Bxd1 7. Bxf7+ Ke7 {A slight flaw in the plan. The intention was now 8.Nd5 Checkmate. That Knight on b4 stops that. So White ignores the Bishop and offers up the a1 Rook.} 8. a3 Nxc2+ 9. Kxd1 Nxa1 10. Nd5 {I'm breathless and broken hearted. I have just handed my cheapo crown to Indosmart. That was marvelous. Thank You.}
Finally (though anything after that last game is going to be an anti climax.)
Sometimes all you need do is look at the final position to see what has happened.
knight majik - Ray Zachary RHP 2009
Knight Majik does Knight magic with his opponents Knights
Retro analysis anyone? Here is the final position.
You don’t have to be a Swiss Gambit Retro Bandit for this one.
Both useless Rooks (worth a lot less than active Knights in the opening.) have
been given up to take the active Knights out of the game.
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Bc5 4. a3 Nf6 5. b4 Bd4 6. Bc4 Ng4 7. Bb2 {White ignores the attack on his f2 pawn. If people are going to waste opening moves attacking pawns then your first thought must be what happens if I just let it go.} 7... Nxf2 8. Qe2 Nxh1 {One Rook gone and one Knight out of the game.} 9. Nxd4 Nxd4 10. Qf1 {The backward attacking move feinting a hit on the h1 Knight and offering a1 Rook. A subtle move of great depth.} 10... Nxc2+ 11. Kd1 Nxa1 {Black ran around to his girlfriend who lived in a house on wheels. "Look I have won two Rooks, will you marry me now?" She was warned by her Mother this would happen one day but she could resist the two Rooks and said, "Yes!". They were married that very afternoon….} 12. Qxf7 {...next day they got a divorce.}
I'm yanking the chain of the more serious writers who
go way overboard on a move where 10 moves later the
piece happens to be on the right square at the right time
and the writer gushes it up saying it was all seen and planned.
Great stuff. Except for one thing... The TomFMK - BigJase game: do you really think the rook on e1 is future bait? I think that's just hindsight for a move designed to protect the e5 pawn.
I'm yanking the chain of the more serious writers who
go way overboard on a move where 10 moves later the
piece happens to be on the right square at the right time
and the writer gushes it up saying it was all seen and planned.