Me with my presents. (I was dragged out bed a jersey
pulled over my pyjamas and a Santa hat placed on my head,)
A book review of 'The History of Chess in 50 moves.'
Actually very few moves. It's 50 chapters.
***STOP***
What do you think are the 3 most famous moves in Chess History?
I give my three. Think of yours before you visit the blog.
***OK Continue Reading***
A DVD. The wrong DVD!! and a book on the Scandinavian.
So you get a selection RHP Scandinavians played badly.
Then a mini quiz featuring 3 questions that cropped up
on University Challenge. All three were answered incorrectly.
Originally posted by greenpawn34 What do you think are the 3 most famous moves in Chess History?
I give my three. Think of yours before you visit the blog.
I had Qg3. For the other ones, I thought of Rd7 in Steinitz-von Bardeleben and Qf6 in the Immortal Game. But yours are more famous.
The first time I came across the BxRP manoeuvre to get a Bishop trapped was reading C.H.O'D.Alexander's book Fisher v. Spassky Reykjavik 1972.
In his note to that move (29) he wrote...a beginner's blunder;everyone knows the danger of the Bishop being shut in...in these positions. Until I saw that I didn't know.
I could write a book about things everyone knows that I don't.
Originally posted by greenpawn34 There is another contender and it's bugging me. (I'm sure I've forgotten this move before when I was once asked the same question years ago.).
Lasker's 4.Bxc6 v Capablanca at St. Petersburg 1914.
(that's not the one that is bugging me but it is another choice.)
My Chess Presents and a Christmas Quiz
06 Jan '16 02:31
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