My Chess Presents and a Christmas Quiz

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.

Blog Post 284

You reversed the Arabian and Anastasia's mate.

Well done byedidia, that was part of the other Quiz.

I've decided to remove the other quiz and put them the correct way round.

🙄

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.

Hi Big Dog.

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.)

Your first 2 picks were also 2 of mine, but I would have also gone for Deep Blue's "non-computer-like move" vs Kasparov in game 2.

Hi 64,

I know of the game and the move but I cannot quite recall what it was.

(and anyway, I could not possibly have a computer move as the most 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.)

Hi Shallow Blue,

Yes that is another one to be considered.

Lasker - Bauer, Amsterdam 1889.

Hi greenpawn. I had 24. Nb1 in Karpov–Spassky 1974 candidates:

Yes these two another couple of candidates.
Karpov's Nb1 appears in a lot of books.