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e4
Joined 06 May '08 Moves 42492 White: G.Olte Black: R.Nichols. Connecticut 1970's.
Black to play
...and Black Resigned. Quite a deep resigination.
Use PGN moving thingy to show why he resigned.
ALG
Joined 16 Dec '07 Moves 6190 I really don't get it. It seems a pretty easy win for black.
Maybe he was almost out of time?
e4
Joined 06 May '08 Moves 42492 Apparently not short of time.
If he was he would have just stormed on and not stopped
to think about the position.
When Black offered his hand White asked if he was resigning
and Black replied "Yes I cannot stop the pawn from Queening."
Joined 06 May '08 Moves 1908
[SetUp "1"] [FEN "8/pp6/6p1/5P2/7P/5kp1/PP6/5K2 b - - 0 1"] 1... g2+ 2. Kg1 gxf5 3. h5 Kg3 4. h6 f4 5. h7 f3 6. h8=Q f2# 0-1
Ergo, black resigned because he was a nutter.
gumtree
Joined 13 Jan '10 Moves 5151 I am guessing black fixated on the two white pawns, saw he couldn't stop at least one queening and missed the mate.
Joined 24 Jun '10 Moves 1686 Yeah I'm not getting it either... if it's really black to move all he has to do is push his pawn to g2 with check. White king must go to g1. Then he takes the f-pawn and marches down the board. White can queen first if he wants to but it's going to be a pawn-duo + king checkmate.
Now how do I insert a pgn which starts at your position?
EDIT: Thank you Sensei Meadows
[SetUp "1"] [FEN "8/pp6/6p1/5P2/7P/5kp1/PP6/5K2 b - - 0 1"] 1... g2+ 2. Kg1 gxf5 3. h5 Kg3 4. h6 f4 5. h7 f3 6. h8=Q f2# 0-1
ALG
Joined 16 Dec '07 Moves 6190 Apparantly, black couldn't think more than 5 moves ahead.
e4
Joined 06 May '08 Moves 42492
Black suffered from what so many on here suffer from.
Move Priority.
The strongest thing you can have in chess is the move.
They look at their opponents threat first and deal with
it often missing their own much stronger threat.
He just looked at White's threat of Queening and stopped there.
Check all checks!
Hereford Boathouse
Joined 08 Oct '09 Moves 29575 It's also possible the game score is wrong. What is it something like 50,000 games in twic have the wrong game score??
e4
Joined 06 May '08 Moves 42492 Nimzo you surprise me.
As if I would post something so loose without checking my source. 😉
The full story plus grades and game score.
http://chess.eusa.ed.ac.uk/Chess/Trivia/Resign.html
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