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34.Nf2 Resigns

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34.Rg7+ Kh3

5 minutes. I don't seen any straight forward mates. Maybe i'm not looking hard enough.

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Originally posted by Stives
34.Nf2 Resigns

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Ng2 you mean?

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34. Rg7+ Kh3 (focred)
35. Ng2 (mate in 1) resigns.

About 20 seconds

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Yes sorry, Ng2.

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Alright guys, This game is over, there is no more voting. I added the last move 35.Ng2 1-0. The threat is 36.Nf4 # and it's all over.



1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nf3 e6 5. Nbd2 Nbd7
6. Bd3 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. Qc2 dxc4 $2 9. Nxc4 c5 10. Nce5 cxd4 11. exd4 Nb6 12.
Ng5 g6 13. Ngf3 Kg7 14. Bg5 Nbd5 15. Rac1 Bd7 16. Qd2 Ng8 17. Bxe7 Qxe7 18. Be4
Bb5 19. Rfe1 Qd6 20. Bxd5 exd5 21. Qa5 $1 a6 22. Qc7 Qxc7 23. Rxc7 h6 24. Rxb7
Rac8 25. b3 Rc2 26. a4 Be2 27. Nh4 $1 h5 28. Nhxg6 Re8 29. Rxf7+ Kh6 30. f4 a5
31. Nh4 Rxe5 32. fxe5 Kg5 33. g3 Kg4 34. Rg7+ Kh3 35. Ng2 *

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Final Numbers:

Total Points (Max possible 56)

27 Points: Stives
26 Points:Rahim
22 Points: cguy1
14 Points: BLReid
8 Points: Golub
7 Points: Schakuhr
5 Points: OctopusBoy
4 Points: Wormwood, Shinidoki, TheGambit
3 Points: Chesswick,Zebano, CrazyLilTing, ngkabra, Khan
2 points: tomtom232, Mahout,
1 point: Sickboy, Loki74
O points: flexmore

Congrads Stives on Winning Guess the Move. I came a very close second and 3rd is cguy1 🙂

Bonus+1p: What does Stives win?

It has to do with Chess, Rhp and this Thread.

Obviously I already won this bonus point so we are sharing first place 😛 Just joking! Well done Stives.

So you are probably wondering what to do now? Why did I make you go through this. Any guess what to do next?

Any guess who the two players were? White? Black? and no checking online or databases or anything like that. Just take a wild guess who they were.

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I guess Alekhine as white...maybe Euve as black.

Thank you Rahim, it's nice to win something lol! But even my winning score is pitiful against the possible points that were lost through wrong guesses................

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Originally posted by Stives
I guess Alekhine as white...maybe Euve as black.

Thank you Rahim, it's nice to win something lol! But even my winning score is pitiful against the possible points that were lost through wrong guesses................
Any guess what you reward will be?

About the points, pretty pathetic less then 50%

I guess that's what seperated masters from us.

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Originally posted by RahimK
Any guess what you reward will be?

About the points, pretty pathetic less then 50%

I guess that's what seperated masters from us.
i dunno...i think that white was definetly Alekhine...mostly because of the way he tortured black through the game...it deffinantly seems his style (we are going over master comments next right?) I dunno much about other players of that time. Btw, he was only 1 less than half so give him some slack 😛

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Originally posted by c guy1
i dunno...i think that white was definetly Alekhine...mostly because of the way he tortured black through the game...it deffinantly seems his style (we are going over master comments next right?) I dunno much about other players of that time. Btw, he was only 1 less than half so give him some slack 😛
I'm not talking about him specially. I'm talking about us all. Less then 50%.

I wonder if people score better if they are better players. I think they do score a bit better but I don't think their rating matters that much compared to other factors.

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Originally posted by RahimK
I'm not talking about him specially. I'm talking about us all. Less then 50%.

I wonder if people score better if they are better players. I think they do score a bit better but I don't think their rating matters that much compared to other factors.
I'm not sure how much rating has to do with it. I was probably one of the lower rated people yet I got 3rd. Buuuuuuuut stop stalling. Are we going to go over master commentaries AND who played the games?

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Originally posted by c guy1
I'm not sure how much rating has to do with it. I was probably one of the lower rated people yet I got 3rd. Buuuuuuuut stop stalling. Are we going to go over master commentaries AND who played the games?
yes i think some people are just better then others at guess the move regardless of their rating.

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Welcome to another round of Family Feud. We surveyed 100 people (this is a lie) and asked them who they taught played that game.

Your guesses-> Alekhine as White.

Survey says - XXX

I know, I know. I got personality.

The answer was:

White: None other then the great cuban himself, Capa!
Black: Alekhine!

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1011878

Event "St Petersburg m (01)"]
[Site "St Petersburg m (01)"]
[Date "1913.12.14"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Capablanca Jose"]
[Black "Alekhine Alexander"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "70"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nf3 e6 5. Nbd2 Nbd7 6. Bd3 Be7 7. O-O O-O
8. Qc2 dxc4 9. Nxc4 c5 10. Nce5 cxd4 11. exd4 Nb6 12. Ng5 g6 13. Ngf3
Kg7 14. Bg5 Nbd5 15. Rac1 Bd7 16. Qd2 Ng8 17. Bxe7 Qxe7 18. Be4 Bb5
19. Rfe1 Qd6 20. Bxd5 exd5 21. Qa5 a6 22. Qc7 Qxc7 23. Rxc7 h6 24. Rxb7
Rac8 25. b3 Rc2 26. a4 Be2 27. Nh4 h5 28. Nhxg6 Re8 29. Rxf7+ Kh6 30. f4
a5 31. Nh4 Rxe5 32. fxe5 Kg5 33. g3 Kg4 34. Rg7+ Kh3 35. Ng2 1-0

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Okay so now this is the most important part of the exercise so pay attention.

Open a word document and copy your guess for each move, your comments and how much time it took you.

I'm working on mine right now. It should look like this:

Bold -> 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.e3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.Nbd2 Nbd7

6.Bd3 I chose this move because white is ready to castle now, it develops the bishop and covers the e4 square. The point of Nbd2 was that if dxc4 for black the knight can recapture so the bishop does not waste a tempo going to d3 and then playing Bxc4.

Black will play 6...Be7

Took me 3 minutes.

Bold -> 6.Bd3 Be7



So basically you have your guess,comments, time and then the actual solution in bold.

I'll give you guys 2 days, so friday to get this done and we will move on to the final step (I'll post capa's comments and we can discuss).

Rahim K