Hi all - this (Game 6225884) is a game that I just completed. My opponent kept on fighting until the end, taking all his time for each move... Anyway, I particularly like this position in the game. Black to move...
Originally posted by WumpusWhy the new thread?Now I'm in doubt in which one to post 😕
Hi all - this (Game 6225884) is a game that I just completed. My opponent kept on fighting until the end, taking all his time for each move... Anyway, I particularly like this position in the game. Black to move...
[fen]8/8/4k3/3pB2p/3Pr1pP/8/RK2b3/8 b - - 0 1[/fen][/b]
Anyway,well spotted tactic.Good job 🙂
Hi Wumpus.
Coincidence and happy memories are all flooding back from this thread.
I can understand your impatience at wanting to show the world your game.
One of the first games I had published had the same idea in it.
This is the end of a tactical sequence. White to play.
Yes. 1.Bc5+ and 2. Bf8 easily winning the ending.
My opponent in that game was, (still is), a very good friend of mine.
He had one of the very first computers and I spent many a happy
hour in his flat looking at chess games but often playing games
on this computer. (A Pet?...I cannot recall the make)
It only had two games. Star Trek, where you moved a capital E
around the screen chasing capital K's.
And WUMPUS.
(that will give you an idea of how long ago it was)
RE: gettting rid of a thread.
Go back into it and call Russ a cheat - that should do it. 😉
Yes... "Wumpus" is actually a smelly monster that you have to hunt down in a maze (or write a computer program that can do it, optimally). It's one of those mythical monsters in "Artificial Intelligence"...
There's two things in the game that I really like. The rook-prison and the rook-bishop exchange that I particularly found interesting. I won't consider it a sacrifice, but an interesting scenario where the bishop was, in fact, stronger than the rook. I find that bishops are often better at hunting down passed pawns that are charging for the last rank. As this was the motive here, I "won" the exchange. My rook for your shiny bishop! 🙂
PS. The computer sounds like the Commodore, PET. A rather impressive piece of hardware and far ahead of its time. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET)