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Schmid And His Hopping Horses

Schmid And His Hopping Horses

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I just came across this wild game in a book.



Note all the knight moves !!!

* The book is How To Get Better At Chess by Evans, Silman, and Roberts.

Basically, they just ask a lot of chessplayers various questions (improvement, age, memory, etc) and note the many different (often contradicting) responses.

It's more of a fun read than improvement book.

Although, finding out that Tal taught Shabalov positional chess by making him study Petrosian and Ulf Andersson was quite interesting !!!

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Brilliant and amusing game.
Seen it before but always worth seeing it again.

Your quote:

"It's more of a fun read than improvement book. "

Is most likely true, but I have picked up a lot from these
'fun reads'. Sometimes it's just one small note in a game that
sticks with you forever.

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What about these knights?

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I went through that one briefly. Great Game !!!

I will definitely have to check if this one is in my Speelman book.
If it isn't, I'll write it down and go over it with a real set.

Thanks for sharing that one.

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