A brief explanation (with pictures!) how I find and select RHP games for the blog.
I used the Philidor’s Legacy examples (wins and losses) from Red Hot Pawn games.
Then an RHP player as Black finds an amusing way to lose their Queen in 7 moves.
Also a study by A. Wotawa in 1935 White to play mates in 5 moves.
I’ll give you a wee clue.
Blog Post 476
Edit. Originally had White to play and mate in 6 moves. It is 5 moves.
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So you use chessbase to help find the position but how does chessbase know about this websites games?
Does chessbase record all games from everywhere?
Hi Phil,
Chessbase is a program for Databases, you have to enter a Data Base full of games
into it and it does all kind of wonderful things. I get a load of games from Russ
(the site owner) every now and then - at the moment this is close to 5 million games.
They come in PGN format, massive files of often 300,000 games in this format.
(a game I just took off the 'View Games' link)
[Event "Challenge"]
[Site "https://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2021.01.29"]
[Round "?"]
[White "emilyorgovanyi"]
[Black "Hubble"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1000"]
[BlackElo "1009"]
[EndDate "2021.02.15"]
[WhiteRating "1000"]
[BlackRating "1009"]
[GameId "14194432"]
1. d3 e5 2. Be3 Nc6 3. Nh3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bg5 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 O-O 7. a4 Qe7 8.
Rb1 Qc5 9. Be3 Qxc3+ 10. Bd2 Qa3 11. Ra1 Qc5 12. a5 d6 13. g3 Bxh3 14. Bxh3 e4
15. f3 exf3 16. exf3 Rae8+ 17. Qe2 Rxe2+ 18. Kxe2 Re8+ 19. Kd1 Qd4 20. Ra3 a6
21. f4 b5 22. Rb3 Qa1+ 23. Bc1 Nd4 24. Rb4 Ne2 25. Re1 Qxc1# 0-1
I then run a program to change the game ID ([GameId "14194432"]) with the site info
Because ChessBAse does not show the Game ID and I like to keep it because it
is easier to write down (or remember ) an 8 digit number than it is to recall the
names of both players because some of them are spelt crazy others are
gobbledygook.
Regarding how long it takes. Not too long. I have about 6 or 7 'fillers' the
hard is bit is thinking up the main bit - what is it about. The main theme.
Once I have an idea or in this case, have been fed an idea. I have it done in a day. Good fun. I already have an idea for the next one, have fillers (short games/jokes)
Once the blog gets close to 10,000 hits I post the next one. (provided I have an idea,
Sometimes I'm stuck but something usually pops up and I can get started.