(1) Vidmar,M - Teichmann,R [D55]
Karlsbad Karlsbad (14), 08.1907
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Nf3 0-0 7.Rc1 b6 8.cxd5 exd5 9.Bd3 Bb7 10.0-0 c5 11.Bb1 Ne4 12.Bf4 Nxc3 13.Rxc3 c4 14.Kh1 b5 15.g4 b4 16.Rc1 a5 17.Rg1 Re8 18.Rg3 Nf8 19.Rh3 Ra6 20.Ne5 Bd6 21.Qc2 Bxe5 22.Bxe5 Rxe5 23.dxe5 d4+ 24.f3 dxe3 25.Rd1 Qc7 26.Kg1 Rg6 Diagram
[ 26...Qxe5 "With a knight on f8, you can never be mated" - Bent Larsen
the following taken from an webarticle on Chessforums - http://www.chessforums.org/ the subject being 'chess-articles' and 'chess aphorisms gone awry'
Tarrasch lambasts Teichmann in the tournament book for his choice in this position
The great Tarrasch prefered 1. ... Qxe5. What would happen then?
27.Qxh7+ Nxh7 28.Rd8+ Qe8 29.Rxe8+ Nf8 30.Bh7+ Kh8 31.Rxf8# a foced mate in 5 moves] 27.Qe2 Rxg4+ 28.fxg4 Qc6 29.Rxe3 1-0
(2) Knight obstacles - 1
13.01.2008
[,Keith]
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how many 'consectuve' moves (without moving pieces) does it take to check the king ?
how many ways to the king ?
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(3) Knight obstacles - 2
2008
[,Keith]
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(4) Knight obstacles - 3
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(5) Knight obstacles - 4
13.01.2008
[,Keith]
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the same as 1 and 2
we need the black king to move ? and thus alternately, as in normal chess *
(6) Knight obstacles - 5
13.01.2008
[,Keith]
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does white check ? - black not moving AT all *
(7) Knight obstacles - 6
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inspired by an article at http://www.chessforums.org/chess-articles/327-chess-exercises.html *
(8)
from chesschat from H Duggan Jan 2008
1...Ke3 Diagram
with the general question of "when to resign" - if to resign at all ! 2.g5 hxg5 3.h6 Kf2 4.h7 Ke1 5.h8Q *
(9) Bonham - Kevin [C15]
interclub game, 1998
[,Keith]
Both players should probably be burnt at the stake for this one. I was black in an interclub game in 1998, in which I played the opening exceedingly badly 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Nge2 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Nxc3 dxe4 7.dxc5 Qxd1+ 8.Nxd1 f5 9.Bf4 Nc6 10.Nc3 a6 11.0-0-0 Nf6 12.Na4 e5 13.Bg5 Nd7 14.Bc4 h6 15.Bd2 Ke7 16.Bc3 Rb8 Diagram
17.Rd6!! but he doesn't realise it [that it IS such a good move] 17...Nxc5 I won't often use ??! but in this case it's appropriate!
Instead of winning easily with 18.Rxc6! (F11: +3.7) my opponent (who in the late eighties had an ACF rating of around 1450, which the ratings officers of the time somehow managed to annul, and he never played enough games to get a new one) decided he was simply losing a rook or a piece, and resigned. - above quoted from a chesschat.org posing circa 2008 *
(10) Deep Fritz 10 - Kramnik,V
World Champ-Computer match, 2007
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white to move - find the BEST move
Black's last move was Q from a7 to e3 - find a BETTER move than that
...Kg8 is needed
1...g6 2 e6 ...Bxb2 3 e7 ....Qxe7 4 Qxe7... no mate but VERY poor position
1...Qg1+ 2 Kxg1 and white mates in 11 moves *
