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by Geoff Chandler
Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:22 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Replies: 80
Views: 3866

Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)

Daniel Gormally vs Emil Sutovsky although a loss could be added, Lasker - Napier is in the book. But Neil must have known when putting it together there would be suggestions as to games being added. He will have to stay with what he has else I'll want the extra games sent to me. :D (try and persuade...
by Geoff Chandler
Wed Mar 13, 2024 11:18 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Media comments on chess
Replies: 5968
Views: 737606

Re: Media comments on chess

Last night 'New Tricks' showed the episode 'The English Defence' A Russian emigre who ran a chess club in London (founded in 1893) was a suspect so there were loads of chess references being banded about. Fischer - Spassky, Karpov - Kasparov, The Budapest Defence (for white.) too many boards on ches...
by Geoff Chandler
Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:49 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Replies: 80
Views: 3866

Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)

I make the closing date the 2nd of April. (if I post anything anywhere on the 1st of April everyone everywhere thinks it's a joke.) Going through the book 2-3 a day, one wee very minor quibble, I'm not fond of the diagram being upside down if Black wins. no big deal, it just looks strange after star...
by Geoff Chandler
Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:14 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Media comments on chess
Replies: 5968
Views: 737606

Re: Media comments on chess

BBC channel 4 just reported on the five o'clock news that Garry Kasparov has been placed on a dangerous dissident list by Putin. They mentioned he will have his bank frozen and need permission to use it.
by Geoff Chandler
Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:54 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: accepting gambits
Replies: 35
Views: 2460

Re: accepting gambits

Not forgetting the Jerome Gambit when two pieces are sacced. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. Bxf7+ Kxf7 5. Nxe5+ Nxe5 Back to pawns, was there not a rule in the Danish Gambit. 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3... The first pawn you must take, the 2nd pawn you can take and the 3rd pawn you may take (or someth...
by Geoff Chandler
Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:59 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: accepting gambits
Replies: 35
Views: 2460

Re: accepting gambits

I feel like gambit players are cowards, putting themselves in a position where they can't really lose any respect - if they win they are hailed as a dashing and brave attacker and if they lose they are patted on the back and told what a great attempt it was. As a confirmed gambiteer this to a certa...
by Geoff Chandler
Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Replies: 80
Views: 3866

Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)

That is an interesting find Jon. He may have served and had a bad experience which resulted in him chancing his arm in problem diddling and hawking other chess books as his only a source of income. I have a couple of his books and have solved a few of 'his' problems. He tied for first in the 1915 Sc...
by Geoff Chandler
Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:52 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Replies: 80
Views: 3866

Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)

Hi Chris, No idea what he was up in WWI as I was more interested in the books he nicked. Were they chess problem books which makes the tale about him altering chess problems even more funnier. He plagiarised chess problems from chess books he had stolen is a sentence just itching to be typed. It lif...
by Geoff Chandler
Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:15 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Replies: 80
Views: 3866

Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)

The Standard, June 28th 1907, p.10: Percy Wenman, aged sixteen, well-dressed, was charged at Bow-street, on remand, with stealing two books, value £1 1s., from a bookseller’s shop in New Oxford-street. At the previous hearing it was stated that he had devoted a great deal of attention to chess, and ...
by Geoff Chandler
Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:45 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Replies: 80
Views: 3866

Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)

I see the copied index links from my first post have gone. I copied, minus the game links from Jon's gratefully accepted work from there to the my first post.
by Geoff Chandler
Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:26 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Replies: 80
Views: 3866

Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)

(though actually this patzer did avail himself of a fair bit of silicon assistance in attempting to understand GM tactics). Hi Neil, That is fine, you are using the computer as a tool (and not the other way round.) it pops up when it is relevant as in Game 7 Zukertort - Count de Kostaki Epoureano 1...
by Geoff Chandler
Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:33 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Replies: 80
Views: 3866

Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)

If I'm allowed to vote for something from my own book... Hi Neil, Book arrived. Just a quick glance through it and I can see Gufeld will be shelved. Although I have gone over I'd say 90% of the games in the past I have never had a problem going over games again and again. The layout reminds me of t...
by Geoff Chandler
Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:41 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Replies: 80
Views: 3866

Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)

Hi Neil, Of course you can vote for a game. And you are in good company with that choice see the comments at chessgames.com https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1284171 although it does appear they originally had the wrong score of the game. A difficult choice for everyone, one vote, but th...
by Geoff Chandler
Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:42 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Replies: 80
Views: 3866

Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)

Yes. If the match had digital clocks Nigel would have seen exactly how long he had left. Not necessarily - (facebook link) "But on move 58, disaster struck. Nigel played the move ...Ra2+ and forgot to press the clock. Nigel's time ran out and Gukesh won the game." Hi Ian, A bit of a difference in n...