Adjudicate this Martian game...

Technical questions regarding Openings, Middlegames, Endings etc.
John McKenna

Adjudicate this Martian game...

Post by John McKenna » Fri Feb 21, 2014 7:22 pm

I believe this game - played on the USChessLive site (know here as BCL at the time) - was played by one Paul Truong (Martian) against 'Professore' (real id. unknown). What should the result be if adjudicated, please?



Just to prove I was there at the time here is one of my (johnnymac) efforts v. 'hovard'(?)

Comments welcome but don't be too hard on 'hovard' it was just one of those bad days -



Edit: I forgot that the ratings (from USCL site) aren't shown even if in the PGN so I added them next to the players' names.
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Stephen Saunders
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Re: Adjudicate this Martian game...

Post by Stephen Saunders » Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:25 am

The first game is a draw, I think. The white knight goes d6-e4-d2 and with the help of the white king prevents the black e-pawn from queening, while the black knight does the same job for the h-pawn.

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Re: Adjudicate this Martian game...

Post by Barry Sandercock » Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:11 am

Quite right. It is definitely a draw.

John McKenna

Re: Adjudicate this Martian game...

Post by John McKenna » Sat Feb 22, 2014 11:50 am

Thanks to Stephen and Barry for affirming that.

From memory the game ended in an agreed draw.
However, bear in mind that the whole game was played with 5 mins. each.
If it had continued with 63.Nd6+ Kf4 64.h6 Kxg4 65.Ne4? Kxf5 it is probably no longer a draw.
With so little time it would be better to try 63.g5 to chop wood asap.

By the way, I am 99% sure that Martian was Paul Truong.
I exchanged messages with him and other admins on the USChessLive site.
My impression was that he felt he was not well understood in American chess circles.
That may be why he called himself 'Martian' - his family was originally from Vietnam, I believe.

NB I have added the ratings (from the site at the time) to the games above.