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soheil_hooshdaran
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Blunders

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Thu Nov 19, 2015 8:41 am

Hi.
I thought it was only me blundering. Look
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Barry Sandercock
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Re: Blunders

Post by Barry Sandercock » Thu Nov 19, 2015 11:21 am

Soheil Hooshdaran wrote:
I thought it was only me blundering.

Don't worry Soheil. I make worse blunders than that.
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John Clarke
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Re: Blunders

Post by John Clarke » Thu Nov 19, 2015 9:28 pm

Even top GMs are not immune to this sort of foozle.
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
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Matt Mackenzie
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Re: Blunders

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Thu Nov 19, 2015 10:16 pm

Black can play on in the original example by giving up his Q on d1, though White should still win in due course?
"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)
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soheil_hooshdaran
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Re: Blunders

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Fri Nov 20, 2015 3:24 am

Yes he could have. But White has a number of different advantages like outside passed pawn and better coordination. Coordination talks in these situations, especially.
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Re: Blunders

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Fri Nov 27, 2015 4:15 pm

Come and learn How to lose!
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Matt Mackenzie
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Re: Blunders

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Fri Nov 27, 2015 4:17 pm

Ouch :oops:

Though I think Black is still better after Kh1 then Rd2?
"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)
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soheil_hooshdaran
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Re: Blunders

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Fri Nov 27, 2015 4:26 pm

Yes, he 'd win. Actually 2.dxc4 was a mistake. bxc4 was better, and Black would be statically better.
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Re: Blunders

Post by Andrew Bak » Fri Nov 27, 2015 7:42 pm

I notice this was a blitz game, much worse blunders than yours happen all the time. One notable example being Svidler's rook blunder in the final of the World Cup
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John McKenna

Re: Blunders

Post by John McKenna » Fri Nov 27, 2015 11:23 pm

My worst by far was against Mr. Blunderful himself -



Is that exceptional?
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Stewart Reuben
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Re: Blunders

Post by Stewart Reuben » Sat Nov 28, 2015 1:05 am

Remember Kramnik allowed mate in 1 against a computer when not worse.

The late Al Horowitz told me the following story twice. It is even possible it may be true.
He was kibbitzing a simul by Capablanca. Capa played QxQ mate.
Friend 'Have you ever seen such a strong move?^
Al' Certainly. I was once playing, played my move and my opponent dropped dead.

The following story was in 'Blunders of the Year' in Not the BCM.
Black made his move and offered a draw.
White thought for som time and then resigned.

The blunders are all there - waiting to be made.
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Stewart Reuben
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Re: Blunders

Post by Stewart Reuben » Sat Nov 28, 2015 1:16 am

I have just invented the following:
White Kf6, Pe6. Black kf8 rg8 ra5 bb5.
1...Be8. 2 e7#. In a completely winning position, Black has forced White to mate him.
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IM Jack Rudd
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Re: Blunders

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Mon Nov 30, 2015 2:18 pm

John McKenna wrote:My worst by far was against Mr. Blunderful himself -



Is that exceptional?
Well, it's a Worst Move On The Board. That's grown into quite a long series on the S&B blog.
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MartinCarpenter
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Re: Blunders

Post by MartinCarpenter » Mon Nov 30, 2015 3:21 pm

Reckon this rather too recent effort of mine was quite classy in a slightly unusual way.



Not often you get to repeat the same blunder twice in three moves :)
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John McKenna

Re: Blunders

Post by John McKenna » Mon Nov 30, 2015 4:05 pm

Is that exceptional?

Well, it's a Worst Move On The Board. That's grown into quite a long series on the S&B blog.
Thanks for that reminder about the S&B blog series on blunders, Jack

Mine is probably too easy for inclusion - I made the blunder automatically.

It's the "worst move(s) on the board" that take some effort to find that take the cake.

Also, what I meant by asking if it is 'exceptional' was - have others blundered horribly against Mr. Blunderful? (There are examples of him blundering about elsewhere on the forum, but do his opponents also lose to him by blundering, as I did, was what I was wondering.)

*Edit: The one by MartinCarpenter, above, looks like a candidate for the S&B blog series, but the PGN is wrong.*
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