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Subject: F-S II game 8 moves 1-16
From: fry@tara.harvard.edu (David Fry)
Date: 13 Sep 92 14:29:10 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard Math Department



    Reuters reports that prior to the start of the match,
Spassky, in a rare request, asked a urologist be added to the medical
team that is available around the clock for the players.  This
request was apparently not met because the team only contains a
general physician, a neurologist, and a sports medicine expert.  
According to the match rules, each player can ask for a timeout
on four occasions, but it will only be granted if the other player
premits it.  A longer break can be granted with the written diagnosis
of the medical team saying the player is ill.
	This report, and the earler AP report, seems to indicate that
the stress is already wearing on Spassky, although the AP report
indicated that Spassky's back was hurting him.


As of 16:30 GMT
   Spassky Fischer
   (White) (Black)
   1. d4 Nf6
   2. c4 g6
   3. Nc3 Bg7
   4. e4 d6
   5. f3 0-0
   6. Be3 Nc6
   7. Nge2 a6
   8. Qd2 Rb8
   9. h4 h5
   10. Bh6 e5
   11. Bxg7 Kxg7
   12. d5 Ne7
   13. Ng3 c6
   14. dxc6 Nxc6
   15. O-O-O Be6
   16. Kb1 Ne8
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From: ed@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (edward.m.hummel)
Subject: Re: Fischer-Spassky - Game 4 - the mistake
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 00:32:00 GMT
Keywords: New World Champion

In article <1992Sep7.231903.23680@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bwatkins@nyx.cs.du.edu (The God of all machines) writes:
>
>Why would Fischer have to play Kasparov in order to be considered champion?
>Karpov, sure, then maybe Kasparov.  If he must play Kasparov, though, he
>must certainly play Short or Timman next.  After that, he'd have to play
>somone else.....

The issue revolves around which title we are talking about.  It is
not clear that the FIDE title is the property of Kasparov.  If Kasparov
decided to play a "championship" match with Fischer, could he put the
FIDE title on the line without getting FIDE's approval.  It is very
unlikely that FIDE would admit there is any dispute about the legitimacy
of the title, and allow Fischer to play for it without going through
the FIDE candidates elimination process.  (Does anyone believe they
might do that?)  Kasparov would probably be tempted to cash in on his
biggest payday ever.  Kasparov was also a big fan of Fischer and would
probably love to play him if given half a chance.  Fischer's
past accomplishments (over 20 years ago) give him plenty of credibility
as a match opponent.  Curiosity alone would provide a foundation for
a match between what are arguably the two greatest chess players
of all time.

The fans would want it.  Match organizers would want it.  Fischer
might want it.  Kasparov would probably want it.  FIDE would
not want it.  If the USSR still existed, they would not want it.
I doubt FIDE would be able to stop it.  And I doubt Fischer could
care less about whether the FIDE title was on the line.
From: amarnath@aura.cis.upenn.edu (Amarnath Mukherjee)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: FISCHER SPASSKY game 1 - comments
Date: 5 Sep 92 00:46:40 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <POPE.92Sep4161858@gold.kpc.com> pope@gold.kpc.com (John Pope) writes:
>
>18.d5 c4 19.b4!?
>
>	Not only is this a novelty, but the whole idea of playing b2-b4
>	with the black pawn on c4 seems to be new (there are tons of games
>	where white plays b2-b4 with the BP on c5, though). For better or
>	worse Spassky should probably have put the idea to the test with
>	19...cb 20.Bb3 Nb6 (or maybe 20...Nc5), since after:
>

We (am - Ove) tried this out on ICS but it didn't lead to much
for black. True, I'm a patzer, and improvements on this must abound,
but this variation looks quite possible:

	19 ...   cb
	20. Bxb3 Nc5
	21. Bc2  Nxa4
	22. Bxa4 bxa4
	23. Qxa4 Nd7
	24. c4   Nc5
	25. Qa3  Qd7
	26. Reb1 Reb8
	27. Ba5  Bc8
	28. Bb6
with a big plus for white.  The game went 28...Nb7 29. Rb4 a5 30. Rb5
Ra6 31. Rab1 Bf6 32. Ne1 Nd8? 33. Bxd8 Rxb5 34. cxb5 1-0.


19. b4 sure looks great. What do strong masters on the net think?

-am
From: tony@microware.co.uk (Tony Mountifield)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Prononciation Of Names
Date: 11 Sep 92 12:45:18 GMT
Organization: Microware Systems (UK) Ltd., Winchester, UK.

In article <65640@cup.portal.com> wms@cup.portal.com (W Mark Schneider) writes:
> And how do you pronounce Euwe as in Dr. Max Euwe?

I have always pronounced it like OYVA, 'cos that's how my schoolboy
German would say it. However, I have a feeling he was Dutch, so it is
probably wrong, as I don't think the Dutch pronounce "w" as "v" like the
Germans do.

> 
> Oh, and to answer my own question, Dr. Euwe claimed then that
> it was impossible to pronounce his name correctly in English
> as that language did not have the correct sound.

That shouldn't matter.  English doesn't have the correct final consonant
for the name Bach, but most people still seem to say it correctly.  I
have heard some people say "bark", but never "batch" for a
totally-anglicized reading.  :-)

Tony.
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From: ako@jyu.fi (Antti Koponen)
Subject: Re: Alekhine a4 lines
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 17:30:51 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.202258.4122@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mzabel@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark A Zabel) writes:
>The line was: 1.e4 nf6 2.e5 nd5 3.d4 d6 4.nf3 g6 5.Bc4 Nb6
>              6.Bb3 Bg7 7. ...
>
>In article <1992Aug27.191300.19968@jyu.fi> ako@jyu.fi (Antti Koponen) writes:
>>
>>I find Qe2 very dangerous. Black finds it extremerely difficult
>>to find any counterplay. Without Qe2 I would even consider playing
>>Alburts g6!?
>
>It IS dangerous, I agree.  However, I don't think it's too
>hard to find active counterplay in these lines.  I've been
>crushed horribly a number of times, yes, but not simply
>sqeezed to death.

It would be nice of yuo to send some of your games to show where the
cunterplay lies. I have studied the coming positions quite a lot and
have been disappointed of the results black has made. Without Qe2+h3
black has enough play but.... Do you find it better to play -ed and -Nd4, or
-d5 or what do you suggest?

>
>>>Some other Black replies after 7.a4!
>>>i) 7.-dxe5
>>>8.a5 Nd7 9.Nxe5
>>
>>Yes, but of course  9.Bxf7+ as I wrote.
>
>Sorry, 8...Nd7?? is a bad blunder.  Insert Nd5 and the line
>makes sense.

No, it is not. It is perhaps ?! or even !?. Haven't you seen the
nice game Christiansen -Alburt whitch was a nice win for black.
Nd5 could be considered but Alburt lost with it very quicly recently.


Antti

>
>-Mark


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From: ed@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (edward.m.hummel)
Subject: Re: Fischer-Spassky - Game 4 - the mistake
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 00:25:20 GMT
Keywords: New World Champion

In article <lanv7lINNjqg@notrees.cs.utexas.edu> varvel@cs.utexas.edu (Donald A. Varvel) writes:
>The only championship Fischer ever won was FIDE's.
> ...
>Fischer's championship is no more Fischer's than Kasparov's is
>Kasparov's.  They are both borrowed from FIDE, and FIDE has long
>since called in Fischer's copy.

There was a world championship title before there was a FIDE.  That one
traced its ancestry back to Steinitz.  Maybe it evaporated with Alekhine,
maybe it didn't.  All it takes to create a title is someone to recognize
it.  I think Fischer would claim to be heir to another title besides just
the FIDE one.  (Even the US Congress passed a resolution recognizing his
claim -- which was/is a bit silly.)
From: pope@gold.kpc.com (John Pope)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: F-S II game 6 DRAW complete moves
Date: 11 Sep 92 17:34:46 GMT
Organization: /nfs/gold/u/home/pope/.organization

dsteele@almaden.ibm.com writes:
> After seeing what occured in the game a possible 
> big error by Spasski was at move 24. Rc7+ 
>
> Better might be 24. Bxd6 and try to maintain the 
> outside passed pawn. e.g. 24 ... Nxd6   25. Rc7+ Kf6 
> 26. Kf1

Various positions after 24.Rc7 were either winning or very close to
it, so it is difficult to label it a "big error". Also, it is more
difficult than it looks to get the b-pawn rolling so going for the
activity was probably the best try. Perhaps the mistake was in
not going for more material when he had the chance.

> I was amazed that Fischer could draw the position 
> at move 24, down a pawn with the white rook on the 7th
> and a Night vs Bishop in a fairly open position. 

Yeah, I think he was surprised himself...

--
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From: rgp@mpd.tandem.com (Ramon Pantin)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Fischer CNN
Date: 5 Sep 92 17:52:26 GMT
Organization: Tandem Computers, Micro-Products Division

In article <189qnnINNdut@agate.berkeley.edu> goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) writes:
>)... He noted that if Fischer wins the match and $3.5 million,
>)he could easily afford it.
>
>	He could easily afford the fine. I doubt that he could afford
>the jail term of up to ten years as easily...

Maybe he is planning on some cheap retirement for the next ten years?
Anyhow, there are lots of *very nice* places around the world where he
could live like a king.  None of which would extradite him back to the U.S.
Heck, it took quite a while (and quite a few innocent civilian lives, BTW)
for the U.S. to kidnap Noriega.  Fischer will never go to prison if he
doesn't want to.

Ramon Pantin
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From: mccarthy@glacier.Stanford.EDU (Anthony McCarthy)
Subject: Re: Game seven result
Organization: Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University, California
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 20:48:01 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.194406.29307@cmcl2.nyu.edu> hargitai@acf3.nyu.edu (hargitai) writes:
>Fisher wins.
>
>(just to annoy all the people who wrote him off)
>
>hj
>


From the score of the game, it looks like Spassky simply miscalculated
with .. c4.
Fischer did indeed play well after that.

Anthony
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From: craig@jido.b11.ingr.com (Craig Presson)
Subject: Re: Pronouncing GMs (was Re: Something Else, I Don't 
Reply-To: craig@jido.b11.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, Alabama
	<2aae2888wnr070@ark.abg.sub.org>
	<1992Sep10.145630.1064@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:37:01 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.145630.1064@midway.uchicago.edu> hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld) writes:
   >
   >What about Dzindzikhashwili?  8)

   That's easy: imagine it's written JINJIHASHVILLY.

	   Sven
If it's so easy, then let's get it right:
imagine it's written jinjiKHashvilly, where the KH is the Chi-sound
where your throat gets cleared while speaking. I have been coached
in this by a rather ultimate authority -- Roman himself.

-- Craig "name dropper" Presson
Yes, he slaughtered me in the simul.




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From: gls@windmill.att.COM (Colonel Sicherman)
Subject: Bovay flambe'
Organization: Historical Perspective
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 02:58:27 GMT
Keywords: ancient

I see that Jim Bovay is featured in this month's _Chess Life_--he won a
postal championship.  He played me in a tournament once.  It may have
had something to do with his taking up postal chess....

[For those of you who are too intelligent for Old Notation, the score
in Smythescript appears at the end of this article.]

Round 4 of the 1973 Buffalo City Championship.  Normally Tom Thrush and
I would have been directing, but Tom hired Ed Frumkin to come up from
Rochester and run it.  Bovay and I were both "A" players and stood 3-0.

CARO-KANN DEFENSE.  1. e4 c6; 2. d4 d5; 3. ed (to avoid complications) cd;
4. Bd3 Nc6; 5. Nf3 Bg4.

White is getting into trouble anyway.

6. c3 Qc7; 7. O-O e6; 8. Nbd2 Bd6; 9. Re1? B:h2+; 10. Kf1 h5.

It's hard to imagine Black getting into trouble, but watch!

11. Qb3 O-O-O?! 12. Bb5 Nge7; 13. Ke2? e5; 14. de N:e5; 15. Kf1 N:f3;
16. N:f3 B:f3; 17. gf.

Black has a won endgame.

17... h4 (why wait for the endgame?); 18. Be3 Nf5?!

Now White gets counterplay.

19. B:a7 Qf4 (greedy!); 20. c4 d4; 21. Qa3 Ne3+; 22. R:e3 de; 23. Qc5+
Qc7; 24. Qf5+.

And White regains the exchange, but what is going on?

		   :: -K -R    ::    -R 
		+B -P -Q    :: -P -P    
		   ::    ::    ::    :: 
		:: +B ::    :: +Q ::    
		   :: +P ::    ::    -P 
		::    ::    -P +P ::    
		+P +P    ::    +P    -B 
		+R    ::    :: +K ::    

24... Rd7; 25. c5!?

The threat of Bb6 looks hideously strong ...

25... e2+.

The only try, since 25... h3 can be answered by 26. fe and Black has nothing.

Now what should White play?  After 26. K:e2 Qe5+; 27. Q:e5 B:e5; 28. B:d7+
K:d7 White's edge is marginal and Black has counterplay on the kingside.

The critical line is 26. Kg2.  Now 26... h3+; 27. Kh1 offers only some
cheap stuff (27... Rh5!? 28. Q:h5?? Rd1+ and mates), but White can simply
exchange twice on d7 and capture the bishop.

On the other hand, 26... Rd8! is perfectly playable.  White gets little
out of 27. B:d7+ R:d7, while after 27. Bb6 Qe5 White has nothing better
than 28. Q:e5 B:e5 (28. Qg4 Q:b2 is a big mess).

Bovay, however, finds the worst imaginable reply:

26. Ke1?? Qa5+; 27. resigns.

		   :: -K ::    ::    -R 
		+B -P :: -R :: -P -P    
		   ::    ::    ::    :: 
		-Q +B +P    :: +Q ::    
		   ::    ::    ::    -P 
		::    ::    :: +P ::    
		+P +P    :: -P +P    -B 
		+R    ::    +K    ::    

There is no point in going on:  27. K:e2 Q:b5+; 28. Ke1 Re8+; 29. Qe4
R:e4+; 30. fe Q:b2; 31. Rd1 Qb4+; 32. Ke2 Q:e4+.

This sort of thing hardly ever happens in postal chess.

CARO-KANN DEFENSE.  1. F N- 2. A A 3. K NJ 4. 3C2 7XS 5. 7XXU 34 6. N- 8A1
7. 4 F- 8. 7XXA 32 9. 5P W 10. 0P H 11. 82 6 12. 3C2 7XF 13. 0 F 14. A 7J
15. 0Z 7K 16. 7J J 17. J H 18. 3XX2 7S 19. 3K 8Z3 20. N A 21. 8P 7I 22. 5
AJ 23. 8W 8 24. 83W 5 25. N W 26. 0P W 27. 30

-:-
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		 I can hear machinery."

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From: lumme@sara.cc.utu.fi (Mikael Lumme)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Users vs MChess
Date: 15 Sep 92 07:09:02 GMT
Organization: University of Turku, Finland

In the game Users vs MChess the move of the
readers of rec.games.chess is 37. Qc4

 Game #2 so far:      1 e4   e5    13 OOO  Na6   25 Rxf8+ Kxf8  37 Qc4
                      2 f4   ef    14 Nd4  Ng3   26 Qc2   Kg8
 8 - - - - - b k -    3 Nf3  d6    15 Bb5  Qe5   27 Qf5   g3
 7 - - p - - - r p    4 d4   g5    16 Rhe1 Nc5   28 Qd7   b5
 6 p - - p - - - -    5 h4   g4    17 Nb3  Nxb3  29 a3    b4
 5 - - - P - - - -    6 Ng1  f5    18 cb   a6    30 axb4  Qe7
 4 - P Q - - - - P    7 Bxf4 fe    19 Bd3  Bf5   31 Qg4   Qe3
 3 - P N - - - p -    8 Nc3  Nf6   20 Bb1  Rae8  32 Qd7   Re7
 2 - P K R - - P -    9 d5   Bg7   21 Bf4  e3    33 Qc8+  Bf8
 1 - - - - - q - -   10 Nge2 O-O   22 Bxe3 Bxb1  34 Kc2   Qf2+
   a b c d e f g h   11 Qd2  Nh5   23 Kxb1 Nf1   35 Rd2   Qf1
                     12 Bg5  Qe8   24 Rxf1 Qxe3  36 Qg4+  Rg7
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From: bwatkins@nyx.cs.du.edu (The God of all machines)
Subject: Re: F-S II gossip
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 23:01:05 GMT


The tax laws do not specify who must file a tax return.  If Fischer
should have, he needed to figure that out himself.  The tax laws
require a knowledge of predent to interpret.  The only power behind
them is really tradition and the force the police and army can 
bring to bear.  On the other point, I doubt he owes much, and
it's likely that the IRS will conclude he owes none unless he refuses
to allow his winnings to be expropriated, in which case, the IRS will
probably claim he owes 17 years of back taxes.
From: Robert_Ryan@brown.edu (Rob Ryan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: ChessMaster 3000 for Windows
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:29:53 EDT
Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: brownvm.brown.edu
News-Software: BNN via BNN_POST v1.0 beta

Apparently, Software Toolworks is working on a new release of
ChessMaster 3000 for Windows.  If you would like a copy, send them
a photocopy of your invoice or of the title page from your users
manual with a cover lever saying that you want the latest version
of ChessMaster 3000 for Windows.  You will not receive it otherwise.

I don't know about other ChessMaster 3000 users out there, but
although I like the program, it does have some bugs.  Hopefully
this release should fix most of them.

-- Rob

(P.S. You send the letter to The Software Toolworks, Inc., 60 Leveroni Court,
Novato, CA, 94949.)
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From: dguerrer@lyra.cel.scg.hac.com (Dan Guerrero)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Chessmaster 3000 - questions
Date: 13 Sep 92 02:02:47 GMT
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Colorado Engineering Labs

In article <1992Sep12.102502.42926@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>I'm an intermediate player and like my Chessmaster 3000 from Software
>Toolworks.  Two problems:
>
>a) I'd really like to get rid of the annoying 15-20 second wait for
>the fancy artwork to go away before it gets to the playing board--any

I think you can press the RETURN or ENTER key without waiting 15-20 seconds
and it will immediately take you to the playing board.  
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Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Fischers Rantings?
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 04:18:47 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


There probably is no dispute that Fischer is playing Really Decent Chess-
whether up to the par of Kasparov at this point is a debatable point. What
isn't debatable is that Fischer is cutting his own throat with his rantings
and whatnot....your average person (and average chess player, too :) can
get excited about Fischers return- up from the grave after 20 years, still
a colorful personality, still playing good chess against his old nemesis,
etc.- it makes for a good story.
But people get turned off by endless rantings: Fischer insisting to be called
World Champion- to the point of throwing out the press because he felt they
weren't 'recognizing' his WC claim, his continually blaming 'the world Jewry'
for this problem or that, etc- you've all read it all....Fischer hasn't 
realized that the rest of the world didn't get put on hold while he was gone
for these 20 years- people don't mind 'colorful', but Fischer is pushing his
limits.
What happens with all this is that, say Fischer does win, but continues his
ranting- people just aren't going to >care< if he plays Kasparov- it will be
more difficult to set up the corporate sponserships necessary to finance a
F-K match outside FIDE 'guidelines'....
All this, of course, IMHO :)
r.
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From: bwatkins@nyx.cs.du.edu (The God of all machines)
Subject: Re: fischer-spassky
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 00:47:07 GMT


You say that the FIDE cycle admits all who wish to enter.  You are wrong.
I recieved no invitation.  If the greatest chess player in the world
were my next door neighbor, and he tried to get into the cycle, what
would happen?  They would laugh and ignore him.  I see no at-large
tournments offering even one berth.  You must be well-connected in
your own country to get into a zonal.  After that, the interzonal and 
final matches are all a matter of winning _every_ game.  Easy, but
much, much easier if you're well connected and don't have to.
From: dfegan@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (Doug Egan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Which is the best chess program for a PC?
Date: 10 Sep 1992 19:29:26 GMT
Organization: LESC

In <1992Sep9.033246.28684@ccu.umanitoba.ca> sdyck@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Sheldon Dyck) writes:

>I am interested in buying a chess program for my 386sx. I've narrowed
>my choices down to either Chess Master 3000 or Grand Master Chess.
>Has anyone played these two games, and if so which is the better 
>program? Thank you.


   A friend recommends Sargon 4... It is supposed to beat CHESSMASTER over
 85% of the time in matched one-on-one play! :)
 
   I have not tried it yet...

Doug
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From: gpylant@admin1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: F-S SATURDAY
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:06:14 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University

HI,
WHAT TIME DO THEY PLAY SATURDAY?
GARY
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From: ako@jyu.fi (Antti Koponen)
Subject: Re: Chessmaster 3000 - questions
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 17:25:50 GMT


By the way. What's the rating of CM3000?


>


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From: mox@vpnet.chi.il.us (William Moxley)
Subject: Re: Game 6 ... WHEN???
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:40:42 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.155759.7953@tom.rz.uni-passau.de> obele@diogenes.uni-passau.de (Harry Obele) writes:
>Well, I just want to know when they play the next match.

Saturday.
From: elkies@ramanujan.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Augustin - Bongrantz
Date: 5 Sep 92 16:28:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Sep5.122816.15400
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard Math Department

Irving Chernev's _Combinations, the Heart of Chess_ (NY: Dover, 1967)
contains the following remarkable specimen (Diagram 4):

. _ . _ . _ . k
_ . _ . _ . p .
. _ . _ Q _ . p
_ . _ . _ P _ K
. _ . _ . q P P
_ . _ . _ . _ .
. _ . _ . _ . _
_ . _ . _ . _ .

Play continued 1.f6/i Kh7/ii 2.f7/iii Qe5+/iv 3.g5 Q:e6 4.f8=N+ 1-0
Chernev lists the players as Augustin-Bongrantz but does not say
when or where this combination was played.  This position probably
appears in other anthologies; can anyone supply the missing information?

Notes (most of the analysis is original):

i) It isn't easy to exploit the extra pawn; Black draws after
  1.Qe8+ Kh7 2.Qg6+ Kg8! 3.f6 Qe5+ 4.Qf5 Qe8+ or 1.Kg6!? Q:g4+
  2.Kf7 Kh7 3.h5! Qd4!.  With 1.f6 White threatens mate starting
  with 2.Qe8+ or 2.Kg6, and mayhem with 2.f:g7+ K:g7 3.Qg6+.
ii) A subtle defense, disposing of the mate threats and preparing
  2.f:g7 Qf7+! 3.Q:f7 stalemate!
iii) Threat 3.Qf5+.  Unfortunately none of the ensuing fireworks
  are necessary; some years ago I noticed an alternative win
  in the pawn endgame after the immediate 2.Qf5+ (Q:f5+ 3.g:f5
  g:f6 4.Kg4 Kg7 5.Kf4 Kf7 6.Ke4 Ke7 7.Kd5 Kd7 8.h5).
iv) This Queen sac seems to turn the tables, since Black will answer
  any of 3.Q:e5, 3.Qf5+, or 3.g5 Q:e6 4.f8=Q with g6 mate!  and yet...

Thanks,

--Noam D. Elkies (elkies@zariski.harvard.edu)
  Dept. of Mathematics, Harvard University