HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: renner@adobe.com (John Renner)
Subject: Re: desparately seeking Mac chess font
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 17:56:13 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.152813.23599@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> wacb@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Bill Christens-Barry) writes:
>Anyone who can help me get a chess font that can be used to produce GOOD
>diagrams using a word processor running on the Mac please let me know. 

Well, Linotype has produced a font of chess pieces which you
may want to check (pun intended).  Adobe sells it as package
number 240 [Linotype Game Pi], which also includes symbols for
Dice and English- & French-style playing cards.
All in Type1 format, of course.

> I have the "Cheq" font given out by Adobe, but it
>really isn't up to the fonts used in most books, magazines, columns, etc.

Linotype's design is of the ornate-ness that you seem to desire.
Perhaps you might try their Duc De Berry font for your text. ;-)

Just a suggestion...

-john




Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: Dennis Baker <helios!canal.crc.uno.edu!DCBCS@tssi.com>
Subject: Karpov-Short game 3
Organization: Chessnews list (chessnews-request@tssi.com)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 13:17:00 GMT


Thanks again to Peter Rice for posting this on Chess-L.

Dennis Baker
<DCBCS@uno.edu>


Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 10:51:00 +0100
From: Peter Rice <Peter.Rice@EMBL-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject: Karpov-Short game 3


Great news for English chess supporters. Nigel Short at last played a decent
opening, and went straight for the initiative in a Queen's Gambit Accepted
by castling long and pushing the K-side pawns. Karpov tried to escape into
an ending, but got into bad time trouble (2 minutes for moves 31-40) and
failed to find a defensive plan.

After 50 moves, Short has finished gaining space, and has won a pawn
which with his pieces more active should give him good chances of a win.

I believe the adjournment will be played today. If not, they will be
playing game 4.

No news yet of the other match (Yusupov-Timman), where Yusupov won game 1
with White, and drew game 2.

Denis: please post to rec.games.chess. Hope you like the format this time...

[Much better! :) - Dennis]

White: Anatoly Karpov
Black: Nigel Short
Candidates Semi Final game 3

+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|   |...|   |...|   |...|   |...| 8
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|...|   |...|   |...|   |...|   | 7
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| P |...|   |...| N |...|   |...| 6
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|...| P |.P.|   |.K.|   |...|   | 5
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|   |...|   |.R.|   |.P.|   |...| 4
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|...|*P*|...|*N*|...|*P*|...| P | 3
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|*P*|   |*R*|   |*K*|   |...|*P*|...| 2
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|...|   |...|   |...|   |...|   | 1
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h

1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc 3.e4 Nf6 4.e5 Nd5 5.Bxc4 Nb6 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.Be3 Nb4 8.Be4 f5
9.exf6 exf 10.Nc3 f5 11.Bf3 N4d5 12.Bd2 Be6 13.Nge2 Qd7 14.0-0 0-0-0
15.Re1 Rg8 16.Bg5 Re8 17.Nf4 Nxf4 18.Bxf4 g5 19.Be5 Bg7 20.Rc1 Bxe5
21.dxe5 Qxd1 22.Bxd1 a6 23.g3 Re7 24.b3 Rd7 25.f3 Nd5 26.Na4 b6 27.Be2 Kb7
28.Bc4 c5 29.Kf2 Rgd8 30.Re2 Nc7 31.Rcc2 Kc6 32.Nb2 b5 33.Bxe6 Nxe6
34.Rc1 Rd4 35.Ke1 R4d5 36.Kf2 Nd4 37.Re3 f4 38.gxf gxf 39.Re4 Ne6 40.Rc2 Rd2+
41.Re2 Rxc2 42.Rxc2 Rd4 43.Re2 Kd5 44.Kg2 h5 45.Kf1 h4 46.Kg2 Ng5
47.Kf2 h3 48.Rc2 Ne6 49.Ke2 Kxe5 50.Nd3+ adjourned.

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 Phone:   +49-6221-387247                     |       W-6900 Heidelberg
 Fax:     +49-6221-387306                     |       Germany

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From: wp01jst1@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (John Tomas)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Goldman analysis
Date: 8 Apr 92 21:04:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucsbcsl.4077


Wouldn't it simply be easier for Black to play Nxe4 before playing
0-0?  That would involve the elimination of a couple of minor
pieces after Bxe7 Qxe7 Qxe4 Nf6 and now Black should have a rather
easy game, I would think.
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: laurence@cco.caltech.edu (Dustin Lee Laurence)
Subject: Re: Pitch for TV chess
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 22:55:16 GMT

This brings a point to mind; a chess TV show might do well to make a
point of covering a bit of computer chess, as well as regular chess.
I would imagine that there would be viewers who are more interested
in computer chess than in regular chess, and among the rest there
will be a bit of controversy about the possibility and advisability
of a computer competing for and winning the world title.  Controversy
is always a good thing to have in a program like this.


-- 
Dustin

laurence@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu
From: Ron_Kownacki@TRANSARC.COM
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: 50 out of 100?
Date: 15 Apr 92 14:09:45 GMT

>> Ah, but I think now you are changing the problem from one of predicting
>> the result of the games that I am about to play to one of predicting
>> the results of all players over the long run.  It's similar to the
>> difference between betting on the next coin toss as opposed to the next
>> 100 coin tosses: 50 heads out of 100 is a better bet than 1 head out of
>> 1.
>>

If you really believe this, I'd like to invite you over to my house for a
little gambling.  The food and drink is on me.

Ron


Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: jgrewe@isis.cs.du.edu (Jeremy Grewe)
Subject: Anyone wanting to play via network?
Keywords: games
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 23:44:05 GMT

if anyone is wanting to play a game over the network (ie like postal) let me know
i have a over the board rating of 1387 and postal of 1880 (haven't played
in a while though)

my email is jgrewe@uafhp.uark.edu

Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: breuker@cs.rulimburg.nl (Dennis Breuker)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Timman - Yusupov, 2 games
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:21:38 GMT
Reply-To: breuker@cs.rulimburg.nl (Dennis Breuker)
Organization: University of Limburg, Maastricht

Here are the first two games of the Timman - Yusupov match:

Yusupov - Timman, 1st game
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 0-0 5.Bg2 c6 6.0-0 d5 7.cxd5 cxd5 8.Nc3 Ne4
9.Nxd4 dxe4 10.Ne5 f6 11.Qb3+ e6 12.Nc4 Nc6 13.e3 f5 14.Bd2 Rb8 15.a4 Rf7
16.Rac1 b6 17.f3! exf3 18.Bxf3 Bb7 19.Bxc6 Bxc6 20.Ne5 Bxa4 21.Nxf7 Bxb3
22.Nxd8 Rxd8 23.Rc3 Bd5 24.Rfc1 Bf6 25.Rc8 Bb7 26.R8c7 Be4 27.Bb4 g5
28.Be7 Bxe7 29.Rxe7 f4 30.gxf4 gxf4 31.exf4 a5 32.Kf2 Bf5 33.Rb7 b5 34.Rcc7
Black resigns, 1 - 0

Timman - Yusupov, 2nd game
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.d4 Nxe4 4.Bd3 d5 5.Nxe5 Bd6 6.0-0 0-0 7.c4 Bxe5
8.dxe5 Nc6 9.cxd5 Qxd5 10.Qc2 Nb4 11.Bxe4 Nxc2 12.Bxd5 Bf5 13.g4 Bxg4
14.Be4 Nxa1 15.Bf4 f5 16.Bd5+ Kh8 17.Rc1 c6 18.Bg2 Rfd8 19.Nd2 h6N 20.h4 Rd3
21.Rxa1 g5 22.hxg5 hxg5 23.Bxg5 Rg8 24.Bf6+ Kh7 25.Nf1 f4 26.Kh2 Rg6
27.Re1 Rh6+ 28.Kg1 Rg6 29.Kh2 Rh6+ 30.Kg1 Rg6 31.Kh2
1/2 - 1/2

Dennis Breuker
(breuker@cs.rulimburg.nl)
From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Draw offers (was Re: More Reshevsky)
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:39:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: alice.22609
Reply-To: ark@alice.UUCP ()
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ

In article <1992Apr15.185125.13679@cis.uab.edu> sloan@cis.uab.edu (Kenneth Sloan) writes:

> The doubling cube idea is a bit more radical.  I've thought about it a
> bit, and finally concluded that any reasonable scheme would lead to even
> shorter and less interesting "grandmaster draws".

Here's an idea that might work: how about a chess clock with three buttons
on top: one for each player and one in the middle to offer a draw.

To offer a draw, you push the middle button.  The button stays down as
an unambiguous signal that a draw has been offered, AND IT STARTS YOUR
OPPONENT'S CLOCK.  Opponent can decline the draw by making a move and
pressing the button, which pops the draw button back up again.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 22:35:03 -0400 
From: Louis Blair <lb2e+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Shortest GM game (was Re: Goldman analysis)
	<1992Apr10.164914.29132@craycos.com>

>Of course, the shortest master game of all time (from Chernev's
>old books) went like this:
>
>1. d4      Nf6
>2. Nd2     e5
>3. dxe5    Ng4
>4. h3??    Ne3
>5. resigns
>
>It was a casual game between two minor masters, but interesting
>nonetheless...

This is the supposed Gibaud vs Lazard game that giri referred to.
As I said just a moment ago, the prevailing opinion these days is
that the game never really happened.  Ask Hanon Russell if you
don't believe me.
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: trb@ima.isc.com (Andrew Tannenbaum)
Subject: Re: Sticking to your principles
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 16:56:26 GMT

In article <54353@hydra.gatech.EDU> jb118@prism.gatech.EDU (Jeffrey N. Burch) writes:

> I had an experience which involved Reshevsky, although I don't know
> whether to be more angry at him or at GM Arthur Bisguier.
...
> After this I went back to the TD room, and about 5 minutes later, a very
> angry Arthur Bisguier stormed into the room and said (these were his 
> exact words) "some idiot is running around outside telling people not
> to start their games".

Hmmm.  Possible sequence of events.  You tell Reshevsky to wait, and
you go away.  Reshevsky waits, Bisguier asks someone, maybe Reshevsky,
why he's waiting, and is told, someone told Reshevsky to wait.  Bisguier
goes to Glen, etc.  You don't know the details, I don't know how you
can go pinning it on Reshevsky, or even Bisguier.

	Andrew Tannenbaum   Interactive   Cambridge, MA   +1 617 661 7474
From: wsquires@lonestar.utsa.edu (William H. Squires)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Strange opening?
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:04:20 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
      W       B


  Unfortunately, I can't find any books that cover this opening sequence by
white. Is there an (obvious) weakness involved with the f-pawn? Specifically,
can black prepare so as to trap white on the (perhaps) open e1-h4 diagonal?
I've tried responding to this with conventional king's gambit openings for
black, but get nowhere fast! My erstwhile opponent is, by the way, my father.
He seems to know only this opening (and pretty well, at that). He wants to
enter tourneys, but I told him that he needs to know more openings (white, and
especially black!) before he wastes his money. Oh, well... sigh. :)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: giannone@BBN.COM (Tony Giannone)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Looking for improvement suggestions
Date: 8 Apr 1992 17:31:43 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com


Hi all,

I'm looking for suggestions on how to improve my chess game. My current USCF
rating is 1180, based on one 4-game tournament.

I don't have the time to attend a lot of tournaments (maybe 2 or 3 a year) so
the only over-the-board experience I get is with friends, an occasional ICS
match, email games, and my computer (Fidelity Mach III). I try to play as much
as I can, given the constraints of my personal and professional lives.

I'd like to be able to compete with class C (and maybe even B) players. At this
point, every time I try a game against one of these players I have trouble
making it through the middlegame (without being materially behind).

Is it time to start studying (i.e. memorizing) openings? Up till now, I just
fight for control of the center and try to avoid getting trapped. I'd rather
not have to memorize openings, but if it's the only way ...maybe I have no
choice.

I'd appreciate any advice (books, methods, etc) that you could provide.

thanks,
tonyg (giannone@bbn.com)
From: juffi@tartarus.uchicago.edu (Johannes Fuernkranz)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: How Do You Increase Speed?
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:11:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: tartarus.juffi.702756669
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In <1992Apr3.171409.18366@cs.brown.edu> jhc@iris.uucp (James H. Coombs) writes:

>P.S. I recently won a game in which I was down a piece and had 2
>minutes left on the clock to my opponent's 35 minutes.  He moved his
>knight to a reasonable position, as much to kill time as to build up
>pressure, and I mated him on the next move.  Being in time trouble can
>work to your advantage (not a reason to get there but something to take
>the pressure off yourself).

How true. I'm a rather quick player and almost never get in time trouble
myself. But when my opponent is in time trouble, I somehow feel forced to
move quickly, because I think I shouldn't give him the opportunity to think
on my time. And then things like the above happen not occassionally, but
quite frequently.

					--- Juffi

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| DI Johannes FUERNKRANZ                          Dep. of Computer Science |
| juffi@cs.uchicago.edu                           University of Chicago    |
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From: elkies@ramanujan.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Endgame Solution Forgotten
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:38:15 GMT
Organization: Harvard Math Department

In article <880058@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
jqtaylor@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (John Quill Taylor) writes:

>I lost the solution to this; does anyone recall it? - jqtaylor -
>
> White: Kc1, Qd1, Rf1, Be3, Bd5, a3, b2, c2, e5, g5
>
> Black: Kg7, Qc4, Rb8, Bc8, Be7, Na5, Nd7, a6, b7, g6
>
>        Black to move and win!

Black is a couple pieces ahead so needs "only" to defuse White's
attack.  1...Nb3+ 2.Kb1 Nd2+! should do the trick: on 3.B:d2 Q:d5,
and other White moves allow Q:f1.

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

P.S. This is an *endgame*!?
From: BOYDJ@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA (Jeff Boyd)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Kevin Spraggett
Date: 8 Apr 92 01:13:00 GMT


As requested by a few unsuspecting souls, here it is. If you like to see
good chess, hit "next" immediately, cuz this ain't it.


jeff

 -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -

   Date:  25-May-1980
  White:  Jeff Boyd
  Black:  Kevin Spraggett (simul)
Opening:  Bird

1.f4 d5 2.b3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Bg4 4.e3 c6 5.Be2 e6 6.Bb2 Bf3 7.Bf3 Bd6 8.a3 Nbd2
9.d3 O-O 10.Nd2 Qe7 11.O-O e5 12.f5 a5 13.e4 de 14.de Bc5 15.Kh1 Bd4
16.c3 Ba7 17.Qc2 Rfd8 18.Nc4 Nc5 19.Rad1 a4 20.b4 Nb3 21.Nd2 Nd2
22.Rd2 Rd2 23.Qd2 Rd8 24.Qe2 h6 25.c4 Bd4 26.Rd1 Bb2 27.Rd8 Qd8
28.Qb2 Qd4 29.Qd4 ed 30.c5 Nd7 31.Kg1 Ne5 32.Bd1 Nc4 33.Ba4 Na3
34.Kf2 Nc4 35.Ke2 Kf8 36.Bb3 Ne5 37.h3 Ke7 38.Bc2 g6 39.g4 Kf6 40.Kf2 Kg5
41.Kg3 d3 42.Bd1 Nc4 43.Bf3 d2 44.Be2 Nb2 45.e5 (slime alert) d1Q 46.h4#
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 10 Apr 1992 20:45:41 CDT
From: <U14540@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Looking for improvement suggestions
 <1992Apr10.181945.26728@cs.brown.edu> <1992Apr10.214208.10227@cis.uab.edu>
 <1992Apr10.224435.22885@colorado.edu>

In article <1992Apr10.224435.22885@colorado.edu>, perlman@qso.Colorado.EDU
(perlman eric) says:
>
Man chess is my favorite game in the world. I have all the chess books ever
written. I think I can beat that Russian guy. People who see me think I'm
nerdy but that just because I have thick glasses and I always carry a chess
set with me. I know I'm not a nerd because I don't associate with people
of the opposite sex. My iq is about 175. I'm always looking for new chess partn
ers. So if you ever stop by uic look for me. I'm the good looking guy with
thick glasses and long oily hair.
                                    Sebastian "king me" Beneton
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: sloan@cis.uab.edu (Kenneth Sloan)
Subject: Re: junk mail
Organization: CIS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:47:51 GMT

In article <57139@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>> Someone has been collecting US mail addresses from rec.games.chess
>> postings, and sending unsolicited sales literature. 
>> 
>> Please stop.  We are not amused.
>
>I'm amused.  Why do people have US mail addresses in their postings (and
>often home phone numbers!)?
>
>							Tim Smith
So that our colleagues can respond when phone, e-mail, or USmail are
appropriate.  Junk mail is not appropriate.  It is rude.  It is
counter-productive.  It wastes trees.

We have no objection to polite mailings - especially those which
indicate how our name found its way into their mailing list.  But
virtually anonymous mailings of sales brochures, complete with
testimonials from such giants in the field as ES and HWR printed
diagonally across the glossy pictures are not my idea of "polite
mailings".

USElessNET has a a long standing tradition of collegiality, and a strong
presumption against commercial exploitation.  Explaining this tradition
in detail is a long and arduous task.  You either get it, or you don't.

'Tis a shame actually.  We were just about to subscribe to this
particular rag (um, world famous, highly regarded, much "blurbed", chess
journalistic experience).  But, we have two unbreakable rules:

    0) never see a film that you first hear about on TV
    1) never respond to junk mail

We expect (resignedly) that commercial ventures such as USCF may, from
time to time, sell their mailing lists to other commercial enterprises
associated with chess.  We complain loudly when they sell our names (and
home phone numbers!) to Sprint, which at first glance seems to have
nothing to do with chess.

On the other hand, we refuse to go along with the idea that it is
polite, or in our case - productive, to compile mailing lists from
USElessNET articles for the purpose of direct mail solicitation.

Others clearly have different standards.  They are welcome to them.

Gens Unna Sumus

-- 
Kenneth Sloan                   Computer and Information Sciences
sloan@cis.uab.edu               University of Alabama at Birmingham
(205) 934-2213                  115A Campbell Hall, UAB Station 
(205) 934-5473 FAX              Birmingham, AL 35294-1170
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
From: azjohn@eagle.larc.nasa.gov (John Paul Phillips)
Subject: Re: Sticking to your principles
Reply-To: azjohn@eagle.larc.nasa.gov (John Paul Phillips)
Organization: NASA
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 12:29:04 GMT

In article <01GIPQVJT3YO8X2FXU@canal.crc.uno.edu>, DCBCS@CANAL.CRC.UNO.EDU 
(Dennis Baker) writes:
> I just saw a post where Samuel Reshevsky was admired for "sticking
> to his principles" and not playing chess on Friday nights and 
> Saturdays, due to his being an Orthodox Jew or something.
> 
> I believe Bobby Fischer also "stuck to his principles" when he followed
> the observances of that nut group he was in -- what, the "Church of the
> Air" or something -- and refused to play on certain days.  Since he later
> had a falling out with this group, I'm confused about whether to admire
> this anymore, this "sticking to your principles" thing.  Actually I'm not
> confused at all.  We might say Fischer's refusal to play on such and such
> a day or days was all for naught.  Much ado about nothing.
> 
> Dennis Baker
> <DCBCS@uno.edu>
> 
    I believe that the church was called "Worldwide Church of God", because
I'm currently attending their services. (They being nuts, well... I won't 
exactly call myself nuts 8^) ). The people who has been members since the 
early '70's have told me that Bobby was a member but left. They didn't know
why, just that he stopped attending services. In a nutshell, (pun very much
intended), the church practices most of the Jewish customs described in the
Old Testament while believing that Christ is the Messiah. Thus, they observe
the Sabbath from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset and devote it to services 
and church activities. Also, there is some special days of observance, like 
the Passover and The Days of Unleavened Bread. Members believe themselves to
be true Christians. 

 Some people has accused Bobby Fischer of using those as a pyschological
 weapon to rattle his opponents. Well, I dunno, but I'm sure that this 
theory has been discussed in some books. 

   I can't help but be curious... Dennis, why did you call that church, if 
that was the one you were referring to, as "that nut group" ? Any facts to
back that opinion up? (If they indeed were nuts, then I'll like to know! ;^)).

------------------------
       John Paul Phillips   
             "Azjohn"         
         NASA/Langley        
azjohn@eagle.larc.nasa.gov
From: DCBCS@CANAL.CRC.UNO.EDU (Dennis Baker)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: The Golden Age of Chess
Date: 9 Apr 92 14:39:00 GMT

Well I've started going through 2 chess books recently that I highly recommend.

One is William Ewart Napier's _Paul Morphy and The Golden Age of Chess_,
edited by I.A. Horowitz.  The copyrights listed are 1934 and 1935 by Napier
and 1957 by Horowitz.  I checked this one out of my local library.  This is
one of those treasure chests of a book containing all those wonderful old
romantic attacking games of chess, blindfold games, odds games, etc.  These
kinds of games remind me of why I first took up chess.  In fact, I first
discovered chess in these types of books.  It was years later in my youth
that I discovered that Soviets dominated contemporary chess.  As a 12-year-old,
the first names in chess that I discovered were those of Anderssen, Morphy,
Blackburne, Bird, Captain Mackenzie, MacDonnell, Labourdonnais...  I think
it's good to remind yourself every now and then why you originally took up
the game.

Here's one game from this book for an example of what I'm talking about.
This game is also memorable for me because it was presented at a simultaneous
chess exhibition lecture by Jude Acers in 1972 at Louisiana State University,
where I was a freshmen at the time.  This was just after Bobby Fischer won
his title, an event which caused me to renew my interests in chess, and then
enter my first USCF-rated tournament in 1973.

Adolf Anderssen - Dr. Max Lange
Breslau 1859
Ruy Lopez

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nd4 4.Nxd4 exd4 5.Bc4 Nf6 6.e5 d5 7.Bb3 Bg4 8.f3
Ne4 9.O-O ("Of course 9...Qh4+ is the answer to 9.fxg4 or 9.d3" - Napier/
Horowitz) 9...d3! 10.fxg4 Bc5+ 11.Kh1 Ng3+! ("From this point on Black's
moves are a study in precision and polish." - Napier/Horowitz) 12.hxg3
Qg5! 13.Rf5 h5! 14.gxh5 Qxf5 15.g4 Rxh5+!! 16.gxh5 Qe4! 17.Qf3 Qh4+ 18.Qh3
Qe1+ 0-1 ("White resigns -- it is mate in three."  Napier/Horowitz)

Sigh...  the good ol', romantic 'ol days :)

Dennis Baker
<DCBCS@uno.edu>
From: clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Reinfeld Take 2
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:42:34 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


White to play (1001 WCSC, #14):

         8 r - - - - r k -
         7 p - - n q p p p
         6 Q p p - - - - -
         5 - - - p - - - -
         4 - - - P n - - -
         3 - - N - P N - -
         2 P P - - - P P P
         1 - - R - - R K -
           a b c d e f g h

Reinfeld gives 1. Qb7 Rfc8 as the main line, and also 1. .. Qd6 as
a possible Black reply.  Which move for Black is actually the best?
How do the moves Reinfeld gives match up?
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Chris Long, 272 Hamilton St. Apt. 1, New Brunswick NJ  08901  (908) 846-5569

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