07 Apr 05
[Event "Ch URS, 17 Ch"]
[Site "Moscow (Russia)"]
[Date "1949.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Kotov, Alexander"]
[Black "Petrosjan, Tigran V"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D36"]
[PlyCount "25"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Be7 6. e3 c6 7. Qc2 Ne4 8.Bxe7 Qxe7 9. Nxd5 cxd5 10. Qxc8+ Qd8 11. Bb5+ Nc6 12. Bxc6+ bxc6 13. Qxc6+ 1-0
This maybe is shortest Petrosjan's defeat.
10 Apr 05
1 edit
Originally posted by TheBloopI found the game in question:
I also have an example of an amazing double-blunder by Alekhine and his opponent...I'll try to post it this weekend... I want to see if I can find the complete score of the game... If I can't find the score, I'll post the position and the double-blunder...
Alekhine was playing Black, Victor Buerger (no relation to Victor Borge) had just played N f1-g3, leading to the following position:
Alekhine then played Qxf4, thereby missing a potential Knight fork by White (37 Nh5, forking King and Queen)...
But Buerger also missed it...and played Nxe4 (grabbing a bishop)!
Alekhine eventually resigned this game..here is the score:\
[Event "Margate (02)"]
[Site "Margate (02)"]
[Date "1937.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Buerger Victor"]
[Black "Alekhine Alexander"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[EventDate "?"]
[ECO "E43"]
[PlyCount "108"]
1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 Ne4 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Qc2 f5 6. e3 b6 7. Bd3 Bb7 8. Bd2 Nxd2 9. Qxd2 O-O 10. a3 Bd6 11. Qe2 c5 12. d5 exd5 13. cxd5 a6 14. a4 Qf6 15. Rd1 Re8 16. Qc2 g6 17. O-O a5 18. Rfe1 Na6 19. Bb5 Nb4 20. Qe2 Re7 21. Qc4 Kg7 22. Re2 Rae8 23. Qb3 g5 24. Bc4 g4 25. Nd2 f4 26. exf4 Qxf4 27. Nf1 Rf8 28. Rde1 Rxe2 29. Rxe2 Be5 30. g3 Qg5 31. Ne4 Qf5 32. Qe3 Bd4 33. Qb3 Nxd5 34. Qd1 Nf4 35. gxf4 Bxe4 36. Ng3 Qxf4 37. Nxe4 Rf5 38. Qd2 Qxd2 39. Rxd2 d5 40. Ng3 Re5 41. Bd3 Re1+ 42. Kg2 Be5 43. b3 Bc3 44. Re2 Rd1 45. Bf5 d4 46. Bxg4 Rb1 47. Re7+ Kf6 48. Re6+ Kf7 49. Rxb6 Ke8 50. Ne4 Bb4 51. Rb7 Re1 52. Nf6+ Kf8 53. Bh5 Re7 54. Nxh7+ 1-0
Funny that Buerger actually moved his Knight, but definitely to the wrong square... I haven't played this full game out, but it's amazing that missing the N fork didn't cost him against Alekhine.
10 Apr 05
Originally posted by TheBloopWOW! That's amazing!
[fen]r4bk1/pp1Q1ppp/2p5/6P1/2P1q3/1P4P1/PB2rR1P/1N1R2K1 b - - 0 25[/fen]
From this position (shown), Nimzo played:
25. ... Bc5 (pinning White's rook at f2)
Missing the threat of a mate in two:
(26. Qxf7+ Kh8 27. Qxg7 mate)
Rubenstein (White),however, missed the mate in two, and played 26. Bd4 to remove the pin black's bishop had set on ...[text shortened]... played in the final round of this tournament, with First Prize going to the winner of this game.
10 Apr 05
Originally posted by TheBloop16 EDITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow!
I finally got a FEN to work... see my comment immediately following:
In the San Sebastian Tournament of 1912, Rubenstein (White) was matched against Nimzovich (Black).
On move 25, Nimzovich (Black) blundered, giving White an opportunity for a forced mate in two. The blunder was moving his Bishop which pinned W's Rook to his King.
However, Rubenst ...[text shortened]... le-blunder in history... and by two not-too-shabby players...
(See the following comment)
fred
10 Apr 05
Originally posted by Freddie2004yeah, I tried several ways to get the syntax on the FEN to work, but then I found out that Winboard can produce a FEN just by copying and pasting... end of THAT problem...
16 EDITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow!
fred
But it looks like you can only post one FEN per post...when I've tried to post two FENs in the same post, neither of them would show up...
So believe me, I worked very hard to post that thing!! I'll have to see if my 16 edits is close to a record...