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Originally posted by Furling
perhaps this was the one? if not, it is still a beautiful game in my opinion 🙂

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1259009
I just posted that. 😛

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I think that's it! I overestimated the number of forced moves/checks, but I think the Lasker-Thomas game is it. Thanks very much; you know how frustrating it can be to know about something but to be unable to find it. Thank you to Furling and BigDogProblem.

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Originally posted by Furling
perhaps this was the one? if not, it is still a beautiful game in my opinion 🙂

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1259009
that's a class game! :-)

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The battle of Hastings
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1132699

Mate in 11. The best part though is that Steinitz set this up, and walked out of the room. Upon returning he found a note from Von Bardeleben that said simply "Saw it, went home".

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Originally posted by holzpusher
I think that's it! I overestimated the number of forced moves/checks, but I think the Lasker-Thomas game is it. Thanks very much; you know how frustrating it can be to know about something but to be unable to find it. Thank you to Furling and BigDogProblem.
Wow, you guys are just great!
someone gives a very vague description of a game, and instead of whinin bout the lil info you have to work with you guys just ask on and on until you find it,

Nuff respect!!

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This is a forced mate:

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This too:

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Originally posted by AlphaAlekhine
There is an cool WIN in 12 that was constructed by Waitzkin and Pandolfini for the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer. The position never arose in the actual game between the two prodigies.

Speaking of such, does anyone know that kid's name that was Josh's rival? I heard he never pursued chess out of his scholastic years.
Just wondering
What was funny was that the moves his teacher was calculating to himself didn't matchup to the moves Josh eventually ended up doing (no mention of the race to promote the pawns).

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Originally posted by FabianFnas
This too:

[fen]8/8/8/8/8/8/ppQKPPP1/k7 w - - 0 1[/fen]
I just posted that. 😛

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Originally posted by BigDoggProblem
I just posted that. 😛
Sorry, sorry. No harm intended.

By the way - my source says that S. R. Barret composed this problem...

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Originally posted by sannevssr
Wow, you guys are just great!
someone gives a very vague description of a game, and instead of whinin bout the lil info you have to work with you guys just ask on and on until you find it,

Nuff respect!!
Well I provided as much information as I could! Sometimes one mentions just a couple of facts not hoping folks will do strenuous work, but just hoping someone is very familiar with the answer and can solve it without much effort.

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Originally posted by FabianFnas
Sorry, sorry. No harm intended.

By the way - my source says that S. R. Barret composed this problem...
That's what I have as information on that particular problem: Author: B. Barret, "Dubugue Chess Journal" 1874. Confusing if nothing else.

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Originally posted by ilywrin
That's what I have as information on that particular problem: Author: B. Barret, "Dubugue Chess Journal" 1874. Confusing if nothing else.
Strange, indeed. 😕

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Originally posted by ilywrin
That's what I have as information on that particular problem: Author: B. Barret, "Dubugue Chess Journal" 1874. Confusing if nothing else.
Hmm. Will have to check into that later...I could swear my source ascribes the problem to Loyd.

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Originally posted by ilywrin
That's what I have as information on that particular problem: Author: B. Barret, "Dubugue Chess Journal" 1874. Confusing if nothing else.
My source is Kurt Richter : "Kurzgeschichten um Schachfiguren" (1947), Walter de Gruyter & Co. Berlin

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