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Chess Caviar; Ruy Lopez (and a Most Irregular bonus)
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May 19, 2017
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These are relics!
Beauty one after another.
So glad that I'm able to roll over these moves. True pearls!
Thank you Sarah 
May 19, 2017
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Newba wrote:
The beauty of that last game's position is unbeatable!
Prince Dadian is a rather colorful and controversial chess personage, known for, among other things, his clever chess play. You can see his most well-known games ad chessgames.com.. But 4 years ago I scoured old magazines and newspapers and found around 25 or 30 games unlisted -at that time- in every database I had consulted. You can see them, along with some commentary here: https://www.chess.com/article/view/lesser-known-games-of-prince-dadian
May 19, 2017
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Oh, and I inserted the annotations in the Dadian games where the annotation was provided in print.
May 19, 2017
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batgirl wrote:
Prince Dadian is a rather colorful and controversial chess personage, known for, among other things, his clever chess play. You can see his most well-known games ad chessgames.com.. But 4 years ago I scoured old magazines and newspapers and found around 25 or 30 games unlisted -at that time- in every database I had consulted. You can see them, along with some commentary here: https://www.chess.com/article/view/lesser-known-games-of-prince-dadian
It appears that Dadian had a rather cocky personality. Interesting story about him and Tschigorin. Seems like he used and abused of his authority to mask his defeats and build some kind of fantastic image as a chess player.
Nonetheless, his games are trully chefs-d'œuvre, and some of those ones you listed on the article seem pretty reliable.
May 19, 2017
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It's people like Dadian who give people like me the impetus to do what we do.
May 20, 2017
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batgirl wrote:
It's people like Dadian who give people like me the impetus to do what we do.
Priceless caviar diet included! :-)
May 20, 2017
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First game's Bf6 and 3rd game's Bh3 were the same basic idea, fun to have an unusual tactic echoed like that.
4th game, I was unaware that 7.d5 is a move in the open Ruy. Sometimes old games give you neat ideas to surprise people with. After 7...bxa 8.dxc d6 9.Re1 and now black has to find 9...f5 to try to refute this. Or, less likely to find OTB I think, 7...Ne7 8.Re1 f5
Reminds me of the structures you sometimes see from the 5.d4 lines.
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"Chess Caviar," Oct. 1947
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"Chess Caviar," Oct. 1947
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"Chess Caviar," March 1948
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"Chess Caviar," April 1948
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"Chess Caviar," Sept. 1948
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And as a bonus, "A Most Irregular Opening," courtesy of Prince Dadian of Mingrelia.
Chess Caviar I : A Quadruplet of Gambits.