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I was looking at the "Chess Caviar" column for January, 1957 and thought the games presented were rather fun.  Here they are:

 

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My favorite:

 

...called "one of the sprightliest drawn games ever played" :

 

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just started tracking your content, thanks

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You're very welcome.

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and it seems quite possible that you're the only one.

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Thanks for sharing these!

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15.Qd8+ in the last game would have been a slight improvement!

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it sure would have!

edit: I made an error transcribing.  I corrected it in the positng

 

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I think you missed this game

 

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In the real game, black's queen was in b6 in that move, covering the d8 square:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1342717

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kingofshedinjas wrote:

In the real game, black's queen was in b6 in that move, covering the d8 square:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1342717

Thanks. I was already re-transposing from descriptive to algbraic and reposted the game with the correction.

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gerrald_sull wrote:

I think you missed this game

??

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it was in the same 1957 article.

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gerrald_sull wrote:

it was in the same 1957 article.

What page?

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batgirl wrote:
gerrald_sull wrote:

it was in the same 1957 article.

What page?

sorry i got the 1959 edition. i sincerely apoligize. 

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This one is my favourite draw:



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kingofshedinjas wrote:

This one is my favourite draw:



mine too now that i have seen it

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 That's the famous Immortal Draw.

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gerrald_sull wrote:
batgirl wrote:
gerrald_sull wrote:

it was in the same 1957 article.

What page?

sorry i got the 1959 edition. i sincerely apoligize. 

 1959 issues are also paginated.

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batgirl wrote:
gerrald_sull wrote:
batgirl wrote:
gerrald_sull wrote:

it was in the same 1957 article.

What page?

sorry i got the 1959 edition. i sincerely apoligize. 

 1959 issues are also paginated.

right. im not sure which page it is on.  i hav the game in my database and says 1959.  If i find a copy of the original text i will post the page number and the text if it is out of copyright.

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 ok