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melvinbluestone wrote:
FBloggs wrote:
melvinbluestone wrote:
@Strangemover;
It's kind of like how Trump won with so many less votes than his opponent!
I cannot resist. Trump won because he had many more votes than his opponent. He had more electoral votes (the ones that matter). I always chuckle when I hear "Clinton won the popular vote." It makes as much sense as saying, "The Yankees won the World Series but the Dodgers won most runs scored in the Series." If it's not a contest, it cannot be won. The national popular vote is meaningless. It's not even used as a tiebreaker. If no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes, the presidential election goes to the House and the vice presidential election to the Senate.
I stand corrected! And I promise not to mention our President again in this thread. Politics has no place in chess...... or at least it shouldn't.
I wasn't chastising you, melvin. There was nothing partisan or offensive about your comment. And my response wasn't directed at you. It just gave me an opportunity to remind Americans that the national popular vote has never been relevant to presidential elections. I believe the Electoral College was one of many great gifts we received from the Founders. However, I'll refrain from explaining why because I agree with you that this is about chess, not government or politics.
I appreciate your contributions to this thread. Thanks.
president_max wrote:
ahem, there is only 1 president worth mentioning on chess.com.
Halimah Yacob or you? 
president_max wrote:
well, she's NOT on chess.com, so ...
You never know. FBloggs is not my real name.
president_max wrote:
whatever you say, halimah ;-)
No! For the record, I am not the president of Singapore.
president_max wrote:
but that's what they all say ...
Well, of course and they're all correct - except the president of Singapore.
melvinbluestone wrote:
Love that Reti - Tartakower game. Both these players were fascinating characters. Tartakower once said "The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made." Somehow, I think he was talking about my games!
I've posted this game before. Rudolph Charousek was a Hungarian player who died tragically at 26. Here he employs the Danish Gambit, quite popular in his day, but rarely seen in top-level play today as it's considered inferior. It's still fun on a club level, though.
That's another good one.
Feb 2, 2018
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Thanks for posting the games, somehow I did not get it to work! :-D
AlexanderMagnos wrote:
Thanks for posting the games, somehow I did not get it to work! :-D
No problem. Great games. When I started this thread I didn't know how to post a game. Yeah, only I would start a thread named Favorite famous game without knowing how to post games. After a couple of guys here taught me how, I edited my opening post, adding the game. But by that time, the game had been posted twice later in the thread - first by someone else and then by me (just to see if I could do it).
Feb 2, 2018
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FBloggs wrote:
The great thing about the above Kasparov game is that his opponent wasn't named Kieseritzky, Dufrense, Levitsky or Glucksberg. A brilliancy against another top-tier grandmaster is especially cool.
For a former World Champion, Topalov has been on the wrong end of a few brilliancies.
Here's one by Ivanchuk. Chucky is my favorite modern player. He is capable of flights of fantasy that would shame a drug addict. But sometimes he gets carried away. On a good day, he's the best player on Planet Earth. On a bad day, he's the best player on Planet Ivanchuk.
Watch him spank a world champion like a red-headed step-child...
blueemu wrote:
FBloggs wrote:
The great thing about the above Kasparov game is that his opponent wasn't named Kieseritzky, Dufrense, Levitsky or Glucksberg. A brilliancy against another top-tier grandmaster is especially cool.
For a former World Champion, Topalov has been on the wrong end of a few brilliancies.
Here's one by Ivanchuk. Chucky is my favorite modern player. He is capable of flights of fantasy that would shame a drug addict. But sometimes he gets carried away. On a good day, he's the best player on Planet Earth. On a bad day, he's the best player on Planet Ivanchuk.
Watch him spank a world champion like a red-headed step-child...
Nice game. By the way, when I first saw your handle, I didn't take a good look at it. It just hit me.
melvinbluestone wrote:
This is a pretty interesting game. I don't think it's very famous, though. However, the main reason I'm posting it is to afford myself the opportunity to slip in another reference to our President, via a rather obvious and not-too-original 'typo'.
Octavio Milhouse Bouvier Trumpowsky (I'm not sure of the spelling of that last name.... it's either 'Tro' or 'Tru'.......... well, I'll go with Tru) is a Brazilian-American chess player, best known as the originator of the Trumpowsky Attack: 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5. Called simply 'Trump' by friends, colleagues and Republicans, he's renowned for his fearsome attacking style, controversial hairdo, and a lot of big, fancy buildings that bear his name. Though initially not taken seriously by many opponents, he used the Trumpowsky Attack successfully in 2016 to dispatch a of number of top-level adversaries, including GMs Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Miguel Najdorf. Vladimir Kramnik has said "I'd rather take on Putin than Trump! And Putin's KGB!" IM Bill Kristol, when asked whom he preferred to face OTB, quickly answered "Never Trump!".
In this game, Trump advisor Rafael Vaganian handily defeats Democratic hopeful George Steven Botterill at the recent World Economic & Chess Forum......
"I stand corrected! And I promise not to mention our President again in this thread. Politics has no place in chess...... or at least it shouldn't."
Uh-huh. Keep this up and I'll be forced to pontificate about the Electoral College.
I'm familiar with the Trumpowsky Attack - at least the main lines: Lyin' Ted, Little Marco, Low Energy Jeb and Crooked Hillary.
By the way, I wish people would stop making me google. You should know I hate that! But I was curious so I had to see if there was such an opening as the Trompowsky Attack. There is but I don't plan to use it.
Oh yeah. Good game.
@Kratos1k1: Nice game and a great finish.
Speaking of finishes, check this one out. This was Game 62 of the La Bourdonnais-McDonnell matches of 1834.
La Bourdonnais and McDonnell played a series of six matches in 1834, a total of 85 games. La Bourdonnais won four matches, McDonnell won one and the last was abandoned with McDonnell ahead by a game. La Bourdonnais recorded a total of 45 wins, 27 losses and 13 draws. He is considered the unofficial world champion from 1821 until his death in 1840.
Agree with the Opera game!
Also: Reti - Tartakower, Vienna 1910
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1250654
I remember that one.