Sarah's Fun Game Recovery System

Finding unusual games in old periodicals can be fun.  Posting them here is a way of preserving them.

Here are two games I stumbled across that really caught my eye.

In this position White announced "Mate-in-Five."

This game was a Golden Knights correspondence game, termed an "Oddity," played in 1945.  Here is the full game:

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The second game was published in the 1913 edition of the Dutch periodical "Tijdschrift vab den Nederandschen Skaakbond," p.172

No. 17. 6e Matchpartij, gespeeld te Winschoten, den 7en November 1896, tusschen
     Wit: J. D. Tresling.
     Zwart: L. Benima.

This incredible position is reached on on move 42:

Here's how it came about and how White Mates-in-Three.

those pawns got lucky.

@batgirl: Are those empty posts attempts to post a picture by using an external link? 

Finally we see a really good post on the forum! 

Thanks batgirl. 

I beg your pardon. 

No. Rather than simply not allowing new members the ability to post in the forums for several days, this site has the annoying anti-spam policy of not putting a thread into the Most Recent list until it gets 3 comments. The empty posts were my way to circumvent that.

oh, alright... I understand you... (btw, bump!)

Let the Games Begin.

The mate in 5 was too difficult for me  

Thanks for this batgirl! It's great to see a really informative post!

lol nice last game. First serious game I've seen with that many queens on the board in total.

I played in the Golden Knights and tried to get one of my games in Chess Life's miniatures column (16 moves?). So when I got to around move 15 in a game - this is in the '70's before computers could figure it for you - I sent a postcard with a huge number of variations showing every way ended in checkmate within about 7 moves.  The guy did resign on move 16 and I submitted it, but it was never chosen - I guess the end wasn't short and sweet enough at 16!

That was pre-computer but post-Horowitz, circa Burt Hochberg.

Chess was a lot harder when you had to do everything yourself I would imagine.

I actually preferred the first game myself.  I'd never seen that response to Alekhine's Defense.  I don't even know if it's sound, but it looks like fun.

What if you hadn't sent the variations-postcard, and checkmated your opponent on move 23 at most - would it be too long to be considered a miniature? Or in the same scenario, you continued and your opponent resigned on move 20... Do you think you would have more chances to be publicized in one of those cases?

Yeah, chess was more fun in the old days... Closer to art, i think. Nowadays it's turned more into science. But us casual players can always have fun :-)) 

So 5. Bg5 # works too!

someone mentioned the pawns--i say the king because he got three wives.

Fischer - Petrosian had 4 queens. I think their ratings make their game better in terms of number of queens in the board.