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2019 Christmas Chess Quiz

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Dec 05 2019 10:54 | 1264 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Dec 06 2019 09:20


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Hello, Merry Christmas etc...etc... some of the answers are right below the questions`.
Those that require a more detailed answer are in the 'Answers' section at the bottom.

(1) One condition in Santa’s contract was not only to deliver toys to every corner
of the globe but to also take out ‘The Grinch.’ This is known as Santa’s clause. ...

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Chess Historians...Huh!

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Nov 17 2019 14:14 | 7423 views | 5 edits | Last edit on Nov 27 2019 13:20


This is all the fault of the Chess Historian Edward Winter.

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Nobody knows what Edward Winter looks like...this will do.

Ages ago his site hinted that when Morphy played his famous game at the opera in Paris
1858 the opera being performed may have been Norma by Bellini. So I went and bought it...

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King Hunts and Knight Forks

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Nov 11 2019 09:38 | 5499 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Nov 12 2019 19:34


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A King being chased across the 64 squares with a player shooting at it’s
feet still, after all these years, brings out in me a primitive joy of chess.

So when recently a Grandmaster sent another Grandmaster’s King for a walk I just
had to share it with you lot and use it as an excuse to show some of your King Hunts. ...

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Chess Shenanigans

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Oct 29 2019 12:19 | 5938 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Oct 30 2019 22:26


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....is the 30 year old Chinese player Wang Hoa.

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This is what he looks like. (picture from chessgames.com.)

The candidates to find a worthy challenger to Carlsen will be held i...

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The Chess Suicide Snare

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Oct 10 2019 10:28 | 10388 views


I’d lost my g1 Knight, but it had been on holiday and has just come back.

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red pawns

In the recent World Cup one of the rapid tie-break games between Teimour Radjabov
and Ding Liren, the Chinese player set a wee trap before resigning. In GM parlance this
is known as a joke move, but it would have been no joke if Radjabov had fallen for it...

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The Once in a Lifetime Chess Combination.

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Sep 30 2019 19:37 | 6770 views | 3 edits | Last edit on Oct 03 2019 03:11


My life is complete. I now have a Doctor Who Chess Set.

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Normally I shun these gimmick, historic or decorative chess sets.
I’m a Staunton design man, I think most of us chess players are.

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Pal Benko (1928 - 2019)

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Sep 17 2019 12:27 | 7846 views


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Pal Benko 1928 - 2019.

Sadly another great player and personality has passed away. Pal Benko.
Mention the name and three things come to mind, the opening that bears
his name, his role in Fischer getting to the 1972 World final v Spassky
and his problem page that ran for many years in Chess Life and Review...

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Ding Pins and Wins and a Chess Joke

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Sep 03 2019 17:15 | 11750 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Sep 03 2019 17:15


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The thread accompanying this blog is 182385


1... Ng5 2. Rg3 Ke5 3. Rc3 Ne4 4. Rh3
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Atomick's Pet Chess Trap!

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Aug 20 2019 17:26 | 17262 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Aug 20 2019 17:30


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Me and the duck losing at chess (it was The Duck’s Fault!)
green pawns

Last week we set the task place 18 Queens (nine of each colour)
on a chessboard without any of the Queens attacking each other.

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That is the solution but some lad over at chessgames.com let’s call him ‘Smart Alec....

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The 18 Queens Chess Problem.

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Aug 07 2019 18:56 | 8258 views

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I think it was in 1975...no it was definitely 1976 when....come
to think of it I’m positive it was 1977..,perhaps.. and I’m sitting
there playing over a game from Chernev’s 1,000 - short games.
(I have that bit right) when Ian asked....no...it was Johnny who...

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Game Changer - Chess Book Review

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Jul 26 2019 12:55 | 8502 views | 4 edits | Last edit on Jul 28 2019 11:29


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I’m not a good chess player, infact on my recent 68th birthday
they arranged the candles on my cake in the shape of an ‘?’

This is me when computers and chess crop up.

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Chess Comic + What Happened Next?

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Jul 16 2019 09:30 | 10305 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Jul 17 2019 11:04

I picked up this magazine a few weeks ago.

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It’s a common theme. A black guy is having a tough time
growing up in his ‘hood’ and is straying towards a criminal
career. But he learns Chess and the game keeps him straight.

It’s good and the artwork is excellent but of course.....

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A Brief Summary of Volunteer Instruction

by SubscriberHikaruShindoonline on Jun 30 2019 09:33 | 5815 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Jun 30 2019 09:34

Hello–
In my absence, one of the things I’ve been working is my high school’s service-learning project; or, more correctly, I’ve been working on an essay I’ve done in place of my high school’s service learning requirement this year. It comprises my thoughts on the continuation of a program at my school in which volunteers taught chess to underprivileged children, and the optimal methods of its implementation. In particular, it explains the most important topics to teach beginning chess players, and how they might be conveyed to a group of students. I thought this might be interesting to read, given the topic; as always, I welcome any comments, which I reiterate here as it’s a topic with potential impact if I’m missing something obvious.

Without further ado, below follows the reforma...

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Norwegian Chess Rules

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Jun 18 2019 16:41 | 8034 views


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World Champion Magnus Carlsen recently won a Norwegian Chess tournament
where they tried an anti-draw experiment in an effort to try and jazz things up.

The winner in normal play (referred to as classical play) was awarded 2pts.
If this game was drawn then both players received ½ point. They then played
an Armageddon Game for the remaining 1 point. The Armageddon rules were...

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H.M.S. Red Hot Pawn

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Jun 06 2019 23:55 | 6804 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Jun 06 2019 23:56


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Captain Greenpawn and his Red Hot Pawn Crew.

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Jump aboard and throw the compass out a porthole, we go where the tide takes us.
Look at this piece of treasure buried deep within the vaults of the RHP database. ...

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Chess at Lindores Abbey

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on May 26 2019 23:41 | 8960 views


I visited Lindores Abbey for the Chess All Stars.

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Had a front row seat watching Carlsen, Anand, Ding Liren and Karjakin.

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another pic of Carlsen playing Ding (it was a draw....

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Chess Traps Nobody Wants To Play

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on May 02 2019 11:53 | 11917 views | 1 edit | Last edit on May 05 2019 12:49


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First you have go through these two RHP games.
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danrose84 - Benjamin Barker RHP 2018


26. Bh3+ Kb8 {First White chased the King to b8.} 27. cxd4 Nc4 28. Rxb3 {Now White opens the a-file.} 28... axb3 29. Bg2 {White crosses his fingers and waits...} 29... b2 {The wait is over. Black could have played Qa3 here.} 30. Qa8# {That is an a1-a8 checkmate.} ...

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The Chess Pub Trap, Study and Problem

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Apr 17 2019 22:04 | 9710 views | 3 edits | Last edit on Apr 20 2019 12:50


There is a pub ‘The Pawn Lounge’ in Alexandria near Dumbarton, Scotland
that has a smashing chess mural painted on the outside. Recently I went there.

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I just had to have a picture of me leaning against that painted pawn.

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Win The World Chess Championship

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Apr 05 2019 22:14 | 5606 views

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Some of the penalty square instructions.
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USA Chess Championships + Sam Loyd

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Mar 19 2019 23:43 | 5979 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Jul 21 2019 21:08


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Caruana in relaxed mode leaning against a White King in...er....em....Spain!

Caruana, Nakamura, Wes So and Sam Shankland are all playing in the USA
Championship which will probably have started by the time you are reading this.

From amongst this group, which I will call the Big Four, who will win?...

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Boxing and Blitz

by SubscriberHikaruShindoonline on Mar 16 2019 17:14 | 4954 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Mar 16 2019 17:14

Hello readers of the Junction,

Today we’ll be following up on last week’s dissertation with a dissection of the actual chess games from several relatively high-profile chessboxing matches (i.e. the ones which were filmed online with a board.) First up is coverage of the most recent tournament I have video of from the London Chessboxing page: the International Chessboxing Brexit Belt.

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Ville “Jukola” Makinen – Guy Cohen, International Chessboxing Brexit Belt 2017 ...

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Your Chess Lottery Numbers

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Mar 11 2019 22:47 | 3585 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Mar 11 2019 23:11


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Today I am going to make some of you endgame lovers lottery millionaires.

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1. The number of people at you club that will be actually
interested when you say you have an endgame to show them. ...

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A Chess Trap No One On RHP Has Fallen Into

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Feb 27 2019 19:32 | 6681 views | 3 edits | Last edit on Feb 27 2019 21:04

The Road signs have been arriving. Thank you one and all.

The first one in came from Moonbus and this sign is found in Germany.

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Now a mixture of street names all from around the London area.

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18 years of Chess at RedHotPawn

by SubscriberRuss on Feb 21 2019 15:48 | 1868 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Feb 21 2019 15:50

18 years ago today, after a couple of months of intense late night coding, what was at the time one hobby project among many hobby projects, RedHotPawn was released to the world.

That chess site with the ridiculous name.

Happy 18th Birthday RHP


Now RedHotPawn has reached adulthood! 🎂 By dot com standards, it is virtually prehistoric! ...

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The Boxing Day Mystery

by SubscriberHikaruShindoonline on Feb 20 2019 19:35 | 1141 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Feb 20 2019 19:35

I started my journey armed with two critical facts: It was Boxing Day, and the Wu-Tang Clan make excellent music. If you can’t see where this is going, stop and listen to the below. Or, even if you can.



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There was only one problem, I discovered, as I attempted to piece together a chessboxing-themed blog: it’s really hard to find any actual chessboxing games. Substantial-time-Googling hard. I emailed several supposed governing bodies of chessboxing, the majority of which didn’t respond, although I did get one email back several months later (02–20–2019, for those of you keeping score,) from London Chessboxing. I posted in several chess forums, including this site’s, and got a few leads over in r/chess. It was on. ...

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A Chess Mnemonic and Chess Street Signs.

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Feb 13 2019 15:33 | 5663 views | 4 edits | Last edit on Nov 25 2019 19:09

...and now at no expense spent...The History of Chess (the last bit)

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In 1984 Karpov and Kasparov started playing the first of their 144 World
Championship games in Moscow, London, Leningrad, Lyon, Seville and
New York. It finally finished in 1990 with the score Kasparov 21 Karpov 19.

(I make that 104 draws which is the same number of books covering these matches....

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Chess History (part 11¾)

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Jan 29 2019 15:23 | 1847 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Feb 13 2019 15:05


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Where were we...Oh yes...the mid 40’s.......Alekhine passed away in 1946

Russia decided that FIDE needed a Chess World Champion and so invited
three Soviet players, Botvinnik, Keres and Smyslov to play for the vacant
title. FIDE meekly pointed out that it would look better if chess players from
other nations were allowed to take part. In the spirit of fair play Russia agreed....

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A History of Chess (parts 3 to 9)

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Jan 17 2019 13:51 | 7379 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Jan 20 2019 13:32


....continuing with our history of what really matters in Chess.

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We left part II with Phildor, moving onto 1813 and we get the first
Chess Column ‘The Liverpool Mercury’ edited by Egerton Smith.

Egerton published a hand drawn diagram meant to show a checkmate in...

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A History of Chess Part 1 (and part II)

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Jan 10 2019 13:04 | 4651 views


So what prompted this....well it was this.

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It’s massive, by the time you finish reading it Chess will have a new history.

The book is even bigger than me! ...

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Marshall, Alekhine, Nunn and Morphy.

by Subscribergreenpawn34 on Jan 02 2019 23:43 | 3473 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Jan 03 2019 12:16


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An early Christmas present I treated myself to was this.

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I picked it up when I down in London for the World Championship...

Yes there is something wrong. The picture of the pieces have been mirrored...

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