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...
by greenpawn34 on Jun 06 2019 23:55 | 3541 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Jun 06 2019 23:56
Captain Greenpawn and his Red Hot Pawn Crew.
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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by greenpawn34 on May 02 2019 11:53 | 11623 views | 1 edit | Last edit on May 05 2019 12:49
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.} ...
by greenpawn34 on Feb 13 2019 15:33 | 5347 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Feb 13 2019 15:37
...and now at no expense spent...The History of Chess (the last bit)
In 1984 Karpov and Kasparov started playing the first of their 144 World
Championship games in Moscow, London, Leningrad, Lyon, Servile 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....
greenpawn34
on Jun 18 2019 16:41 | 95 views
