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The 2023 Red Hot Pawn Christmas Quiz

The 2023 Red Hot Pawn Christmas Quiz

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Yes! It is Christmas Quiz time again with such goodies as
Guess the carols. Guess the opening. What happened next?
And I have created the worst Chess Christmas joke of all time.

Here is one from the ‘What Happened Next’ section (I’m only using RHP games.)

Land Crawford - ronymic RHP 2012 (White to play}

(1) How should the game go? (2) What do you think really happened?

A couple of studies. (one tripped me up when I thought I had solved it)

Composed by V. Kalandaze in 1956.
(White to play and draw. This is the easier one of the two.)

The Rook can check the Black King to b1 then what. a8=Q is a check!

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Hope I live as long as Alain C. White!

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I've just chopped 70 years off.He was born in 1880 not 1810.
I've no idea where I got 1810 from....wait a minute...my OTB rating!

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What happened next is a rook underpromotion

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Hi Bob.,

Yes and then I suspect White would have been alert enough
to play the checkmate instead of stalemate.

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