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== Notable Chess Matches == | == Notable Chess Matches == | ||
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| + | <pgn layout=horizontal initialHalfmove=17 autoplayMode=none height=330> | ||
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| + | [Event "Rosenwald Memorial"] | ||
| + | [Site "Game of the Century"] | ||
| + | [Date "1956.10.17"] | ||
| + | [EventDate "?"] | ||
| + | [Round "8"] | ||
| + | [Result "0-1"] | ||
| + | [White "Donald Byrne"] | ||
| + | [Black "Robert James Fischer"] | ||
| + | [ECO "D92"] | ||
| + | [WhiteElo "?"] | ||
| + | [BlackElo "?"] | ||
| + | [PlyCount "82"] | ||
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| + | 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. d4 O-O 5. Bf4 d5 6. Qb3 dxc4 | ||
| + | 7. Qxc4 c6 8. e4 Nbd7 9. Rd1 Nb6 10. Qc5 Bg4 11. Bg5 {11. Be2 | ||
| + | followed by 12 O-O would have been more prudent. The bishop | ||
| + | move played allows a sudden crescendo of tactical points to be | ||
| + | uncovered by Fischer. -- Wade} Na4 {!} 12. Qa3 {On 12. Nxa4 | ||
| + | Nxe4 and White faces considerable difficulties.} Nxc3 {At | ||
| + | first glance, one might think that this move only helps White | ||
| + | create a stronger pawn center; however, Fischer's plan is | ||
| + | quite the opposite. By eliminating the Knight on c3, it | ||
| + | becomes possible to sacrifice the exchange via Nxe4 and smash | ||
| + | White's center, while the King remains trapped in the center.} | ||
| + | 13. bxc3 Nxe4 {The natural continuation of Black's plan.} | ||
| + | 14. Bxe7 Qb6 15. Bc4 Nxc3 16. Bc5 Rfe8+ 17. Kf1 Be6 {!! If | ||
| + | this is the game of the century, then 17...Be6!! must be the | ||
| + | counter of the century. Fischer offers his queen in exchange | ||
| + | for a fierce attack with his minor pieces. Declining this | ||
| + | offer is not so easy: 18. Bxe6 leads to a 'Philidor Mate' | ||
| + | (smothered mate) with ...Qb5+ 19. Kg1 Ne2+ 20. Kf1 Ng3+ | ||
| + | 21. Kg1 Qf1+ 22. Rxf1 Ne2#. Other ways to decline the queen | ||
| + | also run into trouble: e.g., 18. Qxc3 Qxc5} 18. Bxb6 Bxc4+ | ||
| + | 19. Kg1 Ne2+ 20. Kf1 Nxd4+ {This tactical scenario, where a | ||
| + | king is repeatedly revealed to checks, is sometimes called a | ||
| + | "windmill."} 21. Kg1 Ne2+ 22. Kf1 Nc3+ 23. Kg1 axb6 24. Qb4 | ||
| + | Ra4 25. Qxb6 Nxd1 26. h3 Rxa2 27. Kh2 Nxf2 28. Re1 Rxe1 | ||
| + | 29. Qd8+ Bf8 30. Nxe1 Bd5 31. Nf3 Ne4 32. Qb8 b5 {Every piece | ||
| + | and pawn of the black camp is defended. The white queen has | ||
| + | nothing to do.} 33. h4 h5 34. Ne5 Kg7 35. Kg1 Bc5+ 36. Kf1 | ||
| + | Ng3+ {Now Byrne is hopelessly entangled in Fischer's mating | ||
| + | net.} 37. Ke1 Bb4+ 38. Kd1 Bb3+ 39. Kc1 Ne2+ 40. Kb1 Nc3+ | ||
| + | 41. Kc1 Rc2# 0-1 | ||
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| + | </pgn> | ||
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| + | <pgn layout=horizontal initialHalfmove=16 autoplayMode=none> | ||
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| + | [Event "World championship"] | ||
| + | [Site "Moscow URS"] | ||
| + | [Date "1985.10.15"] | ||
| + | [Round "16"] | ||
| + | [White "Karpov"] | ||
| + | [Black "Kasparov"] | ||
| + | [Result "0-1"] | ||
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| + | 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nb5 d6 6.c4 Nf6 7.N1c3 a6 8.Na3 d5 | ||
| + | 9.cxd5 exd5 10.exd5 Nb4 11.Be2 Bc5 12.O-O O-O 13.Bf3 Bf5 14.Bg5 Re8 15.Qd2 | ||
| + | b5 16.Rad1 Nd3 17.Nab1 h6 18.Bh4 b4 19.Na4 Bd6 20.Bg3 Rc8 21.b3 g5 22.Bxd6 | ||
| + | Qxd6 23.g3 Nd7 24.Bg2 Qf6 25.a3 a5 26.axb4 axb4 27.Qa2 Bg6 28.d6 g4 29.Qd2 | ||
| + | Kg7 30.f3 Qxd6 31.fxg4 Qd4+ 32.Kh1 Nf6 33.Rf4 Ne4 34.Qxd3 Nf2+ 35.Rxf2 | ||
| + | Bxd3 36.Rfd2 Qe3 37.Rxd3 Rc1 38.Nb2 Qf2 39.Nd2 Rxd1+ 40.Nxd1 Re1+ 0-1 | ||
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| + | </pgn> | ||
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Revision as of 13:36, 27 January 2011
Contents
Chess
This is a hub page for everything related to chess. Feel free to edit!
Who plays chess? Why do you play chess?
- Mathematician Paul Erdos, who was a Research Associate in Purdue's mathematics department from 1943 to 1945, was a very skillful chess player [1].
- Purdue student Bernard Parham is a chess master and the inventor of the Parham Attack. You can watch the Parham attack being used here.
- Dan Fleetwood [2], (Ph. D., Solid State Physics, M. S., Experimental Physics, B. S., Physics and Applied Math, all from Purdue University), was the 8th American to earn the International Correspondence Chess GrandMaster title, played Board 1 for the United States Correspondence Chess Olympics team in the 15th Olympiad Final (http://www.iccf-webchess.com/), and finished 8th in the 18th International Correspondence Chess Championship.
- Do you play chess? Tell us why!
Notable Chess Matches
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Chess Related Pages
Chess in the Curriculum
- An ECE senior design project: designing an LED chess Board.
- Automatic chess playing is an application of "artificial Intelligence" and "Pattern Recognition".
- See the introductory lecture of ECE662: "Pattern Recognition and decision making processes" to learn what is pattern recognition.
- If you want to learn more about pattern recognition, consider taking this Maymester course in Turkey next Spring.
Chess at School
- Chess and School violence
- Jamaican schools are introducing chess in schools to reduce violence.
- Philadelphia area schools answer to violence: use chess to teach children how to win and lose.
- Chess for K-12 Children
- In the West Lafayette Area, children as young as 4 years old are encouraged to play chess at the West Lafayette Scholastic Chess Club.
Chess on Rhea
- We are thinking of adding chess playing software to Rhea. One possibility is to use the open source software "free internet chess server "[3]. Any opinions??? -pm
