From what article?
“The killer’s identity is right there…”
whips off sunglasses
“…in black and white.”
And it’s rare, obviously - as rare as giving mate by castling (Edward Lasker once mated by discovering check with his King when he could have castled instead to checkmate). The game cited in the link I’ve put in below covers the situation - first it was a use-it-or-lose-it promotion when White had three scattered pawns for a Knight, then White had a second promotion opportunity when he had to promote to Knight to avoid a fork (though there were other ways to win), and this led to a winning promotion (to Queen) shortly after… since, of course, King and two Knights can’t mate even if the opposing Knight got lost.
Sorry, here. Took out the Wiki cite for something more authoritative, but this is the page that has the unusual ending.
Quite far indeed: a few years later, Korchnoi was in a match for the world championship against Karpov. (He lost, but still, that meant he was at least briefly #2 in the world.)
Yeah, but I bet you’ve never done it* twice in one game*. That was the eye-popping thing about Malacandra’s reference. I’m sure there are numerous games at all levels where underpromotions took place.
Back in my chessplaying days (~45 years ago), we just said ‘adjust’ and didn’t get all fancy with French and stuff.
Actually, this is one of those things that could set off an argument. (I’m assuming you really meant ‘draw’ rather than ‘stalemate.’) Not only does the position have to be repeated three times, but the same player has to have the next move in all three cases in order to call a draw on that basis.
Wow, that’s cool. Here is the complete play-by-play–I look forward to playing it through tonight.
He clearly fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is “Never get involved in a land war in Asia”, but only slightly less well known is this: “Never go in against the Sicilian Defense when death is on the line!”
I have developed an immunity to iocaine powder.
Gary Larson material. When chess players go bad.
I castled when your back was turned!
But I am not left handed!
The murderer was from Palermo.
Thank you - watching that fascinating Knight ending is even more fun than reading about it.
(When we held the SDMB chess championship four years ago, Maserschmidt and I had an interesting tussle that culminated in a Knight ending that, while neither as involved nor as well played as the one in the linked game, was still full of interesting twists and turns. It’s on Gameknot somewhere.)
Once in a while all the gods will smile on little old Palermo
Humble shy Palermo suddenly hits the press
And I report with all the pride and joy that I possess
Half of the world and his wife has our address
Our little town will be rife with games of chess!*
*
Also: Sicilian Defense.
*Apologies to Anderssen and Ulvaeus.
How about an SDMB poker tournament? Is it possible to set up private tournament on, say Pokerstars, play money of course. I think it would be a hoot.
NLHE of course.
Still sounds like a movie Castle ***Rook ***Entertainment studios used to make…
Ummm … also Florida (and probably Texas too)! Yee Haw!
That wasn’t an argument about chess. Only Russians should die in arguments about chess. Because, like, they care. In Russia the fact this guy only tried to eat the other guy’s heart, and gave up before he was finished, would be considered a lamentable lack of passion for the game.
OK. I must have misunderstood.