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    Default Last call for CFC's old magazines

    Thanks to all who responded to the call to help distribute the last of the CFC's "Passport to Chess" pamphlet, no copies were tossed out!

    Now it's the turn of the CFC's old magazines. All back issues of Bulletin / Chess Canada Echecs / En Passant must go. The CFC has an offer from Africa to accept as many as we would like to send. Before I do that, I'm putting out the call. This is your last chance to get a back issue of the CFC's printed magazines.

    If you are interested, please e-mail me. Be as specific as possible as to issue numbers or dates (or date ranges), and how many of each you would like. Note that for some issues there are none left. Deadline to contact me: Monday, July 2, 2012.

    Regards,

    David

    David Cohen

    bw998 AT freenet.carleton.ca
    or www.CanadianChess.info and use the Contact Us form.

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    Default A few more old CFC magazines available for give away

    Old CFC magazines: this is what is left to give away. If you are interested, then please tell me which issues, how many, and your mailing address.

    LARGE FORMAT

    June 2006 (100 copies)
    August 2003 (50 copies)
    April 2002 (50 copies)
    Oct. 1999
    Oct. 1997
    Aug. 1996

    SMALL FORMAT

    #21
    #25
    #30 (1978 CAN Ch)

    Regards,

    David

    bw998 AT freenet.carleton.ca
    http://www.canadianchess.info/contact_us

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    Please help me on my quest.

    One of the highlights of my short-lived amateur chess 'career' was discovering a missed Q-sac to gain a Boden's Mate in a top-level GM game and having my discovery published as a puzzle in En Passant. The date of the issue would fall into a period between 1979-1983. The source game originated during this period as well, as I recall stumbling upon the missed combo while working through a Chess Informant.

    I have since parted with all my chess books (I donated my library to the CFC bookstore in the late 1980s). I cannot recall the names of the players in the game. I really would like to retrieve this puzzle and have something tangible to relate my memory to. Even the game and move number would be great! Then I could just find the game and save the position.

    I wish I had more to go on. I recall it was a purple or green En Passant, the small format from the 70s and early 80s. The problems were on the inside back cover. I thought one of the players was Polugaevsky or Ulf Andersson, but I've sifted through a ton of games on chessgames.com to no avail.

    My name is mentioned in the solution. Because I found the combo, while the GM did not, the note to the solution said something like "If you played (move a) then you are as smart as (the player -- I thought it might have been Ulf Andersson), but if you found (move b, the Q sac) then you are as smart as Eric Smith of Ottawa!". I'm pretty sure Jonathan Berry was the editor then. It was a pretty sweet annotation to see published.

    Anyways, this might be an unsolvable quest, consigned to the dustbins of chess memory. But I thought I'd put it out there in case you, the reader, might have an archive of back issues and some free time to help me with my quest

    Best wishes,
    Eric Smith, formerly of Ottawa, R.A. Chess Club.

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    In CCE #58, Jan/Feb 1983, position after Black's 26th:

    [Event "Bugojno"]
    [Site "Bugojno"]
    [Date "1982.??.??"]
    [Round "2"]
    [White "Andersson, Ulf"]
    [Black "Polugaevsky, Lev"]
    [Result "1/2-1/2"]
    [ECO "E11"]
    [WhiteElo "2605"]
    [BlackElo "2600"]
    [PlyCount "81"]
    [EventDate "1982.05.??"]
    [EventType "tourn"]
    [EventRounds "13"]
    [EventCountry "YUG"]
    [EventCategory "14"]
    [Source "ChessBase"]
    [SourceDate "1999.07.01"]

    1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. d4 Bb4+ 5. Bd2 Be7 6. Bg2 O-O 7. O-O c6 8. Qb3
    b6 9. Nc3 Bb7 10. Rac1 Nbd7 11. cxd5 cxd5 12. Rc2 Rc8 13. Rfc1 Rc4 14. a4 Qa8
    15. Nb5 Rxc2 16. Rxc2 a6 17. Nc7 Qb8 18. Bf4 Qa7 19. Bh3 Rc8 20. Nxe6 fxe6 21.
    Bxe6+ Kf8 22. Ng5 Qa8 23. Qd3 Rxc2 24. Nxh7+ Ke8 25. Qxc2 Nf8 26. Nxf8 Kxf8 27.
    Qf5 Qe8 28. g4 Qxa4 29. g5 Qd1+ 30. Kg2 Qxd4 31. gxf6 Qxf6 32. Be5 Qxf5 33.
    Bxf5 Kf7 34. Bd3 Bf6 35. Bxf6 Kxf6 36. f4 a5 37. Kf2 d4 38. e3 dxe3+ 39. Kxe3
    Ke6 40. Kd4 Bc6 41. h4 1/2-1/2

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    Default No spoiler

    If you played 1.Qf5?!, you are only as good as Ulf Andersson, one of the top players in the world. Ho hum. If you played 1.Qc7, you are as good as Miroslav Filip, who was once a candidate. Better? But if you played 1.[move confiscated in 2012 by the IJC. It is so hot that it would evaporate all the water in the Great Lakes]!, you are as good as Eric Smith of Ottawa! And if you found [that would be giving it away] you are also as good as the 19th century player Oscar Boden.

    (taken from CCE #58, p. 71, Quiz solution by moi).

    Thanks, Stephen, for posting the game.
    JMS+ 1 p1.

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    Smile Ah! How great!

    Stephen and Jonathan, thank you so much for filling in this gap in my memory. I'm truly grateful to you both. And thanks, Jonathan, for not posting the spoiler. It took me a while to figure it out (again), and when I did, my brain seemed to recall the instant I originally discovered it. I hope you're both well.

    Thank you and best wishes, Eric

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    Okay, I give up. Neither I nor my computer (both equally weak) can find a mate.

    27. Qg6 Qe8
    28. Qh6 Qh5 doesn’t seem to get anywhere

    Can someone enlighten me.

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    "If you played 1.Qf5?!, you are only as good as Ulf Andersson, one of the top players in the world. Ho hum. If you played 1.Qc7, you are as good as Miroslav Filip, who was once a candidate. Better? But if you played 1. Qg6!, you are as good as Eric Smith of Ottawa! And if you found 1...Qe8 2.Qh6! you are also as good as the 19th century player Oscar Boden. Eric's analysis continues 2...Qh5 3.Qxh5 Nxh5 4.Bc7 and White's Ps should win in the endgame. The target N/h5 will give White at least one extra tempo. Eric's more bloodthirsty line is 2...Bd8 3.Qh8+ Ke7 4.Qxg7+! Kxe6 5.Qxb7 Qxa4 6.Qc8+ Ke7 (6...Nd7 7.Qc3! Qd1+ 8.Kg2 Qxe2 9.Qc6+ +-) 7.Qc3! Qd1+ 8.Kg2 Qxe2 9.Bg5 +-. You'll find the game in Informant 33, #602; Andersson - Polugaevsky, Bugojno 1982."

    (CCE #58, Jan-Feb 1983, p. 71, Quiz solution by moi).
    Last edited by Jonathan Berry; 07-19-2012 at 12:50 PM. Reason: Thanks, Kerry, 6 changed to 8.
    JMS+ 1 p1.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jonathan Berry View Post
    "If you played 1.Qf5?!, you are only as good as Ulf Andersson, one of the top players in the world. Ho hum. If you played 1.Qc7, you are as good as Miroslav Filip, who was once a candidate. Better? But if you played 1. Qg6!, you are as good as Eric Smith of Ottawa! And if you found 1...Qe6 2.Qh6! you are also as good as the 19th century player Oscar Boden. Eric's analysis continues 2...Qh5 3.Qxh5 Nxh5 4.Bc7 and White's Ps should win in the endgame. The target N/h5 will give White at least one extra tempo. Eric's more bloodthirsty line is 2...Bd8 3.Qh8+ Ke7 4.Qxg7+! Kxe6 5.Qxb7 Qxa4 6.Qc8+ Ke7 (6...Nd7 7.Qc3! Qd1+ 8.Kg2 Qxe2 9.Qc6+ +-) 7.Qc3! Qd1+ 8.Kg2 Qxe2 9.Bg5 +-. You'll find the game in Informant 33, #602; Andersson - Polugaevsky, Bugojno 1982."

    (CCE #58, Jan-Feb 1983, p. 71, Quiz solution by moi).
    Jonathan, I think you mean "if you found 1...Qe8 2.Qh6! ...you are as good as the 19th century player..."

    I found it more useful to number the moves in the solution with the game move numbers that would have taken place (rather than starting from 1), but that's just me.

    I had no idea what a "Boden mate" was... interesting info about it @ Wikipedia...

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    More from an old Chess Canada magazine:

    Mate in three

    .*-1

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