looking for the moves of a famous chess game
"Sterten" wrote in message
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sorry, I have no more info about the game.
This is from the novel "the eight" by K.Neville ,
where the action of the novel is apparantly
emulated by that chessgame.
So, maybe you get some more clues by reading the book,
but I doubt it.
Alternatively, can someone send me the games
of the candiates tournaments in ASCII ,
so I can write a program to check for these conditions ?
As implied by one of the other answers in this thread, there would be no
reason to expect that Neville would necessarily have used a Candidates' game
as the model for one in her book. Her chess knowledge was not impressive.
It is a number of years since I read The Eight, but my recollection is that
in a modern championship (US or World?) she has a Two Knights Defense with
4. Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Nxd5 being played, unlikely enought in itself, and after
the age-old sacrifice 6.Nxf7, she has the onlookers "astonished," that
"White would sacrifice his knight for a mere bishop." She did NOT say, "for
a mere pawn," or "a mere bishop pawn," but "a mere bishop." Makes you
wonder whether she knew anything more than the moves.
For some good games worked into the text there are "The Dragon Variation"
and "The Tower Struck by Lightning."
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