Of all the recorded chess games, what is the most ambitious pawn
anyone is aware of? For instance, is there a game in the books where
the b pawn made 6 captures and promoted on h8? Or maybe it didn't
promote, but simply captured far more than the typical amount of
material for a pawn?

Just a random curiosity on a rainy Thursday evening...
Steve

On Apr 19, 8:38 pm, MissesManyMoves wrote:
Of all the recorded chess games, what is the most ambitious pawn
anyone is aware of? For instance, is there a game in the books where
the b pawn made 6 captures and promoted on h8? Or maybe it didn't
promote, but simply captured far more than the typical amount of
material for a pawn?

Just a random curiosity on a rainy Thursday evening...
Steve

It's really not that difficult for a single pawn to kick
butt. For instance, in this game (moves marked with
an asterisk all belong to a single, heroic pawn) which
I just finished:

help bot -- vasilicm
RedHotPawn

1.d4 d5

2.c4 dc

3.Nf3 Nc6

4.d5 Nb8

5.e4* c6

6.Bxc4 cd

7.ed* e6

8.Bb5+ Bd7

9.dxe* Bxb5

10.exf7+* Ke7

11.fxg8=N+* Rxg8

12.Bg5+ resigns

1 -- 0

-- help bot

On Apr 19, 8:38 pm, MissesManyMoves wrote:
Of all the recorded chess games, what is the most ambitious pawn
anyone is aware of? For instance, is there a game in the books where
the b pawn made 6 captures and promoted on h8? Or maybe it didn't
promote, but simply captured far more than the typical amount of
material for a pawn?

You know, there is a function in certain databases
which can find this sort of thing. Simply searching
out pawn-promotions in conjunction with captures
made by pawns will narrow the list dramatically.

I recall one of my old games in which a certain
piece -- a Knight -- did the vast majority of the
heavy lifting over the course of around 50 moves.
One could mark this Knight before replaying the
game, and then watch his heroics unfold, in awe.

-- help bot

1.d4 d5

2.c4 dc

3.Nf3 Nc6

4.d5 Nb8

5.e4* c6

6.Bxc4 cd

7.ed* e6

8.Bb5+ Bd7

9.dxe* Bxb5

10.exf7+* Ke7

11.fxg8=N+* Rxg8

12.Bg5+ resigns

1 -- 0

-- help bot

It was a easy win.

Bye
Sanny

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On Apr 21, 2:10 pm, Sanny wrote:

1.d4 d5

2.c4 dc

3.Nf3 Nc6

4.d5 Nb8

5.e4* c6

6.Bxc4 cd

7.ed* e6

8.Bb5+ Bd7

9.dxe* Bxb5

10.exf7+* Ke7

11.fxg8=N+* Rxg8

12.Bg5+ resigns

1 -- 0

-- help bot

It was a easy win.

But it needn't have been. The obvious strategy
was not to fall for my cheap tricks via ...e6, but
instead to fianchetto the KB with: ...g6, ...Bg7,
....Nf6, ...O-O. (I know that my style is faulty,
but as it keeps *working*, I can't seem to help
myself.)

-- trick bot

On Apr 20, 2:38 am, MissesManyMoves wrote:
Of all the recorded chess games, what is the most ambitious pawn
anyone is aware of? For instance, is there a game in the books where
the b pawn made 6 captures and promoted on h8? Or maybe it didn't
promote, but simply captured far more than the typical amount of
material for a pawn?

Just a random curiosity on a rainy Thursday evening...
Steve


I played this game on the bottom board of the middlesex league over 10
years ago against what was obviously a rank beginner :

1. e4 f5 2. exf5 e5 3. Qh5+ g6 4. fxg6 Nf6 5. g7+ Nxh5 6. gxh8=Q

I showed this masterpiece to my club mates and one of them said that
they had seen that sequence before in some book.
But surely you mean serious chess )