Okay, this is a long shot. I'm wondering if anyone can help me track
down a particular chess match I read in a book one time. It features
one of my favorite Extremely Clever moves ever, but I only partially
remember it. The board setup was something like this, with black pieces
in lower case and white in upper case:

8 .....rk.
7 .....ppp
6 ..N.....
5 ......q.
4 .....N..
3 ...B....
2 ...Q....
1 ........
abcdefgh
(White to move)

Not all the pieces are shown, obviously, as I don't remember where
everything was. The Extremely Clever move was "Nf4-g6". Even though
white's queen at d2 is unprotected, black can't play "... Qg5xd2"
because of the subsequent "Ne7 mate". Black therefore loses queen.

Does this ring a bell with anyone? It's a long shot, I know...


--mark

It's Marache-Morphy, New York, 1857, but the colors are reversed. The
winning move was ...Ng3

see http://www.cajunchess.com/games/morphyg33.htm

(Hegemony Cricket) wrote in message . com...
Okay, this is a long shot. I'm wondering if anyone can help me track
down a particular chess match I read in a book one time. It features
one of my favorite Extremely Clever moves ever, but I only partially
remember it. The board setup was something like this, with black pieces
in lower case and white in upper case:

8 .....rk.
7 .....ppp
6 ..N.....
5 ......q.
4 .....N..
3 ...B....
2 ...Q....
1 ........
abcdefgh
(White to move)

Not all the pieces are shown, obviously, as I don't remember where
everything was. The Extremely Clever move was "Nf4-g6". Even though
white's queen at d2 is unprotected, black can't play "... Qg5xd2"
because of the subsequent "Ne7 mate". Black therefore loses queen.

Does this ring a bell with anyone? It's a long shot, I know...


--mark

1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Bc5 4 b4 Bxb4 5 c3 Ba5
6 d4 ed 7 e5 d5 8 ed Qxd6 9 0-0 Nge7 10 Ng5 0-0
11 Bd3 Bf5 12 Bxf5 Nxf5 13 Ba3 Qg6 14 Bxf8 Qxg5
15 Ba3 dc 16 Bc1 Qg6 17 Bf4 Rd8 18 Qc2 Ncd4
19 Qe4 Ng3 0-1

N Marache vs Paul Morphy 1857

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1227720


"Louis Blair" wrote in message
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1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Bc5 4 b4 Bxb4 5 c3 Ba5
6 d4 ed 7 e5 d5 8 ed Qxd6 9 0-0 Nge7 10 Ng5 0-0
11 Bd3 Bf5 12 Bxf5 Nxf5 13 Ba3 Qg6 14 Bxf8 Qxg5
15 Ba3 dc 16 Bc1 Qg6 17 Bf4 Rd8 18 Qc2 Ncd4
19 Qe4 Ng3 0-1