Author: Vine Smith
Date: 15:59:41 07/11/02
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On July 11, 2002 at 17:35:40, John Merlino wrote: >On July 11, 2002 at 16:39:08, Vine Smith wrote: > >>Did you have any other clues for reconstructing the game besides knowing the >>position at move 14? The sequence leading to this point is less than obvious, >>especially the sacrifice offered at move 12, implying that either this game was >>copied from some other source, or a fairly strong player assisted in its >>creation. > >I'm pretty sure that either GM Larry Evans or GM Yasser Seirawan annotated this >game. I have no idea if the game was recreated by the annotator or not, however. Looks like the game was copied, as I found this in the Chessbase online database: [Event "Hamburg Hauptturnier-B"] [Site "Hamburg"] [Date "1910.??.??"] [Round "0"] [White "Roesch"] [Black "Schlage,Willi"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "C86"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.Qe2 b5 6.Bb3 Be7 7.c3 0-0 8.0-0 d5 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nf4 11.Qe4 Nxe5 12.Qxa8 Qd3 13.Bd1 Bh3 14.Qxa6 Bxg2 15.Re1 Qf3 0-1 While it's amusing to keep the Poole - HAL game in CM's database, perhaps the original source should also be included, or at least cited. And quite an obscure source it is -- one wonders where Kubrick et al. could have dug this up in the pre-PC era. Perhaps it was in the Chernev collection "1000 Shortest Games of Chess" (or something like that), which had wide circulation at the time. > >>By the way, HAL never announced mate in two. It was simply engaging in >>conversation during a casual game, and merely pointed out that Poole had >>overlooked the tactical sequence allowing the queen to go to f3. >>Did Poole really "resign" AFTER being mated, as the notes imply? Stupid human. >>Maybe this is what drove HAL to start killing the crew. >> >>Regards, >>Vine Smith > >I guess I'll have to watch the movie again. From what *I* remember, the final >few moves were not actually played out and Poole DID resign after HAL claimed >mate. That annotation probably SHOULD be included in Black's 15th move, but I >think we just added the final moves for amusement's sake.... :-) > >jm
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