Author: Norm Pollock
Date: 11:38:44 04/23/05
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On April 23, 2005 at 12:10:47, Steven Edwards wrote:
>On April 23, 2005 at 11:07:57, David Dahlem wrote:
>>On April 23, 2005 at 11:01:46, Norm Pollock wrote:
>
>>Here is a game where the loser did resign one move before a forced castling mate
>>was possible on the next move.
>>
>>[Event "London"]
>>[Site "?"]
>>[Date "1911.??.??"]
>>[Round "?"]
>>[White "Edward Lasker"]
>>[Black "George Allan Thomas"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>[ECO "A80"]
>>
>>1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 f5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Bxf6 Bxf6 6. e4 fxe4 7. Nxe4 b6 8.
>>Ne5 O-O 9. Bd3 Bb7 10. Qh5 Qe7 11. Qxh7+ Kxh7 12. Nxf6+ Kh6 13. Neg4+ Kg5 14.
>>h4+ Kf4 15. g3+ Kf3 16. Be2+ Kg2 17. Rh2+ {Kg1 18. O-O-O#} 1-0
>
>I beleive that the above is the basis for the origin of BWTC.0292:
>
>[D] rn3r2/pbppq1p1/1p2pN2/8/3P2NP/6P1/PPP1BPk1/R3K2R w KQ - 0 1
>
>White mates in two with 1. O-O-O; Reinfeld's orginal answer was 1. Rh2+.
It was a position in Reinfeld's "1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate" that got me
started on this. Probably this was it.
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