| parrthenon@cs.com 2006-08-02, 10:44 pm |
| DURAS - TEICHMANN, OSTEND 1906
"I wish Taylor Kingston had spotted this opportunity--it is
rather as if a cub reporter had been on the bridge of the Titanic,
yet confined his account to a meteorological report, or as if
Taylor Kingston had been standing on Geary Street during
the San Francisco earthquake without noticing that the earth was
moving! TK in the course of his massively wordy review of the
Soltis 100 Best Games suddenly found himself at the right place
at the right time--every cub reporter's dream, but Duras' marital
status proved too much of a distraction.> -- GM Ray Keene
on Kingston's review of Soltis' 100 Best Games.
Ray Keene hits the nail, or at least NM Kingston,
on the head. You are standing on the bridge of the
Titanic when you feel a thud and hear a dull noise.
You then decide that it is time to go to bed. It's
been a long day, and you are unlucky to miss the story
of your life (or death). Or you are walking down
Geary in the middle of the San Francisco earthquake,
and you intend to file a story on new marriages at the
registrars. Which is dunderheadism rather than ill luck.
Duras-Teichmann is a famous game, especially
among American players. For, as noted, it is given by
Wellmuth as among his favorites in the Golden
Treasury, one of the best-selling volumes in American
chess history.
Wellmuth wrote: "The first part of this game contains
some rather tedious jockeying for position, but the second
part -- heavenly! Rarely does one see an attack of such
sustained ferocity and far-sighted sacrificial play."
We all grew up on that piece of wisdom, and there
are plenty of exclamation marks in the text to back it up.
Alas, some of us also read chess history and we
knew that the attack was unsound, though we still
admired the ingenuity and the ensuing carnage.
Concerning the wordiness of the Kingston review:
when the man writes on his own, he is okay. When he
tries to ape Winter's Latinate and ornate structures
in an English language meant for more energy, he reads
far worse than a NY Times unsigned editorial.
Finally, the ratpackers will not contact Edward Winter as
GM Keene suggested for comment on, say, Winter's private
correspondence with Batsford about BCO. The reason is
obvious enough. I predicted they had no real interest in knowing
the facts, and I was right.
It would appear that the ratpackers want to move
to new subjects. The Kingston review of the Soltis
volume is evidently a clinker. Now the gang needs to
find new ways to smear GM Keene.
ChessBase HTML Duras,O - Teichmann,R [C87]
Ostend Ostend, 1906
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 d6 7.c3 0-0 8.h3
h6 9.d4 Bd7 10.Nbd2 Re8 11.Nf1 Bf8 12.Ng3 g6 13.Bb3 Qe7 14.Be3 Bg7
15.d5 Nd8 16.c4 b6 17.Bc2 a5 18.Nh2 Kh7 19.Rb1 Ng8 20.f4 exf4 21.Bxf4
Be5 22.Bxe5 Qxe5 23.Ne2 Qg7 24.Nf3 Nb7 25.Ng3 Nc5 26.Qd2 Re7 27.Qf2
Rae8 28.Re2 Kh8 29.b3 Nf6 30.Rbe1 Nh7 31.Bb1 Ng5 32.Nxg5 hxg5 33.Qf3
Qd4+ 34.Kh2 Kg7 35.Rf2 Qe5 36.Ref1 Rh8 37.Kg1 Rh4 38.Qe3 Rh6 39.a3 g4
40.hxg4 Bxg4 41.Rf4 Bd7 42.Qf2 Be8 43.Rf5 Qc3? 44.e5 dxe5 45.Rg5 Kh7
46.Nf5 gxf5 47.Qxf5+ Rg6 48.Qf6 Qd4+ 49.Rf2 Qd1+ 50.Kh2 e4 51.Qxe7 Rh6+
52.Kg3 Qe1 53.Qxe8 Qe3+ 54.Kg4 f5+ 55.Rgxf5 Rg6+ 56.Qxg6+ Kxg6 57.Rf6+
Kg7 58.Rf7+ Kg8 59.Rf8+ Kg7 60.R2f7+ Kg6 61.Rf6+ Kg7 62.R8f7+ Kg8
63.Kh5 Qe2+ 64.g4 1-0
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