Featured Game

Here's entry #13 in my Featured Game series. You will find on this page:

• A double board puzzle, using a position taken from the game. Try to find a way for fermy and Vaboris to force mate.

• A downloadable annotated version of the game in .bpgn format

If you don't have the BPGN viewer on your machine, then head over to my first Featured Game, which has links that can be used to download the viewer.

Featured Game #13:

"The Good Player Is Always Lucky"

For lucky #13 in this series, let's take a look at a game where it probably seems like luck was the difference. Fermy and Vaboris lose this one, but not before they (a) miss one mate, (b) miss out on a second chance for mate because they are down :01 on the clock, and (c) miss a third chance at the end of the game when quick play could have still won it. Yep, that's bad luck no doubt, but let's give the winners due credit -- they played just fast enough, found critical moves instantly when they had to, and put just enough pressure on their opponents to win the game. A lesser team never could have pulled it out. In other words, sometimes luck takes skill.

As Capablanca said once (Capablanca was a famous bughouse player, I think, or some other bughouse-like game): "The good player is always lucky". Here's the game

WhoAmI 02:24*	pminear 02:27
fermy 02:27	Vaboris 02:26*
* indicates player to move next