Now all is not completely lost, as white still has to be careful not to make his king vunerable and stop the b pawn, but one such line is as follows;

27 Qb1 Bxf1
28 Kxf1 (not Bxf1) b3
29 a3 c4
30 Bf2 c3
31 Nxc3 Bxc3
32 bxc3 Qxc3
33 Rc1 Qa5

34 Nxf4 exploits the pin on the b1-h7 diagonal again!

34 ... Rxf5
35 Be4 Kg6
36 Ke2 Qb5+
37 Kf3 Rbf8
38 Rg1+ Kh7 (forced)
39 Bd4 Qc4
40 Ke3

and now black is in real trouble, but can try to come out fighting,

40 ... Nxd5+
41 Bxd5 Qxd5
42 Rg7+ Kh8
43 Rxa7

and is now black is well and truly losing

Surely, it turns into a weird kind of King's Indian. White rolls on Kingside, Black on Q-side, which is quite reversed approach. No surprise, that CG calls it 'English Anti-Benoni'.

All in all, Black Knights are so lousy all the time. It is painful to watch.

As many of you know, the puns from June 21st to June 30th have been the "close but no cigar" pun submissions to our 2009 Pun Contest. These earned the respect of an 'honorable mention' but no 4 month trial memberships were to be awarded.

Well, we've had a change of heart. We've decided to award prizes for puns 21-30 as well. That means that "The Way to Win a Queen is to b1" by chessbug, "Ashes Tarrasch's" by sleepyirv, several by severus6, etc. will all receive 4 month trial memberships (or membership extensions if they are already premium). Well done and congratulations!

But wait, that's not all... a large number of the winning puns were claimed by tpstar, who is a lifetime member. That means that adding 4 months to his membership is effectively meaningless. To remedy this, all of tpstar's winning membership packages will be consolidated into 1-year packages and given away as extra prizes during our normal "Santa Claus" drawing we hold on Christmas Day. This was tpstar's suggestion and we all should thank him for his generosity.

Congratulations to all of the winners of the 2009 Pun Contest, and also many thanks to those who didn't win but supplied us with great ideas for upcoming puns. Starting tomorrow (July 1st) we'll go back to using our own GOTD selections, but from now on we're also going to throw in a generous mixture of pun ideas that came from the contest. We will no longer give credit to the pun inventor on the homepage (sorry) but they know who they are, and are welcome to make posts taking credit for their creations, if they want to.

How do you finish after that? I think you need
26. Bb1 (else Nxe4) Rb7
Then you'd need to bring another piece into play, with something like: 27. Nf2 Bf8

I didn't enter the pun comp: but if I had I would have undoubtedly have found the most brilliant pun ever thought of in human history. For this reason, can I have free membership?

here's a Q sac with a bishop and rook windmill. very instructive. it does'nt end in mate but wht eventually wins. some people call it the 'windmill immortal' or the 'Mexican immortal':

Carlos Torre vs Lasker, 1925

Time to eat all your words, swallow your pride, open your eyes ...

<chessgames.com> Thank you very much for running the 2009 Pun Contest, which was even better with all of those bonus prizes. I think over 90% of the entries were sincere, even if us amateurs are clearly not as clever as y'all in the pun department. ;>D I agree that it would be a very nice gesture to formally credit the inventor for any further submissions used as GOTD (at least for the rest of 2009), and since not everyone visits every day, it would be better for the site to identify the source instead of us clamoring over it. Personally I am curious about #31-50 (which is still only 2% of the 2500+ entries), so please consider publishing the top 50 or even the top 100 for posterity sometime.

Any future Pun Contests would be more enjoyable all around with a preset list of overused ideas ("Tal" for "tall" & "Short" for "short" ...) to keep everything fresh. =)

Another one by me:
El Nino's Disaster
Karjakin vs T L Petrosian, 2005 0-1