Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Banana skins

As Tim Krabbe once wrote on his wonderful Open Chess Diary, "Chess, like banana peels, like flower pots falling from windows, has the power to make men laugh". Sometimes one just cannot help it. This was yesterday's game Gelfand-Wang Hao, from the ongoing London FIDE GP at Simpsons:



In this drawn rook ending, the Chinese super-GM played the wonderful move 55...Kh7??, and had to resign after 56.Kf7, forcing mate! To his credit, he actually laughed after Gelfand had played his final move.

The spectators must have p*ssed themselves. Oh no, they couldn't - there aren't any spectators!