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The Mokele Mbembe Lives! by Clyde Nakamura For over 200 years there have been reports of dinosaur like creatures in the Congo. There have been several expeditions to discover whether this is true or not. The Likouala Swamp, which is in the Congo, is 55,000 square miles and has not changed in millions of years. There are plants and animals there that do not exist anywhere else. It is like stepping back in time to the Cretaceous Era. Today it is believed by the scientific community and most of us that dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Era. A huge meteor hit the Yucatan peninsula and caused the demise of the dinosaurs. The shock wave from that impact caused a nuclear winter where the sun was blocked by dust for many years. It created huge ecological damage to this planet and many animal and plant species did not survive the impact of that meteor. See TrueAuthority for further information on the creature called Mokele Mbembe. (Publisher's note: Another site to visit for information on this creature is Mokele-Mbembe, The Living Dinosaur!) Around 1985 I saw a "New In Chess" article about IM Stefan
Buecker who had some radical ideas about chess openings and he had been
playing some strange new openings such as the Mokele Mbembe, Vulture
According to Buecker the move 2…Ne4 was discounted as unsound by Irving Chernev's book of traps because the Black knight at e4 can be trapped. The Black knight at e4 can be trapped but Black gets compensation for the knight if White does trap it. Black gets 2 pawns and a very strong attack on White's king. See game Jimmy Plumb – Nakamura listed below. Over the years there has been discussion about this opening between Eric Schiller and IM Stefan Buecker at Schiller's Chess City website. I did defeat my friend National Master Reynolds Takata with the Mokele Mbembe in a tournament game in 1985. He lost that game on time. According to Takata, he was hypnotized by my tee shirt which had horizontal stripes. Whenever I moved my tummy at the chess board, the stripes would go up & down and he got distracted by my tee shirt. Takata vowed revenge on my Mokele Mbembe and crushed my Mokele Mbembe convincingly in another tournament game. Up until that game, I had not lost a tournament game with the Mokele Mbembe. I had won a number of tournament games with the Mokele Mbembe. That was the last time I had played the Mokele Mbembe in a tournament game. However I still play the Mokele Mbembe in blitz games on the internet and the Mokele is a part of my chess opening repertoire. I still have to take another look at the Mokele Mbembe & update my theoretical knowledge of this fascinating opening. I have compiled a an updated chess database of 580 Mokele Mbembe games (zipped 118 kb pgn format) and made it available both on the UCO site and also here at Chessville's Downloads by Opening page. I extracted the games from all of my chess databases including my 3.7 million game database called capconn. The Mokele Mbembe database also includes my Mokele Mbembe games. I have yet to find my 2nd game against Takata. I will update the database when I find that game. The database includes close to 90 Kari Heinola games. Kari Heinola has probably played the Mokele Mbembe more than any other chess player in tournament games. It is strange that I have only one Stefan Buecker game in that database. He has been the theoretical driving force behind the Mokele Mbembe. The Mokele Mbembe had been discussed in prior messages 1360, 1365, 1370, 1375, 1379, 1380, 1382, 1383, 1389, 1393, 1394, 1395, 1396, 1397, and 1398 on the Unorthodox Chess Openings list. Click here to view my tournament games with the Mokele Mbembe in Chess Tutor, an interactive chess board. Best Regards, Clyde Nakamura This article was originally posted on the Unorthodox Chess Openings list.
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