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Tim Krabbé's Chess Curiosities August 18, 2002
So begins one of the most interesting and varied pages of the internet chess world. Tim Krabbé has assembled an incredible collection of chess-related stuff. I'll review some of the stuff in a moment, but first let's meet Tim. Born in Amsterdam in 1943, married with one son, Tim comes from an artistic family of painters, actors, directors, and writers. While he did some acting and also studied psychology, Tim's primary careers have been as a journalist and a novelist. Several films have been based on his novels, and his articles have appeared in chess as well as in mainstream publications. Tim has been among the top chessplayers in Holland. He composes chess problems, and has been building his Chess Curiosities website since June, 1998. His Open Chess Diary is an on-going compilation of musings and meanderings in the world of chess; you may have seen links to it from time to time in The Chessville Weekly's New On the Net section. The Chess Curiosities home page is just one long list of links to his other pages, 54 links in all. Some example page titles include The Kuwait Immortal, Defending Humanity's Honor, The 100 Greatest Moves Ever Played (this week's Position of the Week, above, comes in at #3 all time!), The Mother of all Forks, Diagram of the Century, and so on. One of my favorite pages on Tim's list is his Chess Records (longest, latest, shortest, mostest) where you can find out the records for things like the longest game, the greatest number of castlings, longest series of checks, latest first capture, and earliest stalemate. An interesting article about "Strangest Coincidence Ever - Or Hoax?" deals with the authenticity of one of the finest queening combinations I have ever seen. Hoax or not, you have to check out the combination. A download of all 415 known Morphy games, ruminations on the famous Saavedra position, Alekhine's five-queens game, and much, much more are all here for you to enjoy. I wish you many happy hours of browsing through Tim Krabbé's Chess Curiosities, and to Tim I can only say, Thank you, thank you, and thank you once again!
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