Outdoing Shirov
A few days ago, Shirov reminded the rank-and-file that errare humanum est; for those in need of further proof, German great Robert Huebner "improved" on Shirov's 13-move loss by resigning a Bundesliga game from this Saturday after making his 12th move! While the Shirov loss was explicable - he was underprepared in a very sharp, very dangerous line - Huebner's blunder strains credulity. In a position where his opponent had an obvious threat - one that is extremely well-known from cognate positions - Huebner not only failed to prevent it; he positively encouraged it!
Whatever the explanation, such accidents (assuming it wasn't some sort of protest game) are worthy of note and a comfort to the amateur's soul: we're all fallible - very fallible.
Click here for the horror.
Whatever the explanation, such accidents (assuming it wasn't some sort of protest game) are worthy of note and a comfort to the amateur's soul: we're all fallible - very fallible.
Click here for the horror.
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on
Tuesday January 31, 2006 at 8:06pm