Most pieces on the h-file

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Alistair Campbell
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Most pieces on the h-file

Post by Alistair Campbell » Fri Mar 15, 2019 3:37 pm

I had this position last night as black.


White has just played 28.Bh5. It was tempting to return the favour with 28...Bh8!

Any other examples of such a cluttered h-file?

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IM Jack Rudd
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Re: Most pieces on the h-file

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Fri Mar 15, 2019 3:51 pm

28...Bh8 would certainly have attracted Justin's attention.

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Re: Most pieces on the h-file

Post by Simon Brown » Fri Mar 15, 2019 3:56 pm

For two reasons - fill up the h-file and Worst Move on the Board.

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Jon Tait
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Re: Most pieces on the h-file

Post by Jon Tait » Sun Mar 17, 2019 2:49 pm

IM Jack Rudd wrote:
Fri Mar 15, 2019 3:51 pm
28...Bh8 would certainly have attracted Justin's attention.
similarly...
https://200opengames.blogspot.com/2017/ ... house.html :)
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Re: Most pieces on the h-file

Post by Nick Grey » Sun Mar 17, 2019 3:47 pm

I prefer Jon's post but have seen it before.

Alistair I think it is better to try to avoid the mate in one.

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Re: Most pieces on the h-file

Post by Matt Fletcher » Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:16 pm

Very bizarrely, I was looking for exactly this sort of position about 10 days ago, in the context of the game Swiercz-Jumabayev in the World Teams where they reached this position after Black's 40th. (see David Llada's picture).

The best one I found in reasonably similar vein was this from last year's Chinese Championships (Zhou Jianchao vs Zeng Chongsheng) where there are only 8 pieces on the board, but 7 on the f-file.

I did also find positions with completely full files - here's one with the h-file full, it's from Taddei vs Sharif, Besançon 2003.