Edinburgh Congress

[Adam Bremner]

Very appropriate date for Mr Tweedie and Mr Redpath to play such a game :\ :\

I trust the arbiter awarded this game as 0-0.

Well, unless they both entered unexpectedly on the final day it actually happened a few years ago. But I've always thought that that game doesn't necessarily imply a prearranged draw - the argument being that both players know that backwards, know that the other one knows it, and that 1.c4 (though was it not actually 1.c3?) is tantamount to a draw offer that was accepted by 1...h5.

Plus, it's a pretty cool game. Optically neat.

A nice addition on April 1st, to add some nostalgia. I like the premise that 1.c3 is equivalent to a draw offer and h5 is the acceptance. Basically, would you rather see 7 moves of theory to a dry position, or something funky like that? A nice bit of chess humour.