41,573

    The number 41,573 refers to the LEGO Mixels Sweepz Building Kit available on Amazon for about $69. Or, it could refer to a 41573-84 Harley-Davidson OEM Rear Axle Adjuster for 1984–1996 FLT model motorcycles. You can get one for about $25 on e-bay. Or, it could refer to game number 41,573 in my games database. You can get it here and it’s free. 

    For the past few days I have been cleaning up the hard drive on my laptop because it was running out of space. The process involved deleting old files and programs and transferring files to a hard drive salvaged from an old laptop. 

    In the process ChessBase 16 came in handy for combining several databases into one, especially since some of them were in pgn format. ChessBase's proprietary CBH (ChessBase Header) files are significantly more efficient than pgn (Portable Game Notation) files because they use a lot less space. For example, a 1GB pgn database file could possibly be reduced to under 150-200MB. CBH files also allow faster searches and they support embedded multimedia (e.g. sounds, videos, colored arrows, training questions) that pgn can’t. 

    The game number was selected because when I checked the Blog there had been 6,042,573 visitors. The game was played in the Olympiad that took place in Moscow in 1956. It was won by the Soviet team (Botvinnik, Smyslov, Keres, Bronstein, Taimanov and Geller) ahead of Yugoslavia and Hungary.. The US did not send a team, 

    Toivo Salo (1909-1981) was a hree-time FinnisChampion (1938, 1949 and 1956). From the late 1930s to the early 1960s he was one of Finland's leading players. Ingi Johannsson (1936-2010) won the championship of Iceland four times (1956, 1958, 1959 and1963). From the mid-1950s to mid-1980s he was also one of the leading Icelandic players. 

    Salo was doing pretty good conducting a K-side attack, but misplayed it and allowed Johannsson to equalized. But then on move 28 Johannsson made a huge tactical blunder and it was all over.