| Jul-17-03 |
| AussiePatzer: That must have been a frustrating game for White. |
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Mar-01-04
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| aragorn69: What exactly happens on 37.Rxe2 ? |
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| Mar-01-04 |
| Bitzovich: Rxf1# is my guess |
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| Mar-01-04 |
| popski: It looks like Vidmar didn't want a position after 37. Rxe2 Qh4 38. g3 Qxd4+ .., but maybe is this line even better, but looks risky. They asked Lasker once after one game, why he didn't take on e2, and he said: "I don't know, if Grand Master think for one hour, he have to be right!" Maybe Vidmar recalled this story :) |
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| Mar-01-04 |
| offramp: David Hooper wrote: "The Yates game, I am told, was said by Alekhine to be the best game played since WWI - but I have not been able to find this comment – it is certainly Yates’s best game, and not well known."
Edward Winter added:
"We would add here that the alleged comment by Alekhine about Vidmar v Yates, San Remo, 1930 was reported by William Winter on page 113 of Kings of Chess. On page 13 of the 1934 collection of Yates’ games W.W. merely attributed the quote to ‘a most competent judge’."
(From ChessNotes at the ChessCafé.)
So the game is rated highly - though I don't really see why! |
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Mar-01-04
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| beenthere240: The attack after 37. Rxe2 Rxf1 38. Kxf1 Ra1+ looks pretty tough. I find Black's play impressive in that he always seems to be one step ahead of White. |
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Mar-01-04
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| aragorn69: <Bitzovich> Please : 37.-Rxf1 is not mate... <beenthere> 39.Re1 and I don´t see the mate. Are the passed b and c pawn really enough ?! <popski> You seem to be right. 37.-Qh4 is dangerous. One of the threats is the simple but powerful Rxf1-Ra1-Rxe1 mate. For Alekhine to have (supposedly) that opinion of the game, there must be a win. I would really like to know his analysis... |
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| Dec-02-04 |
| kostich in time: the reason it is rated so highly is because both players battle so resourcefully, up to the end. Several times in the middle-game, Vidmar comes up with inspired ideas, and then Yates outplays him.
Another reason this game is so fascinating it is that it an example of a great player of the second rank defeating a super-grandmaster( a grandmaster who, by the way, had a pretty good plus score against him. |
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