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Sep-08-04
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| ChessPraxis: <Papablanca> Yes, the Polgar book is a fantastic chess training book. I'm rated just over 2000 and started using the book this summer. I wish I had it years ago. The funny thing is I saw it in the bookstore several years ago and even glanced in it but I thought that it was basically a collection of artistic chess problems. However, though many of the positions are composed, they are well related to real chess situations. The Polgar sisters grew up on the core of this book. |
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Sep-08-04
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| ChessPraxis: <MoonlitKnight> In your line, after 23. Rg6+ Black could play 23... Nxb2. |
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| Sep-08-04 |
| EyesofBlue: My one comment: The Polgar book is good, but there is (in my humble opinion) one serious flaw. It only lists the first move as the answer for each problem (at least my version does). So if there is a mate in three, it will just give you the first move, rather than all three moves. This might seem like a minor issue (and many times it is), but it can be annoying. |
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| Sep-08-04 |
| JustAFish: Wow, what a beautiful combination. Qxg7 was instantaneously visible, as was Rxg7 and the discovered check theme with the bishop on b2 was always lingering in the background. But, given the fact that after a rook move to discover check, say by playing 21 Rxf7+, black would simply take the bishop b2 bishop, I imagined a move like 21 Bxc4... but that, of course, fails to the simple 21... d4 where white, with two pieces now en prise, must give back a piece. 21 Rg8+, a double check, provides a beautiful solution to the problem! Alas, I failed to see it. |
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| Sep-08-04 |
| fiftybyfifty: I got this one but, like so many times, it was only because the heading tells me "White to play and win". I would've missed this in the real world. |
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| Sep-08-04 |
| Mistereous1: Question, in studying the whole game, I was trying to figure out when set up for the final combination started. I'm thinking 13 0-0 clinched the end, but the idea started after 11 Bg4 and just a little patience waiting for the castle. |
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Sep-08-04
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| notyetagm: Very nice <Pillsbury mate>: 19 Qxg7+! Nxg7 20 Rxg7+ Kh8 21 Rg8++!! Kxg8 22 Rg1+ Qg5 23 Rxg5#. That 21 Rg8++!! double check is a killing blow, setting up the standard Pillsbury mating pattern involving a bishop on the a1-h8 diagonal and a rook on the g-file. Note that a non-checking move from the rook allows the simple ... NxB on b2, meeting a discovered attack by capturing the now unmasked line piece. So the rook discovery needs to be a <double check>. Lesson learned: <Always examine double checks!> |
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| Sep-08-04 |
| Giancarlo: <White's 19. Qxg7+! is listed as the solution to number 4929 in Laszlo Polgar's 1994 book "Chess, 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games."> I have that book, but never realized that! |
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Sep-08-04
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| Knight13: Easy. |
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Sep-08-04
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| kevin86: I have seen this game before,so it was easy to solve;note,after white's  g8+ that black has both of white's checking pieces under fire,but could only take the rook with the KING. He then is exposed to the white rook from the southwest corner. Also note how white cocks his rifle with  h1 followed by g1---he then reloads with g1+ and then,mate |
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| Sep-08-04 |
| ThomYorke: Moonlitknight, 21)Rxf7+ is not possible cause of Nxb2. A double check was necessary to win. |
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| Sep-09-04 |
| MoonlitKnight: Yes, I can't believe I didn't see that. Mate is always the best anyway. |
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| Nov-01-04 |
| Ernesto7: at move 18 why doesnt white take dat pesky knigth first before doing the combination??? |
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Nov-01-04
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| Benzol: A variation on the theme
L McLaren vs M Chandler / C Laird, 1978 |
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| Jan-09-05 |
| oxxo: ernesto: white taking the "pesky" knight on move 18 means throwing away the combo.. 18. BxN? QxB attack over!! thankyouverymuch. |
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| Dec-28-05 |
| lilfoohk: Evan's Gambit |
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| Mar-19-06 |
| hidude: Oh my gosh |
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| Mar-21-06 |
| MorphyMatt: <patzer2>4929 sounds like a random number. Have you memorized them all?! |
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| Jun-22-06 |
| Xuorarch: I have the book: it's not a random number. It's one of the 600 "miniature games" in that book, all the rest are either compositions or games played by one of the Polgars. |
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| Dec-29-06 |
| Rubenus: NN's real name is Berthold Suhle.
(How can I make a link?) |
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Dec-29-06
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| WannaBe: <Rubenus> Berthold Suhle and read: Kibitzing Tricks |
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| Feb-18-07 |
| Rubenus: Berthold Suhle Hmm...quite easy actually. Thanks <WannaBe> |
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Nov-06-07
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| nimh: Rybka 2.4 mp, AMD X2 2.01GHz, 10 min per move, threshold 0.33. Anderssen 1 mistake:
15.Qg5 -0.75 (15.Rac1 -0.20)
Suhle 2 mistakes:
17...Nc4 7.50 (17...Ne8 -0.87)
18...Ne8 #5 (18...g6 7.41) |
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Oct-23-08
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| tpstar: Another Pillsbury Mate = Soltis vs D Gurevich, 1981 |
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May-22-09
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| tpstar: Another Pillsbury Mate in a variation = Plachetka vs A Planinc, 1991 |
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