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| Jun-08-04 |
| Rowson: I've never understood why a4 wins please explian? i know black has lost his queen but why a4.? |
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| Jun-08-04 |
| maoam: <Rowson> I'm not sure either, because to me it looks like Rxg7+ wins... |
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| Jun-09-04 |
| Rowson: im just going to have to beleive he did it to rub salt in anderssons wounds. "Here have a pawn i have your queen!" anyone know the real reason? |
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| Jun-22-04 |
| Eatman: if Bxa4 White can exchange the opposite color bishops off after Rxg7+ Rxg7 Bxf6 remaining an exchange up with easy mop-up ahead. Bd7 could be played but white would still be exchange up with black having no counterplay. |
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| Jun-22-04 |
| Rowson: Cheers <Eastmant> but I’ve seen this game in a book which had 34. c4 instead of 34. a4. 34. c4 to me makes more sense! Who is right the book or cheesgames.com? Also instead of 33. ...Raf7 my book has 33. …R8f7. it mightn’t really matter because the game is won but this is one of my all time favourite games and I’d like to know how it really ended. |
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Sep-17-04
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| iron maiden: <Rowson> In World's Greatest Chess Games White's move is given as 34. a4, if it matters. |
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Sep-18-04
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| acirce: <Rowson> At Ljubojevic vs Ulf Andersson, 1976 it is given the way you describe. |
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| Feb-15-06 |
| MorphyMatt: Interesting. In The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games, Nunn, Burgess, and Emms give 24... f6 a question mark, while in Winning Chess Brilliancies Yasser Sierwan gives 24... f6 two exclamation points. |
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| Mar-06-06 |
| KholdStare: In GM Seirawan's book, it had:
37...Rff7, NOT Raf7, and
40. c4, NOT a4
He said that Rff7 was to set up counterplay via checking at the e1 square then the f1 square. |
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| Mar-06-06 |
| Jim Bartle: Seirawan's book gives the end as
33...R8f7 34. c4 (No idea why it isn't called Rff7.) |
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| Apr-09-06 |
| attica: It seems to me that if the actual move is 33 ... Rff7 and and not 33 ... Raf7, then after 34 a4 (or 34 c4) the response 34... Bd7 would be much worse than in the present position, since the bishop on d7 would block the rook on a7 from defending the f7, g7, or h7 squares. So if Rff7 is played, then a4 (or c4) makes very good sense. For example, 34 ... Bd7, 35 Rg7, Rg7, 36 Qd5, Rf7, 37 Rh8 (this would not work with Raf7). |
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Apr-09-06
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| Ulhumbrus: On 19 Bxc7 the black Knight on e8 is overloaded, for it cannot both prevent the fork Nf6+ and defend the point c7 as well. On 19..Qxc7 20 Qxc7 Nxc7 21 Nf6+ wins the B on d7. |
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| Apr-09-06 |
| TaricHall: For move 27: Is black any better if he plays King f7, instead of playing pawn b6? |
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| Apr-09-06 |
| Jim Bartle: Wouldn't 28. Nxe6 be just as devastating after 27...Kf7 as after 27...b6? |
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| Apr-12-06 |
| izimbra: Losing move I don't know, but Black's system with the bishop at d7 and the knight at e8 looks pretty bad. Can anyone give a reason for liking 11d7 over 11d5 for black? |
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| Jul-30-07 |
| Cactus: I don't know about Seirewan's book on brilliancies, but his book on openings has several mistakes, so I wouldn't trust him. |
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| Jun-12-08 |
| Oregon104: I do believe this game has the two moves wrong... Not only does Winning Chess Brilliancies have 33...R8f7 34.c4 1-0, but so does my database that came with Fritz 9. I think those two moves need to be changed on here. |
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Nov-30-08
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| notyetagm: 24  f1-f4
click for larger viewIs this game not the ultimate <ROOK LIFT> game? |
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| Nov-30-08 |
| Jim Bartle: "Is this game not the ultimate <ROOK LIFT> game?" Outstanding. Another candidate would be Ivanchuk vs Yusupov, 1991, starting with 27...Re6. |
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Nov-30-08
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| notyetagm: <Jim Bartle: "Is this game not the ultimate <ROOK LIFT> game?"
Outstanding. Another candidate would be Ivanchuk vs Yusupov, 1991, starting with 27...Re6.> 27 ... e8-e6
click for larger viewBut that's only *one* <LIFTED ROOK>! Ljubojevic has *two* <ROOK SWINGERS> heading for the Black king, daddy-o! :-) 24 f1-f4
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Nov-30-08
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| notyetagm: 24 f1-f4
click for larger viewI just love how after 24 f1-f4 Ljubojevic (White) is threatening the *beautiful* 25  e5xg7!  e8xg7 26  g3xg7+!  h7xg7 27 c3-g3+ g7-h6 28 f4-h4#, death by <SWINGING ROOKS>. (VAR)
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click for larger viewThis must be LarryC's favorite game. He is such a proponent of <SWINGING ROOKS> and this variation is definitely <DEATH BY SWINGERS(!)>. |
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| Dec-02-08 |
| Jim Bartle: Very convincing, notyet. |
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| Jan-10-09 |
| WhiteRook48: why did Black continue after his Q got pinned? |
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| Apr-03-09 |
| WhiteRook48: 34 a4 is actually quite clever |
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| Nov-02-09 |
| DarthStapler: GOTD please |
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