Yuri Balashov vs Mark Tseitlin (1969)

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Yuri Balashov vs Mark Tseitlin
URS-ch sf Barnaul (1969), Barnaul URS, Jun-??
Uncommon King's Pawn Opening (B00) · 1-0

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Mar-25-06		Zaius: I'm not sure I get the purpose of 16...Qd7

Mar-25-06		Madman99X: Is it forcing?

Mar-25-06		Isamaru: I think White tried to play 17. Bxg7... Nxg7 18. Ng5. With 16...Qd7, Black could respond with 18... Bf5 to avoid mate on h7. I liked this game a lot. I found impressive that Black's King practically has no escape.

Mar-25-06		Madman99X: What if 16 ... Bd7 is played?

Mar-25-06		yataturk: How can you play black and allow white to play five consecutive rook moves when there is an obvious weakness in the g-h files???

Mar-25-06		al wazir: Why not an immediate 16. gxh3 ? I don't understand the importance of 16. Nxe4. I assume it was played to force black to play f6, but f6 doesn't look forced. In fact, almost none of the moves look inevitable. I'm sure there were other ways to win. In particular, white could have attacked along the open g file with Kh1 and Rg1 (my idea). The ♖ on f1 was never used!

Mar-25-06		al wazir: <yataturk: How can you play black and allow white to play five consecutive rook moves> Total agreement here!

Mar-25-06		crafty: 16. gxh3 exd3 17. ♗xg7 ♘xg7 18. ♘d5 f6 19. cxd3 ♖f7 (eval -0.81; depth 12 ply; 250M nodes)

Mar-25-06		JOE45: what's wrong with 16. Qg5? How do you meet the threat of 17. Qxg7++

Mar-25-06		werty: JOE45 By the time you read this you probably would have noticed the N

Mar-25-06		sez: bad puzzle

Mar-25-06		olydream3: i dont think this is a puzzle for saturday, all chess players expect something far more difficult than that

Mar-25-06		durnstein: Black's sequence of defensive moves is incomprehensibly bad. How does White progress after 16 . . . f6?

Mar-25-06		Cogano: Would someone be good enough to forgive my ignorance & tell me what was supposed to be the threat of 16.Nxe4? I must admit that I don't understand White's play since this move until the end at all. But, then again, I'm completely unfamiliar with this opening. So I'm sure that's part of the reason. Thanks much to all in advance. Take very good care & have a great day & a great weekend too!

Mar-25-06		ice lemon tea: frankly, i don't like this puzzle because the solution is not that beautiful. i always thought puzzles in chessgames.com especially on saturday and sunday should be the puzzles solved with answer of beautiful maneuverability, stunning mate combo, great sacrificial attack or picturesque positional play. looks like after this, instead of looking for the great move, i should also look for a not-so-exquisite solution as well.

Mar-25-06		ckr: Black's king is trapped in the corner, white plays his Knight to the center. Seemed borderline retarded to me at first. But if black retreats the bishop to d7 or e6 he cuts off his queen and white has even better chances to mate. Even though the knight did nothing black had to counter what it could do.

Mar-25-06		OhioChessFan: I might go back and review Monday's puzzle. I got that one. Even seeing the answer to today's, I don't get it at all.

Mar-25-06		ckr: <durnstein: Black's sequence of defensive moves is incomprehensibly bad. How does White progress after 16 . . . f6?> 17.Qxh3 Bxh6 18.Qxh6, and I would not want the black pieces.

Mar-25-06		t rador: Nice puzzle!!! Black could not create room for his King, giving time for White to activate his a1 Rook. I think Black wasted a lot of Rook move..(White is behind by a tempo or 2), Time he needs to create a counter or room for his cornered King. We could learn a lot on how white was able to look deep into the position.

Mar-25-06		HannibalSchlecter: Going back to move 9, I don't understand using another tempo for 9 Bb3. Anyone know?

Mar-25-06		Montreal1666: <Madman99X:> <Is it forcing?> Doesn't look like it at all. This puzzle is more about black losing the game.

Mar-25-06		TheSlid: <HannibalSchlecter> Cool Nic!

Mar-25-06		EmperorAtahualpa: hmm....The first few moves don't look forcing to me. I think it would have been better if this puzzle was presented on, say, Thursday with White to move at move 22.

Mar-25-06		Sneaky: If this combination is sound then there must be 100 variations to work out before we can prove its soundness. If it's unsound, then I've yet to see anybody suggest a clearly superior move, only different ways to lose. It looks like Black's king is just too isolated from his defenders, and falls prey to a rook lift, or a queen-knight mating net, but like I said, there are sooooo many variations. What does Herr Fritz say about it?

Mar-25-06		WarmasterKron: <JOE45> That's exactly what I thought. When I clicked to see the solution, I realised it would only work if the knight was generous enough to give up its cover of g7. My unusually successful week has come to an end, methinks.

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