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Jul-16-05
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| patzer2: Today's puzzle solution 22. Qg3!! is the first of two consecutive deflections, involving the pseudo-sacrfice of a knight, to set up a winning double attack with 24. Rc7! Another way to think about it is to ask a key question at (22.?). Is it worth the sacrfice of a piece to get the Rook and Queen attacking together on the seventh rank? The answer from Botvinnik's perspective was a resounding yes! The brilliant 22. Qg3!! (deflection involving a pseudo-sacrifice), setting up 23. Qg7! (deflection) and 24. Rc7! (double attack), with the threat of mate or decisive win of material, is worth it! |
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| Jul-16-05 |
| Shokwave: I'm happy...I solved it, after much thinking. It took me ten minutes or so to get it all worked out....sheesh! Even then, I couldn't "see" the win, but figured that the material advantage would hold out. |
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| Jul-16-05 |
| Eatman: What Botvinnik had to consider when making Qg3 was whether the black d pawn could be stopped after Qxc7. IMHO, that was the hard part. |
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Jul-16-05
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| Calli: The game Bogoljubov vs P F Schmidt, 1943 showed the correct continuation to be 16...Nxd3 instead of Rd8? Whats my point? I think its an indication that Euwe had not kept up with theory as he once did. |
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| Jul-16-05 |
| WMD: I think he was teaching at a girls' school during the war. He probably had other things on his mind. |
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| Jul-22-05 |
| aw1988: Upon the insistance of the Soviet authorities to gain a win over Euwe at any cost, Botvinnik was hesitant. When pressured further, he agreed. Soon after Euwe had his opening analyses book stolen. As has been noted, "The Russians played their game in excellent style". This is the such game. |
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Sep-26-06
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| keypusher: <Upon the insistance of the Soviet authorities to gain a win over Euwe at any cost, Botvinnik was hesitant. When pressured further, he agreed. Soon after Euwe had his opening analyses book stolen. As has been noted, "The Russians played their game in excellent style".> People wouldn't tolerate this sort of thing in a third-rate spy novel, but they take it seriously in chess. |
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| Sep-24-07 |
| Sularus: < WMD: I think he was teaching at a girls' school during the war. He probably had other things on his mind.> i know what you mean. kidding! |
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Sep-24-07
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| twinlark: Raymond Keene's annotations are updated to comment on the present match World championship tournament in Mexico, a latter day echo of the 1948 match in which this match was played. |
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Sep-24-07
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| kevin86: This tournament was a milestone. It was dominated by and created the first World Champion of the Soviet School. The long reign of central and western Eorope is ended for good. This game was old school vs new school and the latter won handily. |
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| Sep-24-07 |
| xrt999: black is sunk at move 12. Instead of dealing with the f pawn he brings out the queen. Of course, white is going forward with fxg opening up the kingside, and black will never castle. Too rub it in white castles on move 14 and the game then revolves around this horrible move by black on move 12....which white exploits the rest of the game, black desperately trying to recover but never does. 1-0 |
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| Sep-24-07 |
| schnarre: A long "Black Sabbath" for Euwe.... |
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Mar-20-08
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| Knight13: That's because 17...Rd5 is useless. |
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Oct-23-08
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| arsen387: how whites are winning after 32..c3 33.Qxc3 d2 34.Qxe5+ Kd8? Of course whites win if he now manages to exchange his Q for black R or at least deliver his Q to d1 with checks but I can't see how it is possible. any help please |
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| Oct-23-08 |
| ughaibu: 34.Qc8, take the rook and Ke2. |
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Oct-23-08
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| arsen387: <ughaibu> right, thanks. missed that |
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| Oct-23-08 |
| ounos: That's how this variation is played, Kramnik :P |
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Oct-23-08
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| kevin86: Out with the old:Euwe;in with the new:Botvinnik. |
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| Oct-23-08 |
| medstu56: is this max euwe week or what? |
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Oct-23-08
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| JG27Pyth: The really shocking thing here is how could chessgames.com blunder away the opportunity for any of several dozen different Euwe-puns while titling the GOTD? Euwe've got to be kidding, etc. etc. etc. don't get me started... my plane just fl-euwe in from the coast and boy are my arms tired... |
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| Oct-23-08 |
| sneaky pete: Blessed are the ignorants, for they hear puns where there are none. |
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| Oct-23-08 |
| johnsbrother: I really enjoy perusing any games annotated by Keene. He does a great job simplifying the notes...good for a patzer like me. |
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| Oct-23-08 |
| HannibalSchlecter: I wonder if Euwe knew the rule which permits castling. |
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| Jul-17-09 |
| totololo: I like < Sneaky> 's comments. They are very insightfull to me . |
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| Aug-10-09 |
| WhiteRook48: 22 Qg3!! |
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