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| Oct-11-17 | | sudoplatov: It's "Two connected Passed Pawns on the sixth rank are about equal to a Rook." One of the first terms I put in LACHEX's evaluation function. It also allows one to more accurately evaluate the weights to Passed Pawn locations. |
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| Oct-11-17 | | sudoplatov: I'd agree with those who noted that Black was in great danger of losing starting with move 24. |
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| Apr-30-19 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: In my opinion, although Fischer won many fine games in the opening and middle game, this ending was his most impressive win of all. |
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| May-01-19 | | WDenayer: I don't understand Taimanov's play. Why the plan with 29 ... Nb8 and Nc6 after Fischer played c3 already? Then Ne6, then back to c6. Black is of course already substantially worse. Perhaps a better plan would have been Nd8 in combination with f6. Then the pawns are on black squares. Yes, it weakens e6 and it wouldn't have worked, but look what happened when the K-side pawn ended up on white squares. |
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May-01-19
 | | beatgiant: <WDenayer>
Taimanov was probably trying to block the inroads of White's king toward the kingside, which would be open if he placed the pawns on black squares. |
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| Jun-10-19 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: I think you're right, WD: if Taimanov could have arranged his kingside pawns like his queenside pawns - on black squares, he could have drawn the game. I think he played ... h5 in order to try to deny white a spatial advantage, and then ended up with a weakness on g6, which Fischer exploited brilliantly. |
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| Jul-21-19 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: I wonder whether Black could have drawn by playing 52 ... Nd6+ |
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Jul-21-19
| | beatgiant: <N.O.F. NAJDORF>
52...Nd6+ 53. Ka6, and White is threatening to go after the kingside pawns with Bg8-h7-xg6-xh5. How can Black meet that threat? |
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| Jul-23-19 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: I wasn't sure anyone would reply so soon!
I was going to add that I made the following calculation in my head: 52 ... Nd6+
53 Ka6 Ne4
54 Bf7 Nxg3
55 Bxg6 Ne2
56 Bxh5 Nxf4
57 Bf3 Ng6
58 h5 Nf8
59 h6 f4
60 Bd5 wins
or
55 ... Kc6
56 Ka7 Kc7
57 Be8 Ne2 etc.
I think White wins in both variations, unless I've missed something. |
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Jul-23-19
 | | gezafan: Fischer was masterful at playing R+B vs R+N endings. He went for these endings a lot in his games and he played them extremely well. |
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| Oct-12-19 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: Fischer must have studied this game:
Capablanca vs J Corzo, 1901 |
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| Mar-17-20 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: ... and this one too:
Capablanca vs I A Horowitz, 1931 |
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Mar-17-20
 | | Joshka: Was great to see Bobby explaining this game to Dick Cavet during an interview on his show! |
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| May-19-20 | | Albion 1959: One of his finest endgames. Reminiscent of Capablanca at his best ! |
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| Jan-10-21 | | HurtU: Positionally, I'm surprised Taimanov didn't accept Fischer's early offer to trade queens with 10...Bxd4 (taking White's queen). After 11.Bxc7 (taking Black's queen) Bxc3 12.bxc3, White now has isolated, doubled pawns on an open file. |
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Jan-11-21
| | beatgiant: <HurtU>
It's been tried before, for example K Honfi vs J Kozma, 1969 |
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Mar-01-21
 | | HeMateMe: White fixes all of black's kingside pawns on the same color as the White Bishop, thus insuring a zugzwanged Knight. |
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| Dec-05-21 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: <Mueller's book states that according to Charles Sullivan, Black probably could have drawn with 42..Rf6. The idea is to keep the rooks on the board at all costs.> I think that move would have drawn.
The rook had to be kept on the board in order to protect the pawn on g6. |
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| Oct-12-22 | | Mateamargovich: Amazing Fischer as always! Talent, hard work and extreme passion for chess! He just crushed the crème de la crème of Soviet chess. Bobby's handling of the bishop can only be compared to Chigorin's handling of the knight. |
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Nov-04-22
 | | GrahamClayton: <N.O.F. NAJDORF>
I wonder whether Black could have drawn by playing
52 ... Nd6+
<N.O.F. NAJDORF>
The recurrent theme of the endgame is Taimanov's attempt to play ...Nd6 - when he finally gets the chance to play it, it won't do him any good! |
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Jul-03-23
 | | PawnSac: < WDenayer: Why the plan with 29 ... Nb8 and Nc6 after Fischer played c3 already? beatgiant: <WDenayer> Taimanov was probably trying to block the inroads of White's king toward the kingside, which would be open if he placed the pawns on black squares. > OK here's the position after 33.a4
click for larger viewThe Nc6 discourages Qside expansion, especially after 33.a4, but it also denies white rook access to e5 & e7. < It also shields the d7 square.> Imagine the following sequence, setting up a position as you suggest.. 33...Nd8 34.Bb5 f6 35.Rd3+
click for larger viewNow white has access to the 7th rank with the rook and after 35...Kc7 36.Rd7+ and Rxg7. If instead
35...Ke7 Rd7+ is the same thing, and after
35...Ke6 36.Rd7 again threatens the g pawn.
click for larger viewNow in this case, how is black to guard the pawn? If he plays ..Rg8 white slides his rook to a7 threatening Bc4+ skewer, so instead he must shield the pawn with ..Nf7 after which white plays Rb7 and grabs the b pawn. So my point here is that it is critical black defends d7 from invasion. If he allows white to crossfire B + R on critical white squares its all over. But besides that, notice that after f6 black has all those lovely light square "holes" white could access with his B. |
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Jul-03-23
| | PawnSac: One more comment..
with the pawn on f7 black does restrict the LSB a bit. with the pawn lifted as shown in the 3rd diagram, the bishop now has more "space" and lines of access/attack. Once can see from all this that Taimanov's defensive task was not so easy. Pushing his pawns to light squares was almost induced by Bobby, because at times he was getting close to zugzwang. Anything he might do is weakening. |
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Dec-16-23
 | | jinkinson: I've looked at this game many times and I'm still not sure what Taimanov's losing move was. Which is in part a testament to how well Fischer played here. |
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Dec-16-23
 | | Honza Cervenka: <jinkinson: I've looked at this game many times and I'm still not sure what Taimanov's losing move was.> 42...Kd8 allowing trade of Rooks seems to be a clear candidate. After 42...Rf6 white still has a better ending but black can probably hold it with optimal play. Also 35...h5 was not the wisest decision. |
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Dec-17-23
 | | perfidious: <keypusher....<PJ....Both (Botvinnik and Fischer) intending their play to be without risk.> It's 11:07 pm, so I'm pretty confident that's the stupidest thing I'll read today.> While not agreeing with the remark cited either, a criticism of Fischer's play noted in the Soviet press was that, according to them, he 'liked to play without an opponent', per Levy's <How Fischer Plays Chess>. |
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