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| Feb-15-10 | | freakclub: 21. Qg7!!! One of the most beautiful chess moves I've ever seen. |
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| Feb-19-10 | | Poisonpawns: Can we say this is Ivanchuk`s "Immortal"? |
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| Mar-12-10 | | Whitehat1963: Yeah, I still look at this and say, "Wow!" Amazing game. |
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| Mar-12-10 | | zanshin: <MostlyAverageJoe: According to my silicon monster, 23...Rc7 should draw.> I found the same with Rybka 3.
<Kinghunt: While 21. Qg7 is a beautiful move, wouldn't 21. Nxc5 Bxc5 22. Qg7 be even stronger?> According to Rybka, yes.
Still, <21.Qg7> is stunning and might have caught Shirov by surprise. |
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| Jul-05-10 | | mohitm: Seriously man! Qg7 blew the brains out of me.... |
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| Nov-15-10 | | fetonzio: holy crap |
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Nov-25-10
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| Jul-28-11 | | qqdos: Jonathan Speelman in his Foreword to Fire on Board, praises Shirov's generosity for including this loss as ironically it "contains one of the best moves of the book: Ivanchuk's extraordinary 21.Qg7!!" And beautiful and imaginative and wild!! |
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| Jun-26-12 | | Whitehat1963: What a great look at the Opening of the Day! |
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| Jan-01-13 | | chesssalamander: 21. Qg7! Who the heck does that? Way to go Chucky! |
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| Mar-25-13 | | Cemoblanca: Ku-dos! :) |
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| Jun-26-13 | | Snehalshekatkar: Mouth wide open!! |
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| Oct-01-13 | | ChessYouGood: The discussion thread is a good example of the modern misunderstanding of the general theory of beauty - Qg7 is clearly sublime rather than beautiful |
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| Nov-28-13 | | Chessman1504: Ivanchuk, tactical monster |
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| Apr-19-14 | | RadRichiie: For those of you that don't know, 21. Qg7 is the Mainline of the Botvinnik Variation in the Semi-Slav... many people have played this line, including Carlsen... |
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| Apr-19-14 | | Jim Bartle: Is that really true? In any case, I'm sure nobody had played it before Ivanchuk. |
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| Jul-02-14 | | winfriedsellars: Why is nobody commenting on 27. ... Qxb2? In my opinion simply 27. … Qxd1 – and Black may still draw. |
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| Sep-08-14 | | Ke2: that's a queen fork you don't see everyday
<winfried> after 28. Rxd1 Kxb8 29. Rd4 he's down a clear pawn and the 3 v 1 is much stronger than the 2 v 1. you're barely playing for 1 result here. |
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| Jan-13-15 | | Conrad93: <Is that really true? In any case, I'm sure nobody had played it before Ivanchuk.> It may be the mainline, but this was definitely a novelty by Ivanchuk. There's another correspondence game with the sacrifice played in the sae year, but I think that was after this game, not before. |
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| May-10-15 | | ribbiteyes: can someone point out the next few moves here; after rook to a1 |
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| May-10-15 | | Nerwal: <can someone point out the next few moves here; after rook to a1> White puts his rooks on the c file to take the c4 pawn by force (even if defended twice), after which things are clear. |
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| May-19-15 | | ribbiteyes: I appreciate your input Nerwal. I wasn't sure if there was something more sinister going on that I was missing, needless to say that this caliber of play is insane good. |
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| May-19-15 | | ribbiteyes: By the way Nerwal......e4 |
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| Apr-09-16 | | DWINS: What a magnificent conception by Ivanchuk, and to think that he didn't win the $300 "player of the round" award for this game. Instead it was awarded to a hometown player. This caused him to refuse the award when his sixth round game was selected. I Sokolov vs Ivanchuk, 1996 However, Shirov missed a draw with 27...Qxg7 28.Rxa7 Kb8 29.Rda1 Re8 30.Nd6 Re1+ 31.Rxe1 Kxa7 32.Nxc4 Qd4 (0.00). I'm glad that he did or else this amazing game probably wouldn't be as well known. |
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| Dec-28-17 | | clement41: Nice 21 Qg7! try but is ...d4 really best? |
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