| Oct-21-03 |
| Whitehat1963: Amazing performance for an 11-year-old! Reshevsky may have been the greatest prodigy in the history of the game. Here he navigates a perilous position with meticulous accuracy and seeming ease! |
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| Oct-21-03 |
| drukenknight: This is an amazing game to analyze! For one thing, you can skip the first 40 moves and move right to the fascinating end game/not somuch endgame. And with each move the game gets more complex that's what makes it nice. I looked at a number of moves with help of chessbase computer, but if you want to try some of these over the board, I wont spell it out. Janofsky allows sammy lots of extra tempos to re position pieces, because he wastes time making simple recaptures. That is sort of a running theme here, and eventually it probably cost him, but even with these small mistakes there is lots of stuff to mine here. Look at whites 42nd, it takes him 3 moves to make the simple pxN. 45 Qxh3 is probably better.
More to come. |
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Jan-12-05
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| vonKrolock: <37.d6> White's position looks overwhelming - like if the game would solve for itself by means of exchanges in the line 'g' followed by further advance of the Pawn 'd6'... <38.h4> Thus Black's chances of obtaining a saviour blockade increases a little - Whith the forced line 38.Ng5 hg 39.Rg5 Rg7 (best) 40.Qg3 Qf7 41.Rh5 followed by Rh6 (suggested by Ed Lasker) White would win back the piece and forces also the exchange of Queens and a pair of Rooks <40.Ng5> Now this jump is a faux pas - and an opportunity for the Reshevsky boy of displaying his amazing tactical skill (proved here to be innate) <41...Ng6> !
...to be continued |
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Apr-02-05
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| vonKrolock: As Reshevsky was born Nov, 26 (almost in the end of an Year), that's a greater possiblity that this Game was played when he was a ten, not yet eleven Years old (to be checked whith the exact date of the present Game |
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Apr-02-05
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| vonKrolock: According to "David Janowsky", by Voronkov and Plissetsky, this Game was played in October 8th 1922, so according to the official Reshevsky's birthday, he was 10-Years-old then |
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| May-22-05 |
| SnoopDogg: Actually Reshevsky is thought or should I say to be known that he is older than what his birth certificate says. But because of his small size he got away with it. But I heard Reshevsky was giving simuls at the age of 6. |
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| May-22-05 |
| RookFile: 9.... Nb6 is no good. Tarrasch said
a knight on b6 is always misplaced.
9....b5 and Bb7 seems more logical.
You get the feeling that Janowski was
winning, but Reshevsky was showing the
defensive tenacity that marked his
whole career. |
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Aug-07-06
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| Marmot PFL: They were the oldest and youngest players in the tournament, ages 52 and 10. Many people thought it was child abuse to have a 10 yr old play in such a tough event. |
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| Aug-02-07 |
| sneaky pete: 57.g7 .. apparently still draws.
<Reshevsky On Chess> has some curious notes. 54... Kg8 is supposed to maintain some winning chanches, as after 54... Rxf6+ 55.gxf6+ Kg8 56.d7 Qd2 57.g7! .. black cannot win because of the threat f7+ etc. Yet after 54... Kg8 55.d7 Rxf6+ 56.gxf6+ .. gets a question mark, then after 56... Qd2 the (what appears to be) losing move 57.Rh1 .. (instead of 57.g7 ..) passes without comment. |
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| Dec-09-07 |
| dumbgai: Where did Janowski go wrong? I could have sworn White was winning around move 40 or so. |
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Dec-09-07
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| al wazir: Janowski butchered this. After 48. Qxf4, what can black do? After 48...Rf8 49. Qe4 Qb3+ 50. Kg4, white can play 51. Rf1 or Rh1 and take over the seventh rank. |
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| Dec-09-07 |
| Dilbertarian: After 48. Qxf4, Black could have replied Qb3+ and tried to obtain either perpetual check, or a position similar to what actually followed, if the white king at one time or another goes to f3. |
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| Dec-09-07 |
| zev22407: IN Fred Reinfeld's book 38)N-g5+ wins the game 38)..h6xg5 39)Rxg5 R-g7 40)Q-g3! Q-f7 41)R-h5+ K-g8 42)R-h6 Nxe5
43)f4xe5! RxQ 44)RxR+ and white wins. |
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| Dec-09-07 |
| zev22407: Reinfeld sugestd 45)QxR! leading to a perpetual check. |
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| Dec-09-07 |
| newzild: Hey Zev22407, doesn't 45.QxR lose to 45...Rh8?
Yeah, black was getting hammered up till 37.d6, when the open diagonal gave black counterplay.
Pretty awesome for a youngster to take out an old pro like Janowski like that... |
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| Dec-09-07 |
| Tacticstudent: I think Janowski should have resigned after 53... Rf8., but I believe it was too much for him to be defeated by a ten-year old boy. Typical chessplayer pride. |
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Dec-09-07
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| Calli: Picture from the tournament: http://picasaweb.google.com/Caissa1... |
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Dec-09-07
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| Gambit All: <For one thing you can skip the first 40 moves> While the "crowd pleasing" middle game type combinations and razor's edge positions occur after move 40, some intriguing positional moves occur early. Black's 7th move - pushing the a-pawn to facilitate Queen side expansion - is a deviation from the normal Queen's Gambit Declined opening. It is very rare for children to break away from well known piece combinations to consider unusual pawn moves. It shows a chess mind that is analyzing over the whole board. Also in moves 19 and 35 Janowski twice ultimately loses tempi doubling his rooks first on the B and then on the G file. Ultimately the attack formations prove to be mirages as he is unable to win material or penetrate down the files. In Andrew Soltis's "The Art Of Defense in Chess" he cites a 1909 Jaowski-Lasker Championship game where Janowski doubles Rooks on the g file and after Lasker responds g6! "all of a sudden it seems that White's Rooks are sitting uselessly on a blocked file and that his KB could do much better service elsewhere." In games where an opponent was proving hard to attack Janowski seems to have had an achilles'heel for growing impatient, maybe running out of ideas, and doubling his rooks in attack formations that prove to be illusions. |
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Dec-09-07
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| dabearsrock1010: why not 33. d6 ...it looks winning for white to me, any other opinions? |
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| Dec-09-07 |
| RookFile: Well, the computer says, take your pick: 33. Nh4, Janovski's 33. Rg2+, 33. c4, or d6 are all winning, in this order, with values raging from +2.21 to +1.50. |
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Dec-10-07
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| kevin86: What a rally by Reshevsky! It looked like the rooks would batter their way into his position,but he was able to stave them off. Mr.Janowski held off a bit too long,IMHO,after he lost the queen. |
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Dec-10-07
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| patzer2: As an 11-year-old prodigy, Reshevsky defends well against the positional sacrifice 40. Ng5!? by giving the piece back with good practical chances after 41...Ng6! |
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Apr-19-09
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| vonKrolock: Ten years old - not eleven (not even with the Julian calendar's décalage he would be 11) By the way, read Edward Winter's "Chess Notes" number 6083 April 2009 for more interesting material on this game http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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