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| Hidden Skillz: is kamsky gonna have a comeback now or what??.. |
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| iron maiden: <Hidden Skillz> I know he's been invited to the U.S. Championship early next year. As for playing on the elite international circuit again...who knows? |
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| jahhaj: Doesn't  e3 win as well? That's the move I picked and my computer is backing me up. |
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| jahhaj: 4 xd4 is a sound move especially if you don't like learning lots and lots of Sicilian theory. The usual reply though is 4 ...  c6 5  b5 d7 when White has to choose between giving up the bishop pair or losing time moving his queen again. |
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| Oct-10-04 |
| santhosh achar: after 17...Re8 isn't the 18.Bh7+ winning? 18...Nxh7 19.Rxd8 and so on? |
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| Oct-10-04 |
| Rama: Yes, but he has already sacked a Bishop to get here. That maneuver would cost him another Bishop and a Rook to get the Queen. Bc4 on the other hand allows him to get another heavy piece into the game with Rd4 and to hit the f7 square in preparation for the final combo. Nice. |
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| Oct-10-04 |
| greystar69: Does black resign here purely on the strength of being 3 connected passed pawns down against being an exchange up, or is there a further white combo? |
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| Oct-10-04 |
| themindset: <jahhaj> my fritzy rates Bxh6 as slightly better than Qe3. |
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Oct-10-04
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| who: Fritz8 running deep position analysis - 11 moves deep says 16...Qd7 17.Qf4 Qg4 18.Qxg4 Nxg4 4.Bc1 Ne5 (is only 0.88/11) |
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| Oct-10-04 |
| pawntificator: <Greystar69>, I bet there is a further white combo for any possible move on black's part. As for this puzzle, why did black go 17...Re8 at all? He should move the queen to 17...Qc7 or 17...Qb6. Of course that still leaves an 18. Bmove but at least black can counter with a rook on the d-file. Or maybe I'm completely overlooking a patzer move. Or maybe chessgames is just punishing us for complaining about the 'simplicity' of the daily puzzles. Next april fools day I hope chessgames.com puts up the daily puzzle: white to play and win in the opening position. Then we could argue that one out forever. |
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| Oct-10-04 |
| catfriend: About 4.:d4. It's fairly sound, allowing white to lead his game without a wild struggle from the beginning and without being risly as sometimes happens in other lines. Black has no obvious way to gain initiative, and white has time to prepare for a good active positional struggle.
But, then, I'm biased, since that's my preparation against 2..d6 :) |
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| Willem Wallekers: <jahhaj: 4 Qxd4 is a sound move... The usual reply though is 4 ... Nc6 5 Bb5 Bd7>
Black can subtly play 4 ... Bd7, preventing Bb5.
<Jim Bartle: ... Did Lautier make some fundamental mistake?>
How about 9 ... d5? Rule-of-thumb is:
castle first, then open the centre. |
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| Oct-10-04 |
| catfriend: <WW> You're right, 9..d5 is a weak move, a cautionous e7 would be better perhaps. After 4..d7 or 4..a6, 5.g5(as in this game) makes a lot of sense. |
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| Oct-10-04 |
| morphy234: ugh, this one was TOO easy. make better, more abstract ones!! |
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| Seraphina: <greystar> I see two threyts that are difficult to parry, there may be more. 1. B-c4+ is curtains (at best black is left a piece +3 pawns down). If Be6, there is always Bh7+ and ultimately white gets the rook, pins the B against the King and the queen... in short: a mess. That, anyway is what I see, it would have been enough to resign. |
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| Oct-10-04 |
| BadTemper: how does white win after 26? |
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| Chessical: <BadTemper> Black's, position is shattered and his K is exposed. The Black monarch has no safe haven, e.g: <26...Qe7> 27.Ne4 Qg7 28.Bc4+ Kf8 29.Qf4+ Ke7 30.Qd6+ Kd8 31.Qb6+ Ke7 32.Rd1 Rec8 33.Rxd7+ Kxd7 34.Qxb7+ Rc7 35.Qd5+ Ke7 36.Qd6+ Ke8 37.Nf6+ |
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| kevin86: Nice game;white clears our black's kingside-and leaves the king naked and undefended. |
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| Oct-10-04 |
| tacticsjokerxxx: The nice part of this game is the opening and the planning, the solution Bxh6 was easy. |
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| Sneaky: If all you saw was 16.Bxh6 gxh6 17.Qxh6 "with an attack" then you can write down a goose-egg for the day because you didn't even try to solve the problem. To solve this problem you not only had to determine the 17...Re8 18.Bc4 line, but also you should know why the logical looking 17...Qa5 loses outright. In fact, if you didn't see it all the way to Rxh7+ you really didn't solve it because I believe that is the only move there to preserves White's advantage. |
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| Oct-10-04 |
| Minor Piece Activity: I think you meant 16. Bxh6 not 16. Bxe6 but everyone knows what you meant. |
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| patzer2: Perhaps 6...h6 forcing the Bishop to commit early while continuing to keep the center closed, as in J Radlovacki vs C Balogh, 2002, is an improvement for Black. |
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| patzer2: 16. xh6! gxh6 17. xh6  e8
[17...Qc7 18. Qg5+ Kh8 19. Rfe1 Rfd8 20. Re3 Nh7 21. Qxe7 Qxe7 22. Rxe7  ; 17...Bd6 18. Bf5! Re8 19. Rd3! ; 17...Qa5 18. Rfe1 Qc5 19. Re3 ] 16. xh6! gxh6 17. xh6 e8 18. g5+!
[also winning are 18. Bc4! (as in the game continuation); 18. Bc2! Bd6 19. Rd3 ] 16. xh6! gxh6 17. xh6 e8 18. g5+!  f8 [18...Kh8 19. Bf5! Qa5 20. Rd3 Nh7 21. Qh5 ] 19. c4! d6 20. h6+ e7 21. g7 f8 22. d3 c7 23. e1+ e4 24. xe4 xe4 25. xe4+ d7 26. e6+ and Black is caught in a mating web. <Minor Piece Activity> Thanks for the help. I corrected and reposted. |
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| midknightblue: I agree with Sneaky. You guys who saw this line through to Rxh7 and all the variations along the way are quite impressive indeed. Don't sell yourselves short for your outstanding abilities at calculating these lines. They were not easy. OF course if you simply thought 16. Bxh6 looked clever (like I did) but were not to sure how it would all play out, then you didn't have it solved at all, better luck next time :) |
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| patzer2: <Sneaky> <In fact, if you didn't see it all the way to Rxh7+ you really didn't solve it because I believe that is the only move there to preserves White's advantage.> Not necessarily so. The winning line I gave with 18. Qg5+! avoids the need for the 23. Rxh7+ followup altogeter, with a more decisive advantage (forced mate) than the game continuation (material advantage). |
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