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May-05-15
 | | perfidious: <mruknowwho: Declining the King's Gambit is a sin.> The strong master John A Curdo made a career of meeting the gambit with 2....Bc5 and did not come off too badly. |
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| May-05-15 | | kevin86: Akiba knows his sacrifices...just another of his greats. |
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May-05-15
 | | tamar: I can imagine Carlsen playing this game without many different decisions. 17 a5 leads to many ramifications, but the resounding 25 Qb6 must have been a shock for Hromadka. Carlsen referred to Rubinstein in a postgame at Shamkir. Asked about the death of Razuvaev, Carlsen said the gm had shown him some of his favorite Rubinstein's games some years ago. |
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| May-05-15 | | dfcx: Why did not black play 9...Nxc2+ winning the rook? He still had a chance to play it at move 10. |
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May-05-15
 | | keypusher: <dfcx> Probably he should have! See <OBIT>'s post on this page: Chigorin vs Pillsbury, 1895
But at the time (as shown by some of the other kibitzing on the page) chess masters thought that Chigorin-Pillsbury demonstrated that White had more than enough for the rook. <tamar>
<Carlsen referred to Rubinstein in a postgame at Shamkir. Asked about the death of Razuvaev, Carlsen said the gm had shown him some of his favorite Rubinstein's games some years ago.> Razuvaev and Valery Myrachvery’s <Akiba Rubinstein> is a very fine book, in Russian unfortunately. |
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May-05-15
| | tamar: <keypusher> You read Russian too? |
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May-05-15
| | keypusher: <tamar: <keypusher> You read Russian too?> Not really. I have Hanon Russell's <Russian for Chessplayers> and a dictionary, so I can fight my way through annotations. See posts here. Rubinstein vs Nimzowitsch, 1928 |
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| May-05-15 | | thegoodanarchist: <Phony Benoni: No matter how often you see it, <25.Qb6> is electrifying. It's not such a deep move, but the way the queen comes careening in out of nowhere gets the adrenaline pumping.> Indeed, PB. It was a lovely queen sacrifice. |
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May-05-15
 | | eternaloptimist: <keypusher> I also have that book. It helps some but it has less than 50 pages of translated material so it's limited. Russian dictionaries help too
but it takes a while to flip through the pages. Here's a website w/ a Russian keyboard that can really help you & anyone else here that wants to translate Russian chess books.:
http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/r...
I got that book in Denver on a vacation @ a chess tourney back in '03. I like to copy the text after I type it & then go to google translate or another translator & paste it to translate the text.:
https://translate.google.com/m/tran... |
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May-05-15
 | | Penguincw: Being a person that can actually solve the Rubik's Cube, I approve this pun. :) |
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| May-05-15 | | rookpawn101: <Penguincw> What are your best timings? My best is 23.13 sec. Best of 5 is 30.17 sec. |
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May-05-15
| | keypusher: <eternaloptimist: <keypusher> I also have that book. It helps some but it has less than 50 pages of translated material so it's limited. Russian dictionaries help too but it takes a while to flip through the pages. Here's a website w/ a Russian keyboard that can really help you & anyone else here that wants to translate Russian chess books.: http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/r...
I got that book in Denver on a vacation @ a chess tourney back in '03. I like to copy the text after I type it & then go to google translate or another translator & paste it to translate the text.: https://translate.google.com/m/tran... Thanks, that's wonderful to know about! Apart from the Rubinstein book, I also have Botvinnik's Selected Games, the "Tournament of Stars [Not Named Korchnoi]," and a book about Stein. With that keyboard I can get a lot more out of them. |
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May-05-15
| | Penguincw: < rookpawn101: <Penguincw> What are your best timings? My best is 23.13 sec. Best of 5 is 30.17 sec. > Grr...
My best time, ever, was about 30 seconds. My average time is about 45 seconds. I've been trying to invest in a better cube (or perhaps better method), but haven't gotten the time; I've been solving a cube for nearly 5 months now. :) |
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May-05-15
| | eternaloptimist: <keypusher> You are welcome! That Russian keyboard & Google translate will definitely speed up the translation process a lot. I used to have the English version of Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games. I'm thinking about getting it again. |
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| May-05-15 | | RookFile: A hacker like me solves Rubik's cube in 12 minutes, following the main web site. |
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| May-07-15 | | thegoodanarchist: <Penguincw: Being a person that can actually solve the Rubik's Cube, I approve this pun. :)> I learned how to solve it and then forgot how. As my mother might say, that, and a couple of dollars, will buy me a cup of coffee. |
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| May-08-15 | | john barleycorn: A game of interest here is:
Stollar vs A Serebrisky, 1945 |
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| May-12-17 | | User not found: I can't get my head around this game.. Why is ka8 so necessary for black here? I just ran it by the engine and it's also 1st choice move? I saw 18..kb8 was necessary but not 19..ka8. 
click for larger view |
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May-12-17
 | | Retireborn: <User not found> The idea of 19...Ka8 is to enable 20...Bb8 defending the a7 pawn if White plays 20.Qf2 attacking it. It's not a forced move, but Black's position is already so passive that there's nothing better. |
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| May-12-17 | | User not found: <Retireborn: <User not found> The idea of 19...Ka8 is to enable 20...Bb8 defending the a7 pawn if White plays 20.Qf2 attacking it. It's not a forced move, but Black's position is already so passive that there's nothing better.> Hi buddy.. I don't see anything wrong with just playing a6 beforehand, i don't know why i even thought kb8 necessary because Bb8 <followed by> a6 does the job.. It's just one of those games i don't really understand, can't go through the moves without replaying them a few times and still left wondering what the idea behind them are.. Above my pay grade :) |
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May-12-17
| | Retireborn: Well 18...Kb8 wasn't a forced move either - the idea of that is to threaten 19...Nxe4, because the immediate 18...Nxe4 just fails to 19.Qg4+. Yes, as you say Black could play something else with ...a6, but his position remains bad because his pieces have no active play. That's positional chess for you - if it was easy to understand we'd all be Grandmasters :) |
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| Jun-19-20 | | Baahubali: Had seen Qb6 idea but the way rubinstein uses it by bringing rook to f7 is pure attacking genius. |
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| Jul-16-25 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: 25...axb6 26. axb6+ Ba7 27. Rxa7+ Kb8 28. Rfxb7+ Kc8 29. Ba6 Qxd3+ 30. Bxd3 Nxg1 31. Ba6 wins |
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| Jul-16-25 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: 26...axb6 27. axb6+ Ba7 28. Rxa7+ Kb8 29. Bxd6+ Rxd6 30. Rfxb7+ Kc8 31. Bxg8 wins |
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| Jul-16-25 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: 29...Rf8 30. Rf1 wins |
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