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Nov-14-05
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| KingG: Great game by Korchnoi. |
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Nov-14-05
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| dakgootje: very nice game by Viktor Korchnoi indeed |
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| Nov-14-05 |
| CeeFoR: Excellent pun as well! |
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Nov-14-05
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| kevin86: "Pins and needles,needles and pins-it's a happy man that grins" Ralph Kramden. A rare double pin on move 23 by white. |
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Nov-14-05
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| Dres1: this is a cool old man |
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| Nov-14-05 |
| TigerPawns: 17...Kf8 looks strange, but 17...O-O is in fact not much fun after the simple attacking move 18. Qg4 when the immediate threat 19.Bxh6 must be met by weakening the king side and being subject to prolonged pressure. |
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Nov-14-05
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| YouRang: Udovcic must have felt like a pin cushion during this game. |
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| Nov-14-05 |
| Marvol: <blingice: Why does white's dark bishop never get taken?> Well apart from move 22, it is not that hard.
At move 23 black would lose the queen; at move 24, black would also lose the queen after 25 Nxe6+; at move 25, it is check; 26 attacks the queen; 27 is check; if 28...Bxb4 then 29.Rf3+ mates or wins the queen (and still mates :P); 29 attacks the rook; and by move 30 I don't think it matters anymore. But at move 22 it seems a valid alternative to capture the bishop. After 22...Bxb4 and the obvious recapture 23 Qxb4+, Fritz embarks on a long and rather tactical variation. The main point seems to be that black is very tied up... in many variations white threatens to win a pawn or a piece with Qa5. |
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| Nov-14-05 |
| BARROCCO: You know, 17..Kf8 was a real bummer for Black. The King's Rook only suffocates. And in England, a wrench is called a spanner, and 19. Qg4 really made the span from Queenside to Kingside. Great game for Mr. Korchnoi! |
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| Nov-14-05 |
| Hesam7: IMO 23... g5 is the main mistake on Black's side. Before that Black's position is difficult but not lost. |
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| Mar-23-06 |
| Daodejing: Also a "classic"!
Korchnoi has a lot of fun by analysing this game in his lesson on Fritz 9. |
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Jul-19-06
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| notyetagm: Korchnoi playing the Korchnoi Gambit against the French. This game is a pinning masterpiece. I particularly liked 29  g4-h4!, with a wicked <CROSS-PIN> of the Black e7-bishop. |
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Jul-19-06
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| keypusher: Wow, what a game! I didn't know there even WAS a Korchnoi Gambit -- usually Korchoi grabs pawns rather than giving them up. 23. Qh4 is indeed amazing. |
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Jul-20-06
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| notyetagm: <keypusher: Wow, what a game! I didn't know there even WAS a Korchnoi Gambit -- usually Korchoi grabs pawns rather than giving them up. 23. Qh4 is indeed amazing.> Yes, this is a really great game by Korchnoi.
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Jul-20-06
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| diagonal: (usually) Victor Korchnoi grabs pawns rather than giving them up *lol* - and he paid a lot for grabbing (poisoned) pawns. Well, contrary to many other players Korchnoi is NOT looking for the rules (to a routine down to perfection), he is looking for the "exception of the rules": This game is most certainly one of VK's top-ten ever. |
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| Jul-20-06 |
| A.Alekhine: GM Larry Christiansen annotated this game in Chessmaster 10th edition.. |
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Oct-02-06
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| notyetagm: This game should be called <The Immortal Pinning Game>. Never before have I seen a game in which there is simply pin (22  b4 g6 23 h4! <pile on the pinned Black e7-bishop>) after pin (25 b5+ d7 26  xe6! <take what the pinned Black d7-bishop doesn't defend>) after pin (30 xh6 xb5 31  g3 <pile on the pinned Black g7-rook>). An incredible pinning masterpiece. |
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Mar-23-07
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| tatarch: notyetagm--I totally agree. Black has a piece or pawn pinned, more or less, on every single move for his last 10 moves. Fundamentals! |
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| Apr-25-07 |
| SNoland: 13...Nc5 instead of 13...h6 seems to solve some of blacks issues. If 14. Bh7 then Qh4 for black. |
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Aug-07-07
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| whiteshark: From the <My Life for Chess> CD Kortchnoi starts to replay his white game against Mijo Udovcic, which begins 1.d4 e6 2.e4 : <Well, some time ago the then world champion Mikhail Botvinnik said that a young player had to arrange his opening repertoire in a way that he would never have to play against himself. What does it mean? It means that if I play the Grunfeld with black against d4 and the French Defence against e4, I should not play against the French myself. Somehow I had to avoid openings which I play myself. But I got tired of playing closed openings and decided to take the challenge. The guy wanted to play the French against me, I take it! But if possible I would avoid the most modern lines.> |
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| Sep-11-08 |
| jovack: udovic just got completely stranded with his pieces clumsily defending |
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Jan-21-09
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| notyetagm: A <PINNING> masterpiece. |
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Jan-21-09
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| notyetagm: 23 ?
click for larger view23 g4-h4! <pin: f8>
click for larger view23 Qg4-h4! Black e7-bishop pinned against Black f8-king. |
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| Apr-21-09 |
| Alphastar: <notyetagm> It's the pinnacle of Korchnoi's career! |
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| Jun-30-09 |
| WhiteRook48: 23 Qh4!! the e7-bishop is also pinned to the black queen |
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