| May-10-14 | | RookFile: Don't remember seeing an ending quite like this one. It looks like white is winning easily but then the horse can't get out of the barn. |
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| May-12-14 | | Howard: Rather surprising that this game hasn't commented on...until the other day ! At any rate, the Informant states that Korchnoi did miss at least one win but I don't recall exactly where. This, by the way, was the first game of the Candidates match....and a harbinger of the tense struggles that took place in this match. |
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| May-12-14 | | Petrosianic: There's an error in the game score. It gives Move 42 as c8q. But not so. According to Ray Keene's notes, when Korchnoi pushed the pawn, there were no spare pieces handy. So, instead Korchnoi pointed to a castle shaped holder on the table that was being used to hold Korchnoi and Spassky's flags. By the gesture, he clearly meant "Underpromote to Rook", which is the way it was recorded. Keene gave Black's 42nd move as BxFlag. (I wonder if he still remembers that?) |
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May-12-14
 | | perfidious: <Lonnie Lurko> would know--just ask him, if you can tear him away from his crusade against <ray>. |
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| Dec-27-14 | | Eat My Pawn: 49.Nf6 instead of 49.Nh6 seems to win. After 49... gxf6 50. Kxh4, White has a protected passed h-pawn. |
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Dec-28-14
 | | beatgiant: <Eat My Pawn>
<49.Nh6> I'm not seeing the win. Black parks his king around h6, blocking White's passer. If the White king tries to approach Black's pawns, we might get a position like the following:
click for larger viewAnd Black can now undermine the h-pawn with 1...f5, which looks like a draw. Could you post a sample line of how you expect White to win? |
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| Mar-02-15 | | Howard: As I recall, Chess Life & Review showed some analysis of an unsuccessful attempt in which White could have attempted to win a K & P endgame, but it would have failed. Don't have that issue anymore though. Apparently, the endgame was drawn for the last several moves of the game. |
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| Apr-16-15 | | Howard: Keene, by the way, claimed in Chess Life & Review that due to Korchnoi's hand being in a cast (due to a recent car accident), that that was one of the reasons he got into time trouble in this game--and thus missed a win. |
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| Apr-16-15 | | Petrosianic: The road accident on the eve of the match did happen. Using it as an excuse for missing a win (assuming it was there) is dubious, though. (Chessplayers always have excuses). |
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Apr-16-15
| | perfidious: <Petrosianic: (Chessplayers always have excuses).> The one dreamt up by Tarrasch to explain away his humiliation at the hands of Lasker in 1908 stands as a classic of the genre. |
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| Apr-16-15 | | Petrosianic: Oh, yes. Sea Air. Even though they were playing inland. Even Janowski, who was famous for his excuses never topped that one. |
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| Apr-18-15 | | Howard: Granted, the coverage that Keene and Stean wrote on both the Korchnoi-Spassky match, as well as the Karpov-Korchnoi one, was definitely biased in favor of their "hero" Korchnoi---no doubt about it. So, yes, that excuse that Keene mentioned regarding Korchnoi's hand, was probably typical of him. |
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| Aug-10-18 | | edubueno: Black to move
1) +0.08 (24 ply) 34...Rc8 35.c6 Rd4 36.Rc5 Rd5 37.Rac1 Kf8 38.Rxd5 exd5 39.Rc5 Ba4 40.Rxd5 g6 41.Rc5 Ke7 42.Rc1 Bb5 43.f3 Kd6 44.Kf2 Rc7 45.Ke3 Bxc6 46.Nxc6 Rxc6 47.Rxc6+ Kxc6 48.Kf4 Kd6 |
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| Aug-10-18 | | edubueno: Las negra erran fiero en la jugada 34 y las blancas devuelven la atención en la jugada 41 |
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| Mar-05-21 | | iron john: why not 11...kc3 ? |
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| Mar-05-21 | | thelegendisback: since black can't take on c3 with his king i'm assuming you mean Nc3. The answer is because of Qxd8 Nxd8 Bb2 and the black position is bad. |
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May-21-22
 | | Mateo: 41.Nb6 is a draw for sure, athough a beautiful one. I wonder if something else was possible with some chance of success. |
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| Aug-29-22 | | edubueno: 20...Aa6 is a dubious movement. Much better and logic is 20...Nxd2 21. Qxd2 b4 22. Qd6 Nc6 with equal chances, as for example 23.Rfd1 h6 24.Rac1 Rfd8 25.Qxc7 Rxd1+ 26.Rxd1 Rxc7 27.e5 Nxe5 28.Bxb7 Rxb7 29.Nxa5 Ra7 30.c6 b3 31.Nxb3 Nxc6 32.Rc1 Nb4 33.Rc8+ Kh7 34.a5 Nd5 35.Rb8 Kg6 36.Kf1 Kf5 37.Ke2 Ke5 38.h4 Kd6 39.h5 f5 40.Kd2 f4 41.gxf4 Nxf4 42.Rb5 drawing |
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Aug-30-22
 | | HeMateMe: korchnoi was such a tough old bird, he outlasted his entire generation of GMs to finally get a crack at the world championship. One of my favorite players, ever. |
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