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Apr-09-20
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| Apr-09-20 | | malt: Have 31.R:d2 R:d2 32.Qb7 R:c7 33.R:c7 Qa1+ 34.Kh2 e4 35.Rc8+ Kh7 36.Q:e4+ g6 37.Rc7+ |
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| Apr-09-20 | | Sokrates: <<BobCrisp: Alekhine also had some pretty bad results during WWII...> <Lasker> and <Capa> didn't come out of it too well neither.> You are absolutely right: Lasker didn't come out too well after 11 January 1941 when he ascended to higher grounds. And Capablanca's spirit left the earth on 8 March 1942 - after that he was much less successful at the chess board. |
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| Apr-09-20 | | Olavi: <perfidious: Was not Botvinnik another non-signatory of that denunciation?> That's right, he would not sign collective letters. He even refused to sign the Doctors' Plot letter, when Stalin was still alive. |
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| Apr-09-20 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: After long pondering, the immortal Viktor "The Terrible" Korchnoi finally found 31.Rxd2!,Rxd2 32.Qb7,Rdd8 (32.-,Rxc7 33.Rxc7,Qa1+ 34.Kh2,e4 35.Qc8+,Kh7 36.Qf5+ +-) 33.cxd8D+,Rxd8 34.Rc7,Qa1+ 35.Kh2,e4 36.Qxe4 +-. White has an extra pawn, which is a free pawn, and the white rook controls the 7th rank. I wish every true chess player out there a happy and blessed Easter and stay healthy! |
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| Apr-09-20 | | TheaN: I blindsided myself on this somewhat straightforward Korchnoi combination: by virtue of realizing White has nothing else, I thought Rxd2 was better for White but not this good: After <31.Rxd2 Rxd2> Qa1+ now doesn't differ much <32.Qb7> Black's dealing with the en prise Rc8 and the looming threat of the seventh rank and the c-pawn, even a rook up. 32....Rxc7 33.Rxc7 now doesn't help, but neither does the game line <32....Rdd8!? 33.cxd8=Q+ Rxd8 34.Rc7> this I all saw and thought White was good, but the defense is as good as forced <34....Qa1+ 35.Kh2 e4 36.Qxe4 ± to +-> and White's winning. Black seems to have plenty of resources, but the threat on g7 limits it greatly. |
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Apr-09-20
 | | beatgiant: <al wazir>
But what did you see after the obvious 31. Rxd2 Rxd2 32. Qb8 <Rxb8> 33. cxb8(Q)+ Kh7? I'm not finding a convincing follow-up. |
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| Apr-09-20 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: Hi, corona vírus chess... chat full!
<kevin86> even more easy with: <47...♕c7
48. ♕xc7 ♖xc7> 49. ♖xg7+ ♖xg7 50. fxg7 h4
51. g4 hxg3+ 52. ♔xg3 ♔xg7 53. ♔f4 end.
Also <islero/MSD> after <29...♕d3 30. ♕b7 ♕e2 31. ♕xc8+ ♔h7 32. h3!> ♕xd1+ 33. ♔h2 ♖xc7 34. ♕f5+ ♔g8 35. ♖xc7 and check-mate next. Or 33... ♖f7 34. ♕e6 ♖f6 35. c8=♕ ♖xe6 36. ♕xe6 ♕h5 37. ♖d6 d1=♕ 38. ♖xd1 ♕xd1 39. ♕f5+ ♔g8 40. ♕xe5 again with a better end-game. <gulliver> The pressure of being the champ kill the chess of many, since, when you are in the top, you see that early or late, the crown will be out of your hands...lgs. Botvinnik lost twice (Smyslov, Tal) and recovered, because in deep, both thought "Botvinnik is over". Maybe if Petrosian faced a rematch against Botvinnik, the old would return again! If you run to the past, champ Capa avoid Alekhine, champ Alekhine avoid Capa again, as much as he could, champ Lasker avoid Capa, etc. In deep, the champ always try to find an way to keep the crown, because he has not the same energy of the one who still didn't get it. But, when some did, they felt the same weight. The press for win in chess is very uncomfortable. |
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| Apr-09-20 | | Walter Glattke: I plead for A5) with 32.-Qd1+ 33.Kh2 Rxc7 as above, should be proved, maybe draw as shown above or 34.Qxc7 Rxf2 35.Qxa5?? Qg3 so Qd1+ instead of Qa1+, and then Rxc7 is the question. |
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| Apr-09-20 | | W Westerlund: Radioboy: it's not because they are out to get you that you can't be paranoid. As for Kasparov, at the time he ran for president he got a full 0.6% of the vote. No one takes Kasparov serious in Russia. And in the West, some neocons, like the one who wrote a foreword to Kasparov's latest in which, inter linia, Kasparov proves that he understands absolutely nothing about economics (cf. his attack on Greece).
These guys are celebrities like Bono or Madonna. They are not experts. They do not share insight. They lack competence. They just talk. |
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Apr-09-20
 | | Jimfromprovidence: I really liked 41 e4, below, leaving the f pawn unprotected to entice black to play 41...Rxf4???, after which white wins with 42 e5.
click for larger viewBut black anticipates that strategy and plays 41...Qd4, so now if 42 e5? black answers with 42...Qxd4+. Great game within a game tactics. |
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| Apr-09-20 | | RandomVisitor: After 25.Rc1
click for larger viewStockfish_20040717_x64_modern:
<53/42 05:42 0.00 25...Qe6 26.Qb3 Qd6 27.a4 Kh8> 28.Qc2 d4 29.Rc6 Qb4 30.Qd3 Qe7 31.exd4 exd4 32.h4 Rcxc7 33.Rxc7 Rxc7 34.Rxc7 Qxc7 35.Qxd4 Qc2 36.Kh2 Qf5 37.g4 Qf3 38.Kg1 Kh7 39.Qc4 g6 40.Kf1 Kg7 41.Qc7+ Kg8 42.Qd8+ Kf7 43.Qd7+ Kg8 |
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| Apr-09-20 | | Walter Glattke: I oversaw the mate threatening after Rc7, so Qa1+, not Qd1+ mustbe played. |
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| Apr-09-20 | | Walter Glattke: But Rc7 is always mate then. |
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| Apr-09-20 | | RandomVisitor: The best move after 1.c4 e6 is... (drumroll) ... 2.g3, of course.
click for larger viewStockfish_20040717_x64_modern:
<50/73 2:27:56 +0.36 2.g3 d5 3.Bg2 d4 4.b4 e5 5.Qa4+> c6 6.d3 Nd7 7.Nf3 Ngf6 8.0-0 Be7 9.Nbd2 a5 10.b5 cxb5 11.Qxb5 a4 12.Qb1 Bc5 13.Re1 0-0 14.Nf1 Re8 15.e3 h6 16.exd4 exd4 17.Rxe8+ Nxe8 18.N1d2 Nd6 19.Ne4 Nxe4 20.dxe4 Nf8 21.Qd3 Ne6 |
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| Apr-09-20 | | Granny O Doul: Botvinnik was definitely a non-signer. Somebody explained that he was at an age where one feels closer to God than to the Party. I remember Korchnoi's comment about the eyewitness evidence, but I never understood it. An eyewitness watched somebody not sign the letter? |
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| Feb-24-25 | | Petrosianic: <ewan14: Three grandmasters of note did not sign the letter saying Korchnoi was a traitor. Bronstein was one of them> Here's the exact text of the letter:
<"The base conduct of the chess player V. Korchnoi, who betrayed the Fatherland, only serves to evoke in us a feeling of indignation and contempt. Landed on a path of defamation and slander, as is appropriate to such deserters, Korchnoi now tries to play a dirty political game, with the aim of attracting attention to his person and to steal the show in the eyes of all those who love cheap sensation. Many of us have been offended, when we met Korchnoi over the board, by his self-conceit and his tactlessness. Korchnoi was forgiven much, his self-esteem was spared. However, he seems to have judged this forbearance as some-thing that was due him. Now Korchnoi, by asking the Dutch police for protection against persecutions he made up himself, tries to turn his trivial personal problems into questions of international magnitude. We categorically condemn Korchnoi's behavior and fully agree with the decision by the Soviet Chess Federation to disqualify him and withdraw all sports titles from him."> <Olavi: <ewan14> Others are Gulko, Spassky and Karpov. Korchnoi also wrote in Chess is my Life that he had eyewitness evidence that at least one of the signatories knew nothing of the letter.> <perfidious: Was not Botvinnik another non-signatory of that denunciation?> All Soviet Grandmasters, including Nona signed, with the exception of Bronstein, Spassky (who was living out of the country, and could get away with it), and Botvinnik (who could get away with anything he wanted). Not sure if Gulko signed, or if he was even a Grandmaster at the time. He became one in 1976, the same year Korchnoi defected. He might not have been asked, but if he was, he didn't refuse. Korchnoi hated everyone who signed it, including Polugaevsky, who he'd been on good terms with for years, and who had secretly helped him during the 1974 Karpov-Korchnoi match. Korchnoi never seemed to grasp that not everybody liked to bring the wrath of totalitarian governments down on their heads for the fun of it, like he did, and might have been afraid not to. |
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| Feb-24-25 | | Petrosianic: I'm not sure how Bronstein avoided signing, but he was in Poland when the signatures were rounded up, so he might have just managed to get out of it without making a flat refusal. Here's more about Botvinnik's refusal. Looks like he didn't get away with it entirely: <KORCHNOI: "Botvinnik already had troubles. He took care of his griefs in one stroke, by not signing the dirty letter. You know, he published a book in West Germany on my match with Karpov. The publisher added a foreword in which an account was given of my troubles during the match and my interview after it. Then the Russians told Botvinnik that this was against the rules — the book was supposed to have been only a translation. They suspected that Botvinnik himself had given permission for the foreword. They made him feel it. His next book in West Germany was going to be his autobiography. It was suddenly canceled, as was a simultaneous tour he was going to make there. So he took his revenge by not signing."> |
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Feb-25-25
| | perfidious: <Petrosianic....Korchnoi never seemed to grasp that not everybody liked to bring the wrath of totalitarian governments down on their heads for the fun of it, like he did, and might have been afraid not to.> I have a vague recollection of Korchnoi reading the text of an interview he gave while playing that fateful tournament in Amsterdam and only then fully comprehending what unpleasantness lay in returning to Mother Russia in its aftermath. One suspects that the year's suspension from international play as punishment for the 'Unsporting, Grandmaster' affair would have been but a taste of what awaited him, given that Korchnoi was already 45 and, in the eyes of the bureaucracy, not a serious challenger for the crown any more. |
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| Feb-25-25 | | Petrosianic: <perfidious>: <I have a vague recollection of Korchnoi reading the text of an interview he gave while playing that fateful tournament in Amsterdam and only then fully comprehending what unpleasantness lay in returning to Mother Russia in its aftermath.> Yeah.
KORCHNOI: <"A few days before the end of the [IBM 1976] tournament, I gave an interview to the French press in which I said things like the Russian decision not to take part in [the 1976 Haifa Olympiad in...] Israel being a form of their old anti-Semitic politics. Perhaps I also used the interview to force myself to take the step. When I read it back I knew I had no other way. If I had gone back, I would never have gotten out again."> But he'd already moved his entire chess archive out of Russia in two different trips, so he was planning it before the interview, it just looks like the interview was intended to keep him from backing out at the last minute. But here's a case of Korchnoi being a jerk:
KRABBE: <"The general atmosphere of official favoring of Karpov was not lost on Korchnoi's close associates. There was, for instance, Polugaevsky, who wanted to show Korchnoi some openings analysis during the [1974 Karpov] match but did not dare to do so openly. Instead, the secret weapons were handed over in Polugaevsky's car."> So, after Polugaevsky helped him secretly, Korchnoi talks about it in a public interview. Polugaevsky must have gotten in some trouble over this, but not enough to keep him out of the Candidates next year. |
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Feb-25-25
| | perfidious: <Petrosianic....So, after Polugaevsky helped him secretly, Korchnoi talks about it in a public interview. Polugaevsky must have gotten in some trouble over this, but not enough to keep him out of the Candidates next year.> Seems to me that the timing of this mattered; did Korchnoi out his friend while Polugaevsky was still a title contender or only after his death? So far as 'getting in some trouble' went, not only did Petrosian undergo the ignominy of losing to 'the renegade' in that Candidates cycle but was sacked as editor of '64' following the match. |
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| Feb-25-25 | | Petrosianic: <perfidious>: <Seems to me that the timing of this mattered; did Korchnoi out his friend while Polugaevsky was still a title contender or only after his death?> Korchnoi said it and it was printed a couple of months after he defected. |
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Feb-25-25
| | perfidious: Have to say I do not much care for that. |
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Mar-18-25
 | | Sally Simpson: One of greatest toe to toe battles ever and featuring a beautiful trap set by Spassky. And despite the gamesmanship going on in this match, Spassky sliding the Soviet Flag across the board to wards Korchnoi, Korchnoi sliding it back again etc, after this game Spassky did congratulate Korchnoi for a well played game. 
click for larger view30.Qb7 just wins, yes? 30...Qa5! 31. Qxc8+ Kh7 32. Qh8+ Kxh8 
click for larger view33. c8=Q+ Kh7 34. Rc2
click for larger viewNow the move Spassky had planned if this happened in the game. 34...Qa8! 
click for larger viewAnd Black wins.
(Alas Korchnoi spotted it and played 30.h3! How many of us would fallen for it. Me for sure.) |
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| May-01-25 | | ewan14: 20 Nc6 was a brilliant move ! |
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