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| Nov-02-15 | | Once: That was fun. After the knight "sacrifice", a cheeky little pawn push (54.e5) and black can't stop both passed pawns. Knights are usually wonderful in crowded middlegames but considerably less good in (some) passed pawn endgames. |
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| Nov-02-15 | | varishnakov: 53.Nxf7 NxN 54.e5 and a pawn will queen.
Disturbingly difficult for a Monday. |
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| Nov-02-15 | | devere: <varishnakov: 53.Nxf7 NxN 54.e5 and a pawn will queen.
Disturbingly difficult for a Monday.>
I saw it, but wouldn't call it "very easy" If the Black King were one square closer it would fail. |
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Nov-02-15
 | | perfidious: Not difficult overall, but hardly a typical Monday POTD. |
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| Nov-02-15 | | thegoodanarchist: For the third time this year, I am saying this is the hardest Monday puzzle ever. Bad choice of a puzzle for Monday. |
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| Nov-02-15 | | kevin86: Two things happen here: though black's king is inside "the square" the pawn attacks the knight and gains a valuable tempo to remove the king fron said square. Second, the knight is in such bad position- he cannot stop the one pawn while holding the other pawn back. |
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| Nov-02-15 | | starry2013: Like Once and varishnakov I thought just push the pawn at first. But if you don't move your king up it's more difficult. The black king is in time. Here's a way to mess up (the opposite of a solution)
Nxf7 Ng6
e5 Kb8
e6 Kc7
e7 Kd7 |
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| Nov-02-15 | | rozzatu: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! And this was the monday puzzle! |
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| Nov-02-15 | | zanzibar: I like <starry2013>'s comments about ...Ng6. Slight alteration makes for a different solution:
(White to play)
click for larger view |
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| Nov-02-15 | | zanzibar: (Black to move after 42.Qc8-g4)
click for larger viewKnights on the rim aren't always dim, one might say, if they go away. (Black has one move to keep an advantage - i.e. sharp position) |
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| Nov-02-15 | | zanzibar: The NYTimes article mentions Black going astray at 40 (as do other posters), but doesn't mention how Black could still save the game at move 41 (see above). http://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/24/a... |
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| Nov-02-15 | | lost in space: I love Mondays, especially when being in Italia, eating nice food and drinking redwine. 53. Nxf7 and no defence. |
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| Nov-02-15 | | patzer2: <Zanzibar> Deep Fritz 14 @ 26 depth shows 41...Nxe1 = (move played) and 41...Qxe1+ = both leading to a level game. Where Black's game starts to go from level to losing is with 42...Qxg4+?  (-1.49 @ 27 depth, Deep Fritz 14). Instead, 42...Qh2+ 43. Kxe1 Qxb2 = (0.00 @ 26 depth) holds it level. Earlier, 40...Qf3+!  would've won for Black. |
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Nov-02-15
 | | Richard Taylor: Good thing I didn't try to do the insane one as I missed White's second move. Mind you I was up late analyzing a game where I thought I had blundered and it turned out I was under an illusion and was in fact = so my excuse in this very easy Monday one is fatigue. Or is it simply called stupidity?
I thought the K could do the business although I did wonder if Black's a pawn might Q. Not so easy if you don't play e5 on the second move. Chasing the N with the K nearly loses the game!! |
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Nov-02-15
| | Richard Taylor: I saw the N sac tho - in fact I've played combinations like this myself to win games. Ridiculous I didn't see 2 e5 immediately. I'm getting old... |
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| Nov-02-15 | | patfoley: My first thought was 53 Kf4 f6 54 Kf5 fxe 55 Kf6 ... 56 Kg7 etc., but I was too lazy to calculate the pawn race. It looked like a win for white. |
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| Nov-02-15 | | patfoley: It looks like my N sacrifice also wins. |
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| Nov-02-15 | | zanzibar: <patzer2> yes, typo on my part ... typing 41 when I meant 42. The position I gave in the illustration in the previous post does correctly give the move as 42, with the solution you give (42...Qxh2+). Of course Korchnoi really messes up at move 40, squandering a won game... but the knight sac at 41, leveraging the b6-pawn, is a nice defensive problem. |
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Nov-02-15
 | | Bubo bubo: White creates another passed pawn with 53.Nxf7. Black has to capture, but after 53...Nxf7 54.e5 he is unable to stop both pawns: The black king may enter the e-pawn's square with 54...Kb8, but only for a moment, as 55.e6 gains the decisive tempo: 55...Nh8 56.e7 or 55...Kc8 56.exf7 (or 55...N~ 56.h8Q) |
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| Nov-03-15 | | patzer2: The most difficult aspect of yesterday's Monday puzzle might be finding a clear losing move. The only losing move out of 15 choices, according to Fritz, is 53. Ng6?? In contrast, 53. Nxf7  is the strongest winning move. |
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| Jul-30-17 | | clement41: I simply am fond of this game. So tense, so much action going on, and what an endgame! |
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Jul-14-24
 | | keypusher: Just one of those things, I'm sure, but Korchnoi happened to be +0=0-6 on the black side of the Giuoco Piano, at least based on games in this database. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... |
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Jul-14-24
| | perfidious: While Korchnoi did not, it is true, fare well in this, I came up with far more games: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... |
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Jul-14-24
| | keypusher: <perfidious: While Korchnoi did not, it is true, fare well in this, I came up with far more games:> My fault for running the "Giuoco Piano" search term on the main page. |
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Jul-14-24
| | perfidious: Had no idea that made any difference; the tell that something was not quite right was Korchnoi's loss to Bronstein being missing, along with his win from Miles at Johannesburg. I have not the slightest idea why I recall things like that. Been doing it my whole life, but still cannot make sense of it. |
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