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| ossolinskm: Not 15..gxf6 for black as then 16. Bxh7!!+ Kxh7 17.Qh5+ Kg7 18. Qg4+ Kh7 19. Ra3 mating |
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| Apr-07-07 |
| WickedPawn: Didn't get it... Looked at 15 Bxh7+, Kxh7 16 Qh5+ Kg8 but went adrift in the ocean of possibilities afterwards. I would barely see this winning line in a game of my own. |
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| Apr-07-07 |
| chessmoron: What a delightful attack for 15.Bf6+!! and 16. f5!! I went for Bxh7, it works but it isn't pretty as in the text. |
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| Apr-07-07 |
| Silverstrike: I too attempted 15.Bxh7+ . My line went like so: 15...Kxh7 16.Bxe7 Qxe7 17.Qh5+ Kg8 18.f5 . I wonder if that would also work? |
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Apr-07-07
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| crafty: 15.  xh7+  xh7 16. c4 b7 17. xe7  xe7 18.  a3 g8  (eval -1.76; depth 12 ply; 500M nodes) |
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Apr-07-07
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| fred lennox: 12. ...0-0 was premature. The power of the bishop pair, particularly with central dominance makes 0-0 often unsafe. It's an ancient theme. So rich is it's possibilities even GM's are found to underestimate it's strength from time to time. It's simply that the bishops can attack both colors in front of the king, making them kingside bashers. 12...Nbd7 is more sound. |
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Apr-07-07
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| Chris1Clark: Isn't 20. Qg6... a quicker win followed by 21. Qh7... there is no valid response to either move. Unless I am half asleep which is always possible. |
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Apr-07-07
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| Chris1Clark: Sorry I mean 20. Qg5 then 21.Qh6 I am half asleep. |
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Apr-07-07
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| Strongest Force: Bf6, Bxh7+ & f5 are all equally great moves. Whats important about the position is understanding that black's pawns must be compromised around the black king; therefore, the correct order of those great moves must be made. BTW, Gillden is one of the fastest blitz players i've ever seen. He was IM strength OTB. |
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Apr-07-07
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| playground player: I, too, had some success with Bxh7  -but Bf6 is a real killer! |
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Apr-07-07
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| beenthere240: <Chris1Clark> I looked at that, too but black can play either Nd7 or Qd8 and knock off the f6 pawn as soon as the queen moves to h6. 20 fg keeps the attack going and permits no counter moves. |
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| Apr-07-07 |
| Fisheremon: 18...exd4? A longer resistance could be 18...Nd7 (White has to find right moves here). |
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| Apr-07-07 |
| alshatranji: I thought of Bfs, but only after Bh7+. I had: 15. Bxh7+ Kxh7, 16. Qh5+ Kg8, 17. Bf6, which I think wins too. But I don't have the patience for a full analysis, and I don't have a chess program either. |
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| Apr-07-07 |
| Dick Brain: <ashatranji>My feeling too was that is the right move order (i.e. Bxh7+, Qh5+, and Bf6) only for the reason that it is more forcing; in no way could I confidently judge if it was winning or not. The move order of the game leaves more options open for the defense than most chessgames.com puzzles. |
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Apr-07-07
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| dzechiel: I correctly found (and selected as my key move) 15 Bf6!, but the only lines I analyzed were based upon 15...gxf6. Imagine my disappointment when the bishop sac was refused. |
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Apr-07-07
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| fm avari viraf: Larry's attack is furious & simply superb. I can't find where did Gilden go wrong. Bxg6 another sac. finishes off. |
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| Apr-07-07 |
| gchristopher: In these daily puzzles, what does it mean if I keep getting the right ideas, but the wrong tactics? In this case I saw the pawn sacrifice for the mobility of the white queen's rook, but I did not figure how to block the black bishop well enough. |
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| Apr-07-07 |
| centercounter: I'm pretty sure Bxh7+/Kxh7 Qh5+/Kg8 Bf6 also works, it looks very clear. Larry's way was more like a gang of pit bulls going at Black's King. Very nicely done! |
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Apr-07-07
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| jheiner: I think it's interesting that both today's Game of the Day and chess puzzle both show the power of a pawn on e5 when castling kingside. Thoughts? |
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| Apr-07-07 |
| black knight c6: I also found Bxh7, Kxh7, Qh5+, Kg8, Bf6. I am pretty darn sure gxf6 loses to Ra3 quite badly. A casual move such as Rh7 loses to Qg5, Ne7 simply loses black's bishop and comes off with an inferior position after either dxe5, Bxf8 or Re/c8, Bxd6 white simply has the better position. 17. ... Bxf6, exf6, gxf6 still loses to white's queen and rooks. At the moment, the best I can see for black is after 18.exf6, Be4 intending Bg6... so I'm giving myself a point for my solution :) |
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| Apr-07-07 |
| black knight c6: oh and f5 blocking after Be4, which can let the a4 rook directly through if the Bishop takes. Then I'm pretty sure white will get back his piece, with more pawns, or checkmate... |
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Apr-08-07
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| MostlyAverageJoe: Miseed that one. I saw it more as a strategic than tactical puzzle. The black's position seems to cry for some blockage of f6 and disabling the bishop on e7, since then black would have no real defense left on the king side. I thought about Bxh7, Qh5 and Bf6 in various permutations, but got fixated on the idea that the solution would involve bringng a rook over to the h-file (perhaps involving a sacrifice Kxe6 to deflect either the f7 pawn from defending g6 or the bishop from defending f3) and could not figure out how to put it all in a correct sequence. h7-g6 was always a fly in the ointment. Great puzzle.
I agree with <fred lennox: 12. ...0-0 was premature> - Nbd7 would've brought a much needed defense of e5 and f6. As the game was played, black hasn't used the b-knight at all. |
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Apr-08-07
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| MostlyAverageJoe: < fm avari viraf: I can't find where did Gilden go wrong> I think 19 ... Bb7 was rather bad.
19 ... Kd7 would've brought into the center the much-missing firepower for the black. Now if 20 Rxd5? then Kxf6 forks the white rook and queen, and if 20. f5xg6, then f7xg6, and the white f6 pawn is a goner. Trading a bishop and a pawn for two very dangerous white pawns does not seem to be a bad deal here, compared to what happened in the game :-) |
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Apr-09-07
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| kevin86: A complicated finish:black is forced to push his pawns and weaken his king's protection--other than that,I don't get it. |
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sac: 18.Qg4
