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| Jun-04-11 | | Everett: Players like Seirawan (here I mean positionally-oriented players) are sometimes willing to sacrifice the initiative and defend for a bit to secure positional advantages and eventually grind out a win. Seirawan's own confidence in his defensive skills, however, have led to quite a few miniatures against him, and king-hunts when he simply underestimated the attacks on his king. |
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| Jun-04-11 | | Everett: <ToTheDeath: Amazing combination! It only works because Yasser left his king completely undefended, but still a magnificent conception. If 30...gxh4 White wins with a nice zig zag of Queen checks: 31. Qc1+ Kh5 32. Qd1+ Kh6 33. Qd2+ Kh5 34. Qe2+ Kh6 35. Qe3+ Kh5 36. Qf3+ Kh6 ( 36... Kg5 37. Qxf7) 37. Qf4+ Kh5 38. Qxf7+ Kg5 39. Qg6+ Kf4 40. Ne2 mate!> That's not mate, as the King can now move to e5, so more convincing is, in your line, after 38.Qxf7+ Kg5 39.f4+ Kh6 40.Qg6# |
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| Dec-25-11 | | Magic Castle: The Queen was in a camouflage. I guess Seirawan did not even see its threat until the rook sacrifice. |
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Dec-25-11
 | | al wazir: 42...Kf3 43. Nd2#.
Interesting -- after tormenting the black  for 10 or 15 moves, white's  and remaining  are mere spectators when the coup de grace is delivered. |
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| Dec-25-11 | | thegoldenband: Love the attack that Christiansen conjures seemingly out of nothing! <ToTheDeath: If 30...gxh4 White wins with a nice zig zag of Queen checks: 31. Qc1+ Kh5 32. Qd1+ Kh6 33. Qd2+ Kh5 34. Qe2+ Kh6 35. Qe3+ Kh5 36. Qf3+ Kh6 ( 36... Kg5 37. Qxf7) 37. Qf4+ Kh5 38. Qxf7+ Kg5 39. Qg6+ Kf4 40. Ne2 mate!> I'm guessing 39. Qg6+ is a typo for 39. Qg7+, which makes 40. Ne2 mate since it guards e5 (as <Everett> pointed out). |
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Dec-25-11
 | | sevenseaman: Very complex to follow. At first sight some are very arcane. A fine game! |
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| Dec-25-11 | | TheBish: Inexplicably (except maybe time pressure), Larry missed two quicker mates: 40. Rxe7+ Kf5 41. Qg5# (or 41. Qxg4#), as pointed out by sevenseaman, and earlier, 38. Qg5+ Ke6 39. Rh6+ f6 40. Rxf6+ exf6 41. Qxf6#. <wanabe2000: Larry is a great player and a great guy. He sat down with me and played a half dozen speed games before a small tournament in Modesto CA. He didn't have to do that, yet it is one of my favorite memories.> I second that sentiment. I met Larry C in Modesto (my hometown) when he was living there, through a mutual friend, and got to spend some time with him. Never saw him play in Berkeley (saw Nick deFirmian play there often), but I watched him play in San Jose once, where he was beating a 2400 player. He told me during his smoke break that 2400 players were "easy". Must be nice, I thought! I think Larry often sees tactics that many GMs miss. He doesn't miss much! I asked him what it was like to play Kasparov, and his comment was "That guy is too booked!" |
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Dec-25-11
 | | Richard Taylor: < TheBish: Inexplicably .... <wanabe2000: Larry is a great player and a great guy. He sat down with me and played a half dozen speed games before a small tournament in Modesto CA. He didn't have to do that, yet it is one of my favorite memories.> I second that sentiment. I met Larry C in Modesto (my hometown) when he was living there, through a mutual friend, and got to spend some time with him. Never saw him play in Berkeley (saw Nick deFirmian play there often), but I watched him play in San Jose once, where he was beating a 2400 player. He told me during his smoke break that 2400 players were "easy". Must be nice, I thought! I think Larry often sees tactics that many GMs miss. He doesn't miss much! I asked him what it was like to play Kasparov, and his comment was "That guy is too booked!> Fascinating! He was also popular on WCN when he commented on games or gave everyone a chance to play 2 minute game against him "Master Challenge"). He used to win just about every game. You could here him eating corn chips or something...he used to tell funny anecdotes and put on an exaggerated NY (Bronx?) accent. "Nice attack by Larry, I have a book of his on attacking chess. I played a blitz game online with Seirawan once. He won as might be expected! When I started playing I was so surprised at who I was playing, I joked "please tell me when to resign, and he typed bac: "As long as you tell me also!"! He was waiting to watch an International event (I think it was on ICC). |
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Dec-25-11
 | | Once: It's good to see my favourite anti pirc/ modern line being played far better than I ever can. The formula goes something like this: Qd2-Bf4 (or Bg5)-Bh6-Bxg7 then throw everything at the black king. Eg h4-h5 or Re3-g3 or f4-f5. Crude, hyper-aggressive, caveman chess, but great fun. Makes me smile every time I see 1...g6 (or d6 followed by g6)to answer my (inevitable) 1. e4. Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war. |
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| Dec-25-11 | | franksp: At move 38 White has a mate in 4. 38.Q-g5+ K-e6 39.R-h6+ f6 40.Rxf6+ ef 41.Qxf6# |
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Dec-25-11
| | Once: <franksp> As <TheBish> notes, it was probably time pressure. The game could well have had a time control at move 40, so he was probably just giving safe checks until then. It would have been a shame to throw away a win for the sake of a few extra moves. Let the crowd with their computers find the faster wins afterwards. |
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| Dec-25-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: Christiansen in Informator 25/177 noted he was in time trouble around move 34 |
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Dec-25-11
 | | keypusher: Thanks cg!
After 20 moves I would have loved to have Black's position. 
click for larger viewAm I wrong? |
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| Dec-25-11 | | Penguincw: Great game for Christmas. |
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Dec-25-11
 | | Eduardo Bermudez: Tal could signed this chessgame !! |
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Dec-25-11
 | | johnlspouge: < <keypusher> wrote: [snip] After 20 moves I would have loved to have Black's position. [snip] Am I wrong? > No. Toga 3.1 evaluates White as -0.5 P. The lemon (much to my surprise) seems to be 24...Nc4, which shifts the evaluation by better than a P to 0.8 P in White's favor. |
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| Dec-25-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: @<johnlspouge>
Christiansen suggested 24...b5  and 25...Ne5= in his Informator notes. |
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Dec-25-11
 | | Caissanist: Of course Christiansen missed several quick mates near the end, but he was just trying to make the time control. This is a good example of how Fischer's invention of incremental time controls changed the game. In hindsight it's surprising that nobody thought of this seemingly obvious idea earlier, but so far as I know nobody did. |
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Dec-25-11
 | | waustad: This game looks like some of the lines they come up with commentating on ICC. Sac everything anywhere near the king and see what happens. It would be fun seeing Christiansen play in an event like the Czech Coal or Euwe Memorial now. He said in one interview, when asked why he didn't play as much now, that he was tired of staying in the same hotels and playing in the same tournaments year after year. |
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Dec-25-11
 | | scormus: Lovely game by Christiansen, the way his attack explodes all over Seirawan's vulnerable K. Tremendous vision in 29 Rxh6, seeing that B was lost if he took the 2nd R. |
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Dec-25-11
| | waustad: <caissanist> Before the digital era that sort of clock would have been a lot more difficult to make. A mechanical clock that could do various different incremental additions that may start from the beginning or maybe at a specific later move would be very complex and expensive. |
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| Dec-26-11 | | indoknight: Kasparov vs Anand, 1991 and L Day vs T Koliada, 1994 have similiar style |
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Dec-27-11
 | | kevin86: elegant:black can choose how to be mated. |
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| Dec-30-11 | | Tigranny: <ToTheDeath> Even a shorter force-mate than your line, if 30...gxh4, there is 31.Qc1+ Kh5 32.Ne4 (threatening mate on g5). If 32...Kg6, White wins with 33.Qg5+ Kh7 34.Nf6+ Kh8 35.Qh6#. If 32...f6 (to defend against the mate threat on g5), White has 33.Nxf6+ exf6 34.Qf4 Qd8 (to defend the pawn on f6) 35.g4+ hxg3 36.fxg3 f5 37.Qxd6 Kg5 38.Be2 (to prepare for 39.h4#) Qh8 (to defend against the mate threat on h4) 39.h4+ Qxh4 40.gxh4+ Kxh4 41.Qh6+ Kg3 42.Qh2#. |
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Jan-03-12
| | Caissanist: <waustad> According to Wikipedia Fischer got his patent for the incremental clock in 1988, which I believe was well after digital clocks had come into widespread use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fische... |
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