| Dec-18-04 |
| BlazingArrow56: A nice mating pattern if nothing else. |
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| Mar-24-05 |
| Autoreparaturwerkbau: <Rocketchess2000> Personally i prefer Marshall's Marshall vs Capablanca, 1909 |
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| Apr-05-05 |
| TigerPawns: what a crap game |
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Jun-30-05
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| Knight13: 8. Bxf7+? Is unsound, I agree. Black should've accept it. 8... Kxf7 9. Ng5+ Qxg5 10. Bxg5 Bxd1 11. Rxd1 (not playable). |
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Aug-05-05
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| who: It seems like a good way to take the fun out of chess is to decline sacrifices even if you don't know why/if they are unsound. |
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| Sep-04-06 |
| Tariqov: No, i doubt he was scared of the simple Ng5+, but i think he was scared of Qb3+, but even after then it is not enough. |
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Dec-19-06
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| InspiredByMorphy: If 8.Bxf7+ Kxf7 9.Ng5+ Qxg5 10.Qb3+ then black can respond with 10. ...Be6 11.Qxe6+ Kxe6 12.Bxg5 and white is still down a piece. |
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| Jun-13-07 |
| ycsidney: Why did black decline the sac??? Short must have a reason! Hope to read his say. |
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| Jun-13-07 |
| Tomlinsky: <ycsidney: Why did black decline the sac??? Short must have a reason! Hope to read his say.> You'll have a long wait. He died 80 years ago. |
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Feb-16-08
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| holy tramp: Isn't 17.Bf5 better, setting up a fork to win the black queen? I don't have a Fritz-type program to see it through... Had just played 17. Bf5 on GuessTheMove and LOST 2 points, so I must be missing something obvious. |
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| Jul-01-08 |
| JonathanJ: this is some honest annotation! |
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| Dec-23-08 |
| WhiteRook48: This is a ha ha ha ha ha ha ha game. So no joke with Frank Marshall? |
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| Jan-30-09 |
| ciastekx: <holy tramp: Isn't 17.Bf5 better, setting up a fork to win the black queen?> It is better to give mate in two than to win the queen. After 17.Nh5+ Black has no choice, but to walk into mate by 17...Ke8. |
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| Feb-18-09 |
| swarmoflocusts: The sacrifice is unsound: 8...Kxf7 and white has nothing better than 9.b5 (Fritz eval. -2.57). After 9.Ng5 Qxg5 10.Qb3+ Be6 11.Bxg5 (best) Bxb3 12.axb3, Fritz eval. -4.67. However, even after 8...Kf8, black has a perfectly playable game (Fritz eval. 0.15). His first major mistake (besides declining the sacrifice) was Nge7, giving Marshall a 1.66 advantage. Qd7 -- 6.75 - better was Qc8. Kf8 was imperfect (7.37 -- Kd8 was only 6.84) but he was lost anyway. Finally, Bxe4 allowed mate in two, where Ng8 - 8.08. Marshall didn't make any mistakes from the sac on. |
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| Mar-07-09 |
| WhiteRook48: he was too Short to look down at the board |
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| Mar-18-09 |
| WhiteRook48: 8 Bxf7+? Kxf7 9 Ng5+? Qxg5! 10 Bxg5 Bxd1 11 Rxd1 and Black is up a piece |
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