Feb-08-05
 | | patzer2: Miles accepts White's gambit offer of a Knight and makes a pretty convincing case with outstanding defense that the gambit is unsound. The pretty finish with 36...Ng4! makes use of the deflection and the pinning tactical themes for a quick mate. |
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| Feb-08-05 | | RisingChamp: Am not up to date on it at the moment because I havent been through the game lately,but Mortazavi missed several improvements as shown in his analysis.Maybe the Pierce Gambit is unsound,but this is hardly the refutatory line. |
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Feb-08-05
 | | patzer2: <Rising Champ> I haven't looked at it in great depth yet, but 7...d4 does seem to enable Miles to mount a strong defense. Would be interested in seeing Mortazavi's analysis, and will look at the game more in depth later this week. |
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Feb-09-05
 | | patzer2: On 8...Bxd5!?, play might have continued as in Black's win in Shabalov vs Sherzer, 1994 |
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| Feb-09-05 | | RisingChamp: Actually Mortazavi and Shabalov had both chosen an inferior line-as in this line.White has no real winning chances and must take the perpetual(the one which Shabalov declined)Theory considers 7 0-0 to be the best move,and it was the original idea,I believe with best play it is a draw,but the theory is highly obscure and complicated and involves White sacrificing three pieces for a crazy attack which leads to a perpetual,I dont think anyone really knows it,and even if they do,like me they have probably forgotten,its in a chesscafe article by Tim Harding and also on chessbases e4 repertoire CD by Alexander Bangiev.Tsietlins book,the complete Vienna also discusses this. |
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Feb-09-05
 | | patzer2: <Rising Champ> Thanks for the tip on the drawing possibilities with 7. 0-0!? The strongest game I could find in the Opening Explorer was G Horvath vs P Petran, 1995, which doesn't offer much help for White.
I'll see if I can't locate the Tim Harding article or some of the other research you mentioned. |
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| Feb-10-05 | | RisingChamp: Well actually if you only want a draw Qf3 is fine as well,just go the chesscafe.com archives and check Harding they will be titled Pierce Gambit.He also covers declineed variations (which are all good for white).Incidentally there is also a possibility I think to transpose to the Kings Gambit Declined with Ng1 after g4. |
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Feb-10-05
 | | patzer2: <Rising Champ> Not really looking for a draw, but was just curious about how White might find a draw in a line that looks like a loss. Perhaps http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cach...
was the link you referred to at chesscafe.com. |
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Feb-11-05
 | | patzer2: <Rising Champ> If I understand Harding correctly, his drawing line for White is 1 e4 e5 2 f4 Nc6 3 Nc3 exf4 4 Nf3 g5 5 d4 g4 6 Bc4 gxf3 (transposing to this game) 7 0–0 Nxd4 8 Bxf4 Bc5! 9 Be3! Ne2+ 10 Kh1 Bxe3 11. Bxf7+ Kxf7 12 Qxe2! Bg5! 13 Qxf3+ Kg7 14 Qf7+ Kh6 15 g4 Nf6 16 Rf3 Nxg4 17 Rh3+ Bh4 18 Qf4+ Kh5 19. Qf7+ =. I played it out with Fritz 8 and the computer went crazy, first assessing a big win for Black before settling into
evaluating a draw by threefold repetition after 19...Kh6 20.Rf1 Qg5 21.Rf5 Ne5 22.Rxe5 Qc1+ 23.Kg2 Qd2+ 24.Kh1 Qe1+ 25.Kg2 Qd2+ 26.Kh1 Qe1+ 27.Kg2 Qd2+ ½–½ |
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| Feb-23-05 | | RisingChamp: But in practice it is inconcievable that an opponent of ANY strength could find all the best moves from the knight sacrifice to the draw unless he knew them beforehand.And this is the kind of theory nobody really knows as i said before |
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| Feb-16-09 | | centralfiles: Tseitlin played 9.Kh1 and lost in Tseitlin vs Marciano although there might be an improvement for white. |
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| Feb-27-09 | | centralfiles: M S Tseitlin vs D Marciano, 1993
white cannot allow time for d6 which is why 9.Kh1 is probably a mistake. |
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| Feb-27-09 | | centralfiles: on the other 9. xf7+!? might be possible
9... e8! (9... f6 10. d5 is good for white)
10. xd4 xd4 11. xd4 f6
and now instead of 12. d3 in R Polaczek vs T Karolyi Sr., 1988 12. xf6 xf6 13. xf3 d7 14. af1 e8 and white still has play |
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| Feb-27-09 | | centralfiles: oops 9...Kxf7 10.Be3 and only then 10...Ke8! |
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| Jun-07-12 | | master of defence: What happens after 25...Nf2+ 26.Rxf2 Qxf2? |
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Jun-07-12
 | | chancho: <master of defence: What happens after 25...Nf2+ 26.Rxf2 Qxf2?> Black gets mated by:
27.Qg7+ Ke6 28.Qg8+ Kd7 29.Qf7+ Kd8 30.Qe7# |
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