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Jun-14-16
 | | OhioChessFan: Is "M'am" some new abbreviation I've never heard of? |
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| Jun-15-16 | | Moszkowski012273: g5 was supposed to be played before f5. |
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| Jun-15-16 | | YouRang: Checking with the engine, it appears that Judit (black) overlooked the strength of white's pawn storm -- especially g5. Her key blunder was at move 11: Here, she played <11...Bf8?>
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White pounced with <12.g5! Nfd7 13.Nxe6!>
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black is down a pawn and the isolated Pd6 will fall soon. Black has little choice but to recapture <13...fxe6>, but now the weakened king position is further assaulted: <14.Bh6!> the rook is under fire, and soon the f-file will open for white's rook to join the assault. White has all the attacking moves in store: Bf7+, Qh5 or Qd5+, and Bd4. White just has to mop up. Black would have done better was to counter the threat of g5 with <11...h6>, after which the game likely proceeds as <12.fxe6 Bxe6 13.Nxe6 fxe6 14.h4 Nbd7 15.g5>
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This is defensible for black with 15...hxg5.
However, perhaps the more interesting try for black here is <15...d5!?>
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The knight is immune, for if <16.gxf6 Qg3+! 17.Kh1 Qh3+ 18.Kg1 Qxe6+ 19.Kg2 Bxf6> and black is up a pawn and the white king is badly exposed. If white avoids the blunder, it probably continues: <16.Bf4 Bd6 17.Qd2> leading to massive exchanges: <17...Bxf4 18.Qxf4 Qxf4 19.Rxf4 hxg5 20.hxg5 Nxe4 21.Nxe4 dxe4 22.Rxe4>
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Probably drawable for black. |
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| Jun-16-16 | | ajile: <YouRang:>
18..Qxe3+ |
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| Jun-16-16 | | YouRang: <ajile> Ah yes, tradition demands that I include a typo. Thank you for finding it. It should read: <The knight is immune, for if <16.gxf6 Qg3+! 17.Kh1 Qh3+ 18.Kg1 <Qxe3+> 19.Kg2 Bxf6> and black is up a pawn and the white king is badly exposed.> |
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| Feb-13-19 | | PJs Studio: What a gorgeous game by Shirov. Polgar was not someone to be triffled with back in the mid 90’s. Incredible player. But Shirov could attack with white like no other in history at that time. Again, gorgeous game. |
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Feb-14-19
 | | HeMateMe: a double piece sacrifice! 13.NxP must have been a bolt out of the blue for Polgar. if 30...K-g8 its mate in two, 30...K-e8 and 31.R-e1 pins the Queen and wins. |
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| Jan-27-21 | | Gaito: A beautiful and energetic attacking game by Alexey Shirov, in the style of Mikhail Tal. Black's fatal mistake was 11....Bf8 (according to the computers 11...h6 was equal). After 12.g5 the evaluation of SF12 is +3.28.
A few moves later, instead of 20.Bxh7 the engines (SF12 and LcZero) believe that 20.Qf7 would have been even stronger (evaluation: +10.18), but 20.Bxh7 is also sufficient to win.
The following position was critical:
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White played the conservative 25.Bd4?!, a move that also wins, but the engines are of the opinion that 25.Qxg4! would have won even faster (evaluation +20.80), for example: 25.Qxg4 Qxe3+ 26.Kh1 Nd7 27.f6! Nxf6 28.Rxf6! Bxf6 29.Qh5+ and mate in three. |
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| Jan-27-21 | | carpovius: Liosha Shirov forever)) |
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| Feb-02-21 | | carpovius: Not sure that 19.g6? wins quickly |
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May-12-24
 | | Korora: Fun fact: Joe Friday never said, "Just the facts, ma'am." |
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May-12-24
 | | GoldenKnight: <<OhioChessFan:> Is "M'am" some new abbreviation I've never heard of?> Right, it should be Ma'am (the apostrophe indicates the missing 'd' in Madam). |
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| May-12-24 | | mel gibson: I knew e6 was the square to take.
Was it with the Knight or the pawn?
Stockfish 16.1 says:
13. Nxe6
(13. Nxe6 (1.Nxe6 fxe6 2.Bh5 Qd8 3.fxe6 Ne5 4.Bf7+ Kh8 5.Bxe8 Qxe8 6.Nd5 Be7 7.Nc7
Qa4 8.Nxa8 Bxe6 9.Nc7 Bg8 10.b4 Qxb4 11.Qd4 Qa5 12.Nd5 Nbc6 13.Qc3 Qd8
14.Rad1 Qd7 ) +4.21/50 814)
score for White +4.21 depth 50. |
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May-12-24
 | | scormus: W's position looks already very good. In fact I couldn't find any plausible move that fails to retain some sort of advantage. I wasn't sure what. Taking on e6 looked the most likely, and as it's a puzzle then I thought with the N.
Not surprisingly, <mel> and my SF agree.
The alternatives, 13 Bh5, fxe6 and g6 also playable, giving ca.+2 to Ware also playable, though the text is stronger. Other moves such as 13 Rf3 give B the respite for ... Ne5 and most of W's advantage is lost. How did B get into this mess so early? Backing up it's clear that after 12 g5, ... Nfd7 is effectively forced. What about 11 ... Bf8? In a position like this it looks plain wrong and anyway loses time and potentially the game. According to SF, 11 ... h6 was necessary and would have kept near equality. Also the natural move to neutralise the obvious 12 g6. Lesson for B at 11 ... ? <Play it again, Ma'am> |
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| May-12-24 | | jffun1958: After the final move 30.Qf1+ B has 8 choices for the next move: 1) 30... Kg8 31. Qf7#
2) 30... Ke7 31. Qf7+ Kd8 32. Bb6+ Kc8 33. Qc7#
3) 30... Ke8 31. Qf7+ Kd8 32. Bb6+ Kc8 33. Qc7#
4) 30... Qf3 31. Qxf3+ Nf6 32. Qxf6+ Ke8 33. Qf7+ Kd8 34. Bb6+ Kc8 35. Qc7#
5) 30... Qf4 31. Qxf4+ Nf6 32. Qxf6+ Ke8 33. Qf7+ Kd8 34. Bb6+ Kc8 35. Qc7#
6) 30... Qf5 31. Qxf5+ Nf6 32. Qxf6+ Ke8 33. Qf7+ Kd8 34. Bb6+ Kc8 35. Qc7#
7) 30... Nf6 31. Qxf6+ Ke8 (31. ... Kg8 32 Qg7#) 32. Qf7+ Kd8 33. Bb6+ Kc8 34. Qc7#
8) 30... Nf2 31. 31.Qxf2+ Qf3(Qf4/Qf5) 32.Qxf3+(Qxf4+/Qxf5+) and either Kg8, Ke7 or Ke8 (same as 1)-3)) |
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| May-12-24 | | mel gibson: OK so what happens if White takes the e6 square with the pawn instead? Stockfish 16.1 says it's only about one point weaker: 13. fxe6
(13. fxe6 fxe6 (1. ... fxe6 2.g6 Ne5 3.gxh7+ Kh8 4.Qe1 g6 5.Qg3 Nbc6 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.Rf2
Bg7 8.Raf1 Bb7 9.Bf4 Qe7 10.Na4 Rf8 11.Nb6 Rab8 12.Nc4 Rxf4 13.Rxf4 g5
14.R4f2 c5 ) -2.54/49 1412)
score for Black -2.54 depth 49. |
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May-12-24
 | | chrisowen: Acrid cc id again ne6 co x
Coffin x abe leeway dub choose? |
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| May-12-24 | | YoungEd: Wow! What an attack! Impressive calculations! |
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| May-12-24 | | alshatranji: "Absentee: How is this a pun?" I'm wondering the same thing. This sounds like something a detective would ask in an investigation. But I still don't see where the pun is supposed to be. Simply the fact that Black is a woman? Is this so unusual that it requires special mention? |
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| May-12-24 | | alshatranji: Why does it say Scheveningen? Looks like a standard Najdorf. |
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May-12-24
 | | perfidious: <alshatranji: Why does it say Scheveningen? Looks like a standard Najdorf.> Once Black plays 6....e6, it is bound to transpose to one line of the Scheveningen or another. |
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May-12-24
| | scormus: <alshatranji: ... Looks like a standard Najdorf> I agree. It is a Najdorf |
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| May-12-24 | | Lambda: It's a Najdorf transposing into a Scheveningen. The Najdorf idea is to play e5, playing a6 and then e6 is a way to get a Scheveningen without allowing the Keres attack of 5...e6 6.g4. |
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| May-12-24 | | Olavi: The exception is 6.Bg5 e6, which still has to be classified as a Najdorf. But there 6...e5 is impossible anyway. (It has been played, but not by strong players.) |
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May-12-24
| | perfidious: Reading the post by <Olavi> reminds me of the only game I ever had with either colour in the Rauzer; my opponent played ....e5 and was swiftly despatched. |
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