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| Feb-06-08 |
| M.D. Wilson: This is a great game. Nezh had a powerful centre, and the pieces, mainly the centralised knights, to beat Polou without his queen. The black bishop turned out to be perfectly placed. |
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| Feb-06-08 |
| stanleys: <arsen387> <Situation is harder if 25.gxf4. The best I see for blacks is 25...Bxf4+ 26.Nxf4 Qg3+> There is a better option: 26...Nxc2+ and black is winning. That's why 20.Bc2 was called "the decisive mistake" (20.Bb1 was better),but try to calculate all this on move 20! |
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Feb-11-08
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| arsen387: thanks <stanleys>. I completely missed that move. Nxc2 is really a killer move here! |
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| Feb-16-08 |
| DarthStapler: Just saying again how much I love this game |
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Jul-26-08
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| Fusilli: <wolfking: ... Is there any way I can exercise my sight so that I can see a "clear image" of the board 5/6/7 moves further?? Because I can only see 2 or 3 moves ahead...> Practice makes perfect, or at least helps improving your calculation ability. My advice is to always keep in mind that, as you calculate, pieces not only move to different squares, but *are no longer in the squares where they were*. The former is the easiest thing to see, the latter is the difficult part. In particular, I have found pawns to be very tricky... we tend to overlook that pawns that capture no longer protect the squares they used to protect, and that pawns that move (for example, capturing a sacrificed attacking piece) often free up a square for the defending king. I think we tend to see pawns as fixed in place for ever... just my 2 cents, based on personal experience. |
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| Aug-14-08 |
| Alphastar: <stanleys: 13.f3 is the best option here - it fortifies the center and prevents a possible ...Ng4 or ...f4-f3> GM Beim disagrees. He considers that black could've obtained the advantage with 14. ..Be3+! 15. Kh1 f4  followed by g5-g4. Because of this, 13. exf5 gxf5 14. Nge2 f4 15. f3 Nxd3 16. Qxd3 = is a better option. He also has some things to say on 24. a3!?
I will post it tomorrow because it's getting late. |
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| Aug-15-08 |
| Alphastar: GM Beim in <How to Calculate Chess Tactics>: <<24. Rh1>Both of our featured annotators (Nezhmetdinov and Dvoretsky) passed by this moment as if it goes without saying, but one is reminded of the old rule, formulated most clearly and in his own blunt way, by Korchnoi: "All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game". This rule suggests that we should nto be in too much of a hurry to accept the move played, but should look for other ideas for the losing side. In particular, let us look at the position in detail, something which one should do every once in a while, even in extremely sharp and complicated positions. Such a survey of the position allows the player temporarily to shake off the fever of hard calculation, and it sometimes results in his seeing new, interesting and often unexpected ideas in the position. Thus, looking as it were from the side, we soon find 24. a3!? with the following variations: a) 24. ..Qh3?! and now White has two ways to obtain the advantage: a1) 25. axb4 Bxf4+ 26. Nxf4 (now Black won't gain time with ..Qf3+; after 26. Rxf4? Rxf4 27. Qh1 [27. Nxf4 Qxg3+ 28. Ke2 Qf3+ 29. Ke1 Qg3+ 30. Kd2 Qxf4+ favours black] 27. ..Rf3+ 28. Kd2 Rf2 Black is certainly not worse) 26. ..Rxf4 (26. ..Qxg3+ 27. Kd2!?) 27. Rxf4 Qxg3+ 28. Ke2 Qxf4+ is somewhat better for White. a2) White can also play 25. Kd2!? with the follow-up 25. ..Nf3+ 26. Kc1 Nxc2 27. Kxc2 Qg2 28. Rh1 Bg7 29. Bxg7 Kxg7 30. Qf1 Nd4+ 31. Kd3 Qxf1 32. Raxf1 Nxb3 33. Rh4 and this ending turns out to be advantegeous for White. b) But Black has another option, namely 24. ..Nxc2+ 25. Qxc2 Qh3, and here: b1) 26. Bxe5?! dxe5 27. Rh1 and then:
b11) 27. ..exf4+ 28. Kd3 Qg2 29. Rxh6 f3 30. Nf4 Qxg3 31. Nh5 Qe5 32. Qc3 Qxc3+ 33. Kxc3 f2 34. Rf1! Rf3+ 35. Kd4 Raf8 36. Re6! is good for White. b12) 27. ..Bxf4+ 28. Kd3 Qg2 29. gxf4+ Qf3+ 30. Kc4 c6 31. fxe5 b5+! 32. Kc5 Qe3+ 33. Nd4 cxd5 with a likely draw. b13) 27. ..Rxf4! (Nunn) 28. Kd3 Rf3+ 29. Kc4 Qg2 30. Rxh6 Re3 might give black some advantage. b2) 26. Kd2! Nf3+ (26. ..Qg2 27. Rad1 with clear advantage) 27. Kd3 Qg3 28. Rh1 Bg7 (28. ..Re8 29. Rxh6 Rxe4 30. Qd1! Rfe7 31. Re6) 29. Bxg7 Kxg7 30. Kc3  . Incidentally, with the king on e3, 24. Bb1!? is also interesting. So it turns out that White's 24th move was the decisive mistake. In view of the fact that the alternative examined above leads to at least an acceptable game for White, it follows firstly that the criticism of White's 20th move is unfounded (Dvoretsky and Nezhmetdinov both labeled this the losing move), and secondly, that Black's decision at move 14 was mistaken, and lost the chance to obtain the advantage by force. In addition, at move 20, he could have forced a favourable ending. It is also clear that in such a complicated position as that which arose in the game, one cannot reach an accurate judgement without detailed calculation of variations and relying solely on general positional considerations.> |
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| Oct-01-08 |
| CharlesSullivan: <Alphastar> Your analysis is very provocative -- after White's 29th move in the "b2) 26.Kd2!" variation this critical position is reached after White's 29.Bxg7:
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Although you give 29...Kxg7 30.Kc3 and assign White a small advantage, Rybka considers the position to be dead-even after 30...Kg8; for example: 31.Rh6 Re8 32.Re6 Rfe7 33.Rxe7 Rxe7 34.Nd4 Qxc2+ 35.Nxc2 Rxe4 36.Kd3 Re7 37.Rh1=. However, a stronger move is (from the above diagram) <29...Re8!>, postponing the recapture of the bishop and threatening 30...Rxd4! Now White's best line is the following: 31.Kc3! Rxg7 32.Rad1 Qf2 33.e5! <White's 33rd and 34th moves prepare the stunning 35th> 33...dxe5 34.d6 cxd6 and Black would have a big advantage in this position
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except White has 35.Rxh7!! Rxh7 36.Qg6+ Kf8 37.Qxd6+ Kg7 38.Qd7+ Kf8 39.Qd6+ and White's queen forces a perpetual check. |
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| Oct-01-08 |
| CharlesSullivan: A correction: the threat after 29...Re8! is, of course, 30...Rxe4! (not 30...Rxd4). |
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Dec-17-08
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| ughaibu: FENfiend: I guess you mean "kiss me Hardy" which I think are said to be Nelson's last words. |
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| Dec-17-08 |
| bvwp: Hardy was Flag Captain on the Victory. Nelson, mortally wounded and below decks but with the battle of Trafalgar won, said either "Kiss me, Hardy" or "Kismet, Hardy". Manly historians naturally prefer the Kismet (fate) version. |
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| Dec-18-08 |
| Kinghunt: Doesn't 27. Ng1 save at least a draw? After 27... c5+ 28. dxc5 Ned3+ 29. e5 Bxe5+ 30. Kc4 black is down a LOT of material and the white king, although in the middle of the board, is surprisingly safe. Black's attack has nowhere to go and must settle for draw by perpetual check. It seems like 27. a4?? is the real losing move here. |
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| Jan-05-09 |
| laserlight: <Kinghunt> As attributed to Soltis, there is the line: 27.Ng1 Rxg3 28.Ne2 Rf3 29.Ng1 Ned3+ 30.Kc4 Nxb2+ 31.Kxb4 Bc3+ 32.Ka3 b5. This should be winning after 33.Qd4 Bxd4 34.Nxf3 Bc3 35.b4 Nc4+ 36.Bb3 Bxa1 where Black would be up two pawns in a better position. |
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| Jan-06-09 |
| hackmate: <laserlightL I wonder how long it took him to find it though. |
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| Jan-06-09 |
| laserlight: Heh, I notice I made a typographical error: 36.Bb3 obviously should be 36.Kb3 :) |
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Mar-05-09
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| Sem: Amazing how fast Black, starting with his 9th move, set up a ferocious attack against such a great player as Polugaevsky. |
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Mar-05-09
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| blacksburg: i don't get the pun. what's <Kismet>? |
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Mar-05-09
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| ughaibu: You're in luck, other kibitzers have discussed it. |
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| May-01-09 |
| WhiteRook48: 34 Ka6 Nc5# or 34...Rb6# |
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Jun-19-09
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| kingscrusher: My video annotation for this game has been favourited 8 times - "King Hunt" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIjD... |
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Jun-19-09
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| kellmano: Very good work on that vid. most enjoyable <kingcrusher> |
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Jul-12-09
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| ketchuplover: 4.dxe5 :) |
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| Sep-15-09 |
| kingsindian2006: it makes sense now this guy trained tal ... a masterpiece! |
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Dec-15-09
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| eternaloptimist: this game is very impressive because nezh: 1)defeated polugaevsky quickly 2)did it while playing an old indian. [actually, I like the old indian, but it's played more for solidity than to generate a quick attack. although, he was able to generate a quick attack in this game w/ it.] 3)played a long tactical combo w/ a  sac. i also like how he played the old indian like a king's indian by advancing his  side pawns forward to attack. this is definitely a brilliant game! |
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Dec-15-09
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| parisattack: It's a beautiful game! I think with the KB fianchetto it has more in common with a KID than an Old Indian. |
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