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| May-03-17 | | pureredwhiteblu: I found this beautiful game after watching this great video on Rubinstein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1P... |
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| Sep-21-17 | | thegoodanarchist: < offramp: <morfishine>, across the ether I shake your hand. Your final sentence is perfect:
<There has to be a better adjective>. That, mon ami, is superb.
And I'll suggest one:
"Rubinstein's Masterpiece".
Which is rubbish - but it IS a suggestion.> However, Rubinstein's Rubbish has a ring to it... |
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| Nov-17-17 | | Eduardo Bermudez: There are chessgames that last a day and are good. There are others that last a year and are better. There are those who endure many years, and they are very good. But those that last for more a century: those are the essentials |
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Nov-17-17
 | | offramp: <Eduardo Bermudez: There are chessgames that last a day and are good. There are others that last a year and are better. There are those who endure many years, and they are very good. But those that last for more a century: those are the essentials> I have applied to the South Dakota Congress of Elders to have these resounding words sculpted on to the other side of Mount Rushmore and they have said YEEEEES!!! |
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Jan-04-18
 | | Penguincw: Video analysis of this game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_T.... |
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| Dec-26-18 | | HarryP: This game is always a pleasure. What fun! |
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| Apr-03-19 | | Joseph Blackcape: Always an incredible game and one of my all time favourites. Long, long before there was the Internet, YouTube and videos like "Kasparov Sacrifices Everything!", a withdrawn Polish Jewish grandmaster has played THIS. When I was a little kid and just discovered chess I have first heard of Rubinstein as an endgame and particularly Rook endgame master. One of my very first chess books was in fact about him and even the subtitle said something about playing endings. Imagine my surprise when the first game in the book was this one. I replayed it again and again and could not understand how something like this could be seen and played over the board. Last year for the first time I ran this game through an engine. Outside of the opening almost every single one of Akiba's moves is one of the engine's top 3 choices - usually the first. In fact the engine is also fine with almost all of Rotlewi's moves too. 10. Qe2 considered a blunder by both Tarrasch and Tartakower is apparently OK, keeping the game at about 0.03-0.05. Only the 19. e5, ignored by both of them is considered a really bad move that has the evaluation drop down from ~-0.7 to ~-3.1. The engine then claims Rotlewi makes the moves most prolonging the game except for 22. g3 which makes the evaluation drop even further by another 3+ points (which makes sense since it now completely opens the h1-a8 diagonal which was started by e5), but by then the game is already lost. |
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| Jun-29-19 | | Kay Sadeeya: I couldn't stop going over and over the end of this game (which to me began at 19.e5). It's like watching someone walk through a field of a thousand land mines, but he doesn't flinch because he put the land mines there. |
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Jun-29-19
 | | moronovich: Hi <Kay Sadeeya> ! Many years later Anand with the black pieces defeated Aronian (perhaps 7-9 years ago).It is a must see game. |
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| Jun-29-19 | | john barleycorn: It is this game
Aronian vs Anand, 2013 where Anand commented "know your classics" meaning the Rubinstein game here |
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| Jul-02-19 | | Kay Sadeeya: <moronovich> Thank You I will watch it. |
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| Jun-08-20 | | paradoxicalenigma: Bishop Pair from hell it is! |
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Aug-20-20
 | | Honza Cervenka: 21...Qh4 is winning in all lines but black could play also 21...Nxh2 22.Qh5 (of course, the Knight cannot be taken for mate) 22...Bxe4 23.Kxh2 Bxg2 24.Kxg2 Rd2+ and 25...Rxb2 with easily won game. |
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| May-09-21 | | Messiah: Well done! |
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Aug-10-21
 | | olinart: My grandparents used to talk about their relative who was a wonderful chessplayer but made a bad decision to stay in Europe when the rest of the family was bailing. Really a special pleasure to see such a brilliant game from him. Too bad that chess skills don't seem to be inheritable.
Rxc3 and Rd2 were amazing. |
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Aug-11-21
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Yes, have commented upon this game before, but after 3 glasses of Edelzwicker, it becomes easy to comment again. This time, to comment upon the quality of the annotations. At first, Schlechter and Tartakower evaluate the game objectively and find improvements that would have given White a satisfactory game. However, by the end they have become giddy fans of the game--just as I have. |
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| Jan-22-22 | | Helloween: The greatest game in the history of chess. |
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Jan-23-22
 | | fredthebear: Here's a list of the 100 best games of chess: Game Collection: 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, RANKED |
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| Jan-23-22 | | Retireborn: <fred> Thanks for drawing my attention to this list, which I hadn't seen before. I'm somewhat relieved that 93 of the games are already in my collection of annotated games! One curiosity is that the Bisguier-Benko game isn't given in Benko's own book. Was Soltis too impressed, or did Benko simply forget it? |
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Jan-24-22
| | fredthebear: Bisguier vs Benko, 1963 is impressive for its sacrificial play. Some just cannot enjoy a chess game if the opponent makes a tactical mistake; it forever taints the game in some eyes. Perhaps Benko considered his queen sacrifice an easy find, or he did not consider being up a minor piece after the lengthy sequence of exchanges to be that significant. He might have exerted less effort than would be necessary in planning a slow, steady, strategic victory. I'm certainly impressed, although probably not as much as GM Soltis (a New Yorker, where the game was played -- a hotbed of chess). He may have factored in the known opening theory at the time. It's no easy task to compare various combinations! We are forever influenced by what we felt when we first saw the game. |
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| Jan-24-22 | | Olavi: Well, Soltis got carried away. Nice, funny combination or rather forced series of moves, but too easy to merit a place in such a list. |
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| Jan-17-23 | | N.O.F. NAJDORF: 26. Rf2 Rxh2+ 27. Kg1 Bxf2+ 28. Kf1 Bd3#
26. Rf2 Rxh2+ 27. Kg1 Bxf2+ 28. Qxf2 Rh1# |
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| Jan-24-24 | | DanLanglois: my favorite of chess games. |
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Feb-16-24
 | | plang: 10 cxd..exd 11 Be2 was and still is the main line though subsequent to this game 10 Qc2 also became popular; Rotlewi's 10 Qd2?! was new and illogical as the queen is not secure on this square and the move has not been repeated. Gelfand thought White's best chance was to accept the pawn with 11 cxd..exd 12 Nxd5..Nxd5 13 Qxd5..Be6 14 Qd3 as it is not clear that Black has sufficient compensation; instead, the move played, 11 Bd3? lost more time and left White behind in development for nothing. Gelfand commenting on the type of symmetrical position that arose prior to 15..Ne5:
"Often the player who is able to swing the knight in the centre first is able to create an initiative, as happened in this game." DEspite White's poor opening wouldn't have been that terrible had he played 17 Rfd1. One interesting variation is 21 Ne4..Qh4 22 h3..Rxd3 23 Qxd3..Bxe4 24 Qb3 (24 Qxe4..Qg3!) 24..Be3! which is remarkably similar to the maneuver played in Aronian-Anand Wijk aan Zee 2013 ; in fact Anand was thinking of the similarity during his game. 25..Rc2 would have been less spectacular but equally effective. A prime example of how symmetrical positions do not have to be boring. |
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Dec-16-24
 | | GrahamClayton: Rubinstein had the deserved reputation of being a great positional player, but this game shows he could attack with sacrificial combinations if the right position came along. |
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