Jan-28-04
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| Resignation Trap: This is a famous game, one of the best-known drubbings of a great grandmaster. It is sometimes used to illustrate the virtues of an advantage in development. However, I'm curious about one thing: what would happen had Rubinstein played 14...Rb8, instead of 14...fxe6? |
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Oct-11-04
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| percyblakeney: Very impressive game by Sandor Takacs! You're right though, <Resignation Trap>, 14. ... Rb8 would have been a very good move for black, I read in a book by Larsen that Botvinnik found the move in 1938. |
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| Oct-11-04 |
| clendenon: Black could have easily resigned at move 20, but it's oh, so hard! |
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| Oct-11-04 |
| Leviathan: <chessgames.com>
Too many Takacs here: Alexander Takacs, Sandor Takacs, B Takacs.I am almost sure they are all the same person. |
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| Oct-11-04 |
| azaris: <I am almost sure they are all the same person> Why? I'm sure it's a common Hungarian name. Just like the club team that had five guys called Horvath. |
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Oct-11-04
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| percyblakeney: Even though the Takacs in this game definitely is Sandor Takacs. |
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| Oct-12-04 |
| Leviathan: <a common Hungarian name> this is probably true, but how many Takacs were playing at international level in 1922? I think only one ;) |
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| Oct-12-04 |
| Leviathan: I mean in 1929 :) |
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| Oct-12-04 |
| sneaky pete: Sandor is the Hungarian form of the (Greek?) original Alexander, just like Pete is an American form of (Latin) Petrus. The B instead of S here is just a typo. |
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| May-22-05 |
| WMD: < Very impressive game by Sandor Takacs! You're right though, <Resignation Trap>, 14. ... Rb8 would have been a very good move for black, I read in a book by Larsen that Botvinnik found the move in 1938.> Yes, apparently during the post-mortem of Botvinnik vs Kasparian, 1938. Botvinnik thought 14.Nxb5!? axb5 15.Bxb5 Ba6 16.Bxa6 Rxa6 17.Rc8+ Ke7 18.Nc3 was more promising. Fritz thinks White's best is simply 14.Bb3 bxa4 15.Bxa4 with a bind. |
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| May-22-05 |
| ughaibu: "with a bind" does Fritz get such enlightening evaluations from Fischer's book? |
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| May-22-05 |
| WMD: I've got the American version of Fritz. I call it Hal. |
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| May-22-05 |
| ughaibu: No tattoos then? |
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| Aug-23-09 |
| WhiteRook48: compelling chess |
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sac: 14.Nxe6