| Jul-19-04 |
| Tennyson: I would like to draw everybody's attention to this game's fantastic rook sac converted into a king hunt/mating net, resulting in a smothered mate. Black had chances to avoid mate, but would have had to give back plenty of material to do so. |
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Jan-28-06
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| Timothy Glenn Forney: This is an absolutely BRILLIANT game,I'm shocked this has not been kibitzed on more.It is the best anti-French Winwer Advance I have ever seen.The Rook sacrifice is shocking and I have never seen a smothered mate in the French before. |
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| Jan-28-06 |
| notsodeepthought: I'm not taking anything away from white - very nice ending and all - but I would argue that it wasn't a "real" rook sacrifice (which might explain the relatively little kibitzing), since the black rook was en prise too. If e.g. 23 ... g:f4 (to prevent 24 Ne5) then 24 g:h5 and white still has the edge. Also, the final smothered mate is pretty, but obviously even 28 Nf4+ followed by 29 N:h5 would have won handily. |
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Jan-28-06
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| Timothy Glenn Forney: It is more of a Zwischenzug than a sacrifice I was thinking of calling it that.He could have saved the rook at e4. |
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| Jan-28-06 |
| notsodeepthought: Agreed - don't get me wrong, it was very well played by white. |
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Jan-28-06
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| Timothy Glenn Forney: I've never seen a smothered mate on the b1 h7 diagonal like this either.This man had great perception. |
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| Jan-29-06 |
| LluviaSean: what the heck is a Zwischenzug??? |
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| Jan-29-06 |
| sneaky pete: <LluviaSean> It's an in-between move. |
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Jan-30-06
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| Timothy Glenn Forney: <Jan-29-06 LluviaSean: what the heck is a Zwischenzug??? >If you want know what Zwischenzug is check this game out,its loaded with them Browne vs Kneebone, 1985 |
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Jan-30-06
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| Eric Schiller: <Lluviasean>I prefer the term intermezzo, it is much easier to handle than zwischenzug. |
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| Jan-07-07 |
| jackmandoo: I can literally hear that king gasping for air. Its been like 54 years, die already king. |
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| Apr-09-09 |
| tommy boy: Fantastic combination. The rook sac is realy unexpected. just brilliant |
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Apr-09-09
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| whiteshark: 'zwischenzug' definition and examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwisch... |
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sac: 23.exf6
