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Mar-28-10
 | | HeMateMe: tuff puzzle. I looked at b5 as a logical candidate move, to pry open the c file. The Q sac was beyond me. |
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| Mar-28-10 | | karnak64: Well, this one either flubbed a perfect week for me or else started the week off with a flub. It all depends on when the week starts, eh? |
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| Mar-28-10 | | donehung: white must have knew he was dead when he castled queenside. |
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| Mar-28-10 | | ThomasZ: Did anyone noticed that White castles at the queen side at move 16 while the white square black bishop controls square b2 ? |
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| Mar-28-10 | | Gilmoy: <12..Bf5 16.O-O-O> Oooh -- this <bodes ill> for White!! The hidden double-pin on c is reminiscent of M Brodsky vs Kramnik, 1991, after the line <18..Bh6!!> 19.Qxh6?? Rxc2+: 
click for larger viewHere, White's Bd3 is hidden-pinned to the d2-square: 20.Bxc2 Ne2#. Tough to spot (unless you already had it in your smite-graph). |
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| Mar-28-10 | | WhiteRook48: Nb3# is the crusher; white can't get himself out of this unless black does something stupid |
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| Mar-28-10 | | sfm: <ThomasZ> asked if anyone noticed that White castles at the queen side at move 16 while the white square black bishop controls square b1. Yes. This is quite rare. GM Auerbach once played an opponent who did just that. Auerbach politely notified his opponent about the "illegal move", and was in return informed, that this was fully legal. The story was written in some old chess book under the headline "Grand Master learns the rules of Chess". The Chess Titans program in Windows 7 even allows the KING to cross a covered square, then plays on with one king off the board!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOqa... |
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| Mar-28-10 | | srtnm: i'm a lurker on this blog. just want to say i appreciated hearing about dzechiel's foray to the chess festival. there can be more to chess than just analysis, which is of course always exceptional here. but the sidebars and the history and such provided by <once> and others often bring knowledge and pleasure. and even the occasional crabbiness of a few remind me of my chess club organizing days in the 70's. chess players are such complainers aren't they? so thanks gang, from a lurker patzer. and thanks chessgames.com for an easy week of puzzles. i even knocked out today's insane one. |
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| Mar-28-10 | | tacticalmonster: White was winning on positional ground:
1) White was up a pawn
2) White had the two active bishops
3) White had a crushing central majority advantage 2-0. The central e5 and d5 passers were well supported by white army 4) White controlled the d-file. The major pieces on d file were well placed Black was winning on tactical ground:
1) The c8 rook was actively placed for c-file invasion 2) The White king was fatally exposed. Its`escape route was cut off by the f5 bishop 3) b3 square was insufficently protected. A knight there would be checkmate or winning the white queen 4) The a4 knight was ready to break down resistance by attacking the c3 knight and the b2 pawn Black still needed to include the queen and f8 rook for the final assult. It was not easy to activate the f8 rook as the only reasonable square was c8. There was, however, only one reasonable way to include the queen into the attack candidate: 20 Qb5!
a) 21 b4 Nb3+ 22 Bxb3 Rxc3+ 23 Kd2 Rd3+ black had queen vs rook b1) 21 Rd2 Nxc3! 22 Rc2 (22 Qxc3 Nb3+ 23 Kd1 Rxc4  ) Nb3+ 23 Bxb3 Ne2+ 24 Kd1 Nxd4 b2) 22 b4 Nb3+ 23 Bxb3 Ne2+ 24 Kd1 Nxd4 |
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| Mar-28-10 | | tacticalmonster: Before I get to my main point, I want to thank CG for their puzzles. I am able to take my game to the next level thanks to this feature. I am always a student of chess and I want to improve even further. However, after my improvement I just realized the puzzles are not challenging enough anymore. My suggestion to CG is that we should have more <tough weeks> in the future. As puzzles become tougher, hopefully there will be more titled players kibitzing in the puzzle section. Their input will definitely help pazter like me improve. Please let me know what CG think about this post. |
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| Mar-28-10 | | TheBish: Y Vetemaa vs Shabalov, 1986 Black to play (20...?) "Insane"
With White's impressive center, at first I thought this was White to play and win! But with Black to play, the first thing I realized was this: If you remove either the Nc3 or Bc4, Black mates with Nb3#. That helped me to find Black's move. 20...Qb5!!
Now, of course, 21. Bxb5 or 21. Nxb5 results in 21...Nb3#, as does 21. Nxa4 Nb3#. Black is now threatening both 21...Qxb2# as well as 21...Qb3, from where it could go to a2 and a1, terrorizing White's king! Now: A) 21. Rd2 Nb3+ 22. Bxb3 Qxb3 and Black wins with the threat of 23...Nxc3 24. bxc3 Rxc3+. White is helpless now that the remaining bishop is deprived of the d2 square for defense! B) 21. b3 Qxb3! (or Nxb3+) threatens two different mates, and White is helpless since 22. Bxb3 Nxb3 is still mate. C) 21. b4 Nb3+! 22. Bxb3 Qxd4 23. Rxd4 Nxc3+ recovers the knight and wins the bishop to boot. I think that just about cover it... time to check! (I know it's a cliche, but I haven't used it in a while!) |
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| Mar-29-10 | | watwinc: It took three seconds to see Qb5. Not difficult. BUT - how far back was it necessary to see this? White was presumably feeling safe up to Bc4:, so was the blunder 16 0-0-0, or (as I suspect) is White's position already Swiss cheese? |
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| Mar-29-10 | | TheBish: Whoops! I need to correct my note in part C). After 21. b4 Nb3+ 22. Bxb3 Rxc3+ wins the queen after 23. Kd2 Rd3+ or 23. Bc2 Rxc2+ 24. Kb1 Nc3+, or of course 23. Qxc3 Nxc3. Why I had the Black queen on b6 instead of b5 can only be attributed to haste! |
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| Mar-29-10 | | Gilmoy: <tacticalmonster: The central e5 and d5 passers ...> White's Pe5 isn't a passed pawn yet, because of Black's Pf7. |
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| Mar-10-13 | | Eduardo Bermudez: Very nice finish !! |
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| Jun-30-14 | | GeneM: This game, after White's 20th move, is shot puzzle "FCM 4.4" in Charles Hertan's 2008 book "Forcing Chess Moves" (2nd edition). |
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| Apr-06-17 | | FairyPromotion: The Juri is Out on Qb5 |
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Mar-02-24
 | | Fusilli: 20...Qb5!! Shabalov wins in dazzling style in a position he could have won with lesser moves like Bg6 or b5. Thank you for the show, sir! |
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Aug-11-25
| | HeMateMe: Was there a Leon Uris book QV7? |
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Aug-11-25
| | HeMateMe: qvii that is. My bad. |
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| Aug-11-25 | | BxChess: When I see Qb5 I think 125. (Cube 5.) |
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Aug-11-25
 | | Honza Cervenka: Castling QS was a quite bad idea. |
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| Aug-11-25 | | Pyrandus: Genialisssimus. |
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Aug-11-25
 | | al wazir: I stand by the comment I posted 15 years ago about the irrelevance of white's control of the center. |
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| Aug-11-25 | | Granny O Doul: I recently saw on Facebook a painting Maxim Dlugy once did of the position here just before ... Qb5. Of its genre, I do think it a better example than the painting Anthony Santasiere did of Smyth vs. Herman Helms, just before ...Qg2+. It is more stylized, also, Santasiere somehow omitted the White bishop on e3 in the earlier game. |
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