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| Jan-08-05 |
| WMD: Deserves to rank alongside:
Short vs Chiburdanidze, 1985 |
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Jan-08-05
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| artemis: this doesn't quite measure up to short's usual play, a notch or two beneath his excellent understanding of the game. I guess he couldn't live up to the height of his reputation. The worst part about this for short is that he had a won endgame, his outside passed pawn being much stronger than his opponent's potential passed pawn. This is what sitting at a board for 4+ hours can do to even the mighty Nigel Short. |
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Jan-08-05
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| ajile: aw1988 - ha ha I was thinking the exact same thing. I think Short loses sight of some obvious stuff when he gets into long endgames. He was probably tired and/or in time trouble. |
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Jan-08-05
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| Resignation Trap: <aw 1988> This does remind us Short-Krasenkow. By sheer coincidence, just yesterday I uploaded this game for www.chessgames.com : Beliavsky (!!) - Leif E. Johannessen, Linares (!!) Anibal Open 2002 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 0-0 7.e3 b6 8.Be2 Bb7 9.Bxf6 Bxf6 10.cxd5 exd5 11.b4 c6 12.0-0 a5 13.bxa5 Rxa5 14.a4 Bc8 15.Qc2 Be6 16.Rfc1 Nd7 17.Bf1 Qa8 18.Qd1 Rc8 19.g3 g6 20.Bg2 Bg7 21.Ne2 Qb8 22.Nf4 Qd6 23.Nd2 Rca8 24.Nb3 R5a7 25.Ra2 Nf8 26.Qc2 Bd7 27.a5 bxa5 28.Rca1 Qb4 29.Nd3 Qb6 30.Qc3 Ne6 31.h4 Bc8 32.Rxa5 Rxa5 33.Rxa5 Rxa5 34.Nxa5 Ba6 35.Qb4 Bb5 36.Nb3 Qa6 37.Ndc5 Nxc5 38.Nxc5 Qa1+ 39.Kh2 Qa2 40.Qe1 h5 41.Bf1 Bf8 42.Nd3 Bd6 43.Kg2 Qc2 44.Qe2 Qb1 45.Qd2 Kg7 46.Be2 Bc4 47.Nf4 Bxf4 48.gxf4 Bb5 49.Qd1 Qf5 50.Bf3 Bd3 51.Kg3 Bc4 52.Kh2 Qf6 53.Kg3 Qf5 54.Qc1 Qd3 55.Kh2 Kh7 56.Qg1 Qc2 57.Bd1 Qd3 58.Bf3 Qc2 59.Kg3 Be2 60.Bg2 Bd3 61.Qa1 Be4 62.Qa7 Kg7 63.Qe7 Bxg2 64.Kxg2 Qe2 65.Qg5 Qd3 66.f5 Qe4+ 67.Kg3 Kh7 68.f3 Qb1 And now, the moment that we've all been waiting for: 69. Kf4?? Qb8# |
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| Jan-08-05 |
| aw1988: <ajile> Everyone gets tired in endgames. |
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| Jan-08-05 |
| filipecea: Short solved with perfect accuracy his helpmate puzzle! impressive... |
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| Jan-08-05 |
| DocNZ: Poor Nigel. Been made to suffer the memory of this game twice in almost as many months. CBM102 pg6-7, Nigel talked about a blunder 121.Re6?? Short v Krasenkow (FIDE Wch KO (2.1) 21/6/04). Frederic Friedel then steers the report to the above game. Short describes this game as his most famous blunder. |
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| Jan-08-05 |
| Novice713: So was Nigel Short in a winning position before he blundered? Around move 50 there was a repetition of moves, and then Short did 53. Ne3. |
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| Jan-08-05 |
| oxxo: This game is an excellent illustration of just how careful you have to be in chess. You can go from hero to zero just like that in one move! |
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| Apr-01-05 |
| Backward Development: very nasty mate! everybody loses it in the endgame. See Peter Nielsen vs Karjakin, 2005 for another grisly example. |
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| Apr-15-05 |
| Eatman: Yes, Short had a winning position before that blunder. |
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| Jul-29-05 |
| Averageguy: Nice mate. |
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| Mar-05-06 |
| LluviaSean: ooooo...so very lucky... |
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Nov-27-06
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| Peligroso Patzer: Here is another famous blunder by Short, not quite as bad as walking into mate-in-one, but a totally unforced loss of a Rook: Short vs Krasenkow, 2004 |
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| Nov-28-06 |
| DutchDunce: First Short, now Kramnik misses mate in 1. Wow.
Of course, I should talk. I missed a mate in 1 vs. Stanley the monkey, a Chessmaster character whose rating is 1. |
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Nov-28-06
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| acirce: As horrendeous as Kramnik's blunder was, this one has got to count as even worse, being that Short had a winning position and Kramnik only had a draw. |
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Nov-28-06
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| technical draw: <acirce> The difference between this blunder and Kramnik's is that this one passed virtually unnoticed. Kramniks's blunder was seen live by a million chess eyes. |
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Nov-28-06
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| percyblakeney: It was also played in a Linares where Short finished last of 14 participants. A huge blunder anyway, of course, even if the time situation probably was much worse for Short. In blitz this is a recent terrible blunder, only with a couple of seconds left on the clock though: Carlsen vs M Gagunashvili, 2006 |
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Nov-28-06
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| acirce: Yeah, the time situation should be factored in in one sense, I agree but the move itself in worse in this case. Another relatively recent example from a rapid game is of course Adams vs Leko, 2005 As far as classical games go I couldn't find this one in this base: [Event "Skopje"]
[Site "Skopje"]
[Date "1976.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[White "Nicevski, Risto"]
[Black "Vaganian, Rafael A"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B04"]
[WhiteElo "2395"]
[BlackElo "2550"]
[PlyCount "101"]
[EventDate "1976.03.??"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "15"]
[EventCountry "YUG"]
[EventCategory "10"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3 g6 5. Bc4 c6 6. exd6 Qxd6 7. O-O Bg7 8.
Nbd2 O-O 9. Re1 Nd7 10. Bb3 b5 11. a4 Bb7 12. Ne4 Qc7 13. Bg5 e6 14. Qd2 a6 15.
Bh6 f6 16. Nc3 Rae8 17. axb5 axb5 18. Re2 N7b6 19. Rae1 Bc8 20. Bxg7 Kxg7 21.
Bxd5 Nxd5 22. Ra1 Nf4 23. Re3 Rd8 24. Ne2 c5 25. Rea3 Nxe2+ 26. Qxe2 Rf7 27. c3
b4 28. Ra5 cxd4 29. cxd4 Bb7 30. h3 Bxf3 31. Qxf3 Rxd4 32. Qa8 Rfd7 33. g3 Qc2
34. Ra7 b3 35. Rxd7+ Rxd7 36. Qa3 Kf7 37. Re1 g5 38. Qa4 Rd1 39. Rxd1 Qxd1+ 40.
Kg2 Qd5+ 41. Kg1 h5 42. g4 hxg4 43. hxg4 f5 44. gxf5 exf5 45. Qa7+ Kg6 46. Qa6+
Kh5 47. Qe2+ Kh4 48. Qe3 f4 49. Qc3 Kg4 50. Kh2 Qd1 51. Qh3# 1-0 
click for larger view |
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| Jul-13-07 |
| stanleys: More tragedies:
B Avrukh vs G Timoshchenko, 2001
This one should be in the database soon :
[Event "Rome"]
[Site "Rome"]
[Date "1984.02.??"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Rivas Pastor,Manuel"]
[Black "Mednis,Edmar John"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "D12"]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bf5 5.Nc3 e6 6.Bd3 Bg6 7.0-0 Nbd7 8.b3 Bd6
9.Bb2 Ne4 10.Ne2 Qb8 11.g3 Nef6 12.Nf4 Bxd3 13.Nxd3 Be7 14.a4 0-0 15.Ba3 Bxa3 16.Rxa3 dxc4
17.bxc4 c5 18.a5 Qc7 19.Qa4 Rfd8 20.Rd1 Rac8 21.Rb3 b6 22.Nfe5 Nxe5 23.Nxe5 h6 24.axb6 axb6
25.Qb5 Rd6 26.Rbd3 Nd7 27.Nxd7 Qxd7 28.Qb1 cxd4 29.Rxd4 Rxd4 30.Rxd4 Qc6 31.Qd3 g6 32.e4 e5
33.Rd8+ Rxd8 34.Qxd8+ Kg7 35.Qd5 Qc7 36.Kf1 f6 37.Ke2 h5 38.Ke3 Qa7 39.h4 Qa3+ 40.Ke2 Qa2+
41.Kf1 Qb1+ 42.Kg2 Qc2 43.Qd7+ Kf8 44.Qc8+ Kf7 45.Qd7+ Kf8 46.Qe6 Qxe4+ 47.Kh2 Kg7 48.Qe7+ Kg8
49.Qxf6 Kh7 50.Qf7+ Kh8 51.Qf6+ Kh7 52.Qxb6 Qxc4 53.Qb7+ Kg8 54.Qb8+ Kh7 55.Qxe5 Qc6 56.Qe7+ Kg8
57.Qe3 Kg7 58.Kg1 Qc4 59.Kg2 Qd5+ 60.Qf3 Qe6 61.Qa8 Qc4 62.Qb7+ Kg8 63.Qb8+ Kh7 64.Qa7+ Kg8
65.Qb7 Qd3 66.Qc8+ Kg7 67.Qe6 Qd1 68.Qc4 Kf8 69.Qc3 Kg8 70.Qf3 Qd7 71.Qe4 Kh7 72.Kf3 Qd1+
73.Kg2 Kg7 74.Qb7+ Kg8 75.Qe4 Kg7 76.Qf3 Qc2 77.Qb7+ Kg8 78.Qb8+ Kh7 79.Qa7+ Kg8 80.Kf3 Qd3+
81.Qe3 Qf5+ 82.Kg2 Qd5+ 83.f3 Qd6 84.g4 hxg4 85.fxg4 Kg7 86.g5 Qd5+ 87.Kf2 Qf7+ 88.Kg3 Qc7+
89.Kf3 Qf7+ 90.Kg2 Qb7+ 91.Kf2 Qf7+ 92.Ke1 Qc4 93.Qe7+ Kg8 94.Qe8+ Kg7 95.Qd7+ Kg8 96.Qe8+ Kg7
97.Qe5+ Kg8 98.Qg3 Qc1+ 99.Kf2 Qd2+ 100.Kg1 Qd1+ 101.Kh2 Qe2+ 102.Kh3 Qf1+ 103.Kg4 Qf5+ 0-1 |
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| Jul-15-07 |
| stanleys: I forgot to put a diagramm to the last game :
click for larger view/
Rivas is not satisfied with a draw and he plays 103.Kg4?? |
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| Jul-14-08 |
| myschkin: "Actually during this game I created my first chess problem, a helpmate in two, with a unique solution. Really, my first ever chess problem. I played 57.Nd5 (only move leading to mate in two!) 57…f6+ 58.Ke6?? Bc8 mate. People ask how could you do that. Well, you can do that when you’ve been playing, in that case, for almost six hours. My flag was rising, I had a few moves to make, the endgame was winning for me, and I just had to make a decision on what to do. It wasn’t totally clear to me, so I pushed my king up to e6. Unfortunately that allowed mate in one. I know it is funny – I can hear you laughing about it, and I’m sure your visitors will enjoy it. But these things can happen after six hours, when you are simply tired, physically tired. Then suddenly your heart rate goes up again, because you have to make a decision, you are pressed for time. It is in moments like this that blunders come."
(Nigel Short) |
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May-24-09
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| ROADDOG: 58. Ke8 - ouch! |
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| Jun-13-09 |
| WhiteRook48: 58 Ke6??? |
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| Aug-05-09 |
| walker: Nice game! |
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