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| Rama: I thought there was something with 19. ... Nxf2, 20. Kxf2 Rd2+, 21. Kg1 Rxg2+, etc., but if course 21. Re2 ends that. 19. ... Rd3! is one of those surprise moves that in an instant cuts through the complications. I never saw it. |
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| Jan-08-05 |
| Dick Brain: Familiar position: I saw ...Rd3 without thinking. It was like yesterday's Qxh2+. The ending is unusual: here you have a windmill caused by a bishop repeatedly unconvering a discovered check by a rook and usually it's the other way. |
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| Jan-08-05 |
| lopium: I'm not able to see the win by black. Why the last move is not : Bc7. With this move, black win the white's queen. And after : 24...Qd4 and black win. But i don't understand the win played by Smyslov. |
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Jan-08-05
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| Gypsy: < lopium: I'm not able to see the win by black. ...> 23.Kg1 looses to 23...Bh2+ 24.Kh1 Bc7+ followed by 25...Bxb6. This was my first game to appear in print (in the newspaper 64). -- V. Smyslov |
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Jan-08-05
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| tpstar: <lopium> After 21 ... Bh2+ 22. Kh1 Bxe5+ White resigned because the continuation would be 23. Kg1 Bh2+ 24. Kh1 Bc7+ 25. Kg1 Bxb6 26. Nxb6 (26. gxh3? Qh1#) Rd8 and Black wins Queen for Bishop. This is why Discovered Check is so lethal, because the piece can move anywhere, but first the e Pawn had to be captured (22 ... Bxe5+). |
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Jan-08-05
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| patzer2: <northbridge> Thanks for clarifying. However, it is interesting how closely the lines converge in both the 19...Bh2+ and 19...Rd3! options, regardless of whether White accepts or declines the Rook offer in both variations. |
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| Jan-08-05 |
| northbridge: <patzer2> Yes, black wins either way, what I meant by that line was that 20. Qxd3 was a better option for white then what was actually played. The game doesn't come to such an abrupt end as it does with 20. Qxb6? 25...Qc5 is probably the best continuation after Nd5 |
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| Jan-08-05 |
| northbridge: This "kill message" option should be replaced with an "edit message". I deleted my message just before you posted. |
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| Jan-08-05 |
| gambiter: 19...Nxf2 also wins, I think! |
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| Jan-08-05 |
| maxundmoritz: <gambiter> I don't see a win after 19...Nxf2 20.Kxf2 Rd2+ 21.Re2 (not 21.Kg1 Rxg2+ 22.Kh1 Rh2+ 23.Kg1 Qh1#) 21...Rxe2 22.Kxe2. Black is a little better, because White's King is in the open, but (at my level of play ;-) it's far from a win. |
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| Jan-08-05 |
| pawntificator: It took me a long while to find the move, because I was looking for mate, what with all that pressure against white. I too was looking for sacrifices on f2, or 19...Nh2 to kill the bishop...but the white queen kept having the opportunity to defend in all my lines. But after 5 or so minutes of searching for mate I noticed how nice it would be to have a knight fork on f2, after checking with the bishop on h2. That led me to finding the correct answer. I'm so very proud of myself and smug. Not really. I should have seen it instantly. I'm such a fool!! |
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Jan-08-05
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| JohnBoy: Much to my consternation - and contrary to all of you doofi - I didn't get this at all. Not even close. I wanted to eliminate the f1 bishop and was trying to make ...Nh2 work (it doesn't). Anyone who got this dusted me. |
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| Jan-08-05 |
| chessowl: I did not get it either! I thought ...Rd2...tough! |
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Feb-08-05
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| LIFE Master AJ: Several people have e-mailed me and ask that I annotate this game for one of my websites. I used to have a website dedicated solely to Smyslov, but it closed in 1999. (This was part of the big ... "DOT-COM" 'fold-out' of that period. Many companies - like the EXCITE Network - went "belly-up" during this period. My very first website - that Jerry did not do - was on Excite.) |
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| Mar-27-06 |
| harce sarmiento: 19...d3!! starts a series of very sharp moves-a real move of shock and awe. |
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| Apr-02-07 |
| ForeverYoung: Looking at this game it was amazing how south White's position went. It prompted me to look for which move was the culprit. The answer: 14 Ne5!
Brilliant game by Smyslov! |
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Apr-02-07
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| Ulhumbrus: A surprising paradox is that after 18...Ng4 Smyslov has managed to arrange this attack despite White having had an advantage in space. One question is why Black has managed to arrange this attack despite White having had more apace. One clue is 16...Qc6 occupying the long diagonal, and another clue is that the Black KB is "outside" the e5 pawn, attacking h2. A third clue is that the d file is open. It seems that White has exposed himself to attack. |
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Jul-22-08
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| kamalakanta: Smyslov was 14 years old when he played this game!
There is a famous anecdote. At the 1971 Alekhine Memorial, "...again David was playing Smyslov and this time they agreed to a draw in 12 moves. A high chess official furiously told them that they should have continued to play. After all, the Soviet Chess Federation was paying them! David's answer became a classic in Soviet chess circles: "Do you really believe that I will attack Smyslov for only three roubles a day?" Tom Furstenberg, co-author of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
Bronstein vs Smyslov, 1971
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| Dec-12-08 |
| asianmonkey147: why did smyslov played 13...Bf4? can anyone explain it to me? thanks |
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Dec-13-08
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| suenteus po 147: <asianmonkey147: why did smyslov played 13...Bf4? can anyone explain it to me? thanks> Well, if we look at white's move just previous <13.Na5> we see that now he has pressure along the a1-h8 diagonal to post his other knight on e5. This would block Smyslov's dark squared bishop off from its diagonal of attack, primarily the important h2 square. So Smyslov advanced it along the diagonal to maintain pressure on the h2 square after white posts his knight on e5. |
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Feb-25-09
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| seagull1756: Smyslov's games deserve much more attention than they are usually given... |
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Feb-25-09
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| suenteus po 147: <seagull1756: Smyslov's games deserve much more attention than they are usually given...> I agree. He is probably one of the most instructive world champions on record along with Steinitz and Capablanca. |
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Feb-25-09
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| suenteus po 147: Here's another of my favorite Smyslov games played only 8 year later: Smyslov vs Kotov, 1943 |
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Mar-25-09
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| notyetagm: 19 ... ?
click for larger view19 ...  d8-d3!
click for larger viewSmyslov's <ACTIVE> Black pieces are running riot in this game. |
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Nov-25-09
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| Richard Taylor: This game is annotated by Smyslov in his 125 best games. This is a good way to combat the "Zuk 'Em" (Colle-Zukertort) Attack! Qc7 stops Ne5 and he cleverly breaks open the game and gets a K side attack hismelf! Very beautiful game. |
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