| Mar-02-06 | | Everett: <Calypsoleon> THANKS FOR HAVING THIS GAME IN YOUR COLLECTION! 16...Nxf7 17.Qxc6+ Kd8 18.Nxf7# or
16...Nxf7 17.Qxc6+ Bd7 18.Qxd7# |
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Aug-13-07
 | | Fusilli: Didn't GM Sax see it coming? It seems he would have lived (in a very bad position though) if he had played 15...Nxc6, instead of 15...bxc6 allowing the simple and beautiful winning blow 16.Bf7+. |
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| Apr-28-10 | | JohnBoy: This ought to be a GotD. |
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| Sep-10-11 | | DrGridlock: There's a very nice analysis of this game in Watson's "Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy." After 8 moves, Watson comments, "Which side is being more 'modern'? White dances around with his king and ignores weakneses, whereas Black moves the same knight for the sixth time, when no other piece has been touched!" To Watson, this game illustrates the triumph of "rule-independence" where "analysis and work come first, and the supporting vergiage comes later (if at all) for the sake of closure, or more often, for the sake of the popular audience." Watson notes that Black's alternative at move 9, ... g6, prompted White to seek 9 h4 as a better alternative to Ne5. Watson concludes, "I don't think the average modern professional would play through it with a feeling of amazement or incredulity. We have internalized the modern pragmatic approach to such an extent that the moves seem almost 'normal.' But it would be great fun to see this game annotated by Tarrasch, Capablanca, or even Alekhine! I suspect we would get a number of expressions of horror, at least between moves 5 and 9, as well as a healthy dose of ridicule." |
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Sep-11-11
 | | perfidious: <DrGridlock: Watson concludes, "....it would be great fun to see this game annotated by Tarrasch, Capablanca, or even Alekhine! I suspect we would get a number of expressions of horror, at least between moves 5 and 9, as well as a healthy dose of ridicule."> Alekhine no likey Black's 1.e4 g6 in this game: Alekhine vs V Mikenas, 1933. Mikenas scored one for the good guys four years on with a nice combination, though: Alekhine vs V Mikenas, 1937. |
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| Jul-16-13 | | Everett: Watson is not my speed, and is over-rated. He ignores the fact that Lasker and Capablanca literally invented piece play, technique and tactics in the endgame, yet thinks they would have a tough time understanding modern chess theory. When he writes that stuff he merely plays the role of a smug idiot. |
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| Jun-01-15 | | Eduardo Bermudez: Fabulous variant of checkmate on f7 !! |
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| Nov-02-19 | | Whitehat1963: Brilliant attack! |
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| Apr-29-22 | | Saniyat24: Sax in the back-bench...! |
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Dec-16-23
 | | al wazir: That's what happens when you move the same piece seven times in the opening. Look at the position after black's 15th move. He has NO pieces developed! No wonder he lost on the next move.
Hard to believe this game was played nine years after Sax became a GM (Gyula Sax). |
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Dec-16-23
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Could find only one other game in the DB with this 11.Qa4 variation--and believe it or not, it's even more bizarre. P Passerotti vs G Borgo, 1994 |
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| Dec-16-23 | | goodevans: <Could find only one other game in the DB with this 11.Qa4 variation...> P Passerotti vs G Borgo, 1994 is a fun game with some imaginative tactics from both sides, particularly from the loser. |
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Dec-16-23
 | | Stonehenge: And just uploaded:
I Snape vs P J Sowray, 2002 |
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Dec-16-23
| | perfidious: Snape-Sowray is yet another boring game in this line, though of a completely different character than the two tactical melees. |
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Dec-16-23
 | | Sally Simpson: <Hard to believe this game was played nine years after Sax became a GM> This what you got with Sax. some brilliant games a few disasters and not many dull moments in between. A Sax win v Suba with a Knight sac and Queen sac though it was was used a Monday POTD. Suba vs Sax, 1993 |
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| Dec-16-23 | | Retireborn: It's worth pointing out that Sax is using a line he'd had success with about a year earlier:- Seirawan vs Sax, 1983 9.Ne5 (although not a new move) may have been a surprise to him, but there's nothing wrong with his plan until he misses the equalizing 11...Bd7. Perhaps he expected 12.Nb5 Qb8 when he can comfortably drive the knights back with ...a6 and ..f6, but he'd overlooked the reply 12.d4! Qxd4? 13.Nb5 Qxe4 14.Nc7#, after which his position is so bad he does not bother to offer much resistance. 11...Ned8 is a double mistake which creates a self-block and unprotects an important square. Someone (Nigel Short?) once said that there's no such thing as safe Sax. |
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