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Jul-27-04
 | | patzer2: Tal's 35. Bxg6+ is the solution to number 1750 in Chess Informant's 1980 Encyclopedia of Chess Middlegames/Combinations. The combination is classified under "Demolition of Pawn Structure" via "Sacrifice on g6 (g3). If 35...fxg6, then White is winning after 36. Qxg6+ Kh8 37. Rxe5 Rxe5 38. Qf6+ Qg7 39. Qxd8+ Re8 40. Qc7 Bd7 41. Qxc5  . If 36...Qxf7, then White has a winning advantage with 37. Ng6+. If 37...cxd4, then 38. Rxe8+ Rxe8 39. Qg6! is winning for White. If 38...cxd4, then 39. Qe5+ Kh7 40. Qe4+ Kh8 41. Qg6 Qxd6 42. Ne6 wins. |
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| Nov-04-05 | | lopium: God's mine!! He really sac like Tal. |
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| Sep-30-11 | | DrMAL: Another great example in DVD Roman's Lab #2 (highly recommend) normal move is 19.a4 or 19.b4 but Tal instead plays positional sac 19.Bxc5! giving bishop for two pawns. After 20.Nxe5 this evaluates Houdini_20_x64: 27/68 54:15 24,963,301,606
+0.15 20. ... Kg8 21.c4 Bg7 22.Rad1 Qb6 23.Nf3 Nh7
+0.08 20. ... Nc8 21.Nxf7 Qe7 22.Ng5+ hxg5 23.e5 Nxd5 This does not do the sac justice, it's winning chances are high I would certainly choose it. After slight inaccuracy 22.Bg7 white is already evaluated ahead. Black gave back material but after 30...Nd7 lost anyway. More Tal genius to learn from! |
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| Mar-14-12 | | Oceanlake: I've done no analysis. I'd have moved 20. N(e7) g8 to get a piece by my king. |
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Mar-14-12
 | | waustad: Is this a James Bond reference or something? |
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| Mar-14-12 | | Sacrificial King: waustad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_...
Russian reversal or "In Soviet Russia" is a type of joke originated by Smirnoff, and is an example of antimetabole. The general form of the "In Soviet Russia" joke is that the subject and objects of a statement are reversed, and "In (Soviet) Russia," or something equivalent, is added, and the verb is often left unconjugated and articles are omitted, mimicking perceived Russian-accented speech. The original was:
In America, you can always find a party.
In Soviet Russia, Party always find you!
Other examples include:
In America, you watch television.
In Soviet Russia, television watches you!
In America, you break laws.
In Soviet Russia, laws break you!
In America you open gifts.
In Soviet Russia gifts open you!
In America, you listen to radios.
In Soviet Russia, radios listen to you!
In America, your job determines your marks.
In Soviet Russia, Marx determines your job!
In America, you assassinate presidents.
In Soviet Russia, presidents assassinate you!
In America, you watch Big Brother.
In Soviet Russia, Big Brother watches you!
All of Smirnoff's original "In Soviet Russia" jokes made use of formulaic wordplay that carried Orwellian undertones |
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Mar-14-12
 | | sevenseaman: Its rare to see Tal playing with so much patience. May be its only me but there is a defensive tone to this game of his. And of course I've missed the profundity the pun, unless it goes beyond chess and has a political overtone. |
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| Mar-14-12 | | ajile: The position after 40..Bc6 would make a good Monday or Tuesday puzzle. |
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Mar-14-12
 | | HeMateMe: <All of Smirnoff's original "In Soviet Russia" jokes made use of formulaic wordplay that carried Orwellian undertones> I remember Yakoff Smirnoff. He was famous here, for 15 minutes. But, this "Bishop takes Pawn" is in no way related to his light humour regarding the Politboro running Russia. I'm saying this bit of humour should face a <pun recall>. A revote is needed, regardless of whether or not there were hanging chads. If it was done in Wisconsin, that bastion of free speech, huge demonstrations and beer and brats, it can be done in cyber space. |
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Mar-14-12
 | | Once: It's a double bishop sacrifice - 19. Bxc5 and 35. Bxg6+. It's rare to do that, separated by so many moves. |
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Mar-14-12
| | HeMateMe: Its a little bit of everything. Great game. |
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Mar-14-12
 | | Check It Out: Tal's games are magical. |
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| Mar-14-12 | | wareopening: <And of course I've missed the profundity the pun, unless it goes beyond chess and has a political overtone.> <All of Smirnoff's original "In Soviet Russia" jokes made use of formulaic wordplay that carried Orwellian undertones> What comes between a Political Overtone and an Orwellian Undertone? |
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| Mar-14-12 | | Qxf7: @ hehateme: In Soviet Russia, the pun recalls you! |
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| Mar-14-12 | | paavoh: Pun explained - many thanks! |
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Mar-14-12
 | | Garech: Great game from Tal; even with the best defensive moves white has full compensation for the piece and the monster pawn centre is ominous. For example black can try 20...Kg8:
click for larger viewwhere one line line goes 21.f4 Bg7 22.Nxd7 Nxd7 23.d6 Nd6 24.e5 Qh4!? 
click for larger viewand white retains the initiative with 25.Be4! E.g. Rac8 26.Bxc6 Rxc6 27.Qd5 Rb6 (Rec8? e6!) 28.Ne4 
click for larger viewand it's very difficult for black to obtain any active play without giving back the piece and leaving white with a powerful passed pawn. As always, amazing positional judgement from Tal. I take it the pun is esoteric, but I like it all the same. Cheers, -Garech |
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Mar-14-12
 | | hedgeh0g: In capitalist Britain, bank robs you! |
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| Mar-14-12 | | Penguincw: Crazy game, where Tal ends up ahead two pawns. |
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| Mar-14-12 | | kamalakanta: According to some sources, Tal's inspiration for this game came from one of Bronstein's games: Bronstein vs E Rojahn, 1956 |
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Mar-14-12
 | | kevin86: It's like the joke about the person so smart that he can follow you in a revolving door and come out first. Tal sacs two bishops and ends a pawn ahead! |
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Mar-14-12
| | kevin86: White threatens the bishop and a fork at e6;black will lose EVEN more material. |
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Mar-14-12
 | | playground player: Why does it always seem like Tal has a reserve of extra pieces that nobody else has? |
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| Mar-14-12 | | srag: <Sacrificial King> Thank you! I like the jokes a lot. |
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| Mar-14-12 | | srag: <kamalanta> is right. In "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal" Tal himself states that 19) Bxc5 was Bronstein's idea and quotes the 1956 game against Rojahn. |
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| Mar-14-12 | | ajile: I ran 2 engine match games from 19..dxc5 with 10 minutes per side and Black won one and drew the other. Rybka 3 vs Rybka 3
So it appears Black has resources. But over the board in a tournament situation this piece sac gives good practical chances. In both games Rybka played ..Kg8 followed by ..Bg7 after the sac was accepted. I tried copying the games to text file but it's a mess of moves mixed in with evals. Sample:
1...dxc5 2.Nxe5 Kg8 3.c4 Both last book move 3...Bg7 -0.24/11 17 4.Rad1 0.05/10 17 Qb6 -0.11/13 16 5.Nf3 0.01/13 0 Rad8 -0.13/13 20 6.e5 0.05/14 0 Nh7 -0.11/12 7 7.Bd3 0.08/13 1:19 Nf8 (Rb8) -0.27/14 0 8.Ne4 (a3) 0.00/11 7 8...Bc8 -0.10/13 17 9.Nd6 (Qe3) 0.00/13 0 9...Rxd6 -0.12/14 30 10.exd6 0.00/16 0 Qxd6 -0.12/16 1:13 11.cxb5 -0.11/15 0 axb5 -0.12/16 1:01 12.Bxb5 -0.11/17 0 Rd8 -0.32/15 52 13.Re3 (Bc6) -0.17/16 0 13...Nf5 -0.33/13 12 14.Re2 (Re8) -0.18/15 31 14...Bb7 |
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sac: 19.Bxc5