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John Shaw vs Neil Berry
"Shaw-Berry Fields" (game of the day Jun-30-2013)
Scottish Championship (2001), Aberdeen SCO, rd 6, Jul-12
French Defense: Tarrasch. Closed Variation (C05)  ·  1-0

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Jun-30-13
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  Phony Benoni: This pun is not real.
Jun-30-13  Strongest Force: Nothing is real in SF...just another LSD induced song from the 60's.
Jun-30-13  Rookey: This game starts out very positional until at move 27. where time seems ripe for white to open up lines with playing f5. In the following tactical complications, black drops his queen and a pawn for a rook and a knight. The free center pawn of white makes it impossible for black to build a fortress against the attacking queen, and the endgame is lost.

It is Shaw who shows instructional how quickly the game ends when he can count an overpowering queen plus an advancing pawn on his side. Although one must admit that Phalanx can still defend the game against himself when starting a Blitz-game at move 35. The computer gains a little castle build of the king, a rook and a pawn in the upper right corner where he lasts long enough to finally slide into the fifty-moves-rule.

Jun-30-13  morfishine: I can't Imagine why Black would play 25...b4

He must've been up in the sky with Lucy

Jun-30-13  Slink: Why not 27. ...Nxe5?
Jun-30-13  shivasuri4: 27...Nxe5 leads to 28.dxe5, when 28...Qxe5 falls to 29.Bf4. 28...Qf7 f6 doesn't look good for Black either.
Jun-30-13
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  Domdaniel: Straw breeze. Bah!
Jun-30-13  Abdel Irada: Foresightful of White to play 40. Kg2. This sets up the pin on the bishop and knight by depriving Black of the check that would otherwise imperil the queen on f5. The move is a quiet but essential preface to the attack that follows.

Jul-01-13  kevin86: Black's position is so pathetic,he has virtua;;y no moves. The knight will go next!

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