Sergei Vladimirovich Rublevsky vs Zoltan Varga (2001)

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Sergei Vladimirovich Rublevsky vs Zoltan Varga
World Teams (2001), Yerevan ARM, rd 1, Oct-12
Alekhine Defense: Normal Variation (B02) · 1-0

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Nov-13-13		An Englishman: Good Evening: Does anyone else feel that 7...g5 might have been the losing move?

Nov-13-13		unferth: is it more embarrassing to lose a miniature cleanly or to flop around for ten pointless moves to avoid the appearance of having done so?

Nov-13-13		Fish55: Looked at 14. c5 first, then realized that 14. Bf4 is a stronger execution of the same idea.

Nov-13-13		LoveThatJoker: <14. Bf4!> 1-0 A) 14...Qxf4 15. Bg6# B) 14...Qd4 15. Bg6+ and 16. Qxd4 C) 14...Qd7 15. Bxc7 Qxc7? 16. Bg6# D) 14...e5 (seemingly 'best') 15. Bxe5 Qh6 (15...Qxe5 16. Bg6#; 15...Qd7 16. Bg6+ Kd8 17. Bxh8 ) 16. Bxh8! LTJ

Nov-13-13		LoveThatJoker: Oh ok, I see: 14...Qxf4 15. Bg6+ is not mate because of the interposition 15...Qf7. I still picked the best continuation however. I can just picture myself at the board going, "Not a mate! Oh well, guess I'll just pick up that Q!" LTJ

Nov-13-13		M.Hassan: "Medium/Easy" White to play 14.? White is a pawn down. If file d was not occupied by black Queen, then Bg6#. To divert the Queen is one way to approach this puzzle: 14.Bf4 <if...Qxf4 15.Bg6#> 14...........Qd7 15.Bxc7 <again if...Qxc7 16.Bg6#> 15............Bg7 16.Ba5 Bxb2 17.Bc3 Bxa1 18.Bxa1 Rg8 19.Bh7 Rf8 20.Bg6+ Kd8 21.Bxh5 Qxd1 22.Rxd1+ Nd7 23.Bxg4 White is better.

Nov-13-13		FSR: I found this a little tricky. I spent several minutes looking at 14.Bg6+ Kd8 and now 15.Qe2 (my first thought) or 15.Bf4 (my second). Then the immediate 14.Bf4! dawned on me. Black loses his queen for two bishops after 14...Qxf4 15.Bg6+, and 14...e5? 15.Bxe5 doesn't help. And queen moves that protect the knight, such as 14...Qd7, don't really, since 15.Bxc7 Qxc7 is met by 16.Bg6#.

Nov-13-13		FSR: Black certainly played provocatively, and got duly punished for it.

Nov-13-13		morfishine: It doesn�t get much uglier than this <14.Bf4> This nice deflection wins the Black Queen for two Bishops. <14...Qxf4> Forced; after 14...e5 15.Bxe5 Qd7 16.Bg6+ Kd8 17.Bxh8 Black has lost a rook <15.Bg6+ Qf7 16.Qd3 Rg8 17.Bxf7+ Kxf7 18.Nc3> click for larger view White has an easy win *** PM: In this line, even better is 18.Qh7+ Rg7 19.Qxh5+ Kg8 20.Nc3 ***

Nov-13-13		Swedish Logician: The method with an early e6 sacrifice often works well. Bogoljubov vs Tarrasch, 1925 is a classic example <An Englishman> I think you are right about 7. � g5. I was reminded of the game Spielmann vs S Landau, 1933 say at about move 13.

Nov-13-13		agb2002: White has the bishop pair for a bishop, a knight and a pawn. Black is probably considering 14... Nd7 followed by ... 0-0-0. If the black queen were not on the d-file, say on b6 for example, White would deliver mate with 14.Bg6#. Hence, divert the black queen with 14.Bf4: A) 14... Qxf4 15.Bg6+ Qf7 16.Bxf7+, etc. B) 14... Qd7(8) 15.Bxc7 and Black loses a piece at least because 15... Qxc7 allows mate 16.Bg6#. C) 14... e5 15.Bxe5 adds a pawn to Black's losses.

Nov-13-13		whiteshark: You Don't Mess with the Zoltan

Nov-13-13		Penguincw: 14.Bf4! Shocking! I had ideas of 14.Bg6.

Nov-13-13		benjamincito: very nice play

Nov-13-13		Patriot: Tricky Wednesday. After toying with 14.Bg6+ I decided there was nothing to it. But after looking over a few threats I finally noticed 14.Bf4. 14.Bf4 14...Qxf4 15.Bg6+ Qf7 16.Bxf7+ 14...e5 15.Bxe5 Qd7 16.Bxc7 Qxc7 17.Bg6# 14...Qd7 15.Bxc7 (similar to above)

Nov-13-13		kevin86: I tried Bg6+ and realized that to chase the queen away from the d-file mean total ruin for black-if not checkmate.

Nov-13-13		keypusher: Gosh, 14.Bf4 would make me so happy to play. Some very curious opening decisions by Black -- Alekhine's Defense is hard enough to manage as it is.

Nov-13-13		Domdaniel: <unferth> -- < is it more embarrassing to lose a miniature cleanly or to flop around for ten pointless moves to avoid the appearance of having done so?> Neither. Embarrassment shouldn't really be a factor. If you're lost, you're lost -- and squirming on for a few moves is irrelevant. I suppose we've all won (and lost) games like this. True, losing in 10 or 12 moves can be embarrassing, and one tends to stumble on for a few moves to lessen the humiliation. Does it make much of a difference? No, not really.

Nov-13-13		keypusher: <unferth: is it more embarrassing to lose a miniature cleanly or to flop around for ten pointless moves to avoid the appearance of having done so?> The former. Especially if your game winds up in a database and gets unearthed by sadists searching for miniatures. You might even wind up in a book as an example of What Not to Do. Far better to flop around.

Nov-13-13		perfidious: <unferth: is it more embarrassing to lose a miniature cleanly or to flop around for ten pointless moves to avoid the appearance of having done so?> Unpleasant as it has been to lose some miniatures-some of which repose here at CG-I have never really thought about it. We may readily infer Black's attitude in the following game towards your question: Nunn vs Kiril Georgiev, 1988. See the very first kibitz, which corroborates Nunn's remark that many journals gave that gem as ending at move ten.

Nov-13-13		BOSTER: <keypusher Far better to flop around> At least you have a chance to make a greater number of gross blunders.

Nov-13-13		Shams: Some writers have referred to the act of playing on to avoid being on the wrong end of a miniature as "detonating an anti-publication device".

Nov-13-13		Marmot PFL: Cute problem. Black has to watch out for all sorts of traps in the Alekhine's Defense. h6-g5 looks like a bad plan.

Nov-14-13		Abdel Irada: The first inclination is to play 14. Bg6+, with an eye to pinning the queen with a later Rd1. However, this is not fast enough, and Black seems to escape safely with 14. ...Kd8. But what if that queen weren't on the d-file? Would that check on g6 perhaps come with greater force? ∞

Nov-14-13		BOSTER: Certainly, in my comment <you> supposed to be<we>.

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