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| Dec-03-02 | | pferd: An amusing finish. You see, of course, why Black resigned. |
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| Dec-03-02 | | ughaibu: Presumably Nd6 and queen the pawns. |
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Dec-03-02
 | | Honza Cervenka: It reminds me slightly the game Alexander Petrov vs P Journoud, 1863 :-) |
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| Dec-03-02 | | pferd: Queening a pawn is harder than it looks because if Black exhausts himself of Pawn moves, he can then sac his Bishop for the queening pawn and he is stalemate! White ignores the Bishop and the Black e and g pawns (except to play pxp when they get to e3 and g3). He moves his King along Black squares to e7. He then plays Ne4 or Ne8 followed by Nf6# The only difficulty is if the Bishop is sitting on c6 or g6 when it comes time to play Ne4 or Ne8. In that case, White plays his a pawn forward, draining Black of his (at most) three pawn moves, after which Black is in zugzwang. Neat, eh? |
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| Dec-03-02 | | drukenknight: gee and you thought my theories were tortured. |
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| Aug-18-03 | | kevin86: A quiet mate is in the offing:first white moves his king on the black squares to e7. Then he mates on f6--or vice versa. |
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| Feb-07-04 | | SEVEN: Chessgames.com
This game here reminds me another one so exciting that I think it deserves to be in your database.
It goes like this
Gusev-Averbakh 1-0
Sicilian Dragon
Moscow 1951
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be2 Bg7 7.Nb3 Bg7 8.O-O Be6 9.f4 Rc8 10.f5 Bd7 11.g4 Ne5 12.g5 Ng8 13.Nd5 f6 14.Be3 b6 15.Nd4 Kf7 16.c3 Qe8 17.Ne6 Bxe6 18.fe6+ Kf8 19.Nxf6+ Nxf6 20.gf6 Bxf6 21.Bh6+ Kg8 22.Rxf6 ef6 23.Qxd6 Rc6 24.Qxe5 fe5
at this point white has a winning potition and he has just two bishops for a Queen and a Rook.
25.Rf1 Rc8 26.Bd1 Rc4 27.Bb3 b5 28.Bxc4 bc4 29.b3 a5 30.bc4 a4 31.Kg2 a3 32.Rf2 Qe7 33.Rf1 g5 34.Rf5 g4 35.c5 Qd8 36.c6 Qe7 37.c7
Black resignes |
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| Feb-07-04 | | ughaibu: SEVEN: Go to the front page, at the bottom you'll find the upload facility. |
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| Feb-09-05 | | prinsallan: Seven, I was just wondering:
6. Be2 Bg7
7. Nb3 Bg7
Seems you found a nice way of avoiding Zug Zwang...
Moving a piece to the same position ^^ |
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| Feb-16-05 | | SEVEN: Princallan: You are rigth.
The correct moves are 6.Be2 Bg7 7. Nb3 Nc6.
About the Zug Zwang theme, the truth is that I have done this once, in time pressute, and finally I won. |
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| Apr-01-05 | | aw1988: Good lord, what a crazy game, full of interpositions, windmills and other assorted nasties. |
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| Apr-21-05 | | avidfan: This game is very instructive.
It shows the true aim of the game (checkmate at all cost), the value and capability of the pieces. The endgame shows how powerless the light squared bishop is in not being able to control e7 and f6 against the knight delivering the final blow. The pitiful rook locked up at h8 shows how useless it is in depriving the king of a flight square and the need for piece development. The dark squared White bishop has a stranglehold of two squares around the king while keeping the pawn at h7 from freeing the rook.
Move 21 shows the advantage in seizing the seventh rank.
The windmill tactic (see-saw check) occurs at move 29 to 32.
Probably Black lost the game at move 20 when Bc6 would have prevented the seizure of the seventh rank. |
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Aug-29-05
 | | chancho: This game is fully annotated in Irving Chernev's book "The Most Instructive Games Of Chess Ever Played." |
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| Oct-28-05 | | makaveli52: wow, just wow, what a great game, and a unique finish |
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| Oct-28-05 | | Kola: I love this position. I feel like buying it. . . . |
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| Oct-28-05 | | cade: The final position is stunning! The white King and his pawns will beat the poor black Bishop while his King and Rook are stuck helplessly in the corner. |
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Oct-28-05
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Amazing game. So *this* is why Black has to enter the Frankenstein-Dracula Variation. |
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| Oct-28-05 | | bachiller: Remember wednesday´s game of the day. There is a beautiful symmetry: There, black queen was condamned to prison in a8, whereas today it is the king who cannot escape the gaol in h8. Both games are wonderful. |
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| Oct-28-05 | | spock jenkins: hi folks! longtime visitor, but i almost never kibitz. i feel, as a beginner, that i can't add much of value. no cool lines or anything like that. however, since this game features a nice windmill, i thought it would be ok to direct folks to what i think is a cool game, containing a windmill, that i uploaded to the database recently. if you're interested... K Volke vs M Schaefer, 1994
i'd like to add that i really appreciate the wealth of knowledge all the kibitzers bring here, and to thank chessgames.com for their truly excellent site! |
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| Oct-28-05 | | Norman Glaides: So what happens after 8.g4? |
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| Oct-28-05 | | drmariogodrob: <Norman> After 8. g4, black plays the same move: 8. ... Nh6. |
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| Oct-28-05 | | YouRang: Fascinating game. The bishop and knight have black's king and rook in a hopeless dungeon, awaiting execution. As Kevin86 points out, the final position is <mate in 10> (if I counted right), and yet, simple to solve. |
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| Oct-28-05 | | kevin86: I saw the windmill idea and I thought we had sneaked from Germany (zugzwang) into Holland (windmills). The ending doesn't exactly fit the zugzwang theme-it goes along better with such games as the "tomb game"-which appeared recently,I believe. |
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| Oct-28-05 | | underrated: <pferd: An amusing finish. You see, of course, why Black resigned.> no acturally i dont, please do tell |
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| Oct-28-05 | | aragorn69: As has already been pointed out by various kibbitzers, the winning strategy is not to promote the pawns (Black's bishop is sacrificed to provoke stalemate), but to lead the King to e7 in a roundabout way (i.e. through d2-c3-b4-c5-b6-c7-d8) and then play Ne8 or Ne4 (u may need a waiting move to force the bishop out of c6/g6) and then Nf6 mates. |
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