| Apr-10-05 | | Sirthursday: A nice finish to a fascinating game (they always are in the Frankinstein-Dracula) |
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| Jan-04-06 | | syracrophy: This game's opening was exactly as the game <Ost Hansen-Nunn, Teeside, 1974> After 33.Kxf1 Qf2++ and its not better 33.Rxf1 Ne2++ with a nice variation of the smothered mate! |
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Jan-04-06
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There is a spectacular forced mate in the game after 25...Qxh4+! 26.Kg1 Qxf2+!!, which I just discovered while going over the game.
20.Nf3 was the deviation from the Ost Hansen - Nunn game. This is one of the most fascinating variation in all of chess, and I'm working on an update of the book. Computers can now go much deeper in a reasonable period of time, but the Frank-Drac Variation still has many unexplored corridors! |
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| Oct-02-06 | | syracrophy:  click for larger view32...Rf1+!! 33.Rxf1 <33.Kxf1 Qh1#> 33...Ne2# This position reminds me a position from a book:
 click for larger view1.Qf8+!! Rxf8 <1...Kxf8 2.Rh8#> 2.Ne7# |
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| Jul-23-10 | | elohah: 20 Qxb7 Ng3 MATE!
"Oh. Sorry." |
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| Jul-23-10 | | elohah: 23 gxf3.
Why should I be stumbling around for the mate here? It's outrageous. Am i a weinie now? |
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| Jul-23-10 | | elohah: 23...Qxh4+ 24 Kg2 Qxf2+ 25 Kh3 Qxf3+
26 Kh2 ...
Where IS it?? |
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| Jul-23-10 | | elohah: 26...d6! 27 Rhg1 (or even 27 Rag1, doesn't matter) 27...Qh5+! (back again) 28 Kg2 Qg4+ 29 Kh2 (29 Kf1? Qe2 mate!) ...Qh4+ 30 Kg2 Qg3+! mates. But why did that take so long for me to find? It's scandalous. I used to find this type of stuff in a NANO-second! |
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| Jul-23-10 | | elohah: 24 g3 ? - i suppose is a bad move. |
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| Jul-25-10 | | elohah: Of course, after 26...d6!, there is also 27 RhF1!
Sigh... I give up...just shoot me. |
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| Jul-25-10 | | elohah: 27 Rhf1! Qg3+ 28 Kh1 Nd4? 29 Rf8+!! - sort of a twin of what Black pulled in the game... |
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| Jul-25-10 | | elohah: Schiller? do you have anything here?
Everybody else ignores me. |
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Oct-27-11
 | | whiteshark: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franke... |
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