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| chesscrazy: I think 39.Ra1 was a blunder. Moving the g-pawn was better. |
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Feb-10-06
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| chancho: From Yasser Seirawan's book <Winning Chess Brilliancies>: <As a postcript to this game, I offer a quote from Ed Edmondson from "Chess Scandals":"It took Petra Leeuwerik, GM Yasha Murey, GM Micheal Stean, and GM Oscar Panno five minutes to recover suffiently to rise from their seats.As this group slowly left the hall, the three players shook their heads over the way Korchnoi had blown what they all thought was a win."> Karpov's 39...Nf3+ was a real shocker of a move.
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| Mar-06-06 |
| KholdStare: <chancho> Yes, but you left out the fact that until 27. Rb5, White was still winning, and if Korchnoi did Nxd4 instead, then he would have the advantage in the endgame. |
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Jul-13-07
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| Honza Cervenka: After 23.Rb8+! Kf7 24.Rb5! (diagram) black faces big troubles.
click for larger viewWhite's main threat is 25.fxe5 Rxe5 26.Ne4 with winning attack and no good move for black. For example, 27.Nxf6 gxf6 28.Qxh7+ is in the air,
black Queen must stay on a6 to cover indirectly Re5 by pin of white Rb5, 26...Kg8 allows 27.Nxf6+ gxf6 28.Rb8+ etc. And what can black do? 24...Rc3 25.Qf5 g6 26.Qg5 e4 27.f5 doesn't help as well as 24...e4 25. Nxe4 or 24...exf4 25.Ne4! Rc6 (25...Nxe4 26.Qxe4 is even worse) 26.Nxf6 Rxf6 27.Qxh7. I see no satisfactory defense for black there. |
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Apr-09-08
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| Knight13: <ChessPraxis: Obvious Queen sac.> What queen sac? :-/ 39. Ra1 is so not understandable. It's already really good on a3, being very active. Why move back? 39. h3 or h4 would've started the pawns rolling. This game really puts a question mark on 6. d5. |
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| Sep-21-08 |
| GrahamClayton: <chessdr>In hindsight, 35 Rd7+ looks like a waste of time, chasing the king to a better square. But if 35 Rxh7 instead, who stands better? According to analysis by Habbel, 35.  h7 a4 36. a4  e3 Black's active pieces are enough to earn a draw. |
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Nov-02-08
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| An Englishman: Good Evening: This is a game I never understood, because of Karpov's unusual gambit, 6...b5. It doesn't seem like him at all, and 6...Bxc3 seems more in keeping with his style. |
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| Nov-02-08 |
| deadlysin: the checkmate is brilliant
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| Nov-02-08 |
| sfm: Larsen prediction: "They are both of about equal strenght, but a diabolical invention will cost Korchnoi the match, it is called 'the chess clock'". This game is BTW mentioned on the very enjoyable page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swindle_(chess)
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Nov-02-08
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| Eyal: <An Englishman: This is a game I never understood, because of Karpov's unusual gambit, 6...b5. It doesn't seem like him at all, and 6...Bxc3 seems more in keeping with his style.> The first unusual move is actually Korchnoi's 6.d5!? (instead of the more standard Nf3 or Nge2). It's already been played in game 7 of the match (Korchnoi vs Karpov, 1978) where Karpov also responded with 6...b5. He wrote about that game: <When in a Nimzo-Indian Defence my opponent with White employed a relatively new continuation, after 20 minutes' thought I realized that it would be extremely dangerous to remain passive.> |
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Nov-02-08
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| Once: For my money, <crafty> and <chesscrazy> are both right. White seems to draw with both 39. g3 or 39. g4. Fritz 11 evaluates g3 as 0.00 and g4 as +0.05. There is an amusing mate if white tries 39. h3 Rc1+ 40. Kh2 Nf1+ 41. Kg1 Nfg3+ 42. Kh2 Rh1# 
click for larger viewAn interesting game to play through. At one stage it seemed to be all pawns and I thought we were back in the eighteenth century. Then it was all black king and knights. One last slip and a certain draw becomes a funky knight and rook mate. |
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| Nov-02-08 |
| AlfieNoakes: Playing through this game from the black side was extremely uncomfortable, I couldn't convince myself that black had any compensation for what looked like a terrible position, I'm amazed he won in the end. |
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| Nov-02-08 |
| Eggman: I must say that these Karpov-Korchnoi battles, for all their drama, didn't give the chess world a whole lot of memorable games. Game 2 of the first match comes to mind, but not too many others. On the other hand, the Kasparov-Karpov matches contained countless scintillating clashes. I wonder if Korchnoi himself perhaps has tended to have fewer memorable games than other players of similar stature. |
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Nov-02-08
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| Eyal: <Honza Cervenka: After 23.Rb8+! Kf7 24.Rb5! (diagram) black faces big troubles.
click for larger viewWhite's main threat is 25.fxe5 Rxe5 26.Ne4 with winning attack and no good move for black. For example, 27.Nxf6 gxf6 28.Qxh7+ is in the air, black Queen must stay on a6 to cover indirectly Re5 by pin of white Rb5, 26...Kg8 allows 27.Nxf6+ gxf6 28.Rb8+ etc. And what can black do? 24...Rc3 25.Qf5 g6 26.Qg5 e4 27.f5 doesn't help as well as 24...e4 25. Nxe4 or 24...exf4 25.Ne4! Rc6 (25...Nxe4 26.Qxe4 is even worse) 26.Nxf6 Rxf6 27.Qxh7. I see no satisfactory defense for black there.> It might be added that 24....e4 25.Nxe4 Nxe4 26.Qxe4 Qc6 loses to 27.Qxh7 (Rxc1 28.Rf5+), and 24...Qc6 to 25.Rxc5 Qxc5 26.fxe5 Qxe5 27.Qxh7. These lines demonstrate the importance of the intermediate check at b8, although an immediate 23.Rb5 would also be quite strong. |
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| Nov-02-08 |
| slomarko: <Eggman: I must say that these Karpov-Korchnoi battles, for all their drama, didn't give the chess world a whole lot of memorable games. Game 2 of the first match comes to mind, but not too many others. On the other hand, the Kasparov-Karpov matches contained countless scintillating clashes. I wonder if Korchnoi himself perhaps has tended to have fewer memorable games than other players of similar stature.> and what makes you qualified to evaluate the quality of Korchnoi's games? |
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| Nov-02-08 |
| Eggman: <<slomarko: and what makes you qualified to evaluate the quality of Korchnoi's games?>> I once almost beat a guy who once almost beat Bobby Fischer. |
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| Nov-02-08 |
| slomarko: or in other words you have no idea what are you talking about. |
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| Nov-02-08 |
| Eggman: No you. |
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Nov-02-08
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| Bishoprick: Bad things, usually surprising things, sometimes happen in good games. |
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Nov-03-08
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| kevin86: White resigns rather than taking the pipe after:40 gxf3 (or  h1 f2#!) g6+ 41 h1 f2#. You can mate me now...or mate me later. |
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| Nov-29-08 |
| Woody Wood Pusher: I love this game!
What a pair of Stallions! |
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| Apr-03-09 |
| WhiteRook48: or not be mated at all and the opponent just resigns |
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Oct-08-09
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| birthtimes: Karpov comments on this game, "...I was so confident that I was practically indifferent to both his [Korchnoi's ] mood and actions. In such a state it's impossible to lose, because the essence of the game is revealed to you and you make flawless moves not because you have calculated everything precisely, but because you can't help but make such moves." Karpov on Karpov, 1991, pp. 139-140. |
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Oct-08-09
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| birthtimes: "War is based on deception. Move when it is advantageous and create changes in the situation by dispersal and concentration of forces." "He who knows the art of the direct and the indirect approach will be victorious. Such is the art of manoeuvring." "Nothing is more difficult than the art of manoeuvre. What is difficult about manoeuvre is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage." "Thus, march by an indirect route and divert the enemy by enticing him with a bait (37. Rxh7). So doing, you may set out after he does and arrive before him. One able to do this understands the strategy of the direct and the indirect." The Art of War, Chapter 7, by Sun Tzu |
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| Oct-08-09 |
| Starf1re: I've finally realized that getting better at chess is really merely a question of postponing your blunders. A patzer has blundered by move 10, intermediate by move 20, master by 30, and GM around 40. |
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