Willem Sparreboom vs Robert Bellin (1988)

Willem Sparreboom vs Robert Bellin
Guernsey 1988 · Dutch Defense: General (A80) · 0-1

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Oct-28-05		DanRoss53: 9. xe5??? ._o

Dec-07-05		Chopin: Can someone please tell Willem that he's not M. Tal. What on God's green earth was Nxe5

Jan-02-06		suenteus po 147: <Chopin> If 9.Nxe5 Nxe5, then 10.Qxd5 wins a pawn. It's a shame our opponents don't play to our expectations. Oh, the brilliancies we would have!

Jun-20-06		slavito2: That's just pathetic.

Jun-20-06		offramp: Also, white might have thought that 10.c4 would regain the piece. But it seems that ...Bb4+ is a good counter.

Sep-06-07		Guguni: Touch-move problem. It is quite obvious. The poor guy touched the knight and could not not do anything else than playing 9.Nxe5

Oct-10-07		Nikita Smirnov: I have seen worse game watch this: R Suess vs O Zenker, 1989 That was really stupid done and the moves with the knight to f3-e5-d3 looks pointless to me.And the big,big,BIG blunder Nxe5.

Feb-19-09		drleper: I don't think it's a touch move, because why did he play 8.d5 the move before and just drop a pawn like that? I think he must have looked at 8...Nxd5 9.Nxe5 Nxe5 10.Qxd5 and then 9...dxe5 landed :D

Dec-10-09		Domdaniel: I think <suenteus> got it right: white expected the Nc6 to recapture - the Nc6/Pe5 pattern is wired into every beginner's brain. And the pawn on d6 may have been hidden by the Nd5: that happens on non-digital boards. Trouble with the touch-move theory is that the Nd3 has nowhere to go. Of course he might have picked up the knight intending Nxe5, realized it was a blunder, and then seen to his horror that he had nothing else. It all makes horrible sense. I've been on both sides of such debacles, and with players rated well over 2000.

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