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| Feb-08-06 |
| McCool: Tricky, tricky, tricky. |
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| Apr-05-06 |
| Halldor: Here is a similar mate theme - White to play and mate in six. Solution below. 
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Vukovics vs Deutsch <whoever they are>. Black just played Be7-c5?? Now White announced mate in six. The position is given in BCM, March issue 1978, p.135, originally from Mansfield's “Chessboard Delights” as played in a Jugoslav tournament. The game isn't given and I can't find it. Mayby some expert here knows it. The solution is: 1. d8  xd8 (if f7 2.e6+ and mate in two) 2. g5+ e8 3.  d8+ f7 5.e6+ xe6 5. f4+ f7 6.e5# (other variations are shorter). |
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| May-08-06 |
| OBIT: OK, the part about this game that has always bewildered me isn't that the GM missed the flashy mate - it's that there is also the prosaic 11. Re1 Bf5 12. f3 to win a piece. Did a GM really make this obviously terrible capture, opening the file where his king and queen were so nicely lined up? |
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May-08-06
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| Sneaky: You say 11.Re1 but that makes no sense in context, I think you mean to say 9.Re1 Bf5 10.f3. In other words, even a GM might miss Qd8+!! but how could a GM miss the simple Re1? I think the answer is simply that 9.Re1 isn't so hot for White. Black is up a piece, so he can afford to lose a piece. 9.Re1 Bf5 10.f3 Nd7 11.fxe4 Bg6 and the game looks pretty level to me. That's probably the kind of position Tartakower was aiming for. |
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| May-08-06 |
| OBIT: Uh, right. All these years, I thought that Tartakover had just grabbed a pawn on the move before the queen sac. It sure helps to play through the whole game. Dopey me... |
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| Aug-17-06 |
| syracrophy: As <InspiredByMorphy> points out, Kolisch played the Reti Mate against Maczuski, and that game was in 1864, and the Reti-Tartakower game was in 1910, so I think, it should be called "The Kolisch Mate" instead of "The Reti Mate", because Kolisch discovered it before Reti :-) LOL! :-p |
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Aug-17-06
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| Calli: <syracrophy> it should be called "The Kolisch Mate" Except that Kolisch lost. Maczuski's mate.
BTW: I posted the Maczuski link about four posts before <inspiredby>. Never would mention it but "first" is of utmost importance on CG. :-> |
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| Aug-17-06 |
| syracrophy: <Calli> LOL! You're right. I put my post without taking a look at that game, because I thought I remembered it and I thought Black won, because I have seen a few games with the "Reti Mate" and I have just confused it with another game, where black played the Reti Mate against white. LOL :-P |
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| Aug-26-06 |
| syracrophy: This mate should not be called Reti Mate, neither Maczuki's Mate. It shoul be called the "Horwitz Mate". Check this game J Schulten vs Horwitz, 1846 is the oldest game recorded that gives life to this mate pattern. |
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Mar-20-07
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| fm avari viraf: During my Chess coaching & lectures, I often quote this beautiful game. The credit should go the Masters who conceive such beautiful ideas & one must enjoy their legacy! |
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| Mar-20-07 |
| slomarko: Reti's mate is more difficult and more beatifull than Schulten-Horwitz, Maczuski-Kolisch because he mates with the bishop. |
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| Apr-10-07 |
| Amarande: Another similar position (which arose from a casual game of mine as Black, that started with the Grob)
click for larger viewHere 11 c3?? runs into the same mate (in fact, complete with Bishop variation just like Reti!), and even on 11 Ne2 Qd1+ anyway with major advantage (12 Kxd1 Bh3+) |
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| Dec-02-07 |
| noiselesion: There is no doubt that this, along with the game where Legal administers his brand of mate, are among the top best games ever played. |
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Mar-28-08
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| Marmot PFL: larry Evans said this was probably the most famous double check ever played. |
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| Mar-30-08 |
| 7Heaven: how ironic..an expert in openings loses in a miniature (by another expert in openigs)! |
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Sep-12-08
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| just a kid: Love the game!This is maybe my favorite miniaure. |
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| Dec-03-08 |
| WhiteRook48: Double check!!!! How did Tartakower not see that coming? (Bg5+) |
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| Dec-09-08 |
| Oliveira: <WhiteRook48>
It was a blitz game: 10 secs a move. |
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| Dec-23-08 |
| WhiteRook48: Almost as famous as the immortal game. I bet Tartakower's history is blanked out by this game |
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| Jan-07-09 |
| WhiteRook48: why is only 8. 0-0-0 in the Sacrifice Explorer? Shouldn't 9. Qd8+ also be in the Sac Explorer? |
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| Jan-31-09 |
| WhiteRook48: after seeing this game over and over again, it's starting to become boring |
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| Jun-04-09 |
| heizfeld: 5..e5 was a bad move. usually Nxe4 or e6 has to be played with good reason.
Tartakower left the carokann main line and was too creative,maybe unconcentrated. -and payed for it but by the way: tartakower also won in 11 moves, so what?
(J Perlis vs Tartakower ostende 1907) |
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| Sep-12-09 |
| rodantero: Chernev write in his book that black resigned after white 10th move. |
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| Sep-12-09 |
| Cercatore: omg... owned |
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| Oct-11-09 |
| vsadek: Beautiful miniature game. I discovered it only today. |
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