| May-08-05 | | soberknight: See http://www.angelfire.com/nf/chess/B... for commentary. The writers advise 7...Nf6! instead of ...a6? |
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Dec-23-05
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| Dec-24-05 | | THE pawn: He is not a GM, if my memory's good. But it's still a slauther all the same. ouch this is ugly...after e6, Nxe6 Qe8 or Qe7 he eventually loses the queen with a discovered on Nc7+ or Nd8+ or Nxf8+ |
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| Mar-03-06 | | McCool: Black played some pretty disgusting moves here. |
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| Apr-30-06 | | soberknight: I don't know if Afek is a GM, but he is most famous in the chess world as a composer of endgame studies. |
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| May-29-06 | | catfriend: Afek is a master, and far from being a top Israeli player. Also, he's way over 50, IIRC. |
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| Sep-02-06 | | Nikita Smirnov: Well the continuation is:
10...e6 (10...Kg6 11.Be2 with mate on h7) 11.Ne6 and the continuation is Ng5 or Nf4. |
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| Nov-23-06 | | aazqua: This game is ridiculous. Black deserves his fate. |
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| Dec-31-06 | | Nikita Smirnov: This game should be game of the day!It is a brilliant attack play by Smirin! |
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| Jan-21-07 | | James Bowman: Perhaps too many endgame compositions and not enough opening theory ;o] |
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| Feb-20-09 | | swarmoflocusts: This is one of Smirin's notable games? The entire game is just his opponent playing a few inaccurate moves (I count two), a major blunder, and a few minor blunders (two) -- in just nine moves. Impressive, but a very far cry from good chess. <The Black side of the Sicilian can be such junk.> This is a little bit unfair. Afek completely misplayed this game. He played the first two moves correctly, then started messing around, then started blundering. I don't think you can pin this one on the Sicilian. |
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| Oct-25-12 | | murty: After 10...Kg6 what is the quick finish? The best I see is 11. Ne6 Qe8 (or else the Q is lost, or the B with check) 12. Qf5+ Kh6 (Kf7 13. Ng5#) 13. d3+ g5 and mate in 2 with Bxg5, Qxg5 |
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