|
< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 2 OF 2 ·
Later Kibitzing> |
| Nov-02-05 | | prinsallan: Shockingly beautiful by the puzzle master. |
 |
| Dec-27-05 | | DeepBlade: hah, how funny! I tought it was an smothered mate gone wrong! |
|
| Mar-07-06 | | Isamaru: BEAUTIFUL!!!! |
|
| Jan-02-07 | | jackmandoo: and you think you've seen it all and then this game comes along. Just a super neat checkmate there. |
|
| Oct-03-09 | | WhiteRook48: 34. Ka2!! refusing the sac actually wins |
|
| Nov-17-10 | | Nullifidian: What on EARTH was White thinking?!
Honestly, what was up with 12.  f4?, which throws away a pawn for no advantage I can discern. And after 13...  e6, White should have struck back with 14.  xe6 and forced Black to redevelop. Black still would have had the pawn advantage, and an open file for the rook after 14... fxe6, but it's still better than the hopelessly passive 14.  d2?. Worst of all though was 34.  xc1?? instead of 34.  a2. It's like White went on autopilot and robotically played out the losing side of a smothered mate. |
|
| Nov-17-10 | | piltdown man: Beyootiful!! |
|
| Nov-17-10 | | tsvanerp: Beautiful! But was this game really played OTB? Sam Loyd was a mathematician famous for his puzzles. This combination is so unusual, especially the Ra1+! pattern I have never seen before in any ordinary game. I am a bit doubting if this game wasn't composed for artistic reasons |
|
| Nov-17-10 | | consul: Isn't
12. f4
just a blunder? If you really want to sacrifice a pawn (it's the sacrifice day for muslims, happy eid al-adha) you can go for 12. h4
After a weak play of White, Black consolidated and after some other moves came the combination... |
|
Nov-17-10
 | | Ghuzultyy: Wow. That was beautiful. |
|
| Nov-17-10 | | solskytz: Lloyd risked nothing. He could always opt for 33...Nd2+ drawing comfortably (if indeed the game terminated by resignation at move 29) |
|
| Nov-17-10 | | Tigranny: Loyd clearly led this game. |
|
| Nov-17-10 | | kustah: how about instead of 25.Re1, 25.Qxc8 and after 25...Qxc8 26.Ne7+ winning the queen back and also provide advantage on account of changing a knight with a rook? am i overlooking something? |
|
| Nov-17-10 | | picard: beautiful ending |
|
Nov-17-10
 | | The HeavenSmile: <tpstar> After 34.Ka2 Qxc2 35.Qxb3 Ra8+ 36.Qa3 Rxa3+ 37.Kxa3 White has two rooks and a knight vs. blacks queen, certainly enough to put up a fight. Black does have 36...Qc4+ picking up the knight too and leaving white with a passed pawn backed up by a rook on the a file. Still fighting chances for white i think |
|
Nov-17-10
 | | kevin86: The finish is a smothered mate morphying into an Anastasia's mate! |
|
| Nov-17-10 | | JG27Pyth: 29...Ra1!! |
|
| Nov-17-10 | | JG27Pyth: tsvanerp:<Beautiful! But was this game really played OTB? Sam Loyd was a mathematician famous for his puzzles. This combination is so unusual, especially the Ra1+! pattern I have never seen before in any ordinary game. I am a bit doubting if this game wasn't composed for artistic reasons> I don't know Loyd's games all that well... but I had heard that he was so enamored of chess problems that the artist in him often got in the way of his results -- he couldn't resist steering games toward an intriguing problem-like finish even if this meant needing to play some dubious moves along the way. So the sparkle at the end of this game is not uncharacteristic of Loyd.is not uncharacteristic of Loyd. |
|
Nov-17-10
 | | David2009: I saw this first in "L'art de faire mat" by Renaud and Khan when I was a boy. 
click for larger view
The story is that Lloyd announced mate in 8 starting ...Ra1+ and demonstrated it to his opponent who promptly resigned. The flaw was only discovered later. Renaud and Khan set the modified position (with the c7 Pawn moved to c4) as an excercise - mate in 8. A beutiful combination of corridor-mate and smothered-mate themes. I can remember once watching a blitz game where the following skeleton mate arose: 
click for larger view
There were other pieces somewhere including, last but not least, a White KIng. White to play and checkmate. |
|
Nov-17-10
 | | jepflast: Cool! This was one of the 10 or so puns I submitted for the original contest. It was my favorite, so I'm glad CG started recycling them. |
|
| Nov-17-10 | | WhiteRook48: white missed 34 Ka2 |
|
| Nov-17-10 | | eightbyeight: <Whiterook48: White missed 34. Ka2.> Actually, 34. Ka2 does not win here; it loses after 34. ... Qxc2. Yasser Seirawan gives these lines showing that Black's attack is still overwhelming in his book, Winning Chess Combinations. After Qxc2:
-35. Qxb3 Ra8+ 36. Qa3 Qc4+ 37. Kb1 (if 37. b3?? Qc2#!) ... Qe4+ 38. Ka2 Qxd5+ 39. Kb1 Qxh1+, with decisive material gains. -35. Nxc7 Nxa1 36. Na6 Nb3 37. Qxb3 Qc6 38. Rd1 Qxa6+, with a winning ending. -35. Qb7 Nc5! 36. Qc6 Rb8 37. Rab1 (Rhb1?? Qb3#!) ... Qc4+ 38. Ka1 Nb3+ 39. Ka2 Nc1+ (Double check, please!) 40. Ka3 Qa2#. So Lloyd was wrong to announce mate in 8, but at least Ra1+ was sound. |
|
| Nov-17-10 | | SU1989: Wow, what a spectacular finish indeed! What's funny is that there is an absolutely forced checkmate after 29.. Ra1+ |
|
| Nov-18-10 | | Nullifidian: <eightbyeight: Seirawan gives these lines showing that Black's attack is still overwhelming in his book, Winning Chess Combinations.> Seirawan should have considered 35. c6!, covering the a8 square and threatening the queen simultaneously. If Black takes with 35... xc6, then White responds with the fork 36. e7+ h7 37. xc6 and has an edge after 37... xa1 38. xa1. Black's best try after 35. c6 is probably a direct 35... xa1 36. xa1 e2 37. xc7 b8 38. b1 xg4, but it still only yields a draw with best play from both sides. |
|
| Nov-20-10 | | eightbyeight: You're right about 35. Qc6, but my computer gives as best play 35. ... Nxa1 36. Kxa1 Qe2 37. Qb7 Qxg4 38. Nxc7 Qc4 29. Rg1 Qd4. |
|
|
< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 2 OF 2 ·
Later Kibitzing> |
icon.