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Alexander Grischuk vs Ruslan Ponomariov
"Gris is the Word" (game of the day Oct-10-09)
3rd Int 2000  ·  Alekhine Defense: Modern. Keres Variation (B04)  ·  1-0
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Oct-30-06  schnarre: I saw that finish easily enough--not really any good options for Black here.
Oct-30-06
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  Marmot PFL: <talchess2003: how is this a noteable game?> How often do you see a future World Champ get mated in 27 moves?
Nov-07-06  schnarre: <Marmot PFL> Good question, lol!
Feb-28-07  Dr.Lecter: I never figured Ponomariov for such a creative player. Looks like I'm still learning.
Jun-21-07  Manic: <Dr.Lecter> by the sounds of your comment, it sounds like you think Ponomariov won, or was that comment sarcastic?
Jul-01-07  IMDONE4: Pono lets himself get smothermated?
Oct-13-07  casecloser: Pono let grishchuk mate him out of respect, such a beautiful combination should be respected, great sponsorship, even better game, i love this game for its clean sweeping attack, good way to learn how to play against alekhine
May-14-09  WhiteRook48: "Philidor's Legacy" was not found by Philidor
Jul-26-09  WhiteRook48: gee, Pomo missed that?
Oct-10-09  tanuri: sometimes when i get smothered, i let the guy mate me just to respect the beauty of it haha resigning isnt that pretty.. that what pono did
Oct-10-09
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  RandomVisitor: 4 minutes per move:

Alexander Grischuk (2606) - Ruslan Ponomariov (2630) [B04]

3rd Int Torshavn FAI (5), 2000

[Rybka 3 ]

1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 g6 5.Bc4 Nb6 6.Bb3 Bg7 7.a4 a5 8.Ng5 e6 [d5] 9.f4 dxe5 10.fxe5 c5 11.c3 cxd4 12.0-0 0-0 13.cxd4 Nc6 14.Nf3 f6 15.Nc3 last book move

15...fxe5 0.45/19
16.Bg5 0.40/17 Qd7 0.45/20
17.dxe5 0.45/19 Nxe5 0.45/19
18.Nxe5 0.31/18 <Rxf1+ 1.14/21

[Rybka 3 : 18...Qxd1 19.Raxd1 Rxf1+ 20.Kxf1 Bxe5 0.31/18 ]>

19.Qxf1 0.94/20 Qd4+ 0.94/21
20.Kh1 0.94/20 Qxe5 1.14/19
21.Bd8 0.91/17 Qc5? 2.45/18
[Rybka 3 : 21...Ra6 22.Rd1 h6 23.Qd3 Nd7 24.Qxg6 Nf8 25.Qd3 Bd7 26.Be7 Bc6 27.Qd8 Qf5 28.Rg1 Kh7 29.Bc4 Ng6 30.Bd3 Qf2 31.Bh4 Qd4 32.Qxd4 0.91/17 ]

22.Ne4 1.95/17 Qb4? 4.27/19
[Rybka 3 : 22...Qc6 23.Ng5 Nd5 24.Rc1 Qd7 25.Nxe6 Qxe6 26.Re1 h5 27.Rxe6 Bxe6 28.Qe1 Bf7 29.Bxa5 Re8 30.Qd2 Re5 31.Bb4 Kh7 32.Bc5 Bh6 33.Qf2 Rf5 34.Qe1 1.95/17 ]

23.Ng5 3.91/18 Kh8 4.28/20
24.Qf7 4.28/19 Bd7 4.28/20
25.Bxe6 4.28/20 Rxd8? #2/3
[Rybka 3 : 25...Qf8 26.Qxf8+ Bxf8 27.Bxb6 Bxe6 28.Nxe6 Be7 29.Nc7 Rd8 30.Bxa5 Bf6 31.Bc3 Bxc3 32.bxc3 Rd3 33.Nb5 Kg7 34.Kg1 h5 35.Rb1 Kf6 36.Kf2 Rd2+ 37.Kf3 Ke5 38.Re1+ Kf6 39.Re4 Rc2 4.28/20 ]

26.Qg8+ #2/3 Rxg8 #1/3
27.Nf7# 0.00/0 1-0

Oct-10-09  Sydro: Oink oink!
Oct-10-09
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  kevin86: Viva! Philidor! The pun falls into a gray area since "gris" means gray in some languages.
Oct-10-09
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  playground player: I thought, when your rating got to be around 2700, you were supposed to become immune to smothered mates.
Oct-10-09  Chess Addict: No, "Bird" is the word!

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Oct-10-09  WhiteRook48: gris, instead of noir (French black)
Oct-10-09
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  fm avari viraf: Neither "Gris" nor "Bird" is the word. It's Grisly vs Ruslan.
Oct-10-09  Sydro: Gris is pig in my language.
Oct-10-09
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  WannaBe: The pun is from 'Grease', sung by Frankie Valli.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFmk...

May-30-11  IRONCASTLEVINAY: See different kinds of checkmate patterns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkm...

Jun-11-11  DrMAL: With these two teenage top GMs the game was already exciting before move 1. Ponomariov must have felt a wee bit upset with himself after he played 22...Qb4 DOH! Brilliant game anyway, white had built a very strong initiative and 22...Qc6 was already forced with nearly winning advantage to white. Pressure!
Sep-07-11
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  Nightsurfer: Funny coincidence: 30 years before this game here <A Grischuk vs R Ponomariov, Torshavn 2000> that elementary version of THE GREAT SMOTHERED MATE - executed by the BIG BAD THREE Queen plus Back-up Bishop plus Horse und first having been demonstrated in NN vs Greco, 1620 - has been composed some hundred miles downsouth in Uelzen, Germany: T Peine vs V Budde, 1970
Sep-07-11
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  Nightsurfer: When Novices of The Noble Art of Chess first get taught the GREAT SMOTHERED MATE they normally do not get demonstrated this finish here in <A Grischuk vs R Ponomariov, Torshavn 2000 > , namely the strike by the Big Bad Three, that is to say: Queen plus Back-up Bishop plus Knight combined - thus being one of the two basic versions of the GREAT SMOTHERED MATE that has been demonstrated 380 years ago in live play by Italy's All-time Maestro <G Greco > , please compare NN vs Greco, 1620 - , but the somewhat more recent version, namely the SHOCKING BLOW OUT OF THE BLUE by Queen plus Knight. The latter is called "Philidor's Legacy", but has been realized by Maestro <G Greco> many years before Le Cher Monsieur Philidor: NN vs Greco, 1625

The latter version NN vs Greco, 1625 - though it is not the oldest one - is considered to be the most basic version of the GREAT SMOTHERED MATE , therefore it is fair enough to call it "VERSION NO. 1" of THE GREAT SMOTHERED MATE (the fact notwithstanding that it is the slightly "younger" version of the GREAT SMOTHERED MATE).

Some more samples of VERSION NO. 1 of the GREAT SMOTHERED MATE aka "Philidor's Legacy": Morphy vs Schrufer, 1859 , B Koester vs R Gralla, 1971 , C Bloodgood vs B Evans, 1961 , S Duron Godoy vs V Garcia Castro, 2004 and K Bischoff vs K Mueller, 2004 .

Oct-31-12
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  Richard Taylor: The great move in this game was 21 Bd8 restricting Black's Q-side development. Before seeing this on here I'd played this over about 20 times!
Oct-31-12
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  perfidious: This is the first time I have seen this game, and 21.Bd8 is a pleasing quietus to Black's hopes of ever getting his pieces out of the box as he finds himself bound hand and foot.
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