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| Apr-21-09 |
| Karnatakiaditya: Brilliant! Wonder if this could be GOTD some time |
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| Apr-21-09 |
| Sicilian Dragon: Amazing pawn avalanche!!
8 pawns outmastering the rook and 3 pawns. |
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Jun-06-09
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| chessgames.com: Did Kavalek win with a pawn storm, or was it a "Kavalanche"? Congratulations to member jepflast for his winning Pun Contest entry to this marvelous game. |
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Jun-06-09
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| Phony Benoni: I thought this one of the better puns I judged, and I'm very glad this game finally made GOTD. |
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Jun-06-09
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| Albertan: Congratulations jepflast,great pun! What a game! |
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Jun-06-09
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| TheAlchemist: Brilliant game and congratulations to jumpin' jepflast for a more than fitting pun! |
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| Jun-06-09 |
| UnsoundHero: Another classic game involving a pawn avalanche, where the winning side is wise to keep all 8 of his pawns, is E Formanek vs A Lein, 1977 |
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Jun-06-09
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| Stonehenge: Very nice pun indeed.
<TheAlchemist> <jumpin' jepflast> Not bad either, not bad at all :) |
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| Jun-06-09 |
| remolino: Tremendous game. And the pun fits the game. Congrats. |
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Jun-06-09
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| technical draw: Good game and good pun. In a book I have the following game was titled "An Avalanche of Pawns": Fischer vs S Hamann, 1968 |
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| Jun-06-09 |
| randomsac: Great pun paired with an exciting game. That pawn march was just brutal. It completely buried white. |
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Jun-06-09
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| Chessmensch: A wild and crazy--and very instructive--game. |
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Jun-06-09
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| kevin86: This pun not only fits the name but also the game as well-with the large landslide of black pawns---eight to three. |
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Jun-06-09
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| hedgeh0g: Nice game and pun! |
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| Jun-06-09 |
| mack: Pleasing. Gotta say I prefer it when Kavalek's on the receiving end of a pawn storm, however... Kavalek vs Suttles, 1974 |
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Jun-06-09
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| technical draw: Nice game <mack>. |
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| Jun-06-09 |
| cracknik: This game has long been a favorite of mine. Ever since I saw it in "learn from the grandmasters".. |
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| Jun-06-09 |
| WhiteRook48: brutal win!! |
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Jun-06-09
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| Domdaniel: "I stepped into a Kavalanche
It covered up my soul ... "
One of my favorite games of all time. More than flashy 19th-century queen sacs, this shows how material values are contingent and relative. Nice pun too. |
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Jun-07-09
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| whatthefat: <Domdaniel: "I stepped into a Kavalanche It covered up my soul ... ">
Ahaha! I had precisely the same thought.
Great pun, <jepflast>! |
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Jun-08-09
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| SirChrislov: nice pun for a legendary game,congrats to jepflast,
but let me be the first to say a few words about the vicim, Ukranian GM Eduard Gufeld, now deceased, this man devoted his entire life to the noble game. he died of a stroke after being in a comma for two weeks in a aLos Angeles hospital. a nice man with a contagious asence of humor. I first met him at his Chess Academy in N. Hollywood, CA on LaBrea Ave. he organized a simul, I played and he crushed me in 25 moves. he said I had attacked prematurely before completing development. I was a low rated amateur at the time but I was very appreciative and attentive of his post-simul analysis, which was an awful nice thing of him to do. he had time for everyone that day. he's the Author of many advanced books including his classic "my monalisa" and a video "The science of russian chess strategy." about two years ago, I visited his grave at Hollywood Forever Cemetary. it's adorned in black and white with a huge black bishop on top and a plaque of his face.
rest in peace, grandmaster.
He considered the following his immortal game, properly punned "The Mona Lisa": Bagirov vs Gufeld, 1973 'Every Artist dreams of creating his own mona lisa, and every chessplayer of playing his own immortal game. No game has given me as much satisfaction as this one. To this day I feel happiness when remembering it. In such moments all my failures at the chessboard are forgotten, leaving only the joy of a dream come true' -Gufeld, quoted by Joe Gallagher in 'The Samisch King's Indian'. |
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Jun-08-09
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| SirChrislov: I'd like to add that "Eddy" (as the members at Gufeld Chess Academy called him) played Kasparov to a draw in 1980 and Kasparov himself described Gufeld's masterpiece against Bagirov 'The mona lisa of chess'. it's simply a beautiful game. This game against Kavalek is also spectacular and one in my top 30 of all time. not an embarassing loss, I'm sure Gufeld was proud to have been co-author of the masterpiece even though he was on the losing side. I'm sure Kieseritzky felt the same way when he lost to Anderssen, but he'll always be remembered for losing chess' immortal game. |
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Jun-08-09
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| Domdaniel: <SirChrislov> Thanks for painting a wonderful picture of a fascinating man. I never met 'Fast Eddie' Gufeld, but I've long been a fan of his writing -- brilliant games, mixed with anecdotes like a story about playing football with Fischer and chess with Pele. He mentioned this to a Russian journalist who 'corrected' the 'mistake' by switching the two sports around, to Gufeld's consternation. I used to wonder how an ex-Red Army guy like that coped with the collapse of the USSR and then life in America in his 60s. A former student of his used to post here regularly under the name 'GufeldStudent' - which I suppose is a sign of Gufeld's influence. Lately, I've adopted the Mona Lisa principle myself -- Tal's ideas were much the same. What's the point in playing just to grind out results? So I avoid positional draws and make more gonzo sacs ... and my rating has dropped 200 points, but at least I sometimes play a game worth being proud of. |
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Jun-08-09
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| Domdaniel: One story behind this game is that the opening was a known trap, though not quite established theory. The line had been studied in Prague, where Kavalek saw it ... and Gufeld had also looked at the idea a couple of years earlier. In those pre-internet days, unpublished opening discoveries often spread by word of mouth. Then, during the actual game, Gufeld forgot that he knew the position (it still happens!) -- and quickly played 7.d5, seeing that 7...Ne7 lost at once to 8.Ne6, 'mating' the queen. But Kavalek was ready with 7...e3! and the rest is history. |
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| Nov-02-09 |
| WhenHarryMetSally: black preventing the white king from moving to e3 was the sublime move for me in the end game. |
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