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| EmperorAtahualpa: Stunning game and a very nice pun!
Obviously the sacs are great, but I think 18.hxg5 is also a very nice move! I would definitely not have made that move if I was in this position. |
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| Jun-12-06 |
| psmith: <cyruslaihy> (and <crafty>) read the comments and you'll find a refutation of 14...g4 posted in 2003. (18. Bh6 in Crafty's line.) |
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| Jun-12-06 |
| homersheineken: I don't get the pun. Does it have to do with a play on Viswanathan? Obviously I know it's a book/movie. :) |
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Jun-12-06
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| keypusher: I love, love, LOVE this game. Thanks for picking it, cg.com. |
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| Jun-12-06 |
| neosystems: "homersheineken: I don't get the pun. Does it have to do with a play on Viswanathan? Obviously I know it's a book/movie. :)" I think it also has to do with the king hunt much like the grail hunt in the book. |
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Jun-12-06
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| dakgootje: <I think it also has to do with the king hunt much like the grail hunt in the book.> I think they just thought: a well much to do with the movie and book at the moment and of course anand's nickname is vishy so without further thoughts: lets just combine them in a pun, after which they only had to find a good game ;-) Also strange to see how people can differ from each other about what is a good pun and which isnt |
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| Jun-12-06 |
| homersheineken: < I think they just thought: a well much to do with the movie and book at the moment and of course anand's nickname is vishy so without further thoughts: lets just combine them in a pun, after which they only had to find a good game ;-)> Thanks! |
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Jun-12-06
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| kevin86: I agree with my earlier assessment that the game was similar to a 19th century game. The final position by black is solid----like a house of cards,lol. |
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| Jun-12-06 |
| blingice: <WannaBe: Probably the worst pun ever.> Hahahaha. |
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Jun-12-06
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| chessic eric: I think black responds better to 22.Rxe6! by not accepting the sac, and instead playing 22...Bxf3. In most of the lines I've looked at black has the option to relieve pressure by exchanging queens, as in 22...Bxf3 23.Qxf3 (pinning f7),Qh2+ 24.Kf1,Qh1+ 25.Ke2,Qh5 (pinning the white queen so that it cannot capture the a8 rook). If not the response 23.Qxf3 from white, then how does white proceed after 23.Be7+,Kg8 (...Ke8 24.Bd6+,fxe6 25.Qxe6+,Kd8 26.Bxc7+,Kxc7 27.gxf3  )?
If 24.Qxf3 the same forced queen exchange is available to black, or black can then accept the e6 rook without the white queen recapturing with check. 24.Qf5 (aiming to keep the attack's momentum) fails to 24...Qh2+ 25.Kf1,Qxg2+ 26.Ke1,Rh1+ 27.Kd2,Rxd1#. If 23.gxf3 instead, then 23...Qh2+ 24.Kf1,Qh3+ forces the queen exchange as well, and white suffers doubled pawns on the f-file. Perhaps after the queen exchange on h5 Anand wins with his kingside pawn majority, but thats a harder win to manage than the game, imo. |
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Jun-12-06
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| chessic eric: oh, and kudos to the <Chessgames.com> staff for this fascinating gotd! |
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| Jun-12-06 |
| The17thPawn: <chessic eric> - In your first line after Qh5, how do you respond to 26.g4? now black looks to be in deep and if he takes the bishop the Rook on a8 is toast and he's mated. 26...Qh2 27.Qxa8+, Qb8 28.Qxb8, Nxb8 also looks bad as the white rook should escape with tempo 29. Rd6 and a rook fork is threatened as well as trading down with white ahead material. Any thoughts are appreciated. |
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| Jun-12-06 |
| SanChess: Wow! One does not expect such a game out of a Caro Kann, particularly when the Black side is played by a solid theoretical specialist like Bologan.
Great attacking chess by Anand! |
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| Jun-12-06 |
| Isolated Pawn: After 26... exf5, what does white do? Obviously, white has a range of discovery checks at his disposal, but I can't find a line where the black king doesn't find safety. |
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Jun-12-06
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| Knight13: The Da Vinci Code was a good book! |
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| Jun-12-06 |
| jmw128: <isolated pawn> My first thought after 26...exf5 was 27.Nxf5 double check! Seems to lead to a quick mate regardless of the King move after white's next move 28.Qxd7+ |
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Nov-05-07
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| sallom89: wow who would sacrifice nowadays ! unless he/she believe that they could be better than Paul Morphy at it. |
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| Aug-29-08 |
| maspur08: Yup. I do agree with you, sallom89...
Paul Morphy is the master of sacrifies at it. |
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Aug-29-08
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| computer chess guy: The sac is quite sound. The17thPawn is correct that after 22.  xf3 23.  xf3 h2+ 24.  f1 h4+ 25. e2 h5 26. g4! White is winning. In this line Rybka thinks Black has nothing better than 24. .. b8 after which White's best appears to be 25. e4, still with a winning advantage. |
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| Nov-05-08 |
| veerar: <22 Rxe6>,is a typical White sac against the Caro-Kann.One is reminded of <Tahl's> rook sac,against Portisch,in one of the games, in the 1964 Candidates Match! |
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May-25-09
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| notyetagm: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/infor... |
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May-25-09
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| notyetagm: <Gypsy: From an interview with Anand: < Do you remember any particular match, even a move, against any opponent when you may have felt you could not possibly have played better?
In 2003, when I played Viktor Bologan. This game won me the Best Game of the Year. After my loss to him in the first half of the event, I had been waiting to play him in the second half. Seeing that he played the Caro Kann defence in most of his games, I thought it was the best time to pull out this ace. <<<Actually, the move occurred to me during my match against Ruslan Ponomariov (Mainz 2002, Anand won 4.5-3.5). In the first game [ Ponomariov vs Anand, 2002 ], at one point, I was so lost and thought if Ponomariov played rook to e1, I would have to resign. Luckily, he played knight to d2. I held my breath! I came home, checked this move and found no defence.>>> Bologan was Ponomariov’s second, and I knew they must have worked a good deal on this. So he was the perfect person to wheel out this novelty against. >> How Anand spotted a crushing novelty: he was on the *wrong* side in a game against Ponomariov but Pono didn't see that crushing move that Anand did! |
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May-25-09
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| notyetagm: <notyetagm: Winner of the Best Game Prize of Chess Informant 88, receiving 83 of 90 possible points, including 6 first place (10 point) votes.> The game also won the Best Novelty Prize for 14  f1-e1!. |
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| Jun-22-09 |
| lzromeu: Great pun, the game and the pun |
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| Jul-10-09 |
| WhiteRook48: doesn't 36...Rg5 give black a chance as it threatens 37...Rxg2+? |
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