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| Feb-25-07 | | doremi: Gelfand, the Bulldozer! Poor Shirov... |
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Feb-25-07
 | | Marmot PFL: 23.Rd7 nice move, and fine attacking game. For black, since 21...Qb4 fails, why not play a2? Now 22.Bxf7ch Rxf7 23.Rxf7 seems refuted by Nb4 and black's threats are stronger. However white can do better, 22.Rxf7 Rxf7 23.Bxf7ch Kh8 24.Qa1 with a better ending, and if black avoids the ending Ne5 resumes white's attack. (I only played this 10...Qa5xa2 line once, got killed like Shirov and that was enough.) |
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| Feb-25-07 | | uuft: I considered 23. Rd7 several times, followed by 24. Nxg5, but 25. Be6 was a tad too difficult to find with an elo of - 273 °C, thank you. |
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| Feb-25-07 | | paul1959: 23 Rd7 is the only move to save the Bf7. If Black plays 23... Qb5 or Qb6 then the rook moves to d5 or d6 to attack the queen and then White removes the bishop from f7 and stays 2 pawns up. Still , White's job is only finished when the a3 pawn is eliminated. |
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| Feb-25-07 | | TrueBlue: My choice if Re8, don't think it's that bad :( |
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| Feb-25-07 | | Moondoll: Sadly, I missed this one. The only thing I was really looking at was Rd5 which loses the bishop and I couldn't find any good continuation from there. Rd7 is a great move, removing the pin and freeing up the move that white really needs Nxg5. Qb6 is forced for black and Be6! is the really pretty move in this game. Great Sunday puzzle! |
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| Feb-25-07 | | Knight13: 23. Rd7. Didn't see that coming. |
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| Feb-25-07 | | Fisheremon: <Marmot PFL: 23.Rd7 nice move, and fine attacking game. For black, since 21...Qb4 fails, why not play a2? Now 22.Bxf7ch Rxf7 23.Rxf7 seems refuted by Nb4 and black's threats are stronger. However white can do better, 22.Rxf7 Rxf7 23.Bxf7ch Kh8 24.Qa1 with a better ending, and if black avoids the ending Ne5 resumes white's attack. (I only played this 10...Qa5xa2 line once, got killed like Shirov and that was enough.)> Right, 21...Qb4?. 21...a2!? with some efforts could lead to equality. Black should better play ealier 20...Nb4 equalizing the game. |
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Feb-25-07
 | | Geronimo: Wow. 23. Rd7 was not even on my list of possible sollutions. Guess that means I'm under 2000 ELO (!) |
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Feb-25-07
 | | playground player: It's dismaying to observe what a vast gulf yawns between me and chess mastery. |
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| Feb-25-07 | | tatarch: I agree with you sometimes playground player, but that's what keeps us coming back, right? I look forward to having chess as a hobby for the rest of my life--and if it was easy, it might get boring eventually. |
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| Feb-25-07 | | anodin: Ne5 seemed good to me.. |
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| Feb-25-07 | | Dr.Lecter: It was rather hard. And it kind of seems White lost too much material for the queen. Amusing, though. |
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| Feb-25-07 | | beginner64: Is 23.. Qb5 very bad for black? |
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| Feb-25-07 | | bakuazer: a very difficult puzzle! did not get it. I was hoping for 7/7 this week. |
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| Feb-25-07 | | Bare Beginner: is that a Decoy Sacrifice? |
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| Feb-25-07 | | alexjhu: what about 24... rxf7 it can be a draw..... |
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| Feb-25-07 | | Themofro: Completely missed this puzzle i'm afraid... think it's excusable though, lol, incredible game. |
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Feb-26-07
 | | kevin86: I was looking at the obvious queen sac via Ng5-it obviously fails--instead white sacs a rook to allow the same Ng5 a move later. Black is left with an assortment of pieces against a queen and rook,but the powerful passed pawn from nowhere decides the day. In fact,it was on f2 as late as after move 34. |
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| Mar-30-07 | | gambitfan: I completely missed it, I am afraid... I am going to have a look at it again in a 2 months time... |
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| May-03-07 | | Skylark: I thought it would be rather humurous to point out that I was analysing this game by playing my own kind of 'guess-the-move', where I wrote down the game as it was played, taking on the winning side and trying to guess the moves - and I found 23. Rd7, but merely by accident because I didn't realise it hung the rook! However after seeing that it was the move played and that Bxd7 followed in the game, I soon found the winning line. Nice game. |
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Jun-18-07
 | | notyetagm: 23  e7-d7!!, wow.
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| Jun-19-07 | | scholes: why 8.rb1 is played in grunfeld line ,why not simply play 8.be2 9.0-0 ok i see is it bcoz the weak a pawn doomed to fall and exchanging better b pawn for a pawn is good?? |
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| Jul-29-07 | | aazqua: One of the all time great white Grunfeld games. The rook and bishop action midway is truly marvelous. |
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| Dec-11-07 | | GlassCow: An absolutely gorgeous attack by Gelfand. I am in awe. |
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