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Nov-24-03
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| AdrianP: <rover> Thanks for pointing me to the game... Rg3 and Bh4 is a very nice shot, and it's made it into my collection. |
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Nov-26-03
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| patzer2: The ChessGames.Com Opening Explorer shows 86 games with 7. g4, played from 1992 to 2003. White won 45.3% while black won 19.8% of the games played with this move. Perhaps better than the reply 7...Nxg4, which has only a , 15.8% winning percentage for black and a 57.9% advantage for white is 7...dxc4 which won for black 31.8% of the time while limiting white to a 22.7% winning percentage. Some sample games showing black's potential with 7...dxc4 include Michael Adams vs Kasparov, 1992 and Kasparov vs Deep Junior, 2003 and Gelfand vs Lautier, 1994 and D Gurevich vs Kaidanov, 1995 |
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| Jan-25-04 |
| mymt: AdrianP isnt 32...Rxg6.33.Qe7# one? but whats 32...Kxg6.33.Qxh5# called? |
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| Feb-27-04 |
| panigma: Just met a guy the other day. Philip Mikant. You figure it out. |
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| Apr-27-04 |
| lordhazol: Möthiº!! |
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| Jul-06-04 |
| Dick Brain: I certainly could be wrong, but I do not believe that this is the epaulette mate. I don't have my book in front of me but IIRC in Vukovic's "The Art of Attack" he demonstrates the epaulette mate to be, for example, if black K were on e8 and there were black rooks on d8 and f8, the a Q on e6 would be mate. |
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Jul-06-04
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| acirce: I don't know about "true" definitions, but <Dick Brain> is right about the book, anyway. Qf6 vs Kf8+Re8+Rg8 is called Epaulette Mate, while Qf6+pg5 vs Kf7+Re8+Rg8 is called 'Swallow's tail' |
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| Jul-26-05 |
| Bobwhoosta: White is definitely threatening an epaulette mate, which is also called a "Swallow's Tail" in Pandolfini's Chess Dictionary. |
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Nov-06-05
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| patzer2: On second thought, the neat 32. Bg6+! is a decoy obstruction or blockade move, by which White forces black to block or obstruct his flight squares and allow mate on e7 or h5. |
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| Nov-06-05 |
| offramp: 32.Bg6+ is a Stoke-Adams attack which harmonizes the squares e7 & h5 so that they become conjugate squares. |
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Nov-06-05
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| patzer2: See the definitions "decoy" and "obstruction sacrifice" in the Chess Dictionary at National Master Pete Prochaska's "Chess Odyssey site at http://www.angelfire.com/games5/che... . The surprise move 32. Bg6+!, is a decoy because it forces a piece (either the King or the Rook) to capture on g6. If the Rook captures, 32...Rxg6, it obstructs his King's flight square and allows 33. Qe7#. If the King captures, 32...Kxg6, White mates with 33. Qh5#. With either capture (32...Kxg6 or 32...Rxg6) a piece is forced to occupy g6 making it a decoy. However, it is an obstruction only if the Rook recaptures (32...Rxg6). So this game and 32. Bg6+ is moving to my "decoy" collection. P.S. <offramp> Hope you're doing well and everything is OK. |
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| Nov-14-06 |
| BipolarChessorder: Where's the win after 24....Rg1+ 25. Ke2 Rxa1? |
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| Nov-14-06 |
| NBZ: Rg1+ Ke2 Rxa1 Qxf6+ Kd7 Qf4! looks very dangerous with the twin threats of Qd6+ and Nf6+. When the queen moves to avoid the fork (say Qg6 or Qh8), White plays Qd6+ Ke8 Bh5! Qxh5 Nf6+ wins the queen at last |
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| Jun-17-07 |
| jdoliner: Wow this is a poster game for the swallow tail mate formation, White is threatening both variations to win this game |
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Feb-02-08
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| Eyal: <NBZ: [24...]Rg1+ Ke2 Rxa1 Qxf6+ Kd7 Qf4! looks very dangerous with the twin threats of Qd6+ and Nf6+. When the queen moves to avoid the fork (say Qg6 or Qh8), White plays Qd6+ Ke8 Bh5! Qxh5 Nf6+ wins the queen at last> It doesn't quite work, though, since Qxh5 is played with a check... However [24...Rg1+ 25.Ke2 Rxa1] 26.Nxf6! is winning, e.g. Qf7 27.Ng4+ Kf8 28.Ne5 Qf5 29.Be4 or 26...Qg6 27.Nd5+ Kf7 28.Qe7+ Kg8 29.Nf6+ Carlsen's exchange sacrifice in this game was very creative, but perhaps not completely sound (even though it succeeded in practice). In any case, 22.Qxh7 - instead of Qe5 - was definitely a mistake, since Black would be winning after 22...Qxd4. And Black could still have a draw with 29...Be6 instead of Bd7??, where apparently White has nothing better than forcing a perpetual by 30.Qh5+ Kf8 31.Qc5+ Kf7 (31...Re7 32.Bf5 Kf7 33.Bg4 would get Black into trouble) 32.Qh5+ etc. But then Gretarsson wouldn't get to be remembered in chess history as losing a beautiful game to 13-year-old Carlsen... |
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Feb-02-08
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| egilarne: Magnus was still 12 years old - the game was played on the 4th of October, and Magnus became 13 the 30th of November - but it was a 12 year old IM rated 2450 - - - :) - according to the rating list of the 1st of October 2003. |
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| Feb-02-08 |
| Zygote: Apart from the comments which you guys have to make on this poor GMs name, there is not much else negative to be said about him... he became a GM (if a weak one) which is more than most people can do.... |
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May-06-08
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| notyetagm: White to play: 32 ?
click for larger view<patzer2: The winning 32. Bg6+! is a stunning deflection move by the young Carlsen. The capture of the bishop is forced.> Position after 32  e4-g6+! 1-0
click for larger view<If 32...Kxg6 33. Qh5#,> (VAR) Position after 32 ...  f7xg6 33  c5-h5#
click for larger view<and if 32...Rxg6 33. Qe7#. > (VAR) Position after 32 ...  g7xg6 33 c5-e7#
click for larger viewSo 32 e4-g6+! leads to two -different- <EPAULETTE MATES>! This Carlsen is really something else: he was only 12(!)-years old when he played this game! Holy criminy! |
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| Aug-24-08 |
| jsteward: somebody,anybody! give me a clean logical continuation to win for white after24...Rg1+! |
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| Nov-10-08 |
| norcist: lol i don't know about clean and logical but here is a line that i just examined 24.)...Rg1+? 25.)Kd2 Rxa1 26.) Nxf6 Qf7 (the best square i can find) 27.) Nd5+ and then its just a matter of picking ur poison.
28.)...Kd7 loses to 29.) Bh5 Qg7 (otherwise its checkmate or fork on the next move) 30.) Nf6+ and Black will lose his Queen on the next move |
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Dec-22-08
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| whiteshark: Is <12...Qxh2> untested? |
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| Apr-24-09 |
| urigata: WOW..I'm speechless..Nice game |
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| Jun-01-09 |
| MrMelad: Great game, pun for the contest: "The ace against the great ass" lol :) |
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| Jul-15-09 |
| Notagm: 24... e5 was a howler by Black, opening the file on which his King was located. |
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| Sep-21-09 |
| tentsewang: This young genius is just fantastic! I'll add him in one of my favorites. |
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