| Nov-07-03 | | seoulmama: If I am someday beaten like this ( being sacced to oblivion, that is ), I think I will be very humble for the next few days. Absolutely terrifying. By the way, who annotates these games? |
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| Nov-07-03 | | Hoozits: I know that black is better, but can anyone help me with the continuation that finishes the game? |
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| Nov-07-03 | | TheAussiePatzer: Hoozits, there is no devastating finale. If it were a normal game white might try his luck (praying for a blunder) and play on, but it is correspondence. Black would not blunder, and would surely win. |
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| Nov-07-03 | | TheAussiePatzer: Okay so having checked it with fritz the devastating finale is the threatened 28...h5: 29. Kxh5 Re4 (mate in 4)
29. Kh3 g5 (mate in 5)
Other moves after 28...h5 are mated by force even more quickly. So, fritz says 28. Rf1 is necessary, I suppose to interpose the rook on the f file, in order to prevent mate. Of course this drops the pawn to 28... Rxh2, and white is falling apart. So my previous comment lives up to my name! |
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| Nov-07-03 | | crafty: 28. ♖f1 ♖xh2 29. b4 ♗d6 30. ♔f5 ♖e2  (eval -6.55; depth 14 ply; 1000M nodes) |
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| Nov-07-03 | | thekleinbottle: How sound is this 5...b5 variation of the two knights for black? You don't see it very often--at least in my experience. |
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| Jan-01-04 | | refutor: <thekleinbottle> it is sound allegedly :) very, very sharp line. here's another famous correspondence example Estrin vs Berliner, 1965 i have tried it as black and i always find myself on the worse end of the complications but i can say that for a number of lines :) |
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| Jul-29-07 | | Toledo Paul: Terrible score for me. I had no idea what was going on in this game. Every move I selected lost points! |
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| Nov-13-07 | | foursteps: Can anyone tell me what is wrong with 9... Nxc6 for black? Could not figure this one out. |
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| Nov-13-07 | | Dilbertarian: If 9... Nd4xb5 10. Qa4 with the threat of Nd6+ |
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| Nov-13-07 | | Infohunter: <Dilbertarian: If 9... Nd4xb5 10. Qa4 with the threat of Nd6+> Here's a game wherein Black stepped right in it: B Wall vs Swaim, 1976. In this one Black avoided the obvious threat, but lost in the end: A Borisenko vs V Yandemirov, 1991. White's 9. Bxb5+ was dubious at best. The move 9. Ng3 leads to much more well-trodden paths. |
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| Nov-13-07 | | RandomVisitor: White could have tried 16.Nc3 Nxd4 17.0-0 Bc5 18.Ne4 Bb6 19.Kh1 f5 or 0-0 and the result would have been the same. |
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| Nov-13-07 | | loftus: <Infohunter> a comment from your link to B Wall vs Swaim left by <thesonicvision> gives a link to a game where black gives up the queen and goes on to win! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzCm... |
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| Nov-13-07 | | drpoundsign: seems to me white should hav forked queen rook and king to gain material and prevent castling |
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| Nov-13-07 | | nimzo knight: <dr> c6 pawn was never enprise. shows something about black's calculations. |
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| Nov-13-07 | | kevin86: Some army! While their king is sent packing into prisonhood,white's forces are left home in their beds! Hence the philosophical question:if two rooks and a bishop are not moved-nor even FREED to move,do they even exist? An interesting pun:did people in the Jurassic and Devonian era actually correspond with each other by putting pen to paper. (I thought pens were supposed to sign checks-and nothing else,lol) OR,were they used like darts? |
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| Nov-13-07 | | zb2cr: <kevin86>,
Just to be serious for a moment, the Jurassic & Devonian periods were far before anything resembling human life emerged. Even the earliest proto-humans were tens of millions of years in the future during the Jurassic (200-145 million years past), and in the Devonian period, (410-360 million years past), life was still in the process of emerging from the sea. So, no "poison-pen" darts. It seems to me that White avoided playing 27. Kg2 because he would be completely imprisoned by 27. ... Re2+; 28. Kf1, Rf2+; 29. Ke1, Rd8; 30. h3, Re8+; 31. Kd1, Ree2. Any move he makes to develop will cost multiple Pawns. |
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| Nov-13-07 | | kevin86: <zb2cr> Nothing serious was intended in the mention of the two long-gone eras,just a massive exaggeration. People may be surprized to hear that the Devonian period was as far from the dinosaur era as the Jurassic was from ours. I believe that the common cockroach came from BEFORE both of the Jurassic and Devonian eras. Humans-in their present state,arrived about 100,000 years ago and historic record goes about 10,000. |
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Nov-13-07
 | | playground player: Yipes! Another method of scuttling the Fried Liver Attack. Hope nobody does it to me. |
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| Nov-13-07 | | InspiredByMorphy: This game is bloody. Quite entertaining. |
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| Nov-14-07 | | Infohunter: <loftus: <Infohunter> a comment from your link to B Wall vs Swaim left by <thesonicvision> gives a link to a game where black gives up the queen and goes on to win!> Well, I'll be switched! Any chance that game might get uploaded to the <cg> database, <loftus>? Or maybe I should suggest that to <thesonicvision> at the other game's page. |
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| Sep-30-12 | | paramount: whats wrong with 13.cxd4? please |
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Sep-30-12
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click for larger viewBlack has mate in three: <13...Nd3+ 14.Kxe2 Qxe4+ 15.Kd1 Nxf2#>. |
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| Sep-30-12 | | vinidivici: <Phony Benoni> Good line.
12...Be2 is really a good thing for POTD! |
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