Meir Romm vs Stefano Tatai (1973)

Meir Romm vs Stefano Tatai
Netanya 1973 · French Defense: Winawer. Classical Variation (C19) · 1-0

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Nov-29-03		Bears092: whoa

Nov-29-03		Qian: Nxh5!! whoa!! if exh5 then mate in 3... wow.

Nov-29-03		DWINS: Nice game but Romm didn't followup correctly. It took some bad moves at the end by Tatai for him to score the point. He should have played 25.Nxg7 instead of Nd6. Black is very close to being mated. The threat of 26.Bf7 followed by f4+ is very hard to deal with. As a matter of fact, I don't see a defense. Anybody out there see one?

Nov-29-03		euripides: 25 Nxg7 Kh6 26 Bf7+ Kxg7 or 26 Nf5 exf5 and I think Black wins.

Nov-29-03		crafty: 25. xg7 g6 26. f4+ h6 27. xe6 h7 28. xg6+ (eval 6.36; depth 16 ply; 750M nodes)

Nov-29-03		dorn: <euripides> After 25.Nxg7! Kh6 26.Nxe6! and now: 26...Qxe6 27.Bg4+ Kg7 28.Bxe6 with an easy win for White or: 26...Ng6 27.Bf3+ Nh4+ 28.Rxh4+ Kg6 29.Rg4+ Kf7 30.Rg7+ Kxe6 31.Bg4#

Nov-29-03		dorn: <DWINS> I think White was surprised with 24...Kg5! and played a weak 25.Nd6? after which he shouldn't win.

Nov-29-03		talchess2003: I saw Nxh5 and that mate in three... but did chessgames.com really expect us to calculate out the win after Kg5??!! Furthermore, I do not believe that white has a forced win after Kg5.

Nov-29-03		TheAussiePatzer: I didn't see what happened after the 23rd text move (though neither did Romm). I was analysing 23. Ng6 which is interesting as the Knight cannot be taken: 23.Ng6 Rxg6 24.Bxg6+ Kxg6 (24...Nxg6 25.Qxh6+) 25.Qxh6+ Kf7 26.Qf6+ Ke8 27.Rh8+ or 23. Ng6 Nxg6 24.Qxh6+ Kxh6 25.Be2+ Nh4+ 26.Rxh4+ Kg6 27.Bh5+ Kg5 28.f4+ Kh6 29.Bf7# However black has one saving move, 23...Ng8, which leads to white's attack fizzling out.

Nov-29-03		cVeggyman: talchess: I hope they (chessgames.com) continue to put out difficult chess puzzles. It is good to have once in a while a difficult one to calculate. The easier ones are just simple rote motion to solve and are boring sometimes.

Nov-29-03		raylopez99: I think black blundered after 35...a5??, which leads to a mate in two. Better is to fight on a pawn down with 35...Rf7. Interestingly, I saw the move 23. Qxh6, only because I only saw the forced mate line and because this was a problem, so I figured a queen sac was perhaps involved. Sometimes even a patzer (Class A patzer for me) can blunder into victory!

Nov-29-03		ellipotrix: Yes i think Chessgames.com expected you to solve this one!! Why did you not expect to solve it? It becomes a little less difficult when you know there is a solution.

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