| Dec-11-03 | | kevin86: simple,but yet complicated-...♔f8 26♕d6+ ♘e7 27♕d8+ ♔g7 28♕xe7 White is up a piece. |
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| Dec-11-03 | | shadowmaster: Lol, during their dinner, Victor should not have tried to "eat" the pawn at 23...Qxa2. 24.Bb5 pins the B so that the R is no longer defended and if 24...BxB then 25. QxR#. In the actual game, the continuation is: 25...Kf8 26.Qd6, winning the black rook. Perhaps 23...Rd8 would have been better for Black.
I watched the movie, "My Dinner with Andre" on video with my mom awhile back and her comment was that all they did was sit around and talk, lol. She also commented on how unattractive Wally Shawn was. Sorry Mr. Shawn, wherever you are. |
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| Oct-25-04 | | Marius: < kevin86>why not 27.Qxc5 ? |
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| Oct-25-04 | | KampongBoy: I agree, in Kevin86's comments, simply 27. Qxc5 would seem to be THE move! |
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| Oct-25-04 | | kevin86: I goofed above:white instead wins a rook by just playing: 25...♔f8 26 ♕d6+ ♘e7 27 ♕xc5 |
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| Oct-25-04 | | Larsker: <I watched the movie, "My Dinner with Andre" on video with my mom awhile back and her comment was that all they did was sit around and talk, lol. She also commented on how unattractive Wally Shawn was. Sorry Mr. Shawn, wherever you are.> Most boring film ever? I'm not a film buff, not at all, but I once saw "The Dead" based on a story by James Joyce - man, that was boring in a bad way.... |
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| Oct-25-04 | | Eatman: Loved the headline.
The point of "My dinner with Andre" was that you had to imagine all those crazy stories told at the dinner table. It was interesting in its own way. But yes not a movie you would want to watch again. |
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Oct-25-04
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Yep, looks like Andrei had Bologan for dinner. This is a good example of what Spielmann called a preventive or anti-castling sacrifice. Both Nd2 and c4 offer material to prevent Black from castling, and ultimately the Black King gets "sandwiched" by the Bishops and the Queen. OK, that's enough awful puns from me. |
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| Oct-25-04 | | weary willy: Bologan: "A large white sturgeon (Huso huso) of the Black and Caspian seas, whose roe is processed into caviar." |
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| Oct-25-04 | | orior: I don't understand the sacrifices in move 11 and move 14, I would have taken the rook and the horse too. if it's supposed to be some kind of "positional sacrifices" then I think that by not taking them, black here only made his position worse. |
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| Oct-25-04 | | orior: ok I see now. the left rook is dead if black takes the knight on move 14. |
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| Oct-25-04 | | Knight13: Black's Bxh2+ didn't work well. He should have castled earlier. |
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| Oct-25-04 | | Ed Caruthers: One of those rare games with a theme running all the way through it. After 12...d5, all Black's dark squares are weak. White offers a P at b2, an exchange at a1, and another P at h2 to get rid of the Bg7. The Bc5 dominates the game. And 26Qd6+ will use the dark square fork to finish. |
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| Oct-25-04 | | themindset: i find the whole idea of playing the sicilian Kan and then fiancettoing your dark bishop makes no sense.
why develop the dark bishop both ways, and leave the light bishop locked? black falls behind right away, and white can easily afford to offer the exchange with the promise of incredible pressure for the rest of the game. |
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| Oct-25-04 | | mahmoudkubba: Why black did not took the rook at a1 by the bishop when he could've afford it I can see no reason?? |
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| Oct-25-04 | | mahmoudkubba: If it is just the other rook on h8 black can save it easily cannot he?? |
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| Oct-25-04 | | who: Fritz agrees with you mahmoudkubba - 11...Bxa1 12.Qxa1 f6 13.cxd5 cxd5 14.exd5 exd5 15.Nc4 Kf7 (not dxc4 because 15...dxc4 16.Bxc4 Bf5 17.Re1 Rd1+ for instance) |
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| Oct-25-04 | | who: 22...Qd2 seems like a waste of a move, and Fritz agrees. |
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| Oct-25-04 | | patzer2: <Who> Thanks for the analysis of 11...Bxa1!? I visualized the Fritz line through 14...exd5 with the idea of 15...Kf7 and agree with <mahmoudkubba>'s conclusion -- "why not?" Sokolov's Rooks later give him crushing control of the b and c files. So maybe winning the exchange would have relieved the pressure on Bologan's position. |
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Oct-26-04
| | An Englishman: Good Evening: Thank you, weary willy, for the information! My pun was based on the fact that if you switch the "a" and the "n" in Bologan, you have bologna (or "baloney"), a type of lunch meat. |
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