| Oct-29-05 | | BadTemper: Talk about blundering away a full point! HAHAHA! What a great finale! |
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| Oct-29-05 | | BadTemper: White cannot stop mate including the threat of Kh3 haha |
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| Oct-31-06 | | Whitehat1963: Find the worst move after 32...Kf5. (But wouldn't 33. Qg4 be an even worse move?) |
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| Nov-01-06 | | Caissanist: I suppose that the <absolute> worst move is a matter of taste. But I don't think that 33.Qg4 is quite as excrutiatingly bad as Qxh7, since black still has the plausible Qxg4. That move only wins the queen for a bishop, rather than forcing mate. Of course after either move black can play Ke5, so it's more of a helpmate than a selfmate. |
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| Nov-18-06 | | syracrophy: I don't understand why White didn't captured the ♗ with the ♖ on the moves 32 and 33, when it was still possible. After 33...♔g4! 34.♖xb7?? it's impossible in sight of 34...♔h3!!<35.Kf1 Qd1#> 32.♖xb7 or 33.♖xb7 was saving White in my opinion. He's up a ♙ and the position seems to be drawish |
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Sep-21-08
 | | GrahamClayton: White missed a simple win with 29. ♖c1 ♗d7 30. ♖c7 ♕b1+ 31. ♔g2 ♕e4+ 32. f3, winning the Bishop. |
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| Sep-21-08 | | Autoreparaturwerkbau: <Graham> I was revising the game, stopped at the same move (29.h4?) and also wondered whether there was a flaw in 29.Rc1 (and so on - mentioned in your line). It seems to me the line is all good. White just didn't see it, or? |
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Nov-26-08
 | | sleepyirv: In a king hunt, you should always know where you're driving the king to! |
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| Nov-06-09 | | WhiteRook48: 32 Qd3+?! |
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| Nov-18-10 | | Tigranny: g4+ could've involved a queen exchange instead of Qxh7+?? |
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| Jan-05-12 | | Uvulu: <Tigranny: g4+ could've involved a queen exchange> I think Black has 32... Kf5, and then White has to give the exchange back to avoid mate. Still, that would be way better than Qxh7 |
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Oct-16-12
 | | FSR: <And here is a ludicrous game. White punishes the enemy king with flailing blows and drives the monarch clear across the board to his own lair. And then--White resigns.> I.A. Horowitz, <All About Chess>, p. 83. |
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Aug-26-14
| | FSR: The Hunter Becomes the Hunted. |
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| Feb-21-17 | | Olavi: According to Darga, Filip resigned within a breath, not looking at 34.e4 or Rxb7; Darga interpreted this as mild criticism of his own earlier behaviour. |
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| Apr-10-21 | | Shamot: If 34.Qg8+ kh3 35.Qxe6+ f5 36.Qxf5 Qxf5 37.Rxb7... Is it not hold able for white with four connected pawns?! |
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| Apr-10-21 | | faulty: Shamot> I'm afraid Qf3 follows. and then, gallows |
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| Apr-10-21 | | Brenin: 33 g4+ Ke5 (Ke4 34 Rxb7) 34 Rc5+ Bd5 35 Qb8+ Ke4 36 Qg3 and White should win comfortably. |
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| Apr-10-21 | | Timwestlund: <Shamot> after 37 ♖xb7 in your line, black plays 37...♕f3 with a double attack. |
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| Apr-10-21 | | Atking: Simply 33.Rc5+ Bd5 34.RxB+ then Qxh7+ with a powerful passed pawn. |
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Apr-10-21
 | | OhioChessFan: Nice game/pun combination. 33. Rc5+ looks winning to me. |
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| Apr-10-21 | | RandomVisitor: 30.Rc1, allowing 30...Bb7 and the alignment of the queen and bishop on the long diagonal with potential mating threats, has to be questioned. Better was 30.Qc7 Kg6 31.Rd8 where the white rook penetrates deep into black's territory without the mating threats which later allowed black to take advantage of a mistake by white. |
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Apr-10-21
| | FSR: From nomination to GOTD in less than seven years! |
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| Apr-10-21 | | RandomVisitor: Problems started with 18...Nxe4.
Better might be 18...Be7, although Stockfish would then have the white queen crawl under a rock with 19.Qb1 and 21.Qa1 - not exactly effective piece placement 
click for larger view Stockfish_21040618_x64_modern:
<66/81 56:51 -0.00 18...Be7> 19.Qb1 Qb6 20.Nxd5 Nxd5 21.Qa1 f6 22.h4 Rfd8 23.Bd4 Qb4 24.Bf3 Qa3 25.g4 Bf8 26.Qb1 Rxc1 27.Rxc1 Bd3 28.Qa1 Nb4 |
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Apr-11-21
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: The Qc2-b1-a1 sequence in <RandomVisitor's> post made the occasional appearance in Reti's games (and in one of my own, a victory). Feels rather a tad flattering that the silicon monsters might steal an idea or two from carbon-based life forms, even such an inferior one as myself. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 22...Rxf4