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Ruth Haring vs Pia Cramling
"Pickled Haring" (game of the day Aug-29-05)
VICC Women's Tournament 1981  ·  Sicilian Defense: Closed. Fianchetto Variation (B24)  ·  0-1


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Apr-05-04   jaime gallegos: wow! both sides walked near to the disaster !
Apr-05-04
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  kevin86: I thought that white would queen first and win! He does neither!
Apr-05-04
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  ToTheDeath: "He" is a she, kevin. :-)
Apr-06-04
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  kevin86: Correction-WHITE does neither
Aug-29-05
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  bumpmobile: I find it interesting that, on move 15, black takes back with the g-pawn instead of the e-pawn. Was there an immediate threat to opening up the e-file, or was this just good analysis of the postiton?
Aug-29-05   misguidedaggression: <---Throws a rock that strangely resembles Paul Morphy at PaulLovric.
Aug-29-05
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  WannaBe: Pia really cramling'ed that pawn down the b-file.

<bumpmobile>Take towards the center, maintain pawn structure.

Aug-29-05   Bobwhoosta: These are my favorite games, where objectively till the end both sides have some sort of hope of taking the glory, and a single slip can take the winning side and make them into the losing side. Tal's "narrow mountain path".
Aug-29-05
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  ReikiMaster: Call me oldfashioned if you like but I think a bit of kindheartedness is in order when choosing puns about ladies! Anyway I thought Pia had this under control for quite a while.
Aug-29-05
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  YouRang: White threw a lot of attack at Black's kingside at the expense of allowing Black's promotion threat on the queenside. Usually, that's not a bad strategy, but solid defensive work by Cramling keeps the White attack at bay, buying the time she needs to make her queenside advantage decisive.
Aug-29-05   knightfever: Why 25.Nh4 and not bxc4 ?
Aug-29-05   jcmoral: if 25.bxc4 then Black can push that a-pawn down the file. Not really analysis of course, just a first glance opinion.
Aug-29-05   knightfever: But white has a knight on c3 and a rook on e1...
Aug-29-05
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  YouRang: I tend to agree with jcmoral. 25. bxc4 could be answered by 25... Nxc4. Now, white's queen is under attack, black's rook controls the b file, black has a passed pawn on the a file, and black's d7 bishop and queen are have lots of mobility -- particulary in support of the passed pawn.
Aug-29-05
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  kevin86: I really enjoyed this one-nice to see it again.
Aug-29-05
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  ajile: I don't understand 23.d4 by White. He has a good position with pressure in the center but this move gives Black counterplay on the Q-side.
Aug-29-05
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  YouRang: <ajile> I don't know if 23. d4 was white's best choice, but white had to be concerned about ...Bc3, skewering white's queen and rook. (This of course would be preceded by ...Bxa4 to remove the knight that guards c3.)
Aug-30-05
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  ajile: <YouRang: I don't know if 23. d4 was white's best choice, but white had to be concerned about ...Bc3, skewering white's queen and rook. (This of course would be preceded by ...Bxa4 to remove the knight that guards c3.)>

Good point. Black has a real threat here. Perhaps White should have thought ahead and prepared for Black's Q-Side breakthrough. Taking the a pawn leaves the Knight in an awkward spot.

Aug-30-05
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  patzer2: The little deflection 23...c4! emphasizes that White has a positionally lost game. Playing the Leningrad Dutch in reverse did not help White much at all against Black's solid strategy of center control coupled with a strong Queenside advance.

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