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Samuel Reshevsky vs George N Treysman
"A Knight to Remember" (game of the day Sep-25-05)
USA ch 1938  ·  Catalan Opening: General (E00)  ·  1-0


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Sep-25-05
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  Landman: 7... Ne4, 9...c6, and 11...dxe4 all look suspicious. And ...f6 somewhere around moves 27-32 is wretched, but not as bad as allowing 33. f6+! (...Kxf6? 34.Ne8+ Ke5 35.Re1+ and 36.Rxb8)

Many great moves by Reshevsky in this game.

Sep-25-05   tolow4y: The two biggest mistakes black made was

1. the kings rook sat on the f file till the end of the game.

2. expanding his king side pawns dooming his knight to limbo.

Sep-25-05
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  Landman: Oh, what a knight,
On the sixth rank in the file d
What a very special square for me
As I remember what a knight.

Oh, what a knight,
You know it never had to move again
It was there until the very end
What an outpost, what a knight.

Sep-25-05   Gahvandure: <Landman>...make it stop...oh, lord...
Sep-25-05   TheSlid: <Landman> Nice parody of the Four Seasons song : )

BTW, I hope your hurricane season was not too bad for you folks.

Sep-25-05   Ezzy: Yes 17...Bd7? is the losing move, cutting off the the natural e7 square for the retreat of the Knight(which is what he should of played 17...Ne7)
Sep-25-05   RookFile: For my money, I thought 13. c5 was the best move of the game.
Sep-25-05
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  kevin86: I think <granite> was right;the game is supposed to focus on white's good knight,not black's one. I was once told that a knight on the sixth is as painful as a rusty nail in a knee or a painful extra bone in an athlete's foot.
Sep-25-05   RookFile: Yeah, but it's not like Reshevsky was the first guy in history to put a knight on d6.

You don't see a knight completely immobile on h8, every day of the week, though.

Sep-25-05
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  khense: <RookFile> Agreed. I've even had a few knights on D6 where I didn't win the game. But I don't think I ever had a knight stuck on h8,h1,a8,a1... nevertheless I found other ways to lose.
Sep-25-05   RookFile: Just to really confuse all of us, here is a game where ...Nh8 is a terrific move, leading to a winning black attack:

Korchnoi vs Fischer, 1970

Sep-26-05
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  Landman: <RookFile> True, but in that game there was no black pawn on f7, and the g-pawn was already traded and therefore couldn't block in the Nh8.

Nh8 is unusual but in that position it's not impossible to see. If you were thinking sacrificing at h3, transferring a Knight to g5 might come to mind, and after that the Ng6-h8-f7-g5 manuever. Also it would help if you were Bobby Fischer. Then you could see it rather easily.

Sep-26-05
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  khense: <Rookfile> In Korchnoi vs Fischer, Fischer's knight just stopped for gas on h8. Treysman's knight was in the junkyard. I remember the Korchnoi/Fischer game very well. Koichnoi never landed a punch on the queenside.
Sep-26-05   RookFile: Well, Treysman thought he was stopping for gas too, but he found out from Reshevsky that prices
were going up. :)
Sep-26-05
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  YouRang: Interestingly, this game could also have been called "A Knight to forget", referring to the pathetic creature on h8.
Sep-26-05
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  kevin86: A NIGHT TO REMEMBER-was a movie about the Titanic;here as a pun,it has an odd double meaning. First,the white knight is heroic at d6-despite its stayed state. Also,the black knight is in a no-escape status--like the doomed ship.
Sep-26-05
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  iron maiden: "A Night To Remember" was a very well-researched novel by Walter Lord. As always, the book was better than the movie.
Sep-26-05
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  drmariogodrob: What about a cue from the Eagles: "What a Knight to Remember, What a Knight to Forget"?
Apr-12-06   MorphyMatt: another example of a cool Nh1 is Piket vs Kasparov, 1989
May-25-06   crptone: A knight to remember indeed!

That knight served an important role for black during the entire game. On the powerful h8 square, the knight controls a lot of territory, and could be used either offensively or defensively. Using the great h8 outpost square, the knight was free to maneuver all around the board, unhampered by its opponent's or its own pawns.

Reshevsky should have done more to try to restrict the mobility of this knight, otherwise he would have no chances of winning at all. This game clearly highlights the importance of finding active counterplay and good squares for your pieces.

Just kidding if you couldn't tell :O

Jul-14-07   syracrophy: A Knightmare!
Jan-31-09   WhiteRook48: this is the worst thing that can happen to a knight
Feb-07-09   WhiteRook48: why not 1...f5?
Feb-23-09   WhiteRook48: trapped knight is horrible
Jun-02-09   WhiteRook48: 27...g6 looks bad
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