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Grigory Serper vs Ioannis Nikolaidis
"The Usurper" (game of the day Jun-08-04)
St Petersburg Open 1993  ·  King's Indian Defense: Kramer Variation (E70)  ·  1-0


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Feb-06-06   Jim Bartle: And moreover, what about the KING's gambit? Where is the king sacked?
Mar-06-06   IMFSTJP: The authors of these gambit names should be sacked.
Mar-06-06
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  norami: I remember seeing a game where White sacked five pieces without capturing any of Black's pieces. White was down to a Queen and Rook and Black had all seven pieces on the board! Alas, all those pieces didn't do Black any good, White's Queen and Rook forced a quick checkmate.
Mar-06-06
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  TheAlchemist: Also, <aw1988> probably forgot, 24.R1a7 and 26.Qd5 both sacrifice+ the dark-squared Bishop
Mar-06-06   aw1988: Oh yeah, fair point.
Mar-30-06   Stelling: Has anyone seen a comented version of this game ?? I'd appreciate if I could be pointed to this game analisys.
Mar-30-06   Jim Bartle: Don't know what kind of web presence Informant has, or whether you have access to old Informants, but this game was #620 of volume 59.
Mar-30-06   Stelling: Thanks a lot Jim!
I just found Serper's comments on the game.
Mar-30-06   Jim Bartle: Stelling: If Serper actually claims to understand this game, I swear he must be lying...
Apr-06-06   Stelling: I don't dispute that Jim but I'm sure Serper got it better after the fact. ;)

I can send you his analisys, if you want.

Jul-24-06
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  Phony Benoni: I think that a game like this where at least one of each type of piece is sacrificed should be called a "smorgasbord".
Jul-27-06
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  Phony Benoni: Serper published notes to this in Blitz Chess for Spring, 2000. He mentions one variation that is worth looking at: 21...Qb7? 22.c6 Qb8 23.b6, producing this position:


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This does not seem to be a pleasant position for Black. Serper's comment was: "When I found this position in my calculations, I already knew that this might be special."

Jun-11-07   Pennypacker: I'm reading Watsons "Chess strategy in action" right now and came upon this beauty. What a game!
Jul-07-07
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  ketchuplover: Do u remember who,when,and where?
Sep-09-08   Katu: This is awesome!
Oct-12-08   Amulet: This is a marvelous game!
I have a question though.
How would classify this game on white's point of view , a positional or tactical game,
Jan-09-09   WhiteRook48: all these sacs... with all the sacs, you'd wonder where Serper got all these ideas from...
Feb-15-09   WhiteRook48: this is probably a purely tactical game
Feb-26-09   WhiteRook48: 41. Qxe7+ is technically not a sacrifice
Mar-18-09   WhiteRook48: I wonder if Serper knew what he was doing
May-25-09   Verklarte Nacht: I was looking at 24 ... fxe3, and white has the very pretty 25 Re7+ Kd8 26 Qxb4 exf2+ 27 Kxf2 Nd7 28 Qa5+ Nb6 29 Qxb6+ Qxb6 30 cxb6 followed by b7 and bxc8Q#
Jul-24-09
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  deadlysin: he sacrificed all of his pieces!
Aug-05-09   WhiteRook48: are they sound?
Aug-30-09   gochess2009: Of course Serper couldn't have calculated all the variations of all the sacs. No one could do that. He just used his GM intuition and decided that the 2-3 passed pawns on the 6th would be good enough compensation for the 2 pieces + the exchange. Impressive game.
Nov-06-09   timothee3331: Impressive! Wonderful! Fantastic!
WHO can now imagine chess is a sport or a game? WHO can possibly think it is exhausted? NO, new possibilities are discovered, and that makes chess one of the greatest arts never invented!
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