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Jan-19-10
 | | chancho: This game is mentioned in Irving Chernev's book: The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played.
Lasker kept Porges on the defensive throughout with all manner of threats until the end. |
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Oct-04-10
 | | al wazir: 30. Kf2 would have enabled white to hold out longer: 30...Rxf3+ 31. Kxf3 Rf8+ 32. Ke3 Qg5+ 33. Kd3. |
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Oct-04-10 | | I play the Fred: You're distraught
because you're not
able to cope
feel like a dope
when Lasker hits
Puttin on Moritz |
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Oct-04-10 | | Ferro: IN SPITE OF... |
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Oct-04-10 | | Ferro: I..... |
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Oct-04-10
 | | Once: This game is an old favourite. I really admire the way that Lasker uses threat after threat to grind white down, and then to end with a sparkling combination. |
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Oct-04-10 | | goodevans: <Tarrasch: "White just manages to avoid the loss of a piece"> History is written by the victors, and never more so than in chess where games were often portrayed as an inexorable journey to the inevitable conclusion. Tarrasch would have it that even the loser's good moves were some sort of fluke rather than a resource he had seen and relied upon several moves earlier. Fortunately bias in commentary is much rarer now, perhaps because of the contribution made by the silicon monsters. |
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Oct-04-10
 | | chrisowen: Sand in time flavored a gritty black rook queen attack. EL read sure the manual dining bloated. Knight tour in fine style sacrifice bold champ to net it. Wait tip-off hes pawn seals lamp raise floor whites king stuffed pudding and pie. Bald harrowing queen sticks blood in the gill you him axed! |
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Oct-04-10
 | | drleper: <goodevans> I think Tarrasch's comment is fair here. White's 14.Ne4? allowing 14...d5 and the ensuing play suggests that he probably wasn't aiming for 17.Qa6, but rather that it was the only option to stay in the game (hence the "avoiding the loss of a piece"). If you look at the position after 13.Rfe1 and then after 15...Ba3, you see that black has moved 3 pieces, while the white pieces are essentially unmoved! The result was a pretty strong positional advantage for black (those central pawns stifle the white pieces and create a nice outpost on d3). While there were surely better moves and resources for white, this is one of those games where it really does feel like black is marching towards an inevitable victory. |
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Oct-04-10
 | | kevin86: A good game by the good doctor-surgery at its finest. BTW,wouldn't that make a sim-ex tournament "meatball surgery? |
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Oct-04-10 | | rapidcitychess: Quite nice. |
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Oct-04-10 | | hstevens129: If instead of 30.Kxh3, I have
30.Kf2 Rxf3+
31.Kxf3 h4
32.Nf1 Qe4+
33.Kf2 Rf8+
34.Ke1 Rxf1+
35.Kd2 Rxd1+
36.Rxd1 and Black has a decisive material advantage |
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Oct-04-10 | | GRANTZIERER: I voted against the pun in game of the day pun voting... I guess the guy showed me. |
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Oct-04-10 | | SugarDom: This porridge is too cold??? |
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Oct-04-10 | | apexin: this is a truly terrible game by white. |
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Oct-05-10
 | | Once: <SugarDom: This porridge is too cold???> From Golidilocks and the three bears. She tried Daddy Bear's porridge but it was too hot. She tried Mummy Bear;s porridge, but it was too cold. But Baby Bear's porridge was just right. So she ate the lot... |
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Mar-09-11
 | | GrahamClayton: Lasker' play from moves 14 onwards resembles a coiled spring that is let loose with full effect. Every move has a direct threat which White has to meet, eg 15.♘g3 ♗b4 using the discovered attack to win the exchange, for example. |
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Feb-03-16
 | | offramp: I also first saw this game in an Inrving Chernev book but it was The Most Instructive Games of Chess Every Played, where I think its title was <Every Move A Threat>. It's amazing how the black ♘ from g8 goes to b7, as often happened in that old Berlin, but quickly manages to reach g2! It's quite a sprint. |
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Feb-03-16 | | JimNorCal: <offramp>: "It's amazing how the black knight from g8 goes to b7" This was the main line at that time, right? Wow. A main line that results in a knight being deposited on b7. What were they thinking? |
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Feb-03-16 | | Granny O Doul: The Nf6-e4-d6-b7 thing was the main line until rather recently. Korchnoi even played it in his '81 match with Karpov. |
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Feb-04-16
 | | offramp: <JimNorCal: <offramp>: "It's amazing how the black knight from g8 goes to b7"
This was the main line at that time, right? Wow. A main line that results in a knight being deposited on b7. What were they thinking?> It is a bit odd, but as <Granny O Doul> says it was used as recently as
Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1981, and even after that. Lasker wouldn't have played anything suspect, of course. I remember that there used to be a very flaky looking line in the Queen's Indian. But once Miles found the killer knock-out blow it disappeared forever: Miles vs Beliavsky, 1986. |
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Feb-04-16
 | | perfidious: In Reinfeld's collection of Tarrasch's best games, he gave a game in one of these Berlin lines where Black played ....Nf5 rather than the conventional ....Nb7 and came to grief. |
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Feb-07-16
 | | keypusher: <JimNorCal: <offramp>: "It's amazing how the black knight from g8 goes to b7"
This was the main line at that time, right? Wow. A main line that results in a knight being deposited on b7. What were they thinking?> Here is what Lasker said about the position after ...Nb7: <We have now come to a critical stage. Black's pieces have retired into safety, ready, with one single move, to occupy positions of importance. White, on the contrary, has the field to himself, but he can do nothing for the moment, as there is no tangible object of attack. Various efforts have been made to show that White has the superior position. I do not believe White has any advantage, and am rather inclined to attribute the greater vitality to to the party who has kept his forces a little back. > Tarrasch expresses a very different view in the tournament book: <If a Knight has made no fewer than four of the first eight opening moves in order to find itself afterward on the unbelievable post of b7, that seems to me so laughable that I cannot understand how this method of development can have been accepted as normal after many decades.> Solomon Hecht also wrote a very funny critique of this defense in <Telling off the World Champion>, reprinted in <The Fireside Book of Chess.> |
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Nov-29-16 | | chessrookstwo: A clean operation by the doctor Lasker .smoked him |
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Mar-18-18
 | | Honza Cervenka: 14.Ne4 was a mistake. Tarrasch's suggestion 14.Qf1 played against him in Vienna by Schiffers two years later is definitely better but 14.Nf1 or 14.Nc4 deserve attention too. |
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