Sep-05-04
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| Knight13: Okay. White lost. Black born a queen. Nice game. |
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| Dec-03-04 |
| Jaymthegenius: Hey! the d5 break wasnt invented until the 1980's! and why did Philidor play the sicilian back then when theory wasnt even around? The most talented chessplayer in history, the great Richard Reti, would surly defeat anyone from pre-1920!!! |
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Dec-03-04
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| keypusher: The Sicilian goes back to Polerio in 1590(?) |
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| Dec-03-04 |
| Milo: It seems to me that white is dead lost after 37...h4 (and thus phillidor began a brilliant forcing combination with 32...b5!!) Here's what I'm looking at:
38.c4 bxc4 39.a4 h3 40.Kf2 e4 41.a5 e3+ 42.Kxe3 h2 43.a6 h1=Q 44.a7 Qh8 and wins. Just counting it, white takes 5 tempi to queen, plus Kf2 and Kxe3 makes seven tempi. Black takes five (...e4, ...e3, ...h3 and two moves to queen from the third rank.) Am I missing any improvements? |
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| Dec-03-04 |
| Milo: I guess white could actually move his knight to a different square on move 33... does black still win? |
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| Dec-03-04 |
| Ziggurat: I think black should still win, although it's not as forcing. I'll address the two alternative knight moves in two different posts. If 33. Nb6, the knight gets too far away from the scene of battle. After 33... Rh2+
34 Kd1 Rxd2+
35 Kxd2 Bd8
36 Nc8 h4
Black should win roughly in the same manner as in the actual game, but there is at least one pitfall: (continued)
37 Ke2 h3
38 Kf1 e4
39 fxe4 fxe4
40 Na7 e3
41 Nxb5
and if black now carelessly plays 41 - h2 42 Kg2 e2, white will pick up his e2 pawn with a knight check on d4. Instead black should play 41 - Bb6
which wins. |
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| Dec-03-04 |
| Ziggurat: Now on to the last alternative, Na5. A sample variation could be: 33. Na5 Rh2+
34. Kd1 Rxd2+
35. Kxd2 h4
36. Ke2 Bg5
The point of black's last move is to cut the knight off from the action. 37. Nb3 Kd5
Otherwise white can play 38. Nc5+ and get the knight back into play via d3. 38. Kf2 Kc4
Now white is in a losing position. 39. Na5+ Kd3 and white hasn't made any progress while black has infiltrated with his king and must win. And if 39. Na1 Kd3, white's knight looks pitiful in the corner. As soon as it goes to b3, black's king can go to c2 and gobble up white's queenside pawns. |
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| Mar-10-06 |
| blingice: What's with Atwood fleeing from the lone pawn at the end? |
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| Mar-10-06 |
| you vs yourself: <blingice> If you had 39.Kg2 in mind: It's a win anyway. Either the pawn on h-file or e-file will queen. Can't defend 'em both, when they're only 3 squares away from being promoted. My only guess to your question is that it might be his way of ending the game quickly. |
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| Jan-26-08 |
| pathfinderviii: looks like a dutch defense to me? |
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| Feb-01-08 |
| wolfmaster: <JayM> Reti was the greatest player of all time? He was not even a world champion! |
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| Mar-12-09 |
| dwavechess: 23/40 concur with Rybka 3 at 3 min. per move for Philidor |
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| Mar-12-09 |
| dwavechess: not much!, but times goes on ... |
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Jul-25-09
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| just a kid: Hard to see where White went wrong. |
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