| Mar-20-05 | | coffee monster: 26.Rg6+!!
26...hxg6 27.Qxf7+ Kh8 28.Qh7#
26...Rxg6 27.Qxf7+ Kh8 28.Qxh7#
26...fxg6 27.Qf7+ Kh8 28.Qxh7#
26...Kh8 27.Qf6#
26...Kf8 27.Qxf7# |
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| Mar-20-05 | | aragorn69: Nice find, <cm>. But thatīs easy to miss in a blindfold game... ;-) |
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| Mar-20-05 | | samvega: hats off, coffee monster. |
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Mar-20-05
 | | keypusher: <coffee monster> Stunning! And to think that 25... g5, by blocking the queen from g6, makes it possible. . . .I wouldn't see it in a million years. Especially because it looks like black is doing all the attacking. |
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| Mar-21-05 | | cade: Not often that Leko misses a mate in 3 |
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| Mar-21-05 | | iron maiden: <coffee monster> Very nice work. I wonder if anyone else has found it yet. |
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| Mar-21-05 | | offramp: Superb move! |
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| Mar-21-05 | | ajit: The move was found on playchess by kibitzers even before 26.Rf2 was actually played. Everybody including Yaz were discussing how he could have missed 26.Rg6 ,then and there itself. |
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| Mar-21-05 | | aragorn69: Of course, kibitzing with Fritz on, I would find too, in less than a second. What matters is that those guys are playing blindfold and without the assistance of a computer chess engine. |
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Mar-21-05
 | | acirce: Very strange that none of them saw it. I guess with these time controls they may have been in serious time trouble already. |
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Mar-21-05
 | | cu8sfan: <Very strange that none of them saw it.> Very strange to say that about a blindfold... (-: |
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Dec-20-05
 | | notyetagm: Nunn saw the clearance sacrifice 26 g6+!! in the press area where the games were being analyzed live. |
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Jan-31-06
| | notyetagm: 26 g6+! is one of my all-time favorite examples of the tactical theme of <CLEARANCE>. Leko should have thought to himself:
<If only my f6-rook was not blocking my f1-queen along the f-file then I could win immediately with Qxf7+ and Qxh7#>. Leko once again shows you his lack of killer instinct. A great attacking player would have seen this idea, even in a blindfold game, with all of that pressure against the f7-square. |
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| Mar-18-06 | | MoonlitKnight: <time trouble> These guys wouldn't normally miss Rg6, even in a blindfold game. Mind you, they play at GM strength even without sight of the board. But the rapid time controls at Amber makes it a different story, because the difficulty of blindfold chess increases greatly when the time is limited. |
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Dec-16-08
| | notyetagm: 26 ?
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26 f6-g6+!! <line clearance> 
click for larger view<coffee monster: 26.Rg6+!!
26...hxg6 27.Qxf7+ Kh8 28.Qh7#
26...Rxg6 27.Qxf7+ Kh8 28.Qxh7#
26...fxg6 27.Qf7+ Kh8 28.Qxh7#
26...Kh8 27.Qf6#
26...Kf8 27.Qxf7#>
<notyetagm: Nunn saw the clearance sacrifice 26 Rg6+!! in the press area where the games were being analyzed live.> <ajit: The move was found on playchess by kibitzers even before 26.Rf2 was actually played. Everybody including Yaz were discussing how he could have missed 26.Rg6 ,then and there itself.> With 26 f6-f2?? Leko (White) brought the White f6-rook back to defend the weak g2-square instead of forcing <MATE IN 3> with 26 f6-g6+!!. (CONT)
26 ... h7xg6 27  f1xf7+  g8-h8 28 f7-h7#
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