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| Jun-03-05 | | notyetagm: A beautiful <clearance> combination: 24 ... ♕xd1+! 25 ♖xd1 ♘c2+, forking White's king and queen. For another example of the queen-grabs-a-rook-with-check-clearing-off -a-square-for-a-knight-fork tactic, see Aleksandrov vs Adams, 2002. |
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| Dec-18-05 | | itz2000: beautiful play by black! |
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| May-15-06 | | MrMojoRisin: Oops I spent a few minutes thinking it was White to play. |
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| May-15-06 | | NakoSonorense: Nice ending. Every time I see a game involving a fork like this, i remember that beautiful game played by Petrosian against.... some other guy. Although it is slightly different from this one. |
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| May-15-06 | | yataturk: Took half a minute to see...
Sac the queen for the K-Q fork |
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| May-15-06 | | suenteus po 147: It's always nice to solve a tricky Monday puzzle, especially when it looked like I wouldn't solve it! |
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| May-15-06 | | zev22407: To Nakosonorense.
It was in one of the Petrosian-Spasky games in 1966 match. |
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| May-15-06 | | dzechiel: Saw it pretty quickly (instantly the moment I stopped looking for a checkmate). I wonder if playing white I would have noticed this combination on move 22? It's easy to see if you are told that there's something in the position, but might be difficult to suspect otherwise. |
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| May-15-06 | | Capa15: sheesh. white could have resigned a lot earlier. this is too easy. |
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| May-15-06 | | Madman99X: D'oh! I saw the winning combination and thought to myself, "that wins, BUT why not 24... Qb1! 25. Rxb1 Nc2#." Of course I failed to see the obvious 25 Kxb1, at which point the exclamation mark takes a curvacious quality, and becomes a question mark. |
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| May-15-06 | | Fezzik: Ok, why did Black play on after 24....Qxd1? Resigning was a much better choice. 24...Qxd1 doesn't really deserve an exclam since it was the culmination of an attack started much earlier (probably by 20...Nb4). |
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| May-15-06 | | NakoSonorense: Thanks, zev22407. I don't know how I could forget Spasky's name. I need to take a look at those games one more time. Take care! |
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| May-15-06 | | gauer: notyetagm: there's a bit more to it after 26 K-only NxQ, for if 27 BxR, trying to win back the exchange with 27 ... RxB expected, black instead improves via 27 ... NxR, since the rook has been diverted via an overload tactic on the e-rook. White could've gotten suspicious when he saw f5, cutting off flights for the bishop, and instead tries Qe3?! Rb8 suggests a strong threat of a fork via N->b4->d5 x B, and I think white is strategically lost if he wants a5 as the bishop flight square, in view of the self-pin Bc5? The knight looks more like a decoy than a line-clearer, in view of the fact that the white pin won't force a good exchange of the bishops. Instead, with Ba5, black gets sweeping bishops, open files with an attack, and much stronger piece co-operation. Jano Ban, Tactical Chess Endings, is a lovely read for such definitions of the elements. |
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| May-15-06 | | babakova: I found the move, more interesting is the fact I thought Nigel Short was white... |
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| May-15-06 | | prinsallan: Only took me a few seconds so find and about 15 more to doublecheck it. |
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| May-15-06 | | mig55: It took me 10 sec this time... |
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| May-15-06 | | Richerby: <Madman99X: `the exclamation mark takes a curvacious quality'> LOL -- like it. I spent a little while trying to get a smothered mate, too. |
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| May-15-06 | | naicserf: it's easy one!!! huh!!! |
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| May-15-06 | | euripides: It's worth noticing 26 Kb1 Nxe3 27 Bxf8 Nxd1 28 Bc5, cutting the knight off. Black can defend the knight along the e file or better play 28...f4 securing e3 and coming out a rook up. |
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| May-15-06 | | spirit: gotcha...! |
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| May-15-06 | | United33: got it, but it takes me several minutes. It should be wednesday puzzle i think |
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| May-15-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: I was looking for a direct mate at first, since it's Monday after all. I was looking for a smothered mate of some kind. But still it took me only 15 seconds or so to find the solution to this puzzle. |
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| May-15-06 | | euripides: Black's early d5 is active, but leaves some weaknesses. Perhaps White should try 14 Rxd5 Bxd5 15 Nb6 Qd8 16 Nxa8 Qxa8 17 Bc5, when black has some difficulty castling. 21...Bxb3 starts the decisive combination. |
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| May-15-06 | | monad: Took me only 10 seconds to find my glasses and look down the movelist for move 24... :-) |
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sac: 24...Qxd1+