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| Dec-07-05 |
| redribbon3700: Can anyone tell me why my knights do not appear on the screen. Last thought Topalov is the real champion I mean Leko finished horribly in Argentina and barely "lost" to Kramnik who did not correctly earn the right to play Kasparov. Why does not Kramnik agree to play in the next world cup cycle and decide who is the best. This is because he is a COWARD. |
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| Dec-07-05 |
| aginis: for the record, i do think today's puzzle was a bit too easy for a wednsday. no black pieces can be captured, no black pieces can be threatened, and there are only two checks to consider. Furthermore there are 4 pieces attacking the g7 square and only 2 variations to consider after 38.Qg7+. on a scale of 1 to 10 this is a 2. by the middle of the week the puzzle should offer at least a few candidate moves or a number of variations to be checked. |
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| Dec-07-05 |
| pawntificator: This site is definitely for beginners as well as masters. Having two puzzles would be ridiculous. There are easy puzzles at the beginning of the week for everyone including beginners. At the end of the week, there are sometimes extremely difficult puzzles for everyone including masters. It can never hurt a beginner to try and solve difficult puzzles, or easy puzzles. I can't understand why everyone is always bickering around here. I love this site, I have been here for years, and it hurts sometimes to see what people are reduced to in the name of ego. Keep up the good work chessgames.com. I don't see any good lines after 38 e5. It seems white is still winning, but it isn't forcing. |
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| Dec-07-05 |
| TTLump: <aw1988> 38.e5 leads to a win for white but much more drawn out than the actual game. here is one possible continuation,
38. e5 fxe5
39. Qg7+ Bxg7
40. hxg7+ Qxg7
41. Rxg7 Nxd5
where white has a rook for three pawns, however it should be no trouble for white to mop up black's pawns with the extra rook, but I have not analyzed it past this point. |
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| Dec-07-05 |
| TTLump: I think this is a great site, and it's not perfect, but it's like the weather, somedays too hot, some too cold, some too wet and some just perfect, but everyday there is FREE oxygen to breath and we all take that for granted to some extent, so lets all just try a little harder to appreciate what we have here. |
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| Dec-08-05 |
| melianis: now i feel stupid. ok, it's 7 a.m. here but that's only an excuse. perhaps trying these in the mornings isn't the best way to start the day... _now_ i would've tried 38.e5 |
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Dec-08-05
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| chessgames.com: <redribbon3700: Can anyone tell me why my knights do not appear on the screen.> This is a bug with your web browser--most of the time it can be fixed just by closing your browser and restarting it. |
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Dec-08-05
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| chancho: <As Anderssen once noted, you cannot capture excellence in a silve box and put it in your pocket and keep it forever, like the blade of a knife,> <AJ>, if you were talking about Adolf Anderssen, the actual quote was:" It is impossible to keep one's skill in a showcase like a jewel". Adolf Anderssen said that quote, after he lost his match to Morphy. You also missed a letter on the word "silver". :-) |
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Dec-08-05
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| al wazir: <chancho: <LIFE Master AJ: As Anderssen once noted . . .>>
Since he said it in German both of you are paraphrasing, not quoting. |
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Dec-09-05
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| LIFE Master AJ: <al wazir> ???
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Dec-09-05
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| LIFE Master AJ: <RonB>
"Sadly, great chess ability in many seems to be positively correlated with the possession of ears and a tail." Do you mind telling me who you are referiing to here? (Just to clear the air.) |
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Dec-09-05
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| notyetagm: Beautiful use of the g7-outpost provided by the h6-pawn by Panno. |
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Dec-09-05
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| LIFE Master AJ: killer |
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| Dec-12-05 |
| Hobgoblin: Isn't life great. Just read Life Master AJ's second sentence and if it doesn't induce a slight smirk then you are probably clinically dead. |
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Dec-15-05
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| patzer2: White finishes off a won position with the clearance sacrifice 38. Qg7+! Black likely saw there was no point in prolonging a lost game with 39...Qxg7 40. Rxg7  and so conceded the mate after 39...Kg8 40. Nh6#. |
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Dec-20-05
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| LIFE Master AJ: Reading any of <Bobsnoblin>'s posts ... makes me wish I had never learned to read ... |
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| Dec-20-05 |
| hayton3: <LIFE Master AJ: <RonB>
"Sadly, great chess ability in many seems to be positively correlated with the possession of ears and a tail."
Do you mind telling me who you are referiing to here? (Just to clear the air.)> Paranoia has set in. Not to worry <LIFE Master AJ> he was referring to people with great chess ability. For once you are not the 'butt' of any jokes. |
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| Dec-22-05 |
| THE pawn: <LIFE Master AJ> <However, 39...Kg8? is a terrible mistake (blunder?), I calculated (without a computer) that Black had to return the Queen - and Fritz agrees with me.> find what's wrong here!
HAHAHA! |
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| Dec-23-05 |
| supermanprime: "LIFE Master AJ: Reading any of <Bobsnoblin>'s posts ... makes me wish I had never learned to read ..." Reading some of your posts makes me wish you had never learned to write! |
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Dec-23-05
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| chancho: < <However, 39...Kg8? is a terrible mistake (blunder?), I calculated (without a computer) that Black had to return the Queen - and Fritz agrees with me.>> So your suggestion is 39...Qxg7, dropping the Queen for the pawn, and playing on in a lost game.Brilliant! LOL!! |
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Dec-23-05
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| chancho: AJ must have meant 38...Qxg7, which is no better. After 39.hxg7+ Bxg7 40.Rxg7 Black is down a piece, and totally lost. |
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Dec-28-05
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| LIFE Master AJ: Stupid, I calculated everything first ... and only then checked it with the computer. Silly *&%VV*^^. |
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Dec-28-05
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| chancho: <Stupid, I calculated everything first ... and only then checked it with the computer. Silly *&%VV*^^.> Yes, it was rather stupid how you phrased it in your earlier post. |
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| Dec-28-05 |
| syracrophy: Fantastic! What more can I say? Black was lost even if he captured the queen with the queen: 38...Qxg7 39.hxg7+ Bxg7 40.Rxg7 winning Hey!!! But in the move 36, why not, instead of 36...Qf7, black plays better 36...Ne8 defending the g7 square? |
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Dec-28-05
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| chancho: <syracrophy> <why not, instead of 36...Qf7, black plays better 36...Ne8 defending the g7 square?> 36...Ne8 does defends the g7 square, but g8 is left open and white mates in one. |
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sac: 38.Qg7+