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| Jan-03-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: I'm not sure if 21.Nf5+!? is entirely sound. Crafty analyzes that it leads to a draw at best by perpetual check: 21...gxf5 22.Qg5+ Kh8 23.Qxh5+ Kg7 24.Qg5+ Kh8 etc.
Also, I have my doubts about 24...Rxf5!? and 30...Kxf7!? (why not 30...Rxf7 preventing the forking Queen check 32.Qd5+?). Interesting game though! |
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Jan-03-06
 | | Sneaky: 21...gxf5 would give White the advantage. There's no way Black would be able to fight off the attack without giving back material. I can imagine first to mop up all the Black pawns, 21...gxf5 22.Qg5+ Kh7 23.Qxf5+ Kg8 24.Qg5+ Kh7 25.Qxh5+ Kg8, and now simply 26.Rh3 
click for larger viewI plugged this into my computer and it found a pathetic defense: 26...Nxe4 27.Qg4+ Kh7 28.fxe4 and now it's hard to argue that White's not winning--in fact Black will have to make further concessions to avoid an immediate mate (e.g. 28...Rxc2?? 29.Qh5+ Kg7 30.Rg3+ Kf6 Qf5#). I don't know if this is exactly what AJ had in mind, but there's no doubt that White is looking at more than a perpetual. Well done! |
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| Jan-03-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: Nice analysis, <sneaky>, you convinced me. Thanks! |
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| Jan-03-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: So it appears 21.Nf5+ is sound after all. What about 24...Rxf5 and 30...Kxf7? |
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Jan-03-06
| | Sneaky: Those are much harder questions to answer, at least for me. |
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Jan-05-06
 | | LIFE Master AJ: Sneaky, thanks for the post. Good job of analysis.
There is no doubt that ... if Black is foolish to accept the sack ... that White gains the upper hand. There were many good players at this tournament, guys like Stephen Muhammed and Todd Andrews. Just about everyone submitted their own game, so it was a real honor to be awarded the official (first) "Brilliancy Prize" for this game for the whole tournament. This game used to be posted on several different places on the Internet, but at least two (for sure) have closed. Thanks to "Chess Games" for posting this!!
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Jan-06-06
| | LIFE Master AJ: http://www.logicalchess.com/hcc/rep... |
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Jan-06-06
| | LIFE Master AJ: http://www.angelfire.com/games3/lif...
(My annotations of this game.)
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Jan-07-06
 | | Richard Taylor: If 24. ... Rxf5 doesn't happen White is threatening 25. Rxg6+ fxg6 26 Qxg68+ Kh8 27 Qxh5+ Kg8 28. Qg6+ Kh8 29. Qh6+ Kg8 30. Qxe6+ Kh8 31. Qh6+ Kg8 32. Qg7# So Black is in dilemma as to how to defend - this is great attacking and instructive game by A.J. I must say. Whether everything is sound etc is hard to see... 24..Rf8 and the above procedure occurs and White gets probably a won endgame. (Knight and pawns v a rook) |
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Jan-07-06
| | LIFE Master AJ: <Richard Taylor> Thanks for the compliment. And one of the masters at the tournament said basically the same thing. ("Good game A.J.! But was it all sound?") I never found a flat-out refutation ... in fact when I first played this game, my previous computer (and much older chess program) were almost of no real use in analyzing the different variations. |
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| Jan-08-06 | | Father Karras: Instead of the silly 20...Rc8 black could have gained the initiative by the simple 20...d5. If white plays 21.e5, then 21...e6 gives black a better position despite the f6 hole, as he had the c2 pawn as a target for subsequent tripling of the major pieces on the c file to distract white. Black played poorly and weakened his k-side considerably with moves like 17..Bb7 and 19...h5. Incidently, 22...d5 also gives black better chances despite white's attack, as it eventually guards black's 2nd rank and opens files for his rooks to move in, since white can't castle. |
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Jan-09-06
| | LIFE Master AJ: <Father Karras>
20...Rac8! is the FIRST move choice of Fritz 8.0 after over 10 minutes of machine time. What are you suggesting?
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Jan-09-06
 | | TheAlchemist: Where is Space City? |
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Jan-09-06
| | LIFE Master AJ: This game was played in a tournament in Huntsville, AL. As to why they call it "Space City," I think it is because they have a lot of contractors there who do work for NASA. |
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| Jan-09-06 | | Father Karras: I'm suggesting the human brain is better than some computer. Study the lines from d5 and show me a win for white. |
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Jan-09-06
| | LIFE Master AJ: <Father> You are beginning to sound like <KingG>. |
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| Jan-09-06 | | ughaibu: How about Nf5 in answer to d5? |
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| Jan-09-06 | | KingG: <You are beginning to sound like <KingG>.> What is this supposed to mean? By the way, you still haven't responded to my posts on either Judit Polgar vs Kasimdzhanov, 2005 or Ivanchuk vs S Volkov, 2005, so i take it you accept that your analysis in both cases was faulty. |
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| Jan-09-06 | | alicefujimori: <EmperorAtahualpa>30...Rxf7?? 31.Rxg6+ and bye bye the black Queen. This may sound shocking, but Black actually missed a very good defence which not only enable him to survive white's attack, but could of also given him a very nice endgame advantage (if not winning!). The move is...29...f5! An example variation runs: 30.Qc4 Kh7 31.f4 Qh8! (a very difficult move to find) 32.Re3 Rc8 33.Qd3 Qc3 34.Qd2 Rxe3 35.Qxe3 Qc8! 36.Qe2 Kg7 37.g3 Qc5+ 38.Kf3 Qd5+ 39.Kf2 Kf6 and Black completely dominates the endgame. |
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| Jan-09-06 | | Shams: <alicefujimori> do you mean 33...Rc3 instead of ...Qc3? interesting line! |
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| Jan-09-06 | | alicefujimori: <Shams>Oops, a typo. Thanks for the correction. |
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Jan-09-06
| | LIFE Master AJ: I first pointed out the possibility of 29...f5 on my web page. |
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| Jan-09-06 | | Shams: I assume that you were unable to refute it, or you would have posted the line here. just out of curiosity, what did you have AJ? |
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| Jan-10-06 | | alicefujimori: <LMAJ>Sorry to disappoint you, but I'd actually found 29...f5 myself while I was looking for a defence for Black. Since you've mentioned your website, I went to see your annotations for this game just now and found that you've indeed mentioned 29...f5 (good boy :)), but you've failed to mention 30...Kh7!. I've actually spent over two hours last night analyzing the resulting endgame that arises after 29...f4 and after looking at almost all the possible variations, I can conclude now that with the exception of one variation where White MIGHT be able to survive with a draw, all other variations should lead to a win for Black. There are three reasons for White's downfall:
1) The dominance of the Black Queen on the a1-h8 diagonal AND the centre. 2) White's King is exposed.
3) The sorry-looking rook on g3.
If you want to, I can always post my analysis up. But since there are quite a number of variations involved, I will only post my analysis up when it is necessary to do so. Anyway, sorry for ruining your annotations full of "!!" and "!?" :) |
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Jan-10-06
| | LIFE Master AJ: <alice> You didn't ruin anything. Your thoughts are appreciated, but your criticisms will not change the fact that this game won the brilliancy prize. |
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