Oct-08-19
 | | OhioChessFan: "Pokern Stars" |
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| Oct-20-19 | | spingo: From the German Bundesliga. "Bundes" meaning "League" and "Liga" meaning "League". |
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Oct-20-19
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: But White only wins because of 43...Qxe6? and 44...g6??, correct? Didn't Black miss a winning continuation, or two, or three, or more? |
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| Oct-20-19 | | newzild: <An Englishman> It looks to me like simply 44...Kg8 wins. |
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| Oct-20-19 | | goodevans: <44...g6??>. Yikes! What a terrible move. Yes, of course <44...Kg8> wins. And it's pretty simple, as <newzild> suggests. There seem to be three possibilities:
(a) If <45.e7> then <45...Rd1+ 46.Kh2 Kf7> winning easily. (b) Any other move that abandons the e-pawn would likewise be an easy win for black as soon as he captures it. (c) If white holds onto the e-pawn with <45.Bc6 Kf8 46.Bd7> then black's R is free to go on the rampage. A really bad miss by black. |
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| Oct-20-19 | | faulty: Whatever the pun, games of this quality IMO do not deserve to be GOTD.
spingo> check before writing. "bundes" is "federal" in German |
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| Oct-20-19 | | spingo: <faulty> Never check! Never explain! Never apologize! Never surrender! That's my motto. |
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Oct-20-19
| | OhioChessFan: <faulty>, there are 700,000 games here, many of them high quality. Cg.c needs 365 puns a year. Get to work. |
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Oct-20-19
 | | AylerKupp: According to Stockfish 10, after 44.fxe6
click for larger view... almost anything wins. At d=35 Stockfish evaluated its 5 top moves as follows, with all the evaluations increasing: 44...Rd1+: [-8.45]
44...Kg8: [-8.35]
44...Rc8: [-7.60]
44...Re8: {-7.44]
44...e4: [-6.09]
My first thought was 44...Re8 immediately attacking White's only threat and forcing him into the defensive. Then the Pe6 can be blockaded by 45...Re7. Plenty of time for ...g6 and ...Kg8 to relief the rook from guard duty, given the far away position of White's king on h1. Maybe, for a change, this position should be a POTD with the caption "Black to move and lose"! :-) |
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| Oct-20-19 | | TheaN: I'm intrigued to know what Bassler was thinking when he played 43....Qxe6?! I can perfectly understand that he preferred to avoid giving White even a glance at Qe8, but 44....g6??????#@$%^& (out of question marks and the other symbols don't work too well). White has literally just <one plan>: Bc6 and e7. And one thing g6 does not prevent is Bc6 and e7. After 44....Kg8 -+, give back the exchange when it works and the win's not hard at all. |
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| Oct-20-19 | | mrknightly: <faulty> "Bund" can also refer to a group such as a federation or even a club-like group,z.B. the "German American Bund." |
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| Oct-20-19 | | TheaN: One trap I could see Black fall for is <44....Rd6?!> which seemingly picks up e6 straight away (45.e7 Re6 -+) but this instant shot doesn't work because <45.Bd5!> defends the pawn just as much and now Black has to actually retreat to win <45....Rd8! (Rxd5? 46.e7 +-) -+>, but this does still work. |
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Oct-20-19
 | | keypusher: < TheaN: I'm intrigued to know what Bassler was thinking when he played 43....Qxe6?! > Giving 43....Qxe6 a "?!" is actually pretty generous since 43....Rd1+ is a forced mate: <43...Rd1+ 44.Kh2 Qg1+ 45.Kg3 Qe3+ 46.Kh4 Rd4+ 47.Kh5 Qe2+ 48.Kg5 Qxg2+ 49.Kh5 Qxh3+ 50.Kg5 Rg4#> (SF).
(Though of course ....Qxe6 is more than good enough to win, as already pointed out.) Anyway, Black went from a forced mate to a forced loss in just two moves. Maybe a time scramble where Black didn't know he'd passed the control? |
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