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Karl-Friedrich Grimm vs Christophe Leotard
"Gymnastic Leotard" (game of the day Dec-15-2006)
W-ch22 sf03 corr (1997) (correspondence), ICCF corr, Dec-15
Sicilian Defense: Nezhmetdinov-Rossolimo Attack (B30)  ·  0-1

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Dec-15-06  nimzo knight: Can anyone comment on 24..Bxh3 or 25..Bxh3. Also the reason why white plays 25. Qd1 putting the queen along the rook diagonal ?
Dec-15-06  think: Qd1 looks like a mistake to me.
Why play Bxh3 on move 24 when there is a useful in-between move, Nf4, that does not lose time and improves the position of a piece? As for 25. Bxh3, I believe black holds with a plus after gxh3 Qxh3 Ne1, attacking the queen and defending g2.
Dec-15-06
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  al wazir: <nimzo knight>: 24...Bxh3 25. gxh3 Qxh3 26. Nd2 doesn't look so great for black.

Why didn't black play 40...Bg3+ and 41...Qxe5 ?It would have shortened the game by about ten moves.

Dec-15-06  crafty: 24...♗xh3 25. gxh3 ♘f4 26. ♕d1 ♕xh3 27. ♘e1 ♘e2+ 28. ♕xe2   (eval 1.51; depth 15 ply; 250M nodes)
Dec-15-06  Sularus: Grimm predicament.
Dec-15-06
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  chrisowen: 1..c5 a sound bet
Dec-15-06  kevin86: Was this game real or was it a Grimm fairy tale? Actually this game is a rare one between Epynominous (sp) players-that is players who have names associated with products or other words in the language. I'm guessing,however,that these men were NOT the once that the products were named for.

White is left with a bishop and a staid pawn to stop five of the enemies' pawns. It would take at least a Cardinal to stop that many.

Dec-15-06  aragorn69: Fitting pun! ;-)
Dec-15-06  technical draw: A fairy tale of ballet like pawns.

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