| Dec-16-06 |
| Jackz: Why did Black resign? He was only down a pawn and I don't see any winning combinations for White. Surely he could have continued to put up a fight? |
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| Dec-16-06 |
| Sleeping kitten: I've seen more brilliant games, I believe. |
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| Dec-16-06 |
| JBCabell: Pretty much a run of the mill game. If...17 QxQ 18 Ba3+ Kg8 19 RxQ, will allow both of white's rooks on the seventh and then it goodbye to the a pawn for black. In other words, black can't free his rook, or do much with his knight, without loosing more pawns. |
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| Dec-16-06 |
| GrandPatzerSCL: I agree with the User: Sleeping kitten. Not too exciting... |
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Dec-16-06
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| Sneaky: Maybe this isn't the Game of the Century but I find it intriguing anyhow. It's obviously a case of an opening gone wrong, but where exactly did Black go wrong? If you can't answer that question then the game is "over your head" in a sense. The loser in a chess game MUST make a mistake! I was starting to think he might have been OK with 12...Ne4 but then I started to wonder, can't White play 13.Nxe4! Bxe1 14.Nc5 with good effect? So if 12...Kf8 wasn't the error then maybe 11...Bb4 was the problem. 11...Be7 looks better, but in my opinion it could then go 12.Ne5 Nxe5 13.dxe5  I looked at a few other tries for Black and I finally started to think that he went wrong as early as 7...Bd7. If such an innocent looking move proves to be fatal, then that's pretty interesting. |
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Dec-16-06
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| BishopofBlunder: <Sneaky>, I think you are right. It's hard to tell where black went wrong. 7...Bd7 was probably the first mistake. I think 8...Bxd5 was bad as well. It moved the same piece on consecutive moves, didn't develop a piece or improve black's position, and gave white an attack with initiative. The rest of the game, black is just trying to play catch-up. |
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| Dec-16-06 |
| JBCabell: I think 7...Nc6 was necessary for equality and to allow black to castle. For instance: 7..Nc6 8.Nf3 Bg4 etc, or 7...Nc6 8.Bxc6 bxc6 and black will be very happy when he sees he can play his bishop to either g4 or,if he's slick, to a6. |
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| Dec-16-06 |
| thedoyle: Why didn't white check on 14. Ng6+ ? winning queen? |
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Dec-16-06
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| Sneaky: <Why didn't white check on 14. Ng6+ ? winning queen?> Believe it or not, I think the continuation is even stronger. |
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| Dec-16-06 |
| gus inn: today Danielsen is a strong GM.
1982 was one of his learningyears. |
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Dec-16-06
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| Richard Taylor: Yes it is easy to go wrong even early in the opening - often by making routine moves - I have gone wrong (much too) frequently myself by such "routine "moves ..in fact I think it was this Danielson who I beat when he went wrong in blitz game (I think it was on WCN and I recall getting a surprise to learn I had checkmated a GM ); maybe he was drunk! But this game could have happened to anyone - it is hard often to see how games transform into difficult positions -then losses. |
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Dec-16-06
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| Phony Benoni: Perhaps 6...exd5 was not best. 6...Nxd5 posts the knight in front of the isolated d-pawn, and also keeps the e-file closed. If 6...Nxd5 7.Nxd5 Qxd5, when the queen cannot be easily chased away and keeps up pressure on the isolated pawn. |
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| Dec-16-06 |
| aldehyde: cmon people. it happens with the learners. ya, there were some mistakes in the play of black. but this old game's black is a GM today...
<thedoyle>, yup, it would have definetly got the queen. |
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| Dec-16-06 |
| KingV93: <Sneaky> In my humble patzers opinion 8. ..Bxb5 is the mistake, the queen recaptures with check and whites initiative begins to snowball. I think Be7 is better and if Bxd7+ then Qxd7 keeping an eye on b7 and d5. I am new to this and appreciate anyone enlightening me as to what I am missing. |
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| Dec-16-06 |
| KingV93: aha... 8. ..Be7 9.Bg5 0-0 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11. Nxd5 is bad I guess, I did say I am a patzer didn't I? |
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| Dec-16-06 |
| sfm: Anything wrong with 11.-,Be7 ? E.g. 12.Bg5,Rd8 13.Re1,0-0 ? One would think that there must be since Black instead prefers 11.-,Bb4 12.Re1+,Kf8, yikes! |
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Dec-16-06
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| al wazir: <sfm>: I think black is OK after 11...Be7. Passive, cramped, on the defensive, but able to survive. The continuation might be 12. Bg5 O-O 13. Bxf6 Bxf6 14. Nxd5 Bxd4. |
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| Dec-16-06 |
| Minty: <Jackz: Why did Black resign? He was only down a pawn and I don't see any winning combinations for White. Surely he could have continued to put up a fight?> Material doesn't really have anything to do with it; Black has just been positionally crushed. He has no play whatsoever, and no way of acheiving any. White will just dominate the seventh rank, and his position will practically play itself. In such positions, it really isn't worth playing on against a strong player. |
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| Dec-16-06 |
| Rubenus: Perhaps Black's time was up so he lost on time. Indeed, this is not worth to be a game of the day. |
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Dec-16-06
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| ganstaman: <Sneaky: <Why didn't white check on 14. Ng6+ ? winning queen?> Believe it or not, I think the continuation is even stronger> Actually, it's not that hard to believe. Black loses his queen, but gets a knight and a rook in return. And then it's also black and not white who controls the e-file with a rook. Also, after 14. Qxb7, the whole sequence is a real threat, as white can then get the knight on c6 once the black queen is removed. You probably knew these things since you said the game's continuation was stronger, but I wanted to add in why I thought it was so. |
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Dec-16-06
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| Sneaky: This has happened to me many times:
I'm up two good pawns and it's an easy win for me. My position is great, and then I spot a tactic where I can net his queen for only a rook and a bishop. I go for that, thinking "now I'm REALLY winning!" All of a sudden I find myself in a situation where he's got two rooks doubled up, and a bishop that isn't going anywhere, and I've got a queen and a rook. I can't capture any of his pieces, unless it's a sacrifice! And his darn rooks are like pawn-sucking hoover vacuums. The next thing you know I'm using my queen just to DRAW the game, forget about winning it! The moral is: when you're winning, be very careful about exchanging a rook and a minor piece for your opponent's queen. He *wants* you to unbalance the position! |
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| Dec-16-06 |
| NBZ: The first Black move that I don't quite like was 6. ... exd5. 6. ... Nxd5 is the natural decision; and the problem with 6. ... exd5 is that it creates an open, symmetrical position where white's first move advantage actually counts for something. The first real error though is 7. ... Bd7. The next is 11. ... Bb4 which exposes the king as well as the bishop itself to removal of the guard tactics. After 11. ... Be7, White is still not exactly winning- if 12. Ne5 Qc7 13. Nxd5 Nxd5 14. Qxd5 Rd8 seems to hold (though 13. Bf4 might be better). |
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| Dec-16-06 |
| Stellar King: J'aime Bobby Fischer mais la jeu ne pas! |
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Dec-16-06
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| kevin86: I know that this game was picked for the name. It's too bad there couldn't have been a more BRILLIANT game. |
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