| Feb-20-08 |
| t3hPolak: Ah, move 52. ...Na5 practically made me hold my breath!
Beautiful combination, Yury, an exciting Game of the Day. |
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| Feb-20-08 |
| wouldpusher: White's 55th move would have been a very nice puzzle. |
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Feb-20-08
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| An Englishman: Good Evening: Wow. The last ten moves are about as good as endings can get. |
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| Feb-20-08 |
| jovack: ansell must have got become complacent because he dropped a winning game |
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| Feb-20-08 |
| DarthStapler: Pretty nice game, I like the conclusion |
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Feb-20-08
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| RandomVisitor: 34.Bxa5 Ra8 35.Bc3 Rxa4 36.Bxf6  .
26...gxf4 27.gxf4 Nxf4 28.Nf5+ Ke8 29.Bf1 Be6 30.Rd1 Kf7 31.Nd6+ with rough equality. |
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| Feb-20-08 |
| newzild: Nice shuffle at the end there. |
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| Feb-20-08 |
| newzild: wouldpusher:
Yes, it's a forced mate in six starting with 55.Rd8+ |
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| Feb-20-08 |
| bachus: <wouldpusher> If given the position at move 54, I would move 54.Nc5+ and probably still win.... that is, until I saw the combination |
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| Feb-20-08 |
| mack: I beat Simon Ansell in a blitz tournament the other day. We both played awfully, only I less so. |
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| Feb-20-08 |
| xrt999: I dont get blacks play. He avoids the pin from move 9 through 14 (...Bb4) then <cant> play ...Bb4 because the g pawn is hanging. He then makes the move 15...Ne6 (you would think to protect the g-pawn) but <still> doesnt make the move ...Bb4. FINALLY! Black plays ...Bb4 on move 21 when it does absolutely nothing, and white simply moves the knight away. Then I would at least think some semblance of a purpose of 21...Bb4 is to allow castling, then black throws out 22...Rd8, trading rooks, and black's king is now stuck in the center where it gets boxed in. Strange game.
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Feb-20-08
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| kevin86: A nice ending. White sacrificed a rook so that he could queen with check. Mate was soon to follow. Black queened first,white queened BEST. |
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Feb-20-08
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| Jimfromprovidence: I wonder if black had played 43...a4 instead of h5 the result would have been different? 
click for larger view43...h5 allows the white rook to get to the h file and then to the 7th rank to harass black's king, setting up the great winning combination. |
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| Feb-20-08 |
| neosystems: The moves leading up to the mate in six were pretty good. Well played. |
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Feb-20-08
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| wanabe2000: Wow! Took muy breath away at the end. |
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Feb-20-08
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| PinnedPiece: Hard to see at move 55 that mate is six moves away for white!!! |
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| Feb-21-08 |
| D4n: That hard earned queen did nothing for black... |
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Feb-24-08
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| PinnedPiece: I would be <very> interested to know if any Chess engine can get the correct moves for white at move 55 ? |
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| Feb-25-08 |
| tor2ga: <PinnedPiece> -- Crafty instantly finds the mate-in-six. This is expected: all the moves are forcing or forced, and it's a common heuristic (for both engines and people) that one should first search down such narrow lines. |
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Mar-03-08
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| PinnedPiece: Wow. Thx <Tor2qa> |
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| Mar-03-08 |
| mindkontrolle: nice friggin game
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sac: 55.Rd8+
