| Jan-21-07 |
| arctic tern: Amazing. |
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| Jan-21-07 |
| dehanne: It was safer to just retreat the knight back to f3 after 12...Ng8. But white got provoked and played 13.Nf5, after which the knight is trapped after the Steinitzian 13...Bf8 and 14...Ng8 though white gets two pawns for the piece. The fatal mistake is 32...Be2? allowing black's queen to e5, after which the white king gets slaughtered. |
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Jan-21-07
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| Per: I think Tal would have won this game as White... |
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| Jan-21-07 |
| Ziggurat: Very freaky game - at move 14, all (!) Black's pieces are at their initial squares. |
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| Jan-25-07 |
| DCP23: Perhaps Berg took his inspiration from this game?
Kasparov vs Ivanchuk, 1995
In both games Black's counterintuitive retreating maneuvers so enrage White that he/she lashes out unsoundly, only to lose the game. |
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Jan-25-07
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| micartouse: Wow, hypermodernism to the extreme. |
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| Jan-25-07 |
| Kwesi: 12...Ng8!!, 13...Bf8!! and 14...Nb8!! are the key moves, leaving white with a seemingly better position but no way to improve it. ;) |
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| Feb-03-07 |
| Mameluk: This greatest creative achievement of Corus 2007 has one serious flaw. Black should have played 18...h3! |
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Feb-03-07
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| tpstar: Clever trap by Black, but in retrospect White should hold with the ugly 15. Ne2 g6 16. Nfg3 h4 17. Nh1 avoiding material loss, or 15 ... h4 16. g3 (16 ... g6 17. Nxh4). Black clearly won the opening to enjoy a nice spatial advantage, while the uncastled King was quite safe due to the closed center. Still White had great compensation for the piece. Maybe White should have tried 24. Ng6 Qe3+ 25. Kh1 followed by 26. Re1 & 27. Ne5+, over the awkward 24. Qb1!? & 25. Qb3. By the time White's Queen heads back toward the Kingside, it's way too late. Did this game win any prize? |
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| May-31-07 |
| prinsallan: What an incredible ending! Clash of the titans D; |
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sac: 32...Qe5
