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| Nov-12-13 | | hellopolgar: 15 ... Nxf2 is not a sound sacrifice per se, but against someone 150 points lower, it is. |
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| Nov-12-13 | | TheTamale: Super fun game. For a while I didn't think Sadler was going to pull it off. |
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| Nov-12-13 | | kevin86: It looks like a game Bobby Boucher would play-or some reckless hockey player. |
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| Nov-12-13 | | Balmo: This reminds of me of Tal's classic game against I think Gurgenidze, although I can't remember what year. It came from a Benoni defence. |
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| Nov-12-13 | | Balmo: If I'd been White I'd have tried 24. Ke1. However there seems to be an interesting line (which is probably deeply flawed) that goes... 24. Ke1 Bh6! 25. Rd3 (trying to create an escape square) Qg1+ 26. Kd2 Rxe2+! 27. Kxe2 Qg2+ 28. Kd1 Qf1 mate. |
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| Aug-04-16 | | tigreton: There's a very nice variation. After 24 Rd3, trying to exchange the monster Rook on e3, Black could play 24 ... Bf6! and if 25 Rxe3 Qh1+ 26 Kf2 Bh4#. Great attack by Sadler, I think most of the moves are very difficult to find. |
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Aug-30-16
 | | Phony Benoni: A tribute to the late Gene Wilder, who passed away yesterday. |
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Aug-30-16
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Pun on "Blazing Saddles." Very nice way to remember the late Gene Wilder. |
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| Aug-30-16 | | AlicesKnight: Agreed <PB> and <Englishman>. 14....Ng4 produces a dangerous attack almost out of thin air and white fails to prevent the entry of the black R (17.g3: Qxh3; 18.Nf3 threat Rh1 looks a possibility); 28.... Re4 is beautifully calm but deadly. |
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Aug-30-16
 | | offramp: Blazing Saddles included a very good chess scene. |
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Aug-30-16
 | | HeMateMe: here's the board, the Waco Kid has been checkmated. I don't think there's a mate on the board. Another warped Hollywood chess scene *sigh*. <https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.co...> here's video of the chess scene:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr9...> There's another reference to chess in the movie--a well known line. Anyone know what it is? |
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| Aug-30-16 | | weary willy: I can't work out the position, but isn't there a bishop on a6 controlling f1, a rook on the second rank and a rook shooting down the e-file? |
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| Aug-30-16 | | LivBlockade: Olympiad week continues with a tribute to Gene Wilder. |
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| Aug-30-16 | | kevin86: A good attacking game.
But, I shoot with this hand: Jim (Gene Wilder) Blazing Saddles. |
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| Aug-30-16 | | dfcx: <An Englishman: Good Evening: Superb example of the speculative sacrifice. Looking at 25.Rc3,Rxf3+; 26.Rxf3,Bxd2; 27.Rxd2 leaves White with 2R & B vs. Q, and maybe Black has to take the perpetual, if it exists.> While 25.Rc3 is superior to the text 25.Qe1, after
25.Rc3 Qxh3+ 26.Kg1 Bf4 27.Qxe3 Qg3+ 28.Kf1 Bxe3 29.Rxe3 h5 30.Bb5 f4 31.Rc3 h4 32.Rd2 h3 33.Rcc2 Qxf3+
white is still hopeless
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| Aug-30-16 | | morfishine: FWIW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr9... ***** |
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| Aug-31-16 | | Mendrys: A stellar ending where White is about to lose every piece he has on the way to checkmate for the lone Rook at black's disposal. As others have noted it's a good thing that Zagorskis didn't have access to a strong chess engine during the game but it was a game between two humans worthy of note that would have made Bronstein proud. |
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| Jan-26-25 | | mel gibson: I chose the same first ply as in the game and SF also chose it but is calling it a draw: Stockfish 17 says:
15. .. Nxf2
(15. .. Nxf2 (1. ... Nxf2 2.Kxf2 Qh4+ 3.g3 Qxh3 4.Nf3 Bh6 5.Rd3 Rxe3 6.Rxe3 Bxe3+ 7.Kxe3 Re8+ 8.Kf2 f4 9.gxf4 Bxf3 10.Bxf3 Qh2+ 11.Bg2 Qxf4+ 12.Kg1 Qe3+ 13.Kf1 Qf4+) 0.00/66 146) score= 0.00 _ a draw _ depth 66. |
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| Jan-26-25 | | stacase: Move for move until 18...Qf4 where I parted company with the game as played. |
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| Jan-26-25 | | Mayankk: 15 ... Nxf2 is not an 'insane' move to find. The other alternative is 15 ... Bxg2 and it is not hard to see that it doesn't lead anywhere. 16 Kxf2 Qh4+ 17 Kf1/Kg1 Rxe3 is all okay. Black seems to have all the initiative and 2 pawns for his Knight. He can double up his Rooks on the e file, continue targeting the weak g2 and d4 pawns, march his 2 f pawns forward, play Bh6 and own the dark squares etc. White will need to be extremely precise to save this. Possible continuations
A) 17 Kg1 Rxe3 18 Nf3 Qg3 19 Rf1 Bh6, followed by Bf4, Rxf3 and threatening Qh2#. B) 17 Kf1 Rxe3 18 Nf3 Qg3 19 Re1 Bxd4, threatening Qf2# etc. |
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Jan-26-25
 | | scormus: I thought I'd got this one almost move for move, then I saw from the trusty <mel> that it should have been a draw.
Like <Mayankk> I thought the retreat 17 Kf1/g1 was correct, didn't thinkW should have played 17g3:O. According to SF, 18 ... Qf4 is the only move to preserve B's advantage, and even that is only moderate if W defends well. Not sure when it all went pear shaped for W, but I suspect 21 Bxa6 and 23 Be2 were mistakes, deserting the guard on f3 only to return 2 moves later |
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Jan-26-25
 | | Teyss: Insane for me all right.
(a) Didn't know what to do after the relatively obvious 15...Nxf2 16.Kxf2 Qh4+ 17.Kf1 Rxe3.
(b) Didn't understand where White went wrong since as said the combination only leads to a minimal advantage. Turns out it's apparently 23.Be2 instead of Kg1.
(c) Was impressed by the beautiful 28...Re4! Black, already a Rook down, sacs another one.
If declined, it means he takes two quiet moves just to reposition the Rook.
If accepted, how does he continue the attack two Rooks down after 29.fxe4_? 
click for larger view 29...Be3+ 30.Qf2 (forced) Qg3+ 31.Kh1. All this is obvious, and now 31...Bxf2 or Qxf2_? 
click for larger view Actually both win. I prefer the latter because it threatens 32...Qxe2 and 32...Bf4 followed by mate. White cannot save the Bishop e.g. 32.Bd3 to follow with 33.Rc2 protecting h2: 32...Qh4+ 33.Kg2 Qg4+ 34.Kh2 (34.Kh1 Qh3# or 34.Kf1 Qf3+ 35.Ke1 Qf2#) Bf4+ 35.Kh1 Qh3+ 36.Kg1 Be3# Hence White has to protect the WK, Black will take the WB and have Q+B+2Ps vs 2Rs with threats on the exposed WK (-10.7 at 32 ply). |
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Jan-26-25
 | | chrisowen: I put ok its yawn q bars its fog its he jazz its meld c Nxf2 its accord mc its ace me its ghoul its huh its adagio its nug its aog jig bugfarm ceo its Nxf2 duff x |
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| Jan-26-25 | | King.Arthur.Brazil: Seem's easy to see that if 15...Rxe3 16. fxe3 Nxe3 17. Qd3 Qg5, so W will be dead. Therefore, W could play more simply and effectively with 15...Rxe3 16. hxg4 Bxd4 17. fxe3 Bxe3+ (18. Kh2 Qh4#) 18. Kf1 Qh4 19. Nce4 fxe4 20. Nxe4 Bxe4... But, the king didn't find nothing in the reply: 17. Nd5 Rxe2 18. Rf1 Qg5 19. Rcd1 Qxg4 20. Qd3... maybe there must be another complementing line. But then, the move is Nxf2... I feel a little disappointed because I though about a move that could be "insane"; however, everybody posted here "Nxf2" is obvious. |
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| Jan-26-25 | | alshatranji: What Teyss said. |
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