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| Jan-14-08 | | chessmoron: Yifan capitalize on Short's strange opening and win. Pretty much a free gift from Short. |
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| Jan-14-08 | | slomarko: 12...f6? what the.. |
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Jan-14-08
 | | luzhin: I was even more surprised that Short played 15...Bg4, when 15...Bf5 would at least have prevented the immediate exf6. |
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| Jan-14-08 | | Nezhmetdinov: g4/g5 is Short's favorite losing move... |
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| Jan-14-08 | | Whitehat1963: What happens after 23...Kf8? |
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Jan-14-08
 | | Eyal: <Whitehat1963: What happens after 23...Kf8?> There are many good options for White - one of them is 24.Qh3 Bg7 (24...Qg6 25.Qf3) 25.Nxh7+ Kg8 26.Nxg5. After 15...fxe5 16.N(either one)xg5 h6 Black's position isn't actually so bad. The losing mistake was 15...Bg4?? allowing 16.exf6, after which Black's position just falls to pieces. |
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| Jan-14-08 | | cade: 24.Re1 & 25.Qf3
I would think. |
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| Jan-14-08 | | Resignation Trap: This line of play lost vogue with the advent of World War I, although it was seen in Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1981 . Short is not likely to revive this opening variation. I especially dislike 12...f6 and 13...g5. A good game by the prodigy vs. the former prodigy. |
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Jan-14-08
| | Eyal: 24.Re1 followed by 25.Qh3 or 25.Nxh7+, depending on Black's response, is probably the most deadly. |
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| Jan-15-08 | | hitman84: Hou did she win so quick ? |
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| Jan-15-08 | | percyblakeney: Kasparov said it would be short, but not hou short. |
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| Jan-15-08 | | hitman84: It was just a matter of time as black's king was under hou's arrest. |
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| Jan-15-08 | | TheBB: <percyblakeney: Kasparov said it would be short, but not hou short.> <hitman84: Hou did she win so quick ?> Have mercy. |
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| Jan-15-08 | | percyblakeney: When a player that won a match against Karpov the previous decade gets a resignable position after 15 moves against a 2527 opponent it does show that something was missing in the preparation. I doubt that Short is too depressed about it, he probably just had too fun with the Evans and thought that other ancient things might work as well. |
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| Jan-15-08 | | ianD: 10...Re8 is unusual here.
10...f6 is more normal.
Has Re8 been seen before?
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| Jan-15-08 | | mistreaver: yeah Nigel loses to 13 year old girl..
alas, i never seen a good game in Ruy Lopez from him |
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Jan-15-08
 | | whiteshark: <mistreaver> but they are here, in the db, you only have to look harder. :D |
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Jan-15-08
 | | keypusher: As <Resignation Trap> points out, this defense was in style a century ago. It was featured in <Common Sense in Chess>, and denounced in a funny essay called <Telling Off the World Champion> that was reprinted in one of my Chernev(?) books. I've seen this variation in a number of old games, but I don't remember seeing 9. c4 before -- it just doesn't seem like a 19th-century kind of move. But 9. c4 was played in the 1860s:
Zukertort vs Anderssen, 1868 |
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Jan-15-08
| | keypusher: Winter, unsurprisingly, has written about Hecht's essay. See item 4982 in the link. http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...
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| Jan-15-08 | | Paraconti: Former prodigies always seem to have trouble when they face later prodigies. Must be a psychological thing. |
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| Jan-16-08 | | pink gorilla: chessmoron. please change back to your old icon. it is so much better than the pensive conan. i would have to say it was the best icon chessgames.com had |
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Jan-17-08
| | Eyal: <It was sort of a Berlin, only after the Allied bombing.> (Mig Greengard) |
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| Jan-17-08 | | tldr3: <Eyal: <It was sort of a Berlin, only after the Allied bombing.>>great line |
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| Jan-17-08 | | Jim Bartle: Very funny. |
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| Jul-05-08 | | apexin: apparently after 13...g5 Hou pulled a face and said "what is this?" Is he joking?".That i think best describes short's opening. |
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sac: 19.Bxe5
