| Oct-04-08 | | THE pawn: Im not familiar with an early exchange of knights in the sicilian, but allowing white to centralize his queen seems like a bad choice...anyway, on to the game. Both played flawless chess (mostly home prep, I suppose) until black played:
<33...Re7?> Losing a pawn for no reason. The isolated d-pawn was already weak and the rook was necessary to keep things intact. Time trouble, maybe?
<35.e5!> 35.Rd3 seemed plausible, but after 35...Bb4 black can try to create a fortress.
<35...Bxd6?> Wrong again. Rb8 was the move 35...Rb8 36.Kh2 Be6 37.Ba7 Ra8 38.Bd4 and now black can try the exchange sacrifice. After this mistake, black is a goner. |
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| Oct-04-08 | | kozo: 31. ... Re7 is kind of nessecary to get some kind of activity, as c5 will come at some point, winning the pawn anyway. Black must have made a mistake somewhere in the opening (mabye exchanging queens, i don't really know) since after b3 and c4 he has no compensation for the backward pawn and has a cramped position. |
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Oct-04-08
 | | notyetagm: White to play: 47 ?
click for larger view47 d6-d7! 1-0
click for larger viewWith 47 d6-d7! White achieves the <STRATEGICALLY>-desirable advance of his passed d-pawn by using the <TACTIC> that the d7-square is <LINED UP> with the Black g7-king. Hence 47 d6-d7! is a <DECOY> into a <PIN> after the continuation 47 ...  c6xd7 48  c3-c7, winning the . (CONT) 47 ... c6xd7 48 c3-c7 <pin>
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| Oct-06-08 | | ajile: White just paralyzed Black here with the pressure on d6. Superior positional game by White. |
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| Apr-24-12 | | LoveThatJoker: Nice game from Lastin: It has a Karpovian feel about it. LTJ |
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| Apr-24-12 | | paladin at large: Why not 18. Ra4 |
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| Apr-24-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <paladin at large> 18. Ra4 Qxb2 and Black has time to extricate his Q from the danger zone. LTJ |
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Apr-24-12
 | | kevin86: Black must take the pawn and lose his bishop. |
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| Apr-24-12 | | Robyn Hode: Positional gem. Central control never really contested successfully. |
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Apr-24-12
 | | lost in space: <<LoveThatJoker>: Nice game from Lastin: It has a Karpovian feel about it.
LTJ>
Same with me. |
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| Apr-24-12 | | LoveThatJoker: <lost in space> It does, man! It's defintely worthy of being GOTD! LTJ |
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| Apr-24-12 | | erniecohen: Not too well defended.
White could have finished things off quickly with 39. c5 c1 40. c6 xc6 41. xc6 xc6 42. d7 1-0 |
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sac: 35.e5