Nov-15-08
 | | popski: Huh, cool to watch when Shirov burn the board! |
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| Nov-15-08 | | SniperOnG7: E Inarkiev vs Shirov, 2008. Anyone else wants seconds? Buhmann? No?
Didn't think so ;) |
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Nov-15-08
 | | hedgeh0g: Why didn't White simply play 23. Kg2 and accept a perpetual? |
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Nov-15-08
| | shr0pshire: <hedgeh0g> I would assume that white thought he could either use the extra rook and convert it into a winning position, or maybe Shirov was down on time and thought he could outplay him on time. I didn't see the game and I think that only Mr. Buhmann himself could answer this definitively. Your point is well taken though, white should have in retrospect played for the draw at move 23. |
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Jan-20-09
 | | patzer2: I saw this in a Sunday Jan 18, 2009 New York Times Chess column as the featured game. In the final position, Shirov pulls off a neat double attack combination with 31...Rxd2! The point being that the follow-up 32. Qxd2 Qc5+  (double attack) simultaneously checks the King and the unprotected Rook on e7, leaving Black a piece up and with an easy win. |
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| Jan-20-09 | | Riverbeast: This was a thorough a*s whipping from pillar to post |
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Jan-20-09
| | patzer2: <<hedgeh0g> Good catch on the draw by perpetual White missed with 23. Kg2 Qh3+ 24. Kf3 Qg4+ 25. Kg2 =. After 23. Ke3?! White's game starts to go down, and following 25. Kc2? he's busted. |
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May-19-09
 | | notyetagm: 31 ... ?
click for larger view31 ...  a2x d2! 0-1
click for larger view<patzer2: I saw this in a Sunday Jan 18, 2009 New York Times Chess column as the featured game. In the final position, Shirov pulls off a neat double attack combination with 31...Rxd2! The point being that the follow-up 32. Qxd2 Qc5+ (double attack) simultaneously checks the King and the unprotected Rook on e7, leaving Black a piece up and with an easy win.> (CONTINUATION)
32  c3xd2 d4-c5+ <double attack: c1,e7>
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May-19-09
| | notyetagm: http://www.chessbase.com/shop/produ...
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