Dec-16-08
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| An Englishman: Good Evening: I can't believe anyone would take a pawn like that on move 9. You just can't mess with Christiansen like this. The rest of the game is quite odd in that White tries so hard to sacrifice material, but Black won't take it, or if he does, gives it back ASAP. BTW, nice pun. |
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| Dec-16-08 |
| weary willy: No, very slow today ... don't get the pun ("Threw his time enough"???) Another Englishman |
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Dec-16-08
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| holland oats: Wow, what a barn-burner! Mr. Christiansen just keeps on attacking, and it appears that accepting or declining any of his many sacrifices is losing. As <An Englishman> pointed out, the pawn-grab on move 9 just looked atrocious, and the severe lack of development for black led to a quick downfall. As for the pun: "Threw his timing off" with a southern drawl. Cheers |
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Dec-16-08
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| notyetagm: Beautiful attacking game by LarryC.
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| Dec-16-08 |
| patzer of patzers: wow, nice play by Christiansen!
what happens if 15...axb5? |
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| Dec-16-08 |
| YoungEd: <patzer of patzers>: I think 16. Nxb5 would follow. The black Q must stay on the 7th rank, and I think 17. Nd6+ would be next. I don't know if there's a direct continuation beyond that, but the open lines against Black's king have got to be worth the investment. |
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| Dec-16-08 |
| NewLine: Wow! By move 11 all White's pieces are developed except one rook, and NONE of Black's pieces are developed except the queen! Nevertheless the way White avenged Black for it was stunning! |
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| Dec-16-08 |
| jovack: lot of things I would have done for marko |
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| Dec-16-08 |
| shintaro go: One of the better puns by chessgames.com. Congratulations. |
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| Dec-16-08 |
| moi: <patzer of patzers: what happens if 15...axb5?> 16 Nxb5 followed by Nxd6 is very strong, eg:
16 ...Qd7 or 17... Qe7
17 Nxd6+ Kf8 (17 ...Qxd6 would quickly lead to mate after 18 Qxf7+) 18 Rxf7+ 
16... Qb7
17 Nxd6+ |
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Dec-16-08
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| desiobu: Unstoppable assault from white |
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| Dec-16-08 |
| Blaise99a: Yes, it looks like it is kaput for black around move 16! But it looks like White can even force the position with the crazily aggressive 14. e5 instead of castling. My trusty silicon friend recommends 14.....Ra7 as best. If 14.....d5 for example, 15. 0-0-0 where it is basically over with 15...Bg7, then the sac 16 Bb5 Kf8 17. Rf7 Qf7 18. Rf1 and it is fini. Or if 15....Ra7 there is 16. Nd5 ! and it is curtains. But the real fun begins with 14. e5 Ra7 15. ed and now if 15....Qd6, there is the almost forced continuation: 16. Nb5 ab 17. Bb5 Bd7 18. Rf7 Qb4 19. c3 Qe4 20. Be2 Kd8 21. Rd1 ! and black is finished. Which leaves the 15...Bd6 16. Ne4 if Be5 17 0-0-0 and the Rook is safe. Silicon friends sez best for Black here is 17....Bh2 18. 0-0-0 and although a pawn up, black has to step very very carefully. Silicon evals is +1.75
So I would definitely advise against Black ever playing anything near this opening variation. I do find it amazing that white can push even faster in this opening with impunity! |
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| Dec-16-08 |
| Blaise99a: One last point concerning the variation 15 ed Bd6 16. Nb5 , white is not forced to take it, in fact it is wiser not to. But if say 16.....Qe7 there is 17. Na7 Qf6 18. Nc8 Qb2 19. Rd1 Qc3 20. kf1 Qc8...and it looks like black might hang on but.....21. Qe5 ! Rg8 22. Rb1 and it is bad for black. 22....f6 23. Qh5+ then ke7 24. Qh7+ Rg7 25. Qe4 and all the winning chances are with white. |
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| Dec-16-08 |
| DwayneMeller: This is a sacrificial masterpiece! None of the sacs can be stopped as accepting or declining results in failure. This is going in my game collection called <Traps and exploitation>. The Bb5 sac reminds me of Tal Koblencs Training Game Riga 1957 although this game is much diffrent it's the fact that it can't be taken for so long on b5...but in this game it is never removed from the board. |
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Dec-16-08
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| computer chess guy: In this opening, 8. ..  b7 is more frequent, and better.Black could have been even more greedy with 10..  xh2, which at least prevents the attack with a5, but after 11. f3  h6 12. g3, the Queen is running out of squares and Black is still undeveloped. |
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| Dec-16-08 |
| Riverbeast: Christiansen shows some of his famous tactical talent....At his best he was always a dangerous attacking player |
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| Dec-16-08 |
| nimzo knight: I like how the knight on e3 defends the 7th rank. Pretty much making the rook useless there. |
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Dec-16-08
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| whiteshark: Look sharp! You are behind your time! |
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| Dec-16-08 |
| njchess: I'm surprised Black didn't try to grab another pawn with 10. ... Qxh2. I mean if solid developing play wasn't a reason to not grab the f4 pawn, why should it prevent grabbing the h2 pawn?!!? (I'm being sarcastic, not serious e.g. 10. ... Qxh2?? 11. Qf3 f6 12. e5 and the game is over.) Black doesn't have a whiff of counterplay after move 14. Brutal attacking play from Christiansen. |
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| Dec-16-08 |
| WhiteRook48: can't understand the pun... |
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| Dec-16-08 |
| patzer of patzers: thanks, <moi> and <YoungEd>. <WhiteRook48>, <holland oats> says (and I happen to agree) that it's a pun on the phrase "threw his timing off", apparently with a southern drawl... |
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Dec-16-08
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| Chessmensch: Interestingly, just before I logged onto this, I was playing through Kavalek's analysis of this game in Monday's Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy... |
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Jan-05-09
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| hedgeh0g: Great game by Christiansen. I would probably have taken the pawn, but I'm below 2000, so that's alright :P |
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sac: 18.Rxf6
