| Dec-29-08 | | YoungEd: First comment. Woot! |
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| Dec-29-08 | | Amarande: The compulsion to give check is a strong one among many amateurs, and here it costs Mr. Rapolter the game, as after 22 ... Ne2+?, the Knight becomes trapped and lost. After the better 22 ... Nb5, Najdorf would have 23 Rf5, winning a Pawn by force, and enjoying a significant piece activity advantage over Black's offside Knight and undeveloped Rook. Thus, I would expect White to win nonetheless - however, Rapolter would have at least had drawing chances against the great blindfold simul master. |
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| Dec-29-08 | | cuendillar: Amarande, isn't the blunder 23...Nc1? I see nothing wrong with getting it out via f4 to d5, a far better square than b5 if he can keep it there. |
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| Dec-29-08 | | jovack: haha, black must have been fuming after this
he gave up such a strong opportunity at winning from too many rookie mistakes |
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| Dec-29-08 | | jovack: can we stop the "first!" comments also.
let's not this site spiral down into the first page being people listing when they are commenting (like chess.com) honestly, let's get some moderators putting temporary bans on these people to prevent such inane comments from becoming the norm |
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| Dec-29-08 | | jokerman: <jovack> about the "first" comment. One should not limit anotherones freedom, just beceause it is not proper. To do so, we should define what is a "good, allowed comment." When doing so, we might get a negative effect, being that one might not comment from fear of not saying what he should say. And that would result into something negative (we would filter information, therefor we might mis out on usefull comments we didn't consider to be usefull in the first place. although i agree with your sentiment towards the useless comment. one might in such a case, just filter out the ones with "first comment, woot." Yet i'm also amused by the absurd comment. It's a double feeling of beeing amused, and recognising it as being useless. about the game, I like the fireworks.
At the beginning i had the feeling this game should have been won by black. After trying to find some refutation on the sack, i recognised it was sound. This he played blindfolded, nice.
Jet the advantadge isn't that big, but in the end we could say the game is over. I do believe black might still have some chances to draw in an earlier stage of the game. perhaps 23... Nf4? o well games over. |
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| Dec-29-08 | | dtowliat: jovack i agree young ed eat yellow snow and grow up |
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| Dec-29-08 | | YoungEd: Dear <jokerman>, You are of course right that my earlier comment was silly and pointless. I must admit it's not even my own; I saw it on another game somewhere in the database, and it amused me so much in a perverse way that I couldn't resist using it myself when I had the chance. My apologies. Don't worry, it's out of my system now! As for you, <dtowliat>, gosh! Such harshness over something so harmless! Your comment is no more productive than mine!
As for the game itself, I like the trapping of the knight at the end. One move of White's that I don't understand, though, is 16. Rf5. Can anyone explain it? |
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| Dec-29-08 | | psmith: <YoungEd>: The point of 16. Rf5 is to make two threats: 17. Nd5 and 17. e5. Black defends the first but not the second. Both would fail on move 16, because of 16. Nd5 allows 16... Nxf4 and 16. e5 dxf4 threatens the Rook. |
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| Dec-29-08 | | Zzyw: Bit of a silly game imo. White goes for a sacrificial combo that really doesn't give an advantage, followed by black clumsily hanging a piece. |
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| Dec-29-08 | | psmith: As for the rest, the following seem to show that 22...Ne2+ was best after all, and that 23...Nc1 was maybe as good as could be managed: 22... Nb5 23. Re6 Kf7 24. Rxe5 with advantage
22... Ne2+ 23. Kf1 Nf4 24. Rd6 (threat: Rd7+) Rf8 25. Rd7+ Rf7 26. Rxf7+ Kxf7 27. Nd6+ winning a pawn. 22...Ne2+ 23. Kf1 Nc1 24. Rd6 Rf8+ 25. Kf1 Nxa2 and the position is somewhat unclear. (I had help from Fritz 5.32 -- in the last variation White may be winning but I am unsure.) |
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| Dec-29-08 | | psmith: <Zzyw> -- I don't think this is right. The sacrificial combo contains some neat points (for example the quiet move Rf5, and allowing Black to trade Queens) -- and leads to a probable endgame advantage due to Black's awkward Knight and isolated K-pawn. (My last variation needs to be considered further to see if this advantage holds up.) This means the combination is pretty subtle. |
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| Dec-29-08 | | Chessmensch: Kakvalek makes the interesting observation that the game morphs into a King's Gambit. Also, additional worthwhile commentary. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy... |
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| Dec-29-08 | | whiteshark: In the game of the blind, the one-eyed man is ♔. |
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Dec-29-08
 | | al wazir: 17...d5? 18. Qh4! (18. Rxf6+ Rxf6 19. Rxf6 Qxf6 20. exf6 dxc4). |
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| Dec-29-08 | | JG27Pyth: Zzyw<Bit of a silly game imo. White goes for a sacrificial combo that really doesn't give an advantage, followed by black clumsily hanging a piece.> Yes, well, um,I think Najdorf can be forgiven for creating less than a timeless sparkling masterpiece what with this being a blind simul played on 45 Boards... 45 SIMULTANEOUS BLIND GAMES! The world record if the link supplied by <chessmensch> is to be believed. Holy Hell!
Super GM brains are so NOT normal... they are out on the bleeding edge of the bell curve. |
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| Dec-29-08 | | PaulLovric: <YoungEd: First comment. Woot!>....is this still going on, i started it 4 or 5 years ago....lol |
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| Dec-29-08 | | TheTamale: <young ed eat yellow snow and grow up> Wow, that comment is unintentionally funny on so many levels that I don't know where to begin... |
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Dec-29-08
| | al wazir: <TheTamale>: To coin a phrase, "I bet you can't eat only one tamale." That's a sure bet because the singular of "tamales" is "tamal." |
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Dec-30-08
 | | GrahamClayton: I think that Black's troubles started with the pawn grab 11...♘d4. After driving the White queen back with 10...h5, the grabbing of the pawn on d4 "forces" the White Queen to move to a better square, eg c4, which then also forces Black to pin the Knight against his King with 12....♘e6. Maybe Black should have played 11..♔g7, getting the King off the f-file, and returning the gambit pawn after 12. ♗f4? |
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| Dec-30-08 | | TheTamale: And <al wazir>, your comment is correct on many levels. |
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May-29-21
 | | louispaulsen88888888: 22nd! |
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