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Hafizulhelmi Mas vs Jan Emmanuel Garcia
"No Mas" (game of the day Jan-21-2011)
8th Asian Continental Chess Championship (2009), Subic Bay Free Port, rd 11, May-23
Pirc Defense: 150 Attack. Sveshnikov-Jansa Attack (B07)  ·  1-0

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May-30-09  Vasilyev90: 23.Rxf7! proves decisive as it paved the way for a crushing kingside attack.Hafizuhelmi outfought Garcia here.
May-30-09  Gilmoy: After <11..Bb7> Black has a Slav Meran-like Q-side setup. But against White's fluid center, Black never finds a tempo for c5. <11.Qe1 12.Qf2> creates a <double hidden-double> at f7 and Nb6(!), after which <17.f5!> unravels the fianchetto.

<12..Nfd7> looked like a standard Grunfeld idea to support e5 -- except that White is happy to trade off both his c+e pawns, leaving Black's Q overworked defending Nb6 and f7. Black concedes with his Meran bishop still unhatched.

21..Rf8!? protects f7 without "castling into it", but White has the immediate 22.Bxg6! (fxg6 23.Ne6 etc.) with wacky complications.

May-30-09  WhiteRook48: 25...Rxg6.... don't get it
May-31-09  Gilmoy: <WhiteRook48: 25...Rxg6> White was threatening 26.Bf7+ Kf8 27.Nh7#, a "Marshall mate".

25..(e6,e5) <a flight square at e7> 26.Qh7+ Kf8 27.N(x)e6+! <deflects f open> Rxe6 28.Rf1+ Ke7 (Rf6 29.Rxf6+ Bxf6 30.Qxc7 Be7 31.Qf4+ and White mates anyways) 29.Rf7+ Kd8 (Kd6 30.Bf4+) 30.Qg8+! Re8 31.Bg5+ Qe7[] 32.Bxe7+ K(c7,d7) 33.Bc5+ Kd8 34.Bb6+.

25..e5 29..Kd6 30.dxe5+ Rxd5 31.Rxc7 Kxc7 32.Qxg7+ Kd6 33.Bf4.

Jan-21-11  Oceanlake: Black gave odds of bishop and rook.
Jan-21-11  mike1: Shouldnt it say: " what a mas" ?....

Black freely gave up a sound position.
21... o-o is really ??
After Bh6 he is quiet alright.

Jan-21-11  rilkefan: Why not 10...Nc4?
Jan-21-11  slowtyper77: @mike1
"mas" means "more" in Spanish, so Garcia is saying "no More" to Mas Hafizulhelmi whose first name happens to have the first name "mas". "what a Mas" doesn't make sense.
Jan-21-11
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  mjmorri: The "No Mas" reference is well know to boxing fans in the US. In the early 1980's, while being badly beaten and toyed with by Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran gave up by exclaiming "No Mas!" and walking away to end the fight.
Jan-21-11  kevin86: Black can only prevent the mate by moving the e-pawn. Black then would sucuumb to the royal fork by white's knight.
Jan-21-11  YoungEd: I agree with <mike1>; 21...O-O is the howler.
Jan-21-11  nevski: This man, Garcia, has castled too late and furthermore, just to where White was grouping their forces to attack...He paved, really, the way to his suicide!
Jan-21-11
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  scormus: Ca souffit!
Jan-21-11  AGOJ: Interesting, the pun was not in English. Perhaps more appropriate if Mas had lost. I have managed to lose as white in similar positions because of the weaknesses around the white king, but Mas had to trouble outplaying black. I will take a better look at this game.

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