| Aug-24-09 | | birthtimes: Nice example by White of how to utilize the bishop pair and a better king position to attack a weakened kingside pawn structure and how to take advantage of an extremely poor defensive coordination of Black's pieces. Black's mistake on move 35 quickly led to move 38 where White's bishops begin to dominate the board, while Black's knight "retires" on a3 for nearly ten moves. A wonderful continual central control and proper endgame lesson by the old pro, Ljubojevic! |
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Aug-24-09
 | | Gilmoy: <12.Rd1> is the novelty wrt this database. <14..Rfd8> self-traps Black's Q and weakens f7, hence the energetic <15.a5!> to seize a lasting initiative. 15..Bxa5? 16.Rxa5 Qxa5 17.Nd5  , with all 5 White pieces cooperating to close the noose. |
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Sep-27-09
 | | bright1: What's wrong with 33. ... Qxa6 winning a pawn instead of just trading queens? |
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| Sep-27-09 | | Quad Fifties: 33...Qxa6 loses the dark bishop for Black |
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| Sep-27-09 | | newzild: 32.Bb3! puzzled me at first, until I saw that it was a clever maneuver aimed at forcing the exchange of queens. 36...Na3(?) looked terrible as the horsie is completely immobilised by the Bd3. This is a standard method of trapping a knight, but black couldn't play 36...Nc7 because of 37.Bc3+ and 38.Bd4, winning the pawn on a7. |
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| Sep-27-09 | | kingsindian2006: <bright1> its funny how you asked about 33......qxa6 and ure id name is bright one.....lol |
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| Sep-27-09 | | Gouvaneur: Blah <bright1>, please use your brain a bit, before asking such questions.
Qd5 isn't just attacking Black's Queen. |
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Sep-27-09
 | | Eisenheim: lets play nice please! everyone is entitled to ask questions here and learn at their own pace. 33 ...Qxa6??, blunders the bishop 34 Qxe5+ with nothing to show in exhange after black blocks the check or flees, white realigns the Q with the white bishop and keeps black from forking with a check at B7. |
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Sep-27-09
 | | playground player: Gee, if someone thought it was a stupid question, he wouldn't've asked it. I hope beginners will always be welcome here. Besides which, sometimes a "stupid" question might not be so stupid after all. |
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Sep-27-09
 | | Chessmensch: I guess some of the kibitzers took too many nasty pills this morning. There is no place for such behavior on Chessgames. |
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Sep-27-09
 | | JohnBoy: <ki2006>, <Gouv> - I second the opinions that you two are out of line. I am a master, and sometimes staring at a diagram I miss absolutely trivial things. Worse - I've walked in to mate-in-one OTB in a 2/40 time control. Once on move 8 by just grabbing the wrong piece. The only saving grace is that Reshevsky, Petrosian and a whole lot of my other superiors have done so as well. |
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| Sep-27-09 | | WhiteRook48: what is wrong with 44 Bxh6?
I'm probably missing something obvious... |
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Sep-27-09
| | Eisenheim: whiterook - to me 44 Bxh6 loses a tempo as ... Be7 and the black king is backed up for a few moves |
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Sep-29-09
 | | kevin86: Two bishops can really cause a lot of havoc...Confucius say... |
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