| Nov-23-09 | | Eyal: A spectacular attacking game by Fedorchuk, who after 17...Qxa1 is temporarily a rook+knight down. |
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Nov-25-09
 | | sbevan: I agree <Eyal: A spectacular attacking game by Fedorchuk, who after 17...Qxa1 is temporarily a rook+knight down.>.
I had to think for a minute about 29 h4.
Beautiful quiet move.
It leaves no good square for the Queen.
After 32 Re4 there's a line of the Bard's "...doth his quietus make.." Can't remember what play but it seems to capture the mood. |
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Mar-14-17
 | | scutigera: <Sbevan>: Hamlet, Act III, scene 1, line 76: "For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, [and other unbearable things],
When he himself might his quietus make / With a bare bodkin?" Not sure how well it applies here, as I don't see any blunders by Black (though his central pawn strategy appears to have been optimistic), but it's a nice speech anyway, and it also gave us "..that the dread of something after death, / The undiscovered country from whose bourn / No traveler returns.." Of course, he's delivering this to Ophelia, whom he then tells that he never loved her and that she should go away and be a nun. |
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| Nov-05-21 | | Brenin: White, down by a piece, would like to play Bb2 or Bf4, but in either case Black can simply take the B and regaln the Q with Nd3+. Therefore 17 0-0, e.g. 17 ... Qxa1 18 Bf4 (better than Bb2, since the B is more active there) Qxa3 (maybe 18 ... Qxf1+ and 19 ... 0-0-0 is better?) 19 Qxe5+ Be7 20 Nxf5 looks good for White. |
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Nov-05-21
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Saw the solution, but thought that Black would play ...Qxf1+ and 0-0-0 as <Brenin> suggested. |
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| Nov-05-21 | | mel gibson: I made a mistake by choosing 17. Bb2.
Stockfish 14 says:
17. O-O
(17. O-O (O-O ♕d4xa1 ♗c1-f4
♕a1-d4 ♗f4xe5 ♕d4-g4 f2-f3 ♕g4-g6 ♗e5xg7+ ♕g6-e6 ♕e2xe6+ ♘c7xe6 ♗g7xh8
a7-a5 ♖f1-b1 a5xb4 a3xb4 ♖a8-a4 ♘g3xf5 ♖a4xb4 ♖b1-d1 ♖b4-c4 ♘f5-d6+ ♗f8xd6
♖d1xd6 ♘e6-f4 ♖d6-d2 b7-b5 ♔g1-f2 ♘f4-g6 ♗h8-b2 ♔e8-f7 g2-g3 h7-h5 f3-f4
♘g6-e7 ♔f2-f3 ♖c4-b4 ♗b2-e5 ♘e7-f5 ♖d2-d7+ ♔f7-e6 ♖d7-h7 ♖b4-b3+ ♔f3-f2
♔e6-d5 ♖h7xh5 ♔d5-e4 ♔f2-g2 b5-b4 ♔g2-h3 ♘f5-e3 ♔h3-h4 ♖b3-d3 ♔h4-g5 ♘e3-c4
♖h5-h8) +1.01/39 197)
score for White +1.01 depth 39. |
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Nov-05-21
 | | Dionysius1: I guessed that though the combination would result in a rough equivalence of material, White's active pieces would count for more in the end. |
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| Nov-05-21 | | saturn2: I saw castling leads to an exchange sacrifice with a strong attack against the uncastled black king. |
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| Nov-05-21 | | Brenin: After 17 O-O Qxa1 18 Bf4 Qxf1+ 19 Kxf1 O-O-O 20 Qxe5 Bd6 21 Qxf5+ Kb8 White, with Q+P for 2R, has an advantage, but has plenty more to do to force a win. |
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Nov-05-21
 | | chrisowen: Glock i keys auld 0-0 fabs ashen face hark glock i key auld hammy hays yahs cogs quiffer ie brew worn it stun jump animals keys ebbs hi yo fengshui wu quad doot safe is flush give an ignorance keys anaconda ja duff axiom ji keys garrulous not fade q quintessential abc pen gulch i hi u kid c x goofball school bod jog on pug cerberus stem pa sheer bastion of hope exchange keys block c vid chucked hedged if deaf beg c garconed cringed crafty bed c re hi u ko old candy cab v dock vagrant keys it lot quagmire do too i green safe keys narks safi c yes for kudos bitty i say running out of breath uba oomph 0-0 fab! |
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| Nov-05-21 | | GlennOliver: And not the ostensibly attractive 17. Bb2, which fails to -
17. ... Qxb2
18. Qxb2 Nd3+
- winning a piece |
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| Nov-05-21 | | agb2002: White is one knight down.
Black threatens Qxa1.
The 'natural' 17.Bb2 fails miserably to 17... Qxb2 18.Qxb2 Nd3+. The uncastled black king invites to play 17.0-0, preparing the attack: A) 17... Qxa1 18.Bb2
A.1) 18... Qa2 19.Qxe5+ Kd7 (19... Be7 20.Nxf5 Qf7 21.Nd6+) 20.Rd1+ Kc8 21.Qd4 (21.Rc1 Qf7) A.1.a) 21... b6 22.Qd7+ Kb7 (22... Kb8 23.Be5 Bd6 24.Bxd6 Rc8 25.Rc1 seems to win) 23.Be5 Rc8 24.Rc1 looks winning. A.1.b) 21... Be7 21.Qd7+ Kb8 22.Qxe7, followed by Be5, looks good for White because Black is playing nearly a rook down momentarily. A funny line is 22... Rc8 23.Be5 Qxa3? 24.Qxc7+ Rxc7 25.Rd8#. A.2) 18... Qxf1+ 19.Kxf1 0-0-0 (I suppose) 20.Qxe5, followed by the capture of the f-pawn, looks good for White. B) 17... 0-0-0 18.Bb2 recovers the piece with a much better position. |
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| Nov-05-21 | | johnnydeep: <GlennOliver: And not the ostensibly attractive 17. Bb2, which fails to - 17. ... Qxb2
18. Qxb2 Nd3+
- winning a piece>
Yup - I fell for that shallowly appealing move! |
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Nov-05-21
| | chrisowen: Aggressive val loiter. |
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| Nov-05-21 | | landshark: I chose 17.Bb2 -
And there is <no way> I ever could have foreseen my way thru the complications after 17.0-0 enough to have been able to choose that move.
So I dwell in the mediocrity of chess timidity you could say - but had i even made enough of the right moves in the followup, I could still have easily lost on time or blundered the game away in the time pressure I would have most certainly found myself in...
Right now I'm looking at the position after 25... Kf8. I've stared at this particular juncture for 15 minutes without finding the right move. I <have> played correctly thus far in 'guess-the-move' mode -
But I could never have gotten myself to there OTB even in classical time control -
I think this game is truly, remarkably brilliant. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 15.Nxe5