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| Oct-10-11 | | adhitthana: <LIFE Master AJ: Not sure how to respond. I have played like 30 GM's in my whole career. (I had maybe two won games, however, I eventually lost all of them.) >
Why don't you post one of these games where you outplayed a GM, to get into a won position? |
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| Oct-22-11 | | JoergWalter: <adhitthana: <LIFE Master AJ: ... Why don't you post one of these games where you outplayed a GM, to get into a won position?> These games are classified material, they contain the ultimate secrets of advantage play that only a handful of players on the planet do actually understand. However, there is a inexhaustible source for games where our hero bites the board. Through indiscretion this game became public: [Event "Internet Section 16-B"]
[Site "Dos Hermanas"]
[Date "2003.03.16"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Goldsby, AJ."]
[Black "Kolev, Aleksandar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2228"]
[BlackElo "1952"]
[ECO "C06"]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. Bd3 c5 5. e5 Nfd7 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ne2 cxd4 8. cxd4 f6 9. exf6 Qxf6 10. Nf3 Bd6 11. O-O O-O 12. Bg5 Qf7 13. Bh4 Nf6 14. Bg3 Bxg3 15. Nxg3 Bd7 16. Rc1 Rae8 17. Re1 Re7 18. Bb1 Nh5 19. Bxh7+ Kh8 20. Bb1 Nf4 21. Qc2 g6 22. Ne5 Nxe5 23. Rxe5 Qf6 24. Rce1 Rh7 25. Qc5 Nh3+ 26. gxh3 Qxf2+ 27. Kh1 Rxh3 28. Qxf8+ Qxf8 29. Kg2 Qh6 30. Nf1 Rh4 31. R5e3 Kg7 32. h3 Rxd4 33. Rg3 g5 34. Re5 Kf6 35. Re2 e5 36. Ne3 Be6 37. Rf2+ Rf4 38. a3 d4 39. Ng4+ Bxg4 40. Rxg4 Rxf2+ 41. Kxf2 Qxh3 42. Rg3 Qh2+ 43. Rg2 Qf4+ 44. Ke2 Qe3+ 45. Kd1 d3 46. Rh2 Qg1+ 47. Kd2 Qxh2+ 48. Kxd3 Qxb2 49. a4 Qxb1+ 50. Kc4 Qb6 51. Kd3 Qb4 52. a5 g4 53. a6 bxa6 54. Ke3 Qd4+ 55. Ke2 Qc3 56. Kf2 Qf3+ 57. Kg1 Qe2 58. Kh1 g3 59. Kg1 Qf2+ 60. Kh1 Qh2# 0-1 How could that happen? The amateur is puzzled and the expert is confronted with a miracle. |
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Oct-22-11
 | | Sneaky: I normally stay away from these monkey houses but I have a few comments here. <Chocolate Milk 2006> First the event name of the tournament ... bizarre to say the least. What I think of is this: when Fischer was young, chocolate milk was his drink of choice while playing OTB. (As he grew older, he developed a taste for fruit juices.) If I recall correctly, it was Lasker who said "The brain is an engine that runs on sugar!" Bobby understood this as well as anybody, and chocolate milk fits the bill. I wonder if there is a link there? <LIFE Master AJ: One FL Expert wrote me to say 28.Kh1!! was brilliant.> "Brilliant" is a relative term but I'd surely agree that it's the star move of the game. When I first saw it I was stumped at what Goldsby could have been thinking. I said to myself "what the...?" It's as if AJ was afraid of ghosts. But once you see Be4! it all fits together: he has to get his king off the g-file so Black can't extricate himself with Rg7+. Bravo! <FSR: Not much of a queen "sacrifice."> If play continued 32.Rxf8+ then I'd agree, in fact in that case it would not even be a sacrifice at all. But that's not what went down. As played, it is most definitely a queen sacrifice: White fails to recapture and instead surprisingly goes for the king. To take this away from AJ as a queen sacrifice would be to take away countless other queen sacrifices, like from the Immortal Game or the Evergreen game, Morphy's ...Qxf3, etc. In short, one of Goldsby's better games. Say what you will about him, but the man can play chess. |
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| Oct-22-11 | | JoergWalter: <sneaky>
a (real) "sacrifice" involves the risk to fail since the consequences cannot be calculated. In the above game there are not many variations and each favours white big time.
However, one must see it (Kh1, Be4).
Many of the so-called sacrifices are just trade-in's. Look at the notorious cases involving Bxh7+.
Sacrifice seems to be the wrong word.
(freely borrowed from Spielmann, Richtig opfern) |
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Oct-28-11
 | | LIFE Master AJ: <<In short, one of Goldsby's better games. Say what you will about him, but the man can play chess. <<<<<>>>>>>> <<Blush.<>>> Thanks for the compliments. |
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Oct-28-11
| | LIFE Master AJ: Thanks to David ... for pointing this (very) positive comment out. I understand that David (probably) will get straight "A's" on his next report card. At the private school that he attends, this is not an easy thing to accomplish. Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Oct-28-11 | | James Bowman: Nice game all around LMAJ. |
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Oct-29-11
| | LIFE Master AJ: <<Oct-28-11 James Bowman: Nice game all around LMAJ.>> Thanks. (VERY much!!!!!)
Strong players - like former AL State Champ. Joe Jurjevich - were watching this game, all confessed afterwards that they had not seen the Q-sack coming. |
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Oct-29-11
| | LIFE Master AJ: Sadly he has gone over to the other side, I have no hope for him. |
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| Oct-29-11 | | sevenseaman: A tactically very sound Q sacrifice. White player was fully focused on the 'f' file and the rewards that accrue from supporting the R(7) with the P. The P advance, in addition to supporting the R(7) also uncovered a check that precluded Black saving his own Q. There's nothing sham about giving up the Q. In fact White must be tensely hoping that the Q were accepted so he could push his plan of the discovered check leading to an easy mate. Its a well-played game. |
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| Oct-29-11 | | Colonel Mortimer: There seems to be some confusion about what constitutes a true sacrifice. A true sacrifice occurs when giving up or exchanging a piece or pawn with a clear net loss of material and no immediate prospect of regaining that material or achieving checkmate, but with the aim of a positional gain or some other non-material advantage. That's why the Queen 'sacrifice' in this game is a pseudo or sham sacrifice. |
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| Oct-29-11 | | Colonel Mortimer: It's a little ridiculous comparing the quality of this game with the one linked to below, however the comparison is only intended as an illustration of what constitutes a genuine Queen sacrifice... Ivanchuk vs Karjakin, 2008 |
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| Oct-29-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: @<Col. Mort>
I am reminded of the discussion which V. Vukovic presented (with characteristic thoroughness) the subject in Chapter 1 of his classic book <the Chess Sacrifice> (Bell 1968). Basing himself on Rudolf Spielmann, a combination involving a sacrifice which yields a clear advantage must be classed as a pseudo-sacrifice and not a real one. I once downplayed a "queen sacrifice" I played in a game because I simply got a mate in 5 or the return of the queen plus material. A sacrifice proper is giving up material for an unclear initiative or attack in my books. (That would thus cover what V.V. called "degrees of sacrifice", with degree I being the pawn sac or gambit and degree IX being the queen sac proper, with the various levels of defensive resources and risk involved.) |
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| Oct-29-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: Iakov Neishtadt has a systematic categorisation of Queens sacs in his lovely book <Queen Sacrifice> (Pergamon Chess 1991) as well as a review of the term "sacrifice" in chess theory* in his introductory remarks. *Spielmann "the Art of sacrifice in Chess" (1935); Shamkovich "the Modern Chess Sacrifice" (1978). |
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| Oct-29-11 | | chesssantosh: this is a beautiful game by <Lifemasteraj>,a brilliant finish. |
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| Oct-29-11 | | JoergWalter: <SimonWebbsTiger>
<a (real) "sacrifice" involves the risk to fail since the consequences cannot be calculated.> <In most cases the sacrificed queen is partly compensated by getting a rook and a bishop (or a knight) for it. if you get 2 pawns on top of it the word "sacrifice" is inappropriate. "Winning a rook, a bishop
and 2 pawns for the queen" would be the correct statement.> (freely borrowed from Spielmann, Richtig opfern) |
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| Oct-29-11 | | James Bowman: Anytime material worth is given (sacraficed) for an attack or even positional advantage the term can and often is used. Had <LMAJ> retaken blacks queen with 32Rxf8+ then it wouldn't qualify, but he played the much better e6+ with mate to follow (which rightfully allows it to be counted as a tactic as opposed to a sacrifice). At the end of this tactical barage he has dropped 5pts worth of material and his queen is gone. No doubt whether you count this as a sacrifice or not it's a very nice game that should be listed as AJ's best games list. Bottom line is if this wasn't AJ his persitantly obsessed critics wouldn't have even questioned it but that's another never ending story the readers of chess games are so fortunate to have at our disposal. |
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| Oct-29-11 | | James Bowman: BTW when I use the term <persistantly obsessed critics> that doesn't indicate by anymeans anyone who says this isn't a sacrifice proper rather the usual suspects that follow <LMAJ>'s every post only to harrass and critisize him. Just for clarification so as not to insult anyone not justifiably insulted. |
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Oct-29-11
| | LIFE Master AJ: Thank you. I got an e-mail from a player who played in some of the same local tournaments that I have played in lately. (He did not specifically say that I could use his name - so I don't.) He said: "This game is as nice as any that I have seen. If someone had said that White was a 2500 GM, I would have believed that." He also called it both "brilliant" ... and the finish "artistic." |
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| Oct-29-11 | | hedgeh0g: Did he now? |
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| Oct-29-11 | | acirce: <My only regret? That my opponent was not a 2400.> Hahaha... Oh my god. |
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| Oct-29-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: @<James Bowman> and others it is a pretty mating combination; I don't think anyone is saying it isn't. |
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| Oct-29-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: <Ever see "Home Alone?" A guy takes a machine gun, and ...> back to the usual violent fantasy again we see. In <Home Alone> Kevin uses a film featuring a gangster killing people in cold blood with a Tommy Gun to scare off the Wet Bandits. |
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Oct-30-11
| | LIFE Master AJ: <sevenseaman> <James Bowman> Thanks (sincerely!) for your compliments ... I think that if my opponent had a 2000+ rating, this game might have been better received. |
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Oct-30-11
| | LIFE Master AJ: <Sneaky> Thanks for your well thought out comments and compliments. Thank you (also) for taking time out to refute the claims of my obviously biased critics. |
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