| Aug-01-10 | | goodevans: 64 ... Kc5!
My guess is that this move is well known to endgame theory, but it's new to me and it's brilliant. |
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| Aug-01-10 | | Daiwen: Draw if white play 62 or 64 Ka8
Black Queen cannot eat the pawn |
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| Aug-01-10 | | hellopolgar: surprised that an ex-world champion doesn't know the pawn vs queen endings.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_... |
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| Aug-01-10 | | percyblakeney: <Draw if white play 62 or 64 Ka8> Indeed, strange to see a rather recent World Champion throw away the draw in such an endgame (played with increments). Zhao Xue had things going her way also against Yildiz when the latter resigned when she had both mate in four and a not too tricky repetition on the board. |
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| Aug-01-10 | | hellopolgar: apparently these two gals are very good friends of each other...i have a feeling that zhu let zhao win this one, because there is no way that 2500+ rated zhu doesn't know about bishop pawn drawing against queen. |
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| Aug-01-10 | | percyblakeney: Even more strange, 27. Qxc6 is no transmission error but was actually played. Black wins immediately by taking the queen but both players said after the game that they thought 27. ... Bxc6 28. Rd8+ was mate. |
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Aug-01-10
 | | Fusilli: 
click for larger view27.Qxc6??
click for larger view27...Rg6??
That's why, before making a move like that, you have to ask yourself: wait, is this a blunder? And after your opponent makes a move like that, it's good to ask yourself: wait, is that a blunder? |
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Aug-01-10
 | | AylerKupp: And what's wrong with 65.c8=Q+ ? |
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| Aug-01-10 | | hellopolgar: it leads to mate:P
65. ... Kb6
and white can't check no more and black has too many mate threats. |
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| Aug-01-10 | | whiteshark: <25.Rdg1!> with the threat of 26.Qxh6+ and it's almost over. 
click for larger view Best line, according to Fritz is the mutual queen sacrifice with <25...Qxg3 26.hxg3 Rd8 27.fxe5 Rxd6 28.exd6 Re5 29.d7> and white is two pawns up. 
click for larger view |
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Aug-01-10
 | | HeMateMe: This looks like the kind of game Kasparov used to win--give up queen for two pieces and pawns, and strangle the opponent with the right pieceplay/passed pawns. I guess white couldn't envision the complicatons, difficult to see that far. But Zhu Chen blew the draw. |
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| Aug-02-10 | | mig26: 27 Bh7+ it´s draw by perpetual check, because Rxh7 mate in 3 (Rg1+ Qg4 RxQ+ Rg7 QxR++), or Kf8 Rg1 f6 Bf5 win because the only defence for Qh8 it´s Qxg5. |
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| Aug-02-10 | | jahhaj: I'm just stunned by the poor play in this game. I'm only a mediocre club player but I would have known to play 64...Ka8. It's basic, basic Q vs. P theory. It can't be lack of time because there was an increment. It can only be lack of knowledge. I guess Zue Chen has never picked up a book on endgames in her life. |
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| Aug-03-10 | | percyblakeney: <I'm just stunned by the poor play in this game> Me too, and several of the games in this tournament have been played far below the usual level of the players. Chessbase suspects transmission errors in their analysis of this game, but there were none. |
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Aug-04-10
 | | OBIT: 58...Qe7+?! doesn't quite throw away the victory but makes the win significantly more difficult. The fastest solution is 58...Qe4! 59. Kb6 (or 59. b5 Kc5 60. Kb8 Qxa4 61. c7 Qxb5+ 62. Ka7 Qd7 63. Kb7 Kb5 64. Kb8 Kb6!) Kd5 60. c7 Qxb4+ 61. Ka7 Qc5+! (61...Qxa4+? only draws) 62. Kb7 Qc6+ 63. Kb8 Qb6+ wins. As for when the win was officially thrown away, that happened with 59...Qxb4+? Necessary is 59...Kd5!, and with accurate play Black eventually picks off all the pawns. Lucky for Black, 64. Kb8?? gave the win back. |
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| Aug-04-10 | | Ladolcevita: It's generally hard for women to go back to the grand phase they were once used to,especially after they got a boyfriend or got married....
For instance,Ivanovic,Vaidisova,Sharapova,and so on... |
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