| Jun-19-11 | | Oceanlake: I've often wondered about this way of declining the From and will be interested in your comments. |
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Jun-19-11
 | | perfidious: <Oceanlake> John A Curdo has been known to use this line, though there are no games with it in this DB. The time Curdo played it against me, he got a KGD where he'd already liquidated the centre and I obtained easy equality. It seems to me that I read about a GM who put out a DVD on this, though I could easily be wrong. |
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| Jun-19-11 | | detritus: Given the way the game started, I'm a little surprised it made it all the way to move 70. Also feel like Black could have resigned a good 10-15 moves earlier, no? |
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Jun-19-11
 | | hedgeh0g: 6...Nge7?! already looks a little suspect to me. I don't think the pin after 6...Nf6 7.Bg5 is anything to be afraid of. |
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| Jun-19-11 | | kakashi767: i like white's 21st through 23rd moves... the king just shuffles over to dispatch the knight |
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| Jun-19-11 | | pulsar: 6...Nge7 looks like bad move.
click for larger viewBlack was probably afraid of Bg5, but Nf6 is clearly better than the text move. Now f7 becomes a natural target. 11.Ne6
click for larger viewThe sequence is forced as there's no other way to cover the Queen on h3. Black has an important decision to make. 11...Nd4 (Another bad move, I think. 11...Qd7 is an option, then 12.Nxc5 Qxh3 14. Nxb7+ Bxb7 15.gxh3 and White is a pawn-up but it is doubled.) After 13...Kc6
click for larger view14.Nxc5 is simpler and should also win. |
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Jun-19-11
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: This should probably be classified as a rare line of the King's Gambit Declined, 1.e4,e5; 2.f4,Bc5; 3.Nf3,d6; 4.fxe4!?,dxe4. |
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Jun-19-11
 | | JohnBoy: <detritus: (I) feel like Black could have resigned a good 10-15 moves earlier, no?> Black had this one drawing hope - the h pawn queens on a dark square and cannot be supported by the white bishop. I would have played on too. |
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| Jun-19-11 | | DiscoJew: Lots of twists and turns in this epic struggle! |
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| Jun-19-11 | | IRONCASTLEVINAY: i dont think there is any twist or TURN white always holds winning advantage throughout the game. |
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| Jun-19-11 | | pulsar: The movements of the pieces were twists and turns to me. |
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Jun-19-11
 | | wordfunph: watta game by our good friend Virgil Aluyen aka <bubuli55>.. terrific 8.Qh5+! 9.Bf7+ wheww! |
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| Jun-19-11 | | Gogia: I could have constructed the endgame like this. I am 1650 |
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| Jun-19-11 | | WhiteRook48: some weird endgame play |
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| Jun-19-11 | | Sho: Anyone else get a '19th Century feel' about this game: wild attacks springing from the opening, a quick assault on the king, sacrificing of queens? I'm sure I'm wrong on a lot, but it does feel 'swashbuckling.' I wonder how the chess gurus of 150 years ago would comment on it. |
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| Jun-19-11 | | psmith: <pulsar>: Re your last comment -- Things are not so clear after 14. Nxc5 Bxg2. |
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| Jun-19-11 | | NewLine: Does anyone understands why did black just keep giving his pawns to white one by one and then lost? Was there some kind of a hidden wisdom or plain stupidity? |
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| Jun-19-11 | | pulsar: <psmith: <pulsar>: Re your last comment -- Things are not so clear after 14. Nxc5 Bxg2.> Silly me, I saw that but didn't analyze further. Let's take a look: 14.Nxc5 Bxg2 15.Rg1 Nf3+ 16.Kf2 Nxg1 
click for larger viewI'd be happy to play White here, but, I agree, it's not so clear. <NewLine> After 29.Nf3 
click for larger viewBlack is losing one of his pawns anyway.
After 39. d4 Rg7 is a bad move, but Black is losing here already. 
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| Jun-19-11 | | Lil Swine: 
click for larger viewWeaver Adams: White to play and win. |
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| Jun-19-11 | | Magic Castle: I wonder why white did not move 29. Ne6+ forking the Rook and King. Although he loses a pawn by 30....Rd3 the game is basically won with a piece up. |
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| Jun-20-11 | | LIFE Master AJ: Nuts. |
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Jun-20-11
 | | kevin86: a little scary at the end:rook pawn with the wrong bishop,but white gets king to g7 and wins! |
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