Jun-25-13
 | | FSR: Rockin' Robin. |
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Sep-18-13
 | | offramp: Attack from move one. Very impressive. |
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| Sep-18-13 | | morfishine: Wow, 3 things that stand out from this game: (1) The opponents are actually Grandmasters (2) Black sacs a piece on move 5...Bxf2 & (3) This fluid, lively affair stemmed from an English Opening Conclusion: White botched the opening
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| Sep-18-13 | | Alphastar: Seems like white was continually walking into new nasty surprises; black had a sustained attack right out of the opening. |
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Sep-18-13
 | | mjmorri: White's problems stem from the pedestrian 5.Nxe5 expecting to recover the material with 5...Nxe5, 6.d4. Black, however returns the material differently with 5...Bxf2, and White's King is never out of danger. |
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| Sep-18-13 | | Dezaxa: How much of this do you suppose was preparation on Black's part? Normally, GMs wouldn't engage in mad tactics in the opening unless they had already analysed it. |
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| Sep-18-13 | | Ratt Boy: I've played this opening as Black (with and without a g3 move by White) quite a number of times. Nobody has ever tried that Nxe5 tactic against me.
I don't think the ...Bxf2 tactic would have been so damaging to White if not for the fianchetto. White's K-side is just too loose. |
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Sep-18-13
 | | perfidious: The tactic is well known from games such as Botvinnik vs Keres, 1966 in the Four Knights subvariation; strikes me that, contrary to the implication by <mjmorri>, both players would have been well aware of this motif. |
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| Sep-18-13 | | sfm: It's really hard to understand some of White's moves.
The thing about Nxe5,Bxf2 is well known. Usually it is bad for the player striking at f2(f7)
7.d4 and 8.e4 - OK.
Now it comes:
9.Nxd5
Well, but I have seen Black's reply. So why not 9.cxd5, and the N at c3 keeps an eye on e4. E-file is open.
11.-,Nf6
It is clear now that e4 is a wet dream.
13.Kf1.
Isn't that a pretty move? Since he captures the knight a move later, why not now, so he can go to g2 with the king.
15.h3
What is going on? He chases the night to grab his most important pawn for free, and later there's square on f3.
17.Qb3
Again I have seen what follows. Black intends to play Qe7, g5 and Be6. Natural, easy to see.
21.Rhf1
Aha! It's blitz game between two not-too-strong players.Actually, I don't know.
Maybe White has a good game, and just blunders?
Before the last move, Black threatens 21.-,Nh4+
On 21.Raf1 can Black still play 21.-,Bxh3+ 22.KxB,Qh5 23.Kg2,Nh4+ 24.gxN,QxN+ 25.Rf2 Hmm, maybe not.
Maybe 21.Nd4 is the right move. f3 and f2 is covered.
Complicated. Blacks king position is not great either. |
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| Sep-18-13 | | kevin86: White seemed to sleep through black's attack...first the king was uprooted,then came the horses,then the rest.... |
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Sep-18-13
 | | scutigera: I concur with <mjmorri> that White's troubles begin with the perfunctory Fork Trick sham sac: 5 Nxe5 expecting 5..Nxe5 6 d4 Bxd4 7 Qxd4 when Black is the one who must worry about his K-side. Black must recapture on move 5 or remain a pawn down, but this unusual way of returning the piece sac before it's made is probably as much a psychological ploy as anything else: if someone opens with c4 and then flanks their KB on move 2, they're probably not looking for a brawl. The rest of the game bears that out. |
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Sep-18-13
| | mjmorri: <perfidious> There are, of course structural differences between this game and the Botvinnik-Keres with Black's pawn on f5 in this game as opposed to Keres placing a Knight on f6. Keres was also unrecognizable in that game and certainly did not play to try take advantage of Botvinnik's King's placement Perhaps White thought that with the pawn on f5, Black's King's position was looser than his, and he tried to open the center to take advantage of this. It appears that his method of opening the center and dealing with the aftermath are mostly to blame for the disaster that followed. |
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Sep-18-13
| | perfidious: <scutigera:....this unusual way of returning the piece sac before it's made is probably as much a psychological ploy as anything else: if someone opens with c4 and then flanks their KB on move 2, they're probably not looking for a brawl. The rest of the game bears that out.> Here is an example of someone playing White who fianchettoed early-as is characteristic of the Reverse Dragon-and might have been said to have been ready for a 'brawl': Botvinnik vs Portisch, 1968. As the strong master John A Curdo was oft known to say, 'The aggression is in the intent'. |
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Sep-18-13
 | | Penguincw: If 22.♔f2 ♘d2 discovered check and the queen is lost. If 22.♔xh3 ♕h5+ 23.♔g2 ♕h2# and the king is lost. |
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| Apr-18-15 | | kingfu: I think that this should be the King George III English opening. |
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Kibitzing
