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Dec-19-14
 | | scormus: <SteinitzLives: ....g2 (hey, if your gonna attack, then attack!)> Yes, for all his ostentatious self confidence, Naka seems to demonstrate frailty here. As I was playing it through, my blitz thought was ... g2. Rather to my surprise the engine agreed, but only after 15-ply search. However, it was in keeping with his previous play (not that the engine cared about that). The next 2 moves compounded the loss of direction in his play and Kramnik took command. Moves like ... g2 perhaps have to be played on bottle rather than brain. |
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| Dec-23-14 | | karthick2229: Sincere Thanks to <SteinitzLives> <Ulhumbrus> <john barleycorn> .Even without pressure and no time trouble for me while analyzing this move .I could not find the good move for black. Simply lot of things to know in this chess game. |
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| Dec-26-14 | | nazgulord: This is truly an awesome game. Thanks to <kingscrusher> for alerting me to it. |
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Jan-02-16
 | | Penguincw: First Saturday puzzle of the year.
31.Rxg6 Kxg6 is what came to my mind, but to my surprise, it's not the solution. Of course, Saturday puzzles are way out of my league anyhow, but it does feel good knowing that you can correctly predict, say, a sacrifice (it at least means you're tactically aware). |
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| Jan-02-16 | | Patriot: 31.Bf5 seemed the most logical choice after examining a few other ideas, given 31...Bxf5 32.exf5 threatening 33.Rg6 next. 32...Qf8 33.f6 looks interesting. |
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Jan-02-16
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Already knew this game, so no credit for me. One thing does puzzle--why is 7.d5 (the Petrosian Variation) not the most popular choice for White? First of all, it does more than 7.0-0 or 7.Be3 to tamp down Black's activity and limit his choices. Second, the fact that someone with such a great positional understanding of chess as Petrosian would advocate 7.d5 should prove highly persuasive to us patzers. Third, based upon the games I've seen, it seems to give White the option of holding the draw or playing for the win depending upon his tournament or match needs. Finally, if White needs to play for the win, this seems like a good choice as the Petrosian Variation seems to accommodate both players who love to slowly squeeze the opponent and those who love to attack the King. So what have I overlooked? |
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| Jan-02-16 | | lost in space: maybe this?
Opening Explorer |
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| Jan-02-16 | | agb2002: Perhaps a bit too famous already. See for example
http://www.chess.com/news/london-r2... or https://chess24.com/en/read/news/lo... |
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| Jan-02-16 | | PeterJ: Interesting comments and an instructive game but why set it as a hard end of week puzzle? Bf5 is a rather obvious strong natural continuation which wins the h pawn in 2 further moves. |
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| Jan-02-16 | | morfishine: <31.Bf5> looks like the best move, no fireworks here ***** |
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| Jan-02-16 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: Why is this "difficult"? If the sharp White attack as in the game from Move 36 onward isn't foreseen, White is still a pawn ahead with attacking chances at least as good as Black's. The notes I wrote before checking are:
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As White, I'd like to attack h6. But to do so, it seems necessary to inhibit ... Bf4. That leads to the idea 31 Bf5. Black obviously need to exchange, after which his development seems too screwed up to get h6 defended in time. Also, if Black's queen leaves f6, a discovered check opens up. Black's counterplay on the queenside seems slow. If he ever plays ... Ra6/Rb6, then b3 would slow him down. Ditto if he ever plays ... a3. If he doesn't do either of those things, White can just sit tight, or maybe interpolate an a3. So that's what I'd do. |
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| Jan-02-16 | | stacase: Well, I'm happy, I got all the way to 36. Rg6. Not too difficult for a Saturday. |
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| Jan-02-16 | | Kasparov Fan: Its too famous to be a Saturday puzzle and answering An Englishman's question you've missed nothing Petrosian variation is a good way of facing KID.But as a KID player myself I like to play stein variation against petrosian variation I've had my first IM norm in a memorable win from the Black side of Stein variation. |
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| Jan-02-16 | | patzer2: If you think of today's Saturday puzzle from a positional point of view, White's first five moves 31. Bf5 31... Bxf5 32. exf5 Nd7 33. Rg6 Qf7 34. Rxh6+ Kg8 35. Rg6+ Kf8  to  logically follow with very little calculation required.Only a bit of calculation is required to realize 31. Rxg6? Kxg6 32. Bf5+ Kf7 33. Qb3 = to  is clearly inferior. The first real decision requiring calculation is to come up with the strong follow-up move 36. Nf2! (+3.75 @ 20 depth, Deep Fritz 15; +3.89 @ 30 depth, Stockfish 6). Surprisingly, the computer indicates my human move 36. Nc3, allowing 36...Bg7 37. Qe4 Re8 38. Re6 Nc5 (+2.33 @ 21 depth, deep Fritz 15), is not nearly as strong. As to an initial improvement for Black, the cloud computers assisting Deep Fritz 15 are unanimous in slightly preferring 17...Re8 = (-0.12 @ 42 depth, Stockfish 181014 SE) over 17...Rf7 = (0.18 @ 23 depth, Deep Fritz 15). As to where Black went wrong, it would seem 18...Nfd7? which allows 19. 0-0-0 (+0.71 @ 24 depth, Komodo 9.1; +1.24 @ 42 depth Stockfish 181014 SE ) is the culprit. Instead, the move active 18...Na6 = (0.02 @ 25 depth, Komodo 9.02) keeps Black in the game. P.S.: Perhaps the pretty finish after 39. Rg8+! with the threats of a Knight Fork and mate in the air would make for a good future Wednesday or Thursday puzzle. |
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| Jan-02-16 | | kevin86: A tough one! |
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| Jan-02-16 | | ChessYouGood: Any move against Nakamura is good enough. |
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| Jan-02-16 | | CountryGirl: I hadn't seen this game before for some reason. What a beauty! When Kramnik lets rip he is a brilliant attacker. |
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| Jan-02-16 | | RandomVisitor: After 17.Ng6
click for larger viewKomodo-9.3-64bit:
<+0.00/36 17...Re8> 18.Nf4 Na6 19.Rg1 Bf5 20.Bf3 Nc5 21.Ke2 Kh7 22.Qe1 Qe7 23.Qxg3 Rg8 24.Raf1 Nfe4 25.Bxe4 Nxe4 26.Qf3 Bxc3 27.Bxc3 Raf8 28.Rxg8 Rxg8 29.Ne6 Ng3+ 30.Ke1 Bxe6 31.Rg1 Qh4 32.dxe6 Nh5+ 33.Kf1 Qxc4+ 34.Kf2 Qh4+ 35.Kf1 Qc4+ |
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| Jan-02-16 | | Olsonist: Nice combinational ending but it does seem to play itself after finding the not hard to find Bf5. Also, I'm not exactly sure what Naka was thinking about with his Q-side pawn storm while getting mated. Still the Nh6 resource was very nice. Doubtlessly Kramnik had to calculate that before committing. |
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| Jan-02-16 | | dunamisvpm: I guess Next move is 42.Nh6+
Happy New Year. GOD Bless |
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| Jan-02-16 | | Olsonist: Yeah, but Nh6 was an earlier resource. 39. ... Kxg8. Then Nh6 forking K+Q. |
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| Apr-05-16 | | SimplicityRichard: Wow! A breathtaking combination from Kramnik! A rarity.# |
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| Dec-13-16 | | waustad: As much as I like the Kings Indian, when it loses it often does spectacularly. |
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| Dec-13-16 | | thegoodanarchist: I submitted this pun years ago, but for a different gam. :( |
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| Dec-13-16 | | catlover: The pun fits. Very nice attack by Kramnik.
Nakamura's queenside rook and knight sat on the bench for most of the game. |
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