Feb-18-16 | | Mehem:  click for larger view
What a sad surprise! Not 62.g4+ Ke4= but 62.Qxh5!+. And if 62... Bxh5 then 63.Rf8+ |
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Feb-18-16 | | The17thPawn: Gunina seemed to spurn exchanges in this effort but the home town girl made her pay. |
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Feb-19-16 | | alphamaster: It was rather a SarasadAD surprise. |
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Feb-20-16
 | | Honza Cervenka: 60...Kg5 was a grave mistake. 60...Ke7 was necessary. Anyway, nobody can say that girls cannot play sharp and exciting fighting chess. This was a great fight from both sides. |
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Feb-20-16
 | | HeMateMe: yikes, a slight oversight.
Why doesn't white just play 12. NxN and win a pawn? |
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Feb-20-16
 | | Honza Cervenka: <HeMateMe> 12.Nxe4 dxe4 13.Bxe4 Rc8 14.Qe2 (14.Qd3? f5 15.Bf3 Nc4 is bad for white) 14...Qb6 (Also 14...Nc6 with idea 15.Nf3 f5 16.Bd3 Qa5+ 17.Kf1 Nb4 is possible.) 15.Nf3 Bb5 forces white to return a Pawn after 16.Bd3 Bxd3 17.Qxd3 Qxb2 18.0-0 0-0 with equal game. 12.Nge2 looks more promising here, if white wants to play for more than draw. |
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Jan-30-19
 | | sakredkow: I too was wondering why not 12. NxN so I came here and was glad to see someone else wondering. Digging a little further it turns out Navara accepted the sacked pawn but with 12. BxN against Najer a couple of months later (not in CG database): Navara,David (2730) - Najer,Evgeniy (2674) [D10] CZE-chT 1516 Czech Republic (11.1), 17.04.2016
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.cxd5 cxd5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Bf4 Nc6 6.e3 Bg4 7.Qb3 Na5 8.Qa4+ Bd7 9.Qc2 e6 10.Bd3 Be7 11.h3 Ne4 12.Bxe4 dxe4 13.Nxe4 Rc8 14.Nc3 b5 15.a3 Nc4 16.Nge2 a5 17.Qb3 0-0 18.e4 b4 19.axb4 axb4 20.Na4 e5 21.dxe5 Bb5 22.0-0 Nd2 23.Bxd2 Bxe2 24.Be3 Bxf1 25.Rxf1 Rc6 26.Qd5 Qc7 27.b3 Rd8 28.Qb5 Rb8 29.Qd5 Rd8 30.Qb5 Rb8 ½-½ |
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Jul-13-20
 | | Phony Benoni: <"Que sera, sera,
Whatever will be, will bem
The future's not ours to see,
Que sera, sera,
What will be, will be.">
Not a very inspiring song for a chess player. |
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Jul-13-20
 | | al wazir: 49...Qf4+ would have been better:
50. Kg1 (50. Kh1 Qc1+) Qc1+ 51. Kf2 (51. Qf1 Qc5+) Qf4+ 52. Qf3 Qd4+
53. Qe3 Qxb2+.
I think black can keep checking perpetually. |
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Jul-13-20 | | jith1207: The song is Cue for her opponents to sing in praise of the future women's world champ and their own fate as "what will be, will be". |
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Jul-13-20 | | newzild: <<Mehem:> What a sad surprise! Not 62.g4+ Ke4= but 62.Qxh5!+. And if 62... Bxh5 then 63.Rf8+> >After 62. g4+, I think 62...Ke5 looks stronger than 62...Ke4 because of 63. gh Bd4# |
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Jul-13-20 | | Brenin: "Che sara sara" was the motto of the Earls of Bedford. It appears in Marlowe's Dr Faustus, rather earlier than the Doris Day song. |
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Jul-13-20 | | Ironmanth: Wonderful game of intense maneuvering! Thanks, chessgames. Y'all please stay safe out there in the world today! |
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Jul-13-20
 | | AylerKupp: Years ago in California a winery, Preston, bottled a wine made of a blend of Syrah and Petite Sirah grapes. They naturally named it "Syrah Sirah". I thought that they had missed a great opportunity by not naming it either "Chez (home) Syrah Sirah" or "Chais (wine storeroom) Syrah Sirah" Oh, what a career in marketing, or at least wine marketing, I could have had! |
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