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Jan Paul Cremer vs Axel Neffe
Berlin Lichtenberger op 8th (2009), Berlin GER, rd 8, Aug-22
Sicilian Defense: Paulsen. Bastrikov Variation (B47)  ·  0-1

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Jun-27-16  AlicesKnight: 17. Bg1+, and whether white captures Kg1 or interposes Black can play ....Qh2#.
Jun-27-16  goldfarbdj: <Bruce Graham>: Wrong. After 17. ... Bg1 18. Bh6, Black can just play Qh2 immediately. The bishop on g1 protects the queen.
Jun-27-16  WorstPlayerEver: 18. Any move then Qh2#
FTFY
Jun-27-16  Cybe: 14... Ng4, 15. Bc5 (15. Rfe1, 15. Be2).
Jun-27-16  cocker: Back to good old days of easy Mondays.
Jun-27-16  saturn2: <Cybe: 14... Ng4, 15. Be2> ..BxNc3 16 hxNg4 hxg4 looses a piece.
Jun-27-16  morfishine: <17...Bg1+>

"A Neffe said"

*****

Jun-27-16  thegoodanarchist: To those cg.com patrons who play 1.e4 and open Sicilians I ask you, isn't White supposed to try for f4 in this opening?

In other words, was 9.Bf3 a mistake by White? Having played the Pirc myself for many years (as Black), I know that my opponents liked f4.

And if 9.Bf3 is not the fatal mistake, surely taking the knight on g4 was.

Jun-27-16  zb2cr: The discovered check 17. ... Bg1+ both clears the h-file for the Rook and h2 for the Queen. The Bishop still protects the h2 square, leaving White an unpleasant choice:

Take the Bishop and be mated by Queen supported by Rook: 18. Kxg1, Qh2#.

Block the file with the light-squared Bishop and mated by Queen supported by dark-squared Bishop: 18. Bh3(h5), Qh2#.

Jun-27-16  WorstPlayerEver: My apologies to Smothered Mate. Totally missed their post.
Jun-27-16  YetAnotherAmateur: 17. ... Bg1+ wins in 2. White only has 2 responses:

A) 18. Kxg1 Qxh2#
B) 18. Bh3 Qxh2#

I appreciate a non-queen-sac Monday.

Jun-27-16  Bruce Graham: <goldfarbdj><smotheredmate> My bad. Chess blindness strikes again!
Jun-27-16  The Kings Domain: Smooth and sweet.
Jun-27-16  kevin86: The bishop needs to get out of the way and maybe help the queen mate is well.

Bg1! does it; white can interpose on the h-file but the queen can mate supported by the bishop.

Jun-27-16
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  gawain: This is pretty clever. No matter how White replies, Black will play 18 ... Qh2#. The queen will be supported either by the bishop or by the rook.
Jun-27-16  YouRang: In cases like this, the real puzzle is: "How could a good chess player find himself with such a laughably dreadful position"?

It seems that black offered white a poisoned knight with <14...Ng4>


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And white bit it: <15.hxg4?>, allowing black to open the rook file against his K <15...hxg4>,


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So now black's Rh8 and black Q+B battery are all hitting h2. Obvious attack potential on white's king, no?

But white went from bad to worse by saving his bishop instead of his king with <16.Bxg4??>, setting up <16...Bh2+ 17.Kh1>, which is our mate-in-2 puzzle position. I assume white just didn't see black's resourceful (and forceful) way of getting his bishop out of his queen's way.

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White should have responded to 14...Ng4 by simply extracting his DSB via <15.Bc5>.


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A likely continuation then is <15...Bd4> (threatening ...Qh2#) <16.Bxg4> killing that N! <16...Bxc5> recovering his piece without losing another <17.Be2> getting his LSB out of take. It's still a fairly even game.

Jun-27-16  jith1207: <Bruce Graham> You're still wrong. ;-)
Jun-27-16
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  Sally Simpson: The important move setting up the trick was 13....Be5.


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Kicking the Queen off the X-Ray Attack on g7.

Black had played 13..Ng4 14. Bxg4 hxg4 then 15.Qxg7 is good for White.

In the game the idea of Bg1+ was missed by White when he took the Knight with the h-pawn..


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He was most likely depending on Bh3 to block the h-file.

Black was one of the lucky players who got to play Bronstein when he was doing his mini UK tour playing in Weekend Opens and even in league matches. He played the King's Gambit against Bronstein of all people and lived to tell the tale.

A Neffe vs Bronstein, 1995

(Now a complete bunch of strangers have voted me out of the E.U. am I allows to comment on games played between European players.)

Jun-27-16  Nullifidian: This was easy even for a Monday. The bishop needs to clear the b8-h2 diagonal for the queen, so there's only one viable square:

17... ♗g1+ dis.ch. followed by 18... ♕g2# whatever White does to defend.

Jun-27-16  Whitehat1963: One of the easier Monday puzzles I've seen in a while. Not that I'm complaining mind you!
Jun-27-16  stst: The Black Q is eagerly waiting in line to mate, right after the B makes its way:

17...........Bg1 dis+ courtesy of the R
18.KxB (no other way) Qh2#

Jun-27-16  Stalwart: That ended in a cute little two mover. Maybe I'll remember it for Black to Move and Mate if I ever get around to it.

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Jun-28-16  Cybe: saturn2: <Cybe: 14... Ng4, 15. Be2> ..BxNc3 16 hxNg4 hxg4 looses a piece.

If 15… B:c3, 16. B:g4 (better, then 16. hg), 16… hg, 17. Q:c3 - who is losing a piece?

Jun-28-16  saturn2: <Cybe 16. B:g4 ...> - There is no loss of piece in this variation. Accepted.

But I think your other variation is not playable:
<Cybe: 14... Ng4, 15. Rfe1> because this looses the exchange after 15..BxNc3 16 BxNg4 BxRe1 etc.

Jun-30-16  Cybe: saturn2: But I think your other variation is not playable: <Cybe: 14... Ng4, 15. Rfe1> because this looses the exchange after 15..BxNc3 16 BxNg4 BxRe1 etc.

OK, I'm answering. After 15... B:c3, simply 16. Q:c3. Don't forget, the rook is on e1 (not f1), and White can escape after Qh2+.

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