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Richard Reti vs Akiba Rubinstein
Marienbad (1925), Marianske Lazne CSR, rd 5, May-26
Hungarian Opening: General (A00)  ·  1/2-1/2

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May-24-05  paladin at large: Fascinating endgame with Reti getting the advantage and Rubinstein just holding the draw. Bold play by Reti with 46. c5 and alert play with 49. c6.
Dec-08-10  technical draw: This is one crazy game!
Aug-28-17  Straclonoor: After queening 'a' pawn game totally won for white. Best line is

Analysis by Stockfish 260817 64 POPCNT:
+- (61.34): 54...e3 55.Qa5 Qh2 56.Qc5 Qh4 57.Qe5 Bd5 58.Qf8+ Bf3 59.Qfc5 Qd8+ 60.Kb7 Qd7+ 61.Ka6 Qc8+ 62.Ka5 Qd8+ 63.Kb4 Qd2+ 64.Qec3 Qxc3+ 65.Kxc3 Be4 66.Qe5 e2 67.Qf4+ Bf3 68.Qh4+ Kg2 69.Kd2 Kf1 70.Qe1+ Kg2 71.Ke3 Bd5 72.Qxe2+ Kg3 73.Qf2+ Kg4 74.Qf4+ Kh5 75.Qf5+ Kh6 76.Qxd5 cxd5 77.Kd4 Kh7 78.Kxd5

Aug-28-17  Retireborn: <Straclonoor> Houdini agrees that 55.Qa5 would have won for White.

Reti's homegrown opening is not a success and with 7.0-0-0 and 9.h4 he is much too optimistic (7.Nf3 and 8.0-0 should be OK.) Black could simply take the pawn with 10...Qxf2. Perhaps the players envisaged 11.Rhg1 Qxg3 12.Bf4 Qf2 13.Be3 with repetition, but just 11...Qb6 and White has very little for the pawn.

Nevertheless Black establishes an advantage which is dissipated by 24...c5, and with 42...f4 he sails into dangerous waters, but it is Reti who goes wrong and Black misses his chance to win with 48...Kf2! 49.c6 bxc6 50.a6 e3 51.a7 c5 52.g7 e2 53.g8Q e1Q 54.a8Q Qb4+! 55.Kc7 Bxa8 56.Qxa8 Qf4+ 57.Kb6 c4.

The position after 65.Qxc5+ is a Nalimov tablebase and Rubinstein plays it perfectly to hold the draw.

Aug-30-17  Straclonoor: < Black misses his chance to win with 48...Kf2!> Stockfish gives this line very attractive for black

-+ (-4.32): 48...Kf2 49.c6 bxc6 50.a6 c5 51.g7 e3 52.a7 e2 53.g8Q e1Q 54.a8Q Qb4+ 55.Kc7 Qf4+ 56.Kb6 Bxa8 57.Qxa8 h4 58.Qc8 Qf6+ 59.Kb5 Qb2+ 60.Ka6 Qxc2 61.Qf8+ Ke1 62.Qf4 Qd3+ 63.Kb7 Qd7+ 64.Kb6 Qd4 65.Qc1+ Kf2 66.Qc2+ Kf3 67.Qf5+ Ke3 68.Qh3+ Ke2 69.Qg2+ Kd1 70.Qf1+ Kd2 71.Kc7 Qe3 72.Qc4 h3 73.Qa2+ Ke1 74.Kc6 Qf3+ 75.Kb6 Qf6+ 76.Kb7 Qe5 77.Qb1+ Kd2 78.Qa2+ Kc1 79.Qc4+ Kb2 80.Qb5+ Kc3 81.Qf1 Qe4+ 82.Kb6

As far as 48....h4 done in the game loses
+- (10.92): 48...h4 49.g7 h3 50.c6 bxc6 51.a6 h2 52.g8Q h1Q 53.a7 Qb1+ 54.Kc7 Qa1 55.a8Q Qe5+ 56.Kd7 Kf2 57.Qab8 Qf5+ 58.Ke7 Qc5+ 59.Kf6 Kf1 60.Qgg3 Qd4+ 61.Qbe5 Qd8+ 62.Kg7 Qd1 63.Qh3+ Ke2 64.Qxf3+ Kxf3 65.Qh5+ Kf4 66.Qxd1 Ke5 67.Kg6 e3 68.Qe2 Ke6 69.Qxe3+ Kd6 70.Qb6 Kd7 71.Kf5 Kd6 72.Kg4 Kd7 73.Kg3

Aug-30-17  Howard: So, it seems that both players missed forced wins in this game.
Aug-30-17  Retireborn: It does seem that 48...h4 turns a probable win for Black into a certain loss; and the reason 55.Qa5 wins (when 55.Qa4 doesn't) is that after 55...e2 56.Qe5 e1Q 57.Qgg3+ mating is possible.

Another interesting possibility is 47.Rxf3+ (instead of 47.hxg5) which should lead to a drawn endgame.

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