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 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Pardon my bad pun, but Yates' play is sheer poetry. I thought he was going to play 25.Rd6+, but his choice is both more destructive and more esthetically pleasing. Of course, it couldn't have hurt that Black didn't move three of his pieces for the entire game. |
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| Mar-28-05 | | be3292: Just out of curiosity <Englishman>, is your pun from W.B.Yeats, or a Yates I'm not familiar with? More to the point, 25.Rd6+ does enough damage in its own right, but the text move, I agree, is prettier. |
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| Mar-28-05 | | kevin86: Haida is a Native American nation in the Pacific Northwest-it was spoken of in the FREE WILLY series. In the amusing final position,all of black is en prise. |
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| Mar-28-05 | | patzer2: F Yates - A Haida [B40]
Marienbad Marienbad (6), 1925
<1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.Bd3> [a sharp alternative for White is 6.e5 Nd5 7.Bd2 as in M Al Sayed vs G M Todorovic, 2001 <6...Nc6> [OK for Black per BCO is Taimanov's suggestion 6...e5 7.Nf5 0–0 8.Ne3 d6 9.0–0 Be6 10.Bd2 Nbd7=] <7.Nxc6 bxc6 8.0–0 0–0?!> [8...Bxc3!? 9.bxc3 e5 10.c4 d6 11.c5 dxc5 12.Bb2 Qe7 13.Qf3 0–0 14.Rab1 Rb8=] <9.e5 Ne8 10.Qg4 Be7 11.Bh6 f5 12.exf6 Rxf6 13.Bg5 Rf7 14.Ne4 g6 15.Rae1 d5 16.Bxe7 Rxe7 17.Ng5 e5 18.Qh4 e4?> [18...Qc7=] <19.Rxe4!> is a winning deflection <19...dxe4> [19...Rxe4?? 20.Qxh7+ Kf8 21.Qf7#] <20.Bc4+ Kf8> [20...Be6 21.Nxe6 Rxe6 22.Qxe4 Qd6 23.Bxe6+  ; 20...Kh8 21.Nf7+ ] <21.Qh6+ Rg7> [21...Ng7 22.Nxh7+ Ke8 23.Nf6+ Kf8 24.Qh8#] <22.Nxh7+! Ke7 23.Qg5+ Kd7 24.Rd1+ Nd6 25.Nf6+! Ke7 26.Nxe4+> and Black resigns as 26...Ke8 27. Nxd6+ will be decisive. 1–0 |
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| Mar-28-05 | | patzer2: If 25...Kc7, then 26. Qa5+! wins the Queen and the game. |
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| Mar-28-05 | | patzer2: White's winning technique gets deep and complicated if Black puts up resistance with 20...Be6 21.Nxe6! Qd6!? Play might go 20...Be6 21.Nxe6 Qd6!? 22.Nc7+ Kg7 23.Nxa8 Nf6 24.Qg3 Qd8 25.Qa3! Rb7 26.Ba6! Rf7 27.f3! exf3 28.Rxf3 Qxa8 (28...Rf8 29.Bb7 Qd4+ 30.Qe3 Qd7 31.Qf4 Qxb7 32.Nc7 Rf7 33.Ne6+ Kg8 34.Qd4 Qb6 35.Qxb6 axb6 36.Nd8 Rd7 37.Rxf6 Rxd8 38.Rxc6 ) 29.Bc4 Nd5 30.Rxf7+ Kxf7 31.Qh3! Kg7 32.Qd7+! Kh6 33.Bxd5! cxd5 34.b3! a6 35.h4! Qg8 36.a4 Qa8 37.g4! Qg8 38.Kg2! Qa8 39.g5+ Kh5 40.Kh3! d4 41.Qg4# |
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| Mar-28-05 | | Hesam7: Thank you <patzer2>. |
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| Mar-28-05 | | patzer2: You're welcome <Hesam7>. |
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| Jan-23-06 | | Timothy Glenn Forney: Brilliant rook sac,seeing he would end up with pin and discovery tactics against the king in an all out king hunt. |
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| Jan-27-07 | | think: Rxe4 is a move I would play OTB simply because it looks strong, without spending too long on the details. The move instantly turns White's bad bishop into an immensely strong one and turns White's attack into a deadly one. |
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| Jan-27-07 | | dzechiel: The moves are all very forcing, aren't they.
The first move I looked at was 19 Rxe4 and after a couple of minutes I was sure that it was the key. I was able to see the two follow up moves, but didn't explore the entire combination, mostly becase I was sure of the first move. Of course, this presents a problem: if you know that there's a good move in a position, is it enough to find the move, or do you have to look to the very end of the combination (and all variations) in order to have "solved" the problem. I'm guessing that in many of the positions that are offered here at Chessgames, that even the player making the great move only sees that it gives a strong initiative before he plays it. In any case, I can't say that I saw the end of this one. Perhaps black would have been better off refusing the sac and playing something like 19...Nf6. |
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| Jan-27-07 | | beatles fan: got this one faster than most this week.
I guess the puzzle difficutly is subjective, so some days are easier, regardless of the day of the week |
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| Jan-27-07 | | chessmoron: Hmm...I think there's a little complex line that White will get a free queen, take a look: 24. Nf8+! Kc7 25. Qa5+ Kb8 26. Qxd8. |
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| Jan-27-07 | | goldfarbdj: I spent a bunch of time initially looking at Bxe4 and Nxh7 (noticing for instance that the knight on h7 can't be taken) before hitting on Rxe4 as the move. Like dzechiel, I found Bc4+ and Qh6+, but didn't analyze everything out completely. I did notice 21. ... Ng7 22. Qxh7 Ke8 (forced) 23. Qg8+ Kd7 24. Rd1+. What's white's best after 20. ... Kg7? Maybe 21. Qxh7+ Kf6 22. Qh4? |
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Jan-27-07
 | | LIFE Master AJ: I got the solution almost instantly, but I forced myself to go back and analyze for close to five minutes. At first 25...Ke7 looks like a mistake, (I still think it was a minor flub); until you notice 25...Kc7; 26.Qa5+. |
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| Jan-27-07 | | Dr.Lecter: <LMAJ>I got the solution immediately as well. It wasn't as hard as I thought it looked. |
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Jan-27-07
 | | al wazir: My move was 19. Nxh7, seemingly winning a ♙. If 19...Qd7, then 20. Nf6+ Nxf6 21. Qxf6 Rf7 22. Qxg6+ Rg7 23. Qh5, and now if 23...exd3, then 24. Re8+ wins the ♕. Alas, after 19...Qd6 20. Bxe4 dxe4 (20...Rxh7 21. Bxd5+ cxd5 22. Rxe8+) 21. Rxe4 Rxe4 (21...Rxh7 22. Rxe8+) 22. Qxe4 Kxh7 23. Qxe8, white has only succeeded in trading a ♗ for three ♙s. In the game as played, 24. Nf8+ Kc7 25. Qa5+ wins the ♕. |
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| Jan-27-07 | | Tactic101: I quickly got it. I saw till around Nxh7+ when I convinced myself this is winning. My thought process was: "I need to deflect the rook. If I play Rxe4, he has to take with the pawn. Then I can use my bishop to give a check. A few more checks with the queen, knight and other rook and I'll be on top." |
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| Jan-27-07 | | TrueBlue: not even close. I thought a line like "Rxe4 Nd6" was just as good for white as "Nh7 Bf5". So I went for the second line ... |
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| Jan-27-07 | | MaxxLange: Yates opens up the can!
He is an interesting player, kind of in this class of forgotten masters, the also-ran players from the 20s and 30s who were very strong chess masters, but weaker than Capablanka and Alekhine and Lasker et al. |
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| Jan-27-07 | | ianD: got it as far as Nxh7+.
hard to see anymore from the initial position
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| Jan-27-07 | | Shajmaty: <al wazir: My move was 19. Nxh7, [...]> So was mine. Saturday... too much for me, as usual. |
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| Jan-27-07 | | Sibahi: YES .. I saw the key move, but was too lazy to follow t out. |
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| Jan-27-07 | | ravadi: What is winning way for white after 19....Nf6?? I don't see any immediate win for white. I think it is far better than text. |
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| Jan-27-07 | | Themofro: Got it! Great combination. |
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