Alexander Alekhine vs Boris Verlinsky (1918) Alekhine.net

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Alexander Alekhine vs Boris Verlinsky
"Alekhine.net" (game of the day Feb-18-2013)
Odessa (1918)
Spanish Game: Exchange. Keres Variation (C68) · 1-0

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ANALYSIS [x]

Notes by Stockfish 9 v010218 (minimum 6s/ply)6...f6 was played in H Wolf vs Schlechter, 1900 (0-1)better is 7.O-O Nf6 8.h3 O-O 9.Ne2 Re8 10.Bd2 Nh5 11.Bc3 Qd6 = +0.35 (21 ply)better is 7...Bxe3 8.fxe3 f6 9.O-O Be6 10.Qe1 Nh6 11.Rb1 Nf7 = -0.32 (24 ply)= +0.29 (25 ply) after 8.Bxc5 Qxc5 9.h3 Bxf3 10.Qxf3 Nf6 11.O-O-O O-O-O better is 8...Bxe3 9.fxe3 Bxf3 10.Qxf3 Nh6 11.a3 f6 12.Qg3 O-O = -0.12 (26 ply)= +0.48 (26 ply) after 9.Bxc5 Qxc5 10.g4 Bg6 11.Qd2 Nf6 12.Qe3 Qxe3+ 13.fxe3 better is 10.Bxc5 Qxc5 11.Qe2 Nf6 12.O-O-O O-O-O 13.Qe3 Qxe3+ ⩲ +0.53 (25 ply)better is 10...Bd6 11.O-O-O O-O-O 12.Nh4 Bb4 13.Nxg6 hxg6 14.a3 = 0.00 (24 ply) ⩲ +0.70 (25 ply)better is 15.g5 Ne7 16.Rdf1 Rdf8 17.Rhg1 Rhg8 18.a4 Be8 19.Nd2 Bd7 ⩲ +0.67 (24 ply)better is 15...c4 16.dxc4 Bxe4 17.Rhf1 h5 18.g5 b5 19.b3 h4 20.Rf2 = 0.00 (24 ply)better is 16.Nc3 Kc7 17.g5 Ne7 18.Rdf1 Nc8 19.h4 Bh5 20.gxf6 gxf6 ⩲ +0.61 (26 ply)= +0.08 (27 ply)better is 19...Nc8 20.g5 Nd6 21.gxf6 gxf6 22.Nh4 c4 23.bxc4 bxc4 = +0.12 (26 ply) ⩲ +0.67 (30 ply) 20...Bf7 21.gxf6 gxf6 22.Nh4 Be6 23.Rdf1 Rdf8 24.Rf3 Rf7 = +0.44 (29 ply)better is 21.Nh4 Rcf8 22.Rhg1 Rfg8 23.Nxg6 Nxg6 24.Rdf1 Ne7 25.Rf2 ⩲ +1.26 (27 ply) ⩲ +0.54 (30 ply)better is 23.Nh4 Kd7 24.Rgf1 Rcf8 25.Rf3 Ke6 26.Kb2 Bh7 27.Rdf1 ⩲ +0.68 (26 ply) 23...Bf7 24.Nh4 Be6 25.Rxg8 Rxg8 26.Rf1 Ng6 27.Nf5 Kd7 = 0.00 (30 ply)better is 24.Rgf1 Rcd8 25.Rf2 Ke6 26.Rdf1 Nc8 27.Ne1 Rgf8 28.Ng2 ⩲ +0.79 (23 ply)= +0.26 (28 ply) after 24...Bf7 25.axb5 axb5 26.d4 exd4 27.exd4 Rxg1 28.Rxg1 better is 25.Rgf1 Rcd8 26.Nh4 Bh7 27.Rf3 Ng6 28.Rdf1 Rdf8 29.Nf5 ⩲ +0.71 (25 ply) 25...Bh7 26.Nh4 Rxg1 27.Rxg1 Rg8 28.Rxg8 Nxg8 29.Nf1 Nh6 = +0.18 (29 ply)better is 26.axb5 axb5 27.Ra7 Kd6 28.Nh4 f4 29.exf4 exf4 30.e5+ +- +2.91 (25 ply) ± +1.97 (27 ply) 31...Kd6 32.Ne4+ Ke6 33.Rgf1 Rcf8 34.Nc5+ Kd6 35.Rxf8 ± +2.10 (28 ply)+- +3.15 (28 ply) after 32.b4 Rxg1 33.Rxg1 Rg8 34.Rf1 Kd6 35.Rf7 h4 36.Rh7 Rg2 35...Rc7 36.Ra1 h4 37.Rg1 Rh7 38.Rg6 Ke7 39.Rg5 Kd6 ± +2.45 (31 ply)+- +7.28 (26 ply)1-0

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Feb-18-13		FSR: <morfishine> I assume that Alekhine ensnared his opponent in a mating net.

Feb-18-13		HeMateMe: Alekhine.net is an attack site.

Feb-18-13		rilkefan: I guess I don't surf much, didn't even know what an attack site is. My (bleeding-edgish) browser says a...net's been reported to distribute malware. Assuming this is not some weird inappropriate joke on AA's style of play, I dunno if it's a great idea for cg to wave the name around when not everyone has an up-to-date browser.

Feb-18-13		morfishine: <FSR> We need some fresh pun ideas, you know, stuff like 'Control Ault Delete'

Feb-18-13		Abdel Irada: After 38. c4!, Verlinsky must have felt as though his king position had been hacked.

Feb-18-13		Abdel Irada: As for the website "Alekhine.net," one tends to sense something fishy when one's browser redirects without warning from "www.[site]" to "ww2.[site]."

Feb-18-13		FSR: <morfishine> They can't <all> be classics.

Feb-18-13		Abdel Irada: <FSR: <morfishine> They can't <all> be classics.> And why not, pray tell?

Feb-18-13		uldinch: if Alekhine.net causes friction, how about 'Bor is Verlorensky'? Verloren in German means 'lost' or 'dead'

Feb-18-13		chessworm: Nice game. I don't the think pun's intention is to promote that site, rather to state that Boris has entered Alekhine's net :)

Feb-18-13		FSR: Alekhine plays the Keres Variation in this game, when Keres was age 2! And here I thought Reshevsky and Capablanca were prodigies.

Feb-18-13		backrank: In Chernev's 'Combinations: The Heart of Chess' the position after Black's 28th move is given, but with Black's QR on f8 rather than on c8. So I suspect that Black's 20th move had in fact been Rdf8 instead of Rdc8 as given here. Probably a mis-translation from descriptive notation or even an ambiguity: QR-B8 can mean QR-QB8 or QR-KB8 here. But I'm pretty sure that 20 .. Rdf8 has been played here; Rdc8 doesn't make much sense in this position: click for larger view Then the position after Black's 28th move looks like the diagram in Chernev's book (p. 225 in the Dover ed.): click for larger view And then there comes the grand combination starting with Nde4+

Feb-18-13		Castleinthesky: What type of net are we talking about? A fish net, a hair net, I just don't get it?

Feb-18-13		hez: Thought he would have escaped after 34...Kd4 but then comes 35. Re1! with two unstoppable threats of Mate in 1.

Feb-18-13		Marmot PFL: As in many early Alekhine games he struggles to find a good strategic plan, but when it came to exploiting mistakes by the opponent very few were better. Verlinsky was a good player, who beat Capablanca and Bogolubov and was awarded the title of Soviet Grandmaster. (This was later removed so that Botvinnik could be the first.)

Feb-18-13		Richard Taylor: The Nazi-lover and Capablanca-dodger got smashed!! Shows he was really a bunny...must have cheated in all his other games!!

Feb-18-13		Richard Taylor: "Castleinthesky: What type of net are we talking about? A fish net, a hair net, I just don't get it?" Mating net.

Feb-18-13		chessgames.com: Just to clarify: today's game & pun "Alekhine.net" was voted favorably at our Pun Voting Booth. We have no idea what website is actually at Alekhine.net and do not recommend it.

Feb-18-13		aliejin: To those interested in the life of Alekhine I recommend the next article .. (In French, yes, but I guess it will not be difficult) http://www.europe-echecs.com/art/al... Especially his conduct in the first war ..... is simply outstanding

Feb-18-13		RandomVisitor: Black seemed to be fine up to 25...f5? - then began a downward spiral.

Feb-18-13		psmith: <backrank> must be right. <chessgames.com> can you verify this and correct it?

Feb-18-13		RandomVisitor: <psmith>chesslab.com has this game with the move 20...Rc8.

Feb-18-13		Phony Benoni: I checked various online sources, and all agree on the move 20...Rc8. Of course, that doesn't mean it's absolutely right, since online databases usually just copy other online databases without carefully checking every single move. On the other hand, Chernev might be wrong too. The game would have originally been published in algebraic, which he would have translated to descriptive. Admittedly Chernev's version seems to make a little more "sense", but we'd probably have to track down an original publication of the game, or at least one annotated by Alekhine himself. Any translation would be suspect.

Feb-19-13		kevin86: Wow! Mate in three with a pawn!

Dec-17-14		TheFocus: An off-hand game played in Odessa, Ukraine on October 22, 1918.

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