Alexander Alekhine vs Enrique Linares Jr (1939)

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Alexander Alekhine vs Enrique Linares Jr
Blindfold simul, 8b (1939) (blindfold), Panama City PAN
French Defense: Classical Variation. Richter Attack (C13) · 1-0

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Mar-06-05		soberknight: Alekhine wins when playing Linares: something Leko finds much harder to do.

Mar-06-05		Backward Development: lol...Alekhine would probably dominate Linares with Capablanca avoiding the tournament like Kramnik. History repeats itself...

Mar-06-05		square dance: <lol...Alekhine would probably dominate Linares with Capablanca avoiding the tournament like Kramnik. History repeats itself...> actually, alekhine probaby did as much, if not more than, avoiding of tournaments in which capa participated, as capa did of avoiding alekhine. at least thats the way history tells it.

Feb-18-06		DanielBryant: I tried to search for a location and all I found was this lousy player.

Jul-10-06		thathwamasi: First...too easy even for a monday puzzle

Jul-10-06		dzechiel: I saw winning lines for two different moves for white, 22 Rxg7+ and 22 Bxf5. The position seems to be won for white without much effort.

Jul-10-06		pebble767: The solution became obvious to me when I didn't found any reasonable continuation for 22.Rxh4.

Jul-10-06		General Patzer: tooooo easy indeed.

Jul-10-06		notyetagm: Anyone know the details of this game? It says "Panama City 1of8". Was this some Alekhine blindfold simultaneous display?

Jul-10-06		goldfarbdj: 22. Bxf5 is not very forcing. 22. Rxg7+ seems clearly better. The very first thing that came to my mind was 22. Qh8+ but it quickly became obvious that that wasn't any good; 22. Rxg7+ sprang to mind right after and it was the work of half a minute to verify that 23. Rg1+ forced mate. I didn't bother looking for anything else.

Jul-10-06		dakgootje: First tried making Rxh4 work... didnt work. Then tried making Bxf5 work... didnt seem to work either. then i tried making Rxg7 work... didnt seem to work. Went back to Bxf5, saw Rg1 and was aware Rxg7 did actually work, so went back to that line and solved the puzzle

Jul-10-06		wolverine199: This was very fast for me. Rxf7 was the first move i considered... but it was only because i knew it was a puzzle :)

Jul-10-06		greensfield: Went down the 22.Bxf5 line to win, so I didn't solve it.

Jul-10-06		THE pawn: A good way to see if removing pawns is a good idead is to check out for potential long-range defenders, such as the bishop and the queen not to far. You quickly realize they are useless so you can without fear sacrifice the rook.

Jul-10-06		Ziggy2016: I considered Bxf5 and Rxh4 briefly but since I didn't find any decisive advantage I looked for something else. Once I considered Rxg7 it was obvious.

Jul-10-06		MichaelJHuman: Why doesn't black accept white's offer of a knight? It doesn't seem to be all the advantageous to white to have made the offer.

Jul-10-06		Ziggy2016: <MichaelJHuman: How does white get away with the early knight sac? Is that a normal sac in the opening?> The sac looks healthy for white to me because it opens lines on the castled black king and the preassure becomes overwhelming. I don't really now but I very much doubt blacks moves are book because his position is already very bad at move 10 or so: being pushed to the ropes with no counterplay and white with a huge space advantage.

Jul-10-06		fragile: I'm wondering, why does alekhine sacrifice his knight at move 13? Wouldn't black have been better off, if he had accepted the sac 13.. fxg5 14 hxg5 g6

Jul-10-06		dakgootje: < fragile> Think he considered the attack after 13. fxg5 14. fxg5 strong enough, as white can soon get its queen at h5, the black king cant be defended too well, and g6 is met with h5, to sac a knight for it

Jul-10-06		Ziggy2016: hxg5 allows black to lock the position while fxg5 does not. But anyway he doesn't have any concrete combination in mind, it's purely positional.

Jul-10-06		Richerby: <notyetagm> I'm not sure what the `1of8' means but I notice that Alekhine vs Rodriguez Vicente, 1939 is also described as `Panama City 1of8'

Jul-10-06		RandomVisitor: Here's how the game might continue: click for larger view 22. Rxg7+ Kxg7 23. Rg1+ Bg5 24. Bxf5 Kf8 25. Rxg5 Qe8 26. Qh7 Qf7 27. Qh8+ Ke7 28. Rg7 click for larger view 28...Qxg7, 28...Rxe5, 28...h3 are all mate in 16. Here's one possible ending: 28...Qxg7 29. Qxg7+ Ke8 30. Qh8+ Ke7 31. Qxh4+ Ke8 32. Qh8+ Ke7 33. Bxe6 Bxe6 34. Qxa8 Kf7 35. Qxb7+ Kg6 36. Qxc6 Kf5 37. Qe8 Kxf4 38. Qxe6 Kg5 39. Qf6+ Kh5 40. e6 a5 41. e7 a4 42. e8=Q+ Kg4 43. Qg8+ Kh5 44. Qgg5#

Jul-10-06		zb2cr: <RandomVisitor>, In the potential stemgame you give, I think 25. Qh8+ might be an improvement on your line (25. Rxg5). Black can only move the King to either e7 or f7. a. 25. ... Ke7; 26. Qg7+, Ke8 (forced); 27. Rxg5. Looks overwhelming. b. 25. ... Kf7; 26. Qh7+, Ke8; 27. Rxg5, with the threat of 28. Rg8#. I think Black's only chance to defend comes from exchanging Queen for Rook leaving White seriously ahead in material. Alternative defenses such as 27. ... Qe7 come to grief, e.g. 28. Rg8+, Kd7; 29. Bxe6+, Kxe6; 30. f5+, Kd7; 31. Rg7 winning Queen for Rook.

Jul-10-06		YouRang: Anyone could smell a rook-sac coming. The only question, which rook? It didn't take too long to figure out that Rxg7+ led to a winning attack. :-)

Jul-10-06		kevin86: I miss a Monday puzzle! I guess it's time to turn in my membership card to the human race! lol

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