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Max Euwe vs Vincenzo Nestler
"Feather your own Nestler" (game of the day Jun-16-2024)
Dubrovnik Olympiad (1950), Dubrovnik YUG, rd 3, Aug-22
King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation. Immediate Fianchetto (E60)  ·  1-0

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Jul-06-03  Bears092: the idea being 25...fxg5 26. Qh8+ Rg8 27. Rf1+ Ke8 28. Qxg8 mate, I assume
Jul-06-03  crafty: 25. ... ♘xe6 26. dxe6 ♕b6+ 27. ♔h1 fxg5 28. ♕h8+ ♖g8 29. ♖f1+ ♕f2 30. ♖xf2+ ♔e8 31. ♕xg8#   (eval Mat06; depth 11 ply; 10M nodes)
Jul-06-03  patzer2: <Bears 092> You have the right idea for the winning continuation after 25. Rg5! Crafty's sequence simply gives a series of moves (mostly useless attempts to give up material and apply spite checks) which only slightly delays the mating pattern.
Jul-06-03  patzer2: Three tactical themes are found in Euwe's winning 25 Rg5!

(1) "Attacking the pinned piece" (Rook on g7) and thus "sacrificing the attacking piece in order to remove the guard" (Pawn on f6).

(2) "Removing the guard" twice in a combination. Note that the second removing the guard tactic in this combination is either 27. Rf1+ in bears092's continuation or 29. Rf1+ in crafty's continuation.

(3) Exploiting the "weak back rank" to mate.

Jul-06-03  Rama: Huh! What I saw was 25. Rxc7 Qxc7, 26. Qh8+ Rg8, 27. Rxf6+ exf6, 28. Qxf6+ Ke8, Qf7 mate...a deflection sac of the QR.
Jul-06-03  patzer2: <Rama> In your proposed 25. Rxc7 line above, after 28. Qxf6+Ke8 29. Qf7+ (+ not #) QxQf7 30. exf7 Kxf7 white has missed the win and is now lost.
Jan-08-06
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  perfidious: Since the game R Byrne-Fischer, US ch 1962, 4....b5 has been considered an effective equaliser in this line.
Aug-25-08  Prudov: Euwe uses this game in his book The Road to Chess Mastery. He features as the master. However, in fairness I have to add that he also presents games in this book he lost like an amateur, e.g. Euwe vs Capablanca, 1922
Jul-14-22
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  kingscrusher: Nice finish here :)
Jun-16-24
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  offramp: User: sleepyirv set a new world record today.

This game is the first time that poor old Max Euwe was <NOT> used as fodder to provide the <Pun of the Day>.

Well done, Irv!

Jun-16-24  goodevans: A very different game would have resulted if Euwe had taken the plunge into the complex mire with 8.b4!


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There are several lines to consider, all of which seem to favour White greatly. The main two seem to be:

8...Qxd5 9.Qxc3 <forking h8 and c8, the latter with mate> 9...Nc6 10.Qxh8 Nxb4 <not 10...Qxh1? 11.Bh6 ±> 11.f3 and after Black wins the exchange on a1 White has a piece for two pawns and much the better position.

8...Qc7 9.Qxh8 Nxd5 10.Bh6 Qc3+ 11.Qxc3 Nxc3 12.Bxf8 and if 12...Kxf8 then 13.Rc1 wins a piece.

Euwe's choice of a smaller but safer advantage with 8.Bd2 seems most pragmatic.

Nice game. Excellent finish. Not so sure about the pun.

Jun-16-24  Pyrandus: "Poor old Euwe" ???

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