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Sep-29-08
 | | beatgiant: <drukenknight>
After 38. a4 Bh4, what then? |
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| Sep-29-08 | | drukenknight: I think:
39. Rf7+ Kg6
40. Rb7 |
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| Oct-01-08 | | Resignation Trap: <beatgiant> and <drunkenknight> I'm sure Bobby considered 38.a4, since he played it one move later. But after 38.a4 Bh4 39.Rf7+ Kg6 40.Rb7 Kh5! renews the threat of ...Rg3+. Position after 40...Kh5 (analysis):
click for larger viewOn 41.Ke4 Rg3! and now 42.Bf2 Rg2! wins the Bishop as 43.Bxh4 allows Re2#. Or if 41.Ke4 Rg3 42.Re1 Rg2 43.Rf1 Re2 44.Rf3 Bf2 wins. |
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| Oct-01-08 | | Resignation Trap: <drukenknight> I just noticed that I put an extra "n" in your name, sorry! Getting back to this game, Fischer's 41.Rxb5 was given a question mark by Kholmov in the latter's book of his selected games, and suggests 41.Raa8 h4 42.Rxd8 Rg3+ 43.Kf2 Rgxe3 as better. But even here he gives the following line of play: 44.Rxd3 Rxd3 45.Rb8 Kxf4 46.Rxb5 Rxh3 47.Rc5 Rc3 48.b5 h3 49.b6 Rc1! 50.b7 h2 51.b8=Q Rc2+ and mate next move. |
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| Oct-01-08 | | drukenknight: If Fischer was black and Spassky white in this, they would call it the game of the century... |
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| Oct-02-08 | | AnalyzeThis: It's an excellent game, no question. |
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| Oct-02-08 | | arsen387: <drukenknight: If Fischer was black and Spassky white in this, they would call it the game of the century...> The most hilarious thing about this post is that it is very very close to reality. This game is a real gem. Kholmov produced several such masterpieces during his career |
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| Oct-02-08 | | drukenknight: Does 26 hxg4 offer any better chances? Bringing a pawn to the center might be better. I am using the crappy chesslab pc and it gives something like: 26. hxg4 Qd8
27. Qb7 Qd7
28. Qxa6 c3
29. a4 bxa4
30. Qxa4 Rb8
31. Qxd7 Rxd7
32. Ra6 Rxb4
33. Rxe6 which is not bad. And not the last word I'm sure. ALso does anyone get the feeling Fischer is playing the whole soviet team here? The moves are so solid and deep.. |
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| Oct-02-08 | | AnalyzeThis: Fischer was so strong with White in the Ruy Lopez. Kholmov spectacularly accepts doubled pawns and throws in a temporary piece sacrifice. Perhaps Kholmov's best ever game. |
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| Oct-02-08 | | drukenknight: Someone asked about how much extra time was added due to the cable transmission. According to Wade/OCOnnell it added about 2 minutes per move, which I assume means about 1 min for black and 1 for white. So about 80 min. extra for a 40 move session. No less than 5 of FIscher's opponents were in bad time trouble in this tournament. INcluding Geller who banged out 7 moves in the last minute in going on to victory. Its not clear from the book but Lehman, Cobo and Robatsch may have all lost on time in their game w/ Fischer. In this game, both players played rapidly up to blacks' 17th, which kholmov spent 4 min on. Fischer then spent 25 min on 19 b4 and Homov spent 14 in replying Nd4 so I guess he was probably out of prepared analysis by that point. Black spent another 19 min on 22..RxB so I guess that is not so obvious either. |
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Oct-04-08
 | | Fusilli: Kholmov was a dangerous player on the black side of the closed Ruy, with 36 wins against 28 losses in this database. Here's a list of his wins. You'll see several notable scalps, such as Fischer, Gheorghiu, Tringov, Shamkovich (twice), Matanovic, Lein and Vasiukov: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... I particularly like this game with Fischer and this one: A Lein vs Kholmov, 1972 |
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| Oct-04-08 | | Resignation Trap: <drukenknight> After 26.hxg4 Qd8 (The solid 26...Rfd8 is also good.) 27.Qb7 Qd7 28.Qxa6 we have this position:
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With White's Queen out of play, an undefended Rook on a1, and active Black Rooks, it's time to attack! 28...Bh4! and now if
a) 29.Rf1 or 29.Re2 Bxf2+! should win.
b) 29.g3 Bxg3! leads to a winning attack.
c) 29.Be3 Rxe3! 30.fxe3 Bf2+ 31.Kh1 Qe7 32.g3 Bxg3 also is winning. |
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Oct-04-08
| | Fusilli: <Resignation Trap> In your analysis, instead of 28...Bh4, I would bet that 28...Rxf2 straight works. For example 29. Kxf2, Bh4+ 30.Ke2 Bxe1 31.Kxe1 (if 31.Be3, Rxe3+ mates quickly) Rd1+ 32.Kf2 Qd4+ 33.Kg3 Rd3+ 34.Kh2 Qxe5+ 35.Kg1 Rd1+ 36.Kf2 Qe1+ 37.Kf3 Rd3+ 38.Kf4 e5#. The bottom line is the same: sending the white queen to grab a faraway pawn in this position makes white a sitting duck. |
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| Oct-04-08 | | drukenknight: the b pawn did not have a useful life.. |
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| Oct-05-08 | | Resignation Trap: <Fusilli> Your line, 26.hxg4 Qd8 27.Qb7 Qd7 28.Qxa6 Rxf2! would have been a fantastic way to finish Fischer off. At first I thought that White had a better defense than the one you proposed:
29.Kxf2 Bh4+ 30.Ke2 Bxe1:
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Analysis
I thought that White would be able to muddle through with 31.Bf4, but that also fails: 31.Bf4 Bc3 32.Rh1 (32.Rf1 Rd2+ 33.Bxd2 Qxd2+ 34.Kf3 Qd3+ 35.Kf2 Bd4+ 36.Ke1 Qb1+ 37.Kd2 c3+ 38.Ke2 Qc2+ 39.Kf3 Qd3+ 40.Kf4 g5#) Rd2+! 33.Bxd2 Qxd2+ 34.Kf3 Qd3+ 35.Kf2 Bd4+ 36.Ke1 Qg3+ 37.Kd1 Qxg4+
38.Ke1 Qe4+ 39.Kf1 Qb1+ 40.Ke2 Qc2+ 41.Ke1 Qxg2 42.Rh3 c3! |
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| Oct-05-08 | | Resignation Trap: Here's the position after Black's 37th move: 
click for larger viewHans Kmoch in the January 1966 issue of <Chess Review> proposed: 38.Rf7+ Kg6 39.Rb7 Kh5 40.Ra2! Bh4 41.Ke4 Rg3 42.Bc5 with the point that either 42...Rxh3 43.Rb6 or 42...Rxa3 43.Rxa3 Rxa3 44.Rb6 leads to the fall of the Black Pawn on e6 "and a probable turn of the tables". Position after 43.Bc5 (Kmoch's analysis):
click for larger viewThe best I can find for Black is 42...Rgf3 43.Ra1 (43.Rb6? Bg5! 44.fxg5 hxg5 followed by ...Rf4#) Bg5! 44.Rf7 Bd8. I can't find a forced win for Black, however. |
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Oct-06-08
| | Fusilli: <<Resignation Trap>, 38.Rf7+ Kg6 39.Rb7 Kh5 40.Ra2! Bh4 41.Ke4 Rg3 42.Bc5 Rxh3 43.Rb6 is quite an interesting line. How about 43...Bg3. For example: a) 44.Be3 Bh2! and 45. Re2?? loses to Rxe3+! 46.Rxe3 Rxe3+ 47.Kxe3 Bg1+. Then if 45.Bc5 Bxf4 46.Rxe6 (taking the bishop gets white mated, of course) and the white e-pawn is threatening, but black has passed pawns too. For example: 46...Be3 threatens 47...Rh4+ winning, so white has to move the rook from e6 and black can exchange bishops and I think he might be fine. b) 44.Rxe6 Bxf4! 45.Rxa6 (45.Kxf4?? Rh4+ 46.Kf5 Rf3#) Be3 and I'm not fully sure what's going on. |
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| Oct-14-08 | | jerseybob: This was one of two ugly losses as white in a Lopez that the out-of-practice Fischer suffered during this tourney, the other being against Ivkov. Kavalek played the recommended improvement 19.b3 against Cuellar at Sousse 1967 and lost, maybe not the fault of the move. Nonetheless, Fischer seems to have discarded this line and gone for 17.Nf5 in later games, like against O'Kelly at Buenos Aires 1970. So also Reshevsky in his magnificent win against Smyslov in the 1970 USSR v World Match. |
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| Dec-22-08 | | zzzzzzzzzzzz: the rat catches a fisher |
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| May-29-09 | | totololo: In the same tournament Bobby lost two games in the closed Spanish with d column opened because of the black rooks penetration on D and after that on the G column.The oponents were Holmov and Ivkov from the same chess school.
In '67 L.Stein payed the price of the hard learned lesson in one of the best played games bu Fischer. |
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May-29-09
 | | keypusher: <The oponents were Holmov and Ivkov from the same chess school.> Same school? They're not even from the same country. |
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| May-30-09 | | Eyal: Apparently it was the "penetrate on the d-file and then on the g-file in the closed Spanish" school... |
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| May-31-09 | | totololo: To keypusher
Ivkov(Serbs) and the Russians had a coordinated system of chess training byb their national federations under the control of the Soviets. |
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May-31-09
 | | HeMateMe: I think Bobby was intimidated by his opponent's name. The Kholmov region is part of Siberia, near the arctic circle. In the 20th century the Russians sent many thousands of political prisoners to the labor camps there. Alexander Szholzenitsyn wrote about it in his series of books "The Gulag Achipelago". |
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| May-31-09 | | AnalyzeThis: Either that, or Kholmov played a great game. |
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