| Jun-12-08 | | dTal: Is the result wrong??? Isnt this 0-1? |
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| Jun-12-08 | | pawn to QB4: Well, I've googled Niksic '83 and all records indicate Tal won this one. After 61.g8=Q it looks desperate for Black. Obviously it's unusual for the loser to play the last move. |
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| Jun-12-08 | | wanabe2000: <dTal> 61.g8=Q and the black rook and knight are loose, there are no black checks. Black gets mated or loses the queen, so 1-0. |
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| Jun-16-08 | | dTal: omigawd, I was thinking that 61. g8=♕ ♖g7+ 68. ♕g7 ♕g7 is won for Black, forgetting that white is travelling up the board and the h ♙ protects g7! How dumb... |
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| Jun-16-08 | | pastpawn: Crazy game. I guess Miles was a little optimistic to refuse the repetition at move 43. |
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Jan-31-20
 | | Plaskett: He also eschewed an earlier repetition at move twenty-eight. And at move 46 he had, instead of 46...a4, 46...Re4, which had to yield better practical chances.
Miles must simply have underestimated/miscalculated Tal´s essential and viable counter in the advance of his d pawn.
Tal played from there on in with great accuracy in an ending with rival passed pawns to provide us with a highly entertaining fight, for all that!
And yet a further splendid practical illustration of the superiority of bishop over knight. |
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| Jul-06-20 | | Straclonoor: Miles had all chances to win the game
Analysis by Stockfish 060620 64 BMI2:
1. -+ (-8.16): 49...Ke6 50.Re7+ Kd5 51.Ra7 b4 52.d7 Ke6 53.Ra4 b3 54.Rxc4 b2 55.d8R Rxd8 56.Rb4 a2 57.Rxb2 a1Q 58.Rb6+ Kf7 59.Rb5 Rd3 60.Be3 Rd1 61.Rf5+ Ke6 62.h3 Rg1+ 63.Kf3 Qf1 64.Rh5 Qg2+ 65.Kf4 Rh1 66.Rxh7 Rxh3 67.Rxh3 Qxh3 68.Ba7 Kd7 69.Bd4 Ke8 70.Be3 Kf7 71.Bc5 Qg2 72.Be3 Kf8 73.Bd4 Kg8 74.Bc5 Qh2+ 75.Kf3 Kf7 76.Be3 Kg6 77.Bc5 Qh3+ 78.Kf4 Qg2 79.Be3 Kf7 2. -+ (-5.35): 49...Kf6 50.g5+ Kf5 51.Rf7+ Kg6 52.Ra7 b4 53.d7 Kf5 54.Bc1 Ke6 55.f4 Rxd7 56.f5+ Kd6 57.Ra8 Rb7 58.f6 Ke6 59.Bxa3 Nxa3 60.Re8+ Kd6 61.h4 Nc4 62.h5 Ne5 63.Rd8+ Kc6 64.Rc8+ Kd5 65.Rd8+ Ke4 66.Re8 Kf5 67.Re7 Rb8 68.f7 Rf8 69.Rb7 Rxf7 70.Rxb4 Kxg5 71.Rb5 Rf5 72.Rb7 h6 73.Kh3 Kxh5 74.Rb1 Rf3+ 75.Kg2 Kg5 76.Re1 Rf5 77.Rb1 h5 78.Rb4 Ng4 79.Rb8 Kh4 80.Rb3 Rf2+ 81.Kg1 Re2 82.Rb1 Kg3 |
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| Apr-20-23 | | Brenin: The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Thanks, <Teyss>! |
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Apr-20-23
 | | keypusher: <Frost is the author of one of the greatest short poems in the English language, a poem that every American boy knows by heart, about the wintry woods, and the dreary dusk, and the little horsebells of gentle remonstration in the dull darkening air, and that prodigious and poignant end -- two closing lines identical in every syllable, but one personal and physical, and the other metaphysical and universal.> --Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov/Charles Kinbote. Of course it took a Brit to get Frost in here. |
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Apr-20-23
 | | al wazir: Why didn't white play 32. Nxh7 ? If 32...Kg6 , then 33. Be7. |
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Apr-20-23
 | | OhioChessFan: Nice reference, although Miles to Go has been used twice on the same game: Keene vs Miles, 1976 (Nov-09-05, Nov-14-17)
I will concede the submitted puns are truly awful overall(for example, a Fine game with the inspired pun "A Fine Attack" is currently the 4th highest rated pun, which tells you all you need to know about that state of affairs), so I don't mind a repetition. |
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| Apr-20-23 | | Teyss: <Brenin> Thanks for the thanks. <keypusher> Nice excerpt. "Of course it took a Brit to get Frost in here." Surely you mean Miles since Nabokov was Russian-American (not trying to be a smartass, just clarifying since I doubted for a while). <al wazir> I would also have snatched the P to have 3 passers on the Ksdide but then I'm no reference. FWIW SF gives 0.0 at 31 ply for 32.Nxh7 Re6 and +0.4 at 23 ply for 32.Ng4 d4. Still a complex game at that stage with many options. <OhioChessFan> "You must take your opponent into a deep, dark forest (...)" - Tal. Oh, before anyone complains, I don't capitalise quotes. |
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| Apr-20-23 | | Gottschalk: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
BY ROBERT FROST
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1923, © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., renewed 1951, by Robert Frost. Reprinted with the permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
Source: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays (Library of America, 1995) |
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Apr-20-23
 | | fredthebear: And so it was, rd 7, Aug-31-83 |
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| Apr-20-23 | | goodevans: Tal could have won this sooner and would have avoided the chance of losing as per <Straclonoor>'s post.
click for larger viewThere was no need for 33.Re7+ as <33.Nh6+!> straight away would also have forced 33...Kg6. Then after 34.h4 there's precious little Black can do to prevent 35.Re8 and the K's a sitting duck. The wasted tempo allowed Miles to regroup so that when Re8 finally came it had no real impact. Despite missing the win, Miles was still in this until 53...Rd7?. I guess the instinct to get his R behind his passed pawns was just too strong. |
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Apr-20-23
| | keypusher: <<keypusher> Nice excerpt. "Of course it took a Brit to get Frost in here." Surely you mean Miles since Nabokov was Russian-American (not trying to be a smartass, just clarifying since I doubted for a while).> Actually I was referring to you. |
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Apr-20-23
 | | scormus: 49 ... "The Road not Taken"? |
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| Apr-20-23 | | thegoodanarchist: This is an excellent pun because it works on multiple levels. There is a quote by Tal that goes something like this: <You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2 plus 2 equals 5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.> |
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Apr-20-23
 | | Fusilli: Great game. A clash between two incredibly original players. A master lesson on the superiority of bishop over knight in this kind of endgame--passed pawns (in fact, connected passed pawns) at opposite sides of the board. |
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| Apr-20-23 | | Teyss: <keypusher: Actually I was referring to you.> I'll take it as a compliment, means my English is not that bad. On the other hand, coming from an American it probably isn't ;) |
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Apr-20-23
| | keypusher: <Teyss: <keypusher: Actually I was referring to you.> I'll take it as a compliment, means my English is not that bad. On the other hand, coming from an American it probably isn't ;)> Oh I apologize, where are you from? I think I thought you were English based on your spelling, which was stupid of me. |
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| Apr-20-23 | | Teyss: <keypusher> Answer on your page. |
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