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| Jan-06-06 | | Endgame: I love this game! This is the first chess game I ever memorized. I think that 18.Rfd1 would have been a much better move than the attempted 18.e4!?, which weakened the a7-g2 diagonal (bad for white). |
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| Jan-06-06 | | Endgame: Fritz gives 18.a4 as the best move (-0.28) and 18.Rad1 as the next best move (-0.48). It doesnt give much thought to my suggested 18.Rfd1. |
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| Jan-06-06 | | Endgame: Whereas Crafty gives 18.Rac1 as the best move for white (-0.11) and gives 18.Rfd1 as the second best move (-0.12) So looks like my suggestion of 18.Rfd1 isn't so bad after all. |
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| Jan-07-06 | | Endgame: Fruit 2.1 thinks 18.Rac1 as the best and 18.a4 as second best. I believe White could have also improved with 10.cxd5 exd5 11.Be2 |
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Jan-07-06
 | | offramp: <DeepBlade: The Queen sacrifice was spacial (not special but SPACE-ial) to gain space, for his !!! Rook...> What was special about it? |
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| Jan-10-06 | | Endgame: Well, Ive been studying this game for little bit. And thought I would post my wordpad document which could act as a sort of a summary of this great game. Many thanks to the kibitzers who posted some of these variations. Enjoy :) 1. d4 d5
2. Nf3 e6
3. e3 c5
4. c4 Nc6
5. Nc3 Nf6
6. dxc5?! Bxc5
<The normal book moves are 6.a3 a6 7.dxc5 Bxc5 8.b4 Ba7 9.Bb2 0-0 10.Qc2 Qe7.> 7. a3 a6
8. b4 Bd6
9. Bb2 0-0
10. Qd2?! Qe7!
<The correct move was 10.cxd5 exd5 11.Be2> 11. Bd3? dxc4
<11.cxd5 was needed.
White has executed a poor opening strategy, which has cost him two valuable tempi.> 12. Bxc4 b5
13. Bd3 Rd8
14. Qe2 Bb7
15. 0-0 Ne5!
16. Nxe5 Bxe5
17. f4 Bc7
18. e4?! Rac8
<Black was threatening 18...e5 which can be now meet with 19.f5> 19. e5? Bb6+
<19.e5? was played to shut out black's Bishop by blocking the b8-h2 diagonal. 19...Bb5+ wins a tempo.White has two better options here, 19.Rac1 and 19.Rad1 > 20. Kh1 Ng4!
21. Be4 Qh4
<21.Qxg4? Rxd3 favors black.
21.Bxh7+ Kxh7 22.Qxg4 Rd2 is even worse for white
21.Ne4 Rxd3! 22.Qxd3 Bxe4 23.Qxe4 Qh4 24.h3 Qg3 25.hxg4 Qh4#> 22. g3 Rxc3!!
<22.h3 Rxc3! 23.Bxb7 Rxh3+ 24.gxh3 Qxh3+ 25.Qh2 Qxh2+22.h3 Rxc3! 23.Qxg4 Rxh3+ 24.Qxh3 Qxh3+ 25.gxh3 Bxe4+ 26.Kh2 Rd2+ 27.Kg3 Rg2+! 28.Kh4 Bd8+! 29.Kh5 Bg6#> 23.gxh4 Rd2!!!
<23.Bxc3 Bxe4+ 24.Qxe4 Qxh2#
23.Bxb7 Rxg3 24.Rf3 Rxf3 25.Bxf3 Nf2+ 26.Kg1> 24.Qxd2 Bxe4+
<24.Qxg4 Bxe4+ 25.Rf3 Rxf3
24.Bxc3 Rxe2 25.Rf2 Bxe4+ 26.Kg1 Bxf2+ 27.Kf1 Bf3 28.Rd1 Nxh2# 24.Bxb7 Rxe2 25.Bg2 Rh3!>
25. Qg2 Rh3!
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| Jan-13-06 | | Endgame: "The great artist of the endgame displays his virtuosity in yet another field. He unleashes an attack with the fire and elegance of a Morphy, and unfolds combinations and brilliant sacrifices that would do honour to Tal or Alekhine." - Irving Chernev "Every great player has a game which became his visiting card to chess history: This was Rubinstein's." - GM Andy Soltis Rubinstein's play, "is of incredible depth and transcending brilliancy." - GM Savielly Tartakower Botvinnik and Flohr said this was a fantastic game, "and perhaps the first game to be played in the scientific method, developed by the Russian chess-players." Karl Schlecter called this perhaps the most magnificent combination of all time!! |
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| Jan-13-06 | | ughaibu: Endgame: Geller vs Krogius, 1958 might interest you. |
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| Jan-28-06 | | olydream3: Rxc3 was wonderful, the following was superb as well, stunning game |
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| Mar-03-06 | | MrMojoRisin: Wow, this game is just such a brilliant masterpiece by Akiba. Oddly enough, the mistake of 10.Qd2? is given by Fritz 9 (Using 1024MB RAM, 3GHz cpu) as one of the three best possible moves for White!
I left it anlayzing the position after Blacks 9th move for 10 minutes, and it believes that 10.Qd2? is one of the top three moves available to White and awards it =(-0.03) rating. It doesn't see the awesome refutation of 10...Qe7! Instead after 10 minutes it believes Black's best reply is 10...a5. |
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| Mar-03-06 | | MrMojoRisin: Also, does anyone know of any place on the net where I could find Rubinstein's annotations to this game?
Thanks |
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| Mar-05-06 | | MrMojoRisin: Oops sorry, a correction to my above observation, it was Fritz8 not Fritz9 that believed Qd2 to be a good move. |
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| Mar-05-06 | | monad: <MrMojoRisin: Oops sorry, a correction to my above observation, it was Fritz8 not Fritz9 that believed Qd2 to be a good move.> Hiya. What does Fritz 9 see in the same length of time? Do you have access to both 8 and 9? How many ply does it run in 10 minutes? |
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| Mar-05-06 | | MrMojoRisin: <Monad> Sorry, I do not have have access to Fritz9. I did not note the depth at which Fritz was searching so I ran it again, but this time ran it for 20 minutes. At about 15 minutes after it started analyzing, Fritz finally found the reply ...Qe7 however all that did was change the evaluation from =(-0.03) to =(0.03). After the full 20 minutes 10.Qd2 was still the third most favored move by Fritz. It gave the following continuation 10.Qd2 Qe7 11.cxd5 exd5 12.Nxd5 Nxd5 13.Qxd5 Bg4 14.Be2 Rad8 15.Qb3 Nc6 The depth at which it was analyzing kind of puzzled me because at 15 minutes in the depth was something like 14/40 but then at the 20 minute mark it had changed to 15/15. I also ran the position through Fruit 2.1 and Crafty 19.01 for 10 minutes each. Fruit never considered Qd2, instead it favored cxd5, Rc1 and Qc2. Crafty thought cxd5 was the best, then Qc2 and then Qd2. |
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| Mar-05-06 | | MrMojoRisin: Also, in that continuation that Fritz gave <10.Qd2 Qe7 11.cxd5 exd5 12.Nxd5 Nxd5 13.Qxd5 Bg4 14.Be2 Rad8 15.Qb3 Nc6>, I believe that 13...Rd8 would be a better choice than Fritz's 13...Bg4 |
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| Mar-07-06 | | monad: <MrMojoRisin: >
Thank you so much for the time and effort you put in. Very interesting to see what the engines come up with. |
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| Mar-07-06 | | monad: <MrMojoRisin: , I believe that 13...Rd8 would be a better choice than Fritz's 13...Bg4> I agree. And then White possibly withdraws the Queen? And then what? Queenside pawns moves? |
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| Mar-07-06 | | MrMojoRisin: <I agree. And then White possibly withdraws the Queen? And then what? Queenside pawns moves?>
Yes after, 10.Qd2 Qe7 11.cxd5 exd5 12.Nxd5 Nxd5 13.Qxd5 Rd8! White will definitely need to withdraw his Queen on the next move. Fritz is telling me that the only good squares to put the Queen are 14.Qb3 and possibly 14.Qc4. Strangely though Fritz believes that after 13...Rd8! that White has a slight advantage, though personally I feel that Black has a slight advantage. If White retreats the Queen to b3, then I think the best plan for Black would involve moving the Bishop (probably to g4 attacking the Knight) then ...Rac8. Then get the queenside pawns rolling, starting off with ...b5 then ...a5 If White decides to go with 14.Qc4 then 14...Nxb4 sets a nice little trap. For it 15.axb4 then Black does 15...Be6 and has a won game. |
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| Mar-13-06 | | MrMojoRisin: I was looking at alternatives for Whites 21st move earlier today, and came up with these following tries... 21.Ne4 Qh4 22.h3 Rxd3 23.Qxg4 Qxg4 24.hxg4 Bxe4  21.h3 Ne3 22.Kh2 Bxg2 23.Rf2 Qh4 24.Rxg2 Qxf4+ 25.Kh1 Nxg2 21.Qxg4 Rxd3 22.Rad1 Rxc3 23.Bxc3 Rxc3 24.Rd6 h5 25.Qg5 Qxg5 26.fxg5 Be3 |
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| Mar-13-06 | | MrMojoRisin: Also, <LIFE Master AJ> I was reading your annotations to this game on your website and I noticed that for the alternative 21.Ne4 you gave the reply 21...Rxd3 Now while 21...Rxd3 does still leave Black with a winning advantage, it is very inferior to 21...Qh4 Also BTW you did a very good job of annotating this game :) |
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| Mar-13-06 | | MrMojoRisin: And also for 21.h3 you gave 21...Qh4 but I believe that 21...Ne3 is quite superior. Either way Black has a big advantage, so I suppose it doesnt really matter that much. |
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| Mar-18-06 | | Endgame: I was wondering, who does the annotations for the games here on CG? Can anyone send in annotations that they want to put on a certain game? Because this game is the third most popular game here at CG, and yet the annoations are completely worthless. There are only two comments in this entire game and those two comments are not even useful. |
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Mar-18-06
| | offramp: <Endgame> If you have annotations of your own to this game we would be delighted to see tham. Post them here and see what people think. |
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| Mar-18-06 | | MrMojoRisin: <Endgame> has actually already posted some annotations to this game (at the top of the page). Although I went through them one day, and if I remember correctly there were a few mistakes in them. |
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Mar-18-06
| | offramp: I see them now. His notes are fine except that for 22.Rxc3 he should have added, "Kmoch gives this move three exclamation marks." |
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