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| Aug-15-19 | | Granny O Doul: At the end, Black will be mated after ...Kc6 31. Nd5+, while if instead 30...Ka6 or ...Ka5, 31. Qxh8! with mate on a8 if Black captures the White knight, so he must remain two pieces down with no counterattack or perpetual in sight and White's attack still raging. |
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| Aug-15-19 | | diceman: <Kay Sadeeya:
Can someone please analyse the end?>
1) mated-in-10 (23 ply)
30...Ka5 31.Qxh8 b4 32.Qd8+ Kb5 33.Nd5 b3 34.Nc7+ Kb4 35.Nxe6 b5 36.Qe7+ Ka5 37.Bc5 Rxg2+ 38.Kxg2 b4 39.dxc4 Ka4 40.Qa7# |
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| Aug-15-19 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: It's fortunate that Black doesn't have a Zwischenzug threatening mate at g2. That allows White to keep the initiative and collect yet more material than he previously had sacrificed. |
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| Aug-15-19 | | saturn2: I saw 24. e7
24...Bxe7 25. Qxg4+ Kd8 26. Bxe7+ Qxe7 27. Nxe7 Kxe7 28. Re1+ here I stopped but guessed there should be a skewer on the unprotected rook h8 24...Qxd5 25. Qxg4+ Kc7 26. e8=Q |
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| Aug-15-19 | | stacase: So how far ahead do you have to go move for move to claim that you solved it? Instead of 30.Bxd4+ I would have played 30.Qxh8. |
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| Aug-15-19 | | tigreton: This is one of those games that make you love this art. |
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| Aug-15-19 | | patzer2: In attempting to solve today's Thursday puzzle (24. ?), I managed to correctly play guess the move for all but one move in the game winning combination. I found 24. e7 Bxe7 25. Qxg4+ Nd7 26. Nxe7+ Kc7 27. Bf4 Ne5 easy enough, and my immediate reaction was to go for the sure winning move 28. Qg7 +-. However, I found myself considering other options (if you see a good move, look for a better one) and picked the really bad 28. Rxb5?? which loses immediately to 28...Ra1+ 29. Kh2 Nxg4+ -+. After checking the game continuation and seeing my initial reaction 28. Qg7 was correct, I had no problem finding the rest of the game continuation 28...Kb6 29. Bxe5 Qe6 30. Bxd4+ +-. P.S.: So where did Black go wrong? Black's decisive mistake appears to be 23...Nxg4?, allowing today's Thursday puzzle solution 24. e7 +- (+5.17 @ 31 ply, Stockfish 10). Instead, the computer finds the difficult equalizing defense 23...Bg7 24. Ne7+ Kc7 25. Nf5 Qa3! = (0.00 @ 37 ply, Stockfish 10). If indeed 23...Bg7 = equalizes, then it slightly spoils the combination following White's interesting sacrifice 19. Rxf6!? Instead of the speculative sacrifice 19. Rxf6!? = (i.e. equal after 23...Bg7 =), White could have insured the win with 19. Rxb5 +- (+5.06 @ 30 ply, Stockfish 10). |
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| Aug-15-19 | | Nov8: Post testing |
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| Aug-15-19 | | TheaN: Never great to miss a defense, however, I envisioned Black to be in great trouble after <24.e7 Bxe7> e8=Q(+/#) follows otherwise with Qc7# if appropriate, except if Black moves the bishop where Qxd6 +- wins. <25.Qxg4+> and here I actually missed Nd7: of course I see 25....Nd7 26.Nxe7+ Kc7 27.Bf4 +- now and I probably would have OTB; I just saw 25....Kd8 26.Bxe7+ +- and was kind of wondering if this Thursday was a tad bit too easy... guess so. |
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Aug-15-19
 | | Check It Out: After 30...Ka6 31. Qxh8 black cant even kamikaze his rook as he doesn't get any repetition checks: 31...Rxg2+ 32. Kxg2 Qe2+ 33. Bf2 and theres nothing. |
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| Aug-15-19 | | agb2002: White is a rook, a knight and a pawn down!
Black threatens Qxg3 and Qxd5.
The position of the black king suggests 24.e7:
A) 24... Qxg3 25.e8=Q#.
B) 24... Bxe7 25.Nxe7+
B.1) 25... Kc7 26.Bf4 recovers material while keeping the attack. B.2) 25... Kd7 26.Qxg4+
B.2.a) 26... Kc7 27.Bf4 as in B.1.
B.2.b) 26... Kd8 27.Nf5+ as in B.1.
B.2.c) 26... Ke8 27.Nc8 Qe5 (27... Qd7 28.Re1+ wins) 28.Bf4 followed by Re1+ and Bxb8 looks winning. B.2.d) 26... Qe6 27.Qxd4+ Qd6 (27... Ke8 28.Qxh8+ wins; 27... Kc7 28.Bf4+ and mate next) 28.Qxh8 wins decisive material (28... Qb6+ 29.d4 Qc7 30.Nd5 Qc8 31.Nb6+). C) 24... Qxe7 25.Nb6+ Kd8 26.Qxb8#.
D) 24... Qc6 25.Qxg4+ N(Q)xd7 26.e8=Q#.
E) 24... Qd7 25.Nb6#.
F) 24... Rxg2+ 25.Qxg2 (25.Kxg2 Qxg3+), with the double threat e8=Q+ and Qxg4+, recovers material and keeps the attack. |
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| Aug-15-19 | | agb2002: I missed 25... Qxe7 in my line B. The text 25.Qxg4+ is considerably stronger. |
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| Aug-15-19 | | Kay Sadeeya: Thanks Diceman; Granny O'Doul; and others for taking the time to show the end play. |
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| Sep-28-19 | | whiteshark: "According to Spassky himself, this game is perhaps his favourite game. It is not my* favourite Spassky game, but I have to admit that it is a truly magificent attacking game. Enjoy!" Game annotated by *K. Spraggett here: http://www.spraggettonchess.com/sam... |
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Jan-31-22
 | | fiercebadger: this is the game Spassky would demo at chess club lectures |
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Apr-11-23
 | | FSR: ♫♪♫ He's a maniac, maniac on the board, and he's sacking like he's never sacked beforrorrr ♫♪♫ |
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| Apr-11-23 | | goodevans: <goldenbear: 16.Rxc1 17.Rxc1 c3? I don't think so. I think that allows Nd6+ with the idea Bxd6 Qxg7 Rf8 exd6 Bh5...> 19...Bxe5! before 20...Rf8 and then I'd much prefer to be Black. |
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| Apr-11-23 | | goodevans: Stockfish here says <=0.00 (25 ply) 23...Bg7 24.Ne7+ Kc7 25.Nf5 Qa3...> but in a position this complicated that might be wrong. I tried the link <whiteshark> gave to see if Spraggett had had anything say about this but couldn't find this game annotated there. Then I tried https://kevinspraggettonchess.wordp... which is a bit of a strange site... I did a search there on "spassky" but couldn't find this game amongst the many pages it returned. Then I tried "reshko" - nothing at all. Finally I tried a search on "samurai" (as in <whiteshark>'s link) and got <Japanese porn>. Anyway, anyone with a lot of time on their hands today, it being a rest day in Nepo-Ding, might want to spend some time checking whether Stockfish is right about 23...Bg7. Alternatively, they might want to just check out the Japanese porn. |
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| Apr-11-23 | | goodevans: And finally...
Have I missed something clever or is this just a very lame pun? <Teyss>? <OCF>? Anyone? Anyhow, the game's great so thanks anyway <FairyPromotion>. |
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Apr-11-23
 | | beatgiant: <goodevans> "Spassibo" means "thank you" in Russian and combines the "Spass" from Spassky and "Bo" from Boris. Looking for a pop cultural reference, I learned that the song "You're Welcome" from Moana has been translated into Russian as "Spassibo." This game shows Spassky as a demigod of chess, like Maui in the movie. |
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| Apr-11-23 | | goodevans: <beatgiant> Thanks. I'd missed the "Bo" bit so slightly better than I first thought. Still not great though and your pop cultural reference is a bit of a stretch. |
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Apr-11-23
 | | Teyss: <goodevans> As usual <beatgiant> was better and faster than I could have been, but thanks for considering me as pun helpdesk anyhow ;) What could make the pun slightly better is Spassky can say "Spasibo" to Black for his few inaccuracies that allowed him to win with style and us to have a great game. For memo it's spelled with "o" and pronounced "Spasiba" (had to check that one). Fun fact: Spassky at 86 is the oldest living World Champion. Obvious when you think about it but I never did. Thanks for providing us extra cultural references. (Loved the movie "Seven Samurai" but don't remember it like that, must see it again.) |
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Apr-11-23
 | | scormus: <beatgiant> pozhaluysta |
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| Apr-11-23 | | boz: Clinical |
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| Apr-11-23 | | stone free or die: <спасиб> = thank you. It is more often transliterated as <spasibo> rather than <spassibo> <Russian "Spasibo" comes from the saying "Spasi bog" which means "God save you"
This is one of the most useful words to learn. > https://bridgetomoscow.com/word-day... |
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