| Oct-20-15 | | jerseybob: Some bizarre tactics from a GM trying to confuse a "fish". Doesn't work. |
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| Oct-20-15 | | Gregor Samsa Mendel: Sink like a grandmaster. |
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| Nov-15-15 | | Zonszein: Brilliant |
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| Dec-15-21 | | JohnBoy: Brilliant title!
I'm curious - why is 12...Qc7 considered (local engine) better than ...h6 to make the knight run? Stuff like this always gets me. I was looking at stuff like 12...h6 13.Bd7 hg5 14.Be6+ Kh8 15.Ng5. But this has about 10^6 holes. |
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Dec-15-21
 | | ajk68: 22. a5?
Should have played Ng5. |
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Dec-15-21
 | | PawnSac: I think I still have that book in my library!
I actually learned some important stuff from it! |
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Dec-15-21
 | | al wazir: White could have come out of this down only an exchange and a ♙: 24. Qxf3 Qxf3 25. Rxf3 Rxa1+ 26. Kf2 Bxf3 27. Kxf3 Bxe3 28. Nxe3 Ra6 29. Nf4 Rxb6. Still losing. |
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Dec-15-21
 | | scutigera: <jerseybob>:GM vs fish, you say? Kotov was 63 when this game was played, and he retired three years later with an Elo of 2247. Povah was 24, and while I don't know what his rating was in 1976, he retired at age 68 with an Elo of 2257.
Sixty-three years, and Soviet years at that, likely put Kotov farther from his peak than Povah's 24 years did. They weren't far from being equals. |
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Dec-15-21
 | | FSR: <scutigera> On the January 1976 FIDE rating list, Kotov was 2500 and Povah 2300. https://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo19... But it could well be that the aging Kotov was overrated while young Povah was underrated. |
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Dec-15-21
 | | Honza Cervenka: <ajk68: 22. a5?
Should have played Ng5.>
Well, to find out that after 22.Ng5! axb5 23.Qh5 Rf5 24.Qh7+ Kf8 25.Ne4 black cannot hold his extra piece safely is almost mission impossible in normal over the board play. |
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Dec-15-21
 | | scormus: Great pun!
I remember a game by a 16 YO Povah, against one of our lads at school, who I thought was quite a strong player. It looked like our lad was winning, up a piece and no obvious (to me) serious weakness. Povah was looking hard at the board and suddenly his eyes lit up as in "found it!" and he unleashed a superb winning combination. |
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| Dec-15-21 | | goodevans: By move 15 Black already had a comfortable edge so the idea of trapping White's B with <15...c4> and <16...Nb6>, allowing White counterplay with <17.Bxh6>, was brave as well as imaginative. Even if he did overlook or underestimate 22.Ng5, Povah must have seen that White could avoid losing a piece with <22.a5> but that Black would still be better. Given that White's play wasn't forced and that Black's advantage doesn't become obvious until the very last move, the whole concept must have required fantastic calculation. |
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Dec-15-21
| | scutigera: <FSR>: Thanks much for the link! Now I can be annoyingly informed instead of just annoying. |
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| Dec-15-21 | | Immortal Gambit: I don't know where else to find an answer, but what happened to the annual holiday clue hunt? It's been conspicuously absent for the last 3 years. |
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Dec-15-21
 | | MissScarlett: I don't have a clue. |
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| Dec-15-21 | | takchess: Good pun and nice mate |
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Dec-16-21
 | | fredthebear: <takchess> I'm a fan of your collections! How often do you repeat your Seven Circles training? Have you maintained the same puzzle sources in your training? Has it caused you to hurry and form bad habits by randomly "looking for moves" as opposed to slowly, strictly following an orderly checklist? * * *
Camberley Chess Club has some nice chess videos available, including presentations by Nigel Povah. https://camberleychess.co.uk/videos/
Surely there's a video or two there that will interest users. |
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| Dec-20-21 | | jerseybob: <scutigera: <jerseybob>:GM vs fish, you say?> In my post if you'll notice, I put the word fish in quotes, indicating that I thought Kotov was underestimating Povah and thought he was a fish. But on reflection I think I was being unkind to Kotov and that he was simply out of practice, a feeling I understand more and more as the years go by! |
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