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| Aug-03-06 | | Maynard5: This is a tremendous attacking game, which won a prize in the 1965 US Championship. Starting with 15. Bf6 and continuing with 17. Nf5, White sacrifices two minor pieces in order to compel Black to build a barrier of pawns on the f-file. The third piece offer cannot be accepted of course, since after 18. Ne4, White is threatening 19. Rh3. Black is forced to return a piece to parry the threat, and then eventually give up his queen. Impressive tactical play by Robert Byrne. |
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| Dec-27-07 | | Cibator: Stout defence too by Evans. I remember seeing this game annotated in the UK's "Chess" magazine (under the heading "A Coruscade of Sacrifices"), soon after it was played. It was all home analysis, of course - as were most of the numerous innovations at the time in this line - up to about Black's 18th, which was termed "excellent use of the technique of returning some of the sacrificed material". Byrne certainly had to fight hard thereafter to score a well-deserved full point. |
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| Dec-27-07 | | Petrosianic: It's especially impressive since this seems to be a last round game, when most people are drawing limply and going home. It's odd, since it was a Zonal, and the win brought Byrne into a second place tie with Reshevsky for the third Interzonal spot. But a draw would have given Byrne clear third and that spot just the same. Maybe that wasn't clear at the time, and Addison or Zuckerman might have tied for the spot with a win. A very atypical result for Evans too. Though normally no slouch in the draw department, this game dropped him to -1 with a +4-5=2 record. |
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| Dec-28-07 | | Cibator: Should have mentioned in my previous post that Byrne's TN began with 15.Bf6, which he'd been hoping to spring upon Fischer. |
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| Oct-01-08 | | Xeroxx: This game deserves to be famous or something!? Ó__Ô |
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| Nov-13-08 | | zev22407: 23)R-f4! a brilliant move. |
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| Dec-25-08 | | A.G. Argent: Loved Bob Byrne's chess. <zev22407> is dead correct about the stellar 23.Rf4 and the mating net it begins and <Xeroxx> is dead correct about this game deserving more fame. After 36.Nd7+ Ng7, 37.Nb6 nails another piece and Mr. Evans hide.
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| May-07-09 | | nd792001: Let's see this monster as GOTD. It's punnable too... "Byrning Down the House" or such. |
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| May-27-09 | | Petrosianic: <Should have mentioned in my previous post that Byrne's TN began with 15.Bf6, which he'd been hoping to spring upon Fischer.> Yes, I came across that recently while researching a series of Fischer monographs. Byrne had prepared the line for Fischer, but been unable to use it, since Fischer had White in their game from this tournament. It's unclear if he would have been able to use it even if he'd had White, as Fischer didn't really play the Poisoned Pawn line all that often. Everyone remembers the times he played it against Spassky, but he'd only played it a few times before that (and three of those times were against Bruno Parma). Who knows? If Byrne had not won this game:
Fischer vs R Byrne, 1965
He might have kept the line on the shelf to use against Fischer at some later date. As it was, with the win against Fischer notched, and an Interzonal spot on the line, he sprang it on Evans here. I'm guessing it was a spur-of-the-moment decision. I can't find any other games where Evans played the Poisoned Pawn line, so I doubt Byrne was expecting it. |
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| Mar-11-11 | | andrewjsacks: Byrne in Tal mode. |
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| Mar-11-11 | | Nilsson: Fantastic game! I have not seen this
before. Nowadays 10.f5 is the common move. Perhaps because 12..Qa5 instead of 12..Bb4
/JN |
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| Mar-11-11 | | rilkefan: Wow, I love it. 18.Ne4, 23.Rf4, 25.Rxg4, just the whole thing. |
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Mar-11-11
 | | HeMateMe: "Lucky Slevans" |
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| Mar-11-11 | | Once: Astonishing. Only chess can produce magic like this... White sacs his b pawn (the infamous poisoned pawn) in order to rip open black's g pawn on the opposite corner of the board. Then he throws piece after piece to triple black's f pawns. Then more shenanigans as he tried to land a deadly rook check on the g file. Black defends very well - there were several times when I couldn't see how he was going to extricate himself. And then into the late middlegame when theoretically the material was level (bishop and rook for queen) but white's greater mobility made the black queenside look as if it was made of stone. We might quibble that this was mostly home preparation, but that would be like claiming that the Mona Lisa looks a bit grumpy. Tremendous stuff, and a treat to play through. Xeroxx was right. This game deserves to be better known. |
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| Mar-11-11 | | Rook e2: Great game! You don't see games like this to often. |
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| Mar-11-11 | | psmith: Can anyone enlighten me as to what happens after 12...Nxe5? I see 13. Nxe6 Qa5 and I don't see any crushing White win after that. But probably this is all old theory. |
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| Mar-11-11 | | Nilsson: Psmith: It is theory. 13Ne6: Qa5 14.Bd8 Nf3+ 15.gf3: Qe5+ 16.Kd1 fe6:
17.Nd5 Bd6 18.Bg5 Qf5 19.Re1 Qf3+ 20.Qe2 Qe2+ 21.Re2 end of theory. (I think)Perhaps white have an advantage here.
/JN |
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| Mar-11-11 | | TheTamale: I like 16)...Qxe5, when Black finally picks off the long unguarded pawn. The suspense was killing me! |
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Mar-11-11
 | | FSR: I submitted this pun! It is an allusion to the song "Disco Inferno" (Burn, baby, burn! Disco inferno!"). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_... This is a wonderful game (even if it was largely home analysis), which I first saw in Evans' own book "Modern Chess Brilliancies." |
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| Mar-11-11 | | Calli: A neat and faster ending - 33.gxf6! Rg8 34.Ng5 Nxf6 35.Nf7# |
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Mar-11-11
 | | scormus: Brilliant attacking play by Byrne, a masterclass supreme in dealing with the Poisoned Pawn. The prize was well deserved, not only for the TN but overcoming B's stubborn defense. A Friday treat! <psmith and Nilsson 12 ... Nxe5> Thanks for the discussion. New to me and at first I thought W could win directly by exploiting B's d8 weakness but it seems W's advantage (if any) is marginal. Instinctively I feel there should be an improvement for W, but if there was I expect it would already be "book" BTW I once got in this line as W against someone massively higher grade. When I saw things were going badly for me I tried, in desperation, to trip him using a # threat on d8. But he saw it and I lost quickly. |
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Mar-11-11
 | | fm avari viraf: Indeed,this was a sparkling display of pyrotechnics by Robert Byrne! All his pieces seem to be on a rampage destroying the stubborn defence of Larry. It was a treat to watch this dazzling game! |
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| Mar-11-11 | | kevin86: Black's f-file triplets certainly didn't help his defense. |
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Mar-11-11
 | | Penguincw: Black had triped pawns but in the end,got rid of them. |
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| Mar-11-11 | | James Bowman: He really set the board a flame Byrne Bobby Byrne.
Admittedly not as good as <Indeed,this was a sparkling display of pyrotechnics by Robert Byrne!> It was fun just to play over it had to be great to play this game initially. Nice choice CG.com |
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