Robert Fontaine vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2007) Lagrave Undertaking

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Robert Fontaine vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
"Lagrave Undertaking" (game of the day Apr-06-2010)
French Championship (2007), Aix-les-Bains FRA, rd 10, Aug-23
Dutch Defense: Leningrad. Matulovic Variation (A89) · 0-1

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Jan-22-11		fisayo123: incredible game from a young chess genius!

Jan-28-11		Penguincw: A nice mate in one.

May-18-11		kevin86: Boy,does this one cover the gamut! Queen sac,ubderpromotion,minor piece mate,and mate by discovered check! What an array!!!

Jun-30-11		Richard Taylor: Just l clicked on this by chance and it turns out to be a beautiful masterpiece! Incredible game!!

Jun-30-11		FSR: An amazing game!

Oct-28-12		erniecohen: Quite a game. But White really shouldn't have fallen for the b5 Trojan horse; 30. ♕c6, maintaining the threat to take the c7 pawn with check, seems to draw.

Jan-04-13		xeneizexxx: I believe that the black dark square bishop is more important than the rook in the leningrad, at least it confuses your opponent and gives you more winning chances.

Mar-30-13		fisayo123: Still one of my favorite games of the modern era. A true "Immortal".

Jul-23-13		EvilTwin: did you read formation attacks, that's a classic Trojan pawn

Aug-28-13		Garech: Superb game indeed! -Garech

Sep-29-13		Ed Frank: I don't think I've ever seen a rook sac, a queen sac, an attempted knight sac, and an underpromotion leading to a mate in one in the same game. All players should aspire to games of this elegance.

Oct-27-13		kingscrusher: I have video annotated this "Immortal" game here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxp... Cheers, K

Oct-28-13		DcGentle: Nice video, <kingscrusher>. White could have escaped into perpetual check playing <34. Kf1>. But otherwise a dream of a game. :-)

Oct-29-13		kingscrusher: <DcGentle> If 34 Kf1, then isn't Bh3 checkmate ?!

Oct-29-13		Juninho: <kingscrusher> not really, because Bg2 prevent it. But it looks interesting to play Rh2 as 35. Bg2, Rxg2! 36.Qc4 looks a draw for me. For example: Rg5 37. d6, Kg7, 38. Qd4, (black couldn't play Kh6 as Qh8#), Kh7 etc. looks enough to hold.

Oct-29-13		DcGentle: <kingscrusher>: Position before move 34: click for larger view White to move. <Juninho> is right, there is no checkmate because bishop f3 can be interposed on g2. Here there is a PGN-text for you to copy and paste into your chess GUI: [Event "Some variants not played"] [Site "Aix-les-Bains FRA"] [Date "2007.08.23"] [Round "10"] [White "Robert Fontaine"] [Black "Maxime Vachier-Lagrave"] [Result ""] [ECO "A89"] [WhiteElo "2567"] [BlackElo "2595"] [Annotator "DcGentle"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "7r/p1p2k2/6p1/1Q1P1b2/8/1P3B2/P3PpK1/6b1 w - - 0 34"] 34. Kf1 {<escaping into perpetual check.>} Rh2 {<threatening a mate in 2: 35... Bh3+ 36. Bg2 Bxg2#>} 35. Bg2 Rxg2 {<The rook must not be taken.>} 36. Qb7 {<Other queen moves attacking c7 will also do.>} (36. Kxg2 Bh3+ {<is a mate in 8:>} 37. Kxh3 f1=Q+ 38. Kg3 Qf2+ 39. Kh3 Qh2+ 40. Kg4 Qg2+ 41. Kf4 g5+ 42. Ke5 Qg3+ 43. Ke4 Qe3+ 44. Kf5 Qf4#) 36... Rg4 37. Qxc7+ Ke8 38. Qb8+ Kd7 39. Qxa7+ Kd6 40. Qb8+ Kxd5 41. Qb5+ {<and the black king has no hideout.>} Ģ

Oct-30-13		kingscrusher: Oh of course bg2 - oops my bad ...

Nov-19-13		Billy Vaughan: <playground player: C'mon, CG--show us a game in which underpromotion doesn't win! In which, in fact, it blows up in the underpromoter's face. Just so we don't get the impression that it always, always works.> Well, there's this: Mamedyarov vs J Smeets, 2005

Jan-02-14		jaga1131: I think it should be16.g×h4 instead of Qg5

Apr-05-15		SpiritedReposte: That's definitely a unique mating combination. Like playing against a computer you think you got it and it pulls some crazy $#!+ like that. Just wow.

Apr-05-15		SpiritedReposte: Unique mating combination.

Oct-22-15		The Kings Domain: Pretty brilliant game by Vachier-Lagrave. His queen sacrifice turned the table in his favor leading to a good positional attack on white's king.

Jan-30-16		Conrad93: Wow, this reminds of the famous Polish Immortal, except for the fact it's 10x more amazing.

Nov-18-16		Saniyat24: White could have played 22.Be4 instead of Nf5

Sep-21-17		Domdaniel: French Immortal.

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