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Reuben Fine vs Arthur Dake
"Fine Arts" (game of the day Aug-20-2014)
34th Western Championship (1933), Detroit, MI USA, rd 10, Sep-29
Neo-Grünfeld Defense: Goglidze Attack (D70)  ·  1-0

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ANALYSIS [x]
Notes by Stockfish 9 v010218 (minimum 6s/ply)7.Ne2 was played in D B Gurevich vs H Cohen, 1990 (1-0) 10.h4 cxd5 11.exd5 h5 12.Rd1 Bf5 13.b3 N8d7 14.Nge2 Rc8 = +0.06 (23 ply) ⩱ -0.82 (27 ply) 11...Na6 12.a5 Nc4 13.Bxc4 Qh4+ 14.Bf2 Qxc4 15.Nge2 Bd7 ⩱ -0.83 (27 ply)= +0.28 (24 ply) after 12.Qf2 Qxf2+ 13.Kxf2 Na6 14.a5 Nd7 15.Rd1 f5 16.Bc4 f4 17.Qe3 Nd3 18.b3 Qa6 19.Bh4 f5 20.d6 f4 21.Qd2 Bf5 22.Be7 = +0.19 (24 ply) ⩱ -0.67 (22 ply)better is 18...f5 19.Rfd1 Bd7 20.d6 Rf7 21.Qd5 Qxd5 22.Nxd5 Bf8 ⩱ -0.71 (23 ply)= -0.18 (23 ply) after 19.Rfd1 f5 20.d6 Be6 21.Nd5 Bxd5 22.Qxd5+ Qxd5 23.Rxd5 25.Qxc4 Rxc4 26.a6 bxa6 27.Rxa6 Rd4 28.Rda1 Bxe4 29.fxe4 = +0.43 (25 ply) ⩱ -0.58 (26 ply) 26.Qa4 Kf7 27.h3 h6 28.g4 a6 29.d6 Rc6 30.Qxc4+ Rxc4 = -0.40 (24 ply) 26...f5 27.Nxg5 Rc6 28.g4 Rdxd6 29.Rxd6 Bxd6 30.Qa2 Qxa2 ∓ -1.53 (25 ply) 27.b3 Qe6 28.Qb4 Qd7 29.g4 h5 30.gxh5 Bxh5 31.Rd3 Rc6 = -0.32 (22 ply) 27...Bxe4 28.fxe4 Rc6 29.Qa4 Qxa4 30.Rxa4 Rdxd6 31.Rb4 ⩱ -1.29 (27 ply)= -0.20 (22 ply) 29.b3 Qxb3 30.Qxb3 Bxb3 31.Rb1 f5 32.Rxb3 fxe4 33.h3 e3 = -0.06 (26 ply) 29...f5 30.Nxg5 Rcxd6 31.Rxd6 Rxd6 32.Qa1 Bh5 33.Nh3 Qc6 ⩱ -1.01 (24 ply)better is 30.b4 Bxd6 31.Qa4 f5 32.b5 Qxa4 33.Nxa4 fxe4 34.bxa6 e3 ⩲ +0.96 (25 ply)= +0.25 (25 ply)better is 31.Qb1 Rxa5 32.b4 Ra3 33.Nd5 Bxd5 34.Rxd5 Re3 35.Qa1 Kg6 ⩲ +0.74 (23 ply) 31...bxa5 32.Nxf6 Rdxd6 33.Rxd6 Rxd6 34.Qxg5+ Kh8 35.Ra1 = +0.21 (24 ply) ± +2.05 (24 ply) 32...Rc8 33.b4 Qxc3 34.Qxc3 Rxc3 35.d7 Be7 36.Ne8+ Kf8 ± +1.87 (21 ply)+- +6.49 (25 ply)37...hxg6 38.Nf6+ Kh8 39.Rh7# +- mate-in-21-0

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Dec-16-13  Eduardo Bermudez: I like it like that !
Aug-20-14
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  HeMateMe: Black deserved to lose, for playing the Goglidze Attack. Just because.
Aug-20-14
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: White's organization of his attack starting with 30.Qa1 astounds me, and my favorite move is 32.Rc2. It drives away the Queen with tempo, allows the White Queen to capture the g-pawn with check, and then the Rc2 is already perfectly placed to join the attack with Rc7+. Astonishing efficiency.
Aug-20-14  Aniara: Wow. Fine's best games are remarkably clean and direct (I am thinking, for instance, of his win over Botvinnik in the AVRO tournament in 1938, Fine vs Botvinnik, 1938).
Aug-20-14
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  al wazir: 36. Rc7 Rd7 37. Rdc1 Be7! 38. dxe7 (38. Rxd7 Qxd7 39. dxe7 Qe8) Rxc7 39. Qf6+ (39. Rxc7? Qd1#; 39. e8=Q Rxc1+ 40. Qxc1 Qxe8) Kh6 40. Qf8+ Kh5 41. g4+ Kh4 42. Qh6+ Bh5 43. Qxh5#.
Aug-20-14  RookFile: White's queen swings from 1 rookfile to another, then back to a1, then somehow winds up on g6 to deliver a knockout blow. What a spectacular game!
Aug-20-14  morfishine: Very nice game very much worthy of the moniker "Game of the Day"
Aug-20-14  kevin86: Arabian mate to follow...
Aug-20-14  Once: We may be in danger of over-eulogising the victor here.

As far as I can see, Fine's manoeuvre of Qa1-Qc1 is not the start of a combination. He is finding a way to bring his queen into the action, as she is surely not going to amount to much on the queenside. It is ingenious, but hardly decisive yet. Black could have shored up his kingside with moves like 30...f5 or 31..h6.

For me the combination starts with 32. Nxf6. Qa1-Qc1 is strong positional play, but it only seems to be the start of the combination because black does not defend against it as well as he could.

Great game though.

Aug-20-14  Chess Dad: After watching this game, I was thinking to myself that the Queen Sac on move 37 would make a nice Monday puzzle.

And then I noticed the 4 pages of Kibitzing. CG agreed with me, back on 9/28/09.

Aug-20-14  Moszkowski012273: Blacks decision NOT to play f5 on several occasions lost this game for him.
Aug-20-14
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  Bubo bubo: Why not 36...Rd7, at least avoiding instant disaster?
Dec-24-14  Eduardo Bermudez: https://www.facebook.com/notes/edua...
Jan-10-15  Eduardo Bermudez: Harmony, coordination, beauty ... definitely: Fine Art
Feb-09-15  Eduardo Bermudez: ZUGZWANG67: ... the mate in question is delivered by the two only pieces that have kept their original mode of moving, invented by the ancient arabs.
Jun-15-15  hadi706: 36.NXf6!!
یک قربانی عالی از سفید که میتونه به عنوان یک کوییز خیلی سخت هم در سایت استفاده بشه
Mar-03-16  peterh99: It looked like Dake had the better game with his two bishops and mobile kingside pawhs but Fine just pounced and demolished his position with a quick brilliant combination.
Oct-30-16  PraveenSagar33: A fantastic game that demonstrates positional skills combined with great attacking skills by Reuben Fine. Check out: http://www.zugzwang.in/chess-news-b... for my analysis of the game.
May-22-17  zanzibar: <"A concealed approach to the seventh rank comes out in Diagram 138, from the game Fine-Dake, Detroit, 1933.">

Fine Middle Game p089.d138

(White to move)
Fine vs Dake, 1933 (&m=32)

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Jul-26-17  Eduardo Bermudez: It is one of my favorite games, the pair of knights is stronger than the pair of bishops !
Jan-12-18  Eduardo Bermudez B.: https://www.facebook.com/notes/edua...
Mar-12-18  Raginmund: Nice one, Im watching a puzzle in another forum which begun on move 32 I just put the position at Kchess Elite and tried to play on

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32. Nxf6 Kxf6 33. Ne4+ Kg7 34. Rc2 Rxd6 after watching the whole game, now I know the purpose of this move :D 35. Rxc4 Rxd1+ 36. Qxd1 Bxc4 37. Qd7+ Bf7 38. g4 h6 39. Qc6 Be7 40. Ng3 Ra1+ 41. Kg2 Bf6 42. Nf5+ Kg6 game continues.

Nice shot by Mr. Fine

Mar-19-20  kaimann: Ubersicht sample !
Mar-19-20  kaimann: Ubersicht sample !
“The average player believes that the difference between him and a master lies in the number of moves ahead they can calculate[…] More important, however, is the ability of the expert to play logically,i.e., to base his game on certain ideas. For in chess, as in other fields,ideas are a means of organizing thought. A game between two amateurs is sometimes a hodgepodge of a hundred distinct ideas which have no relation to one another […] Master’s games are much more unified; indeed, one test of a great game is that it should be a coherent unit, in some sense, from start to finish.” Reuben Fine (1945)
Apr-03-20  Messiah: Interestingly, I did not know this super-interesting game beforehand. White's play pretends to be easy and the moves itselves pretend to be almost automatic. Excellent! Very nice!
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