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Colin Crouch vs Zaki Harari
"Hararikiri" (game of the day Mar-30-2023)
London Chess Classic Open (2013), London ENG, rd 5, Dec-11
English Opening: Anglo-Slav Variation. General (A11)  ·  1-0

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Feb-17-14
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  bright1: Very nice game. Deserves to be a GOTD.
Mar-30-23
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: Nice example of how the Nimzo-Larsen Attack (2.b3 w/o a King side fianchetto) can turn from placid to nasty in quick fashion. 39...Rxe8+; 40.fxe8/Q+,Kxe8; 41.Bg6+,K-any; 42.b7,Qd5+; 43.Kg1 and all of White's pieces support each other.
Mar-30-23
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  HeMateMe: Hari-kari! Sounds pretty dramatic for a chess game.
Mar-30-23
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  fredthebear: 37...RxBd3? is met by 38.b7 and Black must lose material or allow a new queen.
Mar-30-23  Brenin: Colin Crouch suffered a severe stroke in 2004, leaving him with impaired mobility and vision. Nevertheless he continued to play chess at a high level, and to publish well-received books on chess. He died in 2015, aged 58 and sadly missed.
Mar-30-23
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  Plaskett: He was also a Candidate GM, with one norm which he achieved with even half a point extra.
Mar-30-23
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  Teyss: Today Missy avoided a dubious pun triggering a heated political debate, providing instead a defused joke. Unless a Japanese user objects.

That said, I don't find Black committing seppuku with a blunder, rather a succession of inaccuracies e.g. wasting time with 25...Ne4 only to bring it back afterwards, letting White have a passed P on the Qside and a thorn on f7.

Interesting mid-week puzzle 36.White to play: you have to calculate the variations provided by <An Englishman> and <fredthebear>.

Mar-30-23
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  Honza Cervenka: Black should have played Nd5 in the 24th or 25th move, and then he would have been fine. 26...e5 was definitely a bad idea, and after 27...Nf6 (27...Ng5 was a bit better) 28.dxe5 black is utterly lost. So 26...e5 can be identified as an act of seppuku in my humble opinion.
Mar-30-23
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  OhioChessFan: Pretty good pun. 26...e5 is awful.
Mar-30-23  goodevans: <Honza>, <OCF>, My reaction too when I saw 26...e5.

Played maybe in expectation/hope of 27.dxe5 when 27...Rd2 would have made for an interesting situation.

And the fact that he chose the utterly losing 27...Nf6 over the merely uncomfortable 27...Ng5 suggests he simply didn't foresee 29.e6 at all.

Mar-30-23
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  offramp: Black had 6 pawns at move 27.


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The pawns .... <melted>. There were only 2 left in a few moves.


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Mar-30-23  ajile: I kept hoping Black would get in ..h6 before White played Nh4 and then ruining Black's pawn structure.

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