Mar-21-17
 | | FSR: Benjamin destroys Tate with a Tate-like tactical blitzkrieg. |
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Dec-06-19
 | | fredthebear: Premature aggression by Black here. The charging Black pawns are match, wood, and oxygen for the fire - Tate burns his own castle to the ground! Black's queenside minor pieces are not fully operable after ten moves (as is often the case in French miniatures, the problem French Bc8 never gets involved); his firemen cannot get to the scene in time. After 12.exf5 exf5, it looks like Black will have some operational space for his minor pieces to get moving. Then 13.0-0-0 f4? opens the b1-h7 diagonal for the White queen to blow in. White follows with 14.h4, willing to gambit his dark-squared bishop in order to open the h-file ASAP, which happens a few moves later. After 19...Be3+ (practically a spite check at that point), White rejects the routine capture of Black's dark-squared bishop to pour gasoline on the fire. Unusual to see each side beg to be rid of their dark-squared bishops. There's something attractive about watching 25.Nf3# a knight retreat give mate, perhaps by association with other king hunts w/knight finales. Instead, it looks like 10...e5 was needed for Black so that Qc7 could be played with an eye toward eventually connecting his rooks. It was a strange sort of KIA by White, easy to misconstrue. |
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| Dec-06-19 | | Carrots and Pizza: Crazy game, looks like blitz chess! |
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Jun-01-20
 | | saffuna: Benjamin is sort of dismissive of Tate in his book, apparently irritated that he was known for spectacular wins. Benjamin thought Tate took chances all the time, and was bound to win some. |
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Jun-01-20
 | | perfidious: <saffuna.....Benjamin thought Tate took chances all the time, and was bound to win some.> As Tate did the only time we met, in the 1991 World Open blitz event: he played straight down a main line of the Modern Benoni known to offer Black few prospects, got a poor position and only managed to win after I blundered. |
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Jun-01-20
| | saffuna: What do you think, <perf>? Benjamin in effect said Tate played for brilliancies so he could have the wins published, but lost many attempts at brilliancies. |
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Jun-01-20
| | perfidious: Tate was probably more dangerous to GMs than most players of his strength would be, but his tendency towards offbeat opening lines and loose play could bring him in for the occasional nasty defeat by a weaker player. Tate's style reminds me of what we call a maniac in poker: super-loose and hyperaggressive, can get a big stack in a hurry and throw it off equally quickly when things don't go just so. In the end, that player will get good and broke. Done over a few myself. |
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Jun-01-20
| | saffuna: Benjamin: <By 2000 one could expect a GM opponent with 5-1 in the World Open. Instead I played FM Emory Tate, a colorful personality with a go-for-broke attacking style. Tate has acquired a kind of cult following, but I’ve always believed anyone can produce an occasional brilliancy if you sacrifice pieces in every game. Here Tate could only watch his opponent sacrifice for fun and profit.> After 10...g5:
<This is the kind of optimistic lunge that few other players would dare to consider. But sometimes principles do matter.> |
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Jun-01-20
| | saffuna: <... a maniac in poker: super-loose and hyperaggressive, can get a big stack in a hurry and throw it off equally quickly when things don't go just so.> An interesting comparison. |
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Aug-14-23
| | FSR: 10...g5 followed by 11...f5 is about the craziest @#$% I've ever seen. Especially against a grandmaster. |
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Aug-14-23
 | | keypusher: 14. h4, 15.Bxc5 and 20.Kb1 were very Grandmasterly (though SF confirms that White could have taken the bishop). Neat mate at the end, too. <I’ve always believed anyone can produce an occasional brilliancy if you sacrifice pieces in every game. > I have proved Benjamin wrong! |
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| Aug-15-23 | | Granny O Doul: With 20. Kb1 White snuffs out his opponent's last hope; that he could make the game unpublishable. Kind of like Vaganian's 28...Raf8 in this famous game: Reshevsky vs Vaganian, 1976 |
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Kibitzing
sac: 15.Bxc5
