Jun-19-04
 | | Chessical: Saint Amant's <24.d5!?> was extremely sharp, and probably entailed much more that he had reaslised on playing it. <25.Rxc3?!>gives Staunton a powerful combination, but: <25.dxc6> Bd4 26.cxb7 Bxe3 27.bxc8Q Bxf2+ 28.Kxf2 Rxc8 is complex with a Q and 2P for a R, B+ N. Both players missed the very suprising <27...Nd4!!> 28.Rxc8 Nxe2+ 29.Kf2 Rxc8 30.Kxe2 Bxd5 The ending is completely drawn and well played. Saint Amant was unlikely to fall for <44.Kg5??> b4 |
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Apr-10-08 | | Knight13: <Chessical: Saint Amant's <24.d5!?> was extremely sharp> Agreed. Black's 23...Nc6?! made that available. Me thinks Black should've left the knight on a5 and keep the pressure on c4, while giving the b7 bishop a great scope in controlling important squares. |
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Jul-23-09 | | sillybilly47: 35.K-f4...might give the Frenchman options. |
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Feb-06-12 | | Knight13: If 18... Qxd4? then 19. Qxd4 Rxd4 20. Nd5 and Black loses the exchange. 19... Nxc4, threatening ... Nxb2, is sound. White can't exploit the rook-to-queen pin to his advantage. |
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May-10-12 | | AVRO38: <19... Nxc4, threatening ... Nxb2, is sound. White can't exploit the rook-to-queen pin to his advantage.> I agree. 19...Nxc4 wins a pawn and the game. |
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Dec-07-13 | | poorthylacine: Is it possible that instead of 33...Ke8, Staunton offered his throat to the sword by 33...Ke7??, which allows the simple 34.d6+, winning the Bb7 and the game? And that Saint Amant did not seize this opportunity, even there was no time control?? |
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Nov-11-22
 | | MissScarlett: <Is it possible that instead of 33...Ke8, Staunton offered his throat to the sword by 33...Ke7??, which allows the simple 34.d6+, winning the Bb7 and the game?> Difficult to get from Ke8 to Kf6 in one move. Staunton, in fact, played <33...Kf7>. Forced to check the score with the <CPC, vol.v (1844), p,100>, I discover two other discrepancies. Move 19 is <Q. Kt. to K. fourth>, so <Nce4> not <Nde4>. Move 44 is <K. to his fifth>, so <Ke5> not <Ke4>. 365chess has the same incorrect score, whilst <chesstempo> has both correct and incorrect versions. |
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Nov-11-22
 | | jnpope: <Le Palamède>, 1844.02.15, v4 n1, pp68-71 and <Der Schachkampf in Paris>, Carl Meier, Zürich, 1844, pp53-55, concur that the moves are 19.Nce4 and 44.Ke5. |
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Nov-11-22
 | | jnpope: As does <The Standard>, London, 1843.12.18, p4. |
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