Milan Vidmar vs Fred Dewhirst Yates (1930) Too Long a Sacrifice Makes a Stone of the Heart

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Milan Vidmar vs Fred Dewhirst Yates
"Too Long a Sacrifice Makes a Stone of the Heart" (game of the day Apr-12-2013)
San Remo (1930), San Remo ITA, rd 14, Feb-02
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense. Main Line (D63) · 0-1

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Apr-12-13		Howard: Well, when I emailed the Chessgames website yesterday to recommend this game for GOTD (Yes, I personally suggested it !), I wasn't exactly anticipating comments about the poet Yeats to crop up. But I'm nonetheless still glad that the game was posted today. Now I need to come up with another GOTD suggestion.......That's the 3rd or 4th one that has been accepted by this website. And my USCF rating is only.....NEVER MIND !

Apr-12-13		Check It Out: I found the posts about Yeats illuminating and the post about the Federal Reserve Illuminati.

Apr-12-13		Blunderdome: This game is great.

Apr-12-13		vanderyacht: What happens after 52. Rxb2 ?

Apr-12-13		ajile: 38.Qd8 was White's bad move which allowed 38..Ra8 with tempo. 38.Qb8 keeps White in the game: click for larger view Analysis by Rybka 3 32-bit : 1. ³ (-0.52): 4.Qb8 Nxd4 5.Ne8+ Kh6 6.Nd6 Ra8 7.Qb7 R8a7 8.Qxb4 Nc6 9.Qb6 Rxf1+ 10.Rxf1 Qd5 11.Qf2 f5 12.Qf4+ Kg7 13.Nxc4 Ra4 14.Rc1 Ra2 15.Ne3 Qe4 16.Qxe4 fxe4 17.Nc4 Kf8 2. (-2.41): 4.Qb7 Ra7 5.Qe4 Qg4 6.Qxg4 Rxf1+ 7.Rxf1 Position after 38.Qd8? click for larger view Analysis by Rybka 3 32-bit : 1. (-1.56): 4...Ra8 5.Qg5 Nxd4 6.h3 c3 7.Kh2 Rxf1 8.Rxf1 Ra7 9.Rf6 Qd5 10.Nxf7 Nf3+ 11.Rxf3 Rxf7 12.Rf6 Qd3 13.Qf4 Rxf6 14.Qxf6+ Kg8 15.e6 Qd6+ 16.Kg1 Kh7 17.Qf7+ Kh6 18.e7 c2 19.Qf8+ Kg5 2. = (0.00): 4...Ra7 5.Ne8+ Kh6 6.Nc7 Rxf1+ 7.Rxf1 Rxc7 8.Qxc7 c3 9.Qc5 b3 10.Qf8+ Kg5 11.Rxf7 c2 12.Qd8+ Kh6 13.Qh8+ Kg5 14.Qd8+ Kh6 15.Qh8+ Kg5 16.Qd8+ Kh6 17.Qh8+ Kg5 18.Qd8+ Kh6 19.Qh8+ Kg5

Apr-12-13		ajile: 40.Nxf7?? was even worse but White is still losing even with the better 40.h3. (-1.56) click for larger view Analysis by Rybka 3 32-bit : 1. (-4.14): 6...Rxf1+ 7.Rxf1 Nf5 8.Nd6 Nxd6 9.exd6 Qxd6 10.Qb5 Rc8 11.Qa4 b3 12.Qb5 Rc7 13.Rb1 Qd4 14.h3 Rf7 15.Qb4 2. (-4.14): 6...Nf5 7.Nd6 Nxd6 8.exd6 Rxf1+ 9.Rxf1 Qxd6 10.Qb5 Rc8 11.Qa4 b3 12.Qb5 Rc7 13.Rb1 Qd4 14.h3 Rf7 15.Qb4

Apr-12-13		ajile: And lastly Black messed up also since in the game 51.Qd4 draws: click for larger view Analysis by Rybka 3 32-bit : 1. = (-0.09): 17.Qd4 Qb6 18.Qd5+ Kg7 19.Qd7+ Kh6 20.Qd2+ Qe3 21.Qxe3+ Rxe3 22.Rxb2 Kg5 23.Kg1 Rd3 24.Kf2 Kf4 25.g3+ Ke4 26.Rb4+ Rd4 27.Rb2 Rc4 2. (-1.93): 17.Qc2 Kg7 18.Qc7+ Qf7 19.Qc2 Qb7 20.Kh2 Kh7 21.Kg1 Qa7+ 22.Kh1 Rb7 23.Qd2 Qb6 Instead of 50..Rb3? Black keeps a winning advantage with either 50..Qb3 or 50..Qa6. click for larger view Analysis by Rybka 3 32-bit : 1. (-2.09): 16...Qb3 17.Qd2 Kh7 18.Kh2 Qb4 19.Qc2 Qd6+ 2. (-2.02): 16...Qa6 17.Kh2 Qa7 18.Qd3 Kh7 19.Qd5 Qb6 20.Qd2 Qb4 21.Qc2 Qd6+ 22.Kh1 Qf4 23.Qc3

Apr-13-13		Absentee: <he'd been spewing 'high Victorian' drivel til Pound tuned him in.> What what WHAT? "Crossways" and "The wind among the reeds" are high victorian drivel? No, wait, don't answer.

Jan-06-14		mjmorri: 51...Rb8 sets a nice trap. 52.Rxb2?? Qe1+ 53.Kh2 Qe5+, and the Rook is lost.

Jan-16-15		An Englishman: Good Evening: One of the great defensive brilliancies. Hard to believe that doubled Rook on the a-file can outweigh all of White's pieces massed upon the King side.

Mar-27-15		Howard: It's a great game, but I don't understand why Alekhine was quoted in the book Kings of Chess, as stating that this was the greatest game since World War I. C'mon, the game wasn't THAT great---or am I missing something ?

Sep-13-17		fiercebadger: the queen is dad , he really cared for those passed pawns ,defending the home from attack and nursing the pawns into adulthood !

Nov-27-19		FSR: <Howard> I am also not nearly as enthralled by the game as Alekhine was.

Aug-30-23		m.okun: Alexander Alekhine called this game "the most remarkable game after the war" (1930).

Feb-16-25		King.Arthur.Brazil: It seems risky, but to attain the condition of "insane", the king chose: 36...Ne2+ 37. Rxe2 Rxf1+ 38. Kxf1 Qg5 (The move Qh4 seems weak due to 39. g3 Qxd4 Qxc4 seems that W escape). 39. Qxc4 Qf4+ 40. Rf2 (40. Ke1 Ra1+ 41. Qc1 Rxc1#) Ra1+ 41. Ke2 Qe4+ 42. Kd2 Qe1+ 43. Kd3 Ra3+ 44. Kc2 Qxf2+ 45. Kb1 Qe1+ 46. Kb2 Qa1+ 47. Kc2 Rc3+... However, for the move 37. Kh1 Rxf1+ 38. Rxf1 Nf4 39. Qxc4 Rc3 40. Qxb4 Qg5 41. Qb2 and the King didn't find a good continuation... :-(

Feb-16-25		mel gibson: I wasn't sure. Stockfish 17 says: 36. .. Ne2+ (36. .. Ne2+ (1. ... Ne2+ 2.Kh1 Qe6 3.Qd8 Ra8 4.Qc7 R8a7 5.d5 Qxd5 6.Qd8 Kh7 7.Qf6 Qe6 8.Qf3 Qxe5 9.Nxc4 Rxf1+ 10.Rxf1 Qe6 11.Nd2 Kg7 12.Ne4 Re7 13.Nd2 Rd7 14.Ne4 Nd4 ) +4.42/45 526) score for Black +4.42 depth 45.

Feb-16-25		Teyss: A good defensive puzzle as White exerts serious pressure on f7. 36...Ne2+! White cannot accept the deflection sac with 37.Rxe2 because the tension on f7 is released and Black can answer 37...Qh4 threatening 38...Qxd4+. Afterwards Black will be able to reposition his Knight to d4 and f5 keeping the defence tight. 37...Qe6! attacking the WQ and not fearing 38.Rxf7+? Qxf7! With each move Black improves his position by threatening White's pieces. 38...Ra8! Not immediately 38...Nxd4? because of 39.Ne8+ Kh6 (Kf8 or Kg8 or Kh8 40.Nc7+ or 39...Kh7 40.Nf6+) 40.Nf6. click for larger view Black cannot move the Knight because of e.g. 40...Nc6 41.Qh8+ Kg5 42.h4+ Kxh4 43.Rf4+ Kg3 44.Ne4# Hence Black needs to defend the back rank with 40...Ra8 and White answers 41.Qxd4. 39...Nxd4. After consolidating moves, Black removes a Pawn and repositions the Knight to the key defensive square f5. 40.Rxf7+? still fails to 40...Qxf7. 42...b3 After defusing the attack on f7 Black can capitalise on his two Qside passers. I thought 42...Qxd6 43.Rf7+ Kg8 44.Qh6 would be dangerous for Black but apparently it still wins.

Feb-16-25		rodchuck: <JAP>: Pound's final protege was the recently deceased and no less great, Eustace Mullins... Great? According to Wikipedia: "Eustace Clarence Mullins Jr. (March 9, 1923 – February 2, 2010)[1] was an American white supremacist, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, propagandist,[2] Holocaust denier, and writer." I suppose it depends on how you define "great"

Feb-16-25		MissScarlett: Let's compromise and say he was a <great American white supremacist, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, propagandist, Holocaust denier, and writer.>

Feb-16-25		MissScarlett: I wish I could find it again, but I have a distinct memory of reading a press article - perhaps written after Yates's decease - which suggested that Alekhine and Yates were on friendly terms. Yates was a rival and even beat him twice (brilliantly on one occasion), but he wasn't a threat to his title ambitions.

Feb-16-25		chrisowen: I vary its bums its wend its of c u q x Ne2 gaff its aeh its oh its bag q bug cfi Ne2 buck its;

Feb-16-25		Sally Simpson: I never knew anything about Ezra Pound till I heard about him fighting T. S. Eliot in the captain's tower. I have played over this one in the past and again by chance quite recently. As if anticipating chessgames.com POTD another Fred appears in this thread, Reinfeld, who thinks the move 36...Ne2+ was one of the best moves Yates ever played (he notes this game up in his 'British Chess Masterpieces.') So here. click for larger view I'll go 36...Rxf1+ 37 Kxf1 Ra1 checkmate and claim it is the best move Yates never played.

Feb-16-25		perfidious: Then we have Pound's <Pisan Cantos>, which contain the following reference to the execution of Louis Till, father of Emmett: <And Till was hung yesterday for murder and rape with trimmings>

Feb-16-25		chrisowen: Cha cha cha in joke pulling your leg xx

Feb-16-25		alshatranji: It took me a while to find Ne2+, hoping for 37. Rxe2 Qh4. I was a little stumped after the simple Kh1. Eventually, I ended up with 37...Rxf1+ 38. Rxf1 Qa7, which according to Stockfish is a draw after 39. Ne8+ Kh6 40. Nc7. Looking deeper would have revealed that, contrary to appearances, the black king is not in such great danger. After 37... Qe6, 38.Rxf7+ Qxf7 is quite nice. Yates must have had nerves of steel. Anyway, fantastic game. The clash of two attacking geniuses produces brilliant fireworks; almost every move to the end is rich with tactical possibilities. A thorough analysis would be very instructive.

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