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Aug-21-14
 | | al wazir: These two guys, the great Lasker and the ever-ingenious Nimzowich, didn't know what they were doing! Lasker didn't have a plan. Nimzowich tried one thing after another until something worked. I'm sure it should have been a draw. |
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Aug-21-14
 | | Gypsy: Position after the move 35:
click for larger viewA <Botvinnik's Rule> states that knight endgames are essentially their pawn endgames. Since here the underlying pawn endgame would, of course, be a simple win for Black, Lasker probably did not have much of the chance to save the game. |
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Aug-21-14
 | | Once: It's amazing what you can find on the internet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DU...
No, I'm not quite sure why, either. |
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Aug-21-14
| | Once: The other fun thing about the ending ...
click for larger view... is that the black knight is only dominating the white knight. He is also stopping the white pawn from queening. Let's imagine for a second that white tries to have a pawn race. From the final position, he might have tried 66. b6 Kxh3 
click for larger viewWhite might think that he is doing well. His pawn only has three steps to take whilst black has just self blocked his own pawn. But then white realises that 67. b7 loses the pawn to the knight fork 67... Nc5+ And if he tries 67. Kb5 Nd8!
click for larger viewIt's going to take white four moves to take the knight and two moves to advance his pawn - a total of six. But it only take black one move to step his king aside and three moves to queen the pawn - a total of four. Too slow! There's another wrinkle. Let's imagine that white tries to drag the black knight away from the white pawn. How about 66. Ng5 forcing 66...Nxg5 
click for larger viewThe black knight looks to be a long way from the white pawn. He makes it just in time. 67. b6 Ne6!
click for larger viewAnd again we find that 68. b6 loses to the same knight fork Nc5+. And we still have the Nd8 trick is white tries to shoo the knight away with Kb5. A delightful bit of knightery. Seems almost worth setting to music. Then again, maybe not. |
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Aug-21-14
 | | perfidious: <acirce: No player would agree to a draw as Black after 35.fxe4, Black is clearly better because of the distant passed pawn. It would definitely not be accepted as a draw in Sofia either, unless Topalov was white and Azmaiparashvili was still the arbiter.> In that hypothetical situation, Azmai would declare the position 1-0, <not> a draw. |
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| Aug-21-14 | | XenoZodiac: Topalov vs Kramnik, 2008 |
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Aug-21-14
 | | kevin86: Lasker loses an endgame! Now that's news! |
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| Aug-21-14 | | Tim Delaney: <Once> I too was fascinated by this ending -- almost worthy of an endgame study, and more than justifying the pun. |
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Aug-21-14
 | | playground player: <Once> What in the world was that video? "The Music of Chess"--do the moves somehow generate the notes that are played? Play a really sweet game, and it comes out as Mozart? |
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Aug-21-14
| | Once: <playground player> You guess is as good as mine! I was hunting for the chessbase lecture on this game and looked in yoofchoob to see if was there. And that's when I stumbled on this musical ... er ... thing. And I know absolutely nothing else about it apart from that. |
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| Aug-21-14 | | posoo: EXCELLENT analisis wunce! you REALY broke dat knoght monster for da peeople! Numsowitch is da ONLY player who shod EVER be allowed to play da French defense. It's TRULY an abominale chess manover and ONLY HE knew how to use it - and CRUSH it when da chippes are down! |
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| Aug-21-14 | | Refused: <43: A knyght ther was, and that a worthy man,
44: That fro the tyme that he first bigan
45: To riden out, he loved chivalrie,
46: Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.> |
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| Aug-21-14 | | Edeltalent: Poor white King's Knight! Limited to only g- and h-file for more than fifty moves, finally breathing some air towards the center, only to soon after return to measly h3 and die a miserable death there... While watching the other horses jump all over the place... |
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Aug-21-14
 | | catlover: <al wazir> True. In this game, both players seemed a bit uninspired. |
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Aug-21-14
 | | tamar: I happened to be going through the game, and left for work with infinite analysis after move 54 to return to Komodo 5 flummoxed how to win at 34 ply. The trick to drawing from move 55 appears to be going for a passed "a" pawn, and then allowing the White knight to die in front of the h pawn. for example,
55 Kc3 Kc5 56 Ne6+ Kb6 57 Ng5 Nf7 58 Nh3 Kc5 59 b3 axb3 60 Kxb3 Ne5 61 Ng5 Kd4 62 Kb4 Ke3 63 Kxb5 Kf4 64 Nh3+ Kg3 65 a4 Kxh3 66 a5 = tablebase or 55...Nf3 56 b3 Kc5 57 Nd3+ Kc6 58 bxa4 bxa4 59 Kb4 h3 60 Kxa4 h2 61 Nf2 Kc5 62 Ka5 Kd4 63 a4 Ne5 64 Kb5 Ke3 65 Nh1 Kf3 66 a5 Kg2 67 a6 Kxh1 = tablebase 
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| Dec-25-14 | | TheFocus: Lasker finished in 5th place at the Zurich tournament held in Zurich, Switzerland with a score of +9=2-4. This round 10, July 23, 1934. |
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| Sep-18-16 | | jftman: Ok. Help a Newbie with somin. All the deep analysis is Kibitzed in the moves after 50. My question is at move 26 with white to move why not take out the pawn? Instead he allows the protection of it.
Is this bcuz black can double rooks and have an open file once the pawn is lost? Isn't taking material here more inportant? To gain a full pawn up? |
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Sep-18-16
| | perfidious: <Zenchess: I can't believe these two only faced each other twice over the board.> Soon after this event, the First World War brought international play to a standstill; Nimzo did not play again until 1920 and Lasker only returned to the international arena at Maehrisch Ostrau 1923, the first of several events before retiring from the scene after Moscow 1925, but was forced to return to active play, beginning with this event, due to financial circumstances. |
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Sep-19-16
 | | offramp: < jftman: Ok. Help a Newbie with somin. All the deep analysis is Kibitzed in the moves after 50. My question is at move 26 with white to move why not take out the pawn? Instead he allows the protection of it. Is this bcuz black can double rooks and have an open file once the pawn is lost?
Isn't taking material here more inportant? To gain a full pawn up?> Hello, <jftman>! Welcome to chessgames.com! I hope you enjoy your time here. Don't be put off by the smell. Black has just played 26...Ng5.
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White could have taken that ♙ on d4.
27.Rxd4. Black would almost certainly have replied 27...Re1+, which ;eaves only one sensible move for White: 28.Kc2. Then Black wpuld take the pawn with check, 28...Rxf2+.
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White has to be careful of knight forks. 29.Kd3 and now Black could play 29...Nf3!
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White is a bit tied up. Lasker probably didn't calculate that far. He probably calculated as far as 28...Rxf2+ and realised it was worse than a dead end for White. |
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| Sep-19-16 | | sfm: <Peligroso Patzer: [Confuse, from Jan-07-07: can someone tell me where Lasker made the extreme error?] ... Sorry this reply is more than five years after the original question>
You are forgiven (Sorry that this forgiveness comes more than 4 years after your BTW excellent reply) |
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| Oct-07-18 | | goser: Computer believes that White would be OK after 18. de5. It also believes that White made a mistake with 55. Nh3, as the knight was needed to prevent the king's breakthrough at the queen's side. |
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| Sep-12-19 | | Albion 1959: Odd to think that this was the second and last meeting between these two players, played twenty years apart ! They competed in many tournaments and yet the only met each other twice ! |
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| Mar-24-20 | | joddon: a 1934 game like a 2020 power |
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| Jul-27-20 | | Chesgambit: 56.kc3 draw not allow b4 |
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| Jul-27-20 | | Chesgambit: after white allow b4 axb4 forced because bxa3 threat |
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